thought of the day

We imagine that waking-life is real and that dream-life is unreal, but there does not seem to be any evidence for this belief. Chuang Tzu, in the third century B.C., put it in an amusing way; having dreamed that he was a butterfly flitting from flower to flower, he stated that he was now wondering whether he was then a man dreaming he was a butterfly or whether he was now a butterfly dreaming he was a man. - Wei Wu Wei "Fingers Pointing Toward the Moon"

Support public radio

In the past 3yrs I have been listening to public radio. In the past year I have taken it upon myself to actually start supporting public radio. Earlier this spring I attend the local public NPR radio station WUFT by attending their wine and food tasting. Starting this week, WUFT began their spring campaign. I decided that I would support them and pledged some money. In return I get this super cool mug. Perfect for my tea at work!!!!! I hope everyone supports their local public radio station.

A little laughter never hurt anyone

in other news: beth and I are finally going to get our tattoo's when she comes to visit me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm a "little" excited;)

the dreaded scale...

Since my awful bathing suit incident I have not got onto the scale. However, today I decided that I was not going to fear the scale any longer. Much to my surprise I have lost 4lbs since I began my crazy exercise training. I have also lost 1/2 inch on my waist and hip measurements. Therefore, I decided to try my bathing suit on, again. The result, it did fit better but still not as well as I need it too. Therefore, I am on track for my goal...I will fit into this bathing suit for the beach trip!!!!

So a few times in the last few weeks I've been wondering...what is it about a bathing suit that makes us girls do crazy things to fit into it?! My answer, because when one looks good in a bathing suit it makes you feel sexy! and honestly, who doesn't want to feel sexy and FABULOUS!!!!!

Arizona

The whole family was present for my grandma's memorial service in Arizona. When I say all I mean: my mom's 4 sister's and their spouses plus their kids (8 total) and then two of my cousins brought their significant others which brings us to a grand total of 19 total people w/ my grandpa! This was the first time we were all in one place in 13 years!!! Although it wasn't the best of circumstances it's always nice to be in the company of family:)

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Fabulous!

Nothing can stop me from wearing cute shoes, not even a blizzard delivering 6in of snow:) Fabulous!!!!!

Savannah, here we come!

Beth and I are meeting up in Savannah this weekend for much needed "shelby and beth" time:) When translated means: shopping (shoes perhaps?), food, more shopping, oh and maybe some martini's ;) Savannah is home to Paula Dean's restaurant and if you don't now of her cooking its Southern cookin' to the max which equals lots of BUTTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Paula Dean, watch out!, Beth and Shelby are comin' to town!

My Grandma

My Grandma left this beautiful world yesterday afternoon. Its funny how you think that someone is going to be there through all the important times in your life and the one day you get "that" phone call.

I send all the people who I love so dearly a huge "shelby" hug!

Ohio State = Gator bait (again!)

March Madness, FOR REAL!

First things first, GO GATORS!!!!!!!! but I'll get to that in a minute:)

In cooking news, I have upgraded my 4yr old Publix's chef's knife to a J.A. Henckels 7in Santoku-Granton Edge knife! and yes I have come all to close to cutting a finger off (I'm missing a bit of my thumb nail to prove it). The knife is wonderful! It has cut (no pun intended, sort of) my cooking prep time in almost half! I love it!


In shoe news, there has been a debate on how many shoes I really do have. I recently got a shoe organizer that allowed me to address this very sensitive topic. I in fact have 36 pairs of shoes! Just for the record, that is 8 more then I had this time last year. And lucky number 36 is these lovely shoes that I got for $15!!!!!


In exercise news, I have started a new exercise routine, per se. Mon., Wed., and Friday I wake up at 6am to run 2mi, followed my some push-up and sit-ups, ended with a nice 20min walk on the treadmill. Sunday, I go to the gym and walk for 30min, run 2mi, and ride the bike for 30min. Yes, I'm still going to Yoga and climbing! Why am I so crazy, well its bathing suit season and well the bathing suit I got was a little small:( very traumatic but it has help me set a goal and keep with my crazy exercising and eating well:)

And now the pics of the Florida vs Oregon game! As most people know, Ben is a crazy oregon fan and well I am a GATOR! Oregon met Florida in the elite 8 of the NCAA tournament. Both very good teams that play much in the same way. There's no one star but the whole team plays as if it were a group effort. Thus, the game was very close up until the last 2min when Florida pulled ahead and Oregon just couldn't catch up. Here's some pics of the party:) and yes, I did make orange/blue and yellow/green cookies (I have become susie homemaker)
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