This weekend brought Day 4&5 of my #23to30 chronicles, and marked a solid October weekend of both amazing friends and the first convincingly crisp fall air. Day 4 landed on Saturday, and it kicked off with an abrupt wake up call that was the second to last day of cardio week intervals at MAD Cville. Saturdays, when…
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My Tribe: Wonder Women + The Countdown to Thirty
Two weeks ago one of our first ever MADville clients, and a pretty freaking awesome professor at UVa, Lisa, made/gave me this Wonder Woman mug for my coffee, of course personalized with my name on it. If you know Lisa, you know that in addition to being an amazing super woman/mom/human who makes her family’s…
Peace Driven Anxiety & Labor Day Weekend
This was my view this past weekend as I sat on the porch checking in on work. The only real noise came from birds, a calm in the air emanated through the fog, and there was no where to be with any sort of urgency. It was beautiful, calm, and so far from my norm that I started…
Weekend Lesson: Drinks > Organizational Bins
I love organization. I’m not sure if it helps or hurts that I have a compulsive organizational purchasing addiction… but I’m starting to believe it might be the latter. My main goal this weekend was to finish unpacking and organizing my house to reinstate my sanity, and hopefully reduce my overall sense of anxiety. …
Beauty in Ordinary Things; Love for People Who Make us Whole.
I don’t know for sure what the meaning of life is – life doesn’t come with built in guarantees, a guide book, or ways to predict what’s coming next. It’s a pop quiz all the time. And while there’s no way to anticipate the challenges, sometimes it’s also difficult to anticipate all of the good…
Full Health + 1/2 Birthdays: Celebrating the Good
The total chaos of the past few weeks left little time for grocery shopping, and even less time for at-home food preparation. The unfortunate consequence of all this was that meals became few and far between, and resulted in frequent meals out. On the other hand, the fortunate upside is that living in Charlottesville allows…