The Rundown

There's a lot going on in my world. From being totally devasted by this whole Trayvon Martin travesty of a situation to completing (and sticking to) this 24 day cleanse and restore challenge. Not to mention being brought up on charges of "blog abandonment" (does that exist tho?)....

Let's start with the circus that has become the Trayvon Martin case. If you do not know what I'm talking about then perhaps you should stop living under a rock, turn on the news, ride a twitter wave or a facebook status and catch up. To summarize...Trayvon Martin was the young man killed in Sanford, FL by an armed "Neighborhood Watch", twice his size whom claims he felt "threatened" and was "beaten up" by said victim. The kicker? Trayvon is dead and the bama is still walking free. Now, no matter how many times I hear the story, how many different ways it's told, the bottom line is a homicide took place and there was not an arrest made and still HAS not been an arrest made. Ok. let me stop talking about it (as my blood pressure rises).

Another thing I wanted to touch on was RSVP's.....so, this is not a slight to anyone in particular, but I feel like RSVP'ing has gone out of the window. When an invitation is extended, usually it's courteous to send a response. Whether that response is "Yay" or "Nay", whether you think you can, or you think you can't ...Reply (That is ALL)...

Now, let's get to the good stuff. I, for the first time in my life, started something and finished it!!! YAY ME. That is a tremendous feat considering I am more "fickle than a pickle". I took the challenge of a 10 day cleanse and 14 day probiotic restore that demanded that I eat "Clean" (clean meeans not eating anything remotely good, with flavor, well, slight flavor). But I did it. I drank tons of water, took the required herbal supplements, ate salads, tuna, grilled chicken, salmon, tilapia, brown rice and had no sugar, sweets, junk food, fast food or anything and got with the gym at least 3 times a week and let me tell you, I feel GREAT! I think I have lost mass, this is just the beginning though. I'm sticking to it, because I have caught a glimpse of the skinn-ty girl that I once was and the diva is trying to come back, w/ a vengence! The main reason why I did it was because I was starting to feel unhealthly (there goes one of my made up words) FAT. Knees and feet were hurting, I was getting out of breath (and I had the nerve to live on the 3rd floor) and just always tired and miserable. I tried something called advocare (shameless plug time) of which was introduced to me by my boy Aaron. It's not bad....and if you want to clean your system out, holler at him! Yes, it costs...and you can do the same things for free, but I had to get something that would jumpstart and motivate me and I'm just that!!!

Lastly, the 37th birthday is on the horizon. No hoopla, no countdown, no plans, no man, no date, not much of anything, but I'm alive....I'm healthy, I have my FRIENDS, my big little dude and I'm blessed. God is good, don't you forget it! With so many people not living to see another day, I'm thankful for every day, every minute. I have my moments, I can't say I never complain because I do, but I find the strength to carry on because I cry out JESUS. I may not always do the right thing, or say the right thing, but HE's never left me...I could run right now...things could be better, they will get better and they're on the way to being better.

Take that!!! A tic tock and ya don't stop~

Peace, we out!