Sleeping Beauty

"They say if you dream a thing more than once, it's sure to come true"

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Flushin

Yesterday day (Wednesday) I started a three day cleanse. I have been really good with my healthy eating habits but I haven't seen many physical results so I thought it was time to completely clean out my body and start Over filling my system with purely healthy foods.

So I did a lot of reading a research and pulled juice recipes from all different places that would work well with what I was looking for. I bought all my ingredients and I even got 16oz mason jars so everything would be measured out just right. I was going to start each day with a salt water flush, which I had never done before but heard it worked wonders. I used the recipe I found and 32oz of warm water and 2tsp of salt. Nothing happened, there was zero amounts of flushing happening to me. Even after drinking all my juices I had not "cleansed" at all yesterday.

So this morning I tweaked the recipe a little bit and put in 1 1/2 tablespoons and eureka, we had flushing. I drank about a cup and a half and I thought I was goin to puke right then and there I couldn't finish it and had to drink water to et the taste out of my mouth. I won't lie to you, it was horrible and miserable And I felt sick for a good 30mins after I had to sit on the couch and not move till the feeling passed. What helped me feel better was a cup of hot green ea it soothed my tummy. After the nausea passed I felt totally normal, and once the "flushing" began I wasn't cramping or feeling uncomfortable, it was quite... Pleasant? If you can stand the salt water and not puke then I recommend it maybe once a moth to clean out all the back up in your body.

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

A lifetime in one week

Normally I only work twice a week, but for the next two weeks I am working everyday, which is fine with me I am free basically all summer and I love the girls. My two weeks started on Monday today is now Wednesday, so only 3 days have gone by but it feels like two weeks.

Two weeks of nothing but chicken nuggets watching tv and taking a nap, what could be better? Well honestly I can only pretend to watch the Mickey mouse club so many times and if I eat another PB&J I'll be 400lbs, but I can not complain too much because I don't sit in an offices all day with people I don't know and don't know me, I love waking up to see what today will be like.

Today, how ever did not start very well. I got here on time and ready to go The Mommy opened the door with half a head of curlers and no makeup looking distraught as ever and then I heard it a solid "AHHHHH" in the highest pitch known to man. Crabby Baby was in a horrible mood, screaming for her daddy who had already left for work hours ago. I could tell her mom had already given up because she was ignoring the shrieks, and went on with he morning make up prep. I followed their moms lead and went straight to sit next to Blond Baby who was also in a bit of a sour mood, which I assumed was simply backlash from listening to CB cry all morning.

It's moments like where I get just a little uncomfortable while watching someone else's kids, while the mom is here I let her take care of the situation but CB kept crying long after Mom left and that was when I didn't know how to calm the moment. So I simply won't in and tried to distract her with something else, she ended up playing a computer game till she felt better and acted like she was never upsetZ
Oh to know what goes on inside the mind of a child.

Monday, May 14, 2012

DIEt

So I haven’t exactly been doing the raw thing, its hard in the sence that it takes A LOT of prep time and planning, both of which I am no good at. I go to the store to buy veggies for a week or two and they last maybe last half that time. Math has never been a good subject for me. But what I have been very good at is eating breakfast every morning. That was another thing I was never very good at, not because I don’t believe in breakfast or anything like that but I just either wouldn’t give myself the time to eat or wasn’t hungry so i would skip it and end up eating way too much for lunch and dinner. Now I eat a bowl of mixed berries coconut butter some type of chopped nuts and dried cranberries. I find I am way less hungry throughout the day when I have a full breakfast, so then for lunch all I am really in the mood for is a salad which is perfect.

I am also a proud new member of a Bikram yoga studio, bikram yoga is also know as hot yoga, the roomis 90-100 something degrees and the poses have been chosen to not only stretch and strengthen your muscles but to help and heal your insides as well. Its an hour and a half long session and yes it does feel like you are going to die but it is so worth it. You feel reenergized and ready to take on the world. Getting motivated to actually GO is the hardest part simply because I know what is waiting for me at the studio. Last session I had to leave fifteen mins early because I thought I was going to either pass out or throw up, but even a shortened version of the class was worth it. I highly recommend it to all who are trying to get healthy, you get a hard core detox through sweating, increase flexability and heal your body all at once. i have really bad knee problems (thanks to my dads side of the family) and I didn’t think I was going to make it through my first class but sure enough I came back for a second class and I plan on going today.

I haven’t gone enough to see if it is helping the weight loss but I do feel more confident after going, and that is the first step, for YOU to like how you look.

Learning who's the boss

School is over for the summer and since I only work twice a week, I was just realizing that I will have a whole lot of free time. Which is not always a good thing. I like to keep busy it keeps me motivated and moving, if I let myself sit for too long, then I will never get up.

So I arrive at work today feeling a little off knowing that I have nothing planed for the first week ok summer and I am greated by Cranky Baby telling me, "go sit on the stairs and wait for us to finish breakfast so you dont bother me." her mother heard her say this so I didn't need to respond. Her mother scolded her by reminding her that she is not the boss. At that moment I know it was going to be a long start to a long week.

Monday, May 7, 2012

Big girls

Little Blonde baby the 3yr old has some what graduated to "big girl panties", which means she only uses pull ups when she sleeps. So far I have had zero issues with this transition, even when she was in pull ups she was pretty good about telling me when she needed to teetee. Then we would rush to the potty and high five the accomplishment. Today started off very good, other then the fact that I had zero sleep the night before and was only able to see out of one eye due to allergies, the girls were being very well behaved. BB even climbed on to the couch and under my blanket so "snuddel" with me. She then told me how much she misses me when I go home followed with a very beautiful "I lub you MaTisten". Just the sweet touch I needed to start my day right.

It wasn't till I started trying to study for finals that things got tricky. She was helping me an got pen on her little fingers so, obviously she needed to wash her hands. She rand to the bathroom before I could get up and stood ontop of the toilet in order to reach the sink. By the time I caught up I walked right into the scene of the crime. Poor BB had teeteed all over ONTOP of the potty. I assured her I wasn't mad and that sometimes big girls have accidents.

After searching all over the house for a fresh pair of big girl panties we gave up and I let her romp around naked. Which is when she found a pair of her older sisters cowboy boots and was running around claiming "I'm a rocking cowboy now".

Kids says the darnedest things :)

Playing catch up

I win worst blogger ever award, I got so caught up in tech week for Proof that I lost track of basically everything else in my life. I heard someone say "no civilians during tech week" and that is so true. No matter how big the theater is or how hard the show is tech week is the one week were all hell breaks loose and everything falls into place. What you thought was right is all wrong and what you didn't think you could do in only one week become your specialty. Non theater people will never understand the horrors/magic of tech week, much like my poor fiancé who felt put on the back burner for the week. For us in the show we literally for get out own names and what we even did before this show. All focus every ounce of energy and emotion is poured into the production. On that first day when the first light turns on and you feel it warm your whole body for the first time since receiving the part, it goes from the normal 5hr rehearsal to full blow real life.

I know I seem dramatic and out of control, some may be reading this and think wow this chick needs to get a life, but when this is all I have done since I was 3, this IS my life. There is not a single moment of being in a show from preparing for auditions to strike (taking down the stage) I love it all. I have been so blessed to have all the chances to be in shows and to have one of the biggest support team I know, so much love comes from my family and it drives me to do better and push harder.

There are actors who do it for the way it makes THEM feel, I do it for the way I hope to make the audience feel, I stand on stage with hope to inspire at least one person to go and do what they love. I know it's not always easy to keep up with the things we love to do but if the whole world just gave up what they loved, that would be an awfully dreadful world to live in.