I had a variety of Faith Fitness Fun t-shirts made through Spreadshirt.

Though slightly self-indulgent, I’m more than a little in love with them.

This morning was the first time I had showered since Tuesday night. Yeahhhh. Don’t know why I find showering daily so difficult.

I wish tanning didn’t harm the skin. I could go for the sun-kissed bronze skin of my yesteryears – before I got all freaked out from numerous mole removals/biopsies and forever banished myself to under the tent.

I can understand why parents used to leave their kids in the car and run into the store quickly. And I sometimes wish it was still socially acceptable – like today when I had to unload two kids to pick up ONE thing at the store.

I have a bad habit of never having cash on me. I had to use my credit card for said purchase at the store this morning – all $2.05 of it.

As much as I love green smoothies and as much as smoothies make perfect beach food, I honestly don’t plan on consuming a single bit of greens in smoothie form next week.

But I will bring my near empty jar of peanut butter along so I can have OIAJ. I clearly have my priorities in order. Peanut butter > spinach. Always.

I often have to take my own advice – like my healthy travel tips. I admit that vacation to me includes quite a few less nutritionally sound dining choices.

And I would be lying if I didn’t tell you I feel a wee bit anxious that could mean losing progress. I simply must remember to take things one decision at a time.

Lastly, I asked Peter if we have children’s Benadryl so Makenzie will sleep for the car ride down to Daytona. I was only half-kidding.

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So. Humbled. So. Truly. HUMBLED!! Thank you. Your encouragement and belief in my little ole dreams brought me to tears. Thank you. I can still hardly believe I articulated these personal hopes and dreams, but knowing you stand behind me and root for me only solidifies my decision to finally start pursuing them. Thank you. I have a long, uncertain, somewhat frightening path ahead…which I plan to stop running away from and start moving towards, step by step. Wow.

Let’s get back to regular programming now, shall we? I woke up feeling better today after getting a good night’s sleep. I didn’t have near the dizziness or fatigue from yesterday. I think I possibly faced some dehydration yesterday? Or the heat affected me? Regardless, I felt better with the exception of some nerves over my planned morning post. In fact, I almost trashed the post. I even headed off to the gym mainly in an attempt to distract myself.

I had no desire to think about anything during my workout, so I opted to hit up our gym’s group weights class, Group Power.

Typically I prefer my own weight workouts, but it felt nice to just go in and not have to think today. Plus, mixing it up with more of an endurance style weights workout really had my muscles quivering. The chest and lunge tracks dominated me! Not a bad thing in my opinion. 😉

I still didn’t feel like giving things much thought when dinner time rolled around. I ended up just tossing together things in an operation clean-out-the-fridge-before-vacation style. Hmmm….we have chicken. We have avocado. We have tomato. We have queso chipotle Laughing Cow cheese. Those all tie into a Mexicali theme. Grilled chicken tacos it is! 

Even though these didn’t have much to them, they came together for a surprisingly satisfying combo. Taste-wise at least. We’re running low on food…and I know I’m going to be hungry for a pre-bedtime snack/dessert after that! Time to go raid the pantry. ;) 

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