Vegan vs Paleo

VS

Gearing up for our 3-5 day juice fast we decided to watch Forks over Knives together. And started to watch Vegucated. Both wonderful movies/documentaries...especially if you are ready for a change in your life! I know I am...I've been a pretty bad vegetarian this year since Matt's been home...As we were cooking our last meal, we were discussing the Paleo Diet - hunter gatherer if you will. He is ALL FOR IT! I was too at first...but something deep inside me just doesn't want to eat meat. After some of Vegucated I thought maybe it's time to go Vegan...but I don't want to do bread...so I"m stuck today somewhere between Paleo and Vegan...at least I have 3-5 days to figure it out. After our juice fast we are both making a change to eat to live!

cheers~!

NO Makeup

So, this morning I left the house with no makeup..yes, and went to work lol. I took it all with me to do at work.. but work got away with me...next thing I know I'm rubbing my eyes!! ahhh YES! the wonderful feeling of rubbing your eyes knowing you have no makeup on! score!

cheers!

braless

I enjoy secretly not wearing a bra to work today ;) I feel so free! Yay! it's the little things in life I enjoy!

I'm grateful for ...April

month 4 down! I'm still going strong!

April 2013 - I'm grateful for:

1) morning walks with Matt, Drake, and Coffee
2) matt makes me laugh so hard i cry
3) Matty
4) Help
5) Fridays and warmer weather ahead!
6) Sunshine
7) for a patient Matty and Beach Day with Matt and Sara
8) outside adventures! SUP YOGA!
9) Matty woke up early and was productive; I was not.
10) another BDAY! 31!
11) for SUnshine
12) Rainy days to clean
13) living at the beach
14) sunrise paddles with my love
15) Matty's help in the am
16) SUnshine
17) Matty's first day of school!
18) Hot Yoga
19) for my safety
20) to see my family
21) for sunday funday at MOms!
22) Earth Day
23) help around the house
24) our awesome kitty
25) Drake
26) Friday
27) Family
28) Sunday Funday and RESTING
29) Motivation
30) Matty

Hmmmm I see a trend...family, Matt, sunshine..yep, that pretty much sums up my month! I'm blessed everyday! thank you

CHeers~

Tonight's MOON

April's Full Moon is known as the "pink moon". For it's moss pink or phlox, one of spring’s early wildflowers. Since full moons are directly opposite the sun, they rise in the east about the same time the sun sets in the west. Excited to see if we get to see pink...HOWL!

Aging

You know you're getting older when you are too tired in the evening to even have a glass of wine...oh boy...hoping this is not a pattern; Yikes.

I'll try again tonight! :)

Grey, More Grey

Well, it's almost been a week since turning 31...and let me say.. not much difference...it's still hard to get out of bed in the morning, my face still breaks out, I'm tired after working doubles and enjoy taking naps...there are a couple of changes I guess: more grey hairs grrrrrr. But I'm embracing them...letting them flow this year...and seeing what happens..no more plucking them out.. bring on the grey bitches. The other difference ...after dancing barefoot friday night to Jams...my feet were killing me all weekend long! Oh the joys of aging gracefully...There is an upside of going to bed early though...waking up to take a sunrise paddle and not being hungover! :) oh yeah 31 bring it!

Cheers :)

I'm Grateful for...March

Another month down...another month of gratefulness! Here it goes:

1) I'm grateful for dancing and hanging with Matty
2) for game night with friends
3) for SUNDAYS
4) for my support system
5) for support
6) for our yoga community
7) for other yoga teachers! :)
8) for TODAY
9) for the yoga studio
10) for Matty
11) for Matt
12) I'm grateful to see my friend
13) for alarm clocks and the BVI's! eek
14) for the opportunity to be here in Tortola with these amazing women. thank you!
15) I'm grateful I'm waking up in Tortola ~ even with the roosters
16) for my friends on the trip, dancing and hanging out with the locals
17) for getting to wake up in paradise one last morning and going home to my love
18) I'm grateful today to wake up with Matt and Drake
19) for coffee, back to the grind today
20) for Spring
21) Grateful Matt has time to spend with his buddy
22) Grateful I can play hookie
23) for a lazy day
24) for CUZ!
25) for Hot Showers
26) for Matty
27) for Yoga
28) for sick hours and ME TIME
29) for sunshine
30) for our friends Greg and Anne
31) Happy Easter, grateful for God


CHeers!

Carrots and Coffee

Who has Carrots and Coffee as a snack at 1019am??

THIS GIRL LOL


GEEZE>

Just bc

I just really love this picture and wanted to share :)

and I really love this man

and this wine store on EI ;)

and I really really love our life together..

thanks for being so freakin' Awesome Dude!

I LOVE LOVE LOVE YOU

AnnMo 

I forgot

I had this great blog swimming in my head on the way to work this morning.. and now as I sit at my computer.. POOOOF it's gone.. maybe it's time for more coffee...

Cheers

I'm Grateful for...FEB

Another month down! Here's my Feb 2013 I'm grateful for post

1- for my mom
2 - for Hot yoga with Kas
3 - for Sundays, day of rest and cleaning, I love a clean house!
4 - for getting my butt up early to work out
5 - for my health
6 - for my mom/my personal shopper
7 - matty's coming home!!!
8 - Matty is HOME!
9 - for all my skills lol
10 - for my lil family
11 - for my Jobs
12 - waking up next to Matty
13 - for sleeping in and sex with my love
14 - for life with Matty
15 - for walks to the beach
16 - for waking up with my love and morning sexy time!
17 - for Family
18 - for body heat
19 - for a clean Drake
20 - for snuggle time with my love
21 - for Matt helping this am, since I woke up late
22 - for my new SUP! HOLY COW
23 - for my extended family!
24 - for KB! muwah
25 - for having help
26 - for WINE
27 - for my manly man that fixes everything I break
28 - for potatoes

Cheers!

Freezing

March 4th and it's still freezing out. Really. My tempature in the truck this am read "ICE". Really? geeze. I would have thought by now, at least here it would start to warm up a bit.. I mean I've made it this long without heat in the truck.. i'm not backing down now. COME ON SPRING TIME!

~toes are thawing out now

Furlough Talk

Well, here we go again! I thought 3 years ago when I joined the DOD family I had job security. I thought "this is it! I'm set for the next 20 years or so"...don don don (music)

Life has a funny way of telling you or having you question yourself "Is this really what I"m suppose to be doing" "What's my purpose on this planet" ???????

As I was driving to work this morning over the wonderful construction filled EI Bridge, I pondered....to myself and to God - what if I do lose my job? And you know what..it's ok. It's always been ok. I have no control over the government (another FANTASTIC reason to go off the grid...just saying) so why stress over it. I have always bounced back. I'm a fighter, a survivor. Whatever is thrown my way I will prevail - BOOM.

If you have been absent from the USA or never watch the news, or read the paper here is what's happening in my world of DOD...this has been the language and emails the last month Furlough, sequestration....

1. Q: What is a furlough?

A: A furlough is the placing of an employee in a temporary nonduty, nonpay status because of lack of work or funds or other nondisciplinary reasons. Under the current fiscal circumstances, administrative furloughs may be required due to a reduction in funding.

2. Q. What is an administrative furlough?

A. An administrative furlough is a planned event by an agency that is designed to absorb reductions necessitated by downsizing, reduced funding, lack of work or any other budget situation other than a lapse in appropriations. Furloughs that would potentially result from sequestration would generally be considered administrative furloughs.

3. Q: What is sequestration?

A: Sequestration is an across-the-board reduction in Federal budgetary resources in all budget accounts that have not been exempted by statute. Under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended by the Budget Control Act of 2011 and the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, across-the-board reductions are scheduled to take effect on March 1, 2013, unless legislation is enacted that avoids such reductions. If it occurs, this sequestration will reduce each agency’s budgetary resources in non-exempt accounts for the remainder of the fiscal year (which runs through September 30, 2013).

Meaning come April 2013 1 or 2 things will be happening.. 1- i will lose 16 hours each pay period from my pay check or 2- lose my job. Oh and definitely no traveling and going TAD this year for training....no trips to Cali this year for me... :(

But have no fear - I have a back up plan. Thank God I have other talents/skills and faith and a kick ass support system...oh and no kids.. well drake.. so that's it in a nut shell...

Cheers~

I'm grateful for...

So, one of my new years resolutions was to make the "365 things I'm greatful for in 2013" book....so here's my first month ~

1- for the sunrise over the beach, Matty, love, and Friends
2- super grateful for facetime with my honey!
3- for it not raining this am so Drake and I can walk
4- for good live music ~jamming to my Dispatch CDS! Thanks KB
5- for warm clothes - polar plunge day
6- for a faithful BF!
7- for my love BF, makes my soul shine :)
8- for the ability to teach iRest to my active duty people
9- for sick leave so I can stay home with my sick baby Drake
10- for a healthy Boy this morning and warm weather!
11- for learning yoga and all my yoga books. constantly growing
12- for our friends at Flatwaters Paddling!
13- for my girlfriends and a simple walk on the beach
14- Potatoes
15- for LIFE! Happy, excited for the future ~
16- for tea tree oil and all essentrial oils
17- for Matty - muwah
18- for all my opportunites and jobs
19 - for our HOME :) Missing my love
20- for my friends driving when I can't
21- for government holidays so i can be productive at home :)
22- for no bridge work today
23- for my loving BF - so thoughtful to think of me (and tagged me on FB :) )
24- for HEAT
25- for windows that work in my truck
26- for my girls!
27- for a day of rest
28- for KB and HB, for TP and fluids
29 - for God keeping me safe
30 -for neighbor Todd jumping the truck this am
31- for losing 4 pounds!

I'm keeping it going in my lil book and will be posting at the end of each month.

Cheers!~

Pink Eyes

I really LoveLoveLove pink eye shadow! :)

love WORDS

Can I just say I LOVE WORDS WITH FRIENDS! Didn't realize how much I love this until not having it for a few months bc of phone issues...not only does it keep me occupied during my few minutes between meetings, groups, emails, classes...it keeps my brain ALIVE! AND the best part.. I get a quick chat with friends! FUN FUN WIN WIN Wooohoooo

cheers.

yum

Hmmmm this second cup of Black, Chocolate, Raspberry Coffee is hitting the spot as I sit on my yoga ball at my desk... yum.

Food

Can someone just follow me around with an airhorn and blow it when I want to put crap in my mouth?

stubbling phone call

Wow. First phone call of the day is rough...lol.. Even after one cup of coffee...i'm a stubbling stutter.."um.. hey, yeah, it's Ann-Marie, the case manager at uhhhhhh......the naval hospital...ummmm..." geeze. that was fun.. now that's out of the way.. maybe I can improve.. balh .

holla

1st Rant of 2013

Now, I know I am being "kinder" this year...but 10 days is long enough... I have a rant and rave for ya'll.. :) And it begins with FB...you see, I remember a time without fb...how did we ever survive not knowing what you were cooking for supper, or liking on Pinterest? Anywho.. the current rant is about the weather.. a very popular topic amongst us in the workplace, friends, family, and apparently FB.
The recent rant I have seen on FB is about how people are upset about the warm weather in January?!?! Are you kidding me?! This is one of the perks of living in NC!!! We LOVE the warm weather. Be grateful it's warm and not shovling snow and staying inside all day...we like being outdoors, paddling in December...bike riding in January...walking on the beach in the evenings...besides walking the dog at 5am in 30 degrees is not fun. Of course to each it's own...but come on man. You want snow...go get it...us locals are loving this weather! :)

Hehehehehehehe

cheers ~

Sweetest words

Texts...
Matt: I like stretching in the hot tub
Me: similar to hot yoga
Matt: when I get home I want to take all of your classes that I can
Me: speechless

Be Kind 2013

It seems like the older I get, the less and less I make true resolutions. The same ole ones apply: be healthy, work out more, eat less....I have started some new projects though. . . off pintrest of course. I made a mini scrap book to write in everyday One thing I'm grateful for. ..then I have a jar I put in things that make me smile/laugh. at the end of the year, you go back and read through them all... seems fun.

Instead of "Resolutions" I have to do list....

I'd always like to save money - travel outside the US this year...do more and more yoga...and the big one for this year BE KIND> Be KIND to everyone. I already succeeded one day!!! High Five! ooh and I'd like to put on my own yoga workshop....maybe a little SUP Yoga and arm balances....juicing...crafts.. so many ideas! Here's to turning 31 this year too...EEEEK!

I'm glad I'm blogging these so I can remember.. :)

oooh and I want to shoot for teaching 325-350 hours of yoga this year....tring to beat out my 302 from 2012! here we go!

Mark something off my bucket list I didn't in 2012.. like sky diving.. damn it! I'm going sky diving this year!!!!

OH and I'm taking my monthly sabbatical this month!! No booze for the month of January...maybe I'll go longer this year.. we'll see.. stay tuned.. what are some of your items on the "to do list"?

cheers!

Love a new one

One of my favorite parts of a new year is switching out the calendars!!!! Love it...organizing, flipping back through the last year, all of it. Ahhhh done foe another year. Happy 2013 y'all