OhhhhhhKAY! Here we go! I promised I'd be back with a vengeance and here I am. Mind you, I am writing this post feeling a little antsy that I'm not studying for my history exam that I have on Monday! I am immediately hitting the books right after I finish this post! No dillydallying allowed!
(Added to Mention: I started this post last week and took my Exam on Monday... I think I did REALLY well! Let's keep our fingers crossed!)
(Added to Mention: I started this post last week and took my Exam on Monday... I think I did REALLY well! Let's keep our fingers crossed!)These past two weeks have been CRAZY and it's beginning to get really difficult to find that balance, but I'm not allowing myself to get overwhelmed. For me, the more I think about how overwhelmed I am going to be, the more overwhelmed I feel. So it's best for me to just take deep breaths, buckle down, and not think about it too much! In the heat of everything I still managed to getbetween 6.5-8 hours of sleep each night, worked out M,T,W,R,F, SUN
(early!) got all my work done, and still had a little downtime. How I did it, I couldn't begin to tell ya! But having a good mentality through it all definitely served me well! It started out like any other week...Except for the fact that someone broke into my car while I was in class and stole my PHONE, AND WALLET! I am a MORON. I left my purse in my car, bc I didn't need it and ran into my class because I didn't want to be late. It was not a good week. PERIOD.
meant when I described our house as having an abundance of Buddhas (including our little man), and an ora of Buddhist spirituality/all things associated, lol. Keep In Mind blogging babes, this isn't even half(!!!!) of the collection. You really have no idea, haha. So here they are!
(My mom has an incredible sense of feng shui and everyone describes our house as feeling very centered and relaxing. There's always music playing throughout the house or even sounds (water, monk's chanting, spa music)...Some even attribute the feeling to that of being in a spa. Sorry, I just wanted to prepare you for this so you don't think my family's crazy!)
On the side of the fridge... haha
This gold one below is one of favorites... The detail is so intricate, it's amazing!
My mom drew this FREE HAND in college. I adore it. (I'll be taking some pictures of the paintings she's doing now soon!)
And a clearer close-up... The above picture shows you just how small it really is though!
NOTE: Though this happy one looks dusty, he's not, I promise! He's really old and had been through a war, literally. (Many of them have been...)
I just recently found this treasure when I was visiting my one of my best friends (HI JENNY!!!) in Charleston, SC. (Shout out to Jenna! Though I doubt she reads this, lol.) It's an amazing city with such grace and charm! Anyways, this amazing Buddha is carved out of ONE piece of wood and the woman who sold him to me had just come back from Thailand with him :) My mom gasped when she saw him! He looks so small from the picture but he's definitely the size of a toddler, maybea four-year-old (OK...this is getting weird). (And -ps- I carried him on the plane and everyone did double takes thinking he was a child lol!)
Close-Up!
Another close-up! He's a little one 
So many of y'all commented that I am super enthusiastic! (Had to throw the "!" in there... Yes, I pun, b.a.d.l.y.) A lot of that comes from my mom. While we aren't "loud enthusiasts," I get my passion from her. All around our home are quotes/sayings to remind us to laugh a little more, or smile a little more often, etc. Just things that not only can brighten my day, but even more so the day's of others around me.
So my post last week ended with me and Buddha going on our walk! Or what I thought was going to be a walk. DO NOT BE FOOLED. In fact, be skeptical the next time you read something online about the distance of a running trail. Or maybe read it correctly? Yes, Julz, we learned this waaaay waaaaaaaaay back, like in kindergarten back, to read carefully (both with care, and in full). Uggh. So can you guess what happened to the Buddha man and I? Well, let's just say we started walking and were at about 1.5-2 miles and we started running. I felt great, and knew that my body could easily handle 3 miles, as I was prepared for the turn around to come shortly after I had started running. I lost track of time and reached the end. In my airhead state, I didn't think much of anything...Nope, not even that I hadn't turned around in about 3 miles!!! I was beginning to feel it and started to realize when I saw the sign for 4.5 miles that there was, in fact, no loop. I kept running to the end and looked at my watch. We'd been walking/running for 50 minutes. I looked down at Buddha and he looked quite comfortable. I, on the other hand, suddenly felt as if I were Pheidippides about to embark on my 26.2 mile trek from the Battle of Marathon to Athens. Boo was bouncing around me like a BillyGoat 
And totally ready for our journey back. In fact, he pulled me the ENTIRE WAY. I will say that after 10 miles, I felt beyond exhausted and my hips were really bothering me. But IIIIIIIIII did it! (Ahem... What else was I going to do!? Ride Buddha back?)
And totally ready for our journey back. In fact, he pulled me the ENTIRE WAY. I will say that after 10 miles, I felt beyond exhausted and my hips were really bothering me. But IIIIIIIIII did it! (Ahem... What else was I going to do!? Ride Buddha back?) Here are some pictures from our adventure! (To be inserted later, my picture uploader keeps saying "ERROR"!!! 
The next day, I definitely laid low. And I mean low. Like waaaay down there. I stayed in bed ALL. DAY. LONG. Happy as a little Hermit 
That night, Mike and I did go out to dinner at Ted Montana's Grille which was great! We both ordered a cup of their Bison Chili to start (I topped mine with onions, no cheese/jalapenos... Kath, close your eyes!) And Mike topped his with chedder. We were both starving and it took the edge off of our hunger! For our dinners, I ordered the Cedar Plank Salmon "dry" (no extra oil or butter) and ordered it medium (and it was perrrrfect!) with steamed broccoli (dry, as well...Did I mention I'm lactose intolerant?) and my man ordered one of their special Grilled Chicken Sandwiches with Avocado! He loved it 
That night, Mike and I did go out to dinner at Ted Montana's Grille which was great! We both ordered a cup of their Bison Chili to start (I topped mine with onions, no cheese/jalapenos... Kath, close your eyes!) And Mike topped his with chedder. We were both starving and it took the edge off of our hunger! For our dinners, I ordered the Cedar Plank Salmon "dry" (no extra oil or butter) and ordered it medium (and it was perrrrfect!) with steamed broccoli (dry, as well...Did I mention I'm lactose intolerant?) and my man ordered one of their special Grilled Chicken Sandwiches with Avocado! He loved it OK...I am officially SO upset about this stupid uploader. I have spent H.O.U.R.S on making this post purrrfect (I love spelling it with "purr"...). I'm home on a Friday night because I have a HUMONGO Bio exam on Tuesday and need to study! Mike and I were supposed to go out to dinner tonight, but the fart got sick. Grr. Anyway, I made dinner for myself and have a PICTURE, but can't upload it. Ugh. I made lemon-scented tilapia's stuffed with julienne summer vegetables (squash, carrots, zucchini) and had it with Roasted Brussel Sprouts (like 50,000) and Roasted Eggplant. I just cut up tons of fruit because I was so frustrated and upset with blogger and ate enough to probably equal my weight in water . I love fruit like it's my job. (Like you didn't already know.). Anyway, My dinner was delicious and now I'm so upset, but feel like I deserved this for being the negligent blogger. Well, touché Blogger.
). I'm home on a Friday night because I have a HUMONGO Bio exam on Tuesday and need to study! Mike and I were supposed to go out to dinner tonight, but the fart got sick. Grr. Anyway, I made dinner for myself and have a PICTURE, but can't upload it. Ugh. I made lemon-scented tilapia's stuffed with julienne summer vegetables (squash, carrots, zucchini) and had it with Roasted Brussel Sprouts (like 50,000) and Roasted Eggplant. I just cut up tons of fruit because I was so frustrated and upset with blogger and ate enough to probably equal my weight in water . I love fruit like it's my job. (Like you didn't already know.). Anyway, My dinner was delicious and now I'm so upset, but feel like I deserved this for being the negligent blogger. Well, touché Blogger. I'm submitting this post, despite it not being complete...UGHHHH!!! I had a grocery trip, meals, my trek with Buddha, and so much MORE! This is so dissapointing. Oh well, I'm submitting it, for all of you who are so nice and comment on my blog, and who are amazingly up-to-date ALL THE TIME with your beautiful blogs. Well, you're all just purrr(
)fect! LOL. Anyways, I'm about to wash up and get into bed because tomorrow is this weird event at the gym where we have to sign up for our classes if we want to get in?! So I have 8am step! (My only fun for the day...other than studying, OF COURSE.) So excited, but I need to get a good night sleep so I can wake up at 6, eat, and dillydally/digest before hand! I never miss my breakfasts! No sir!
)fect! LOL. Anyways, I'm about to wash up and get into bed because tomorrow is this weird event at the gym where we have to sign up for our classes if we want to get in?! So I have 8am step! (My only fun for the day...other than studying, OF COURSE.) So excited, but I need to get a good night sleep so I can wake up at 6, eat, and dillydally/digest before hand! I never miss my breakfasts! No sir!OK, with that Julz leaves you all...THANK GOODNESS it's the weekend! And uploader, pleeaassee work tomorrow!
) along with a little Seafood Salad with Citrus Vinagrette from Whole Foods, which I ADORE! So fresh and so clean! It has calamari rings, shrimp, bay scallops, fennel, red onion, and yellow and red bell peppers! It's SO good! Around 1 we left to go swimming at our gym, but when we got there it was CLOSED! And they told us last week they'd be open on Easter 
. So we drove back home and took Buddha for a walk. He LOOOVED it! Except for when he got bullied by these two adorable cocker spaniels. And by "bullied," I mean they merely stood there and Buddha scurried behind Mom and I. He's SUCH a frady-cat, you guys, it's pathetic. 
Send some jellybeans and chocolate my way, if you get the
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