Price reduced!!

a while back, I posted about a dream of mine...owning a B&B in wine country. The actual B&B that had started me dreaming was on the market... for a whopping $3.5 MILLION dollars. yikes.

well, people, it's still on the market and the price has been reduced to.... wait for it, wait for it!


$2.9m buckaroos. fss. *sigh*

the dream lives, the reality just looks a bit different. I came across a couple of fabulous blogs today by folks who had a dream and made a specific plan to work toward it. I know what I'll be doing this weekend.

xx

crossfit

recently, i've discovered CrossFit. not sure how I hadn't heard of it before as I was quite the gym rat for many many years. anyways, found it. love it. doing it.

this comment on yesterdays wod (workout of the day) got me so fired up to work out harder:

I am a mother, a daughter, a sister. Today is my 1 yr Crossfit anniversary.

After a failed marriage, I began a journey of self-discovery and a mission to step out of my comfort zone and teach my daughters what a strong woman is. Along the way I re-discovered exercise. With 3 kids and a fulltime job, that’s not something I had made a priority in my life. After a year of seeing the benefits exercise brought to my life, mentally and physically, I was introduced to CF. I was extremely intimidated. Was I too old to start something like this? I NEVER had used any sort of weights, couldn’t do a pushup let alone a pull-up. CF and I had a love/hate relationship for a time. I was not going to let this thing beat me. I cherry picked at the wods often avoiding lifting days, but I would not give up. I read the boards for daily inspiration. I could not believe how supportive the community was! I had been embarrassed to post my times – but its me against me, right? Maybe there were others like me and they would see my posts and come out from the shadows too. In that realm I would come to meet the love of my life Herm, and my FRAT family. I have to say CFrs are the most positive people I have ever met.The clouds had soon began to part. and I started to understand the lifts, and I wanted more. I changed my diet to Paleo and the results have been amazing including my first pull-up and now use rx'd weight in nearly every wod. In my quest to learn more I even signed up for the Level 1 cert – something I never ever thought I’d have the guts to do. Crossfit is not just an exercise methodology for me anymore, it’s a way of life. I am a mother, a daughter, a sister, a Crossfitter.

Patty, 42

my life is crazy chaos but making crossfit (and yoga) a priority in my life now. it feels good.

it's all I can do not to

...pick up the phone and call you



time doesn't heal, it's as real today as it ever was...the love, the longing. i miss.

do what you love...

what on earth could I possibly do for work/career that involves one, some or all of the following and not necessarily in this order :)

wine
gardening
animals
historic homes
lifting weights
salsa dancing

those are my passions, i've explored the obvious jobs that relate to some, still not finding anything that calls to me or that doesn't involve going back to school or that would provide sufficient income.

feeling lost. anyone have any recommendations for how to figure out what might be a good direction to go in? if you love your job, how did you find it? how did you know you'd love doing it? did you just know what your ideal job/career would be or did you go through a particular process to discover what you'd be happy doing?

i'm so confused!

lack of passion IS fatal... Yes, yes it is.

the moment I read this truism from the amazing Danielle LaPorte of the equally amazing White Hot Truth back in January, it stuck with me. so much so that I literally have thought about it at least daily since then.

i even emailed her after i'd been struck by a few more asking if she would be doing anything to put them in print somehow because i'd started printing them out and putting them up around my house. i said something embarrassing like if not, she may see me at an upcoming event with a truism printed out and stuck to my chest. she said she was moving in that direction and so I was excited when she recently announced her new notecard collection.

this woman is doing some seriously amazing work with her firestarters, her blog, and many other things she lends her creative self to. i'm constantly inspired by her. i'm not an entrepreneur but she makes me want to be one.

anyways. a couple of weeks back i finally went and got a tattoo. i'd been wanting to do one for a long while, had wanted to do a quote that was meaningful to me and had been wracking my brain as to what to settle on when it finally came to me:

I LOVE IT!! as I told Danielle in a recent email where I shared the picture with her, it's a constant reminder for me to live my life with passion and do things that I feel good about.

I was excited when Danielle included my tattoo pic & a mention of moi today on her blog post about things she's loving. WOOT!

thank you Danielle for being such an inspiration to me, for being open to me tattooing her quote & for including it in a post! very cool, it totally made my year!

xoxo
carrie

truism pic Danielle La Porte
tattoo pic me :)

movie anyone?

i really want to see these movies. it's so hard to find a movie date. i don't mind going on my own tho.

my goal is to see all of these by the end of August.

500 Days of Summer

Julie & Julia

unfortunately, a couple are no longer showing in the cinema locally. i will put them in my netflix queue but seeing how my TV died yesterday, i'll have to come up with another plan!

tonight: The Fray

going to the show with my bestie Jaymee. it's been toooooo long since we've gotten to spend time together so i'm excited!