Gentle

 

 

GENTLE clouds......

 

This was taken yesterday at North Park right before my long run.....

 

Beautiful sky!

Glass

We purchased these GLASS prism cubes when we were on vacation in Hawaii about ten years ago.  They are absolutely gorgeous and change colors depending on how the light hits them.  I remember how we debated and debated purchasing them when we were there, but we are so happy we did.  Not only are they beautiful, but they always bring back happy memories from that wonderful vacation.  AND as a bonus....they kind of fit our "GEOMETRIC" word as well!!!

Geometric

 

 

This is the GEOMETRIC pattern on my winter coat.....it will hurt your eyes if you stare at it long enough!  

Goth

 

 

My attempt at turning my back yard into a GOTH scene.  I  believe that it would be perfect if there was a raven or crow in there.....I bet Cyndi could add one in with all of her special editing she can do!!!  

Fly

Disclaimer:  Taken with phone in the evening....not the best quality!!!

I was in Grove City yesterday evening meeting a dear friend for dinner and in the field across from where I was parked, there were multiple black birds with a red patch on their head FLYING all around the field and into this one tree where there was a nest.  You could hear them "conversing" with each other.  It was very neat to watch, although almost impossible to get a picture of them!  I was fascinated....my friend was getting cold and not as intrigued as I was!  HA!!!!! 

Last day of vacation.......BLAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

Flowers

 

Yesterday I went to a place in Pittsburgh called Paint Monkey with a group of friends.  I had never heard of it before, but it sounded like fun so I decided to try it out.  Wine, munchies and painting with friends....whats not to like?  On the wall were many pictures of FLOWERS.  I thought they were pretty good!  

 

 

Here is my picture. I think it's called "Seasons", but I could have totally just made that up! I look forward to going again.  We had such a fun night!  I'm really enjoying my vacation and will be sad when I have to go back to work next week!



Fire

OK....be a little open-minded with this one!!!

So I have been going to Crossfit for a little over a year now and have not been able to master the double under.  Needless to say...they are DIFFICULT.  I went to Crossfit yesterday and the WOD was a beast of a WOD.... including 50 double unders.  If you couldn't double under, you were to do jump tucks which are no fun either.  I refuse to do jump tucks which just makes my workout significantly longer, but that's OK.  The 50 double unders were the first exercise.  3-2-1 GO!!!!!  I proceeded to do 29 double unders in a row!  I was stunned.  Tammy, my coach came over to me with this look of pure excitement for me.  I then finished up the last 21 strung together as well and just like that I was done with them!  Tammy looked at me and said, "Girl....you are on FIRE"!!!!!  I was so excited, I can't even tell you!!!  A simple thing like getting double unders!!!  It made my whole day!  I am somewhat laughing as I write this blog because for one, I was on fire for the double unders, but almost passed out while I did the next 50 wall balls and then 50 burpees because I couldn't catch my breath and two, because I have absolutely NO idea how I did them.  I wonder if I will get them again!!!  Also, please don't think me vain....I am usually never on fire for a CrossFit anything  and I usually never post things like this, but it was too coincidental that the word was FIRE and I was told I was on FIRE.....so I couldn't resist!  Thanks for indulging!

Fabulous

Yesterday I had a FABULOUS day!!!  I am on vacation this week....so no work, which is fabulous enough really!  I had an awesome run in the morning followed by a tough spin class.  I got to try out the new spin bikes purchased by the YMCA, which I liked.  They were a much smoother ride, but much tougher.  Then I met a bunch of my favorite girls for lunch at Aladdins Eatery.  I ordered the Tawook Salad which was delicious!  Then I spent the rest of my evening home with the family!  Let's see if I can repeat that fabulous day today!  The sun's already out, so looking good!

Eye

I like this quote....

Electric

LIFE CHANGER:  An ELECTRIC dog fence!!!  No more wandering the neighborhood by Pikachu Poloyac!  No more standing outside for twenty minutes in the pouring down rain or the freezing snowstorms while waiting for the dog to poop!  No more random rings of the doorbell while yet another neighbor brings the dog back home!  No more chasing after Pika as he runs after a neighbor walking their dog past our house.  Yes, a definite life changer!  My only question is why didn't we have this installed 8 years ago when we first got Pika????

Exercise, Entrance, Excitement

I get very EXCITED for anything that has to do with EXERCISE.  Truly.  My two favorite exercises that I participate in are running and crossfit.  I have been running forever and have been doing crossfit for just over a year. 



This is the ENTRANCE to North Park where I've done many, many training runs and races.  Just driving through the entrance gets me excited to get out there and run!



I ran the March Mad Dash in North Park last year.  It was a beautiful day!

 This is the ENTRANCE to my CrossFit Box.  I could confuse excitement with sheer panic prior to walking into the box, but whatever!

 

WOD including Wall Balls....

Delicate

These are the first flower buds of the season alongside my house.  They always seem so DELICATE to me....What a gorgeous day!!!! 

Double

I am going to make this Cauliflower Crust Hawaiian Pizza today for the first time....I'm hoping it's going to be so delicious that I'll want a DOUBLE serving!!!! I'll let you know!!!!

Dangle

Holy DANGLE earrings, Peggy Finnegan!!!!

Disorder

My son's room.....enough said....now I will just close his door and forget what I just witnessed....

Distant

This is a DISTANT view of the Carnegie Mellon Institute in Oakland where I work.  I had just watched "The Dark Knight Rises" this past weekend and one of the major scenes in the movie was shot there.  It was really neat to see it on the big screen!  This was snapped on a warmer day last week....too cool....

Culture

 

 

This is a microscope's view of a CULTURE of neurons.  My husband does research in strokes.....

 

I thought this would be a different view of looking at a culture!

Color and Calm

So I realize it's fast approaching the end of another week and I am once again behind on my photo postings.  That being said, I am going to think WAYYYYY outside the box here and post two words with these two pictures.  Today I went to my hair salon and got a little bit of hair Color and a Keratin treatment which really CALMS down my hair. 

 

Before Keratin

 

 

 

After Keratin......CALMING!!!!