Everywhere she's going BLING BLING...

It is 5am and I still can't sleep. I downloaded an audiobook, because usually that relaxes my mind and focuses it on something else then all the other thoughts running around in there. I downloaded A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller. I am really excited because I love Donald Miller. Blue Like Jazz is my one of my favorite books, and due for another reading very soon. I just finished Weightloss Diaries by Courtney Rubin. It was good, not great... but definitely worth my time. It is a memoir of a 25 yr old journalist and struggles and obsession with weight and food. Some of her stories hit so close to home that when she shared them it brought up something things I had never even realized before, but were so true! Like how when you do start to lose weight and work really hard it, friends and family not realizing it, try to sabotage it. She commented on how friends and family would say she was "wasting away" and tell her she needed to eat more at meals, or try to convince her to eat something against her diet. When in reality she was at a healthy weight, just not what everyone was "used to". I think about every female has some sort of issue with body image, weight, food and exercise, to some extent or another. Anything in excess is too much, being to lax is a slippery path... it is so hard to find a balance. The book was comforting at the least to make me feel not alone, even though I know so many deal with these issues day to day.

So today was a not so great day... one that left me on the verge of tears my whole way home after running a load of errands that caused a problem with each one I ran. You know when some days there is nothing you can pin point that is really make you that upset, but when things just come at you one after another you just feel beaten up and know you just need to go get in bed asap before one more bad thing can happen? That was kind of my day. On a good note however got 8 Christmas presents done and a bag of jewels to bedazzle my camera to match my blinged out phone that makes me so happy. Here are some pics!

Moral of the today... when everything seems to be going wrong, getting gifts to give others and bling will make any day a little brighter :)