opinions needed

I have a question for you all and could use some of your opinions. So, a good five or six years ago, I made a two-page scrapbook layout with pictures and captions about my relationship with Brian (We were still dating and talking about marriage when I made this). I have since ripped off a couple of the text blocks but what about the photos? Is it acceptable to keep them in the scrapbook or should I just toss those pages all together? It was my first (and let's be honest, until recently, only) serious relationship. And I did run into Victor again while I was with Brian at the gas station...okay, actually I had left Brian's apartment after an argument and walked across the street to the gas station but still, you get the point. (Funny how those things work).

Any words of advice would be greatly appreciated.

3-2-1

What I've been fighting and resisting for the past two years finally happened. Those three sacred little words slipped off my tongue tonight. I was caught off guard and just let my feelings slip right on out with my "I love you too". Is this a bad thing, of course not! It just means that it's getting serious. I don't throw those three little words around. In fact, I haven't used them with a guy since...about this time in 2007. That's five years of saving those words to use at the right moment with someone truly special. Although I hoped that my first use would not involve saying them into a phone while looking at him with a piece of glass separating us. It is what it is, and I'm now over that big hurdle of figuring out how to verbalize my emotions.

I never expected this to happen. That visit to the halfway house two years ago was simply to see an old friend. Something touched my heart and I fell; I fell hard.

"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly." - from somewhere on Facebook

And with that, I say goodnight.

Never tell a trainer that the workout was "too easy"

Seriously, I thought I was going to die right there on that gym mat.

Row 500 meters as quickly as possible
20 kettle bell sweeps (35 lbs)
20 clean and press (10 each arm - 20 lbs)
10 burpees (I haaaaate burpees)
20 breakdowns (plank position while continuously switching between resting on forearms and palms)

all as quickly as possible - repeat two times.

Anytime I stopped to wipe the sweat from my face or take a sip of water, I got yelled at to keep moving.

It sounds easy but I was drenched.




The story behind why this happened to me. They had me work with a female trainer early last week (nothing against female trainers...I want to be one). The first exercise was a bicep curl/shoulder press. She handed me a 7.5 dumbbell. I seriously stood there and laughed for a moment before telling her that I would need the 15s. She continued through a workout, which was decent but all stuff that I already do on my own. It wasn't challenging me. I guess the way I talked to the Trainer Director about it, he understood that I thought it was "too easy." That and I referenced to having one of the best trainers before having to move. So, he decided to kill me on Friday to prove a point. Point taken but I liked every moment of it, just sayin'. What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.