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Been busy…

I know it’s been a while since I’ve updated here, but I’ve sort of been busy with some bible studies, going out of town, trying to get my exercise in, working, dealing with being tired, etc.

I wanted to let you know though that I started another blog – in my minds eye, I can see your jaws drop thinking, “why another blog when she doesn’t even update this one?”. Well, I’ll tell you why. Right now, I’m going through an important period of my spiritual journey & I want to be able to document it.

Why online & not just in a personal journal? Well, mainly because I’m not really keeping a seperate journal for that area of my life right now. And, also because I just finished a 6 week bible study & have started another one. I want to, not only share what I’ve been learning through these studies, as well as my own devotional time, but I also want to use it as a way of keeping myself accountable.

I’m gonna be honest, it’s hard when you’re single & live by yourself. Sure, you have free reign to do what you want & go where you want, but it can also get you into trouble. Especially with a broken-down Jesus girl, such as myself. I don’t have anyone physically present to keep me accountable for my actions. So, it’s really easy to slip & not pray, study or even pick up my bible like I should.

It’s also the same with exercising & dieting. I wrote in a previous post that I had a exercise plan that I wanted to do. I actually was doing it for a while, but then I stopped. And, since I didn’t post anything to my blog about it, nor did I tell anyone who did read my post, no one knew what happened to give me any kind of words of encouragement.

The other reason I decided to create a seperate blog is because I want to keep all those types of posts in one area & not confuse those with my regular ‘every day’ posts. It makes it easier to find and I also think it keeps the blog more organized that way.

So, with all that being said, here is the link – A Former Wallflower Learns to Dance. I just started it, so I don’t have any posts right now. But I do have a static page up that explains how I came up with the title of the blog. I’m getting ready to work on typing out my testimony from the past year & will let you know when that is up. I will be posting that on my new blog, as well as, my website.

Well that is all for now. It’s getting late & I need to be going to bed soon. It’s been a long week & I’m just grateful tomorrow is Friday. 🙂


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THE U IN JESUS

I got the following in an email and wanted to share! 🙂

THE  U IN JESUS
Before  U were thought of or time had begun,
God  stuck U in the name of His Son.
And  each time U pray, you’ll see it’s true,
You  can’t spell out JesUs and not include U.
You’re  a pretty big part of His wonderful name,
For  U, He was born; that’s why He came.
And  His great love for U is the reason He died.
It  even takes U to spell crUcified.
Isn’t  it thrilling and splendidly grand
He  rose from the dead, with U in His plan?
The  stones split away, the gold trUmpet blew,
And  this word resUrrection is spelled with a U.
When  JesUs left earth at His Upward ascension,
He  felt there was one thing He just had to  mention.
“Go  into the world and tell them it’s true
That  I love them all – Just like I love U.”
So  many great people are spelled with a U,
Don’t  they have a right to know JesUs too?
It  all depends now on what U will do,
He’d  like them to know,
But  it all starts with U.
~ Author Unknown ~

My New Workout Challenge

I have this idea for a workout challenge for myself. I came up with the idea after I was watching an infomercial for a new exercise program that I saw on TV that I wanted. I knew that I really couldn’t afford it right now, plus I’d rather wait until it’s available in stores before I decided to try it out.

 

Anyways, I thought to myself, “Why waste money on another workout program that’ll probably get used maybe once or twice, then get stuck on my shelf to collect dust, especially when I have all these other workout DVDs just sitting around. Plus, I’m always complaining that I get too easily bored with my workout routine.” Then, that is when I had this idea.

 

The specific goal was to make a list of every DVD workout that I own with the total number of minutes per workout. Then, once I figured up how many individual DVD workouts I had, I would assign a specific workout to a certain day. The ending goal is to go through all my workout DVDs within a specific time frame without using the same DVD twice.

 

I have 2 reasons why I think this will be a fun and interesting challenge:

1) I get to change up my exercise routine each day, so that I will not get bored & want to quit. I kind of have this tendency to find specific DVDs that I really like and then I use those over and over again until I get bored with them.

2) It gives me a chance to go through my entire collection while taking inventory of ones that I really like and once that I could do without.

 

I thought about this idea over a week ago, so today I finally sat down to make my list. Well, after counting up all the DVDs that I have – including sets & individual DVDs – I found I that I have 45 in total with approx 77 variable workout routines.

 

Here’s a couple pictures that I took of them all below.

 
 
 
 

Now some of these DVDs have multiple workouts on them and are broken into sections. For example, one of the videos that I have is called, 10 Minute Solutions: Fat Blasting Dance party. The total video time is 54 minutes long. But, there are actually 5 – 10 minute workout routines on the DVD. So, lets say that my goal is to exercise for 5 days/week, and on those days I do either one whole DVD or one specific routine per day, Since this particular DVD is broken into 5, 10 minute workouts and each one is a different routine, I could easily do this DVD for one week, and not do the same routine/exercise twice. Which is my goal. So, that by the time I’ve finished, I will have gone through my entire collection.

 

I’m planning on starting this goal hopefully tomorrow. I haven’t decided which one I will begin with, but I’m planning on printing a calendar off my computer to keep track of the specific workouts that I do. I also want to make this as flexible as possible because I know that schedules change and things happen. I will also be planning on checking in here at least once a week, probably at the end, to give you an update and let you know how things are going.

 

So, wish me luck & feel free to leave some comments and let me know what you think. 🙂

 
 


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