Baker with a little personal training on the side . . .

Greetings!

Yes I love to bake! I work at Steve Nash Tuesdays - Fridays 3-9pm and Saturdays from 9-2 and then I get home and bake. All weekend I bake. I bake cookies. I bake squares. I bake brownies. I eat too much cookie dough. LOL. But yes I just love it. Yesterday my roommate Elisha and I went to the states and more than 75% of the money that I spent went into baking supplies. That's okay though because it's a hobbie. I finally have one. An expensive one but one nonetheless. My friends at Starbucks and Elisha and the church staff love it too! Woke up early before church today and just wanted to bake, so made a brownie cookie pizza and some raspberry coconut white chocolate bars.

Life is pretty good right now. Almost settled in the new place. Just one last piece of furniture needs to be finished and then I can unpack the rest of my stuff. The bottom floor looks lived in and nice so just to finish my room. I am never at my house so it really doesn't matter. Sometimes I have clients in the morning and so I just stay in White Rock all day. Hang out with friends, workout, walk around the town or just read. Now that it's getting nicer I will be at the beach a whole lot more!

I work a lot and love it. I could totally see myself as a workaholic. Bad, but that's how much I enjoy my job and want to succeed in it. I have been getting really busy with clients and really grown to love some of my clients. They buy sessions just so that we can hang out/workout/talk. I really enjoy those times. I have made a lot of other friends at the gym and know when they workout and what they are up to most of the time. It's fun seeing them.

I am busy working out a lot too because I plan on entering a figure competition in the fall. Not bodybuilding, but a step below. I am super excited to be on track for something and really just have a goal to reach. It's so much more fun and easier to train that way.

I've been playing some pick up bball with friends from church which is sososososo much fun. I haven't been playing flag football because of work and I miss it. I don't know if I will be able to play this season either because the games fall on Saturdays right during the time that I am working. I really want to, but without practicing too I just feel like I am half committed. They still want me to play even without practicing but to me it's halfhearted. You know "all or nothing". That's me.

Other than those sweet things, not much else is new. Want to get involved in something more to fill up some more time, volunteer or sports or coaching or something. I think that summer will bring some of this. I hope to go back up to camp soon for a week or a weekend this summer to work in the kitchen or with event staff or something. I missed it last year so it would be good to do that again.

Well as I sit here on my floor in Langley, practically all of my relatives are planning their trips down south and boy do I wish I was going too. I would love to travel right now. But that's not feasible for a bit. Have a great Sunday!

Later days!

March Madness

Greetings!

I wish this title meant that I was watching a lot of basketball but that's not the case. I have been super super busy with work because I have a couple clients that come in the morning and then I start work at 3pm now that I have extended hours due to my hard work and ability to train well (says my manager). So I wake up and go to the gym to workout, train my morning clients, work out again maybe, kill time/should do productive things, then start work again and finish at 9pm. It's a long day, but it's only Tuesday, Wednesdays and Thursdays. Fridays there are no morning clients and Saturdays I work 9-2. I have really been enjoying work although I really need to amp up the sales part of it. I need the confidence, the words and the ability to generate interest through initial personal training exercises.

Moving in has been slow going, but getting better. Our kitchen is organized, my room is not just a little goat trail to my bed anymore, we have a hospitable living room, and semi organized bathrooms. I am in the process of changing my dresser/set of shelves into a horizontal shelving unit for my room. Just need a saw and some larger nails than I currently possess. I am really excited for when it's done. I want to paint it too!!!!

Now that I am getting into the swing of things I need some other things to get involved in on the weekend and my day off (Monday). Hoping to get some kind of volunteer thing and/or coaching thing. Also going to start some group exercise in the mornings at my church as soon as my personal training cert. is complete. Speaking of which, I am going to write my final exam next Friday so please pray for me for that, as I can't wait to just get it all done so that I can start on my nutrition certification.

Lent hasn't been going that well. The things that I gave up or tried to sacrifice really didn't pan out as I wasn't as dedicated as I thought. There is one that I still gave up and haven't "cheated" on as of yet. I really was lacking the Biblical portions of Lent and the spiritual focus as of course that's the whole reason behind it all. Why is it so hard for us to sacrifice something that's so unimportant in the grand scheme of things? Why is it so hard to make Jesus a priority in our lives rather than just squeezing Him in whatever time we have left of our lives?

Don't got a whole lot of other things to say at the moment, but I'll check in soon! Later days!