Improving ourselves...

Today I had an early morning meeting at work. My boss is great. He is always encouraging us to improve ourselves and find ways to become better people. This in turn helps us become better employees which is a win win.

I just loved something he said today..."We are in the positions we are because of the choices we make. No one else is to blame for our circumstances". (Or to praise if our circumstances are good). So if we want good things to happen we need to make good choices. Sounds easy enough.

Our subconcious mind is very powerful. If we feed it positive thoughts we produce positive results. If we feed it negative thoughts, well then guess what?? We produce negative results.

Thanks for the reminder...
I will stop harrassing the drivers on the road... Positive Thoughts!!

Dragster Racing...More than meets the eye!!

What a fun day I had Drag Racing...

Well...I didn't actually race. I was the golf cart driving supporter. Yea. One more thing I've never done. Gone Drag racing and Driven a golf cart. The golf cart part was a piece of cake and I didn't get yelled at once for being somewhere I shouldn't. (Although I was later told I shouldn't have stopped in one spot, but hey, no one yelled at me! Yea!)

I got to go back in the Restricted Area, cuz I got a coveted blue band around my wrist, so when it was time to race...I was right there at the starting line in the Golf Cart cheering!

I then floored the Golf cart and by the time I got to the end where the racers end, there were two other races that had happened. They're going 180+ mph past me! yikes.

I learned a lot about Drag racing that I had no idea about. And I still don't know anything.

Here they are lining up to get ready to race...

Two of them all ready to start!

After we were done we sat at the finish line to watch some and we went up in the stands and watched a bunch of others. There were funny cars, motorcycles, trucks...

They even have a Jr. Dragster section for kids. They can start racing at 8 years old. Here are a couple of the Jr. Dragsters.

I pretty much sat in an air-conditioned trailer, chatted with dragster neighbors, napped, colored, ate, blew bubbles, and took lots of golf cart rides. :)

It was a long day. But overall was a lot of fun!

Fourth of July!!

I love the 4th of July. I love watching fireworks. This weekend has ended up being packed with fun things. It started Thursday night. I went and picked up my sisters kids for a sleepover.

When we got back home a neighbor told us we should come over to the ward party. They were just getting ready to light fireworks. So we grabbed some sweatshirts and blankets and headed over. That was fun. Snow-cones, popcorn, candy, food, fireworks, and lots of friends. After we got home we decided to walk to the gas station and get a Red Box. And watched a movie that night.

That next morning they were playing on my piano when they came running in saying the ice cream man was coming. I said..."well you better find some money" and one niece said.."ah could you be a little more specific?" :) So I gathered them up some money and they flagged down the ice cream man. I still wonder how they heard him while they were playing on the piano. :)

When we were done having fun here, we went home and helped them decorate their bikes for a 4th of July parade in their neighborhood. They looked cute! My sister and I went and looked for stain for a chair I bought. I've never stained anything before, so any volunteers to help would be great! :)

That night I was invited to go to the Real Salt Lake Soccer game. That was fun. I was even loaned a shirt, so I wouldn't look so out of place! :)

We had good seats. The guy holding the American flag in the picture below is where our seats were. They were really good when the teams goal was at this end.

We ended up sitting up higher to get a better view of the whole game. Real didn't play so hot, but we ended up tieing, (by luck really), but that is much better than losing.

After the game they had performances by David Osmond and someone I'd never heard of. Then they did a fireworks show. I love fireworks shows.

The next day I was actually semi-productive. Cleaned my house, did laundry, went shopping, and got in some TV time too. I ended up going with a friend to the Freedom Festival and looking at the booths. I found the CUTEST pair of shoes on clearance for $10.00 but they were a little big in the toes. I was soooo bumbed. For only $10.00?? I passed and we went to dinner. I then went to another friends house who lives across the street from the Stadium of Fire. I pretty much got the performance and didn't have to pay. We could hear the concert and everything. Just couldn't see the performers, but that's ok, cuz I could laydown on a blanket and just relax while listening. Then came the fireworks. HOLY COW! They were LOUD and HUGE! It was like lying right under them. It was so cool.

At one point it scared some birds right out of their nests. The momma bird and two tiny babies came walking right up on the blanket. The babies were tiny. Poor little things.

Well, all in all, it was a very fun weekend.

Music...

I love music. It can be so theraputic.

I think there are so many good songs out there that can express exactly how you feel. I wish I had the talent to write a song about exactly how I feel sometimes.
Unfortunately, I do not have that talent. Maybe fortunately for you all. :)

I have found so many good songs out there lately that express almost exactly how I feel.
I love it. I need to re-do my ipod with some of these new found songs so I can run to them.

I should make a good running playlist so I can get out some energy in a good run.
Maybe I'd be willing to run a little further and harder, just so I could hear all my good songs.

PG Triathlon

I'm a little behind. But I did another Triathlon June 13th. It was a good Triathlon. The course was a good one, but hard for me. It seemed like the majority of the run was up hill. And the bike had some good hills too. I was glad to be able to run the whole thing without stopping. The weird thing is that I got really bad side aches on the down hills. Guess I better start practicing down hills more.

My time wasn't great, but I finished before the last person, so that is good.
It was a reverse tri. And I'm not exactly sure why they did it that way.
We ran first.



Then biked. The bike was shorter than usual, but I'm totally fine with that. I stink on the bike.



Then we swam. I actually enjoy swimming the most, but for some reason, this swim about killed me. I had to stop several times for fear of drowning. But I made it to the end alive. Yea!

It ended up being a wonderful workout on a beautiful Saturday morning.