"Before I knew" - Basia Bulat

I can't stop dreaming about you, John Beach! You're a cutie!

I LOVE RED ROCKS!

Today was so AWESOME!! My friend and I went out to cross train at the most amazing amphitheater in the world...Red Rocks!! (Of course I haven't been to every amphitheater in the world...YET...but, I'm biast since I live so close)

My friend, Dawn, is training for the San Francisco Nike Women's Marathon in October and I'm training (well getting more serious at least) for the Maui Half Marathon I'm running in September. Red Rocks is such a popular fitness spot on the weekends, it's crazy! There's a FREE boot camp held every Saturday morning that looks intense!!
http://www.redrocksfitness.com/.
People were running the seats (behind us), doing push ups facing downward, using resistance bands on the side railings, doing yoga poses and core workouts at the top of the stairs like machines! How motivating!! We just ended up doing our "own" boot camp and copying some (super hot) guy doing push ups and dips next to us. Along with our wimpy arm workout, we did 5 laps of hiking up and down the stairs. Next week, I'm hoping to have three other lovely ladies join us that couldn't this morning (two of which *cough* tied one on last night and couldn't get out of bed and the other who needed to log a 15 mile run for her full Maui Marathon training schedule).

I'll report back next week about the boot camp...that is if I survive!!

Sebastien Tellier - Look

I once announced, as I watched someone walk away from me, that I always stare at people's asses when I walk behind them.
A guy friend of mine responded with, "Well, ya, it's the only thing that moves on that side of the body."

This was posted on a friends Facebook page today...LOVE IT!!

I feel like a battered housewife sometimes. He knocks me down with his words, passive aggressively turns the situation around on me, accuses me of some off the wall incident he's made up in his head to be true and then tells me he loves me the very next minute. What?? He might as well just punch me in the face...it'll hurt just as bad.

Yes Please!!

Fuhhh-Q!

You think you're so sly...so sneaky...dodging bullets left and right by hiding evidence? You're both sick. You have NO clue what I know. You have no clue what I am capable of...what I could exploit. The bullsh*t, cowardly acts you're pulling are hilarious!! How dare you two insult my intelligence! You're just embarrassing yourselves and you don't even know it! What makes you think you need to hide what you've done? To spare my feelings? Please! Grow up. You may be the most pathetic duo I've ever met...let alone the WORST friends I could have ever asked for. Thank GOD the two of you aren't part of my life anymore. What a lesson. Luckily for me, I'm able to bury the hatchet, move on and stay focused on what I want in life...which is exactly what the two of you are sitting back waiting for...and will ALWAYS be waiting for.

I'm working my ass off to achieve what's coming for me...which is going to be so AMAZING. You think what's happened to your careers so far is embarrassing? That you've reached a low? Stagnant? Unemployed? Well, just wait...you deserve everything that's coming back on you. This is nothing...

...and I'm so happy that I get to sit back and watch without making a single move...
karma is a mother f*cker...

I could listen to this intro by XX for hours...

Domes in Black Rock City, NV

(theblight.net)

I am in a euphoric state of mind.
I feel as if I'm floating. It's amazing...but I'm kind of waiting for the "stupid" to wear off. I feel like Ron Livingston from Office Space...hypnotized. I really like it actually.

I lost my camera out on the Playa and I don't really care. I wigged out Sunday morning when I discovered it was missing. We went dome hopping in search for "the one with the cubby holes" and had no luck finding the camera. I know if it's returned to the lost and found that it won't work, but all I want is the memory card. But now I really don't have a worry. I believe that it'll come back to me if it's meant to be...especially at an event like Burning Man.

Audrey Kawasaki-Odaijini

(my ipod cover)

I love when my ipod knows what type of mood I'm in.
When I'm having a sh*tty day (like today) I shuffle the songs and they speak to me. Today I'm dealing with addiction (non drug related), anger, loneliness, stress and exhaustion. I've heard the first few songs so many times but these lyrics just popped out at me today...

"You ever want something that you know you shouldn't have?
And the more you know you shouldn't have it...
the more you want it?"-Rhymefest

"Go straight to hell boy..." -Clash

"Many is a word that only leaves you guessing. Guessing about a thing you really ought to know." -Led Zeppelin

"You only see what your eyes want to see. How can life be what you want it to be" -Madonna

"How long must you wait for it? How long must you pay for it?" -Coldplay

"Your ears are full but your empty.
Holding out your heart to people who never really care how you are." -Blur

I need to set shuffle dates more often.

Playa or dust...I mean bust!

So after a 5 year break, I'm heading back to the Playa to spend three days and two nights with a girlfriend of mine in Black Rock City, NV. We've been so excited that we're acting like giddy school girls. This adventure is going unbelievable! I can't wait to escape the "default world" for a few days...