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Remembering Why Im a Badass - 2011 Adventures Tally

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

from my AB team & mamalittle:

emoticon My 2011 Bragging Rights emoticon

emoticon Fitness:
pounds lost: 5 (did not realise I was at 179 on 1/1/11)
sizes lost: 2 
Inches lost: 12 
Bra cup sizes lost: 1 (D to C)
17204 Fitness minutes (which is an average of 47 minutes per day)
Ran/walked/strolled 973.7 miles
158 popular blog awards
8 half marathon distance runs (not races)
I beat my body against a rock wall with Joshua for my bday and got addicted

emoticon Work/Life:
emoticon promotion
emoticon bigger office in the executive wing with ace coworker (despite no raise)
emoticon Shot 12 bands and 16 shows
emoticon Had 11 photos published in various media including a guitar endorsement for Paul Reed Smith Guitars on their website.
emoticon And the promo shots for sold out shows at the famous Irving Plaza, Webster Hall, Sullivan Hall, Tammany Hall, Highline Ballroom and Gramercy Theater.
emoticon And was IN THE THICK OF IT for two sophomore CD release parties, one of which I did the cover art for and got my name credited with the track listing.
emoticon I got to attend the last rock show at Crash Mansion EVER
emoticon I carved my name in the wall at old CBGBs
emoticon spent my birthday weekend/9/11 on a yacht trip around manhattan island taking amazing pictures
emoticon I had 20 first dates, 9 second dates and 5 third dates
emoticon I learned the G line, the D line, the J line, the M line and the Q line and now getting around the city is way easier
emoticon I spent Memorial Day at a bbq on long island like youre supposed to
emoticon I spent the fourth of July and the entire summer in a bikini in Far Rockaway
 emoticonI spent Veteran’s Day taking pictures in GreenWood Cemetery of the graves from the battle of Brooklyn
emoticon I spent Labor Day weekend grilling burgers and watching football.
emoticon My college football team is undefeated and warming up for the BCS-SEC smackDOWN!!!!
emoticon I got to roadtrip and go to Fright Fest Dead and Local Halloween concert at six flags with my adopted family
emoticon I shot the band Saliva and then ended up consoling the lead guitarist when his girl dumped him right after thanksgiving
emoticon I shouldered Alec Baldwin getting out of a towncar at Madison Square Garden so i could catch my train to the Jersey wilderness
emoticon I shot Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in Lincoln Center from the photographer’s pit at the runway behind Vogue and Bazaar photogs for several of my favorite designers
emoticon Including Gwen Stefani and Vivienne Tam, both whom I was able to meet and photograph
emoticon I was able to shoot the progess of the new World Trade Center as well as Occupy Wall Street, both of which will become part of history.
emoticon I got to shoot pictures across eastern America as I roadtripped from bon temps to brooklyn
emoticon I took a chance on dating again and did the hold hands, have emotions BS risk, and lost
emoticon But I stood up for myself and walked away when someone couldnt give me the bare minimum of what I needed, much less wanted.
emoticon I had the first tests of my friendship with Joshua and we lived through it and know each other much more, and know we can weather the storms.
emoticon I moved Jen to NYC.
emoticon I went through hell this past summer and still havent bailed on this life and started new and anonymous elsewhere
emoticon This is the longest I have lived in one place since I moved out of my parents house
emoticon I wore an itsy bitsy teeny tiny sparkly dress on 3 occasions,The August Infinity’s CD Release at Irving Plaza, the Scarlet Carson CD Release at Starland Ballroom and the Hate the Hate Benefit Concert (a charity event created by a dear friend of mine, for a cause I hold dear as well) at Sullivan Hall.
emoticon Sat on the jetty at night on Coney Island and watched the fireworks from the ocean
emoticon upheld our end of summer tradition of swimming out past the breakers, and watch the world die
emoticon I was able to see my parents for the last time and tell them goodbye
emoticon I made countless breakthroughs in my own mental blocks
emoticon I was able to tell a boy that I was crazy about that I couldnt see him ever again because I found out he had a girlfriend, and that took more self-respect than I had
emoticon I went to a Cyclones game and we won
emoticon I got to see Incubus with my best friend on Jones Beach for my birthday!!!
emoticon I learned Brooklyn soooooo much better
emoticon I dated a lawyer/pilot and a super cop, and now a French boy straight off the boat whom I now fall asleep kissing at night
emoticon I built an 8 foot snowman with Tom, and my dear friends got engaged in the snow and lights beside it on New Year’s Eve
emoticon Our Halloween decorations were featured in the New York post (OWEN BONEMAN SHOUTOUT!!!)
emoticonI made it to 42nd and 6thin time for the ball drop in Times Square on NYE!
emoticon I survived the Great NY Blizzard of 2011, the Great NY Earthquake of 2011 and the Great NY Hurricane of 2011 and HEATPOCALYPSE NY 2011…
and
emoticon I get laid an average of 3 weekends per month.

Your turn, biznatches, BRAG TIME. no humility allowed

I reserve the right to update this as the holidays get closer.

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Birthday Recap and Plan for the New Week

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Tuesday, September 06, 2011

Yeah this is my third blog today, sue me.

If I dont take care of this blog now, I may never get to it and I only enjoy procrastination in moderation.

Saturday morning, woke up and spent an hour stretching, had a sexy breakfast and donned my workout clothes and headed out to St. Mark’s Place and the spinning cube to wait for Joshua and head to KMart to look for manly workout shorts that dont come down to his knees.

Ended up spending a bit of time in St. Marks Place so here are spinning cubey pictures





Then it was on to the bouldering wall, which was way tough considering there are no harnesses, no flourescent handy things to hold on to, a distinct outward slope, no handholds within 4 feet of the top (that anyone could find). Joshua almost made it to the top, whereas, I made it to the bottom several several times.

My knees are banged and bruised to hell, my elbows too. My upper body is so sore that I was having trouble getting my water to my mouth and other simple locomotor events like brushing my teeth, I exaggerate you not.

Every time we fell, we clambered back up. We did, at one point, stand between a punching bag and a crate of boxing gloves and seriously consider beating each other bloody… but that’s a blog for another time… BWAHAHAHAHAHA

Thing is, now we are addicted to this daggum wall.

We are checking out lessons, listing all the places that have these things in our area and pulling on all our connection strings, esp @ Chelsea Piers & NYHRC. This is simply our newest addiction. We want to get as good as we possibly can, and we want to feel like we are bursting with pride once our abilities start increasing.

Also, we are going to try to get a bunch of friends of ours into to… but not until we’ve gotten really good at so we can be a bit cocky :P






Next… Joshua surprised me with tickets to see Incubus at the Nikon Theatre on Jones Beach (15,000 people in front of a HUGE stage with the Atlantic Ocean behind it and the most amazing cool strong breeze off the coast - le sigh - perfection!)



Flash forward through random bouts of inebriation and DOMS and you will find Jen and I spending a couple of hours running the circumference of Ground Zero, which Ive been looking forward to doing for a very very long time!




^ almost halfway point

PLAN FOR 9/6 - 9/9 

1. Get my starting line numbers, before pics and measurements for PMP on Tues/Thurs
2. Run at least one morning between now and Thursday morning (preferable 5 miles on Wed morning)
3. Purge clothing on Thursday night
4. Chores on Tuesday night
5. Battery Park with Tali on Wednesday

Motivation for this week? Yacht trip Friday.
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Weekly Half marathon Picture Blog (Coastline Edition)

I walked the last mile, the bones in my feet and hips were killing me.
I stopped and took a tan that lasted the length of JLo’s “On the Floor”.
I broke into a Parks and Recreation office and doused myself in cold water.
I took about 40 pictures.
All that time spent making my run more enjoyable and I finished my no-hurry little half in 3 hours to the minute.

Now I feel like a Barbie doll that some bratty 8 year old yoinked the legs off of and popped back in. Hobbling everywhere. I feel like Tyrion with my graceful strides.

But a happy high-born Barbie doll Imp to be sure. because the sun shone on me! It was such a gloriously beautiful day/run. I didn’t care about the pain, I closed my eyes and threw back my head and smiled up at the warmth.

Owl’s Head Park








The Veterans/911 Memorial Pier (Cherry blossoms everywhere!!)






Shore Line



(teeny sailboat!)


(I went wayyyyyyyyyyyyy past my usual stopping point and left the bridge behind me)

My newest goal destination- that little strip of island wayyyyyyyyyyyyy out there. By the end of summer, I will tack that on to the end of my verrzano run, I think it will add about 10 miles.



O_o oh well, go big or go home, right?

I turned back around and headed back to the city.



(my happy imp shadow)

Also- I want to play at this playground I found by my house, it has an itty bitty track around it!

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Time to get busy recovering so I can do another half this coming Sunday, in the meantime… tonight is boxing.

What are you up to tonight? What are you going to do to release excess tension/ stress/ anger/ anxiety /fear /grumpiness /laziness?

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    • #Verrazano Narrows Bridge
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    • #New York
    • #bliss
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