Heids In Her World

Am I the only one who has blog design ADD? I constantly want to change it, spice it up, give it a new flavor, etc.

the 30 day shred is no joke! i'm only on day 2 and i am pooped. i'm going to try super hard to do it every day though.

ready for it?................................. I'm moving to...................

I have SO MUCH to share but I just don't feel like I have enough time, I hate when that happens, don't you? My trip to Chicago was amazing and I have a ton of pictures to share but those will have to come later because I need to get ready for work. I also have BIG BIG news to share but I'll leave you wondering what it is ;) So take a guess, I'll tell you later tonight....

So, I'm going to Chicago tomorrow!! I am SO excited, I've never been. Of course I still haven't packed, still have laundry to do, and still need to get things from the store, but that's okay. I plan on waking up fairly early (7ish), finishing my laundry/packing, shower, go to the store, get a mani/pedi with my mom, drop Sophie off at my friends who is pug-sitting, and head to the airport. Ummm, now that I'm writing it all out, it kinda seems like a lot. Whatever, I think I'll manage! But feel free to send me warm fuzzies for my flight tomorrow. I don't think there's anything I'm more afraid of than flying. My mom gave me EIGHT drink coupons to use though so hopefully I will be a happy little passenger!

I just used my Bliss triple oxygen facial mask, the clairisonic w/ my md forte cleanser, and vivite moisturizer and my skin feels like heaven. This is BY FAR my favorite Bliss product and if you haven't tried it, I think you definitely should! Here is a link to it on the Bliss website.

So you know how my mom was being tested for skin cancer? Well it turns out, I have a very early stage of it. I pretty much already knew it, but I just got back from the dermatologist who confirmed it. About two months ago, I noticed a suspicious spot on my face and ever since it has been changing in ways consistant with an early skin cancer diagnosis. I'm not overly stressed about it, I mean really, there's not much I can do about it. I had the spot frozen off and if it doesn't come back in six weeks, the doctor thinks that will be the end of it. If it does come back, we will have to take a more aggressive approach- he already mentioned doing a topical chemotherapy. Moral of the story- wear sunscreen and be good to your skin. I went many, many, many years not wearing sunscreen and burning myself to a crisp. It was stupid. Now I'm much more careful but obviously a little late on the caring for my skin thing since this still happened. It is what it is.

I just called my dad and told him. He's taking me out for lunch at a nice restaurant near where I live and then he said he'd take me to costco to buy me some things :) I don't know what he has in mind but I'm pretty excited to go and spend some time with him.

• I started eating meat again but I've decided to go back to vegetarian or mostly vegetarian.

Great news, my mom does not have skin cancer- thank you for all your well wishes. I think it was a good scare for her so hopefully she'll stopping laying out in the Arizona sun w/ no sunscreen.

As for the posts, I took them down because I told J have a blog and he went a bit nuts wanting to know what's on it and trying to google it. All of the sudden I felt like I was standing in the middle of Time Square naked and panicked so I saved all my posts as drafts so I could tweak a few things to make it a little more difficult to find. Not that I have anything to hide on here, but I created this blog because my other blog became too well known with IRL friends and I was feeling like I had to censor certain things.

To compromise w/ J, I told him the address to my old blog if he made a promise to me that he would stop looking for this one. Now he could've just said that he was going to stop looking for it and lied but I trust him and I explained how much this blog and my readers (small and mighty) mean to me and I think he really understood and will respect my wishes. So there you have it- I'm a little too tired to publish all my posts now but I will sometime this week.

sorry for the disappearing posts, i'll explain later....

Working nights really throws off my already not-so-great circadian rythem. Somehow I just don't feel like going to sleep as soon as I get home at midnight but then I never want to get up at a reasonable hour the next day. It's such a vicious cycle. And then there's the question of what to eat, because really, who doesn't feel like eating after they get off work? I know I always do. So recently I've been feasting on my new NUT-FREE TRAIL MIX. Major score, I've never been able to have trail mix before now. Yummmmm!

It's been hovering around 110°F here in AZ and its sucking all the energy out of me. This weather is brutal, I can't even touch my bare legs to my seat in my car, Sophie almost gets overheated on walks, and my mom just found out she might have skin cancer on her nose (its getting tested now, but it doesn't look serious like melanoma which is good).

There is so much that I should be doing, but really, I just want to work on my blog and drink WINE! My mom got me a bottle of "the new 2 buck chuck" from Trader Joe's and despite the fact that the cork was whack and took me literally 10 minutes to open (and trust me, I've very experienced in that department!) it's actually delicious! It's a pinot grigio so its obviously light but its very tasty and refreshing- a perfect summer wine for an unbelievably affordable price.

I work at 7am tomorrow which I'm really not thrilled about b/c I'd like to try out a new church but I get out at 3:30 which is nice and I have Monday off (my only day off- ughhh 50+ hr work week). I'm going to play volleyball at a park w/ some friends in the evening and then go to another park for a summer concert series. Maybe you want to come with her? :)

For some reason, I'm really into changing the look of this blog- I just can't seem to get the right feel for it! I'm going to work on a new layout now so hopefully you'll see some changes soon!

XOXO

There is so much that I should be doing, but really, I just want to work on my blog and drink WINE! My mom got me a bottle of "the new 2 buck chuck" from Trader Joe's and despite the fact that the cork was whack and took me literally 10 minutes to open (and trust me, I've very experienced in that department!) it's actually delicious! It's a pinot grigio so its obviously light but its very tasty and refreshing- a perfect summer wine for an unbelievably affordable price.

I work at 7am tomorrow which I'm really not thrilled about b/c I'd like to try out a new church but I get out at 3:30 which is nice and I have Monday off (my only day off- ughhh 50+ hr work week). I'm going to play volleyball at a park w/ some friends in the evening and then go to another park for a summer conce

I've never heard of the "rabbit rabbit" thing on June 1st but I'll go along w/ B and name my post that too since I am suffering from a lack of creativity today. I can't find the cord that connects my camera to my computer so the pictures from my trip are going to have to wait :(

I have lots of big things to share but I'm running short on time so thats going to have to wait also, seriously, I feel like there is NOT NEARLY enough time in the day! Does anyone else feel this way?

I really don't think I could have had a better weekend, but I'm terribly sad it's over, like pouting/crying tearing up as I moped off the plane, sad.  I'm thinking thats a good thing though, right?

Well, not yet, I'm still sitting in the Phoenix airport but soon I will be hopping off the plane at LAX!  I'm feeling much better today than I was last night, I'm just going to forget about it for the weekend, and then I'll explain later.  Actually, so you can see how ridiculous this is, I'll give a quick explanation now.  Pretty much, I did not get the position I was going out for because they said my work is "inconsistent."  We get scored each month by clients that fill out a survey and they have recently gone crazy on the survey scores.  They've only been doing this the past 2.5 months and my first two scores were in the high 7's-mid 8's and now my scores are almost all 10's (the best of everyone's).  I have been WORKING MY ASS OFF to do so well and its like because I've made such a vast improvement in my scores (which really don't reflect work that much, in my opinion, anyways), I'm "inconsistent."  This is the first time in my life I'm being punished for IMPROVING and I have a feeling it's because there was an issue with my new boss that I reported when he first started.  I had a feeling it was going to come back to bite me in the ass but I had to say something because it was just inappropriate.

But I'm going to make the most of my California getaway and I'm really looking forward to all that we have planned!  What are you all doing for Memorial Day weekend?  I hope you all have a wonderful and safe time :)

XOXO

My eyes get so puffy I don't even recognize myself.  I can't even express how frustrated I am with my boss/work right now.  It is a total downer on my excitement for LA this weekend.  UGHHHHHHH.

yesterday, melanie, one of my best friends from college came into town from portland so we hung out, got some good food, and went out with our other friend, liz.  i had a sinus/allergy headache so i wasn't feeling so hot and the bars were like torture with all the people smoking but it was good seeing her and i wore a really cute outfit: lilly turquoise printed shorts, bcbg gladiators, a white drapey t, turquoise marc jacobs purse, and bright turquoise nailpolish on my toes.  i felt like i should be going out in miami.  i should have taken a pic of the outfit- maybe i'll lay it all out later.

tomorrow i have my special visitor, j, coming to town from chicago.  i'm really excited to see him and see if we get along just as well as we did before.  i think we will though, probably even better.