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Let me tell you about my best friend... It comes from a plant.. It is brown, little bean... When roasted with water, it transforms into this magical liquid called...' Coffee is my best friend and today we celebrate it on National Coffee Day!! Yup, today is National Coffee Day, so like any other Holiday, lets celebrate a bit of my favorite thing in the world, well besides running. Dear Coffee ... My favorite cup of a coffee is one where I can sit down and just relax, most of the time, I am running out the door with my cup of coffee in my hand, or I am getting to work and ordering it from Starbucks or DD. So the mornings when I can just unwind and take small sips they are my favorite. Other times I love coffee, after a run. Something about that sip, really wakes you up and gives you that perfect jolt to go along with your runners high. And it is my favorite way to enjoy coffee with my bestie after we have completed some miles. Coffee is my fav...

Good Tuesday Morning Friends!!! Today's Top Ten Tuesday is all about music. Okay I LOVE MUSIC. I work out to music, I read to music, I cook to music. I am huge fan. Music has a way of transforming you into a good mood, or making you feel better when your sad, or finding the perfect lyrics to help you get through a tough time. But there is nothing like watching LIVE music. Seeing your favorite artist perform your favorite songs, right in front of you. LIVE music always sounds so much better, well we hope most of the time. LIVE music takes one night and transforms it into an EVEN better night. Your dancing and singing RIGHT along with your favorite artist and praying the next song is your favorite song. In college, James and I were HUGE fans of LIVE music and concerts, we even loved just going and seeing cover bands perform our favorite songs, which if you lived in Scranton, PA during 2003-2008, you know what I am talking about. So Today's Top Ten is Top Ten Concerts . ...

Good Sunday Evening Everyone!! Hope everyone had a great weekend and is set up for success with a good week ahead. I am hoping to have a better one than last week. It was a long week and a crazy one. Each time I felt like I was taking two steps forward, I was taking two steps wayyyy back. So I am going to hit the ground running tomorrow bright and early with work, in the hopes I can get a lot accomplished in some piece and quite. But as we are winding down this evening, I am sipping on some wine and wanted to do a Currently post, because 1 I love those post, to let you know where I am at and they are so much fun to begin with. And because I am enjoying a glass or two of wine, it is like I am on a wine date also with you. So lets wine down a bit.... While on our wine chat I would let you know some current things I have going on... Current book : I am currently reading a BUNCH of books... I have this obsession with requesting books from the library haha. Seriously and then wh...

So I have some pretty awesome and good news!! I have been struggling for a good month now, I have been having a lot of hip issues. Some at times not so bad and other times it is so bad, I could barely move. When I was sleeping, sitting, walking, getting out of my car and especially when I was running on both sides it hurt like heck. Two weeks ago, I decided or not really decided, kind of had too, make myself stop running for a bit and do some other work outs instead. The other work outs have been great. I love the idea of switching up my work outs and it has been improving my legs and arms and oh man were my abs burning this morning. Okay, now to the awesome part...I went for a 2.5 mile run today, in the middle of the afternoon none the less, and had NO PAIN. I mean no hip pain at all. Even when I was doing the walk breaks, I was really feeling back to normal. I was a lot slower than I usually was, but NO PAIN. The speed will get better I know that, but no pain. That is a HUGE ...

It is my favorite day of the week!!! This Tuesday we are talking T.V. For a lot of shows this week and next week, it is premiere week!!! I am so happy that my favorites are coming back and into rotation into my life again. So this week Nanci over at This Crazy Life of Mine and I are talking about some of our Top TV moments or series finales. You know there are moments in our T.V. love those scenes, finales and moments we just absolutely loved. 10. When Meredith asked Derek to Pick Her, Choose Her, Love Her...I mean break my heart in two... 9. Another Grey's moment...when Denny Dies...probably one of the saddest moments on Grey's 8. Parenthood was one of my favorite shows, I found after it aired, but the series finale and the final scene where the Braverman family plays baseball... 7. I am such a dork and have loved Saved By The Bell my whole life but when Zach and Kelly took their vows and they played a scene of all their love, it still makes me...

Thanks to my partnership with Tampa Bay Bloggers, I was given an entry to attend the Tampa Bay Coffee & Art Festival on September 10th, all opinions are my own. If there is one thing about me you should know is I love Coffee!! Iced Coffee, Hot Coffee, Cold Brew, Coffee candy, anything and everything Coffee, I am a big fan of it all. So I was pretty excited to one hear about the festival and Two attend the event. The coffee and art festival was a perfect little get together of local artists and coffee establishments. When attending the event you are given a punch card to taste 4 different local coffee shops. I tasted each of the coffees without any milk or sweetner, I wanted to really taste what each one brought to the table. I am not much of black coffee drinker and I love my flavored coffee, but this was an awesome experience to really enhance my coffee skills. I was happy that each one was indeed an iced coffee. Out of the four I tasted Buddy Brew Coffee was my favori...

Today on our Top Ten Tuesday we are listing top Motivational Quotes. I love finding quotes, I print them, quote them, post them, share them, etc. I use them at least once in my life a day. They keep me inspired in both my personal life and professional life. Here are some of my favorites, as I have many, many more. Make sure you check out Nanci's favorites too, she will have some good ones, for sure. 10. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. What is your favorite motivational quote??

Good Sunday Morning!!! Lots of exciting things going on at my household today. First off lets talk about the amazing sleep I have been getting lately. On the nights before my days off, I have been turning off my alarm so I can just let my body sleep and it has been wonderful. Typical on my days off, I have a million and one things going on, so an alarm is always set, from running, errands or conference calls. But I have been really trying that on one of those days off, I just let myself sleep until whenever, so I can rest up. And man it has been working and wonderful. Like this morning, I slept until 9:00 am! What!!! I do feel like I missed a big part of the morning, but I woke up feeling great and get this my HIPS and body weren't aching for once. Okay, other big thing going on this morning....FOOTBALL is back. Which means my house on Sunday, Monday and Thursdays are crazy town. Especially, ESPECIALLY when the Redskins play. Which thankfully is tomorrow, but today the Jets pla...

Happy Tuesday Everyone! Today's Top Ten Tuesday Post is about one of my most favorite things in the whole world, BOOKS. Reading has always been something I was big into as a child, young adult and adult. I read any chance I can get really, so this weeks topic is our Top Ten Books. Gosh this is going to be a hard one because there has been so many in my life, but here I go. 10. R.L. Stine, Fear Street. I know these are super old but these were some of my favorite series growing up. I would take out tons from the library, every chance I could get and then on Saturdays or Sundays my mom and I woul go to the mall and I would buy one there. I probably have read every single one.  When I am the Goodwill or a Thrift Store, I always look for them too because it has such a sentimental meaning. 9. The Babysitters Club Another nostalgia book of choice. I have read every single one of these books also. I even went on to start my own Babysittes Club because of the books. I look ba...

Good Morning!!!! Okay, so you might have known that I have been going through some Hip pain lately. This is all new to me, I mean really new to me, I have not had a runners injury, besides some foot pain here and there, but this is a whole new level. Each morning I woke up with just pain, it hurt to walk and move, but with some Ibproufen, I was good to go. I ran some on it, but it hurt and would slooooww me down a bunch. I talked with my friend Jen and she suffered from it also, early in the year and some here and there. I have never had that pain before, so I thought maybe it was new shoes. So I got some new ones and it helped, but even when I was sitting for a period of time, getting up was worse too. I mean I was in some serious pain. On Friday, I was at my breaking point, I couldn't walk and I was hunched over. I took the day for nothing but rest, seriously I laid on the couch and watched a full movie and read a book. Yesterday, I woke up and felt a bit better, but being ...