1. Started Insanity. What's Insanity? You may ask. Insanity is a video workout series that will seriously kick your butt. My two daughters; Brook and Tara and I began the workouts in June and have been meeting in my living room at 4:45 every morning since then. I will admit that the first week was insanely painful and I thought about quitting more than once. But I'm proud to say weve completed the first round and are on to the second round.
2. Went to California. We spent 5 lovely days in Huntington Beach with a couple of our best friends in the world. We stayed in their families condo that has expansive panoramic window views overlooking the beach. I ran on the beach every morning, which was glorious, because the conditions were perfect for running; cool temps, flat paved track that went as far as one would ever need and lovely views. We shopped, drank coffee, dined, and relaxed. It was soooo hard.
2.5 Ran a Half Marathon. A few of my friends and I decided to run the a flagstaff half, kind of last minute. It was a beautiful weekend in Flagstaff when it was 116 degrees in the valley. That in itself seemed like a good enough reason to enlist (or, I mean register). Yes, it was much cooler up there, but along with lower temps comes higher elevation. Let's just say it was not one of my fastest races. But, I had a fun time with the girls and I will do this one again.
3.Went to Omaha. I was one out of three people from my division who were selected to go to Omaha for "Grad School", which is a three day intensive training class that Physicians Mutual offers to as few people each years. We were treated like royalty and given an emense amount of training and materials to help us grow our business. I must say that Physicians Mutual is a class act. It has been such a huge blessing to have found them when I did. I had lots of other oppertunities, but there was something about the honesty that I got from the recruiter, the reputation of this company and the other agents and employee's attitudes that grabbed me. I have never looked back.
4 .Funny speech contest. I was recruited to enter a speech into our local toastmaster clubs funny speech contest. The idea scared the bleep out of me. What if nobody thought I was funny?! I expressed this to Matt, who was running the contest, and he threw out some ideas and encouraged me to think about it. I did, and decided to write my speech on the funny things that kids say. After all I have four grandkids. I was sure I could come up with plenty of material. Well, long story short, I entered the contest and won. It wasn't hard, there was only one other contestant. (his speech was just as funny as mine, but mine was just a little more practiced). I will now move on to do the speech at our area contest on Oct 5th. Wish me luck.
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