Friends, Body Image and Being an Adult

Do you know how much emotional crap women juggle in a day? In the span of 24 hours, I have dealt with numerous heavy topics, and I wasn't lifting them with my hands! I don't think I am alone. either. I think the concept of multitasking goes way beyond the physical juggling.

Yesterdays tally-Marital strife, managing an adult friendship, gratitude, neighborhood gossip, body image, parenting, daily stress, gender roles, grief, joy, sexuality, family dynamics, teaching, emotions around weight loss, dealing with my mother...

I think it is this mental marathon that make women both amazing and crazy at the same time.

I just ordered books online about women's anatomy. If this stuff floats your boat, and, if you have never read Natalie Angier's Woman: An Intimate Geography, check it out. She is the most elegant writer! She make you really want to read about scientific gobbledygooch.

I am in full fall mode-baking, making comfort food (although attempting to lighten it, cause I am counting points). I have 9 parties booked for October, which will be really fun, because I have been on a self-perscribed slow down for about 3 months! There is a saying in the direct sales biz: a party can cure anything! Need mojo? Need money? Need to get out? etc.. etc.. A party can solve that! So October is the month I chose to fire it back up and go for beating my top sales ever! That means doing more than $10K in retail, which also means $5K in my pocket. Love it!

This also means getting serious about scheduling for the family. When I am here and there and everywhere, I have to have back up. Hubbs is very good about being where I need him when I need him, but the kids get a little squirrely about me being away more. So I have to work hard to schedule in some focused time for them, and schedule "out" some of my more time-sucking activites like Facebook and Twitter. Luckily we have fall break coming up, so we can go for outings, which always make the ramp-up to more working a little easier.

Poken, Twitter, Facebook oh my!

Life moves pretty fast. Ferris said it, boy! I am working hard to keep up. I am not the geeked out computer girl, I am not detail oriented, and I certainly don't have a knack for technology. But there is so much potential out there! Potential to trudge up old flames via Facebook. Spent this whole summer of my 20th HS reunion contemplating my past actions, and what they mean to my life now. Heavy. There is potential for educating and empowering in my own little niche on Twitter, although the more kooky sex folks tend to flock to any site using the words penis and clitoris and orgasm on a regular basis. I keep seeing blow jobs in action on their Twitter profile pics. Not really the crowd I am looking to educate. They clearly have educated themselves already, and feel very empowered! There is potential for something new and fun with Poken. Have you seen this? It is like an electronic business card, that has all the info about your places on the interwebs. It is a little hokey, but apparently a smash in Switzerland. So I'm trying that too. Potential has it's perks. I feel like I am involved in something. But geez I'm tired! How is your life on the interwebs going?

Back back back again gain...

Here I am! Did you miss me? You probably didn't know you missed me, cause I hadn't posted enough to even let you get to know me. But I'm back!

I reported back in Spring about my Facebook addiction, and I am happy to say it is alive and well. I might need rehab, but for now I say NO NO NO. I recently put up a Fan Page for my business, and that is slowly but surely gaining momentum. I like to post things there about certain products, or ideas about sex, and I am bound and determined to promote some healthy aspects of sexuality on that page! Did you know that Social Media has taken over PORN as the #1 activity on the web? Woohoo! So let my addiction be free.

Pensacola!

I just returned from a reward trip to Pensacola Beach to spend 4 days with 4 other women and the owner of our company, Kim Brecheen. It was meant as a leadership focus trip, and it was that, but it was so much more for me personally.

Kim sat us all down and pulled our numbers. She went round the table and asked each of us what our goals were, and what our challenges and successes were. We Masterminded as a group, and got great advice from Kim as well. I had some serious "light bulb moments" at every topic. Kim was kind, generous, wise, and serious. I walked away with a new sense of vigor for my business.

I also let loose in a whole new way. Us girls were girlie. We played Guitar Hero one evening til late, with Kim absolutely rocking the house on drums! The next night we did facials and hair conditioning masks and got really silly. We goofed around on the beach. We threw each other in the water. We acted like kids, and it felt wonderful. Especially after such intense work during the day.

The beach! Oh my! I am enchanted. I live in Colorado, with nary a drop of water anywhere nearby, much less a pristine white sand beach! I have been to a couple beaches before, but none touched me like this. I sat one morning and just watched and listened to the waves. I walked up and down the beach and became closely acquainted with the squeak my feet make on the sand. I smelled the salt air, tasted the saltwater, and even got it in my eyes. It was magical to me.

Now I a back home, sitting in my chair, listening to my family around me. I have work to do, and I am excited to get going!