Whatever doesn't kill you, makes you stronger - FOR REAL!

I have said before that I love my YMCA!!  It is so important to my well being; my mental, my spiritual & of course, physical well being.  BUT...this week it is kicking my @ss.  I spend most of my time in group exercise classes.  My YMCA provides Les Mills fitness classes to it's members.  These classes are all choreographed to music and taught by Les Mills certified instructors.  SO, these classes are no joke.

This past weekend there were a couple of new releases.  Les Mills does this every few months.  Holy moley!!  These have been the toughest releases I can remember for a while.  Every ounce of me is sore & they haven't even launched the new Body Flow & Body Combat yet.  UGH!! 

I am not going to let these new releases kick my butt for long!!  I have my Y Crew.  We cheer each other on all the time.  We notice when each other go above & beyond; & we are elated when each of us bust through our personal goals, almost like we did it ourselves.  It's a pretty cool feeling to have so many people have your back.  The Crew will all be kicking butt in no time!!  Every time we get through another class, we are stronger in EVERY sense of the word. 

For now, Advil is my best friend.

I doodle arrows.

My main job at The Title Offices is schedule coordinator;  meaning that I schedule loans to close in 4 states. This also means that I speak on the phone A LOT!!  While I am speaking to various clients and borrowers scheduling my little heart out, I am taking notes.  My co-workers have noticed that I am an arrow drawer.  It was yesterday at work after a difficult scheduling request (sounds impossible, but it happens), I look at my notes and there were more then a half a dozen arrows all over my paper.

I had decided it was time to Google this habit of doodling arrows to see just how screwed up I really am. The term 'doodle' in Old English refers to a dumb person (hey now...watch it!).  In present day they are referred to as indescribable, incomprehensible collection of lines. (Noooo, I know I am doodling arrows).   As most know, doodles are expressions of the subconscious mind and can reveal  a lot about a persons temperament and mood at the time.  The size and position of the doodles are also indicators of the overall meaning.
Apparently, as I was finding out, there was a lot to research to do about my arrows, but to keep a long story short: arrows indicate a person who is aggressively ambitious, a determined mind who wishes to reach ones mark; an arrow can also represent direction and ambition.  If drawn aggressively, which mine are, it means that one has a desire for action.  Doodling arrows has masculine associations, hmmmm...

It turns out that I am not crazy, but a masculine girl who is ambitiously active!  Watch out world...here I come!!