Don't think twice it's alright

Once again I've left things wayyy too long, it's not that I've been too busy, or bored, I've thought about blogging lots in the past few weeks but just haven't gotten around to doing it...

These past few weeks I've really been trying to put in time at the gym. It sure is frustrating to not see the results that you want. I have learned that I'm quite possibly the most impatient person that I know. As of today it is 3 weeks since we started at Mecca Fitness and somehow I secretly was expecting to reach all my goals by now....silly Sov....It took months to get to the state that I'm in, I don't know how I expected to miraculously change shape in a matter of days. Anyways enough about the gym I'm annoying myself just talking about it.

So if you had read this post you would know about my reading list for the year. I have updates! So I finished The Birth House, it continued to be one of my favourite reads right till the end. It's not an overly 'feel good' type of book I realized as I was pretty disturbed by some of the things that I read, but we can't always read books that make us feel good. Speaking of 'feel good' books, I also finished Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk which was one of the funniest books I've read in a long time. Not only was it really easy to read (it only took about 2 1/2 hours to read) but now whenever I think about it I'm reminded of lying by a pool in Arizona reading it in the sun. I've changed my mind about Tess of the Durbervilles, I'm not going to read it, there's a reason I've had the book for 4 years and have tried to start it about 5 times and have never gotten past the first chapter. I guess I'm going to have to post a revised reading list seeing as I'm pretty much done the one that I had made.

On a totally different note, yesterday was Ben's 22nd birthday! We are finally the same age! I hate the three months of the year when I'm a year older, so it's nice to be the same age. I'll save his 'Birthday Post' for later...

Anyways, this was quite a mishmash of a post but it's what was on my mind.

Gym Talk

Joined a gym today.... boy do I hope this pays off...

Oscar Musings...

So as you probably know a few weeks ago the 83rd Academy Awards took place. What you may not know if that I LOVE watching the academy awards and this year especially. Not only were there 10 films nominated for best picture, but I had seen and genuinely like a lot of them. We had pretty much JUST arrive home from AZ when they started, I hardly had time to throw our bags into the bedroom before sitting down to watch. Our friends came over and we had lots of snacks and played oscar bingo which was great fun, also I won which was a bonus. :)

Ok, so earlier I had stated my predictions here, I'm actually pretty impressed with myself. I was right on all accounts but one...

Best Actor- Colin Firth

Best Supporting Actor- Christian Bale or Geoffrey Rush

Best Actress- Natalie Portman

Best Supporting Actress- Hailee Steinfeld

Best Picture- The Kings Speech

All and all I found the awards pretty good this year. I was just happy that 'The Kings Speech' won. I watched it again the other night, that movie really does get better with each viewing. Well, tata for now

Shoot The Moon

So, it's been a while since I've posted but boy has it been an exciting two weeks! So last I posted I was preparing for a few interviews and was ready to be shipped off to fun in the sun down in good ol' AZ. Well I did secure a job the day before we left which was AWESOME! I'm now wrapping up my first week at 2nd Avenue Family Chiropractic and am LOVING it. I had some doubts while in school that I wouldn't be good at massage and that I would hate it but now that I'm out of retail and actually in the field there are perks that I enjoy more than I had anticipated; I can come and go as I please (to a certain extent), I have my own room which I can decorate in whichever way I wish, I have a receptionist to does stuff for me, and I actually have been getting clients!!! Anyhoo...it's an exciting stage. :)

On another note, our trip to Arizona was amazing. We spent 7 days with 20ish wonderful friends from all over the world! The reason we made our trek down south was to witness the wedding of two great friends that I met while attending bible school in Sweden 3 years ago. The wedding was absolutely beautiful, I feel so honored that both Ben and I were invited to come. I just love meeting up with my bible school friends, even if we haven't seen each other in 6 months or however long, we kinda just pick up where we left off and it's like we were never apart, not to mention, there are so many places that we have an excuse to visit. Another point worth mentioning of the trip was that I managed to secure a pretty intense sunburn and have been peeling my nose off one flake at a time since...I think the peeling may finally be coming to an end.

Life is good! Nothing else to report! Oh yeah, our wine is almost ready to be enjoyed! Post on the Oscars in the making.