Lesson Learned by Alicia Keys

He broke a heart
And now it's raining
Just to rub it in
I'm at your door
I feel so crazy about it
You'll say I told you so
You saw it long ago
You knew he had to go
I finally came 'round
I'm back on solid ground
Can't let it get me down

It's alright
It's alright
It's alright

Yes I was burned but I called it a lesson learned
Mistake overturned
So I call it a lesson learned
My soul has returned
So I call it a lesson learned
Another lesson learned

Sometimes
Some lies
Can take a minute
To fully realize
His tears
Your eyes
Thirty seconds to apologize
You give it one more chance
Just like the time before
But he already know you'd give a hundred more
Until that night in bed
You wake up in a sweat
You're racing to the door
Can't take it anymore

I was burned but I called it a lesson learned
Mistake overturned
So I call it a lesson learned
My soul has returned
So I call it a lesson learned
Another lesson learned

Life perfect
Ain't perfect
If you don't know what the struggle's for
Falling down ain't falling down
If you don't cry when you hit the floor
It's called the past cause I'm getting past
And I ain't nothing like I was before
You ought to see me now

Yes I was burned but I called it a lesson learned
Mistake overturned
So I call it a lesson learned
My soul has returned
So I call it a lesson learned
Another lesson learned

Yes I was burned but I called it a lesson learned
Mistake overturned
So I call it a lesson learned
My soul has returned
So I call it a lesson learned
Another lesson learned

I am off to NYC to visit my bestie!

Balancing Life

Last week was the most social I had been in such a long time.

Monday: Dinner and bar hopping with my friend
Tuesday: Class until 9, Bar hoping with the same friend and out until 4:30 AM
Wednesday: Dinner with same friend, but in bed, but 10 PM.
Thursday: Class until 9 and then bar hopping until 12:30 AM.
Friday: Dinner with friends and bar hopping until about midnight
Saturday: Dinner at the friend of a cousins place. Early night. Home by 11:30!
Sunday: NOTHING! I was in bed by 10 PM and prior to that I vegged and watched my favorite movie: Love Actually.

Worked out on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday

Food not so great. Drinks not so great. I really, really need to work on moderation when going out.

This week looks to be busy too, but not as busy. I leave for NYC on Thursday night!!!!!

I need to finish up a take home final and I will be done with my last fall semester EVER! Tomorrow night I have dinner at my professor's house.

I am off to the gym. I hope you all had a great Monday.

New Haircut!!!

A Little Embarrassed

So I went to the gym around 8:30 AM this morning. I don't think I have been to the gym this earlier on a Saturday morning. As I was driving in I was thinking about the person I was before I started dating the ex. I was going to the gym at 5 AM in the morning. I was getting up earlier on the weekends to go to the gym and do other things. When we started dating, that pretty much stopped. I mean watching a movie at 9:30 PM and one person (me) falling asleep isn't exactly a good time. It made me a little sad thinking about all of this. I have changed my gym schedule a little bit now. No early mornings for me any more. I try to go during lunch or later at night. It just works better with my schedule right now.

So back to the gym this morning. I am walking in and I see this guy (My nickname for him is Meathead, but only in mind) who I would see every morning at 5 AM in the weight area. I put my stuff in a cubby and he walks in the other direction. Phew. I avoided him. Or at least I thought. I guess I was a little embarrassed that I feel like I have "let myself go." I really need to get over that whole feeling. I stopped working out for a bit and I know it could have been a lot worse. So I start walking towards the weight area and Meathead slows down and stops right in front of me, turns around, and says "Where have you been!?" I then proceed to tell him about boyfriend/ex-boyfriend/grad school. I found myself defending my behavior to a total stranger. He tells me is glad to see me back. I quickly walk off and stretch and then go to the weight area to start my squats and dead lifts (great for the butt and thighs!). He is over there as well. About 20 minutes later he comes over and tells me that I am in a zone. Really I am not. I am doing my workout, but I could probably tell you what every guy was doing in the weight area. He then introduces himself as Steve. So Meathead now has a name. We're personal. He tells me again he is glad to see I am back and wondered where I went because I was so intense about my workouts. Me intense?!? Whoah.

Ok so a couple of observations from this workout.
1. Someone noticed I was gone.
2. Someone said I was intense about my workouts.
3. I really miss weight training and I am SO glad to have started back.

Please pray for my trainer at home in WV. I saw him the Friday after Thanksgiving and he was in the hospital that Monday in critical care. He is having some gallbladder problems and isn't out of the woods yet.