Boot Camp

This week's adventure is boot camp.  Yes, boot camp.  This consists of me paying a man, who is oh so pretty, to kick my butt along with 40 of my best friends.  Today was day number one.  It went well.  I had to get up at 5 AM.  I'm sure normal people get up this early.  I, however, am not a morning person.  I imagine it will take me most of the moth to get use to this new rhythm.  Yes, folks, that's 5 AM five days a week.  Shoot me in the head.

As we went in for the final huddle (as in put your hands in thing) we chanted something like "We rock the house" or "we are fatty's", I can't remember… but the instructor gal says "I love you guys!"… of course you love us.  $300 X 40 people = "We love you guys."  Strange.  This is the closest thing I have ever or will ever come to being on a sports team.  I'm sure this won't be the last post about this subject…  The rest will probably go "my ass is so sore"… "I can't lift my arms"…  I will be happy when its over.

Wish me luck!  Cheers!

Bye Blue, I love you.

New adventure of the week:  Selling my beloved vehicle.

My Jeep Cherokee is going to find a new home soon (I hope).  I love this vehicle.  But my father, in his infinite wisdom, says it is no longer the car for me.  So I am putting an ad in the local paper and off it will go.  My dream is to sell it to a girl who will take good care of it.  I know its just a car, but I've cried about this decision for three days.  I love this car, did I mention that?

I know I should be excited to buy a new car, but I can't quite bring myself to that yet.  Not until Blue finds a good home.

Big sigh.

My 26th Year of Life

So I turned 26 a few weeks ago, three weeks to be precise. And I prefer to do resolutions around my new year. So this year, besides the obligatory "want to lose weight" (I've lost 6 lbs since I turned 26!), I've decided that I'm going to do something new for every week of the year.

Week One: Saw the Killers in concert. Now, this may not be a big deal to those of you who live in real cities where you get to see real bands all the time, but for little Omaha, this is huge. They were suppose to play here back in May when they were just the killers. They rescheduled three times and during that time they have basically become THE KILLERS. I didn't think it would happen but they kept the word and they played little Omaha on the way to Red Rocks. MTV announced this week they would be playing at the video music awards. It was so cool to see a band brimming with potential, living on the edge of being famous play a little 1920's ballroom in Omaha. What a great show. I walked away with a feeling of optimism. Everything has potential. A band right before the TIPPING POINT.

Week Two: Went to a Faint show. This band is huge in Omaha and also has tons of potential. They played two sold-out nights at the same 1920's ballroom. The thing that was cool about this was the scene was so not Omaha. Just for a second you could have believed that if you walked out the doors of the Sokol Ballroom, you would be in the streets of NYC.

Here I am in week 3. And I've run out of things to do. I didn't really set rules about this so it could be anything small or big. And it can't always be about music… I haven't decided if new restaurants count or if new food counts… or if it would have to be like "Wow, I've never had Nigerian food before"… So I guess I'm looking for suggestions. I've been trying to cook lately and I'm going to make manicotti for the first time tonight so there's that. But what else?

Tell me things I should try doing. Make them odd, things you thought you would never do and then you tried it and you liked it (btw - anything involving alternative points of entry into the body need not be mentioned. I'm sure its great, but I have young, influencable nieces and they will find this site shortly).

Cheers everyone!

You asked for it!

Well, hello. And welcome to the Sara show.

First posts are always a little awkward, I think. Because most blogs are rather like picking up in the middle of a conversation anyway.

So, I decided not to go anonymous. We'll see how long it takes for particular people to find me.

I guess most people reading this will be people I have stalked and already know a little bit about me... so I will gladly answer any questions (almost any) but I guess I will just leave it at this for now and wait until I have one of those "I'd write about this if I had a blog" kind of moments.

Friends new and old, welcome to my world.