I must say January started off pretty strong for me with winning a kickboxing match on January 9th! It was a pretty awesome feeling to start the New Year off strong! Even though 2 days later I ended up with a blood clot. I am going to include my article I wrote mostly for awareness!!!! I am here to tell you to never give up on your dreams as an individual, a wife, mother, employee etc. Whatever you are to others and whoever you are to yourself...NEVER forget about you!!! Do not push yourself aside. We do that too often through out the days of the week and the months for everyone else around us.

Kickboxing is my passion , my outlet...what is yours?????? Embrace it and yell it until you feel that voice gets heard by your soul. When YOUR tank is filled, and you can continue to fill up others with an internal energy!

I am going to walk you through a day of meal choices I make for myself when I prepare at home and am in a pinch while out and about!

It is not a surprise how much I love the sport kickboxing. How much I love to train hard. Those that know me know that training and working out hard is what I love to do aside from my family. It is my therapy and outlet.

 I do not know where most of you live, but here in Illinois it has been a boring winter. I am not one for the cold, but if it IS going to be winter I at least wish it would snow more for a little change of scenery and fun!!!

grFinally!!!! The moment we have all been waiting for.... To close the book on 2020. Putting it in an airtight sealed bag, adding Gorilla Glue to it, cement it shut and wrap it with the strongest duck tape known to man kind and then sling shot it into another galaxy never to be seen again!

Do you know how lucky you are to know your grandparents? Have you been blessed to be able to spend time with them?

I put together a Hair Tutorial on HOW to do your hair to keep it off of your face when you workout!

Tonight as I was walking across our balcony upstairs I noticed my blinds. Nothing irritates me more than blinds that are up like this AND especially uneven.

Sometimes a much needed break from the pressure and stress we put on our bodies through our grueling workouts is much needed. Workingout is certainly amazing for our bodies. Although, even amazing things need a break to replenish. I don't know about you guys but I am always a little hesitant on taking that break for fear of losing my gains and what I will feel like when I return. As much of a workout enthusiast I am, this thought has even crossed my mind, that fear of being way too comfortable NOT working out. I always have that thought in the back of my head, what if my interest gets lost and my break turns into longer? 

"Love what you do, it does not feel like work!" I love that quote. It is very true! I started working at Salon Lorrene in Palatine Illinois from age 24-40. I became a hairstylist at age 21. Growing up I loved to play with my own hair, my doll's hair and other people's hair. I always knew I wanted to be a hairstylist. I did get my Associates in Arts degree and then spent time at ISU in Bloomington Illinois and it was in my third year of college I couldn't take It anymore and just wanted to come home and do something I was passionate about.