Photo-Rain

deidreelliott:Click the photo to see it bigger/clearer.     I...

deidreelliott:Click the photo to see it bigger/clearer.     I woke up to another summer storm today, and sat out front in my sweater with some tea while I watched it rain. My friend and I had planned another hike in Forest Falls for today and it was the perfect weather to do so. There were apparently flash flood warnings up there, the roads were closed, and 4 people had to be rescued and I had no knowledge of any of that until both my mom and step mom called while I was there so things had calmed down since then.     We went to the waterfall area to see how the pool area looked. I sat on a log going across the running water and my friend went to step into the water thinking it was maybe knee high and he disappeared. He’s 6 feet tall. It was THAT deep. Funniest moment of my life (so funny my abs were hurting as I typed this). Had to take a clif bar break to laugh about it. Then we decided to hike up to the bigger part of the waterfall. There was a family up there so we stopped a bit down to rest and look at the scenery. I looked up at the side of the mountain and saw a small tree branch tumble down along with a few small rocks. I thought nothing of it until I looked up and a girl was screaming and flailing her arms around. That was certainly sad. Then we went to pick wild blackberries and some were covered in sap so my mouth tasted disgusting.     Was quite an eventful and adventurous day doing one of my favorite things ever. Hiking in the rainy weather is the absolute best. The air isn’t so hot, the rain feels nice, and everything smells so much more of nature when it’s wet. This was my day. Been hiking more often. So happy about it. read more..

Healthy Food-Workouts-Tumblr-Binge

Just because I have a ”Fit tumblr” does not mean that I always do everything right . It doesn’t mean that I eat just healthy food all the time. I mess up,I binge, sometimes I skip workouts, sometimes I don’t even want to hear about exercise.. but this is perfectly fine, because I always choose to keep going.

Just because I have a ”Fit tumblr” does not mean that I always do everything right . It doesn’t mean that I eat just Healthy Food all the time. I mess up,I binge, sometimes I skip Workouts, sometimes I don’t even want to hear about exercise.. but this is perfectly fine, because I always choose to keep going. read more..

Kelly Clarkson-Heart

Kelly Clarkson | Breaking Your Own HeartToo many tears, too many...

Kelly Clarkson | Breaking Your Own Heart
Too many tears, too many falls
It’s easier here behind these walls
But you don’t have to walk in the shadows
Life is so hard.
You’re breaking your own heart
Taking it too far down the lonely road
You say you just want love
But when it’s close enough you just let it go
The very thing you’ve been the most afraid of
You’ve been doing it from the start, breaking your own heart. read more..

Pineapple

I just had frozen pineapple blended with pineapple, orange, banana juice and now the front sides of...

I just had frozen pineapple blended with pineapple, orange, banana juice and now the front sides of my tongue feel weird and kinda have a weird burn. And my tongue kinda looks a tiny bit weird in that spot, too. It feels really weird right now when I chew my trail mix. I’ve had sort of weird problems like this using pineapple before. But I can eat pineapple just fine. Like I had it on salad yesterday. Weird.It’s 104 degrees outside and 86 in my room. My wall cooler is on and the fan on the other side of the room is on (I have a long room and only half is for my room stuff and other half is dining table with no door just a door way to the kitchen and it’s not insulated) but I feel a bit cold when the fan above me is on. Not really cold, I just don’t like the breeze I guess. I mean, it’s warm in here but I’m content… for now. It’s July. Thankfully we only live here another few weeks and then I’ll have a normal room with a nice air conditioning. Even if I had the window unit in when we move, it’d be fine in my room but I would never be able to open my window. At my grandparents’s house, they have a swamp cooler in their living room and it’s not all that bad in their house in the summer. It’s just not 65 degrees, which is fine. But I had a wall cooler in my room there and it’d literally be 50 degrees in my room. I loved it. Okay anyway… how did this post get so long. This is the 2nd time I’ve done this today, the other time on my personal blog.I’ll leave on this last note(s)…. I’m lounging around in running shorts and the underwear part of them is squeezing my buns and it’s weird. Am I supposed to wear underwear with these? I am, in cause you were wondering. I’m going to finally get around to editing my smoothie photos now. Tomorrow I am officially on my moms car insurance stuff so I can drive the car to the gym. So now I can return to looking like a weak lost fool in there. read more..

Pico De Gallo-Dijon

Gardein herb dijon “breast” (vegan) and a whole...

Gardein herb dijon “breast” (vegan) and a whole zucchini cooked in water with pico de gallo seasoning and lemon juice on it. And iced strawberry flavored tea with honey in it (look at my cute tea cup). The herb dijon breast looks really bland and weird in this photo but it looked better in person and it tastes really good. There was thick gravy type of stuff (the herb dijon) on top so it looks weird. Pretty small dinner but I’m running out of food haha. That’s okay though. I’m not hungry right now and I keep snacking on chocolate treats anyway so I should be content for the next 2 hours or so. read more..

Depression

5 ways to live your life!

I’ve been getting a lot of questions lately about how I changed my life and recovered from depression, here is my answer:I live by 5 simple rules; they helped me change my life, no doctors, no pills and no one but myself!Changing your life can seem an incredibly tough and complicated thing, especially if you’ve failed a great number of times (like I did).
1. Accept CHANGE. Allow yourself to let go of the past to make room for new things to come into your life, meet new people, travel.2. Be BOLD. Stop putting your life on hold, set new goals and reach them! 3. Start to EXERCISE. No explanation needed, it will make you feel better and happier.4. Eat HEALTHY. Food can make you happy, food can make you sad. Eat less processed food, try to eat more vegan, vegetarian food,try raw food, eat more veggies and fruit. Believe it or not it will make you feel better!5. LOVE YOURSELF. You can do all stuff I wrote, but if you don’t appreciate yourself nothing will make you feel better! You can say that last ‘rule’ is the most important way to live your life!* I don’t say this is the best way, but it helped me to overcome depression and start with my weight loss journey. read more..

Thighs

My butt and my thighs are so sore that I can not walk and I can barely even crawl after I’ve...

My butt and my Thighs are so sore that I can not walk and I can barely even crawl after I’ve been sitting. So I either have to stay standing up and walk around or stay sitting down haha. I got up because I was hungry and started laughing and crying at the same time. I’ve been in all kinds of pain these last two days haha. Every time I do walking lunges I get sore. I think it’s because I put so much effort into them and did them so wide and deep (like, really close to the ground), so they are extra sore. Good stuff. read more..

Swollen Foot

Woke up to a swollen foot so I guess I’ll make the right decision and not jump rope outside on...

Woke up to a swollen foot so I guess I’ll make the right decision and not jump rope outside on this nice day. I could probably do yoga but wouldn’t be able to put much pressure on it during down-dog so maybe I’ll just stretch a little after I work out my abs. I can still walk so I’m good. Could be worse. read more..

Gym Membership

Earlier today I went into a local gym...

To see if the manager was there and had read my application that I turned in the other week and noticed 99% of the people in there were all doing cardio. Treadmills, bikes, whatever else was in there. Then I looked over at the weights areas and didn’t see anyone. I don’t have a Gym Membership and have never even been to a real gym, but I pictured how weird it’d look, me being the little tiny girl pumping iron while everyone else is running. It made me giggle a little on the inside. How cute that’d be.     I missed class today to… go do a job thing which was a one time thing so I made up my lost work out at home for maybe about 40 minutes. I usually feel less motivated to do a lot when I’m at home, but I did the first half in my ugly backyard in the 65 degree warm winter weather, then went inside to finish when my neighbors dogs came out to bark at me. I started with jump rope, did a few workouts like push ups and bicycle crunches, lunges, then back to jump rope, and did that a few times between my other workouts. Did some more work with weights and tried to get in a lot more core workouts since I’ve been neglecting my abs and paying more attention to the little bumps forming on my arms. I tried doing a little bit of yoga but I didn’t feel like it so I did one Sun Salutation, a mix of a and b, with the warrior and without the seated position in b. Then stretched my legs, did camel, and drank the last half of my odwalla mango protein drink. Then I had an accident with my 2 day old expired (which I knew) vanilla chai drink and now I hope I don’t get sick from it (because I freak out over this stuff.)      Just thought I’d share. I don’t know why. Now going to clean up and stuff my face with food and shower in no particular order (but I’ll probably clean first). read more..

Personal Yoga

I’ve been thinking of selling prints of my photos for a while, and now shorts (all of which...

I’ve been thinking of selling prints of my photos for a while, and now shorts (all of which you can read about here) and now I just thought of another good idea. Selling motivational pictures, posters, calendars, and/or other things (maybe cute mugs since I’m obsessed with them). Obviously not just random things like… hey here’s a picture I found on tumblr, buy it from me. But like… I could make a yoga calendar with personal yoga photos and stuff like that… hiking trails and running photos… stuff like that. Just a good way to put all the things I’m good at together and hopefully make a profit of. Then maybe I’ll be able to afford yoga school sooner! You’d all go for that, right? (; read more..

Jessie J

Jessie J | DominoI can taste the tension like a cloud of smoke...

Jessie J | DominoI can taste the tension like a cloud of smoke in the airNow I’m breathing like I’m running cause you’re taking me thereDon’t you know, you spin me out of control read more..