Our Blanket Fort

"Inside every adult is a child who never grew up"

On Friday night I promised my nephew that I would build him a real fort after I saw that he had tried to make one out of pillows and stuffed animals. And what Aunt Kate says, Aunt Kate does!!

Back in the day, my friends and I would make blanket forts ALL THE TIME! I'm a master blanket fort builder if I do say so myself but I hadn't made one in like 7 years prior to today. I've still got the power though and he's completely obsessed with it! We eventually turned it into our spy/super hero head quarters and proceeded to battle invisible foes for three hours. This is also something I haven't done in about 7 years. I had wind and lightning powers as well as some MMA fighting skills while he was the leader of our super troupe and possessed this nifty little Marvel light up watch that he believed granted him any power he wanted.

Eventually our super hero selves were out of villains to fight and we had to go eat dinner. Afterwards, I did today's ab challenge and it was not fun. 55 sit ups is way more of a problem than I expected it to be and it is because I have been doing them wrong my entire life. The 65 crunches for today weren't too bad and nether was the plank. Leg lifts are the source of all evil. 

Storyline challenge "If I could change the world..."

I would change it so that no child is ever without a family or a home. 

I Have Discovered

That if I'm tired, I won't take the time to actually blog. I will write a cop-out post and do the real post the next day. I don't want to be like that but these challenges are ridiculously exhausting. 

Work started fairly early so I had to be up earlier than normal for the third day in a row. It was a short shift but being awake that early is what killed me. Ab challenge has started to get REALLY challenging and I am not sure if I should be extending my days so that I have longer to build up the stamina or not. 

The Storyline Challenge for today is to share your ten favorite quotes. This is actually a little difficult because I have to many that I like to keep in mind but I'll try it. 

1. Positive outcomes only. 

2. Everything that is or was began with a dream.

3. You were given this life because you are strong enough to live it

4. When the answers that you know just prove you wrong, you gotta have a little faith to fall back on

5. Let your heart guide you.

6. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift and that is why it is called the present

7. "Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in the magic will never find it!" 

8.Think. Believe, Dream, and Dare

9. Sometimes the best thing that you can do is not think. Not Wonder. Not imagine. Just breathe and have faith that everything will work out for the best. 

20.Succes is not final. Failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts. 

What Are Boundaries?

On a happier note, today consisted of lots of nephew time and new makeup which I will probably post about in depth within the next few days. I was able to snag the face products from the Katy Perry Covergirl Instaglam/ Ready Set Gorgeous collection which is supposed to be pretty neat. I'm really excited to try it!

Ab challenge is going to happen in a little bit and I'm hoping it goes okay.  I did exercise yesterday so I don't think my body is out of the routine but we shall see. Storyline line challenge for today is about boundaries/guardrails. I'm not actually sure I possess these to be honest with you. I don't really have personal boundaries until it comes to my nephew and crawling on me. There's nothing I won't talk about if I'm asked about it and I try to experience everything at least once. I guess my main boundary (if you even consider it one) is that I don't like to break social rules in front of people. I also don't like to break the law which I have been taunted for but that doesn't really bother me. Good choices get you good things, bad choices get you bad things. 

Day Number One

Day 1 is complete! July has 31 days so I decided to start the an challenge today so that I finish on the 31st. The first three days are really easy but it will be the second set of three where I start to have problems because of the plank. The ten second plank today was already a little challenging and I am not really sure why. I can bench 80 pounds (sooooo impressive right?) and I can curl 50 but when it comes to push ups/planks my arms turn to complete jello. I don't anticipate having any other issues until the 5th set of days.

Another challenge was started today as well! A really cool fan account for Hunter Hayes made this project for fans(or anyone really, you don't have to be a die hard Hunter fan to want to feel better about yourself) to use the next 30 days to write their own storyline. The first day is "how you see yourself." This blog has had many a post about my feelings and how I see myself but I guess today I shall re-live some of them. How I see my self fluctuates. One day I feel like a superstar and like I am capable of anything and then other days I feel ridiculously inadequate. This is normal. the people you surround yourself with do have an impact on how you feel about your self but fortunately for me and envy one else the final decisions is up to us. Do you let yourself feel belittled and weak or do you tell you sparsely that you are strong and capable? That is your choice. I tend to pick the latter.

Aside from restarting ab challenge and starting the storyline challenge, today has consisted of lots of Facebook and Twitter. I also returned some items at Walmart and babysat for a little bit but that isn't of any real importance. I was supposed to see some of my sisters today but due to some scheduling errors those plans did not happen. Plans are being made with other people for the rest of the week though.