Doin’ the Demi

Ahhh… procrastination, you devil, you. You’ve gotten me again. Ever feel like you’re so busy, your procrastination tendencies just seem to creep up out of no where? One minute, you’re a Type-A organization freak, the next minute, you can barely figure out where your keys are.

This week, I’m currently struggling with the fact that I’ve waited till the last minute to fully plan out details for my birthday party. Sidenote: All my weekends in September were too crazy to do any celebrations, so I’ve moved the party to October. Anywho, every year, I have plans of a glorious, kick-a$$ birthday party, but every year, it seems I have $0 to put towards it, which is kind of sad. It makes it easier to say you don’t care about the birthday party than have ideas that you can’t afford to actually do. I guess I just don’t want to get my hopes up or whatever. Well, this year, my I-don’t-care-about-the-details-of-my-birthday-party approach put me behind again. It’s 3 days before my bash and I don’t have the details I need.

At first, I was selecting between 2 options I’d brainstormed: 1. a more formal party uptown or 2. a more casual party elsewhere in town. Both options seemed fabulous, but I just couldn’t seem to pick one. Oh and I wanted to have a themed party…but what theme…I couldn’t decide that either. So take the apathy, add in the fact that I’m working 40+ hours every week, traveling out the wazoo, doing zumba 3-5 times a week and you can see how it’s easier to just put things off.

Hubby has been telling me to get an evite out, but I’m just not seeing how I can send an evite without more details. I mean, I dunno…how does this look?:

Diana’s Theme-TBD 30th Birthday Party

When: Saturday around dinner time till some time later that night

Where: Possibly uptown…or somewhere else

What to wear: Theme-TBD

Umm…yeaaaaaa…not looking so hot. Anywho, we’re currently waiting to hear back from one place and they’re making me really antsy, because I just need to know if we can use their space or not and then I’ll feel comfortable enough to send out an official evite. Basically, I’m waiting to hear if their space is available before I can finalize the party-start time and for events following. Cross your fingers friends that the spot I want is available. I kind of forgot I’d have to, I don’t know, request to reserve the space.

Moving on…

I think I did a pretty fab job of packing lunch today. I only say that because the last few weeks have felt more like a struggle, but today I had a plethora of options and great eats.

I started with some of my soup factory 3-bean-veggie soup.

Plus I had a GIANT salad with:

• baby spinach
• baby lettuce
• broccoli
• bell pepper
• celery
• carrot
• hemp seeds
• sunflower seeds

In the afternoon, I went for a pick-me-up-Pumpkin-Spice latte with soy milk and no whipped cream. The latte tasted much better without the whipped cream, but I think I could even go with 1 less pump of syrup. It was so sweet!

Oh and did you see my shoes in the background? I dressed up today for once. 🙂 I just love these hot pink pumps.

Afternoon snack = Chocolate Oikos with Galaxy Granola Vanilla almond granola. I generally love a good granola/yogurt combo, and I loved this flavor combo today.

I stayed late at work, which stunk, but I got to catch this beautiful sunset on my way home.

I also stopped by a local boutique to pick out a piece of clothing for my birthday party outfit. Any guesses what I’m wearing???

  

Look who was waiting for me to finish my apple tonight.

Bailey actually likes to gingerly nibble at the apple core.

It’s so funny to watch him try to get the apple meat off of the core.

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Doin the Demi

Did you hear about Demi Moore and Lisa Rinna posting photos of themselves in bikinis on twitter? You can read more about it here (click). Apparently Moore posted her photo first and then Rinna was inspired to do the same, saying she was “Doin the Demi.” The best thing about the article I read earlier today (not the same as the one linked above…can’t find the one I read earlier) is that Moore says basically that at 47, she finally has the body she always wanted. To me, this is very inspirational. Some people may say that 40+ is old, but here is Moore proving age doesn’t mean you can’t have a positive body image and be happy with your body.

Perhaps this concept is more on my mind, now that I’ve moved out of my twenties and officially into my 30s. When I was younger, 30 always seemed so old, but now that I’m here, I really don’t feel different. I don’t feel “old.” Sometimes, I don’t even feel like an “official adult.” I just feel like “me.”

When I was in my early 20’s, I thought of those years to sort of be my “prime years”. I figured everything would just go downhill from there. You’re going to be so old when you’re 30!

And yet…here I am at 30 years old and feeling the best I’ve ever felt. I feel healthy and happy and at 30 I sort of feel like I currently have the body I’ve always wanted.

And yet…part of me is scared about 40 already. Will 30 be my “prime” with things going down hill from here? Only time will tell, but I feel like my healthy lifestyle is one I can easily and enjoyable maintain, hopefully forever. And if Demi Moore can be so happy with her body at 47 (17 years away from where I am now age-wise!), there’s hope. 🙂

When do you think your prime years were or will be?