Coach Kirstin

So I accepted a fight at 130.  And I got a prescription from my coach on what to incorporate.  It included 100 russian twists a day with a Medicine ball.  The first day sucked.  I had to stop 2 or 3 times to rest.  And then a miracle happened on Tuesday...all 100 without stopping.  I wanted to make sure it wasn't a fluke and it happened again today.  I love seeing progress

I like to think Im responsible. And probably compared to most people I am.  But in reality, Im not the person I think I should be.  The person I think I should be saves more, doesn’t have credit card debt, clears her to do list, does the maintenance on her house, volunteers at the animal shelter, is a foster dog mom, calls her grandfather more often, has a will and a living will.  The list could probably go on and on.  But at the top of the list is generally be more financially responsible.  I thought I was doing the smart thing 8 years ago and let my now ex-husband talk me into buying a house.  It was so easy.  The market was so good and within 3 weeks of looking we had an accepted offer on a house.  2 years later we were getting divorced.  The majority of the things we had planned to do to the house were still undone and I wasn’t able to pay the bills by myself.  I got a roommate, got a few promotions and I have it covered....

I used to hate sandwich's as a kid.  Grossed me out the way the bread got over the course of the day.  I rarely ever ate them.  And I still dont like soggy bread in my sandwich.  But I have learned their is an art to a great sandwich.  It starts with the bread.  Its make or break.  This also applies to burgers, which I would add in the sandwich category with its own parameters. Im not sure when it started, probably sometime after I had my first sandwich at The Italian Store , I began to understand the value of a great sandwich.  And thus my quest to find great sandwich's.  Lets be honest, DC is pretty slim on the sandwich shops.  The Italian Store will always have a special place in my heart but up their is Taylor Gourmet .  Though my new favorite is Sundevich .  To date I have had the Beirut, Seoul and Havana. My only complaint is that I finished the sandwich and had to stop eating.  Though probably a good thing since I h...

Why do we have friends? Is it what they provide us? Or what we provide them? Or both. Thinking about it, friends are kind of a selfish thing we do for ourselves. We like them for what they add to our lives. For the support they provide us. For the things they do for us. It's not what I get to do for them that is why I like them, though after the friendship has developed that part does become important, but what I get from our friendship. I was thinking about this because I have a longtime friend (probably 4 or 5 years) who was an exceptionally good friend after my breakup but despite my repeatedly setting boundaries, they are ignored. So it makes me evaluate this friendship. Is it even something I want to keep if this person doesn't respect and believe what I have told them. The behavior of this person is causing me to cancel and limit our interactions, so I have almost ended it but I was wondering if it was really a friendship. Or was it always just that self serving thing we ...

Sometimes I wonder if being single is just where I am more comfortable.  Or maybe I’m just selfish.  Or maybe I've spent too much of my life trying to please others and I just want to do what pleases me.  It pleases me to sleep in my own bed and be on my own schedule.  If I'm running late, the only person impacted is me.  If I want to waste away an hour laying on the floor petting the cat, no one gets irritated.  I love spending time with my friends, but I’m also a notorious canceler.  The gym makes me happy.  And I arrange my life around that.  My friends know that I will give them as much of me as I can spare, but sometimes that means putting up with a smelly me that just got done at the gym.  Sometimes I think I'm just not ready to date.  That I'm in a selfish phase.  That it wouldn't be such a big deal to me to share my time and be considerate of someone if I was ready.  That t...