Stressed spelled backwards spells Desserts......

......and since I am trying to stay on the eat-healthy-so-exercise-is-effective-weight-loss-train for the 489th time, I can't have desserts.  Well, ones that I would actually want to eat.  The rich, indulgent, calorie laden desserts.  So, in an effort to relieve some stress I went to the gym this afternoon.  Today while I walking into my spin class, the instructor told me to drop my shoulders before I stepped foot on the bike.  As I slowly dropped my shoulders, I realized that they had been up in that position all day.  It's likely that I have been wearing my shoulders as earrings for quite some time - maybe couple of weeks or more.  It felt good to let them down.  Kind of awkward, because they had been up there for so long, but good.  What felt even better was to take off those HUGE earrings while burning 735 calories in the one hour spin/weight training class.  I love my heart rate monitor.

I should be doing a number of other things tonight since the girls are in bed after a go-to-bed battle that lasted one hour and twenty minutes.  Laundry, Casino Night stuff, mopping kitchen floor, or catching up on sleep to name a few.  However I needed some mindless entertainment, and unfortunately since I only caught the last seven minutes of The Bachelor, I needed something else to do.

I started catching up on my friends blogs, and after reading one, I was inspired to google my name.  I was surprised to see what came up!

Meet Stephanie Foley the Bodybuilder!!

She is a WNBF Professional Body Builder, whatever that means.  She is also a software developer and has a 13 year old and 10 year old.  Who ever said that software developers were nerds were way off the mark with this chick.


There is a photographer Stephanie Foley that takes pictures of food.  Just what I need.  Check out her website.

www.stephaniefoleyphoto.com

This is my kind of girl.  Stephanie Foley the Soprano.  Not in any relation to Tony Soprano, but opera Soprano.

She's a young lass.  I wish her the best of luck with her operatic career.  Here is an excerpt of her singing Pie Jesu.
http://www.stephaniefoley.ie/usercontent/pie-jesu-short.mp3

There is also Stephanie Foley the Model in California, Stephanie Foley the Insurance Agent, Stephanie Foley the part-time Counselor at a college, and Stephanie Foley that is a Staffing Consultant at MyStaf (or at least used to be - I need to update my Linked In page).

I also searched to see how many Stephanie Foley's were on Facebook.  I stopped counting at 60.

I honestly don't know if this helped relieve my stress any.  Makes me wonder if  I am doing everything I need to be doing to protect my identity.  My family.  My safety.  I am making a mental note to keep my shoulders down right now.  On another note, there are a lot of Stephanie Foley's in this world.  Not as many as there are John Black's, Sarah Smith's, or Amy Jones', but there is a lot.  However, there is only one me.  Only one.  So even though my mindless search might have stressed me out a little bit, it did reinforce the fact that there I need to embrace THIS Stephanie Foley's life even more than I already do.  I need to give thanks to our Heavenly Father for THIS Stephanie Foley's life that He blesses me with daily.  THIS Stephanie Foley's life was meant to shine.  And so is yours.  Every moment is a chance to let your light shine.  So just do it.

xoxo,
sf