IPod, my friend

I hope you all had a spectacular V-Day. I did. Miguel managed to surprise me by buying me my own pink IPod Shuffle. It's actually for running, since one of my goals is to run a 10k by the summer. Just as an FYI, I have yet to run with it. ;) But we'll blame that on my strained plantar fascia (arch), which by the way I am pretty sure was caused by my incredibly tight ham strings. Stretch ladies, stretch, 'cause trust me, all kids of nasty things happen when your hammies are tight. In any case, I have already loaded it up with some songs. Only 3 hours worth and I say ONLY because this little thing holds like 400 songs. Do the math, that's like 3 days worth of music. Anyway, you can see my current playlist here. Say what you want about the music. It's my music, that I like. So there. Oh and this is stuff for me to workout to. So, no, this isn't what I might typically listen to in the car, but still stuff I like.
Ava Adore - Smashing Pumpkina
Bad Cartridge/Remix E-Pro - Beck
Beasty-Boys_Sabotage - Beastie Boys
Bring Me To Life - Evanescence
Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!) - Garbage
Cherub Rock - Smashing Pumpkins
Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
Different People - No Doubt
Don't Phunk With My Heart - The Black Eyed Peas
Even Flow - Pearl Jam
Everlong - Foo Fighters
Everything Is Everything - Lauryn Hill
Everything Zen - Bush
Falling In Love (Is Hard On The Knees) - Aerosmith
Feel Good Inc.- Gorillaz
Feels Just Like It Should - Jamrioquai
Friday I'm in Love- The Cure
Gettin' Jiggy Wit It - Will Smith
Give It Away - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Heaven - Live
Intuition - Jewel
It's Only Me - Barenaked Ladies 1
It Wasn't Me - Shaggy
King Without A Crown - Matisyahu
Korn-Got The Life
Lay Down Sally - Eric Clapton
Let Me Go - Cake
Limp-Bizkit_Rollin'-
Meet Virginia - Train
Mr. Jones - Counting Crows
No Diggity - Blackstreet
One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces - Ben Folds Five
Oxford Comma - Vampire Weekend
The Rascal King - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Phrenology - The Roots
Roses - OutKast
Sleep To Dream - Fiona Apple
Stay (Wasting Time)- Dave Matthews Band
Summersong - The Decemberists
Summertime - Sublime
Traveling Song - Will.I.Am
Buddy_Holly - Weezer
White Shadows - Coldplay
Beautiful-Disaster - 311
32 Flavors - Ani DiFranco
66 - The Afghan Whigs

Continuing on about yesterday.......

Katie got all sweaty from the bicycle ride and said it "wore her out". That's what she told me today. Kids these days. LOL You can tell that either it was hot out there, or riding a bike up and down these Atlanta hills is hard work for a 2 year old. She even gave me a real smile while we were at the park. Well I mean one in front of the camera. It's so refreshing when she smiles at the camera. And look how thin and handsome my hubby is looking these days. To date he has lost 75 lbs. He also just joined Crossfit to get in better shape. I'm benefiting too because he makes me do all the exercises he has to do there. It hurts, a lot, but I'll still call it benefiting. :) We're working hard at trying to get in shape. Something I haven't done since I was a teenager and dancing my little heart out dreaming one day about being a professional ballerina. Well obviously that never happened. LOL But I am hoping to maybe be in that good a shape soon. It'll just take some grit and determination on my part. Oh and I'm reading about the Zone diet. Well I really wouldn't call it a diet so much as a way of eating. Diets are full of bull. Diets don't work. Believe me, I've been on enough of them to know. I'll let ya'll know how it works for us if we decide to follow it.
And then this morning while I was setting up for the shoot, I used poor Sam as my test model for the lighting. And I came up with that beauty of a shot above. It's delicious.

Oh and before I forget...

On Friday, Miguel went hiking with his friend Curtis. Curtis by they way is fresh off an expedition from either Mount McKinley or Mount Rainier. He's done both, I'm just not sure which was the most recent one. Anyway, so Miguel and Curtis, hiked up and over Blood Mountain to the lake and then back up and over back to their car. A twelve mile hike and Miguel was home by 4pm on Friday. I was impressed. Good job Miguel!