GYM is not a 4-letter word

It was a dark and stormy night. I looked at the building before me with trepidation and fear beacause I knew what was waiting for me on the other side of the door. I took a deep breath to calm my nerves and gently pushed the door open. I grudgingly accepted my fate as I took my first steps back into THE GYM.

Perhaps my return to THE GYM wasn't that dramatic, but it was pretty close. Trepidation, fear, resistance...true, true, true. There was a point in my life when lunchtime workouts, daily walks, and 20-mile bike rides were commonplace. I like to refer to this as the "wonder years" because I look back on those times and wonder where I got the energy to do all of that. Fast forward seven years and there are days when my only cardio exercise involves rolling across the studio on my desk chair when I need to reach my printer. Sad, but true.

So I've finally made the decision to take care of my body inside and out which means plenty of sleep, a healthier diet, and daily exercise at THE GYM. It will be a dramatic lifestyle change but the fact that my husband will be changing right alongside me should make it a little easier. I hope.

Back it up!

Minutes after posting yesterday's blog entry, my power went out. The good news is that although I had a bunch of other applications running on my computer, I had saved all my work. The bad news is that after the electricity came back on two hours later, my secondary internal hard drive suffered an untimely death. It took a good hour to figure out how to get my computer to reboot successfully. You know how time flies when you're having fun? Well, time stood still during those sixty loooong minutes.

I thought about all my client files that I'd have to somehow rebuild. I thought about the hundreds, no thousands, of irreplaceable photos that I'd never be able to retrieve. And then I thought about...THE WEDDING FILES.

The guest list.
The vendor contracts.
The detailed budget spreadsheet.
The photos that I collected from who-knows-where that would provide inspiration during the moments when I felt uninspired.

This mini panic attack was enough to make me go out and buy an external hard drive today. It wasn't cheap...boy, it really wasn't cheap...but I guess the peace of mind is worth it. So learn from my (almost) disaster. Back it up. Today.