{Day 13} 30 Days to Finding your Blogging Voice

It is Day 13 of the 'Find your Blogging Voice' Challenge. For more details on how to participate, as well as to catch up on missed days, please go here and consider joining us.

Here's mine:
Name something you lost or gave away that can never be replaced.

I was 16 and on my way to my first independent journey outside the country on an airplane. My parents had to work and couldn't take me to the airport, so my mom gave me money for taxi. I decided to save that money and just take a bus with a friend of mine who said she took that bus all the time. At the bus station I went. I waited and waited. I was nervous and excited. I mean...do you remember your first plane ride? Needless to say I was flying into Prague, where I'd spend a week in a luxury hotel getting trained as a Campaing Coordinator for Amnesty International. I was young, excited and totally dumb. See...I had a suitcase, a backpack and a purse with me. As I waited for my friend, I became anxious that I may be late for my flight and went into a store right by the station to call my friend. When I came out I realized my load was lighter and remembered I had left my backpack outside.That's when I saw a group of skater teens running away with it. I was devastated. I ran after them, I freaked, I screamed, I called the police. I was really relieved when I realized I had put my ticket and passport in my purse, but somehow all my money was in the backpack.

What I lost that can never be returned is my journal. I have always been terrible at keeping journals (hence the writing prompt challenge), but that  time around I had been writing in it every day for about a year. There were so many things that happened that year and now I have no record of it. I've never really gotten over the loss of my journal and first scriptures.

I did fly to Prague that day and had to exist on a very minimal amount of money that
I had saved for not using a taxi. Ironic?
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{Day 12} 30 Days to Finding your Blogging Voice

It is Day 12 of the 'Find your Blogging Voice' Challenge. For more details on how to participate, as well as to catch up on missed days, please go here and consider joining us.

Here's mine:
Write about the last time you ran.

I run every day - after my toddler. She is always on the move and for her safety I have to run after her all the time. But the most memorable last run I've had was my first 10K I did last weekend. I have trained for it, but as an overweight woman, it wasn't enough training for a successful race, let alone for any confidence that I was even going to finish. I was freaking out, but guess what?!?...I did it. I finished the race and I wasn't even the last one to finish. I have to say it was hard as heck. I've heard lots of people walk it or run really slow. Well... apparently that wasn't the case with this race, because when I started nice and slow, I was sort of the last one, however all those people that started really fast but weren't in the best shape of their live just like me, slowed way down a mile doown the road and I was able to pass them and keep a steady course of 4 minute runnin and 2 min walking, with a sprint at every two mile. I wanted to give up after the first two miles, as it seemed like I was going to die. I kept telling myself to literally take it one step at a a time. I ended up having some 9 min miles, mostly because I was afraid I was going to be the last one.

I finished way earlier than I thought, so none of my family was there to cheer me at the end, as I told them it would probably take me 2 hours to do it. It ended up being just a little over an hour. I now feel like I can achieve my health and weight loss goals and that my body can take more than what I give it credit and that my biggest limitation is my brain telling my body I can't go on anymore. Now I know I can.
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If you could be any age again for a week, which would you choose? {Day 10} 30 Days to Finding your Blogging Voice

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If you could be any age again for a week, which would you choose? This one seems like a tough one, because for some reason all I can think of, are times I had made mistakes and wish I could go back to change them. This is certainly not something I want to write about, nor is it very productive for me. Looking ahead is far more efficient than wishing I had done things differently.

So, I will write about something fun and now that I look back....pretty cute too. If I could be any age, I'd probably be in 7th grade. That is the year that so many things changed for me and really...so many of which really brought me today where I am. It is the year when I discovered Ally McBeal and decided I wanted to be a lawyer, it is the year I asked my grandma to teach me how to sew, it is the year I decided I wanted to be fluent in English...it is the year of my first date, yada yada yada.

Anyway, the reason I would choose that year is because that year (along with half the girls in my school) I had a crush on a boy from 9th grade named Ian. I, however, was not Ian material - I was a book worm and a rocker (although it had been a few years, I was still mourning Kurt Cobain's death), with long hair, flannel shirt, ripped up jeans, huge backpack and lots of metal. Ian dated girls with cute pink nail polish, wearing heels, mini skirts and tiny purses.
One day, after school as I started walking away to go home, I saw Ian out of the corner of my eye running towards my general direction. Um...somewhere close to me must be a cute girl. To my surprise, he called my name. He knew MY NAME. He wanted to walk me home and asked me on a date. To say that every girl that saw us was so upset and envious was an understatement. He walked me home after school every day that week. He said he liked me and invited me to the school Valentine's Day dance. Wha???? Seriously...I was shocked. However, the fear (and what other girls were saying) got the best of me, so the day before the dance I said I couldn't date him and that I wouldn't go to the dance with him. Surely he'll find a willing girl last minute and that he won't miss me very much. At the dance (oh...and I had to be there,'cause I was in charge of the decor, program, mc etc), I could see everyone talk about me and how Ian dumped me after one week.
So, I guess I wish that the week after the dance, I would've been courageous and not cry and hide under a rock. As an  FYI, Ian and I did date again after awhile. That is the year of my first kiss also. I feel bad that I don't even remember that boy's last name. I would totally stalk him on facebook...lol. Wouldn't you?
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My first memory {Day 9} 30 Days to Finding your Blogging Voice

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Here's mine:
My first memory

My first memory is about something I still love a lot - tomatoes. I think I was 3 or I could've have been 2. I know I wasn't 4, because when I was 4 we moved to a different place. I was in preschool and they were doing some sort of flu vaccine for everyone. We were in a long hallway waiting for our turn. I remember thinking about how much I wanted a tomato salad. I remember actually tasting it in my mouth. Yes, people...that's how much I love tomatoes, and especially my tomato salad, that even my first memory is linked to that. Oh...how I want a real tomato salad with the most amazingly tasty, fresh, organic vegetables in Moldova.

My husband says it's not possible to have memories at that age, but hey...I remember it happening.
Another early memory is of me trying to understand why when I look at my hat the tag is right in front of me, but when I put it on, it ends up being at the back of my head and vice versa. It was a concept I tried to understand for a long time. As I grew up, my mom told me that when I was in preschool I always took forever to put my hat on. I can see why...I was trying to learn the physics of it all.
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Write about the cabin in the mountains {Day 8} 30 Days to Finding your Blogging Voice

It is Day 8 of the 'Find your Blogging Voice' Challenge. For more details on how to participate, as well as to catch up on missed days, please go here and consider joining us.

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Write about the cabin the mountains.

My car is having a hard time with this unpaved road, but the thought of the little cabin surrounded by nothing but trees and mountains, is helping me persevere in pushing my civic to the top. When I finally arrive at the destination, it is even better than how I imagined it. The present is always more rich and colorful, not to mention the calming sound of the wind, the beautiful echoes of a bird's song...and yes...even the flies and bugs are adding to the magnificence of the moment. No matter how much I attempt to capture this moment with my camera, it just fails to do so. Lucky I remember what it was like. Or do I?
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I know that my writing sucks, especially when it comes to creative writing. But, this is the exact reason why I am doing this Writing series. It's your turn - Write about the cabin in the mountains.

  I know it seems like a weird thing to write about. But just write, even if it seems silly. By the end of the 30 days, after writing about such random stuff, you'll feel like you can tackle 
any writing on your blog.

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