I'm now looking forward to representing Liquid Sun Rayz at the Kentucky Muscle Pro expo this weekend!  I will be helping out Marilyn and her team on Friday.  We are set to spray the beautiful LSR color on a huge number of athletes!  I plan on being at the booth all day on Saturday, so look for me there!  Can't wait to meet some of you in Louisville!

"Call me a joker, call me a fool
Right at this moment I'm totally cool
Clear as a crystal, sharp as a knife
I feel like I'm in the prime of my life
Sometimes it feels like I'm going too fast
I don't know how long this feeling will last
Maybe it's only tonight...
Sometimes I'm tired, sometimes I'm shot
Sometimes I don't know how much more I've got...
Darling I don't know why I go to extremes
Too high or too low there ain't no in-betweens
And if I stand or I fall
It's all or nothing at all..."

So there was a feature on the local news about me recently that headlined me as going to "extremes".  Well, yes, I do.  And I always have and always will.  My mom has many times told me of when I was a baby and I would laugh and giggle so hard that I would almost fall out of my chair.  To the other end, I could get mad as a fireball when something ticked me off! 

A comment that someone made on the WRAL site about my video struck me.  They said that they "hope she never gets injured or sick because it seems like it would be like going through detox or rehab to stop the routine.  Extreme is the right headline...and how."  My thought is: thank God I get to live this extreme.  Thank God I get to feel this high, this sense of accomplishment, of looking back on all the hours of workouts, the bruises and the pains, the oatmeal and chicken breast, the tears, the anguish, and realize I did it.  I reached for the stars, and I hit the moon!  This is what my life is about, lows and highs.  And I love it.  Given the choice, I wouldn't take it any other way.  

I have been to the other side of the extreme.  I didn't just have a perfect life with no challenges and then one day I decided to be a Professional Fitness Athlete and it happened.  Actually, people that know me well will tell you that I have overcome more than most any 28 year-old you will meet.  I don't like to focus too much on those things, although someday I'm sure I will write about them in detail.  The point is that I have worked very hard for everything that I have accomplished in this life, and I am very grateful for every experience I have had.  I am especially grateful for the lowest lows that taught me how to fight for the highest highs.  Every low I have ever hit has provided experience and strength to raise myself to a higher high.

I don't know why God chose to give me this life.  I'm not sure why He chose for me to always be fascinated with reaching the top and then reaching higher.  I am just thankful that He gave me the fire inside me and the opportunities to keep stoking that fire.  I love my life of extremes.  If I ever hit that wall where the high that I have found has to end, I will be eternally thankful that I was given the chance to feel this wonderful.  It's a beautiful view from where I am right now, and I'm so happy you're sharing it with me!