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What keeps you going? I want to know what it is that gets YOU through your everyday life. I know that sometimes (most of the time) I seem like a lunatic with the way that I live my life.But, putting everything in perspective, I don’t have it that bad off (watch me totally take this back on some hard a** day). Yesterday at posing practice I was talking to my friend Jennifer and was just overwhelmed with total admiration. Here she was, 6 weeks out from FAME, looking beautiful with the stage presence of a Vegas diva, and feeling totally drained. I can imagine why! She’s been dieting like hell for as long as I have, for a show further out than my first one! Everything she’s been through is so legit and completely fitNasti. Between working hardcore as a banker and being around corporate culture food (and people), helping out at her parents’ restaurant, and fighting off all the haterz, she is doing 600 f*ing lunges 6 days a week. WTF. I am grateful beyond words that I have never had to do this! Yes my diet is mega-ultra-strict, yes the cardio makes me want to liquefy my own brain, and yes I work a bajillion hours & write mega awesome deep philosophical treatises… but I think if Jill or Kim had told me to do 600 lunges a day on top of all of it… I would have had to re-evaluate my life. Luckily my proportions currently allow me just worry about density and building instead of cannibalizing my lower body. Let’s hope it stays this way! In the mean time I am sending some SP energy in Jennifer’s direction…

Yesterday at posing practice I was the special-ed kid as per usual (don’t get all PC on me about the special-ed comment). First off I was late because I went to tan at 7pm. This turned into me actually getting into the stand up (which I hate) at 7:20. This was actually because of a good occurrence: meeting fellow competitor Tiffany Santos. There I was checking in for my bed when I noticed this super-tall, super-lean girl I swore I had seen somewhere before. That somewhere just happened to be at the State Championships! Listening to her give nutritional advice to one of the tanning workers confirmed that she was a competitor. I introduced myself and we talked NPC for a while (thus my late tanning time). I think she is absolutely beautiful and has great showmanship. I hope I see her at BVI more in the future. After my tan I bolted over to Miller where I had to sprint up the stairs to make sure Jill knew I was there (late) and sprint back down the stairs to retrieve my suit & heels from the office and then sprint yet again up the stairs to the studio to practice. Good news my friends, I have made some improvements! I am starting to get this whole pivoting on my left foot thing and I am able to hold tighter and tighter every time I practice. I was even happy to pose in my utterly exhausted state yesterday because I knew it was more like what I would feel like on stage. With these sessions and the help of Maria, I’m going to rock it out in June!

Maria and I are having a grand ol’ time training her for FAME. We’ve been meeting three times a week to work on legs (with a focus on hams/glutes), shoulders, and back (with a focus on lats). I’m really excited to see how the prowler will affect her hamstring tie-in and pull up her glutes. I think it could be really beneficial. I love training with Maria because she has such a positive spirit. She does little victory dances in between reps and isn’t afraid to really push herself. Her encouragement is addictive! Maria used to work as a staff member here at WFU for 17 years before she retired and became a divinity school student. Inspirational. She’s just about to finish up her first year in the school and totally understands how difficult it is to balance training and taking exams!

I still haven’t had any time to do anything. I mean anything. No grocery shopping, no laundry, and yes, no bathing. I haven’t showered since Wednesday: go ahead and judge me. It’s kind of hard to have time when literally every hour of every day is totally penciled in. Classes end next Wednesday and exams are about smack me in the face like a bag of bricks. Do you know that this time next week I’ll be taking my Japanese exam? Yikes!

I have some very basic needs that I am going to try and take care of today and tomorrow and I am trying to figure out the logistics. If Operation Sweet Potato (OSP) hadn’t gone so well, and Cindy hadn’t been so sweet, and Tara hadn’t left me asparagus in the Miller Center fridge… things would have been way more woeful this week. Grocery shopping is a number one priority but make no mistake, it is time consuming and costly. The generosity of many this week has allowed me to save a little and not panic about the shifts I missed last week because of my post-competition barf party. But somehow I’ve managed to make ends meet and will continue to do so… when I was doing taxes with Bahkit a few weeks back I realized that I’ve done all of this living on only $9,000 a year. I am so grateful for the assistance I’ve received, both large and small, from the wonderful people in my life. I couldn’t do this without all of your support. I wish I could do more to show this appreciation than sing your praises in a blog post, but it’s all I’ve got for now!

Look out world because fitnasti.com is going to be officially up and running soon! My friend and fellow-artist Daniel Jackson is hard at work on the page this weekend and we’re hoping to launch in the next few weeks. There’s not too much left to pull togeter and yesterday I finished designing the official fitNasti logo, (sometimes it’s a bonus to be able to do your own art), and here it is for your viewing pleasure!