Sunny and not snowing!!

It is so nice to wake up to a beautiful sunny day.  Just finished my workout and I am headed out to do some shopping.  I am buying supplies so I can create some fun things with my essential oils today.  Just started up the dishwasher and threw a drop of thieves in there. It will help to clean and give a fresh odor as well.  I will post pictures of the things I make later tonight.

Fighting off a headache with essential oils

Good morning everyone.  Waking up to snow once again here in New York.  This feels like the longest winter I can ever remember.  I wanted to share my experience yesterday.  I was naughty and had Chinese food on Thurs night.  I sometimes get wicked headaches after eating it due to the msg but I sometimes give in to the craving.  Friday morning I wake up with a terrible headache. I took my diffuser to work with me and got it running in  my office with the peppermint oil.  I applied the pain salve that I made myself using coconut oil, magnesium, panaway and peppermint to my forehead and temples.  I felt it loosen the tension up almost immediately.  I also started drinking water with my lemon eo and continued drinking it throughout the day to flush all the bad stuff from my system.  It took a bit for the headache to subside but it worked.  I of course am not a doctor and can only share my experiences honestly about the eo's.  Everytime I have a positive outcome I am more encouraged that they can truly work.

Found the perfect bag for my EO'S

I was so happy to find this old bag my Mom gave me years ago.  My oils fit in it perfectly.

I have been having a great time talking with people I work with and explaining and showing the health benefits they can share in.

The Young Living Diffuser

I just plugged my infuser in for the first time.  It is a very soothing sound of water bubbling softly and the Stress Away oil I put in is doing it's job.  I love that it is a pretty color of purple when you shut the light off which will be relaxing at night.
I am just waiting around for my first essential oil class on line tonight.  I am so happy to be using my mind to learn new things.  It is good for us all to be doing that whatever it is you choose to learn.

Essential Oils

I am super excited that my essential oils have finally arrived.  This is the first of many boxes I will be opening and feeling like it is Christmas morning.

It's A Wonderful Run 5k

Well....we did it!!!  We finished what we started 11 weeks ago.  All our hard work and perseverance paid off.  What a fun run it was and so pretty with all the Christmas lights and so many people out cheering us on!!
The weather was pretty good but I dressed way to warm!!  Glad I bought the compression socks today to help stabalize my achilles.  Wasn't in too much pain running.
Tuesday we start our winter warrior program, excited about that!

2012 Turkey Trot

On Thanksgiving morning we ran our first turkey trot.  It was such an amazing experience!!  Almost 6 thousand people did either the 2.5 or a 4.5.  It being our first race we did the shorter one.  The weather was sunny and in the 50's, much warmer than we ever expected it to be in Rochester NY.
There was a little over 2100 in the 2 1/2 and I came in at 900. I was happy with that number and thrilled that I was able to run the entire thing because that was my goal.
The thing I learned was it's very frustrating running with so many people because you can't move!!  I could have run it alot faster than 28 minutes if I was alone but it would have been boring that way too!!
Tonight we run our first 5k, It's a Wonderful Life, in Seneca Falls. Super excited!!!