Linda Rokos Watts

Thank god for this lil puppy.... My days are consumed with working full time and taking care of Stella, both of which I love, but I've found it hard to find time to work out. Unfortunately living in the mountains and 30 minutes from the nearest gym doesn't help either. Solution.... speed hiking at lunch up the hill behind work and after putting Stella to bed hitting this spin bike pictured above (not actual picture of mine but I have the same bike). Now that I have my work out equipment at hand all I need is the motivation. It's a little hard for me to get motivated to work out at 9pm, but I have to make due with what I've got. During the summer I lift rocks all day long so I'm not as concerned about getting a work out in. Come winter I sit in the office catching up on the books and getting ready again for selling season. I HATE SITTING IN THE OFFICE ALL DAY. I can't say that loud enough but I'm lucky in the business that I'm in that I don't have to...

I drive down the mountain every morning to my favorite coffee shop, The Stone Cup. It's nice to walk into a place and be known, and catch up with the usual coffee goers in the morning. For the past couple years my caffeine fix has gotten stronger and stronger. These days I have a quad- americano in a small cup to minimize the amount of extra water. Sam (Stone Cup owner) calls it my lil heart attack every morning. Enough is enough... I'm on a mission to cut my need for caffeine in the morning. I walked into the coffee shop this morning and asked for a Bakti Chai and I thought Sam was going to have a heart attack...plus he'd already started on my quad- americano when he saw my car pull up. Now, granted chai has caffeine in it but not anywhere near the amount I usually have. Besides being a little more tired this morning I feel pretty good. The real test will be the next few days to see how my body adjusts to not having a heart attack every morning.