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Suck It Up

That's my new mantra. SUCK IT UP! I can be quite the whiny baby, quite the princess, etc, etc, etc. Ray Ray always teases me about the way I complain and "cry" at the gym, and if I could just suck it up I might be able to do "grown man" workouts. Today he told me I'm the "toughest baby" he knows. I like that. And I like learning to just "suck things up" instead of "crying" about it. I have an oral presentation in one of my classes that I got out of doing by telling the professor how terrified of public speaking I am, but now I've decided I'm going to suck it up. It's only three minutes of shaking and sweaty palms. I can deal with that, right?

This week has had it's good points and bad points so far. I haven't really felt like posting lately. I'm not sure what it is. I had a really hard test, I took Monday off from work, I had two great "grown man" workouts, Josh is annoying me, my mom is being nice to me, I kicked butt at work today . . . You figure out which are the highlights and lowlights.

I'm in desperate need of some beautrification, ya know . . . eyebrow wax, haircut, the works . . .

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Anonymous said…
Public speaking is not my friend either. My body reacts like I'm going before a firing line rather than my peers. GOOD LUCK I'm pulling for you!!

Holly
12:26 PM
Compulsive Lizzie said…
Thank you, Holly!!! My body starts to do weird things, too! Only hoping I can keep it under control. There's a GREAT BIG podium in the class, so I think that will help...and I have a partner doing the other 3 minutes of our presentation. He better help!!!
2:00 PM
Anonymous said…
"Suck it up" was really what brought me out of my shy shell from earlier days. I wouldn't go to parties, hated the first day of school, FORGET public speaking, and you KNOW how I feel about bowling and buffets. Now I can ALMOST do all of those with telling myself to "suck it up" or "reach back" or "man up" ...all except bowling.
2:18 PM
Kaycee said…
We are going to have to work on the bowling issue jessie. Its so much fun. Maybe if you went when it was really slow? I always bowl with the bumpers. Ha ha.
7:57 AM
Compulsive Lizzie said…
I'm with you, Jess. I hate bowling. Who bowls? LOL (Sorry, K). Timmy had his own personal fuscia bowling ball!!!
8:11 AM
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