Insanity.

I just got myself into the biggest trouble of the next 60 days. One word, INSANITY. After slacking for the last few months, I have decided to change my ways and start getting into shape. After being sucked in numerous infomercials for Insanity or P90X and watching "I Used to Be Fat" on MTC, I decided to take the ultimate challenge, and start "the hardest workout ever put on DVD." Yeah, so I've heard it was going to be hard, but woaw baby, my fitness challenge was one of the hardest workouts I've ever done. Okay, so, there's my next big challenge. We'll see where it takes me. So, 60 days of pure Insanity, I'm ready.

Lucky or Not Here I Come!

Am I not working hard enough? Sometimes I feel like I'm the most unlucky person in the world!

Does one create their own luck in life by mearly possessing the right state of mind?

Is there a difference between Chance and Luck?

<--- I'm a lucky lady <3

Like Jim Carrey's movie "The Number 23," I feel a strange connection with the number 27. I swear it haunts me. Just like in "The Number 23," I find the number 27 everywhere! It's my "lucky" number. I see it on license plates, road signs, clocks, speedometers, phone numbers, receipts, birth dates. It won't go away!

The 23 Enigma represent in his movie is strange in itself. There are 23 letters in the alphabet, Earth is on a 23.5 degree axis, the numbers two and three are next to each other in numerology, Hiroshima was bombed on August 6, 1945 (8+6+4+5=23)... Okay, okay. So, it's a little weird and outlandish, But Hey, I can do the same thing with my birth year: 1989. One plus nine plus eight plus nine ironically equals 27!

So, Maybe we do create our own luck, or do we choose to ignore the aspects of our life in which we are the most lucky. Not everyone is going to win the lottery in their life time. I've scratched enough scratch offs in my two legal years of gabbling to know that Not everyone will always win. But, You know what they say: "You can't win if you don't play." And with that, I scratch.

Of all the fifty states, there are eight that do not have the lottery: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Hawaii, Mississippi, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming. Arkansas will be removed from this list soon. On July 1, 2009 Arkansas voted to join Powerball, and on October 29, 2009 the state will begin selling scratchoff tickets.

Born in the great state of Maryland, I now live in the conservative state of Alabama. Much different from my northern origins, Alabama does not have a major league football, basketball or baseball team or state lottery. How lame! Things are slower down here, more simple and traditional.

Alabama is ranked 45th "smartest state." Perhaps the reason for this unimpressive ranking lies in the fact that there isn't a sufficient amount of state taxes being alloted to education. Maybe a state lottery could help improve that...

As for me, I miss the lottery! I miss my Bingo scratch-offs and would drive across the state line every day to pick one up if that didn't make me look too too crazy.

This blogs a little random, but Hey, it's my first and I'm just getting started. Lucky or not, here I come :-P