I'm still here, and I feel an entry brewing inside, so expect something this weekend (oh lord...the pressure is on me now). By the way, I don't know why, but Blogger doesn't seem to like when I press Enter to create a new paragraph, so I'm doing the unthinkable and writing one paragraph for all points I'm discussing. Thank goodness this is a short post. All others will be written in Word first and then copied to the Blogger page. See, I'd start a new paragraph here. Sigh. Okay, there has been a reason for my disappearance and a damn good one at that. I placed fourth at the USA's in the Figure A division. I've been requalified for the NPC National shows for the next two years, which gives me a little breathing room to discover what path I truly want to take in this industry. Oh...forget it. I'm transferring this over to Word so I can become paragraph happy. Hold on a moment . . . . Jeez...I can't even cut and paste. Grrrrr!!! Okay, keep holding on (to what, I don't know); the rest is being done in Word.

See, I don’t want my journal entries to be solely about training; I’ve saved much of that for my members’ message board, and since I was so busy with preparing for the two national shows I did this year, most of what I had to discuss was in regards to training. So those posts were relegated to the message forum. And here I am discussing the very thing that I’d like to keep on that board, but you’ll just have to deal with it. Lol!

Let me bring you up to date on my plans for August and September. I have a photo shoot with Gene Carangal, who is flying both me and Jen Cook (IFBB fitness competitor) to South Padre Island to work in the dunes and along the beach for some amazing photos. We’ve been wanting to do this for some time now, and with the date falling directly between the end of USA’s and the advent of the FemSport/FVF show in Vancouver, I feel my physique should be spot on for photos…not too lean, not too thick either.

Then, Labor Day weekend will be spent in Vancouver. I’ll go into this with more detail if you’re interested, though I’d rather leave it for the training log in the members’ section. John Stutz is considering flying me to the Utah area for a second shoot with him in September, but that’s not finalized by any means. I’m also preparing Julia, my figure competitor client, for the Europa show here in Dallas in September, and Dan Ray will be coming down to work with both of us. I’m contemplating a trip to New York to work with Brian Moss and Paul B. Goode, but that’s not until October or November, so we won’t go into details about that yet. And since I’ve touched upon November, may as well get y’all completely aware and prepared: my birthday is November 8. I like diamonds, shoes, cars, and beaches, if anyone is interested in purchasing these items. Lol!!! Even I can’t keep a straight face with that statement. A $25 gift certificate to Barnes and Noble and a piece of carrot cake (or chocolate cake) will suffice. Or a simple e-card (a much more realistic possibility, I’m sure).

I will begin tutoring in a couple of weeks. I’m going to be working a student who is just entering high school, and it is a weekly job for the entire semester. I’m not quite sure how I’ll juggle everything, and I’m imagining that sleep will be the victim here, but there are just so many things I want to dabble in and yet only so many hours in the day. But remember, the shows end with Labor Day weekend and don’t start up again until next April at the very earliest. My training will be altered a bit, my diet changing, and my cardio not so regimented. I see glute and quad growth on the horizon. Poor jeans; they’ll have some stretching to do before too long.

Okay…what are y’all interested in having me write about? I’m not saying that I’ll fulfill requests, but you just never know with me. I would like to know what you want to know, so please post comments. And yes, I know. I still need to clarify the naked people magnetism comment I made. I’ll get to it this weekend. Pinky promise.

Jodi