Sunday Share.... Neon

How're my peeps? ;) 


Montana has morphed into Washington over here and refuses to stop raining, snowing, and being all gross, so that means I will: 

• Listen to John Legend
• Plan my bestie's 2nd (yes 2 ... she deserves it!) bachelorette party
• Blog
• Waste time on Pinterest
• Do my nails
• Cook things
• Practice posing 
• Remain indoors at the gym for 3+ hours at a time. 

Hey, never mind... I think I don't mind the rain! Let's discuss the previous items in no particular order. What does all this have to do with "NEON?" Stay tuned. 


Well dang-it John Legend has nothing to do with Neon but he is now the main man in my life and has taken over my iPod so I must declare his swoon-worthy, breathy, mesmerizing voice and ivory-tickling piano skills my #1 favorite thing about rainy days. 








HOW did I miss out on his musical deliciousness before!? I should be ashamed. I just discovered him while watching TV and stumbled across his new show with Robin Thicke, Jennifer Nettles, Kelly Clarkson, "Duets." (something I never used to do before I graduated and actually have a bit of time on my hands).


All I can say is if you haven't seen "Duets," watch it! 


Moving on before I have a moment..... Ah yes, Neon! That would be related to  the next couple thangs: 

• Bachelorette party
• Blog
• Waste time on Pinterest

Like so: the theme of Leeza's bachelorette partay is Neon, I am currently blogging about neon :p, and I have been wasting time "pinning" things on Pinterest all related to Neon! Ahhhh for the love of humanity it must stop! You can check out my Pinterest account for full disclosure, but here are a few examples just in case you are terrified to enter the black-hole that is Pinterest and feel it is best you do not tempt the procrastination/compulsive organizing and styling side of your brain... 

I. AM. IN. LOVE. <3 The shoes! The dress! The nails! The blazers! 

I am thrilled I get to find "neon" outfit for the party. Woop woop! 

This is gonna be fun :) 

The remainder of the list, ... will wait until a later blog sesh to cover, except the nails (see picture below) 

• Do my nails
• Cook things
• Practice posing 
• Remain indoors at the gym for 3+ hours at a time

I gotta stop blogging and get to the last thing on the list! Call me crazy but I love the gym and sometimes I forget all about time and end up spending half my day there. Ooops :-o

Shout out to my girl Beth for the accent nail inspiration ;) 

Tootsies and fingers ready for summer, now where's that sunshine?.... 

Blessings, 

~ Ruthie

Oh to Be in NYC

Wow. If you have never been to NYC during Christmas then someday you must go. It is so so magical. I couldn't even take it all in but boy did we try :)

We got to see a ton of the city, in only a few hours! We saw:

 ~ National World Trade Center Memorial (and the Freedom Tower, to be the tallest building in the country when it's finished)

 ~ Time Square (and the New Year's Ball)

 ~ 5th Avenue luxury shops (Juicy, Fendi, and Prada oh my!)

 ~ Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree and Iceskating Rink

 ~ Little Italy

 ~ Chinatown (and not some great Christmas gift deals, Kinjal you would be proud of my haggling skills! ;p)

 ~ World Famous Lombardi's Pizza (YUM.) Voted the best pizza in the city,
and boy was it good. They had the oldest brick pizza oven and it gives the crust an amazing flavor.

 ~ Junior's Cheesecake. Yup, NYC cheesecake is famous for good reason! My favorite was the Carrot Cake version, oh mi oh my...

 
Here's photos from my whirlwind day in New York:

NYC was amazing but I cannot forget how incredible shooting with Muscle and Fitness Hers on Long Island in Syosset, NY at Bev Francis Powerhouse Gym was!! I did a feature on "5 Moves for a Bikini Booty" and also filmed a training video and interview. The magazine feature comes out in the 2012 March/April issue and the video will come out before it on the M&FHers website. Thank you to M&FHers editor Mona Muresan and her brother Sebastian, Bym owners Bev Francis and Steve Weinberger, makeup artist and hairstylist Kyra Dorman, photographer (and his crew!) Ian Spanier. THANK YOU THANK YOU!!

The cherry on top of the whole experience was the little blessings I didn't expect, like getting exit-row seats for the WHOLE trip, miraculously making my return flight after waking up an hour and a half late (yes you read that right, I had an hour to get to 30 miles to the airport, get though security, get to my gate, and board... God must have stopped time!), getting to meet up with my Bombshell teammate Bianca Berry in NYC, meeting Steve Steve Weinberger himself - an NPC National judge and owner of the Powerhouse gym. SUCH a good trip, and even my friend Chris suprising me with these gorgeous shoes:

Here's hoping you're as blessed this Christmas as I know I am! 
Blessings,

Ruthie xoxo