For the Week of March 1, 2010
Working Hard, Getting Fit: This week has just FLOWN. I worked out 3 times with Ken of Old School Fitness in Frisco and my personal “high point” was doing about 80 walking squats with a weight bar. Then today I had a great upper body workout and really rocked the triceps-rope-thingy (how’s that for a technical term?) I know the whole “no pain, no gain” thing. But let me tell you – I’ve been walking like Shamus from Family Guy – both arms and legs! (For those of you who don’t know, he’s a tough fisherman with wood for arms and legs.)
Today, I tried some awesome naturally caffeinated herbal peach tea that I bought from Ken and I felt great! Here is his Herbalife Site. I blogged about getting started working with Ken last week – check it out.
Patriarch’s Opens in Frisco Square: Matt and I were invited to the sneak peak of the new Patriarch’s Sanctuary Bar in Frisco Square, just north of the Courthouse and liked it so much that we went back this week. Matt’s office is literally right above it which makes for convenient 4pm work meetings with his colleagues! The ambiance is great – the lighting reflects relaxation in an intimate, mellow setting. Their tagline really describes the mood -“Fine Unwinding.” There’s Cigar Humidor adjacent to Patriarch’s as well, and I hear they will be selling annual memberships to store patrons’ cigars and spirits. Make sure you go by and say hi to manager Paul at Sanctuary Bar (who used to be, in my and Matt’s opinion, THE very best server at the IHOP off the Tollway/Main.) We’re glad to see Paul serving our favorite wine instead of pancakes! He makes a great cranberry martini, too.
Jennifer & I at the Mrs. US 2009 finals in Vegas supporting our Texas winner!
I got to hear about all the cool things going on in her life, including her work with imageLIFT Consulting. Jennifer is a former Mrs. Texas US who, after she gave up her title, became the official Image Consultant for the pageant which I produced for 5 years. imageLIFT Consulting has worked with not just pageant contestants, but celebrities, recent college graduates, television personalities, models and prospective job applicants to to help their client achieve great success in all areas of their lives. It’s a pretty cool concept! If this sounds like something you want to know more about, you can call her at 972-523-5366 and she’ll take good care of you!
Arts of Collin County Project – “To Be or Not To Be…That is the Question”: Another item that was buzzing around town this week was talk on whether to continue Frisco’s support of the Arts of Collin County project – see my blog right under this one. The fact that the project was to be 4 cities (Plano, Allen, Frisco and McKinney) and became 3 since McKinney dropped out changes things considerably. I don’t know about you, but I am not interested in my taxes going up again.
Matt and I LOVE the arts – don’t get us wrong – but we don’t feel like it’s not necessary to drive to Allen to enjoy it. We can drive to Dallas to their new performing arts center if we desired. Frisco has a growing art following right here in our own backyard. The bonds were approved by voters in 2002 when most of us (including me – I moved here a few weeks after the vote!) weren’t even Frisco citizens yet. Had the terms not changed so dramatically then it might be different. Besides – and more importantly – what Frisco voters approved was only Phase 1 of the project and did not include operating expenses – which would come from from the City’s operating budget based on our population. In my opinion, there were a lot of future items not disclosed to the voting public when being a part of the ACC project was put on the ballot in 2002.
So, many of us encouraged our Council Members to give the thumbs up to let the VOTERS decide on whether to keep Frisco “in” the project – they were supposed to vote on it this past Tuesday at the regular council meeting but have since delayed that until this coming Monday at 2pm. Hopefully Council will agree to allow those of us who voted them into office decide the fate of Frisco’s involvement – not 6 Council Members (and potentially the very pro-ACC project Mayor who gets to vote if there’s a 3-3 tie.) He never did respond to my email’s question on Monday wanting to know why continuing this project is good for us as Frisco taxpayers. He was more interested in questioning my husband’s stance during the process and when Matt decided that the project was no longer good for Frisco taxpayers – this was more than 2 1/2 years ago and was a major issue during the Mayoral campaign which he seems to have forgotten. Matt was very much in favor of not continuing Frisco’s participation for a myriad of reasons that were not apparent until later.
Primary Election: I am a “vote-day-of” kind of girl and Matt and I exercised that right on Tuesday. Did you? 
There were record turnouts this year. If you aren’t registered to vote, get it done so you don’t miss out on the next election. No excuses!
Texas Tornado Host Family Gathering and Pink in the Rink: We were a host family for the Texas Tornado Junior Hockey team (young men ages 16-20) up until last month when our player was released from the team. We got to be so close to our player Johnny from New York. We’ve also gotten to know a lot of the other players and host families since August when the players arrived from all over the country to play for well-respected Coach Tony Curtale’s NAHL team. So we were excited to attend a host family potluck this past weekend and catch up with everyone. Thanks to the Costello family for holding it at their beautiful home! We had a great time. Don’t forget – the Tornado are home this weekend for a 3 game series that started tonight and goes through Sunday. It’s great family entertainment and one heck of a value! Plus the they’ve teamed with the American Cancer Society Relay for Life Frisco for what will be an amazing event, “Pink in the Rink” this weekend.
Texas Tornado's Pink in the Rink is This Weekend
The Blessed Life 