Okay I suck at life!

I haven't updated in almost a month! I knew I was bound for blog failure sooner or later. Anyway, I am definitely going to try my hardest to stick with this the next couple weeks, but I am going to be extremely busy, so I cannot promise anything. I think my life is going to be a whirlwind. So much has happened since my last update!

First things first, the ball was amazing. Derek and I were a hot couple! Also, while I was out in North Carolina I found a job! It's at Pier 1 and I would be a Sales Leader, it's a position above Sales Associate and right under Assistant Manager. I am reallllly excited about it! The only downfall is that I am moving to North Carolina December 20th....so that means I have to miss Christmas with my family :( and I will be in North Carolina alone for Christmas because Derek will be in Afghanistan. Lame. Oh well I know I will make the best of it.

This week is my last week of class. Tomorrow I have a test in my business law class and Thursday I have a paper due. Here is my list of everything I need to accomplish during the next week....brace yourself.

Tomorrow- LEB test, take research paper to undergraduate writing center to be revised one final time
Thursday- Turn in final draft of history research paper (all 15 pages!)
Friday- Mom, Harlan, and Whitney get into town
Saturday- Dad's family gets into town and I have my graduation ceremony at 6:00 PM
Sunday- Move back home
Monday- Go get a CAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tuesday- Lunch with Kathy and her mom, go get my wedding dress altered
Wednesday- Meet with florist about finalizing flowers for wedding
Thursday- Go to location of wedding to take measurements of tables
Friday- Parents go out of town for a week and I am babysitting my sisters
December 20th- Begin the long 20 hour journey to the East Coast.
And somewhere in between all of this I have to pack all my stuff and get ready to leave!!!!

I have lived my entire life in Texas....all 21 years and 10 months of my life have been on Texas soil. Before I met Derek never had I ever imagined I would live anywhere besides Texas, and I REALLY never thought I would be with someone in the military. I though I would be single and have fun until later in my 20's and then settle down and get married by 26 or so....Boy does life throw curve balls. Here I am not even 22 years old, engaged, and getting married in less than 6 months. I am graduating and then 15 days later leaving the nest my parents built for me and getting out on my own. As an adult. I have so many emotions going on in my head right now it's insane. I am so excited to move to where Derek is, but I am also scared, nervous, sad, nostalgic, and anxious. The hardest thing I will have to do so far in my life will be to get in my car and leave my family...but I'm not just leaving them...I am leaving my life at home to begin my life with my future husband and this is something everyone ends up doing...I just can't believe my time has already come. I am trying not to cry as I write this, call me a baby, lol. As much as I wish I could spend Christmas at home, I am kind of glad to get it over with before so I can begin the detachment process as soon as possible.

As far as my diet has been, it's been really great considering we just finished Thanksgiving. Today I went to the gym and did strength training, but it was too cold outside for me to do my cardio I wanted to do. I did walk a lot around campus so I did what I could with what I had. The weather was really bad. I want to lose 3 more pounds by New Years. That will put me at 130 pounds!

I am off to sleep now and give my brain a rest. It's been in overdrive today with all the planning and other crap I have had to do today. Bleh!

I hate when I forget to post

So this is for Saturday and Sunday. Both days I worked and got a lotttt of walking in. Saturday I burned about 813 calories. Sunday about 400-ish...........for the total week last week I burned 4065 calories. Yesterday was a pretty bad day...it was one of those bad days in a movie where the girl gets splashed on with water by passing cars while it's raining...yeah that was me. It sucked, but it ended alright. I got some great sleep and Derek is going to meet with the leasing agent and look at a couple of units available at the apartment complex we are wanting to live at. I am hoping he signs the lease sometime this week or next week before I get there Wednesday. That would mean we can stay at our apartment together while I'm there!! :)

I found a recipe for homemade pancakes, so I did a healthier twist on them and added an extra ingredient. Here is my attempt at making food look "pretty".


Ingredients:

1 cup flour - I used whole wheat flour from Whole Foods :)
1 tbsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
2 tbsp oil - You can substitute with applesauce...I forgot to :(
3 tbsp sugar - I used Splenda for baking and about 1 tsp real sugar
1 egg
Sprink salt
My extra ingredient was 2 tbsp baking cocoa :)

I went for a walk after breakfast for an hour and 10 minutes....my stupid HR monitor wasn't working for some reason so I didn't get to gauge my calories...oh well. My roommate and I are going again this evening. I'm also going to the gym to do some strength training after class.

Saturday I really don't remember what I had to eat. Breakfast I know was oatmeal with raisins and a splash of milk....snacked on some dried fruit, whole wheat chips, 1 natural flavor and real fruit popsicle, drank a lot of water and for dinner had ground turkey with sliced tomato, and onion with red rice (made with white rice, olive oil, and tomato sauce)

Sunday I had cereal for breakfast, lamb stew for lunch (brown rice, lamb, and this really great sauce), and Whataburger (I had a Whata Jr. meal!!! That means I had a small fry, small diet coke, and a small burger! Better than getting the regular one lol) and drank lots of water and tea.

Today so far has been my homemade pancakes 2 for breakfast and 1 for lunch, tea, and an hour and 10 minute walk. Lol. This post has been entirely unorganized, but I guess that reflects my thoughts....I am soooo stressed lately!

Dinner was spaghetti, followed by an hour and 15 minute walk.

Found out Derek may possibly volunteer to deploy to Afghanistan for 60 days starting next month. F*ck my life.

Day 19

What a day!
I got my grad pic taken...this one obviously isn't the real one, but the photographer was taking some practice shots and said I could do whatever...so I did! Lol!

After that I walked a little past 24th street (probably 25th) all the way down to 5th and Lamar to the AT&T store to get a new phone and a new number! Derek and I are on the same plan. How romantic, huh?

I didn't get to track how many calories I did walking to and from the store...I know it was over 30 minutes of walking each way. On the way back I also stopped at Starbucks and got a venti iced green tea with no water, light on the ice and 4 Splenda. So refreshing on such a great day!

Breakfast- bowl of Wal-Mart brand Cinnamon Toast Crunch...definitely doesn't take like the brand name, but still good! A little 1% milk...trying to conserve it!

Lunch- 3 waffles, light on both butter and syrup...craving that lately for some reason!!?

Dinner- GREAT homemade pizza...small amount of cheese, banana peppers, jalapenos, celery, onion, and small amount of the marinara sauce...heart healthy Prego with no added sugars!

Went walking after dinner and did about 400 calories. My HR monitor was acting up and it REALLY irritated me. So 400 is probably and underestimate, but I don't want to overestimate.

I'm willing to bet I burned between 8-900 calories today. I am about to do crunches and push ups in a bit, also.

Days 17 and 18

I'm feeling pretty accomplished today. I have one more test in my Anthropology class which is next week and then I'm done with it because it's self-paced. I am finishing up my research paper rough draft tonight/tomorrow. I had an individual meeting about my paper with my professor and she was all around excited about it, which is great because she specializes in the subject of which I am writing about: Domestic Violence in Early Modern England. She is from England, too!I made shrimp salad and home-made BAKED french fries tonight for dinner. Bout to go on a walk....it's the weekend....life couldn't be better. OH! And it's the FINAL COUNTDOWN TO GRADUATION! That's right! I graduate a month from today, December 5th! Craziness.

Yesterday from what I recall:

Breakfast- Frosted wheaties

Lunch- Tuna salad, 2 cherry tomatoes, 2 celery sticks, 4 saltine crackers

Dinner- Ranch chicken (3-4 oz. chicken, some cheese, ranch dressing marinated into the chicken), salad, 1 c. mac n' cheese with 1% milk and no butter!

Got hungry after dinner and had 3 waffles SMALL amt of butter and about 4 tbsp (5 max) of syrup.

Water- about 8-9 cups

Calories 980 calories - morning walk, walked to work (not back though), and then a walk with the roommie

Today (day 18)

Breakfast- not really hungry for some reason...had a few bites of frosted wheaties...no more than 6 or 7 pieces, 5 or 6 oz apple juice

Lunch- Balance Bar, 2 fresco bean burritos from Taco Bell...mmmm

Dinner- Shrimp salad! 2 small pieces of bread and about 1/4 c. of the salad on each slice. Shrimp, tomato, lettuce, basil, and about 3 or 5 tbsp mayo in the entire salad so I probably had about a tbsp or 1 and a half tbsp of mayo. I'm about to have a few of my home made baked fries too!

Walked to and from work- 300 calories? Probably more, but I didn't wear my HR monitor so I will underestimate it.

415 calories from my walk....so 715 total!


**just got an e-mail from the leasing agent saying they have an apartment available next week and that she will also e-mail me again next week to see what's available for end of this month/December. I am soooo praying that something will be open for our time frame!! Next week is a few weeks too early unfortunately :( **

Day 16

This is going to be short and sweet because I just finished writing into page 11 of my research paper. Technically that is more than the minimum pages required, but I want to try to get into page 12...so have 11.5 to 12/12.5 pages written. The rough draft is due next Thursday so I just want to have this out of the way and done!

Stats:
Breakfast- 1 or 1.5ish cups of frosted wheaties with small, small amount of soy milk

Snack- Organic grown baby carrots (about 10-15), 1 date, 3 funsize pieces of chocolate (1 milky way, 1 three musketeers, 1 snickers)--remember FUN size! The milky way and musketeers was like an inch wide and tall, the snickers about an inch and a half

Dinner- I was STARVINGGGGGG I had four...yes four, turkey dogs wrapped each in a piece of bread (the bread was small pieces for some reason) with mustart and ketchup on 2 and the other two had those with about a tbsp each mayo...yummy!

10-11 cups water!

Walked to and from work 350ish calories
Waled with my lovely roommate! 409 calories
759 calories total! Doing few crunches then bed. Soooo exhausted!

I hate Mondays.....is this day 15??

Well I am about to go for a morning walk, I just wanted to get on here and update a little. I am over half-way done with my research paper and it isn't due for over a week! Thank goodness I am getting it over with now. This is the last big thing I have to work on this semester. I only have two "tests" left for my Anthropology class which are more like chapter quizzes because the class is self-paced and you just read the chapter then take a 15 question test. I will be done with that class by next week! I am making a B in that class. My business law class I am making an A. We have two tests left in there, one is Wednesday and one is the last week of school. Then there is my History of Early Modern Law in Europe. The rough draft is due next Thursday for a peer review and then I need to turn in the final copy the last day of class. I am so glad I waited until my last semester to take it easy, this is truly the best semester EVER!!!!!!! Going for a walk now! Will update this evening!

My walk this morning was great- burned 515 calories

Lifted weights for an hour/did lunges with 12.5 weights 4 different sets 20 reps each

Walked this evening with my roommate and burned 429 calories

Breakfast- Cascadian farms granola (less than 2/3 cup) with a small amount of milk

Lunch- Soy milk with some protein then had a turkey sausage

Snack- Balance Bar

Dinner- Cheeseburger Hamburger Helper w/ turkey meat- About 550-600 calories and thats what the label says if you use 2% milk and ground beef....I used 1% milk and turkey

Roommate made these good smoothies out of soy milk, ice, fresh orange, banana, 1 tsp sugar and 1/2 splenda packet!

Water-7 or 8 cups

Getting back on track

So yesterday was my off day....I don't really feel bad because I am a regularly and vigorously active person, but it was a small set-back. I couldn't really sleep well last night because that movie freaked me out and then I had to wake up early to go to the Race for the Cure with Shelly. We stopped at Starbucks along the way and I got a grande hot Green Tea (Zen mmm) with 4 splenda....so that's about 2 cups of water? We walked the latter amount of the 3.1 miles and ran maybe a half a mile total. I wanted to run more, but my tea was just sitting on my stomach and made me feel ultra full as if I were to run much more I would throw up. I hate that, but oh well. So far all I have had to eat today was lunch at Olive Garden....

Breakfast- grande green tea w/ splenda

Race for the Cure- 3.1 miles/1 hour 25ish minutes (including walking back to the car)/420 calories

Lunch- 1 serving salad, 1 breadstick, 1 bowl of Minestrone soup, 2 cups water

Dinner- about a cup and a half of my roommate's version of shrimp cocktail...freaking amazing! Tomato juice, shrimp, cucumber, celery, louisiana hot sauce, fresh lime juice and if you are an avacado fan then slice some avacado...eat as a soup. OMG SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO good!!!!!!!!!!!!

I went walking and burned 522 calories and did a buttload of crunches!!! My stomach is slightly sore!

TOTAL calories for the week (my goal was 5000): 5320!!!!!!!!!!!! That's an average of over 1000 per day! Woohoo! I thought since I was under the weather for a couple days that I wouldn't achieve it, but I did!

I NEED to meet my goal for the ball! Not for anyone....just for MYSELF! :)