My sisnlaw, cousins, and me and my huge forehead.
Bride and Groom
First Kiss!
I'll recap my weekend tomorrow. I had a great time in North Carolina. For today, I have put the world on pause and will do nothing I don't feel like doing including unpacking and cooking dinner. We are going to walk to this new pizza restaurant by our house and then go get stuff for our tank. Did I tell y'all TheCount brought a turtle home last week? This fool is walking around talking 'bout, "yeah, our rescue turtle is doing alright." Fool, this is not an animal reserve, you just happened to be working in this lady's apartment running your big mouth trying to help her care for this pet she had no business buying and she gave it to you. For the record, 8 month olds don't need pets, especially pets that carry salmonella. Anyway, catch y'all tomorrow. How was your weekend?
Let me tell y'all about my body. I was working out, calorie counting, being healthy while trying to lose that darn 15 pounds. I was on the pill for most of that time. I saw no results to my workouts. My clothes still didn't fit, my thighs looked like mountains and valleys and I generally felt like crap. For the last 2 months I've been off the pill. The first month, I noticed nothing different, but this past month? I'm like a brand new person. I freaking feel skinny. What does that feel like? I have no clue, but it's a much better feeling than how I've been feeling the past few months. Yesterday I was at home packing for the wedding this weekend. I put on skirts and wasn't scared somebody was going to see my thighs (not that my skirts are super short). Then I went to the back of my closet to my "I can almost fit these pants" hanger and pulled another pair off. Not only did they fit, they were comfortable! The last time I wore them I couldn't breathe (seriously, I went to the bathroom every 30 minutes just to unbutton them and relieve the pain)! The numbers on the scale aren't changing, but my body is, and I haven't even been exercising all that much. Sit ups and walking every day- that's it. I started drinking green tea with lemon every morning. I also started using Nivea My Silhouette. Don't people say those types of creams don't work? Well I'm not saying that's why I've been slimming down, but I will say, heyyyy you might want to try that out. It wasn't expensive. I got it at walmart and had a coupon to get a free full size Nivea body wash with it (which I really love). Has anybody else tried this or the Nivea cellulite cream? What did you think? Would you be willing to try some of the products from the line?
I'm typing this post up at 3am on Saturday. I'm supposed to be cleaning but I take a break every 30 minutes because I have ADD and can't focus on one thing. Anyway, I'm watching HGTV and feeling inspired. A few weeks ago Nerd Girl posted pictures of the mini makeover she planned on doing in her house. Since, according to my plans, we'll be renewing our lease here, I want to do a bit more in the decorating department. There is a slight problem though, I am color challenged. My mom and TheCount call it tacky, I call it "hey I love blue, purple, AND pink, so why not put them all together?" If left to my own devices my entire house would be decorated in jewel tones and look like a Bollywood movie. I will now ask for help from you guys. Once I finish cleaning, I'm going to post pictures and ask for your opinions...
Alright, last week I posted that I was considering going natural. I got some nice help for some of you lovely chicas that have already done it. Coincidentally, that same day, I was over at PJD's site and she did a vlog in which she discussed Miss Jessie's products that she got for her sister. I went over to Miss Jessie's site, cuz I'm a follower like that, and started looking around. My main concern was that if I went natural, I wouldn't ever be able to have pretty styles like the ladies on all the hair blogs. That I would be stuck with a boring bush and that's it. On Miss Jessie's site, they had before and after pictures of people in their salon. I was blown away! It gave me the courage to want to try it! I know of some really nice natural hair salons here in DC, and her (their?) salon is in New York, so if push comes to shove, I'll hop my butt on a bus and go up there and let them fix me up.
So there you have it, I'm going to transition to natural. Let's hope this goes better than when I tried to be a vegetarian in January...
...in case you weren't around back then. I lasted less than 2 months because I realized eating potatoes and pasta every day probably wasn't the best idea and all those fruits and veggies just made me hungry (and kept me in the bathroom).
I really like this goal setting at the beginning of the month. It gives me focus. The other day, I was talking to Jesus, I was telling him all about how I would like the next year and a half to go. Even though I often hear people say, "If you wanna make God laugh, tell him your plans," I don't really agree. I always pray for God's will to be done, but I don't seriously think that God would give us visions and dreams just to say, "gotcha! Now go to a 3rd world country and do missions until you die of malaria and come home to meet me."
The Bible says that He will give us the desires of our hearts and it also says that God is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all we could ask or think. So if I don't ask for or think anything what how the heck can I say "top this God!" Well I don't really get froggy with God like that, but you get the point. I do approach the throne with boldness (I am on a roll with all my Bible verses in this post, lol).
Let's get to it, this is how our next year and a half will go.
*This month we will be sending out TheCount's resume so he can get a new job. I'll get a raise :)
*In July, TheCount will be going on interviews for potential new jobs.
*At the beginning of August, TheCount will be offered a position making almost double what he makes now. He will put in his 2 weeks notice at his current job. Then we'll go on our cruise that we already have planned. When we return from our vacay, he'll start his new job.
*We'll buy our new truck before the end of the year.
*We'll pay off our school loans by the end of the year.
*In 2010, since we'll be debt free, we'll be able to aggressively save for our house.
* In September 2010 we will be moving into our first home!
Sounds good, huh? What about y'all? You have some goals set up, things you'd like to see? Come on, write it out so you can look back and say, wow God, you really did top that!
