50 things about ME

1. I eat WAY too much salt. I practically lick it off of my plate.

2. I can only fall asleep if my ears are covered with a blanket.

3. I'm a night person, but dare wake me up early and you'll regret it! In fact, I work 11 am to 11 pm and told my boss that I can't do 7am to 7pm because I just can't function that early!

4. I LOVE salad. Salad with ranch dressing, greek salad, caesar salad, any salad!

5. I sing to EVERYTHING in the car.. Jason is always impressed that I know at least a few words in every song that comes on and if not i'll act like i do.

6. I strive to get what I want. Example: I wanted a chocolate lab so I looked on craigslist EVERYDAY until I found the one I wanted and called the lady MULTIPLE times until she let us come get him. Along the same lines, I had his name picked out and was convincing Jason that Huxley was his name LONG before we got him!

7. I don't socialize... it's just not my thing. At our wedding showers, I begged Jason to stay close to me so I wouldn't be left alone with people I didn't know.

8. I have a mole on my "lower back"

9. I have waxed my stache since I was in high school.. oh, the pain to be pretty when you have dark hair

10. I don't like to be spoken over, so I tend to get really loud when I want my point heard.

11. I have SERIOUS road rage. Jason says there is no way we will ever put a Jesus fish on the back of my car.

12. I eat chick-fil-a WAY too much.

13. sweet tea is my weakness

14. I really enjoy being crafty, i'm pretty good at it too!

15. I can't stand when the towels in the linen closet are folded differently. They all must have the folded edge pointing outwards.

16. I'm guilty of pouting to get my way.

17. I hate putting away the laundry and the dishes.

18. I love Dog the bounty hunter.

19. I have 2 semesters left until I graduate with a bachelors of science in nursing degree.

20. I sat on a pencil in elementary school and now i'll forever have a blue dot on tail bone.

21. I gag really easily. Jason and his brother and I went out to eat and afterwards they started making gagging noises and I almost threw up.

22. Since we moved into our house, we are guilty of eating cookies and milk for dessert WAY too many times. my wedding dress will not be happy next month.

23. I'm pretty good at facebook stalking. (kind of weird admitting that)

24. I like organization. I color-code my calendar of work to do, highlight everything I do at work.

25. I'm very very bad at directions. I've gotten lost using the GPS.

26. I have really small feet and hands... like size 5 shoes.

27. I'm very clumsy.

28. Jason says I lack common sense, and I'd have to say I agree.

29. I think about our kids names and try to convince Jason that he likes them... most of which he doesn't.

30. I told Jason the exact look of the ring I wanted... and GOT IT!

31. I wear my rainbows everyday.

32. I hate carrying things while walking to the beach... it makes me so tired.

33. I set myself up for skin cancer... I go to the tanning bed, use tanning oil, and use very little sun screen. Once I got sun poisoning on my lips and they were swollen shut when I woke up. SCARY!

34. I've picked out every decoration in our house... so if you come over and you don't like it, just lie to me!

35. Secretly, I really want a tattoo on my foot.

36. I hate when people don't answer. If I call you, please pick up your phone. If I look at you and speak in your direction, please give me some sort of response.

37. I use to be good at basketball...

38. I've rocked the poof, side pony, and pebbles hair styles pretty good in my days.

39. I'm really into animal print.

40. When it's cold I feel the urge to pee. When I was a kid and we use to play hide-and-seek i'd always be the one that would have to pee.

41. I love my job! I work with newborns and I love them and the ladies I work with!

42. I'm improving my cooking techniques.

43. I like massages... A LOT! If i was rich I'd get a massage everyday!

44. I love rainstorms!

45. My hubby-to-be and I have been dating for almost 5 years, engaged for a year and a half, and will be getting married a month from today!

46. I love palm tree's. I like the SC state logo, I like palm tree's at the beach, our rehearsal dinner invites have palm tree's on them!

47. My ankle snaps, crackles, and pops like rice crispies.

48. I say some of the DUMBEST things. At one point I thought of making a book of all the dumb things i've said.

49. I love a good back crack.

50. I have a country accent and I love the south! (secretly i'm from the north and i love it there but I'm from the country north. aka Iowa so that counts for something)

the end. hope you enjoyed learning 50 things about ME!

relieving the stress!

I'm blogging today just to relieve the stress and to share what's going on in our lives!

School is crazy busy and I feel like I barely have time to breathe. School 5 days a week, work 3 days a week, and clinical 2 days a week = exhaustion. I am so so very ready for summer so that I can enjoy life with my hubby to be! He has been working and going to school non-stop and I am so very thankful for him! He's working so hard so that I don't have to worry so much about everything!

Our honeymoon cannot look more appealing at this moment! We're going to the Sun Palace Resort in Cancun for 8 days and 7 nights! I am looking forward to the quality time as a couple. Date nights.. EVERYNIGHT! Free food, entertainment, and excursions!

How's Huxley? My poor baby is teething and losing teeth. I wish someone would have told me that my little one would lose teeth like a little human being.. I feel like I need to be his chewy toy. He's growing like a weed. He is a little over 3 months and weighs 25+ lbs. Everywhere we go we hear.. that's going to be a big dog! We just smile and nod as if to say "Ya think?" And our dearest Huxley ate our photo album that we've had since we started dating 5 years ago.. we recovered the pictures but not so much the letters and dried flowers I've kept :( I'm so so sad but I'm more upset that he has been sick ever since.

Anyways, gotta run and do some HW we have a shower next weekend and I plan on blogging with some pictures!

Introducing... HUXLEY!

Here are some pictures of our little man! Some are from his first week at the house and the rest are from a week ago! We got him at 7 weeks and he's now 10 weeks.. It's amazing to see how much he's growing weekly! Enjoy!

HOUSE

These are pictures of our house that i've promised for farrrr too long! Hope y'all enjoy! We've added artwork and decorations since these pictures have been taken! I've skipped over our guest bedroom because right now it's just a holding place for all of our JUNK!

So, Major fail on the diet/exercise i had going on for the few days it was successful. haven't eaten great nor have i exercised. in part i think it's due to the fact that i had to work the rest of the week and that other things happened that took my mind off of things.

i desire to be skinny yet it just doesn't seem to work out for me. when we started dating i weighed 103 lbs. what i'd give to see that again!

anyways, it's been a hard week. hopefully things will start to look up!

my laptop is broken so no pictures of the house... i know i'm totally a slacker. oh wells, thinking of having a house warming party soon with the fam! starting to plan wedding showers and things so i'm very excited!

I DID IT!!

Yes, with much oblige I worked out today, as for the eating part I can't brag. But it's not 6:07 to be exact and I think.. I might still be under my 1200-1400 calories/day!

Today Jas and I ran in our neighborhood and we did a 20 minute work out of Shred! As I was walking down the stairs today it looked like I was in serious pain, probably because I was but with much encouragement from my lovely fiance, we both worked out!! I'm super proud of myself though I must admit I had serious bad attitude when we were running. He kept telling me, "Jen, you aren't breathing right, control your breathing!" Me, "I can't freaking BREAATTHHEE!!" (then I'd stop running and start just to show that I was really putting effort into it!) But he's totally good at calming me down and encouraging me. I kept saying I can't run because I'm fat.. and he'd say Jen your not fat and you can't run because you can't breathe. Anyways, I weighed myself yesterday and thankfully I did not gain any weight since the last time but I hadn't lost any either.

So, this morning i ate two eggs and two pieces of toast *not incredibly healthy* and then today I ate like a horse, nothing nutritious nor delicious... basically i got all my calories and then some by eating CANDY!!! blaahh.. can't believe i said that but it's the truth! and tonight I'm planning on eating soup which has about 100 calories and is very filling! I'm debating on whether I want to go on a just eat soup diet but I just don't think I could do it.

On a side note I was really down today because I really have not been this out of shape in a very long time but I had to remember my life is changing and I'm not a size 2 and 103 lbs anymore (that was definitely my sophomore year of HIGH SCHOOL..haven't seen that in many years) but I am trying to get there.

So, I weighed myself, like i said earlier.. and i weigh just about 10 pounds more than I'd like. I know some of you are thinking only 10 POUNDS? well yes, only 10 pounds but Ive ALWAYS been really concerned about how I looked and it really effects how i feel. It makes me bitter and very low self esteem.. so instead of feeling like that I'm going to do something about it.

Don't feel sorry for me by any means but I'll tell y'all a little about the way I USE TO BE.. when in high school I use to play sports, and work out after school and i had weight lifting as a class so i was ALWAYS working out. But that wasn't good enough.. yes i was really tiny but i wanted more.. i wanted to never feel hungry and never eat.. so i took diet pills.. and really didn't eat much at all. i was at the point where we'd go out to eat at outback and I'd order a kids meal and eat ONE chicken tender and be full... it was totally a mental game but I was indeed full.. and my goal is to never revert back to those days because they were NOT healthy and I would never want anyone to go through that feeling, i started getting really bad stomach pains and just was not healthy but i felt so good about myself.. so that is really pushing me to do the right thing and I'm really excited about it!

also-another side note: as i was telling you earlier jas and i shred'ed together today and it not only kicked my butt but TOTALLY kicked jason's too!! i made him pinky promise that he wasn't just making it seem like he was really in pain, and he did!

So here's to another super long post and my second day of living semi-healthy!! I will blog again Wednesday! Enjoy your week :)

blogging in my sadness..

Why am I sad you ask? Well today I am starting something new... it's called working out and eating right! And lets just say I'm not in as good of shape as I thought I was.. sad day!

But then I got to thinking about how I can use this blog to help me get through every dreaded work outs and the times where i really do not want to eat healthy.. like for example I thought I needed a boost this morning so I ate a rice crispy treat.. BAD idea!

So I have a plan and I need help. So dear friends, even those that don't have a blog but I know are faithful readers of my ordinary boring life.. I'm inviting you to take this journey with me!!

Everyone Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday I will be working out. I'm doing the 30 day shred which in comparison to p90x looks super easy, but it's kicking my butt! I can't even lie.. today I tried to do the beginners level and couldn't even do all of the exercises to the fullest. SAD SAD SAD!! I use to have a 19% BMI, in high school when i was active and worked out every day but now.. now i'm 21% and that my friends is close to being over weight. i mean seriously, i'm getting married in 4 months and i'm so young. young enough to make this change in my life while i'm still mobile and agile! and then I thought of the dreaded idea which really is encouraging me to do right... in 5 or more years we'll be trying for kids and then what will my body do?? yikes was exactly what went through my mind.

So Monday-Sunday I will be counting calories and M, W, Sat. I'll be working out. If you wonder why I'm choosing those days, it's because those are the only days I'm home before 1130 at night.

I'm going to blog about what i'm eating, how the workouts are going, and if i'm seeing any progress.

Please, don't be offended.. I'm trying to be real life and real me but I want to lose 10 pounds before May 28th and on smaller people 10 pounds is the hardest so I really am going to need encouragement.

I'll be trying to limit my calories to 400/meal if not lower than that, and I'm only drinking water (or atleast i'm trying.. a few sips of coke every now and then.. but i'm trying not to.)

I should have really weighed myself prior to working out, AND EATING MY RICE CRISPY TREAT, but i didn't so i'm off to weigh myself now. And i'm hoping and PRAYING that the scale says I'm smaller than I think because other wise that means I need to lose more weight.. blaaahh..

So I'll be blogging tomorrow about my first day to a healthier better life and body!