Happies and Crappies...

For those of you who haven't gone to check out Hang on Honey you need to. Beth is so awesome. She's gorgeous and I just love her cute down to earth personality. I feel like we're old friends.

That's one thing I love about blogging. I love getting to know new people and feeling like I'm a part of their lives as well.

Beth links up with Sarah and Stephanie every Friday to talk about their "happies and crappies" of the week, so I figured I would join in this week. Might even make it a weekly thing since it allows me to get to speak my praises. :)

Happies

- My house finally warmed up and we have even been able to keep the windows open. That last month without heat was a doozy.

- I sold a bunch of stuff I don't wear on our schools "Craiglist" and made almost $100!!

- WE HAD SHISH KABOBS!!

- I got to watch my niece and nephew for a few hours on Sunday. They are too cute. I love them!!

               

Crappies

- Now that the house did warm up it smells like dog pee. lol. Long story short, some of the previous tenants didn't necessarily think dogs needed to go outside to pee.

- Missed the gym 3 days this week. UGH!!!

- I'm pale as ish and I have a wedding to go to tomorrow.

Tell me your happies and crappies!!

And if you read this blog, follow me. I love to get to know my readers!!

Finish the Sentence Linkup with Jake and Holly

Holly is another blogger that I have recently started stalking following. I also follow her husband Hubby Jack who is sooo funny. (You have to check out yesterday's blog post about Laura from Walking in Memphis in High Heels. Yet another awesome blogger. She does lots of fashion stuff and I definitely wish I had her wardrobe!!)

Anywhoooo, Holly and Jake are doing a "finish this sentence" linkup today and it seems pretty funny. Feel free to join us by going to Holly's blog and linking up with your own details!!

1. I laughed so hard I cried...whenever Kevin Hart tells a story. Love him!! "PINEAPPLES!!"

2. My high school...had students who drove tractors to prom in camo tuxedos. Enough said.

3. It really pisses me off when... people don't text back. Skinny people call themselves fat. Mike puts his finger in my mouth when I yawn. My dog barks at nothing. I walk into a spiderweb. Old people drive. People lack common sense....

4. In ten years...I hope my mother has learned to call before dropping by. One of these days she might be in for a treat. :)

5. If I could erase one thing...it would be the decimal point in my paycheck. :)

6. In 1999...I had bangs, wore flowered skinny jeans, and had a denim button-up shirt. Wait...that was yesterday.

7. Honestly...this starter is a little intimidating. 

8. To me, Sushi...is amazeballs!! The Goober has to crave it. I could eat it every day. There's a little place close to use called Cafe Sado right on the water and they do BOGO everyday!! So delish!!

9. Someone really needs to invent...the teleport. I know, I know...so cliche'. But, fo rizzle, I drive an hour to work each way. And how awesome would it be to snap your fingers and be at a little beach bar in Tahiti after a long day of work??

10. The first time I drank alcohol... I was probably 11. Yup, I know. Sorry Mom. I can't remember every detail but it was a party and I drank Boone's Farm. It was all downhill from there. Never got drunk. I guess I've always had a high tolerance. I always tell Mike he feel in love with me because I could drink his friends under the table!! :) 

11. The one question I would ask God is...Where's the bar?

12. Lindsay Lohan............................................................................................Enough said.

Join in and leave me a comment with your blog address so I can go look!!

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Holy Lard Ass...

Let's just start with...I skipped the gym today...

It's not often that I get to come home and spend the entire night with my husband. He works nights. So on most days we see each other for a total of 2 hours. I usually head into the gym when he heads into work 7:30 ugh!!. On nights that he doesn't work I go to the gym after work, which means I don't get home until at least 6:30.

Yes, we have the whole rest of the night to spend together, but, by the time dinner is ready and I'm showered and changed, it's usually 7:30 or 8. And let me admit something....I can't stay awake past 10. Usually we have a lot of shows to catch up on which I plan to post about at a later date and staying awake through them is a difficult task. Hence the messages exchanged on Facebook yesterday...

P.S. #PrayforBoston

So, to come home and have so many hours to spend with My Goober is awesome.

We had been planning all week to have my favorite "summer" staple. Shish kabobs!! I LOVE shish kabobs. Don't know why, but when I eat them I'm in heaven.

We put everything on our kabobs. Tonight we used kielbasa, chicken, red onion, red pepper, and zucchini. But we have also had pork, sausage, squash, tomatoes, mini corns, etc. LOVE THEM!!

While The Goober was grilling I had the grand idea to eat dinner on our porch for the first time this year. Only problem was our porch was DISGUSTING. Our table was covered in pollen, dirt, and random debris. But, neverfear!! I was determined. So, we cleaned her off and had our first porch dinner, too.

After dinner we decided to head to the local dock bar and get some drafts while we watched the O's game. Many of you don't know that we have a beer obsession. Possibly the reason I gained 20 lbs.??? We love to try out new beers and then make our friend Hassan order them for his liquor store. :) We even have a homemade kegerator in our basement. Although we have been too broke to have any kegs for like 6 months.

My favorite color is purple. Better believe this
became mine. :)

This beer is like $9 per bottle. But soooo worth it.

The beer was delicious, however, whenever you drink beer you know you have to have something else to snack on. Unfortunately, we left thinking we would be good...Until 5 minutes later when we came across The Freeze, our local ice cream shop. 

Yes yes.....1 root beer milkshake, 1 medium mix cone, and a small ok a medium fry later....HOLY LARD ASS...

Inches, not Pounds...

I think this should be my mantra.

I have been working my tail off (literally) for the last 4 months and have seen such little progress on the scale. When I started working out in January I weighed about 152ish. I say "ish" because it depended on the scale. Mike and I purposefully do not own a scale. For a while I used the one at the gym until I realized it was totally wrong. Sometimes Mike sneaks me into the mens locker room so I can use that one because it's pretty acurate. But it wasn't until about a month after I started this lifestyle change that I realized there was an official medical scale in room across from my classroom. Duh!

So I have been working out 4-6 days a week for 4 months now. I generally run (elliptical) for 25-40 minutes depending on the day's events at a steady pace of about 7.5-8 mph. Then, my partner and I go and lift. Now, my husband (who, if you have read, is a gymaholic) created our workout plan. In my older days of working out long long ago I was a machine whore. I would use whatever machine I felt like using that day. I never worked on one particular muscle group or lifted anything except maybe a 10 lb. dumbell. Now, since The Goober (Mike) has been helping me, we do "real" lifting. By that, I just mean we do the same stuff they do; deadlifts, barbell squats, smith machine calf raises, etc.

Point? I feel like I have been gaining a ton of muscle. This is the only reason the scale is not discouraging to me.

When I weighed myself this morning I was the same as I have been for the last 3 weeks. 146 lbs.

I am not, however, discouraged. Yay me!! I have for once in my life listened to what everyone says about  inches, not pounds. Overall, I feel better. I can fit into my clothes easier. I don't cringe when I look at myself naked.

And...the best part...My Goober tells me all the time "You're getting so skinny!!". I love him...

Mike hates this pic...don't tell him I put it on here. hehe.

This is going to be inappropriate....

For the last 24 hours I feel as though I have only stopped crying at moments when I'm asleep or teaching. My heart bleeds for the bestie and her boyfriend's friends and family. So...I thought I needed to post about something that lifts me up.

Wanderlust.

If you have not yet seen this movie, you should. If for nothing else than one scene maybe two which will have you laughing so hard you won't need the workout that day. Fortunately for you, I'm going to try to embed it in this post. So maybe you won't need to go see it???

In this movie, Paul Rudd a favorite and Jennifer Aniston GORGEOUS!! have to move out of their downtown NYC "loft" apartment and in with Paul's brother. On their way they decide to stop at a Bed and Breakfast for the night. Long story short, the place turns out to be a hippie commune and they decide to stay. Being a part of this commune, they are required to have an open relationship. The following scene is when it comes time for Paul to go and sleep with another woman...

OH EM GEE!! Get's me every time. Sad to say my workout partner, Taylor, and I recite phrases from this scene constantly as we work out. Pretty sure everyone there thinks were nuts, and definitely unsophisticated. Oh well....

OK so, if you like that, watch the whole movie. There is another scene in the bedroom with the chick he's "fixins to" fluck. Sorry, just found out my aunt reads this. Had to censor. :) Love you Aunt Ellie!!

Enjoy!!

*Updated* Please send prayers...

 It is with a very heavy heart that I must inform you, Lee lost his battle with life today. I am at a complete loss for words and can't express how my heart aches for Katie and his friends and family. Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers.

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     There are some times in my life when I think life would be so much less stressful without technology. And then there are moment like last night and this weekend where, without it, I would never be able to immediately give support to the people I love most.

     Last night I read a Facebook post about one of my best friends needing prayers. All it took was a little bit of research on her page to discover that her boyfriend was in critical condition and on full life support. While he was working yesterday, he fell off a roof and was unresponsive. He was flown to Ruby Memorial in Morgantown, WV where he had to undergo 4 hours worth of surgery. They removed parts of his skull in order to allow for swelling in his brain.

     Katie is the other best friend from college. We lived together our junior year and are hilarious together. She and her boyfriend Lee are the cutest couple. Unfortunately, they live in West Virginia. I don't often get to see them, but Katie and I keep in touch over Facebook or text messages.

     While I have only met Lee once, I can tell that he is an amazing guy. Unfortunately, he has had a pretty rough year. A few months ago Lee's eye was punctured by a nail. Doctors weren't sure how it would affect his vision or whether or not he would go blind in that eye. Luckily, all was well and he recovered fully.

     Please keep Katie and Lee in your prayers as they go through this difficult time. All is in God's hands at the moment. Miracles do happen, every day. I pray there's one in the making today, as well.

UPDATE!! Lee is now breathing on his own. The rest is still the same. Keep praying!!

I think I'm a blog whore....

Lately I have really been stalking some bloggers. I'm not sure if it's because I like to get ideas for my own blog, or because I can secretly look through the windows of someone else's life...

People in general just interest me. I LOVE to sit and people watch. I could literally do it all day, which could also just have to do with me being lazy. We used to live in an apartment right in the middle of town. There were times when I could spend days sitting in the opposite direction on the couch and staring at all the people walking and driving by our place. Sometimes, if people were out on our community porch, I would even go so far as to crack the window so I could hear. I know. Legit stalker status. However, we lived with a bunch of crackheads so I think it was just interesting to hear the nonsense they would talk about.

So, I thought I would post some of the blogs I love the most, some recent ones I've found, some friend's blogs, etc.

Yes, yes...I only have 4 followers one of which is myself but, maybe someone out there is secretly blog stalking me too?? Maybe not....lol.

Pretty sure this lady and I were the same person in a previous life....MamaLaughlin blogs about her life, fitness, and her awesome weight loss journey. Not to mention she's absofreakinloutely gorgeous!! I miss my long hair :(

This is Mama's friend and workout partner, SkinnyMeg. She is equally as awesome!! She has lost SO much weight. Check our her before and after pics, you will NEVER imagine!! She is definitely an inspiration to anyone out there who feels they might not be able to do it. P.S. Her house is amazeballs!!

Another gorgeous chick!! Beth has only been blogging for like a month and a half and has like 80 followers!!! ok I might feel like a loser now... She has also lost a ton of weight and looks fabulous!! I can't wait to hear a little more about her journey.

This is Mandy at House of Rose. Her house is amazing and has been featured all over Pinterest!! She blogs about her marriage and teaches how to DIY so your house can be as fabulous as hers!! 

Jess is at Operation Skinny Jeans!! I am so in love with her blog name!! She is also on a weight loss journey and has done an amazing job. She also used to do weekly menus that are great ideas to follow if you are also trying to drop those pounds.

This last one is a coworker of mine. She has vowed to do 365 days of Pinterest. I envy her. I wish I could have some more time to complete some of my "to do's " on Pinterest. I do, however, really enjoy when she makes food I have been wanting to make so I can tell if it's worth it!! :)

Please feel free to comment and leave me suggestions for other blogs you think I might like. I love to stalk check out what other people are blogging about.