A New Week!

Hey Lady Friend!!

How was your weekend?? Mine was good! Friday I honestly can't remember what we did....Oh yeah. Watched some DVR and ordered pizza!  Saturday we went up to my grandma in the hospital.  She isn't doing well.  So weak, she is ready to call it quits.  I don't blame her.  She's so tired of all this!  Spent a few hours there.  Came home and went to a tree lighting ceremony at the village hall.  It was ok!  Maddy got to paint an ornament.  They had hot coco and cookies.  Later they had a choir and then lit their tree and Santa and Mrs. Claus came!  Maddy was being a crabby brat, sooo hehe.  Then we went to Rob's for dinner and watched an Adam Sandler movie that was actually really funny LOL.  Sunday I went grocery shopping and cleaned out the pantry. My gosh I felt horrible with all of the stuff I threw out that was expired :( NO MORE of that, I swear.  Gotta start eating what we have from now on.  I went to Walmart without a list.....I should never go to Walmart without a list because I buy SO MUCH stuff :( BUT it's good because I threw out so much so now we are replenished with non-expired food and stuff we'll actually eat lol.  So we cleaned and then did some errands and I made dinner.  We put up the ornaments and christmas decor :)  SOOOOOOO that was my weekend!
Girl, I don't know how the heck you did that elliptical exercise! I would have totally fell off!!!!!!!  Good job though!!!  Proud of you :)  I don't like those machines.  Not sure, maybe if I had something "fun" like this to do....

Yay! You are at bootcamp right now! I'm actually really jealous :(  I loved bootcamp but hated the owners.  As you know haha.  I truly hope you enjoy yourself though!  I know when you had the fitness bug you were on top of the world and so happy all the time!  Not to mention I do hope you make some friends :)  That is really a great place to do it!  AND YOU ARE OUTSIDE!  Totally awesome!?

Did they really say that?  Why in the world would I be thankful for the bad things. I mean, I guess there are some that could be an exception, but not very many?  I really need to start being thankful for the little things as well.  I am always thinking and stressed about the bad and negative stuff that is going on that I often forget about the things that do make me happy. I am thankful that you are my friend J  I am thankful that I am starting to be serious about getting healthy since I am very unhappy about my body.  I am totally thankful for Pandora too :)  I am not thankful that you get to wear flip flops in November and I don’t!  However I did wear them yesterday!!  It was gorgeous out!  It’s going to be 67 today :) Crazy!

Top 3 places to visit:  1) Ireland….it used to be Greece, but with the amount of love and passion Mike’s family has for Ireland the things they say about that place, I really want to go.  2) Greece  3) Australia.  Those are at least 3 places I could afford to go at some point. Bora Bora of course is everyone’s dream  lol.  But goodness it’s so pricey to stay there!  Italian cooking class in Italy….how amazing!?

SIDE NOTE:  I just got some Christmas presents from some teachers!  How awesome!?  One teacher makes pottery.  She’s retired, but teaches part time and does pottery every semester. She makes the best stuff?!!?  She brings us pieces a couple of times a semester.  I have like 6 bowls and other random pieces.  I got an olive tray this time! Random (who makes olive trays lol) but I absolutely LOVE IT!?  I totally want to have a party and bring olives lol.  Might be able to put tealights in it for the mean time….HMmmm…

Then another teacher, that I actually don’t really care for?  But since she got me a gift, bonus points!!  A yummy smelling candle.  It smells like Christmas trees!  

You get my package today!  So excited ok.  This is my informal card for everything:

1. 10yr Journal!  So, I read about this online from Ali F from the Bachelorette and she was talking about how much she LOVED it and it seemed like such a great idea.  With all of the exciting things you've had happen in 2012 and will be coming up over the next 5-10yrs, I thought this would be a great way for you to document it all :)  I have one too!  It's tough for me to remember to write in it, but I think it will be so cool a year from now looking back at some of the things that you were doing the previous year on that same day.  Now I know 2012 is already over, but you had some big moments that I know you remember the dates for ;)  that you can go back and jot down.  I have mine next to my bed and try to remember to jot down a few things each night.  If you don't find yourself using it, no biggie!  But if you do, so awesome.  Might be something really cool to pass down to your kids, maybe a daughter (not so much a son I don't think) if you have girls! 
2. Snowflake ornament!  So I was given one when I got my first christmas tree.  I'm sure you have had a tree before (but maybe not!?) and I think it's so gorgeous that I wanted to give you one too!  I have one on my tree so now you can think of me when you put yours up!
3. KCups!  Mike got my favorite flavor haha.  I totally wanted to get you pumpkin but forgot to mention that to him when he went to DD haha.  So I hope you like French Vanilla!
4. Lightbulb Ornament! Yay Pinterest :)  Enough said lol

I think that was all I put in your box :( I had so many ideas of stuff I wanted to send you and of course I wait and wait till the last minute.  And for Andy's:  I got the 2 big bottles of the 3 Floyds for him based off of the cool labels because they didn't have the flavors you told me.  Mike bought a 6 pack of the gumball (I think that's what it was) so he had some left over and put a bottle in there.  Then the other weekend, the guy at the liquor store said, "If you like Matilda, you'll LOVE Bourbon County, it's way better".  So Mike was like heck yeah, let's get it.  It's like $22 or something for a 6 pack.  YUCK!?!?!?  OMG it's so gross!?!? LOL  Seriously it's like whiskey it's nasty.  So we sent Andy a bottle to try LOL.

Ok, so.  I was quite disappointed in my health routine last week. I know I can do better.  Today is a new day!  I woke up and hit the gym and did 3miles on the tread.  I probably ran about 1.5miles of those and fast walked the rest.  Working up slowly hehe.  Glad I got 3 in though.  I had strawberries and a croissant for breakfast (it was small I promise).  I just ate some carrots and sugar snap peas for a snack!  I'm done with the unhealthy eating! At least for 90% of the time! I am ready to kick up my gym too.  So today is a new day Jess!

We are going bridesmaids dress shopping on Wednesday :)  Have to remember to bring my spanks LOL  suck it all in!!!!  Margie has officially asked all of her bridesmaids to be in the wedding. All 9 of us..............oye!  But it's just Margie, Renee and I going on Wednesday to get some ideas and then we are going to have them all come later, or find a time to go and pick it out, or whatever she decides.

It's almost Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  You guys need to find a day for us!  I know you are limited and so many people want to see you!  I need to work it around Renee being off too to have our Christmas together.

Ok I type too much on this thing :)  I hope your bootcamp went amazing and kicked ass! I can't wait to hear about it!!!

MISS YOU!!!!
-T

To J :-)

Good MORNING Pretty Lady!

Thank YOU for the motivation as well. Not sure why it takes so long to motivate for these things.  All the times we've talked about it, we'd be sticks by now if we would just DO IT!  Is there only like 5-7 states between us?! I would have went with like 10-12 lol!  I don't think Geography was my strong subject.  I remember back in like 5th or 6th grade, maybe even a little younger, we had to go around the room and each name a country. I was first. I got so scared I couldn't think of any!!!!!!!!! How dumb! But yes, 5lbs. TOTALLY doable!  Even if we didn't work out (which we are going to anyways), just eating a bit better will help :)

I'm sorry your path adventure didn't work out.  At least you can still run outside on a path or not on a path!  It's SO COLD here today :( It was like a low of 18 last night.  Anyways.......yes, we are starting slow but we will build!  Congrats on your 2 mile run, plus an additional mile or so from all the walking to find the path haha.  Last night, I got to the gym, I was pumped.  I got on the treadmill and realized the treadmill was super dumb and not cooperating. Totally not accurate.  Because I know what speeds I run and walk on there and it was not right. I was having to do almost a jog at 3.7 when I would lower it from 5, because the stupid thing wouldn't slow down.  I started and did about .5miles and then I couldn't breath :/  So I paused it and got my inhaler and when I came back it reset.  STUPID.  I was gone for less than like 30secs.  So I got back up.  I did a job for a bit and was like whoa my legs are burning haha.  Start SLOW!  So yeah, walked for about 1.7miles or so.  I'll take it!  Good first day!  We can totally share playlists, however mine was super random yesterday:

"Hello" Karmin
"Diamonds"  Rihanna
"Don't Stop The Party" Pitbull

Turned on Pandora.....
"Shake Senora Remix" Pitbull
"You Used To Hold Me, Remix" Calvin Harris
"Ven Conmigo" Daddy Yankee
"Hey Hey (Atjazz Remix)" Dennis Ferrer
"Bailando Por Ahi" Juan Magan

For some reason my favorite station on Pandora started to play all this upbeat spanish music and I LOVE IT!!! haha.  It's so great.  So there was a lot more of that stuff :-)

John...seriously. Who runs in Antarctica!? Absolutely AMAZING!?  Unbelievable.  Talk about a way to live life.  Had to be super hard.  I was keeping up on his FB to see how things were going. Not to mention 7hrs is super nuts!  Beautiful out there.  I don't think T's lungs would appreciate that kind of weather.  If you could go run anywhere, where would it be???

I used to use MyFitnessPal a lot.  Think we should use it??  I often forget to log things.  Maybe once I get into the swing of working out and stuff, I can start.  Too many things to be healthy all at one time seems like failure to me eventually lol  Will stress me out!


How did your italian style veggie tacos turn out!?!?!?  I gotta try it again and not make the cauliflower so mushy.  I need to hit the grocery store.  We have been eating out way too much.  I want to start making my weekly meal plans like I used to.  Less thinking and stress come dinner time.  I also need to start more crockpot things!!!  Especially since I get home a little later. Hmmm BBQ Pulled Pork.  Mom made beef stew the other night and it sounded SO GOOD.  Want to make that too :-)  SOB.  This just made me realize I forgot to take dinner out of the freezer for tonight.  Darnnit.  ugh.

So this morning..............I failed *sigh*  I thought about lying to you and saying I went to the gym.  But I can't do that!  I woke up at 5:15am. I told Mike to keep the lights on and I was getting up.  Then I put my arms outside of the covers and it was SO COLD and Chaos was so comfy in the bed and I just laid there thinking about the gym (too bad that didn't burn calories).  Then I thought about how it was 18 out and was like BRRRRrrrr.  So THEN I was like, I have another 20mins or so to lay here.  Oops?  Helloooo 6:15am.  Sorry :(  BUT JUST BECAUSE I DIDN'T GO, DOESN'T MEAN YOU SHOULDN'T.  That should be motivation for YOU to go.  DO IT.  I just have to remember.  I was up at 5am for like 3yrs for work!!!!!!!!! Why stop now! I should have started the first week or so I went to 8am start.  Because I was WIDE awake at 5am and should have just gotten into the swing of it.  Regroup tomorrow morning. OK!? Don't be mad at me :(

Goals.  You had goals in your October post.  So I am going to make 3 goals right now.
 1) Lose 5lbs by Christmas. (given! yay.)
2) Not eat fast food at all through December.
3) No. more. POP!

I know they all revolve around my health and I am ok with that.  It's something I have struggled with forever, so I want to achieve it.  It will be a great way to start 2013 healthy, or at least in the fitness kick again.  I know it's the holidays and it'll be hard. BUT.  The only hard part will be Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.  Those are the only times where I will be eating totally crummy.  So I should totally be able to achieve the rest of those.  Not to mention.........if I do.........celebrating with YOU on my accomplishments!

Did you start planning your birthday yet :)  Did you still want to do Napa!? I think that would be too much fun and Mike and I can start saving now!  I did insist that a tropical vacation for us would be our first vacation together, but your birthday in California would be super amazing!  I can't believe that in the 3.5yrs we have been together we haven't been on a vacation yet.  I'm talking, not even a whole weekend away anywhere :( Stupid!

OK. I should probably go now and maybe do that whole "work" thing for a bit this morning :)  Yay for blog letters!  I hope you have a fantastic day today!!!!!!!!  Say hello to the firemen! You should totally sneak a photo.  Just be sure to turn your flash and noise off lol

MISS YOU!!!!  <3
T

just one of THOSE days.

More like, morning.  I had to literally force myself out of bed.  I didn't want to go to the gym, AT ALL.  BUT  yesterday was my rest day.  I did a 15min Ab Power X or something or another from the P90x workouts on Monday............holy crap!!!!  My body KILLS!!!!!!  I mean that's good though right? But dang it.  Makes it real hard to keep working out.  So yesterday I took the day off, and forced myself on the treadmill this morning.  I walked mostly, fast paced for a half hour or so, and went home.  I did something, which is better than nothing in my books. I am however, going to hit the abX thing again today.  Gotta keep those bad boys rockin' and rollin'!

Good MORNING Vietnam!  So that was my morning.  I'm a day late on the blog, but I got home and was just lazy.  Sue me :)  You'll be proud of me though.  I did try a new recipe.  It wasn't anything special or fancy...........but I used my new crockpot mama got me for xmas.  I just threw in a pork shoulder roast, let cook for 10hrs, shredded it, put BBQ, brown sugar, and lemon juice in it and let it sit for another hour and TADA!  One of my favorites.  I love me some bbq shredded pork sammichs :)  I have never cooked a shoulder roast before, so it's NEW TO ME!  I should have snapped a photo of it.....didn't even think of it.  next time for sure!

I've decided that as much as I love watching the news in the morning to see what is going on in this world.......it's way to depressing.  Between the kid that got beat up that was on you tube, the sick person who put fishing hooks in a sausage and fed it to dogs, little 2yr old being taken off life support because she got "accidentally" shot at her fathers house, I mean.......really!?!?  That's how a lot of people start their days!  Listening to that crap. It almost makes me sad that I live in this world, with these horrible people!!!  Sad :'(

It is really cold outside.  I mean like....REALLLLLLY COLD.  So cold, we should all be home and in bed cold.  That's how cold :)  I am going to take tomorrow off though.  SHHhh don't tell anyone ok?  We are suppose to get hit with a snow storm, and I don't want to be stuck here with people in my office.  I'd much rather be at home with my puppy and in cozy PJ's.

I started school on Tuesday.  This semester I am taking Accounting online (oh BOY) and a Business class on Monday nights.  So far, I've already forgot I was in an online class. My bad. haha  I have some assignments due today at midnight, so when I get home I better get cuttin'.  I really need to finish these class.  I hope to FINALLY after 10yrs get my Associates.  Sad right?  But if I get it, I get it.  Who cares how long it took, or how old I am.  Now....bachelors on the other hand?  We'll see....maybe in another 10?  :)  One step at a time.

Ok, I need to get to work :)

All LIES!

Maybe it was the double shot of Novocaine, or maybe it was the happy gas to calm me down (no extra charge hehe), or maybe it's just that my dentist is bad ass and knows what he's doing!  But my root canal didn't hurt at all!!!!!!!  I hardly felt a thing.  Now, did I hear things I didn't wanna hear? Yeah....but whatcha gonna do :)  Nothing to be afraid of!  He did tell me I will be numb for 10hrs, so I may change my mind around 1am, but happy the procedure didn't hurt.  I got meds for pain and to hold me over till I have to get a crown. DANG those things are expensive!!!!!!!!  I don't know how this one tooth got so bad that I needed all this done, but all be damned if I let it happen again!

Moving on to more important matters, did I accomplish anything I wanted to since my last post. NOPE!  I'm being honest.  OK WAIT....I did........

My 2 big babies sleeping :)

I think the photo of the week thing will be the easiest :)  This is indeed how my dolly Chaos sleeps in bed with us.  If not right in the middle, right in the middle of one of our legs.  She's a pain.....and we kick her off numerous of times during the night so we can stretch, steal back our covers, or just move to a better position. BUT she does and probably always will, jump on back up!  We created a monster and are paying for it, in our little queen size bed.  Can't teach an old dog new tricks, so we deal with it! 

No time for new recipes.  Busy weekend for my mama's birthday, errands, cleaning, etc.  This week is hectic since it's the week before school starts (those who don't know, I work at a college).  Had to work late Monday and a little late Tuesday for contracts.  Got my root canal tonight and am just lazy and numb, so my new recipe i couldn't taste anyways. Tomorrow I work from 7am - 9pm, no time for food.  Friday.....I may be going to my mom's for a big Turkey dinner that I promised.  Work Saturday, and helping my girl Jess move her fiance in her house on Sunday!!!!!! 

MISSION:  Grocery shop.  I haven't done it in over a month.  So I will incorporate a new recipe in there somewhere I PROMISE.  Work out more......I did work out on Monday morning, that was about it hahaha.  I plan on going tomorrow morning as well, but being so busy makes me tired.  I need to learn to manage my time better.  Maybe that's my next weeks post.......Free3e Co, well, this week is just too busy to even think about that at the moment.

ALL in ALL.  At least Chaos got some attention here!  I promise I will get more exciting next week when things start to slow down for me.  I will talk about pinterest and how I am addicted!  Some big plans I am preparing for the year and a special man's birthday!!  OH and guess what, my grandmama, turns 90 in February! How amazing!  SHE is amazing :)

Time to heat up some soup and go be a baby on the couch.

CIAO for now

xoxo
T!

A new year....a new...?

Not sure what it is, but I am determined to figure it out. Happy 2012 everyone.  I think a lot of us are excited for a new year, and ready to put 2011 in the past.  Why do we wait till January 1st of a new year to change things?  Make resolutions?  Do things different?  I think it's laziness.  It is for me anyways :)  It's a lot easier to keep putting things off until everyone else tries and makes all these drastic resolutions and goals.  Ok ok ok, that's a little too deep for me to be getting into right now.......

Now, my purpose!!! :)  I have a really hard time sticking to things. Crafting, blogging, working out! So instead I am going to try to them all, all year long, without the pressure of doing them daily! I love to craft, so even if I do it once a month (which I hope to god I do more often), that will make me happy.  Work out at least 2-3 times a week.  That's realistic enough. It will keep me happy and maybe spark a crazy gym fire inside me to go more often and hit my goal of losing 30lbs.  Because I LOOOVEEEE to eat!  Which is why diets are so hard.  My boyfriend is a firm believer that you only live once, so eat what you want. And I LOVE ME SOME BACON!No, not turkey bacon.........thick cut, fatty, greasy, bacon. :)  You get my point right?

So, my mission this year for 2012, and hopefully something that I really enjoy and get more followers to make it seem like people care :)

*drum roll please*
Once a week, I will....BLOG! Every Wednesday.

Ok, so bad start......but things came up last night Wed night :) I have a reminder already put in my phone to do it every Wed night.....maybe even in the AM, since I get to work at 7am.

Every blog will include the following.  Will TRY to include the following (will prevent failure if i put the word "try" right? haha):

• Photo of the week, instead of photo of the day.  It will be of something that I truly love. Something that makes me happy day in and day out.  MY DOGGIE CHAOS!!!!!!!!!!!  Yup.  My pooch.  Mike (bf) and I, probably talk for our dog more than anyone I know.  It always makes me laugh, because deep down, I think it's really what she is trying to say.

Hello Internet WORLD. My name is Chaos. I love laying in my mom's lap while she tries to type blogs.......

• Once a week new recipes. I print them out allllllll the time, but never cook them! So, I'm determined. Even if it's just a side dish.  Last night while watching Wheel of Fortune, Vanna said her goal was to do the same.......she said it will only last about 3 weeks before she stops.  Let's see how long I make it :)
• About my workouts for the week.  Now, I really do miss going to the gym 4-5times a week like I did at the beginning of last year.  I hope I get back to that point, because I felt great about myself.  My best friend Jessica asked me to be in her wedding in July (ahhhhhhhhh SO EXCITED FOR THEM!!!!!!!!!!!) so what better reason to lose weight!  Yes, I should do it for myself, since I feel gross all the time and complain about it. But having a goal like being a part of someones BIG day and looking good........is nice to look forward to.
• Last but not least...........progress of Free3e Company.  We put it on the back burner for the last few months with a lot going on, but are back up and running.  Few more things to finish up in the business plan and off to the banks we go to beg for money.  I have a lot of work to do on this, this weekend.

I may start off slow (hence the posting on Thursday, and editing it on Friday) but I am going to do my best. Unfortunately I started the new year with a HORRIBLE toothache that now needs a root canal. It causes me unbearable pain and makes me crabby :(  It's hard to concentrate, but guess what! I get it taken care of next week Wednesday! So I get to blog about it haha. Stay TUNED for that!

I am truly excited about doing this.  It will be VERY cool in December to look back on my posts to see the types of things I did throughout the year.  I'll obviously post about a lot more than what I put above, but those are some of the main things I hope to touch on most of the time.  Money is tight, life is bumpy, and I have a step daughter, Madison, which I absolutely adore, so family comes first and keeps me busy!!!  I look forward to an official post next week, until then..........I hope you all have a fantastic weekend!  Enjoy the GORGEOUS weather!  Can you believe it?  50 degrees in January in Chicago. That is CRA CRA! (according to Stephanie Abrams on the Weather Channel, CRA CRA is the new hip thing to say instead of crazy....not so sure about that!?)

Good Night and GOOD MORNING!

XoXo
T