26 April 2012
SayAnythingBrooke: Brooke's Birthday Giveaway!
SayAnythingBrooke: Brooke's Birthday Giveaway!: Today (as of 4 minutes ago) is my birthday. Because I'm feeling grateful for everyone and everything I am blessed with, and because I like g...
25 April 2012
Back From The Dead
I know, I know. It's been... ONE WEEK SINCE YOU LOOKED AT ME! Nah, kidding. But seriously, it's been three weeks since I last posted and it's bad. I haven't updated this blog as much as I should. So here goes.
I'm house sitting for two months, so I'm living away from home at the place until June 11th. This house is fancy, it has a swimming pool, hot tub, gym above the garage. It's nice. I worked out last night, and I was going to go up and do some cardio and abs, but I got distracted by giving my dry, cracked heals some love. And then I decided to give myself a manicure. Zoya Marley (pale lilac with a very faint opalescent shimmer) topped with China Glaze Fairy Dust and Seche Vite. Speaking of Zoya, I've got a bunch coming in the mail, so I'll post about those once they arrive.
I finished my second session of boot camp on the 13th. I was really bad at going every day, I maybe went half the time. Completely awful. I've also postponed the last session until after I'm done house sitting, since it's a 20+ mile round trip drive to do boot camp, and I already have to do it once a day for work, twice a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays for band and work, and twice on Fridays for work and picking up Jon (which is another almost 40 miles round trip just to get him from Petaluma). It's tough on my gas tank. ): So until house sitting is done, I'll be going up into the gym every evening from now on after I get home from work, or I'll go swimming if it's a hot day, and that will be my form of exercise for the next month and a half. I realized that I HAVE to exercise daily, not to stay in shape, but to regulate my mood swings. I get really emotional if I don't exercise, to the point where I cry at the littlest thing. No bueno.
I'm going to start posting pictures each week again, because I found it really helped if I had something to show progress from week to week. Tomorrow my workout will have to wait until a little later, as I'm going to see a movie with my best friend Lea after work. I will restrict myself from snacking at the theatre, I'll just bring a bottle of water with me. We're going to see The Lucky One, with Zac Efron. I love being able to go see chick flicks in theatres with Lea, since Jon hates them and essentially refuses to go haha. Anyway, here's my "starting point" for the next month and a half.
I'm not working summer daycare, so it's just the candy store. I need to ask the manager how many hours I'll be guaranteed a week because it'll be my only income for June, July and the beginning of August. Until June 11th, it's just Sundays, since I can't do more while I'm house sitting.
Exciting news, I'm all done saving up my $10,000 for the move to Calgary in August! The next step is to start looking into apartment complexes and such, emailing about if there will be any openings in mid August, and setting up appointments to check the places out once Jon and I get there. We want to have somewhere to move into as soon as possible. We'd rather not stay at a hotel for a week or more, since it's a waste of money.
I just bought a new phone this evening, as my two year contract with T-Mobile (which SUCKS!) ends in a couple weeks and I need a month to month plan. I'm going through Virgin Mobile, which will give me a $35/month plan that includes 300 minutes and unlimited text and data (same as what I currently have, except I'll get 100 more minutes and pay $10 more, which I'm quite happy to do). I bought a Motorola Triumph from walmart.com for $207 after tax and shipping, and it should arrive sometime between Friday and the Wednesday after that. I'm pretty happy, considering it would have cost me about $305 if I'd bought it from the VM website or from Best Buy or something. Once it arrives, I can activate it and all that jazz. I'm so excited, it's my first smart phone. And since I intend on babying the shit out of it, I'll probably be able to get most (if not all) of the $207 back when I sell it on eBay when I move to Canada.
I need to get to bed, as it's nearly 2AM at this point (I started this entry at like 10PM haha!) and I've got house sitting duties to take care of in the morning.
I'm house sitting for two months, so I'm living away from home at the place until June 11th. This house is fancy, it has a swimming pool, hot tub, gym above the garage. It's nice. I worked out last night, and I was going to go up and do some cardio and abs, but I got distracted by giving my dry, cracked heals some love. And then I decided to give myself a manicure. Zoya Marley (pale lilac with a very faint opalescent shimmer) topped with China Glaze Fairy Dust and Seche Vite. Speaking of Zoya, I've got a bunch coming in the mail, so I'll post about those once they arrive.
I finished my second session of boot camp on the 13th. I was really bad at going every day, I maybe went half the time. Completely awful. I've also postponed the last session until after I'm done house sitting, since it's a 20+ mile round trip drive to do boot camp, and I already have to do it once a day for work, twice a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays for band and work, and twice on Fridays for work and picking up Jon (which is another almost 40 miles round trip just to get him from Petaluma). It's tough on my gas tank. ): So until house sitting is done, I'll be going up into the gym every evening from now on after I get home from work, or I'll go swimming if it's a hot day, and that will be my form of exercise for the next month and a half. I realized that I HAVE to exercise daily, not to stay in shape, but to regulate my mood swings. I get really emotional if I don't exercise, to the point where I cry at the littlest thing. No bueno.
I'm going to start posting pictures each week again, because I found it really helped if I had something to show progress from week to week. Tomorrow my workout will have to wait until a little later, as I'm going to see a movie with my best friend Lea after work. I will restrict myself from snacking at the theatre, I'll just bring a bottle of water with me. We're going to see The Lucky One, with Zac Efron. I love being able to go see chick flicks in theatres with Lea, since Jon hates them and essentially refuses to go haha. Anyway, here's my "starting point" for the next month and a half.
I'm not working summer daycare, so it's just the candy store. I need to ask the manager how many hours I'll be guaranteed a week because it'll be my only income for June, July and the beginning of August. Until June 11th, it's just Sundays, since I can't do more while I'm house sitting.
Exciting news, I'm all done saving up my $10,000 for the move to Calgary in August! The next step is to start looking into apartment complexes and such, emailing about if there will be any openings in mid August, and setting up appointments to check the places out once Jon and I get there. We want to have somewhere to move into as soon as possible. We'd rather not stay at a hotel for a week or more, since it's a waste of money.
I just bought a new phone this evening, as my two year contract with T-Mobile (which SUCKS!) ends in a couple weeks and I need a month to month plan. I'm going through Virgin Mobile, which will give me a $35/month plan that includes 300 minutes and unlimited text and data (same as what I currently have, except I'll get 100 more minutes and pay $10 more, which I'm quite happy to do). I bought a Motorola Triumph from walmart.com for $207 after tax and shipping, and it should arrive sometime between Friday and the Wednesday after that. I'm pretty happy, considering it would have cost me about $305 if I'd bought it from the VM website or from Best Buy or something. Once it arrives, I can activate it and all that jazz. I'm so excited, it's my first smart phone. And since I intend on babying the shit out of it, I'll probably be able to get most (if not all) of the $207 back when I sell it on eBay when I move to Canada.
I need to get to bed, as it's nearly 2AM at this point (I started this entry at like 10PM haha!) and I've got house sitting duties to take care of in the morning.
03 April 2012
01 April 2012
Jumping Back In The Saddle Is Hard
I don't know why, but I just didn't have the motivation to go to boot camp on Friday. I wasn't tired, I felt fine, the weather wasn't horrible. I just couldn't force myself to get out of bed. I didn't really do anything to make up for it either. I told myself I was going to, but you know how that works...
Today I walked my mom's dog, Emma, when I got home from work, so at least I got something today. I'm going to take her for another walk tomorrow morning before I go to Mill Valley for a hair appointment, since I'll be missing boot camp tomorrow as well. And then it's back to boot camp on Tuesday morning. I feel like it's pointless to say no more excuses because lately I've just been talking the talk, but not walking the walk (or running the run, or dipping the bench dip, or pushing the push up, if you will).
I don't know what happened to the girl who went to boot camp pretty much every day and kicked ass on the bench mark test (which the second one is in two weeks, yikes!). I miss that girl, because she was awesome and energetic and motivated and so many great things. I need to get back to being that girl. Maybe this is just wishful thinking, but I'm hoping that after this hair cut (GOGO graduated bob hopefully done right this time!), I'll have more motivation to go work out. Maybe it'll kick start the motivation to keep working to look and feel better. Who knows.
I'll post before and after pictures of my hair in the next couple days, I'm excited to see how it turns out. (:
Today I walked my mom's dog, Emma, when I got home from work, so at least I got something today. I'm going to take her for another walk tomorrow morning before I go to Mill Valley for a hair appointment, since I'll be missing boot camp tomorrow as well. And then it's back to boot camp on Tuesday morning. I feel like it's pointless to say no more excuses because lately I've just been talking the talk, but not walking the walk (or running the run, or dipping the bench dip, or pushing the push up, if you will).
I don't know what happened to the girl who went to boot camp pretty much every day and kicked ass on the bench mark test (which the second one is in two weeks, yikes!). I miss that girl, because she was awesome and energetic and motivated and so many great things. I need to get back to being that girl. Maybe this is just wishful thinking, but I'm hoping that after this hair cut (GOGO graduated bob hopefully done right this time!), I'll have more motivation to go work out. Maybe it'll kick start the motivation to keep working to look and feel better. Who knows.
I'll post before and after pictures of my hair in the next couple days, I'm excited to see how it turns out. (:
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