Movin’ on up…

well not really up….more like out….yup! You heard that right! I’m REALLY putting my big girl pants on and moving out! I’m mixed emotions about it all right now. I know it’s the next step (and I’m almost 22) but I really enjoy living at home with my family and spending time with them every day…..i’m only moving about 15 minutes away, but it’s still a transition! We prob wont be moving into a place until June so that gives me plenty of time to figure it all out! and acquire some furniture…

I made a sun dress the other day & I looove it! I purchased some more fabric so I can make a few more! I’m tired of going shopping and being less than thrilled with the dresses or the way the dresses fit. However, Ann Taylor Loft just had a 40% off sale (but their prices are so jacked up the 40% off was actually just their real prices…but shhh I love the illusion…) and I scored some sweet stuff! I justified it all with I’m moving out soon so it’s my last hurraahh before I can’t afford to go clothing shopping anymore. Totally works.

It’s Britney, b!tch…

I ran tonight for the first time since the tragic “Icantbreatheandmykidneyisfailing” night – here’s to hoping excercise is not the problem. I also did my whole run to whatever Britney Spears has accumulated on my ipod since high school = A LOT. I wanted to finally listen to her new album, but I bought till the world ends as a single so it was not going to play if I did the album playlist – oh the troubles in my life….ANYWAYS it was AWESOME!

Thanks Brit! Now if only listening gave me those abs too…

April = practice for hurricane season here in FL. The weather radio has gone off every day with severe weather warnings and tornado alerts. I guess mother nature wants to make sure we dont think shes been playing nice – hopefully she continues to and we have another good season!

oh! I am signing up for the Health Unit Coordinator Certification course at school in the fall. It’s 13 weeks and prepares you for the national exam to work in the hospitals as a HUC! I think it will be great to do that while I finish up my prereqs!

hmm..I guess its bed time….aiming for the gym in the morning……it always sounds better the night before….

The Band Perry

Love!

Oh, Hi!

Its been exactly one week since my last post & guess what came back to haunt me at 1:30am? Yup, only this time it was accompanied by severe upper back pain & then it moved around to my lower chest…yay! not so much…I literally stayed up all night & contemplated the ER after I convinced myself my gallbladder has a disease or my kidneys must be failing….instead I sipped some water, let out a few burps that shattered the sound barrier and waited…..now im still waiting & it still hurts at 2pm – not quite as bad, but its still a dull ache. FRUSTRATING.

Aside from last night (early this morning?) It’s been a great week!

Got a lot of stuff done & had some pretty great meals! My parents are out of town so we’ve had full run of the kitchen!

I’m going to go back to vegging out….real housewives of orange county is on…

Down for the count…

This morning I woke up at 5 to this tightness in my chest. It felt like a rubber band was squeezing my rib cage…I thought maybe I was just groggy, so I rolled over and fell back asleep. I woke up again at 7 to it feeling even worse! At this point I got up and could tell it was a real feeling, and it HURT. I’ve never had heartburn before so I thought maybe it was that….I immediatly googled it and the symptoms just didnt fit…So I propped myself up and got a glass of water to sip thinking maybe it is heartburn…I dont know, it wont hurt to try treating it that way. It started to feel a little bit better & I fell back asleep knowing that my original plan to go to spin at 8:30 and strong class afterwords was out the window….I woke up feeling better, still tight but not as much & now at 3pm i’m still feeling tight. I also have a sore throat, but only on one side? I dont know what is wrong with me, but I do know i’ve spent almost all day in my bed….not how I wanted to spend my saturday at all 😦 Not to mention its BEAUTIFUL beach weather! Oh well, I guess when your body is waking you up at all hours of the night its REALLY trying to tell you something, so I better listen!

I did try pilates for the first time on thursday & my upper abs are super sore, like bruised feeling sore….maybe that has something to do with the tightness?

I’m hoping to do a big grocery shop later today, but it might have to wait until tomorrow when I get out of work. I have no idea what to get to make for dinners all week….but I do know were going to do some seared ahi tuna with salads on monday! yum!

Hopefully tomorrow things will all feel back to normal & I can get a good run in! I hate being stuck inside….

St. Patricks Day

Hello! Happy St. Patricks Day! The one day a year its okay to wear lots of green, drink WAY too much, and celebrate being irish – even if you aren’t irish!

Since I live in one of the top 5 drinking cities in the country St. Patricks Day is a 3 day event around here. That’s right, three days of green beer, green clothes, and all around shenaigins…This is the first year I am legally of age to celebrate, baahahaa! (I’ll be 22 in 2 months – where did 21 go?) But I don’t know if we will be celebrating 😦 AND I don’t have anything green??? How does that happen?!

Tuesday…

Pooooooo! It’s only Tuesday?! I woke up thinking it was Friday, not that weekends have any significance in my part-time working life, but hey, Friday still has that “friday” feeling! Oh well…Yesterday was highly uneventful, I decided to go running around 1:50 because the weather has been GORGEOUS and I could not pass it up. About a mile out I stopped to fix my ipod, it was repeating every song twice & I could not take it anymore, that’s when I looked at the time, and remembered I had to be at work at 3 = I had to be showered, dressed (looking halfway decent since I was working at the clothing store, not the gym) and out the door by 2:30! YIKES! I made it, and I was clean, but I think I was still sweating….gross…that’s probably why nobody stood to close to me, or wanted my help with anything….fine by me, I don’t want to help you anyway! kidding….sort of….

Today I’m working the same hours, but at the gym which means I get to run in a different place today!! I’m LOVING the time change, the extra sunlight is awesome! I don’t really have a plan yet, so I’m just running to keep in shape/get in shape? I can’t really tell at this point. I’m not running for time or mileage, I’m just sort of going as far out as I feel & then turning around hoping I can at least crawl back….I think I’m going to sign up for a 5k in April so all my *cough* hard work doesn’t go to waste.

The dress I was making (yeah, I know how to sew & when I can’t find something I like, I try to make it instead) doesn’t fit, AT ALL….something went terribly wrong so now I have to start all over….its worth it though because it is going to be the perfect summer dress! A little bit fancier for occasions when brushing your hair & peeling off your sweatpants are highly recommended! It’s just going to be a major pain in the REAR until then!

Time to go get ready for work….ugh….
Does anyone else love their lounge clothes as much as I do? I get more excited over a new pair of yoga pants than I do over a new dress.
Does anyone else know a skill that not many people use anymore? Like making your own clothes?

Time warp

I feel less creepy listening to the Glee versions of Justin Bieber’s songs. Thank you Glee for covering them so I can add them to my running playlist & pretend i’m 13 while I run down the street.

"I'm like baby, baby, baby, nooo.."

Maybe they will cover the Backstreet Boys & the Spice Girls next, then my life, and my running playlist would be complete…or I could dig up my old hot pink walkman.

"OMGEEE! GIRL POWER!"

hmmm…i’m off to go do really important things, like contemplate which scrunchie will go with my outfit tomorrow.

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3 day winning streak!

Woo! 3 days in a row!
Today was a good one – Dave & I both had nowhere to be until 4! THIS NEVER HAPPENS. He works at a restaraunt & gym, I work at a gym, babysit, and a clothing store. The likely ness of both of us not working on a SATURDAY is slim to none. Thats probably why for the first time in the (almost) 2 years we’ve been together it happened!! We didnt even know until last night, had we known we could have planned something to celebrate spending a saturday like every other human being (until 4) but we didnt plan a thing & it was GREAT! (Dont even get me started on the fact that we have not once ever gone out on a “date” on a friday or saturday night..) We woke up early and decided to skip the gym and go for a run outside because its perfect out! Sunny, breezy….you know, FL doesn’t have seasons. After running we went to the grocery store, because it wouldn’t be a normal day for us without going…and then went to the BEACH! We never go to the beach, it’s always raining or cloudy or we’re to busy…etc. Its starting to sound like we never go anywhere except the grocery store…not true…..okay, mostly true….

Today at the beach I decided (he has to go along with it, because I said so…) that we should go camping in April. We bought all the stuff and went once & we need to go again. Now its starting to sound like we only go to the grocery store and on trips….esp. since I only ever seem to update this thing after we get back from a trip…mostly true…

Clearwater Beach Birthday!

On Tuesday morning Dave & I left at 8:30 to head to Clearwater Beach for a Phillies spring training game. He’s a huge baseball fan, and an even bigger phillies fan, what better way to spend the day before your birthday! I told him I should get girlfriend of the year for all the research it took to find tickets (I really had no idea it would be so hard!) and keep it a secret until a week beforehand (only so he could take off work!) We made it to the stadium with an hour and a half to spare before the game started so we went to chipotle to grab some food to go, changed in the parking lot, and headed back to the stadium to find some parking and EAT! The whole experience was so much fun! I had no idea how relaxing it would be! We’ve already decided we are going to try to attend another spring training game for the team that plays here where we live.

The view from our seats, not bad except we were on the other team side!

Whats a baseball game without a beer!

Birthday boy!

After the game was over, and the phillies won! We headed to our hotel on the beach! After much research I was able to score a nice FL resident discount at a Quality Inn. I didn’t have high hopes for the hotel as it was just going to provide a place to sleep. However, when we got there I was quite surprised! The hotel was fantastic! Extremely clean and well taken care of! The people were so friendly and checking in and out was a breeze! The only down side was that our room was supposed to have a “partial gulf view” it sure was partial! There was a wall right in front of our balcony so we had to take turns standing in the one spot where you could see the gulf, it was by no means a deal breaker though – we weren’t there to stand on the balcony! After getting settled and stopping at the grocery store to get some essentials for dinner, lunch, snacks, etc. we fell asleep! Who new baseball would also take so much out of you! We woke up the next morning at 5:30 am thanks to our early bedtime! After waiting a few hours and eating some breakfast we headed to the beach & pool to soak up some sunshine! It was such a nice day out & I managed to even out my farmers tan! After we had successfully gotten our tan on it was time to eat some lunch and get ready for the rest of the birthday festivities! First up was miniature golf! It was a coincidence that there was a mini golf course right across the street & the birthday boy LOVES golf!

After the game we headed to dinner at Island Way. It was a beautiful restraunt located on the water in a marina and SO DELICIOUS! There was not one thing I would change (except the wind! it is SO windy on the gulf!) We ate outside on the deck, they had heat lamps and strings of white lights across the top! We had the ahi tuna and crab cake app. our dinners came with a great salad and warm bread.

Sea bass with king crab and wasabi mashed potatoes

Mahi mahi with a coconut curry and rice - this was the signature preparation, there was more to it I cant remember.

We ended the night with a trip down to the water & then headed to bed since we had to be up at 7 to get on the road by 8:30 since I had to be back to babysit. Over all it was a fantastic birthday celebration and mini vacation!