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I started a new blog! I'm not sure if anyone still gets updates on this one, but I figured while I was logged in this afternoon I could pass the link along!

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Switching It Up!

Life has been interesting lately. I have run out of time to blog, but over the passed couple of days I have sparked some inspiration and I think I'm going to take a turn and charge myself to make some changes in my life. Recently two of my high school friends (I use the term "friends" loosely because I haven't seen either of them in years) died, one in a car accident and one took his own life. I am struggling with the realization that we are not as invincible as we think we are. We're supposed to be just starting out lives, settling down, starting families, not being killed by drunk drivers or taking our own lives. While both of these incidents are completely tragic and sad, they have inspired me to make some changes in my life.

I have always been a "big" girl. It never really bothered me, I was okay with being overweight. I found a man that loves me had a beautiful wedding and still manage to have a love-affair with clothes and have the credit card bills to prove it. While I have a little bit more confidence then your average overweight girl, I have a complete lack of motivation to do anything to change. I've done diets before, I've dropped weight and gained it all back (and then some). I don't really know how to live a healthy lifestyle and am an emotional eater. But lately, I have been thinking a lot more about HEALTH. Not size or buying clothes at the popular stores, but about being healthy and being around for the children I want to have. I don't want to pass on my lack of motivation or my poor lifestyle choices to any children I may or may not have in the future. So I am starting by taking some baby steps. So, in an effort to do so I will be making a lot of blog posts revolving around this issue....if you don't want to read about a fat girl complaining about how hard it is to work out/not eat junk food then you might not want to read :) Just a little disclaimer for you.

I start with making some small strides over the next couple of days, I would like to:
1. Go to the leasing office of the apartment complex to get a key to the workout room.
2. Start cutting down on the amount of sugar I am eating/drinking everyday
3. Do some research about food and sugar addiction
4. Make small healthy choices (ie: baked potato instead of fries, salad or veggies at every meal, oatmeal/yogurt instead of a bagel, etc)
5. Add in some workout routines.

Another source of inspiration - I read this article today about a writer from Marie Claire who berated the actors of a show called "Mike and Molly" I have never seen or heard of the show, but the things she (and some of the commenters) said really shocked me.

That's all for now, keep your eye open for video blog posts and some updates on what kind of progress I'm making - hopefully I can find some motivation to stick with it.

One Tree Hill, Raisinettes and a sleeping 3 year old.

Technically, I'm on vacation, from work that is, but I am actually spending the week with the three kids that I have been babysitting for the passed 8 years. The two oldest are pretty independant, so I'm just "hanging out" with them, but Miss Macaylah is 3 and so far we're having a good time. Right now, I'm lounging in bed watching One Tree Hill Season #5 while Macaylah sleeps next to my feet laying the opposite direction.

Tonight we're having the kids come over to our apartment to have a pizza and Rock Band night. It will be nice to see my husband and kittens. I stopped at home to feed them yesterday (the kittens, not the husband) and just wanted to cuddle Gus like crazy :)

Grad School started yesterday - Oh, yeah, I never got to that post, did I? I applied for EMU's Educational Psychology Master's Program. I got into the grad school three weeks ago and found out on Friday that I got into the program as well, SO EXCITED!! I'm a little nervous about how much reading is involved, since it's only a 6 week course, but I think I'll be alright...well, here's hoping.

ECLIPSE COMES OUT TONIGHT!!! I will not be going to the midnight showing - which sounds like fun, but I will be taking the kids (minus the little one) to see it tomorrow night. SO excited about this too, I love the book series, and like to see them alive on the screen but I am not the biggest fan of Kristen Stewart, who was on Regis and Kelly this morning and was totally rude and bitchy. Ugh. I can't stand her. But, alas, I will be running over 12 year olds tomorrow evening if they come between me and the movie theater.

Off to enjoy the rest of my day.
Catch you on the flip side :)

Hey Bloggers! Aparently you can blog via text message. I wonder how much info I can squeeze into 160 characters, which is all my BB will allow... We shall see.

Matrimony :)

So, I lied, I didn't come back in a couple days... it's been, what? a week?

I figured since I was late with updating you on my exciting (ha!) life, I would reward you with some wedding pictures. I won't do too many at once, but instead give some teasers. It was a great day, everything went incredibly well and we had a great time!

58 days, 21 hours, 36 minutes and 19 seconds

That's how long it's been since my last post. Life has been a little crazy since then, so I figure the best way to get back into it and update you the past 58 days, 21 hours, 36 minutes and 19 seconds is to make a list of things that have happened and make my way through it.

1. We got MARRIED!!!

2. Our Honeymoon

3. Meet Gus Gus!

4. Work Drama

5. The Chopping of the Tresses

6. Relay for Life

7. Upcoming Mackinaw Trip :)

8. Grad School, Here I Come!

 A lot of stuff has changed and a lot of things are the same... which really isn't very revealing is it? It would make the most sense to start with #1 and tell you all about our special day, but I won't get the CD with the pictures on it for a couple days, so until I can fully amaze you, I will skip straight to #3. GUS GUS!! He is our new kitten. We adopted him the week after we got back from our honeymoon. He is absolutely adorable but is completely insane as well.  

 

Kitty (Justin's family cat that also lives with us, she's 16 years old and pretty sick) is SLOWLY getting used to him being here, but she definitely doesn't like playing with him. She doesn't like doing much of anything so I'm not surprised that she has issues with him. In hindsight, we probably should have waited to adopt Gus, so that Kitty wasn't stressed during her last couple of months, but we had good intentions, we thought he would help her feel more youthful and have fun... not so much.  

He's tearing our apartment up, knocking stuff over and pulling up some carpeting, but other than that he's pretty sweet. He's a cuddler too, when he wants to be... Once he get's neutered and mellows a little bit, he'll be the perfect "First Baby" :)

That's about it for now. I will be back in the next couple days to upload some pictures and give you some stories. I'm glad to be back and am slowly getting back into the groove of life, but it's quite a shock to be off of work for 2 1/2 weeks and then being thrown back into a life of work, cooking, money, bills, traffic, etc. Urgh. Maybe the weekend in Mackinaw will mellow me out too. Maybe Gus and I both need to mellow :) Happy Blogging - I'll type at 'cha soon!

Detroit

So, I'm sitting here on a Saturday night flipping through my Comcast guide and came across the movie "Crash" - great movie, I've seen it a couple times, very controversial. It is starting to make me think about something that happened yesterday. I work in downtown Detroit, we have a Subway on the first floor of our building, it was recently purchased by an Indian family, they have been very nice and have taken care of the place since coming into the building. I go down there about once a week and they always know exactly what I want and are extremely nice. I went down on Friday afternoon to get my usual, I got in line behind two white women, looked like they were from the suburbs visiting the downtown area (they weren't in business attire, jeans and casual tops) but they could have worked in one of the places downtown - who knows. Anyway, while waiting in line they proceeded to have a loud conversation about the last time they were at Subway and how they got sick from eating there - this would be their first time back since then. Not a big deal, a little disgusting as I am waiting to order my FOOD, but whatever. They get up to the older Indian man, very nice, I think he owns the Subway. The first girl orders with a little attitude and when he asked if she wanted her flatbread toasted she says no, so he put it in the microwave to heat it up a little bit for her. She says nothing and then proceeds to give him little dirty looks as her friend orders. Her friend didn't seem to have as much of an attitude, seemed to be the bridge between nice and snotty. He makes girl #2's sandwich ahead of #1 (because her flatbread was in the microwave), girl #1 rolls her eyes and says something like "well since apparently you're getting your food first you go ahead" she looks at the man out of the corner of her eye. So he pulls her flatbread out of the microwave and starts putting the cheese and meat on the flatbread and then she starts asking if she can have a cold flat bread, she gave him a look like "um... I know you're dumb, but you should be able to read my mind" he proceeded to explain that he just warmed it up for her and she says "well, yeah, I get that, but I wanted a cold one" she then continues to talk shit to her friend under breath and then continues to give each employee dirty looks (they are all Indian) as she goes down the line. So anyway, she gets him so flustered that he ended up accidentally using her flatbread for my sandwich and put it into the toaster, as I wanted my sandwich toasted. So I get back upstairs (because I now have to eat at my desk because I used 20 minutes of my 30 minute lunch watching the girls shoot daggars out of their eyes) and take a bite into my sandwich and realize that it is as hard as a cracker and the whole thing cracks into pieces. I ended up having to throw away half of my lunch.

It may seem like nothing or not a big deal, but I was honestly saddened by how she was treating the family at Subway. What did they do to her? Had she ever stepped foot into that Subway before? Did she assume that because he had an accent he didn't understand her? I just don't understand the need to look down on someone because they are a different race, color, sex, size... ANYTHING!?!

It's not on the same level as Crash, by any means but it just got me thinking.