Thank goodness for the end of the week

It's so relieving to be approaching the end of the week.. Thursday is usually such a great day just because you know Friday is tomorrow followed by the weekend.

I'm looking forward to this weekend for a couple reasons.

1. Matt & Marci are coming over for dinner & games tomorrow, i love games.. woo!

2. August and another Matt are getting married Saturday in Rehobeth (sp). That evening we're heading to Matt's (from friday) parents house to hang with some friends.

3. Sunday is a day to relax..

Not to crazy but should be a lot of fun! :) Can't wait just to not be at work for a couple days.. that's why I look forward to the weekend so much. It's probably time for a career change... :)

Easy Peasy

So I think the secret to the South Beach diet is that after a couple days, you're just not hungry anymore. Here's an outline of what I ate today:

Breakfast: One deviled egg and one sugar free jello cup (i didn't have time to make breakfast! because i tried to put hot curlers in my hair which took too long and didn't even curl it! phoey!)

Snack: String Cheese at 10 am and then Pistachios (a handful) at 11:30 am

Lunch: Finch Wrap from Isaac's.. i thought this would have at least lettuce and tomato on it but i must've read the menu wrong. I'm sure you're wondering how i could have the tortilla part of the wrap.. to be honest, it was a cheddar cheese wrap and i'm sure there was a bit of carbs in it, but who's counting anyway? oh right, me.

I haven't had another snack yet, as i'm all out of desk food but i've been sipping water which has been keeping me pretty darn content. I'm not hungry! It's a miracle! I've always believed that appetite suppression is a great way to start a diet.

When I get home I plan to have a sugar free red bull (i can't resist these) and maybe some more pistachios, idk yet.

For dinner we'll have grilled chicken and probably broccoli. We've (or I) have been pretty obsessed with charring it first, mincing some garlic and letting that sit in a couple tablespoons of olive oil to infuse it and then combining with the veggie after it's been steamed. Monday was green beans, yesterday was spinach and tonight is broccoli.. the spinach turned out darn good, i had extra helpings!

I feel like i'm on my way to success! and of course the 15 lbs lighter thing will help as well! Too bad i'm doing this right after swimsuit season! but hey, i'm getting ready for next summer! :)

Progress

I started this diet.... yesterday and i'm already tracking my progress. This is crazy I know but maybe documenting it will help me stay on track.

Basically, i was/am pretty motivated to do this.. that is, until I get hungry. Work is the worst place to get hungry because unless you bring it, there's nothing healthy to eat here. I guess i'll have to come more prepared tomorrow.

So my current mood is: starving for food. I realize it's not a mood but it's kind of affecting it, so why not!?

Hopefully tomorrow's mood will be satisfied. Like I was with my salad earlier and my dessert of a deviled egg earlier today.

Back to square one..

Alex and I had a very very nice labor day weekend.

Friday I spent the day shopping, lunching and baking cupcakes with my youngest sister before joining my family for dinner at Red Lobster.

Saturday Laurel and I spent 4 hours decorating a cake and then headed to our friend Ashley's surprise party, which was a success! she had no idea! it's always so fun to see how people react to surprises! But we had a great time catching up with friends and hanging out. We even learned a new drinking game called Baseball.

Sunday after awaking from a drunken slumber.. 3 couples stopped at El Rodeo before heading home. I really wanted to introduce them to Neato Burrito, but it wasn't opened yet and we were hungry! Hanging out with those 2 other couples is some of the most fun ever. It's kind of like laughing non-stop! After taking a 3 hour nap later, we headed to Alex's grandfather's house and eventually had an amazing dinner.. mmm! as well as a couple bottles of wine!

Monday we slept in and enjoyed the day off. I spent a lot of time on the couch but did manage to go grocery shopping. Alex brewed a beer and later we had a fabulous filet mignon dinner. Very relaxing!

In other news, we're not attempting to purchase Alex's grandfather's house anymore. So because of that we purchased ourselves some goodies including: a Sonicare toothbrush set, a laundry sink for the basement (for alex), the Mac Box Set which will upgrade us to Snow Leopard and Alex wanted a Vacuum Sealer for food. Just the thought that we won't have to live so tightly has been a weight off of the shoulders. In other other news, i'm back on the SB diet now that summer fruit season is over. I'm going pretty hardcore this time and plan to drop about 15 lbs. It should help that i'm now playing Volleyball on monday nights! Woo!

Hope everyone had a good weekend! Enjoy the pseudo monday and your 4 day work week!

two words

IT'S FRIDAY!

technically...... for me anyway, considering i'm taking off tomorrow. 2 weeks of vacation just isn't enough and 2 weeks even makes it sound long, it's more like 10 days. After tomorrow i'll have one left.. and in reality, i need two.. so i'll take an unpaid day on my birthday. Who works on their birthday anyway?? I know, i know.. lots of people do but i can't imagine it. Even if no one else is available to hang that day (usually my mom is at least) then i just have to go it solo, which i'm totally fine with anyway!

This weekend is going to be so fun.. and also, relaxing. Tonight my younger sister Julia is coming, i'm making lasagna for alex's family. Tomorrow Julia and I are going shopping, movies, lunch and i'm making a cake and cupcakes and fondant for the cake which i plan to apply on saturday.

I'm basically pumped to try this fondant thing.. fingers crossed!

Normally i'm a pretty boring person, but i need to start practicing my vball skills because i was just invited to join a team.. ! yesss! they don't know me but, hopefully their nice.. and they don't suck. which i'm thinking they don't because the person on the phone asked me how good i was.... that's always a sign. hopefully.. good enough! i do need to practice my serve though.. i don't want to look like a little girl serving underhand! hopefully i've made a team for life... or at least the next couple years! i'm just sad it's not more than 1 day a week.. maybe someone will want me for their all women team next season... i'll have to do some networking!

Welp, back to work.. gotta figure out a report and do some paperwork and hopefully it will be 5 pm when i'm done! here's to the weekend!

Conclusion..

I've come to the conclusion that i'm not lazy.. I just don't like my job. Not liking my job means I spend most of the day being bored (though productive) so when I get home.. i'm still in 'bore' mode.

Over the next couple weeks I'm going to work on being more productive at home. Now that summer is 'over' i'm going to try to start a healthy food and exercise plan as well as start the first real estate pre-license class online. Let's get in shape and try to start a new career!! I'd really like to be able to walk around close to my house on the sidewalks but to be honest, I don't really feel 100% safe.. I feel like I could get hassled some how so I avoid it. But someday, hopefully sooner than later, we'll live on a street that we can go on walks.

Still in limbo with Martin Drive.. we've backed away from the idea in order to not be disappointed if it doesn't work out. We have a feeling it's not going to, which is fine. It would be nice to know either way though.. so we can fully get past it.

I'm really looking forward to the weekend.. I'm taking friday off which will be really nice, so tomorrow is technically my friday. I'm going to spend some time with my sister before she goes back to school in NJ. We always go to the movies together so we'll probably do that, and go to lunch.. we love hoss's but i'm thinking maybe we should try something else? Either way it should be fun.. then we have a long weekend for labor day which is also going to be really nice.

T-38-ish hours until weekend!

Lazy

I know i've said this before but I have to be missing some sort of gene or brain cell that helps with motivation.. because i literally have slim to none. Maybe the part of my brain that helps with imagining has taken over the space where motivation used to be?? Because I definitely enjoy thinking about doing new things, trying new things, eating healthy, exercising and yet I have no motivators to push me to do so.. I guess you could also file this under lack of discipline?? Anyway, I might as well share my plan even if it never gets put into action..

Currently, I've been thinking about trying to hop into the 'family business' which I won't share the details of. How I would accomplish this, I'm pretty unsure. I'm interested in Real Estate.. as I will be taking the pre-licensing classes to take the licensing exam and then maybe hanging my license part time at a real estate company.. I can get some knowledge that way.. because what I want to do (i think) is property management. I want to go to the library this week to get a book on it so I can start reading up.. and I know they have classes for a certification for that as well. A real estate license could help with that knowledge.. and I could possibly gain clients through networking. With the real estate license I would also try to offer my clients a Virtual Tour.. for a fee. To help market their business even more. I might need to start out with that as a free option to help gain business but eventually I'd put a fee on it. Virtual Tours are the future of real estate listings. Also through this, I would market my wedding invitation business.. I work with a printer here at my current job that printed my wedding invitations for me as well. She let me know that it can be a good part time job if needed, say when I have a child. That shouldn't be too hard to market.. I could go through the vendors I used for my own wedding and promise to plug them in return. As well as attending Bridal Shows to get my name out there. What's harder than customizing and then just placing an order for invitations and getting a 40-50% commission??

This all may seem very time consuming.. and it definitely would be. But my goal is when Alex and I have babes, one of us will stay home with them until they are school age. So if I have to work a little overtime before we make those babies to save some money to be able to establish myself for later.. so be it. :)

So that's the plan anyway.. It starts with getting my Real Estate license and securing a spot in the business. The rest should be pretty easy to flow into those jobs.. And working from home would be a really nice option!