I, I, I, I workout...well I used to!!

I have had lots of change in my life this past year. Left a stable job to work closer to home, fell into a 3^rd shift schedule, got laid off and now in a temp to hire position working days again. How is one supposed to maintain a regular workout routine with all that change in ONE YEAR! 

I fell off the workout band wagon and I fell off hard! Like face first without bending the knees hard. I tried to get back into it and just wasn’t feeling it emotionally. The more I think about how fit I WAS, when I was doing my best and mud runs and two workouts a day and now BLAHHH!!! A big fat blob of fat! It just DEPRESSING and you feel like you let yourself and family down!!!

Don’t you hate how you do that to yourself too. You start to feel bad then don’t go to the gym because you are embarrassed that you are still a fat ass and so then you beat yourself up about it ALL DAY LONG!!!  I thought I was better than that and I just fell into that nasty trap. There is no other excuse but feeling sorry for my own self.

Well, I have to get back into the game.  I miss it! I miss feeling good and not having my stomach poke out of my shirt and being a couple sizes smaller. I miss it and I miss it bad!  So, I decided to put it out there. Now just hold on, I am not going to do anything CRAZY like post my weight or a pic of myself in a swimsuit. SHIT! NO WAY! I am going to just blog about my progress, my ups and downs and hope it helps me with a little bit of accountability.

Now, once I start feeling better I will put more out there but let’s start with baby steps, ok. I am NOT ready for all that Jillian Michael’s come to Jesus shit! No thank you!

To kick things off I am going to post two challenges that are my big PROBLEM AREAS and incorporate them into my daily workout routine.   Please feel free to do them with me and share your success and failures too. If there is anything I learned is having a good support group around you makes a BIG difference. Maybe later if there is interest I can start challenges on fat secret and make it fun!  

Here are the challenges, just click:

30-day Arm

30-day Abs

Here’s to being and feeling healthy again!!!

Cheers!

A fond memory...

Dedicated to Angela at Time with A & N

I adored your post today about how you love your kids but sometimes…. It reminded me of a very specific incident when my kids were younger.  At that time they were 4 and 2, they are now 12 and almost 10.

Here we go…

I had to be up and at work at the crack of dawn one day. There was a board meeting downtown at 7:30 am and I lived 30 minutes from work, the daycare was located in the same building. The meeting was an additional 30 minute drive.  I had to be up and ready and get the kids up and ready to leave the house by 6 am. YIKES!!! We were able to do it and the kids survived being woke up early. After my day I go to get the kids around 5, this was a freakin chore because they had to get suited up for the winter weather and I could not do it fast enough.

We finally get to our town and I decided that it would be a GREAT idea to go to the grocery store to pick up a few items. It is like almost 6pm and even though everything in my body was telling me NO, I still did it.  We get in the store and I get that damn car cart that I HATE! It’s annoying and hard to steer and just a giant pain in the ass.  It was great for like the first 30 sec.  I kid you not, that immediately after entering the store my oldest decided that she rather walk. I let her and about 10 feet into the walk I accidentally bumped her with the cart in the produce section.

You would have though I pulled her limbs off! She was in hysterics and spread out arms and legs on the floor. I WAS SO EMBARRASSED!!! I ask her to please get up after apologizing and she refuses. She continues to pout on the floor and as I pass her I say, very calmly that the manager will take her to the back room if she doesn’t get up. I continue to walk as if nothing is happening and who shows up around the corner as if on cue… the manager.

She gets up and walks behind me head down kicking the ground as she walks.  On set…the whining…. MOMMMMMmmmmm I’m tired, I have to pee, I am hungry.  I can take care of hungry I say, I pull a box of teddy grahams off the shelve open them up and give to the kids.  1 minute later fighting begins, just as I am going to separate the box of teddy grahams falls to the ground and I swear every single damn graham fell out. REALLY!!!

CLEAN UP ON AISLE 3! I hear as I am getting my last items.  Why did I think it was a good idea to go to the store after such an early morning, I will never know.

I see the checkout and just as I thought I was in the clear I was proofed otherwise.  The girls begin to fight again and I take the 2^nd box of teddy grahams away so I can pay for them they both begin to cry.  My youngest is just tired beyond belief and my older one fit to be tied is hanging out of the side of the cart trying to get out while kicking her sister.  It was AWEFUL!!!  I was sweaty, and I’m sure redder than a crayon. I get up to the checkout to give the lady my “saver card” and say to her, “Well, if this isn’t birth control, I don’t know what is?” SLIENT TREATMENT!  Seriously, that was HILARIOUS! I got nothing but a stare down. I am sure ALL the employees were talking about me. I WAS THAT parent that night. She gave me my receipt and said “I don’t think that is very funny.” I took my receipt and groceries and looked back at her and said, “Well, I think its Hilarious and you would too if you had kids.”

Seriously!

So here’s to you Angela!  One day you will look back on your moment and laugh! Thank god for Vodka, right!

 

B.R.F!!! Really!

B.R.F

You ALL have experienced the B.R.F.  You may even be guilty of having one from time to time.  What is it you ask?  B.R.F is Bitchy Resting Face <GASP>! Dun, Dun, Dunnnnnnn….

Listen, I have been at my new job for 2 whole weeks and am on my 3^rd!  I love it but one thing I have noticed is some women really love to have that BRF on and popping!  It is KRAY KRAY as my daughters would say.  I just don’t get it.

They constantly have this look on their face that’s like “Go ahead, say something to me. Anything. I dare you!”  They make themselves seem so unapproachable.  Why do you want to constantly look that way? Don’t you know your face will wrinkle that way?

Me, I have no problem smiling at people and I KNOW that sometimes people might think I am crazy or high on something but really, I just can’t sit and look like this…

 

 

It's actually pretty funny to me but I’d rather have smiley wrinkles on my face.

Just saying!

Snart????

You have heard of the term Shart but have you ever heard of Snart?  It is an epidemic that is sweeping the nation.  Everyone does it, and everyone pretends it never happened.  What is snart you ask?? I am about to tell you.  Brace yourself!

A Snart is a “Sneeze Fart”.  It is that awkward moment when you sneeze but a fart comes out and it is loud due to all that pressure and force of the sneeze.  This happened to me about a month ago and my kids to this day still speak of it. The reason I bring this up today was because as I was sitting here drinking my coffee in peace, the kids still sleeping due to a late nite of slumber partying, hubby just left for work and I feel this massive sneeze coming on. I sneeze and well it turned into a snart! WHATEVER!!! YOU ALL KNOW IT HAS HAPPENED TO YOU!  I’m just glad I was sitting by myself!  My husband is probably reading this in shame as he hate bodily function sounds! I can just picture him shaking his head. SERIOUSLY HILARIOUS! He cracks me up!

So remember this next time you sneeze and you are a little gassy it could happen to you!

 

I also did a quick google search and found this little gem! HAHAHA!

A Fireflies Paradise...

The last few nights my kids have decided to go on the hunt for fireflies.  Honestly, it was Cristina more than Emily as she is “grown up” now.   Anyways, we gathered the necessary jars and lids and set out for the backyard.  Now, I was not expecting much from this night but what I certainly DID NOT expect was to have a flurry of childhood memories rush through me.  I know I can be an exaggerator HOWEVER, when the kids started the hunt we noticed that our yard was taken over by fireflies. I mean there were hundreds and they were beautiful!  I have never seen so many in my own backyard!  For a split second I really felt like I was in a fairy land of some sort!  If I wasn’t so damn afraid of bugs these days, (which by the way has gotten out of control), I would have plopped down in the middle of the yard!

I tried to post a video but it wasn't that good.  I will try again and see if it gets any better. It's just too dark.

It just brought back so many memories of being a kid and being so care free. Oh, everything was so much simpler then!  I wish I could grant my kids the same kind of experiences and not fear for their lives. It makes me sad.  Anyways, I digress, we would be out in the neighborhood until like 9/10 at night and our moms would go out on the porch and call for us and we’d come out of the woodworks.

All I can do is my best to allow my kids to experience the same, within logical reason of course. 

NEW JOB!!!!

This week has been an exciting week because I STARTED MY NEW JOB!!!!! I am so glad to not have to deal with unemployment anymore! That system is TOTALLY EFFED UP AND WACK!!!!! I can’t stand it!! You can never reach a single person. When you call you are told Monday and Tuesdays are “high volume” days and get disconnected.  Then Wednesday comes and you call and still can’t get through. I didn’t even bother Thursday; I didn’t want to break my phone! So Friday comes and you can’t get through everyone is on break and doesn’t want to work its Friday.  You call get told your number 33 and then put your number in for the call back.  When you get the call back you are still on hold being told the reps are busy and to continue to hold. I held for 40 minutes and hung up! NONSENSE!!! YOU HEAR THAT WISCONSIN!!!!

Anyways! If you didn’t know already I GOT A JOB!!!!! Hahahahha! My kids were so sick of me by the end of last week I kept on doing that to them. “Oh, guess what or Oh, grandma called she said or the neighbor just told me…” etc. etc. It was HILARIOUS to me anyway.

So I am now working as a Sales Service Rep for a great company.  However, I got the job through a staffing agency so I am a temp to hire for 90 days but I LOVE IT!!! It is a great place and a great atmosphere a work hard play hard type of place. I am so excited!

So I just finished the first week of training.  There are 14 total people including me who sit in a room together most of the day meeting, learning and listening to our vendors. It’s funny how personalities start to come out by day 4.  We have an array of personalities that have developed.  It is quite amusing! So far, I have these characters pegged…

 

There is a Kevin James in the mix...

 

A Danny Gokey look a like...

This Kristen Wiig Character... FOR REAL!!!

 

 

And a couple of these... LMAO!

 

All in all it was a great week and I am happy!  That’s been my week.  Hope you all had a good one too!!

Inspiration

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Inspirational Quote...

Fourth Celebrations!

Celebrating the fourth is one of my favorites!

We started with our annual July 3^rd celebration.  My friend has a party every July 3^rd.  We fire off our own fireworks and at the end burn our Christmas trees from Christmas. YES, we keep them.  My friend actually has a HUGE yard and they put them in the little woods area to dry. 

 

 

Then the kids got a chance to do a sky lantern release! OMG! My favorite thing yet!!! This is going to be a new tradition I do with the kiddos! LOVE IT!!!!

It’s always a good time!

PARADE TIME!

This year we decided to not go to the early parade.  I was not feeling the rush to get there and rush to find a seat and rush, rush, rush! The parade in my parent’s neighborhood started at 1:30pm, NO RUSHING! Ahhhhhh!  It was a smaller parade but still fun. My husband got to see Sheriff David Clark so it was all WORTH IT! He loves that man!

 

 Look at the smile on my husbands face!!!! He was so happy!

After the parade we went to the little festival and while the adults enjoyed a few beers my youngest got an animal balloon. When you think of an animal balloon, you think a sword, or crown something simple, right? NOT THIS ONE! My daughter comes back with a huge duck….

I swear I almost spit out my beer! We were laughing so hard at this thing.  Then she starts bopping everyone in the head with and the face popped…

 Then the whole head popped and she decided to wear it like this…

OMG!!!! I think you can get what they look like without me having to say! It was HILARIOUS!!!!

Then of course FIREWORKS!

 

 

I LOVE FIREWORKS!!!!!!

I hope you had a GREAT Fourth as well!

Day 30: Last day

List 5 things that you would like to be remembered for.

1. My smile

2. Positive attitude

3. How much I loved my family and friends

4. That maybe I made a difference for someone.

5. That I made people laugh

Thank you for putting up with my blog a day! I had a ton of fun doing it and might consider something else like this again.