So I completed this awhile ago on facebook but thought that it would be as equally appropriate on this website to give you all some insight into my "quirkiness!"
1. When I was in kindergarten, my family and I went to Spokane, Washington to visit my great grandfather. While there, we were doing yard work for him and my aunt was using electric clipper things and my job was to pick up the clippings. I got my little hand in there too soon and my middle finger on my right hand got cut badly. On the way to the ER for stitches, in the car I shouted over and over, "why me? Why not you mom? Why me?"
2. I have been told by many people that I wear all of my expressions on my face, so if I am judging you, you won't need to ask.
3. My junior year of college I chose to be confirmed into the Catholic Church. I felt drawn to the tradition and mysticism of the Eucharist. While I have many great disappointments with the choices of the "church" as a formal entity, I still wholeheartedly believe in the basic tenets of Catholicism and miss living a more spiritual lifestyle.
4. My first real word was "cheese." I would pound on the fridge as a little baby and shout "cheese, cheese!"
5. I am addicted to reality television to the point where I have dreams and wake up the next morning racking my brain about where I knew the person in the dream from. Was it high school, college, do I know them now? Oh wait...it was from The Hills...
6. I half believe in prophetic dreams and that I had one while studying abroad in Spain. I dreamt that I was watching two planes crash into a building live on television and remember waking up and thinking how strange it was to watch a live plane crash on television, how could anyone catch that on camera? I had this dream two nights in a row and it disturbed me to the point that I told my friends about it both days. Two months later, 9-11 occurred. It's my superpower...I can predict terrorism...I should work with the government and they should pay me handsomely.
7. Helping people is a nice byproduct of being a therapist...I really just like all the gossip
8. It drives me nuts and I judge people who don't know the difference between homophones like "there, their and they're" or "two, to and too."
9. I love creating things. I like taking materials that are essentially nothing and making something for others...knitting, specialized cakes, scrapbooking.
10. I always wanted a brother or a sister. I sometimes feel that I missed out on a piece of life that most around me had the opportunity to experience: knowing someone since birth that has gone through everything with you.
11. I refuse to spell check emails to friends or to even go back and delete typos...I feel like, you are my friend, you know I’m not stupid, you can get from context what I am trying to say, deal with it...plus I’m lazy.
12. When I was in high school, I rowed on a crew team...I went to the Jr. National regatta in doubles...my partner was over 6' tall...I’m 5'5", we looked really silly, but it was the best time ever. I was recruited for Villanova, but quit less than a month into the season my freshman year for a "social life" I regret it now
13. I think the world would be a happier place is people regularly bedazzled their belongings...
14. My entire life my mom told me that I was always in a hurry to grow up and of course, I didn't believe her...it wasn't until a couple of months ago that I realized she was right and vowed to just slow down and enjoy the part of life that I am in at the moment.
15. I think that everything tastes better with ranch...except, surprisingly, cool ranch Doritos.
16. my first real memory is when I was four or five and my parents took me and my older cousin to Disneyland in Cali and they went to Knoxberry Farm (with the peanuts characters) but I didn't know and they told me it was the Peanut Farm, so I refused to go.
17. This past September, I walked 60 miles in the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer 3 day walk after raising $2200 for the cause. It was by far, the most incredible experience of my life. I felt truly a part of something larger than myself...it was one of two times in my life that I cried tears of joy
18. I studied Spanish all throughout middle and high school and the first two years of college...even studied abroad in Spain for a summer (incredible) but then during my sophomore year, classes went from learning the language to literature and history taught in Spanish and I would get mini-panic attacks before each course, so I dropped the major altogether
19. I secretly (although not too secret anymore) wish I could do something to break the law like rob a bank to feel that rush that likely comes with being somewhat antisocial, to just break a rule and not care about the consequences at all...
20. At least once a week, I second-guess my own sanity...
21. I love my weagle (half wiener, half beagle) dog Oscar, even though he has a stinky heiny...I suspect that is how I will feel about my children someday
22. I feel instantly comforted when meeting new people if they employ casual physical contact such as touching my arm with their hand...I view these people as more personable
23. My first summer here, I was at home alone and discovered a tick on my side....I had to get in the car and drive myself to the bar where my friend was working to have her take it out for me...as soon as she took it out of my side...I started crying and then had a free beer.
24. My Achilles heel is captain Morgan and diet coke...if you feed me those, I become a kleptomaniac...
25. I sucked my thumb until I was 7 or 8...then I went to camp one summer and was shamed out of that self-soothing coping skill...I still however, have a pillow that I rub whenever I am at home and when I sleep...it looks like a sack of worms now, but it's mine and I love it
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Saturday, October 24, 2009
if cars were people, mine would be Dr. Kevorkian...
Let me start by saying I will get to updating you all about datenight. It was super fun and I definitely want to dish about it but before I get there, I hvae to tell you about the day I have had.
It all started last night when R. and I met up for drinks at happy hour. Well, per usual, happy hour turned into not getting home until 11 at night and like always, I drove home cause my husband likes to indulge a little too much it seems. Which is fine, we left his car in town and planned for me to just drive him to town in the morning when he needed to leave for his guard training thingie. The plan was going completely as we anticipated until we got about a half mile from our house. I had just gotten up to the speed limit, we are happily talking about plans for the Packer game we are going to next weekend, when all of a sudden a sad, depressed suicidal deer jumped out from the woods at my car! don't worry, we were fine and the car will be fine - not even close to totaled or anything, just some damage to the front end, nothing a hundred dollar deductable and a week in the shop can't fix. Here in the Northwoods, hitting a deer with your car is common practice, my husband even suggested we get it mounted as my "first kill." The most disturbing part of this whole experience is that while it is my first deer it is most certainly NOT my first kill. Suicidal animals, usually small, are drawn to my car. I have killed so many squirrels and rabbits and small birds it is ridiculous. I try to slow down, but it is like they want to die. They literally stop and try to line up with my tires. I once drove around for a week with a dead bird in my grill without knowing it. So, I suppose then it was only a matter of time before my Dr. Kevokian car assisted in the suicide of a chronically depressed deer. Poor bambi...
After I dealt with that ordeal this morning, I had to take my two dogs to the vet. It was way over due. And guess what I found out while I was there (for two hours, for real, it took two hours to get two dogs weighed, checked out, blood drawn and vaccinated!)? My baby - my little beagle/weiner dog Oscar - is overweight! Of course he is right? Cause he takes after his mama. So, now not only do I have to lose some weight, but my dog does too. What the french toast?
I spent the rest of the day getting things ready for my friend's baby shower tomorrow and then finally putting together the extra bedroom bed and organiznig the boxes still packed upstairs so that they are out of the way. So - the date night you ask? It was great. We went out to dinner (and while i definitely indulged, I did not go over my daily points - even with a glass of wine). Then we went with another couple to see Zombieland. My husband and I are definiely horror movie fanatics and what we love even more than a scary movie is a scary movie that is supposed to be funny. Plus I love Woodie Harrelson cuase he is just a riot. We then met up with a couple other friends just briefly for a beer (I had a 64) and then headed home. Turned out that R. didn't have to leave until THIS morning and not Friday morning, so we got to hang out last night as well which was a pleasant surprise.
So,t his week I have definitely followed my food plan. While I haevn't gotten up to eating as many fruits and vegies as I should be eating, I have been eating fruits and vegies in general - so that is a big improvement. I have also been drinking more water. I haven't worked out but that one time. So i need to improve on that - but I would still consider this week a success cause I have been regularly more mindful of what it is that i have been putting into my stomach so hopefully that will help some. Tomorrow morning I am going to work out and weigh myself on my Wii, so I will let you all know how I have done this first week. I will be out of town tomorrow night through Tuesday night at a training and I am having to challenge myself to eat two and a half days in restaurants without breaking down and ordering something alfredo-y.
Hope you have had a fantastic weekend!!!!
It all started last night when R. and I met up for drinks at happy hour. Well, per usual, happy hour turned into not getting home until 11 at night and like always, I drove home cause my husband likes to indulge a little too much it seems. Which is fine, we left his car in town and planned for me to just drive him to town in the morning when he needed to leave for his guard training thingie. The plan was going completely as we anticipated until we got about a half mile from our house. I had just gotten up to the speed limit, we are happily talking about plans for the Packer game we are going to next weekend, when all of a sudden a sad, depressed suicidal deer jumped out from the woods at my car! don't worry, we were fine and the car will be fine - not even close to totaled or anything, just some damage to the front end, nothing a hundred dollar deductable and a week in the shop can't fix. Here in the Northwoods, hitting a deer with your car is common practice, my husband even suggested we get it mounted as my "first kill." The most disturbing part of this whole experience is that while it is my first deer it is most certainly NOT my first kill. Suicidal animals, usually small, are drawn to my car. I have killed so many squirrels and rabbits and small birds it is ridiculous. I try to slow down, but it is like they want to die. They literally stop and try to line up with my tires. I once drove around for a week with a dead bird in my grill without knowing it. So, I suppose then it was only a matter of time before my Dr. Kevokian car assisted in the suicide of a chronically depressed deer. Poor bambi...
After I dealt with that ordeal this morning, I had to take my two dogs to the vet. It was way over due. And guess what I found out while I was there (for two hours, for real, it took two hours to get two dogs weighed, checked out, blood drawn and vaccinated!)? My baby - my little beagle/weiner dog Oscar - is overweight! Of course he is right? Cause he takes after his mama. So, now not only do I have to lose some weight, but my dog does too. What the french toast?
I spent the rest of the day getting things ready for my friend's baby shower tomorrow and then finally putting together the extra bedroom bed and organiznig the boxes still packed upstairs so that they are out of the way. So - the date night you ask? It was great. We went out to dinner (and while i definitely indulged, I did not go over my daily points - even with a glass of wine). Then we went with another couple to see Zombieland. My husband and I are definiely horror movie fanatics and what we love even more than a scary movie is a scary movie that is supposed to be funny. Plus I love Woodie Harrelson cuase he is just a riot. We then met up with a couple other friends just briefly for a beer (I had a 64) and then headed home. Turned out that R. didn't have to leave until THIS morning and not Friday morning, so we got to hang out last night as well which was a pleasant surprise.
So,t his week I have definitely followed my food plan. While I haevn't gotten up to eating as many fruits and vegies as I should be eating, I have been eating fruits and vegies in general - so that is a big improvement. I have also been drinking more water. I haven't worked out but that one time. So i need to improve on that - but I would still consider this week a success cause I have been regularly more mindful of what it is that i have been putting into my stomach so hopefully that will help some. Tomorrow morning I am going to work out and weigh myself on my Wii, so I will let you all know how I have done this first week. I will be out of town tomorrow night through Tuesday night at a training and I am having to challenge myself to eat two and a half days in restaurants without breaking down and ordering something alfredo-y.
Hope you have had a fantastic weekend!!!!
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Trip down memory lane...
Thought it was time to add some pictures of the "before" before (when i was skinny and where I want to get back to!!!!) and one of the me now, but you can't see my body...i actually dont' have any photos of my body now, i tend to avoid them...
this was in college, don't judge the hair, it was HOT at the time hahaha, but i was little....
here I am with friends at a concert, laying down with NO double chin...i miss no double chin...
me with hubby when we got engaged...gosh i look young and SKINNY...and this was when I had gained like ten pounds...at 140, i could totally deal with 140 now - and to think i thought i was fat...dummy.
this was this last weekend at a recent wedding...you can see the double chin and I was straining my neck to avoid it...agghhh! you can also just see the fullness in my face.
I will have to take a before so that when i am successful you will all be so shocked like, dang kira, you look good!
more photos to come later!!!! off to date night!
Totally should be doing work right now....
Today is Thursday. My least favorite day of the week. Friday is nice, well, cause it is Friday and it means that the weekend is starting. Saturday is great cause I can be hungover all day or actually get things accomplished or both depending on my motivation. Sunday is fun since it is football day and usually our "family" (close friends) all get together and hang out. Monday is a toughy cause it is usually a long day at work but I am typically refreshed from the weekend and ready to take on a new week. Tuesday and Wednesday are more of Monday but Thursday....is a whole different story. First off, it always feels like Friday to me on Thursday so I go about my day at work always thinking the weekend is just a few hours away and then it dawns on me that it is only Thursday. I'm exhausted from the previous three days of work and while there is a glimmer of hope that the week is almost over...it is not enough to get me through the day without swearing at someone usually, even if it is just myself.
But to make this Thursday a bit better, R. and I are having a date night. They don't happen often. AND he is planning it. I'm sorta forcing him to plan it since I usually have to make the plans so this will be a nice surprise. I don't even care what he plans - all I know is that he has to go away this weekend for guard training thingie and on Sunday I have to go to Milwaukee for a two day training so after Friday morning, I won't see him until Tuesday night so we need a date night.
I want to send shout outs to my new followers but I can see them right now thanks to certain people at work using the internet for less than respectable purposes...at work, i mean come on, do that stuff at home, sheesh! okay gotta get back to work, but will totally write more after the date!
But to make this Thursday a bit better, R. and I are having a date night. They don't happen often. AND he is planning it. I'm sorta forcing him to plan it since I usually have to make the plans so this will be a nice surprise. I don't even care what he plans - all I know is that he has to go away this weekend for guard training thingie and on Sunday I have to go to Milwaukee for a two day training so after Friday morning, I won't see him until Tuesday night so we need a date night.
I want to send shout outs to my new followers but I can see them right now thanks to certain people at work using the internet for less than respectable purposes...at work, i mean come on, do that stuff at home, sheesh! okay gotta get back to work, but will totally write more after the date!
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Day two, stil on track
So, it's officially day two of "get hot again" plan and I am still on track. Eating healthy, even worked out last night. Although I will tell you - it wasn't as long as I had originally planned and NOT due to my motivation level either - I was set to go. My husband and I just moved into our new house, well about 2 1/2 months ago. Part of our house is a little man cave that is actually detached and has couches and all of our game systmes in it - which is where my Wii is. I had yet to set up the Wii and it sat in a box the last 2 1/2 months. So, I got the Wii and the Wii fit all hooked up, put in Jilian's game from the biggest loser, which I had never played before and am hoping that my coordination increases in time! - and after about 25 minutes of moving around on the tiny rectangle of Wii fitness, BOTH of my controller's batteries died. So, i had to go back into the house to get the charger thingie and plugged them in and by then, my husband R. was home from the gym and it was pitch black out - so I couldn't go for a walk or anything. So i made dinner instead.
Which yo uwould be so proud of me for!!! Well, sorta. You see I had bought this frozen meal (i know, totally processed but also totally quick and easy) of stuffed shells. There are only 6 in the bag. In the past, totally would have split that with my hubbie and eaten then 480 calories and 28 grams of fat. Not last night though, I only had two - which took me from 12 points down to SEVEN!!! and then paired it with peas and brocoli and was STUFFED! yeah me!
and yesterday, the cook where I work (I work as a therapist at a resdiential facility for kids and teens) made these amazing nobake cookies and i heard her bringing them around in the hall and faced with the possibility of my own weakness, i shut my door and put the "in session" sign on the door so that she couldn't even offer me any, cause I probably would have given in cause they are like chocolate peanut butter heaven...mmmm..i drool now even thinking about them, but again, yeah me!, for not giving in!
ok, more progress updates to come later - and again, thanks for the love!!!
Which yo uwould be so proud of me for!!! Well, sorta. You see I had bought this frozen meal (i know, totally processed but also totally quick and easy) of stuffed shells. There are only 6 in the bag. In the past, totally would have split that with my hubbie and eaten then 480 calories and 28 grams of fat. Not last night though, I only had two - which took me from 12 points down to SEVEN!!! and then paired it with peas and brocoli and was STUFFED! yeah me!
and yesterday, the cook where I work (I work as a therapist at a resdiential facility for kids and teens) made these amazing nobake cookies and i heard her bringing them around in the hall and faced with the possibility of my own weakness, i shut my door and put the "in session" sign on the door so that she couldn't even offer me any, cause I probably would have given in cause they are like chocolate peanut butter heaven...mmmm..i drool now even thinking about them, but again, yeah me!, for not giving in!
ok, more progress updates to come later - and again, thanks for the love!!!
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
i'm not a loser!
I hopped online just now and discovered that I, little ole me, have a follower! AND two comments! People out there are reading this, i'm not a blogging loser! Big shout outs to Continuous Change for "following" me - outside of the blogging world, that might actually be creepy, but not here! Can't type much, I have some new found motivation to work out! Woo hooo! Thanks for the love!
And so it begins..
Ok so I started this blog last week and then got totally busy! So i had no time to write, obvi. Let me catch you up to speed. Did nothing but work last week. I don't know where the time really went. By Friday I was exhausted and had a HUGE weekend ahead of me: babyshower shopping and a wedding and football sunday. So Friday night I set out to get a dress, as well as some new clothes and ended up having a meltdown in the dressing room. Those mirrors are awful and nothing fit like I expected it to. In the end, i found a nice grey tent...er, dress to wear to the wedding. Rushed back to town (for those of you not familiar with the Northwoods - everything for me is about a half hour away as I live in the middle of wooded nowhere), to meet up with friends for dinner and drinks. Now, this was not exactly on the food plan but I figured it was Funday Friday.
Saturday morning was busy as well, having to go shopping again for groceries a half hour away and then met up with friends to get supplies for my friend's baby shower which is this coming Sunday. Before I met up with them I had the intention of finding black hooker boots to pair with my grey dress but could not find any, so once we were done getting party favors and pepto bismol decorations, I rushed around to Payless and hurried to find a pair of black boots that would fit around my calf. Earlier that morning I had tried on my old pair of black boots but without zipping in some of my calf, there was no way those bad boys were gonna on. I didn't exactly get tan this summer, so there was no way my calves were showing at the wedding and I wasn't going to wear nylons becuase they give me that indentation in my stomach which is an extra roll that I don't need. So these boots were absolutely VITAL for the wedding. I had about 30 minutes to get ready for the wedding when I finally got home and we rushed off for the night where I drank entirely way too much but had an absolute blast!
Sunday started out with a greasy breakfast to soak up the leftover beer in my gut. And then everybody came over to our house to watch football and drink more beer. We then relocated to another friend's house where we had brats and beer (no cheese) and finally got home around 1030 at night. We a lazy, busy, fattening weekend. And that is how I gained weight - too many of those weekends throughout the year.
Yesterday though, I turned over a new leaf. My sister-in-law and I started weight watchers. We had been before about two years prior and were pretty successful for the short time we were in it. It was slightly embarrassing when during the meeting as the leader was looking around and talking, her eyes met mine and she said, "oh, hi Kira, nice to have you back." which was embarassing because it was like "hi Kira, good to see you got back on the fatty wagon...looks like you are still fat..."
In addition, I either gained a crap load from this weekend, or just had a lot still in my stomach/bloated, cuase at the meeting, the scale read 210! My home scale is always like 2-3 pounds lighter than their scale so I knew it would be that high since earlier that morning my scale at home said i was 207. Lord. However I know it was likely just bloating and such leftover from this bender of a weekend, cause this morning my home scale read 200 even so in real life, like 202-203 and I dind't exercise and there is no way that sitting on my butt at work caused me to lose like 7 pounds overnight (although it would be incredible if that was possible!). So, i think it is going to look next week like i lost more than I actually did, but that's ok, it is a nice little woohoo, five pound star motivator.
I've done well so far, ate a solid breakfast (five points) and then lunch (6 points). I need to try to get more fruit and veggies in my system though...looks like a little trip to the grocery store is in order tonight.
Anyway, so half way into day one and it's going okay. I'm not so hungry I am goign to gnaw my own hand off - althoguh around 11am i thought i was going to at least chew on a knuckle. I need to plan better with snacks and i will avoid that altogether.
Hopefully this week I can stick to the plan and get some exercise in. I will keep you posted!
Saturday morning was busy as well, having to go shopping again for groceries a half hour away and then met up with friends to get supplies for my friend's baby shower which is this coming Sunday. Before I met up with them I had the intention of finding black hooker boots to pair with my grey dress but could not find any, so once we were done getting party favors and pepto bismol decorations, I rushed around to Payless and hurried to find a pair of black boots that would fit around my calf. Earlier that morning I had tried on my old pair of black boots but without zipping in some of my calf, there was no way those bad boys were gonna on. I didn't exactly get tan this summer, so there was no way my calves were showing at the wedding and I wasn't going to wear nylons becuase they give me that indentation in my stomach which is an extra roll that I don't need. So these boots were absolutely VITAL for the wedding. I had about 30 minutes to get ready for the wedding when I finally got home and we rushed off for the night where I drank entirely way too much but had an absolute blast!
Sunday started out with a greasy breakfast to soak up the leftover beer in my gut. And then everybody came over to our house to watch football and drink more beer. We then relocated to another friend's house where we had brats and beer (no cheese) and finally got home around 1030 at night. We a lazy, busy, fattening weekend. And that is how I gained weight - too many of those weekends throughout the year.
Yesterday though, I turned over a new leaf. My sister-in-law and I started weight watchers. We had been before about two years prior and were pretty successful for the short time we were in it. It was slightly embarrassing when during the meeting as the leader was looking around and talking, her eyes met mine and she said, "oh, hi Kira, nice to have you back." which was embarassing because it was like "hi Kira, good to see you got back on the fatty wagon...looks like you are still fat..."
In addition, I either gained a crap load from this weekend, or just had a lot still in my stomach/bloated, cuase at the meeting, the scale read 210! My home scale is always like 2-3 pounds lighter than their scale so I knew it would be that high since earlier that morning my scale at home said i was 207. Lord. However I know it was likely just bloating and such leftover from this bender of a weekend, cause this morning my home scale read 200 even so in real life, like 202-203 and I dind't exercise and there is no way that sitting on my butt at work caused me to lose like 7 pounds overnight (although it would be incredible if that was possible!). So, i think it is going to look next week like i lost more than I actually did, but that's ok, it is a nice little woohoo, five pound star motivator.
I've done well so far, ate a solid breakfast (five points) and then lunch (6 points). I need to try to get more fruit and veggies in my system though...looks like a little trip to the grocery store is in order tonight.
Anyway, so half way into day one and it's going okay. I'm not so hungry I am goign to gnaw my own hand off - althoguh around 11am i thought i was going to at least chew on a knuckle. I need to plan better with snacks and i will avoid that altogether.
Hopefully this week I can stick to the plan and get some exercise in. I will keep you posted!
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