A little blue...

Life: So I can’t quite seem to motivate myself this semester…I blame this on it being my final semester.  I started the semester on a strong note, I read required readings before class, but now I would rather sit and watch tv or search for wedding stuff online when I come home.  I’m tired and the last thing I want to do is use my brain. ;) 

This past Friday was my sister’s 23^rd birthday and it was fun.  I spent the day with her and my mom.  We went for coffee in the morning (I got a smoothie since I don’t like coffee), did some browsing in town, made cupcakes, went out to lunch, went shopping, decorated the cupcakes, then went out to dinner.  All around a very nice day.  The next day a friend of Kyle’s threw a surprise party for her husband at Kyle’s house and that was fun, though exhausting.  Sunday I pretty much just relaxed and it was wonderful!

Lately I’ve been kind of bummed.  I’ve slowly been realizing that I don’t have friends I can relate to.  It seems like I’m at a stage in my life that others have already gone through or haven’t gotten to yet.  Right now, all of my friends are either married and starting families or are in serious relationships that haven’t quite reached the marriage stage yet.  I wish I had friends who were in this transition stage from relationship to marriage.  I’m so excited about planning my wedding, but don’t really have anyone to talk to about it.  I feel like those who aren’t engaged don’t really want to talk about it and those who are married look at me like, oh, that’s cute, I’m already well past that.  I feel like everyone I know has some close friend they can confide in and who is at the same stage in life, and I don’t and sometimes it’s frustrating.  Sometimes I just want to go back to high school when all of my friends were here and we were all going through the same things.  ……… But that’s just me feeling sorry for myself.  Also, I just realized I have no followers on this blog...sad day.

Wedding:  Okay, so now for the uplifting part.  :) Kyle and I are going to take our engagement pictures up in Julian and I’m so excited!! My friend Kathryn will be taking the pictures and I’m looking forward to what she’ll do.  I’m hoping to take them in an apple orchard, but only if I can find one that will let us use the orchard for free.  If we can’t do that, I’m thinking just some fun pictures throughout town as well as some more on the outskirts near some wooded area or something.  We’ll be taking them in October/November, whenever it starts to get cold and the leaves start to change.  I want to bundle up for these pictures. :)  For now, I need to start looking for something cute to wear!

Weight:  This past week was not so kind to me and one of the reasons I didn’t post this on Sunday.  I’ve been avoiding documenting my weight.  I gained 3 pounds this week!  It was so disheartening when I stepped on the scale and saw that…  Now it really shouldn’t have been because I hadn’t done anything to lose weight, but I also didn’t think I did anything unusual to make me gain that weight.  Oh well, I guess this week is a new week.  Though, I don’t think I’m doing well this week either.  I cannot motivate myself to workout.  It has been so hot lately and I completely shut down when it’s hot.  I can’t function.  I hate the hot weather.  If it never got above 70 degrees again I would be a happy camper.  I love the cold.  I thrive in the cold….. Anyway, the moral of this is that I need to put in more effort to lose this weight so I can feel good about myself for my wedding and after.  Here’s to hoping I find the motivation!

Start weight: 144.4 lbs
September 9^th, 2012: 146.5 lbs :(

Colors

Okay, so I'm thinking that I'm going to give some order to my posts.  I've decided I'll have a Life section, a Wedding section, and a Weight section in each to make things easier.  So here we go:

Life:
This past week was my first week of my last semester of school.  It still hasn't really hit me yet that in a few months I'll be done.  I'll let you know what my emotions are when it does finally hit.  As far as the classes go, we really didn't do much this week and what we did go over was basically review.  I hope that things will start to get interesting this week, because I got distracted quite a bit and almost fell asleep.  On the positive side, none of my assignments seem too difficult and I think the longest paper I have to write is around 7 pages, but it's broken up into almost mini papers of 1-2 pages each.  All of my tests will be multiple choice, with the exception of one final that will also include some short answer, so hopefully those won't be too bad.  This Friday, a good friend came home from deployment so Kyle and I drove down to San Diego Thursday night so we wouldn't have to wake up super early on Friday.  We went out to dinner with another friend Thursday and had a lot of fun.  Friday morning we woke up at 6, got ready, and met our friends at 6:45.  We then headed over to base and set up our welcoming area. :)  We relaxed and caught up for about 2 hours and then the ship finally came in.  It was great to see our friend and for the rest of the day we all hung out and had a wonderful time.  We went out for sushi that night and it was super delicious!  It's funny, when Kyle and I first started dating I thought the idea of sushi was disgusting but he has slowly instilled a love of it in me. :)  For Labor Day I don't really have any plans, but will probably read for school and relax.

Wedding:
So despite my previous post of finally setting a date, we ended up moving it a week later due to scheduling issues.  So we are now getting married at the end of September 2013 and I'm really excited about it.  It'll be a fall wedding and since fall is my favorite time of year it works out really well.  I'm hoping that because the wedding will be in upstate New York, the leaves will be changing and will provide really pretty pictures.  Also, because it's now a fall wedding we've changed the colors to cranberry, red, latte, and white (think apple orchard).

This was the inspiration

I'm really excited to pick out the decorations with this new color scheme. :) And I LOVE the idea of red shoes!  Perhaps a two inch wedge?

Weight:
Okay, so I didn't do anything to lose weight this week, but luckily didn't gain anything.  I really hope that I will work exercise into my schedule to tone up.  Maybe this week?

Start weight: 144.4 lbs
September 2nd, 2012: 143.6 lbs

Last, First Day

So tomorrow is my last, first day of school... I can't believe that after 19 years of school, of tests, of homework, of summer and winter vacations, that it's all coming to an end.  I'm really excited, but nervous too.  I registered for graduation the other day and that was awesome.  I also got my grades for my two summer classes annnndddd.............both A's!!!!!!!! I've taken 14 classes at Cal State and I've gotten 12 A's and 2 A-'s.  I really hope I can end my college career with an additional 4 A's. 

This weekend Kyle and I started looking at apartments and that was fun.  We fell in love with a place that is just outside of our current budget, but will work once I'm done with school and have a job with more hours.  So I think the plan for now is to wait until then to move in together.

And now for the weekly weigh in:

August 26th: 143.7 lbs!!
Waist: 26.5 inches
Thighs: 23.25 inches
Bicep: 11.25 inches
Hips: 35.75 inches
Chest: 34.25 inches

I was really pleased to see that I lost this week.  And I didn't only lose pounds, I also lost inches!  I ate much better than I normally do and felt better.  Hopefully I can keep this up! 

The Date!

We finally set a date!!!!  And.........we bumped it up a year!  Instead of June 2014 it will be September 2013!  I'm so excited!  I can't wait to start the planning.  I will definitely be busy with school, planning this wedding, and finding a place to live, but I'm looking forward to the craziness of it all.  It's the beginning of a new chapter of my life and that is so exciting.  I had a long talk with my mom this morning about the wedding and all of the planning.  I definitely have a lot to think about and consider.  We also came up with a sketch of my dream dress.  I hope I can find something similar or that having it custom made isn't too expensive.

Okay so other happenings:

I finished up classes on the 10th of August so this past week I've just been working and relaxing and it has been wonderful!  I'm sad that I only have one week left of summer and then I start classes again...  But on the plus side, this is my last semester of college!!!  Yay!

As far as weight loss goes...it's not going so well.  But, I haven't done anything to make it go well.  The first week I was so stressed about school that I didn't eat well and didn't exercise.  The second week was this past week and I just vegged because it's been so hot here.  Hopefully this week I'll do better.  So here are the weigh-in results:

Start weight: 144.4 lbs

August 12th, 2012: 144.0 lbs

August 19th, 2012: 144.7 lbs

I also think I decided that maybe I'll measure myself at the end of every month instead of each week, because I don't think my measurements will change much in a week.

Losing weight and this and that

Okay, so aside from posting the daily going-ons of my life, I want to start keeping track of my weight loss.  As I mentioned here a little bit, I am a Weight Watchers (WW) member.  I did really well losing weight on the plan when I followed it last year, but haven't been tracking at all this year and have gained back about 3-4 pounds.  I really need to start putting in the effort again and my wedding seems like good motivation! I want to have an all-around healthier lifestyle, but I think the goal of having lost my weight and getting toned by my wedding day is a good one.  I would ideally like to lose the weight by the New Year and then tone/start the toning process after that.  I would also love if by the time my wedding rolls around, I am capable of running a 5k.  I will try to put up weekly progress reports, including my weight/weight loss for the week and inches from my waist, thigh, bicep, and hips. If I find a workout that works really well for me, I will also post that.  I also added a "ticker" to the right to chart my weight loss.

Day 1:
Weight- 144.4 lbs
Waist- 27 inches
Thigh- 23.5 inches
Bicep- 12 inches
Hips- 36 inches


Life aside from weight loss:

I have been crazy busy with school!!! I'm taking 2 summer classes (5 weeks) and they end this week.  I feel like I've been constantly stressing over the next assignment so I will be very glad when this week is over.

Yesterday, I went to Newport Beach with Kyle and his family and got a little sunburned, not too bad and it's mostly all gone today, but it does hurt a little in places that didn't get sunscreen. 

Also, the house hunting is no longer.  After a long discussion, Kyle and I decided to just rent until we're married.  We need to be able to be mobile if either of us gets a great job opportunity so this seemed like a good option.  We also don't want to stay where we are now, so we don't see the point in buying here if we're only going to stay for 2 years, if that.

So I think that catches you up on my life thus far!