Success! in school and weight loss

Life:
School is getting crazy!! So happy that it's close to being over. I did get an A on my first paper and test this semester.  I'll let you know what I got on the test I took on Sunday and the test today when I get the scores.  And the test I'm taking tomorrow.

Oh, we're doing a remodel at our house and everything is crazy!  We redid our deck attached to our house, are going to redo the deck by our pool, our kitchen, and our family room (adding a wet bar and wine fridge).  We are also painting the whole house, inside and out, adding wood floors and tile where we currently have carpet, and replacing all the windows and sliding glass doors...

Wedding:
This past friday marked 1 year until the wedding!  It's exciting, but before this point I kept saying "I have over a year to do ____" Not anymore!  It's slightly stressful.  There are moments when I just feel like eloping and forgoing the craziness of planning a wedding.  I'm sure my parents would be happy about that. ; )

So aside from picking colors, a date, and location, I haven't done any planning.  Because of the remodel at our house, my parents are so preoccupied that I feel bad bringing up the wedding (yet another expense they'd have to think about).  Hopefully I'll be able to get some planning done soon...

Weight:
Yay! Lost that pesky weight that I gained the other week!  I finally started exercising that it felt really good!  One of my good friends Katrina got me going on walks again! I've gone on two 5 mile walks so far and I'm hoping to make it a tri-weekly thing.  I'm thinking Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.  With Zumba classes on Mondays.  Sadly, I'm out of commission for the rest of this week because I have a blister on my foot, but as soon as that is healed I will be back out there!  So, so happy to have my motivation back!

Starting weight: 144.4 lbs
September 23rd, 2012: 144.0 lbs (-2.3 lbs from last week!)

1 year from today...

In exactly 1 year Kyle and I will be getting married!!!! I cannot wait to call him "husband." : )

I love him so much.

Nothing much

Life:

So school all of a sudden got crazy! I had a paper due this past Sunday (which I got an A on!), I had a test today, I have an online test on Sunday, a test on Monday, and a test on Tuesday.  And I’m sure I have another paper due soon that I’m forgetting about.  So glad it is my last semester!

Kyle and I have been apartment hunting lately, but haven’t fallen in love with any place yet.  Not to mention that housing is so expensive here!  Just one more reason I want to move!

Wedding:

Not much has happened.  I think next week some time we are going to meet with a travel agent to discuss options for our honeymoon.  Otherwise, nothing new.  Wedding decisions have been put on the back burner for a bit while I’m in school.  Although, one thing I want to start doing soon is looking for a dress.

Weight:

Okay, so I don’t know what happened the other week, but that 3 pounds I gained hasn’t gone away.  I don’t know what I did differently, but I’m not happy about it.

Start weight: 144.4 lbs
September 16, 2012: 146.3 lbs (-0.2 lbs) <I think I’ll keep that feature around, adding how much I’ve gained or loss during the week, not just what I weight.

I was trying to find a fun picture to add to this post and stumbled across this one. I really miss my short, red hair!!!

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