I’m going to stop posting “not regularly” on here and post VERY regularly on my new blog:
http://wshesaid.wordpress.com/
I’ll still post on here when I need to/want to, and will be logging in regularly to keep up with all of my awesome Tumblr friends.
I had a migraine that lasted 4+ days last week coupled with a little stuffy nose. I went to the doc and he put me on a daily migraine medication to help them from starting, as well as a new med for if/when I do get them. So far the combination seems to be doing the trick.
Thursday the congestion got MUCH worse. I had to take my brother to the Pittsburgh airport Friday morning so he could do an open house thing at Northeastern. So, we left at 3am…you read that right… To get him up there in time. I was completely miserable by the Washington exit on the way home. Although while at the doc for migraine issues, he did give me something for my congestion- it hadn’t worked.
I got through work at the studio as best i could when I got back into town and last night I got NO sleep. I couldn’t breather… Couldn’t swallow… It was as if I was relieving the NCAA tourney trip to Arizona that I got sick on. So,today i went back to the doc and begged him to fix me before our big trip to NYC on Monday.
I now have 7 different meds coursing through my veins attacking the infection I have. I just can’t bare the thought of going to NY and being so sick i can’t appreciate the experience with Nick.
I’m also sick of people not taking responsibility for their actions. “if you want your life to change, you have to stop accepting shitty and demand something more.” I heard that on one of the many tv shows that i watch regularly years ago and it keeps popping up in my head.
My heavy duty cough syrup is finally kicking in, so I’m going to stop typing and whining and start resting. There is a Harry Potter marathon on abc family, which is going to be awesome to fall asleep to here in a few minutes. and when i cant fall asleep or here in an hour, i will get up, do some laundry, help Nick with the stuff he’s doing, clean a little and take the next dose of meds.
I will not be sick for our anniversary.
I will not be sick for our anniversary.
I will not be sick for our anniversary.
I will not be sick for our anniversary…
Well, while doing my diet thing and exercising like a mad woman… I’ve managed to actually gain weight… WHOMP WHOMP. I blame it on my “diet.” So, I’ve joined Weight Watchers officially!
I did the WW in high school and lost over 25 pounds, so I know that it will work for me, and with Jennifer Hudson singing me to the finish line, I know I can do it! LOL
More to follow….
Also, can I just say how excited I am that the Oscars are this coming Sunday! It’s like my Super Bowl, people!
I CAN’T WAIT FOR THE RETURN! HAHAHAHA LOVE THIS! They crack me up! :)
Source: youtube.comWedensday Wallbomb #16 - “Cara Folk” feat. my mom
Last year, I wrote a song each week about a random Facebook fan based on their profile. I called it the Wednesday Wallbomb. Due to her popularity in Wallbomb #5, I tried another song with my mom. It didn’t go so well, so Wednesday Wallbomb #16 was never posted… Until now.
Wednesday Wallbombs start again March 2nd. Warn your friends. “Like” my Facebook page at www.facebook.com/scottsimonsmusic.
Cleaning is probably the chore that I detest the most to do. I’m not sure why that is, because as soon as it’s done I feel better. Yesterday all of Christmas went back into the storage room at our house. I’ve been taking little things down here and there, but the tree came down, the swag from above the cabinets, all the little figurines and candles… and now, I feel better. I feel like I’m almost willing Spring to hurry up and get here!
Our kitchen/living/dining room area feels almost empty with all the crap I put out for Christmas. It actually makes me excited to go back through everything for the Garage Sale this spring (Something I should have thought to do while I was putting it away) and get rid of a lot of the “stuff.” Not that I don’t LOVE all of our fun decorations, but I guess I’m starting to realize how much clutter I typically set around. LOL
The rest of this week/weekend I’m cleaning out the guest bedroom. We have a bunch of people over the next few weeks staying with us, and it needs cleaned out! I’m talking the room itself (where things go to sit when we don’t know where to put them) and the closet (which looks like something out of a cartoon where everything will fall out when you open the door). Then it’s onto our bedroom and then finishing up the basement. *phew* That seriously made me tired just thinking about it! Not that we’re living in filth LOL, it’s just a lot of STUFF. Stuff that we don’t need, or don’t have a place for that is just cluttering our lives! I can’t wait to go through and label things and either donate to the Domestic Violence Shelter or sell in the Yard Sale this spring.
I have a couple scrapbooks that I’m going to actually put things in so I’m throwing away things from my Marching Band years that I want to keep, or things from vacations or trips that we really have no use for, but are fun to remember. I’m also changing out the photos on our little ledge in the living room from all photos of us through the years and friends to family and friends. I found photos of my and Nick’s grandparents and great-grandparents when they were young and newly-weds, they all look like movie-stars… it’s AMAZING. So I think it would be fun to have photos of Nick’s family and my family in one area with some of our wedding photos and such… just typing out loud ;)
Maybe it’s the smell of pledge and that you can now see all of our beautiful hardwood furniture, but I’m SO loving the way our house looks right now and I want to make sure that I don’t clutter it up… so here goes nothing!
On a completely different note: I desperately want to learn how to cook more home-made yummy yummy food. I want to be able to make gnocchi and pastas and risotto and artisan breads. I want to make Top Chef meals when friends come over and vary up our day-to-day meals when no one else is around. THAT is diffidently something I want to achieve by 2012. Between the amount of Neeleys/Top Chef/Dinner Impossible/Tony Bordain/Paula Dean that I watch, I think I can make it work ;)
Now that we’re back from our little vaca to Orlando…. I’m back on track.
I got totally turned around and away from my “getting healthy” plan in December when we had a lot of heartache and drama in my family. I just didn’t have the energy to go to the gym and found such comfort in my soda, sweets and heaping plate-fulls of everything. This trip completely re-started me. I think it was a combination of being on our feet all day in the parks and being so tired and sore by 2pm and eating actually proportioned meals at the parks and restaurants, but still felt full, that I knew I had to get back. Also, seeing just about every cute child in the world in a princess dress or pirate costume made me ache… literally ache… to have a child. I know now that I probably will never have the will power to lose weight and get healthy for myself, but I do know that I can hopefully do it for my children… I truly can’t wait.
I realize now that it’s up to me. We can try to have kids anytime we want really… and it was MY plan to start trying when I had lost enough weight so when I did get pregnant and gain weight I wouldn’t be putting the baby and myself at risk. I control the time-line for trying… so I better get myself into gear! And I do realize that it could take months, even years before we can get pregnant once we start trying, and there’s the chance that we can never have children of our own. I just don’t want my health to be that factor, when I can control a good portion of that now with the daily decisions I make.
I’ve been drinking WAY more water, salads (not the the crazy it’s still bad for you salads, but legit good yummy salads) and haven’t been snacking out of boredom or poutiness. I already see a difference and have either gone to the gym everyday or when I can’t I do exercises that I can here at the house. It’s kind of exciting when you can see yourself changing a little bit. I was proud to go out last night with some girlfriends and order WATER instead of the 5 cokes I usually refill up with during the meal and a grilled chicken SALAD instead of the burger. It was the first time eating out, and I was so proud :)
My project for today, since I’m in kind of a sort of in an overhaul of everything… is to CLEAN. We’re going to stop out at our friends house tonight (They have 2 little boys and we have really late Christmas gifts for them and she’s going to play make-up with me), so I have all day until we decide to head over. I’m going to get Mary Kay Land/the wrapping room from Christmas all cleaned up and in order. That way, I can reach the boxes to take down Christmas Decorations (I know…) and when girls come over to try the new Timewise Liquid Foundation and Foundation Primer, they can actually sit and try it and not feel like they’re getting swallowed by my junk! LOL
K, Off to work… going to try to update this more often as well… I know, I’ve said ALL of this before, but it feels different this time.
Well, the pup is officially 1-year-old today.
Good day to be snowed in so we can play together all day. Right now he’s basking in the sunlight that’s trying to melt the snow and ice outside/recharge (he’s like Wal-e).
It’s time for my SUPER BOWL CONTEST!
I’m making a grid, and I need to fill it with all of your names, so you can win some AWESOME prizes!
For every $15 you spend in January and until February 6th at kickoff, you get to pick a number between 1 and 99 and I’ll write your name in the box of the number they pick.
I’m giving away 4 $25 gift certificates PLUS a Satin Hands —one at the end of each quarter of the Super Bowl Game. That’s a $59 value!!!
If you’re not a football fan, don’t worry! I’ll be watching the game!
If the score at the end of first quarter is Pittsburgh 13 Cardinals 10 then I pick the second number in each teams score (3 and O which in this case would be 30) and look and see whose name is in the box with the number 30 and they will win the $25 gift certificate and Satin Hands Set.
The same thing goes with 2nd , 3rd and 4th quarters.
It doesn’t matter what number you should pick, because of the formula I am applying to get the winner—example if the score is 29-9 the person whose name is in the 99 Box would be the winner!
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DON’T FORGET, I’m giving everyone 5% OFF their total order, so now’s really the time to get a new look and get your skin feeling great for the new year! FREE SHIPPING and FREE products when you order over $40! You can’t pass it up!
You can order online, phone consultation or we can set up a time to get together so you have a facial and try everything out!
check out:
www.marykay.com/lseiler
(304) 904-2391
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I can’t believe it’s Christmas Eve! WOW. This year has FLOWN by! This time last year Nick and I were preparing for our first Christmas Eve and Day at our home since we moved in. It feels like forever ago. We were engaged, and I was in full-on wedding planning mode. We had just gotten engagement photos taken a week before and I was hoping to find things for our puppy that we had yet to name and see in my stocking. Nick was baptized and we had joined Wesley Church as full Members. Time flies…
I can’t believe that a year can change so much. I’ve grown up so much. The responsibility of Franklin (if you don’t know, he’s our handsome pup) and being a wife to my best friend have completely transformed me. I believe I’m not as selfish and am more understanding. I’ve learned to put other people’s needs far before mine and to approach life with compassion and a positive attitude, rather than a negative one. It’s amazing how just that tiny switch from negative to positive outlook can change so much.
There are some things I understand now that I have no control over and people that I have accepted will chose their own path, no matter how much I believe they are on the wrong one. And that’s OK. It’s not my responsibility to fix everything. They’ll learn and grow and realize that actions have repercussions. Some have to learn that on their own… like I did!
I’m so fortunate to have the life that I do, and I thank God and His plan. I have a supporting family, fun friends and a husband who truly is my best friend and love of my life. There’s not a day that I don’t wake up and thank God that our relationship, which started as a high school crush in jazz band, has turned into a respectful loving marriage. I can’t imagine what my life would be like without him. He’s just the most caring and loving man. And to think that after all this time, he can still make me laugh that big belly, fall off my seat, crying laugh… just makes it all the better :) Last night we played “Mad Gab” for over and hour and it was hard to breathe we were laughing so hard at eachother. If you don’t have that game, PURCHASE IT! There’s a travel version at Target that will have you giggling for hours! :)
This upcoming year I’m looking forward to getting my booty in gear on a lot of things. I want to be 50lbs lighter by this summer. I also want to be at least in Future Director status with Mary Kay, if not have my Directorship and in FREE CAR qualification (I’m almost there now!). I hope to be healthy and the people I love and care about be healthy with me. I also want to learn how to cook better, both recipes and just healthier.
I’m ready to start our family once I get myself healthy and our financial stability in order. Looking at old Christmas photos and seeing our friends with kids putting things under the tree and how much they’ve matured and grown over the years with their kids makes me so excited for kids of our own. Baby Fever has hit in full force and although there’s never a “good time” to have kids when you’re planning, I’m hoping that once we have those 2 things under control, we can start adding little ones to our family! If you had told me 5 years ago that I would be talking about having children this seriously, I would have LAUGHED and LAUGHED at you. It’s just incredible how things have changed.
So here we are, Christmas Eve Day. I’m going to bake all kinds of pies, cookies and breads today for tomorrow. Tonight we’ll go to Christmas Eve Service at 11pm at our Church. We went last year, and I cried. It was so beautiful! They pass out candles to the congregation and then starting in the front, you “pass the light” to the person next to you, lighting their candle. By the end, the church is filled with this beautiful candle light and everyone is singing O Holy Night and it’s just so beautiful. I love it. Then, when we get home it’s technically Christmas Day, so Nick and I will open presents for each other and some presents for Franklin and go to bed.
Tomorrow we will wake up early, see if Old St. Nick stopped at our home this year, and head with the pup over to my Dad’s. We’ll open presents with the sibs and have Christmas Lunch with my family. This year’s Christmas is so different because my mom is in Russia with friends. It’s defidently different.
Then we’ll come back to the house to catch our breath and go to Nick’s parent’s house for Christmas Day Dinner and presents. We’re bringing Frankie there too, I love watching him run around and smell everything! LOL It’s just too cute!
Now that I’ve rambled on… I hope everyone in Tumblr land has a wonderful Christmas!
I know it’s been a while… we’ve had a lot of family heartaches happening in our corner of the world, but here is something that will make everyone smile.
And I am positive, without a doubt in my mind, that if we had these little boingy things for the doors, Frank would react the same way :) LOL
Well, I Went this morning to get my personalized workout with Healthworks. I’m REALLY excited about it. I’m to do 10 minutes of cardio (either walk/jog or bike… or 5 minutes of the EVIL Step Ups) to get my heart going. Then a circuit of weight training in a certain order to get the most out of my workout. Then it’s mat time… where hopefully that chubby belly will tamed. Next is 20 more minutes of cardio and finally some stretching to release the acids and help me not be so sore.
I think the way Trainer Matt has it set up will keep my attention and make me push myself. He won’t be there to talk me through anything the entire workout anymore, but if I have a question or just want to make sure I’m doing something right there’s someone there. Plus, in a few weeks when the workout becomes a little stale and I’m getting stronger, he’ll come up with a new scheme to keep me in check :)
On a totally different note, Halloween was a BLAST last night. We had the gang out for a Pumpkin Carving Contest, Scary Movie Trivia Game, dinner and premeire of “The Walking Dead.”
Dinner was REALLY fun to make. First, the appetizers were Fruit & Poop (Fruit with my peanut butter fruit dip), Alien Fingers (Asparagus wrapped in Bacon), Eye Balls (Hard Boiled Eggs with Saracha Sauce), and cookies that Leah brought.
The main course was Tape Worm Surprise (Spaghetti and Meatballs), Mummy Dogs (Pigs in a blanket… but made to look like mummies with little faces LOL) and a salad…
Deserts consisted of the cookies that Leah brought, Intestine Cake (Angel Food Cake that I crumbled up and then put dark red icing all over), and Poisoned Apple Crisp (just like it sounds, only with a little bit of citrus and no poison).
It was DELICIOUS! I think everyone had a good time with the games we played LOL and the Walking Dead was actually a lot better than I anticipated. It was diffidently gorey, but at least the plot was fun. Watching it in the cool basement with the lights turned off at 10pm at night might not be my preferred way to watch it, but I will admit… it’s good.
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Just got home from Healthworks. I met with Matt, a Healthworks Intern, who assured me that we’d get me on track in no time. It took me by surprise when by the end of my side of the conversation I welled up with tears
Matt: “So why did you decide to come here?
Me: “I’ve been overweight for years, I really just want to tone up and lose some weight. I’ve heard nice things about everyone here at Healthworks and I really think it could be a good fit.”
Matt: “That’s great! We’ll work with you to meet your goals, answer any questions you have and help you along the way! So why now? Any goals you have in mind?”
Me: “Well, my husband and I want to start a family in the next few years and right now that’s impossible with my health.*sniffle, wipe tear* This is insane, I’m sorry. *sniffle sniffle* I just… *wipe tear* This is the biggest I’ve been… *sniffle* and if I don’t start now, by the time the weight comes off at a healthy rate… it just could take a while, ya know? *wipe tear* Of course you know… you’re a trainer… oh my gosh… *sniffle* I’m going to stop talking now. *sniffle, wipe tear*”
CRAZY
This guy must think I’m a lunatic… I sure did. Where on EARTH did that emotion come from? I don’t even know why I was telling him that! What a fantastic start LOL He was as sweet as he could be listening to me ramble and reassuring me that they were there to help me succeed.
Now onto the actual Fit Test! The first part of it was basically me moving my limbs around and him checking off that I could move. This way they know I guess if you’re right shoulder isn’t as flexible as your left and all that.
Next on my fit test was how many of each I could do: Pushups (13… respectable), Squats (11), Situps (O…WTF… evidently I was doing them wrong?)
Then, I did an endurance test that consisted of me on an aerobic step (4 blocks high) for 3 minutes straight… 1.5 minutes leading with left, 1.5 minutes leading with right. I think I would have been better with this had I NOT just done the squats 30 seconds before… but I made it all the way through (WHOO HOO)!
My thighs however feel like JELLO. I think that’s what they’re aiming for… Now, it’s really only my thighs that feel this way, but I’m sure on Monday when I get my personalized workout there will be more muscles to join the JELLO club.
I might go back tonight when Nick goes in for his Fit Test and do the Deep Water Running Class. They put heavy weights on you and you run around the pool… sounds low impact and fun to me! Let’s just see if I can find my darn swimsuit! LOL If not, maybe another class or something tonight.
Planned dinner tonight: salmon with brown rice and veggies.
Starting weight: 256.4
Starting Body Fat: 45%
No turning back now…
Well, we’re all signed up! My fit test is scheduled for Wednesday at 8:30.. that’s when they’ll take my blood pressure, weight and measurements and then put me through the gauntlet to see just how out of shape I am.
So here’s to Wednesday morning… and all the challenges that will come with it! Now to do some laundry and make a last dinner of sorts with Nick and Kate.
Will update with the results of Wednesday after it happens. I’m excited and nervous all at the same time. :)
