The Long Journey

Losing weight and getting healthy is definitely a tough challenge but it is one I have decided I am going to embrace. I've been overweight for years and now I've decided to kick myself in the butt, get off the couch and do something about it. My start date was May 16, but i haven't really been doing much since after my sister got married. I was doing the 30 Day Shred by Biggest Loser trainer Jillian Michaels, what a tough workout, it's twenty minutes of the hardest things I've ever done. It's great for building muscle and losing inches, now I am doing a Leslie Sansone Four mile Walk Away the Pounds video. It's actually really fun and it goes by quick. She has you using every muscle in your body, even your face muscles because she makes it fun to workout and gets you to even smile while exercising. Imagine that! My goal is 60 pounds in one year. Can I do it? Of course I can! Will it be easy? No way! I like exercising but I need to change my diet and eat healthier and eat less. I think that's the hardest part for me. With the help of my boyfriend and my family and friends I know I can embrace this challenge and succeed. I won't quit and I won't back down even if it takes longer than I expect.

Your love is like a river peaceful and deep...

Since I no longer have Facebook I needed to post somewhere how wonderful my boyfriend is. Today is our 8 month anniversary and since we can't see each other this week, he sent me a BEAUTIFUL rose bouquet. It's gorgeous and looks wonderful in the living room. I'll have to upload a picture soon.

Na Na Na Na I'm gonna start a fight

Okay, I'm not gonna start a fight, but I seem to like to entitle my blogs with song names and since this has been stuck in my head the last few weeks, I decided to use this. Not too much has happened in the last few weeks. School started about a month ago and I can't wait for it to be over so summer can be here. Somehow I got the flu on Friday night so I've been sick all weekend. I'm feeling a bit better and hopefully I'm all better by tomorrow since I have a test to take. My wonderful boyfriend got a job at a Ford dealership and he starts this Friday, I'm so happy for him. I can't wait till Valentine's Day to see him, because I miss him so much. I did my obversation for my child development class which was lots of fun. Those little kids are so cute. Hopefully this week turns out to be better and I do well on my test and next time I will have better things to blog about.

Walking in a Winter Wonderland

It's already Christmas time once again. It seems like just yesterday that I was opening my Christmas presents. The semester is winding down, thankfully. I have three midterms this week then it's break and time to recuperate before the next semester, which I'm nervous about since I will actually be taking real classes on campus and harder ones. I also will only be babysitting the twins twice a week so I'm probably going to need to find another small job. Right now I am trying to procrastinate and not do my homework and since I have no facebook anymore I figured I would update my blog.
I love Christmas time, the decorations, the music which I always forget that you can really praise the Lord and worship Him using Christmas hymns, and I love spending time with friends and family. I think I also feel so much more generous during this holiday season with donating to certain causes which I should probably do more often. Allen and I went and donated blood yesterday which was lots of fun and it feels good being able to help those who have been hurt and need blood transfusion, it only takes a little bit of time and you get so much in return.
Allen is amazing and I am so blessed to have him. He treats me like a princess and looks past the faults in me and sees me for who I am on the inside. He's also great about keeping me in check in my walk with God and just makes me so much happier. Sometimes when I am with him it feels like I am in a dream or something because I don't think I deserve him at all yet I know he's mine and he loves me. :)
I am also blessed to be able to serve such a wonderful God. A God who loves me unconditionally and sees the good in me and forgives me when I make mistakes. He gave me the greatest gift of all which is my salvation and sometimes it's hard to remember that is the true meaning of Christmas, not gifts or music, or even spending time with family. But being thankful for the gift God gave us of his only Son who could die on the cross for us and forgive us of our sins and one day when we die we can go to heaven. God is so amazing and I am so blessed to have all that He has given me. I cannot wait to see what this new year has in store for me and what I can do to help make a difference in His world.

My 19th year

Well the school semester is once again slowly winding down and soon it will be Christmas break. Hard to believe the year is almost over all ready. Last weekend was my birthday and Allen took me to san fran. We went to the Ripley's Believe it or Not museum, the Alcatraz, and the wax museum. It was super fun, I had a great time. Allen is such an awesome boyfriend and spoils me way too much. Afterwards he took me to Chevy's for dinner. It was such a wonderful day. Probably the best birthday I have ever had. :) God has truly blessed me with him as well as a great family and friends. Saturday night I had a birthday party with my friends. We went bowling and then to pizza later. I'm not the best at bowling, but it was so fun seeing my friends I haven't seen in a while and having Allen meet all my friends. He was so good with them though and they all seemed to like him. Thankfully he was also nice to my one friend who most people don't treat the way they should. I'm glad he's so nice to everyone and makes them feel accepted. I'm totally falling for him lol. This is also the first blog I have posted on my new labtop I bought last week thursday. I thought I'd spoil myself for my birthday. Wow I was just reading my old blogs about other guys in my life and I realized how lame I was too like them. I now have this absolutely amazing boyfriend and all because I left it in God's hands. I should have done that long ago.
Give thanks to the Lord for He is good. His love endures forever

Summer Happenings

This summer has been full of events. I now have a boyfriend :D. He's my first bf and he is awesome. On Father's Day I learned I was going to be an aunt, which I've wanted to be forever, unfortunately two weeks ago my sister-in-law had a miscarriage :(, me and her just laid in her bed all weekend and watched movies together. They can try again in another month or so, everyone will be praying things go well with that. On a happier note my cousin Liz just had her baby on the 16th! After losing a lot of blood during labor, Liz was able to return home on Saturday night. We went to visit on Sunday and Liz and little Mason are doing well. Mason Daniel is adorable and so small, I guess I will just have to pretend to be his, Hazel, and Kenny's aunt for now.
My summer speech class is finally over. That class was lots of fun and I actually enjoyed it suprisingly. I'll try to update a little more for my sake of remembering what's been happening in my life.
"Count your many blessings one by one and you'll be suprised what the Lord has done."

Turn Around Bright Eyes

I almost forgot I had this thing. Hmm life has been interesting lately, I started my first day of summer school today, speech class not too excited about it but mar is in it so it should be fun. I can't wait for it to be over lol. Yesterday I met this really cool guy that I have been talking to. He came to my church and we went to lunch with my family he met the whole family too aunts, uncles, cousins, cousins kids, as well as my sister and my parents. The family all liked him especially my little cousin, so we will see where that one goes. I should be focusing on God right now more than guys though.
I'm excited to see what this new school year has in store and what God has planned for me. I see that my best friend is no longer posting so goodbye to her. I will continue to read Kaimelar and the many other people I follow on heres blog.

Not much to say

Hmm I haven't updated in a bit but I'm not sure what there is to say. I finished my first year of college, interesting events with Explorers, talking to shortys, the list goes on and on. Three weeks ago my best friends father died, he was like a father to me as well so that was hard on us, the cancer took him too quickly and we will greatly miss him, but we know he is in a better place and not in pain anymore and we know one day we will see him again. My friend dropped out of school and so I've been hanging out cleaning her house a lot. My other best friend now has a boyfriend, but I can't blog my feelings about that since she reads this. My other friends are finishing up college and will be home soon, hopefully this summer is a good one. We will see what God has in store.

Story of my dog

I should be studying for my anthropology midterm I have tonight, but since I don't even know what to study I will just blog about it instead. Besides, I am feeling pretty proud of myself for writing my entire paper this morning. My dog Mia is lying besides me so I will tell you about the events in her life recently. She went in last week to be fixed, however they discovered she was pregnant! The dad, my german shepherd Bear. Since the puppies would have killed her, saying that she is a pomeranian, we had to abort them, which we were quite upset about. She did well after the surgery and seemed to be recovering quite well until we came home Sunday night from dinner at my brothers and discovered she was bleeding all over the recliner. We picked her up and her incision had come open, and something was hanging out (we later learned it was her stomach lining). We called someone who worked at the vet and she said to wait until the morning to take her in since the hospital would be very expensive. We called the emergency hospital just to make sure and they said to wait. My dad wrapped her in saran wrap and gauze and held her the whole night. In the middle of the night she was bleeding everywhere and we were sure she wasn't going to make it. My dad took her in right away the next morning and they tried to charge us for animal cruelty and abuse for waiting so long. Mia was taken care of and she is doing quite fine now. She has to wear a cone all day which she hates, but who wouldn't? Hopefully she heals quickly so she can go outside again. That's all I had to say.
Well off to my studying.

Nothing is forever

Hmm. I feel like I have gone through my first breakup even though I was never really dating the guy. It's kind of tough and it sucks though. Melissa has been a good friend through it all listening to my ranting and being the one who is mad at him because for some reason I'm not, but the whole fam and my friends are. I'm not mad though I think I am just more in shock or suprised by how much he has changed. He got to be a jerk all of a sudden and decided he didn't really want to talk to me anymore.

College Life

My second semester of college started this week. I am taking online classes again, which is kind of tough, but I like it because I can babysit. I signed up for 5 classes and was on the waiting list for all of them and was accepted into all of them, however I dropped history because it is not a required course for me, at least I don't think it is. So my classes for the semester are Cultural anthropology 102 which is going to be tough I can already tell, English 101, Music Appreciation, and Womens Health. So hopefully I do well and get good grades, because MAR and I are planning on transferring to Fresno next spring. We have to remember to pray about and see what God's will is in our lives. Hopefully all goes well because I am tired of Ripon.

uhhh

The last two days have been full of excitement I guess you could call it. My car has been acting dumb lately and not starting for me and yesterday it just decided it didn't want to start for me or anyone for that matter at all and my dad cannot figure out what is wrong with it which is quite a rarity. Then today I went to the dentist because I haven't gone in like three years and they said my wisdom teeth have cavities and I need to get it pulled cuz otherwise it's going to decay. Whoopee!!!! Then she said that the way my jaw juts out under my tongue I can't ever have dentures so I have to make sure I take really good care of my teeth so they don't fall out. Other than that I do a great job at brushing and have a beautiful smile lol.
But I guess I can't complain I got to babysit my favorite little kids yesterday and they gave me a Christmas present when the people I babysit for everyday didn't even give me a card or anything. My life really is good. I have a wonderful family, the most amazing friends in the whole wide world (mar). Life really is good and I have lots to be thankful for. I can't wait to see the wonderful and not so wonderful things I am sure God will bring in 2009.

Firsts

Wow. The last two days were quite eventful days to say the least. We went to Fresno Monday then kidnapped my friend and brought him back home with us and returned him Tuesday. We spent the night at Mel's house where she accused me of things I most certainly did not do at her house. We played Rockband, went to Save Mart, had S'mores, and ate. It was lots of fun. Oh and my friend met my siblings. I'm not quite sure how they felt about him, but hopefully they liked him. It was quite an eventful two days, but I won't go into details, those who I want to know know. THANK YOU VERY MUCH for driving!!! It was quite a good way to end the year. Happy New Years everyone!

Too long

YAYYYYYYYYYY! So this weekend I get to hang out with my friend T-pain in Fresno and I am super excited. This week is going by too slow though. I'm excited for tomorrow though because MAR and I are making cookies which will be lots of fun and help the day go by a little quicker. Im so nervous, but more excited, I think I am more nervous about his parents considering the way that I met this guy. lol
Wish me luck!

All I want to do

I finally turned 18!! It really wasn't that exciting, but whatever, I got to hang out with the fam then that weekend with MAR and she got me a purse, we had lots of fun together, just like on Halloween weekend when I had to babysit my twins all weekend and so she came and relieved me of my boredom and helped me to stay sane. THANK YOU!!
Well I really needed to just vent so this was quite helpful, sorry its not a very happy post.

Just enjoy the show... I want my money back

Well I guess I should update even though there is not much to post, but I will try. I think everytime an animal in my family is killed I make a post so I guess today would be a good day to do that since my bird Petey was killed by my dog Bear. His cage was hanging in the tree, his favorite place to be, and I guess my dad took out the bottom because he was going to clean it I guess and Petey fell out the bottom, I don't know if he could fly because he has never been out of his cage, but anyways Bear got to him before anyone else could and that was the end of poor Petey's life. I was sad because I hate Bear already and I liked Petey and it wasn't even a good death for him :(( I cannot wait until the day when I can post that Bear died, I will be a little sad but not too much.
I went to Fresno the other day but still did not get to meet my friend so I was a little bummed, this calls for a road trip I guess. School is okay except I am not doing to well in anthropology because I don't think my teacher likes my posts because I don't show favorism towards evolution.

Life

Wow this year has gone by rather quickly. I cannot believe that its already the middle of September. Life has been interesting. College is so so, I cannot really say I go because I just have online classes but they are interesting I do not really like my anthropology class because it is all about evolution... ughhh its so dumb and they always bash Christianity even worse. Regina leaves this week my feelings are... iffy to say the least. I've been so confused about this boy that I "met" when we talk which is not that often he's so sweet and I love talking to him we have some good laughs. Me and his best friend talk way more than me and him talk which is kinda sad. But me and his best friend are becoming best friends too lol. They are such cool guys and I cannot wait to meet them which hopefully is in God's plan to do. Babysitting is all right except I think they may be teething... oh joy.

Simplicity

I've come to realize how much I love the simple things in life. Late night chit chats with my favorite guys. Laughing hysterically for an hour with my siblings after my brother came home. Laughing hysterically with my best friends taking crazy pictures while playing Rockband. Hearing a favorite song. Staying up late at your friends house and laughing and talking about boys. The smiles and giggles I get from the kids I babysit. Receiving phone calls from special someones. Getting a comment from your best friend. Or simply reading a blog about something exciting happening in a friend or relatives life. It doesn't take much to have a wonderful time. And I thank God for each and every absolutely wonderful simple moment in life.

"Life is not measured by the amount of breaths we take, but the moments that take our breath away."

Late night chit chats

I don't know what to write but I felt like updating so...
My summers going pretty well I have been babysitting everyday which is kind of boring saying that the kids are only 5 months old so they don't really do anything but eat (alot), sleep (a little), poop and pee (also alot), and the little boy vomits alot. Other than that life has been kind of boring. I have read several books in the last week mainly to get over my boredness while babysitting and spent way too much time on facebook lol. But I have nothing to do after babysitting but clean or go on the computer and talk to random people.

Best summer ever

Got a job, a car, and met three really cool people in the randomest way possible. My car has a delrae (cool, rockin, awesome) stereo. The kids are get to babysit are adorable despite their spitting up on me all the time, and my friends are awesome. Tomorrow is the church fair I hope that goes well. I hope Mark comes home soon as well. I also hope I can make a trip to Fresno some time soon =]]. Well not much more to write. Oh by the way congrats on 100 posts Mel I'm making my way there.