Goals

I've always secretly been afraid of setting goals. I mean, I've set goals before, but most of the time it's just because I have good intentions, but have no real desire to meet them. Today, that all changed.

Amidst workplace boredom and thousands of supportive electronic "friends" (www.sparkpeople.com), I set my first real goal:

Lose 55 pounds by 12/31!

An easily attainable goal, some might say, but to me, it's going to be the hardest thing I ever do.

Lucky for all my readers, you get to witness it--every step of the way.

Step one: Get my butt in gear and start becoming active! As soon as I'm done writing this I'm going to go take Beesley on a walk!

Back blogging:
Who is my mystery commentator? You said you love my blog, but I don't know who you are! By the way, I love you more.
Anaise gets the coolest cousin award--she's commented on my blog every day this week! I'm sure your sick baby appreciates you taking time out to comment on my blog! :D

Are you free for dinner tonight?

For the married crowd, if you could offer the world one piece of advice when it comes to the art of seeking that special someone, what would it be?

While I'm not persuing and have not actually been in an established relationship before, I feel like I sometimes know more about life than the average active dater.

Here is what I've learned by observation:
* Do not sit by your phone and wait for his/her call (or text) and pick-up on the first ring. This is a sign of desperation. To go along with that, do not call, text, email, stop by and visit 25 times in a day. This is creepy.
* If he/she doesn't have some sort of contact with you every 30 seconds, DO NOT READ INTO IT!
* If you haven't had a date in 10 years, do not blame the other sex. Men (or women) do not conspire to make your life miserable. If your usual tactics do not work, it's time to change said tactics.
* Do not plan your wedding/children/the next 50 years together because you like him/her. Go with the flow and let things progress naturally. You cannot fantasize progress. 99.9% of the time things will not go as planned anyway.
* If you like someone and you're not sure if they like you back, ASK THEM OUT! Stewing over such things will only put stupid ideas in your head.
* If you're actively dating one person and you're not sure where you stand, FIGURE IT OUT! Stewing over such things will only put stupid ideas in your head.
* If you want to break things off with someone, DO IT! Stewing over such things will only put stupid ideas in your head.
* Stewing over anything will only put stupid ideas in your head.
* Games are for kids. Grow up and quit making rules about everything.

Did I miss anything?

I feel bad for the poor sucker who ends up with me :D

Bonus points go to the person who can guess where the title of this blog came from...

Cravings

How do you control cravings?

I'm doing REALLY well with my cravings (specifically fast food), but that doesn't mean things are going to be hunky-dory 24/7/the rest of my life. Eventually these cravings will creep back up on me, and I need to be 100% prepared.

For those of you (Aunt Judy!!) who have given up sugar and other crave-o-load substances, how did you do it?! Guide me, o wise blog followers...

Would do you think about doing a 48 (or so) hour detox? I'm looking for ANY suggestions...

P.S. My brother, Lindsay, is going to help me possibly set-up my own website for my blogs. Stay tuned :)

Before and after...

I thought I'd share some before/after photos from my condo. It's been a while since I've talked about it!

Dining room

Before--storage?

After--cute enough to eat in!

Living room

Before--managed chaos

Before--clean and homey!

P.S. Why is it so %#@$^*& hard to upload pics on this stupid site? Do you know how long this entry took me to create?!!? TWO HOURS!!! Every time I upload a picture is messes up my spacing of the ENTIRE entry, so I have to start over. And, when I try to move a picture up or down, I can't drag it. I HATE IT!!! I've always had this problem, which is a big reason I didn't blog keep blogging before. I might switch to wordpress...maybe it'll help my blood pressure.

Has anyone one else run into these problems?!

Organic, or....

I've been having this recurring thought that I should start eating organic....

Do I really want to? Kinda...

Can I afford it? Absolutely not!

Is it a phase? Probably, considering my whole life is a series of odd phases :)

I even found farm co-ops in the area--relatively cheap!

What do you think? Can I pull it off? I think watching Food, Inc. made me really see the harm I was doing to my body by eating fast food, processed, and chemically enhanced food. I'm finding it hard to stomach certain foods these days. The other day I bought a bag of dried apricots from Fresh & Easy and upon reading the label I saw Sulfur Dioxide...what the heck is that?! Do I really need to be putting some kind of perserving agent into my body unnecessarily?

Please discuss...

Progress report

1,650
90.2
48
25
10
3.2

1,650 = the number of calories I'm allowed to eat in a day
90.2 = the number of miles I've biked to and from work
48 = the average number of raw almonds I consume in one day
25 = the number of days I've gone without filling up my gas tank
10 = how I'd rate my day today, out of 10
3.2 = the pounds I've lost since I started riding my bike to work

I hope you're all having a fabulous day, because I sure am! No work for 2 whole days!!!

Coming soon: Mach 75!

I have way too much time to think at work. It's really affecting the kooky side of me. Today, as I was eating grapes out of a Zip-lock double zipper bag, I thought to myself, why the heck does this bag have a double zipper?! Seriously. Maybe if you guys had made the first zipper more sturdy, you wouldn't have a need to add a second one! Watch out, these killer grapes might escape and run rampant and terrorize Phoenix! I'm pretty sure my grapes don't run the risk of breaking the already too-thick bag. Sure, these bags might be great for meat, but if you really need two zippers to hold your meat in the bag, you should probably think about buying less vicious carcasses. (I'm pretty sure I could have added a "that's what she said" in there somewhere, but I shall refrain)

I bought some batteries the other day and with them I got a bonus Mach5 razor. What disposable razors have to do with batteries in the first place is beyond me. Anyway, this razor, true to its name had 5 BLADES. Really?! Apparently 4 blades just doesn't cut it--literally. Are there razors with more than 5 blades? I wouldn't be surprised. What genius over at the razor factory is going to invent the next new, state of the art razor?!
Why don't they just invent a razor with 75 blades where you can press it against your leg and move it up just one millimeter, and PRESTO! your leg is as smooth as the day you were born.

I should be an inventor, I tell ya!