Foodie Pen Pal Reveal Day!

As most of you know, last month Cody and I signed up for this super awesome program called Foodie Pen Pals.  Each month, you get paired up with two people - one person who is going to send you a package, and one person that you will send a package to.  It's a great way to get to know people, as well as try all kinds of awesome new foods!

This month, my box came from Abby over at Full Time Wife Life. Turns out that Abby was the perfect match for me, because we are so alike!  Not only are (well, were) we both planning on running the Princess Half Marathon, but she's also way into Disney, she loves Hanson, and she's a wedding photographer...and I love weddings!  I was super excited to see what she was going to send us, and she definitely didn't disappoint!

As you can see in the picture, I got some yummy stuff!  She sent me:

• Kettle Brand Chips - I LOVE Kettle Chips!  I may or may not have eaten the whole bag the first day we got the box....
• Pasta Sauce - I don't exactly remember the name of this sauce, because we ate it already and I threw the jar away.  But it was so good! She got it at her local farmers market.  I loved it, it was great with the chia pasta!
• Chia Pasta - I was totally surprised by this, I had no idea they made this stuff!  It was super yummy and had a great texture! I tried tofu pasta once, and it was awful, so I was nervous about this stuff, but it was great!
• Homemade Peanut Butter Granola Bars - Abby made these, and they were so good!  They made a great breakfast for my ride to work. 
• Justin's Peanut Butter Cups - Abby sent this specifically for Cody, since I told her he has a sweet tooth. He loved them! 
• Protein Shakes - I haven't tried these yet, but I'm super excited to!  She send a chocolate and a vanilla - both flavors I love!
• Luna Coconut Chocolate Bar - I have recently discovered my love of Luna Bars, and this one was delicious! 

I wanna thank Abby again for the awesome box, we loved everything in it!!!  I hope to see you when Hanson plays at Epcot! :)

If you want to sign up to be a Foodie Pen Pal, head on over to The Lean Green Bean to learn how to sign up!

Kind of a Sad Post

I have been putting off writing this post, because I am still not sure I've made the right decision.  I've thought long and hard about it, and while I'm not necessarily excited about the decision, at the moment it's what I feel I have to do.

I've decided not to run the Princess Half Marathon this year.

I know I've talked in the past about how I may not do it, and you all have been so incredibly uplifting, and I am so thankful for that.  I don't want you to think that this means I'm going to stop running.  Because I'm not.  I actually miss running, and can't wait to get started again. 

Starting this new job has been emotionally and physically draining on me.  It's been a bit overwhelming at times, but so far I'm liking it.  I have another 6 weeks or so of training, and in my first 2 weeks of training, I haven't been go the gym once.  My schedule is so weird, and with a two hour round trip commute, my days are 12+ hours.  And when I am off of work, I want to sleep, or clean, or hang out with my husband. 

I know this probably sounds like a bunch of excuses, and it probably is, but I honestly feel like I don't have the time, or possibly the dedication it takes right now to train for the half.  My schedule will be changing again in October, so even if I were to get on a training program now, I'd have to start all over again once my training is done.  I just don't think I would be ready in time. 

I hope I don't lose any readers because of this decision, and I hope I haven't let any of you down.  I am so excited to hear about all of your experiences, and I can't wait until 2014, because I have every intention on running that year.

Thank you all for being so incredibly supportive, and I hope you all stick around because I love having you all here! :)

So.Tired.

Whew, what a crazy week it's been.

I'm into week 2 (almost week 3) of my training.  It's going pretty good. I have been working in the kitchen, which I'm really not okay with, but I have no choice.  As a manager, you have to know how to do every position in the restaurant, so I have to learn how to cook.  I am getting through it, but I can't wait until I'm done with all of that, and am training in the dining room.  The early mornings are killing me though, and another reason I can't wait for the kitchen training to be over is because I will get to work some nights. 

On Wednesday morning at work, I got a text from my dad saying my Aunt Rose had passed away.  She was actually my dads aunt.  We weren't super close with her, but we saw her about once a year or so, because she lived in Chicago.  We had gone to see her in November for her birthday, and we knew that she wasn't doing great then.  The last few weeks, her health had gotten worse, and we knew that her passing was on its way.  The visitation was scheduled for Friday, and the funeral scheduled for this morning.  My boss understood and said let me leave work early Friday so I could make the 3 hour drive to chicago to make it to the visitation, and also let me off of work today for the funeral.  It was great to see my whole family together, but it sucks that it had to be under such crappy circumstances.

Sorry this is kind of short and choppy, but it's been a long, and emotional few days, so I'm off to bed.  Hope you all are doing well!

My new job!

Sorry I haven't been around much! I haven't had time to do much of anything, besides work, eat, and sleep.  I started my new job on Tuesday!  It is fun, stressful, long, tiring, and great all at the same time.  I was super nervous about it, and it's super hard to explain but it's just as tough, yet not quite as hard as I would have thought. 

I don't know if I've said this yet, but my new job is managing at Red Robin.  I worked at a Red Robin for 3 years back about 3 years ago.  It's actually where I met Cody.  I ended up leaving, because I thought I wanted to work in banquets, but I did that and it wasn't nearly as fun as I had hoped, and I really missed being in a real restaurant.  I'm glad it all worked out that I was able to get this job, because now that I've been back working in a real restaurant, I realize how much I missed it!

This week is the beginning of our kitchen training.  The training program is supposed to be about 8-10 weeks.  The first 3 weeks are mostly kitchen training.  Which really, really sucks for me, because I HATE being in the kitchen.  I had to take a few cooking labs in college, and I really struggled to get through them.  I love being in the dining room of a restaurant, but the kitchen just isn't a place that I'm comfortable.  I'm lucky, because I remember a lot of the food from when I worked there before, so it's not hard for me to remember the recipes.  I'm just not comfortable back there, and I get nervous when it starts to get busy.  I can't wait until my time in the kitchen is over!  Each of our shifts are about 10 hours long, so I work from 7am until 5pm, or 9:30 to 7:30.  I come home, relax, and eat dinner, then I head to bed and do it again the next day.  The restaurant that I'm training at is about an hour away, so if I work at 7, I have to leave by 6, which means I'm up by 5am.  On Monday, I have to be there at 5am, so I have to wake up at 3am! ugh! 

Just as I thought, I wouldn't want to do a whole lot of working out this week.  I'm hoping that next week, I'll be able to force myself to go to the gym. I have to admit, I haven't been eating so great either, but they have been encouraging us to eat some of the food we're making. I have a plan that next week, I will be eating all healthy foods, and not as much crap.  I won't make my goals by eating like I'm eating now! 

Well, I'm off to bed. I have this Sunday off, and then I don't have another day off until next Sunday.  I need to try to get in as much sleep as possible!

Happy Post! :)

So I have to write because I'm super excited -- We just booked all of our meal reservations for our October Disney Trip!!!!  :)  Let me tell you, I will expect a gain for sure that week.  We are going to be eating good! 

As I said before, we are going to be staying in a Value Resort (The All Star Movies), which would typically come with the Quick Service Dining Plan.  We already upgraded to the regular Dining Plan, but we wanted to be able to eat wherever we wanted, without worrying about money.  After looking into it, we would have to pay another $300 to upgrade to the Deluxe Dining Plan, but because of all the amazing places we wanted to eat at, we would end up saving SO much money!  This might be our only shot at getting to eat at these amazing places.  We are going back to Disney in February, but since there will be more of us going, we won't be eating the more expensive restaurants.  And after that, we *hopefully* will be getting pregnant, so who knows when we'll go again.  And once we do go again, it would be with a baby/young child, and we won't have the opportunity.  So, I figure, what better way to celebrate our one year of marriage, and having an amazing year of changes, and growing, than splurging on ourselves!  So here's the rundown of what we're doing:

Monday is the day we are getting there, and we don't have our plane tickets bought yet, but we are looking at getting there in the afternoon.  We can't check in until 3, so we made dinner reservations at Yachtsmans Steakhouse. 

Tuesday we are spending all day at Epcot (This is also the day we are seeing Hanson! yay!).  We wanted to do a character breakfast, so we're having breakfast at Ohana, and then booking over to Epcot.  We are using all of our snack credits at Epcot that day, and trying as much as we can at the Food and Wine Festival booths for lunch.  And then for dinner, we're leaving Epcot and heading over to The Grand Floridian, and eating at Narcoossee's!

Wednesday is Magic Kingdom in the morning, and then Hollywood Studios at night.  We are just going to eat breakfast at our resort, and then we'll be having lunch at Tony's Town Square, at MK.  We'll spend a few hours at MK, then spending the evening at Studios, where we'll eat at The Hollywood Brown Derby for dinner.  And then, of course, seeing Fantasmic!

Thursday we are going home, and we haven't yet picked where we'll eat for our meals that day.  It looks like our flight won't be until 6pm, so we will have breakfast and lunch to eat, and we'll have some meal credits to use.  We are going to decide where to go when we get there, and hope we can get reservations! :)

I'M SO EXCITED! :)

***Complain Alert***

While I am so happy for everyone that is having success with their weight loss, I can't help but be a little lot jealous. 

I feel like I am constantly on some sort of diet.  I know that I am not always under my calories.  I know that I don't always exercise like I should.  But if you compare my eating habits now to how they were even just a year ago, it's like night and day.  I used to eat fast food every day.  I used to eat enough at dinner for 2 meals.  I could easily eat an entire bag of chips.  I didn't care.  Which is how I got to 260lbs.

And now, while I am down a little bit of weight, I can't help but get upset about the fact that my hard work isn't showing itself.  A scale is only so much.  It's just a number.  It could tell me that I weigh 150lbs, but if I can't physically see it, then it only means so much.  I have never had the satisfaction of seeing my clothes fit better. They only ever fit worse.  If something in my closet doesn't fit me, it's not because it's too big, it's because it's too small.  I just want to see a change in my body.  It's so hard to stay motivated when you aren't seeing anything.  I know it takes time.  I know that on my 250lb body, it's gonna take a bit of weight to actually see the loss.  But damnit, I need SOMETHING to keep me motivated.  My running isn't going anywhere.  I can't even run 5 minutes, and I've been running since February.  I'm having such a hard time trying to find a happy medium, between what works, and what makes me happy.  Cutting out everything I love isn't going to make me happy, and that's often what it feels like I have to do to make me lose weight, and see progress.  And honestly, I'd rather be fat and happy then skinny and miserable.  I feel so stuck. 

I don't want anyone to think that I'm going to give up, because I'm not.  I'm just saying, it's been 6 months and I haven't physically seen any sort of change in my body, and that is so incredibly frustrating.  I just want it to be my turn to be proud.  Because that is something that I never get to be. 

Running Woes

First of all....I lost a reader! :( I hope I'm not boring everyone. I get excited that ya'll are reading (are you actually? haha) and I love getting new readers, so I was sad to log in this morning and see that I went down by one.  Oh well, their loss! :)

So on Wednesday, I went to the gym, and tried to do my run again.  For whatever reason, I absolutely cannot get through the 5 minute run.  I was able to get through fairly easily last time I began the c25k program, but I think the difference with that time is that I was on the track, and this time I'm on the treadmill. It's harder to stop, or slow down when you're on a treadmill!  I got through as much as I could, until I had to stop, and walk the rest of the way.  I think part of my issue is my ankles.  They are killing me each time I run! It's the weirdest pain, it's like my muscles hurt, from the top of my feet, to right below my knee.  There are spots on my leg where it hurts, almost like a bruise.  It hurts pretty bad for an hour or two, and then they're just stiff the rest of the night. I don't know what the deal is, but I hate it! 

So, because of my troubles, I decided to go back one week on the program, and run 90 seconds, walk 90 seconds, run 3 minutes, walk 3 minutes, and repeat.  I decided I'd get comfortable with that, before moving on to the next week.  I'm hoping just two more times of running those splits and I'll be able to move on! 

I've been struggling with the idea of possibly not doing the Princess Half in February.  Not because I don't want to do it, but because I really don't know if I'll be ready.  I have a feeling my new job is going to be taking up a lot of my energy, especially at first. I got my schedule for the first 3 weeks.  The restaurant I'm training at is about an hour away.  And the first 3 weeks of training are all in the kitchen, so I'll be doing prep, which means I'll have to be there early.  My in times are either at 7am, or 9:30am.  Which means I'll have to leave my house at 6am or 8:30am, and I have to get up an hour before that.  All my shifts are 10-11 hours, and then an hour drive home.  I'm just not sure how much energy I'll have to go to the gym after that.  I'm going to try, for sure, but I'm just worried that I will end up falling back, again.  I have made it at least 3 times a week for the last 2 weeks, which is way more than I was doing (I'm planning on 5 times this week!), and I don't want to fall behind again.  Another reason I'm thinking of not doing it is because of my family vacation.  We are sort of planning this whole vacation around me running the race, and it's turning out to look like we aren't going to have time to do everything we want, because I have to run the race.  Its everyones vacation, not just mine, and I worry that me running the race will make everyones vacation not as great as it could be.  Am I
crazy for thinking of not doing it?  I still WANT to do it.....so maybe ya'll can re-convince me to do it! :)

So, my Garmin! I told ya'll I'd post a picture, so here she is!

Isn't she pretty?

 

I love the pink accents, and the little swirlies around the outside!  The same swirlies are on the band, which I also love.  But what I love most is that I can finally tell how many calories I'm actually burning, instead of going by what the treadmill says, or what MFP tells me. 

Do any of you have a HRM with a chest strap? Or a garmin like mine?  Do you know how accurate they are?  Mine seems like it tells me I've burned more calories than it should.  I did my run the other day (where I ended up walking the end of it), for 35 minutes, and it said I burned over 400 calories.  Does that seem high?  The run I did yesterday, for 28 minutes, and then doing 12 minutes on the elliptical (total of 40 minutes) said I burned 519.  I am not planning on eating back all of my exercise calories, but I don't want to overeat, because my garmin says that I burned more than I did, know what I mean?  I made sure that I'm wearing it right, and that my settings are all good. I did realize that my resting heart rate is kind of high.  After I got dressed and ready to go to the gym, when I put my HRM on, it said my HR was about a 85-90.  I know that overweight people have a higher resting HR, but should I be worried? Could that be why it says I'm burning so many calories? I'm new to all this technology, so forgive me haha.  

Have a great day!

I'm Back! (and hopefully for good this time!)

I'm HOPING that I get to keep my computer this time....I've had it turned on for about an hour, and so far so good, so I'm thinking we're good to go.  :)

The last two days have been pretty good.  I've decided during the last week and a half that I've had off from work, that I could very easily be a stay-at-home-wife/mom.  Monday was spent hanging out with Cody, which I love.  I think I could spend every day just being with him, and I'd be a happy girl.  Anyway, we didn't do much, and I tried to do good, but we went to this delicious Thai restaurant.  I had Pad Thai, which I guess isn't nearly as bad as some of the options I could have picked, but I'm sure it wasn't the best, either. Still, it was yummy, and I enjoyed the time spent with my husband.

Tuesday I really had nothing planned.  Cody had to work all day, so I hung out for a bit after he left and had some breakfast. I just bought some chia seeds that I was dying to try, so I made some yogurt and granola, and mixed in the chia seeds.  I really couldn't taste them, to be honest.  I know they're good for you, so I'll keep putting them in random things, especially since so far, I don't think they change the taste of the foods.

I went to the farmers market later in the morning, and got some yummy veggies.  My mom has been getting some amazing tomatoes from the farmers market in her city, so I went to the one here, and tried to find some.  I probably bought 20 tomatoes, trying to find the ones she had.  I didn't find any as good as hers, but boy are they yummy! I also bought some broccoli, green beans, corn on the cob, and heirloom tomatoes for Cody.  When I got home, I had a few tomatoes just sliced with a little salt and pepper, and then made a wrap with lots of tomatoes.

I went to the gym, and was excited to do my run.  I'm moving onto another week of the c210k program, and this week is this:  5 minute warm up, followed by 3 minute run, 90 second walk, 5 minute run, 2.5 minute walk, then repeat.  I was able to get about halfway through the the first 5 minute run before I had to slow down, and ended up walking the rest.  Every since the color run on Sunday, my ankles/calves/shins have been bothering me.  They hurt, basically from my ankle to my knee.  They get all cramped when I'm walking, and then they ache for about 2 hours after.  I'm not quite sure what the deal is, but it went away, so I didn't worry too much about it.

This morning, I had to drive to a city near Detroit to go to the home office of the restaurant I'm going to be working at, to fill out my paperwork.  I had to fill out insurance papers, tax forms, etc.  Basically, a 6 hour journey round trip, for about an hour and a half worth of paperwork.

Since I'm not a good planner, I didn't plan on what to eat today, so I had McDonalds for breakfast, and lunch.  And I didn't make very good choices.  :(  Which means, today I'm going to be going over my calories.  I need to make sure to be under the rest of the week if I'm going to have any sort of loss!

At the gym today, the same thing happened with my ankles.  I was able to make it through the 5 minute run (I had to walk for 30 seconds of it, though), but after the 2.5 walk, when it was time to run again, my ankles were hurting so bad, that I had to stop.  I don't know what is going on, but I don't want it to stop me from doing my runs!  I'm thinking I'm going to have to do the elliptical for a while, to let my ankles heal.  I did some weights today, but there were a lot of people on the weights and I just seemed to be in their way, so I only got about 15 minutes of weights in.

I'm hoping to find something good, filling, and low cal for dinner tonight, since right at this moment, without dinner, I only have 46 calories to use.  Tomorrow, Cody is off again, and it's supposed to be nice and cool outside, so I might try to do my run outside tomorrow!

Oh, and before I forget, here's a couple of pictures from the color run on Sunday!

Us girls before the race...nice and clean!

And after the race! (Sorry it's kinda blurry!)

Foodie Pen Pal Reveal - Finally!

Okay, so, for those of you that don't know what I've been talking about when I've been talking about the foodie pen pal program, here's a quick description.  I'll give a link and some more info at the bottom of this post. 

Lindsay at The Lean Green Bean came up with a program that is like pen pals, only better.  You get paired up with 2 people - one person you'll be sending a box to, and one person that will be sending a box to you.  You get to know them, see what their likes and dislikes are, and then you make them an awesome box of food items that are from your area/are really cool/taste really good.  So fun, right?! 

So my box came from Anamarie (@amarietweets on twitter!) and she sent an awesome box!  She is someone who has lost a large amount of weight, and sent us some yummy, healthy treats! 

Here's what was in the box:

Kopali Organic Pineapple – Dried Pineapple, made us nervous, but they were actually pretty good!  Something we’d have to get used to, but we liked them!

Got Milk? Cookies and Cream Straws – LOVE THESE!  I am not a fan of milk, but these things would make me drink milk like crazy! Super fun! They have little flavor beads in the straw, so when you suck the milk up the straw, it flavors the milk.  Love it.

Hail Merry Pecans (Orange Rosemary) – They were surprisingly savory.  They tasted much better than a typical pecan.  Cody liked them better than I did, but they were something different, and new to try!

Odwalla Original Bar (Choco-Walla)  Fruit and Cereal Bar – Tasted like a brownie!  Crazy that it had fruit, and oatmeal in it.  I could eat these every day for sure. 

Odwalla Chewy Nut Bar (Sweet and Salty Almond) – I love Almonds, so this was right up my alley.  I love the mix of sweet and salty so this was perfect.  I am going to be on the lookout for these!

I am excited to send a box, and get a box again this month!  :)

Here’s a detailed explanation of the program:
-On the 5th of the month, you will receive your penpal pairing via email. It will be your responsibility to contact your penpal and get their mailing address and any other information you might need like allergies or dietary restrictions.
-You will have until the 15th of the month to put your box of goodies in the mail. On the last day of the month, you will post about the goodies you received from your penpal!
-The boxes are to be filled with fun foodie things, local food items or even homemade treats! The spending limit is $15. The box must also include something written. This can be anything from a note explaining what’s in the box, to a fun recipe…use your imagination!
-You are responsible for figuring out the best way to ship your items depending on their size and how fragile they are. (Don’t forget about flat rate boxes!)
-Foodie Penpals is open to blog readers as well as bloggers. If you’re a reader and you get paired with a blogger, you can choose to write a short guest post for your penpal to post on their blog about what you received. If two readers are paired together, neither needs to worry about writing a post for that month.
- Foodie Penpals is open to US, Canadian residents & UK residents.  Please note, Canadian Residents will be paired with other Canadians only. We’ve determined things might get too slow and backed up if we’re trying to send foods through customs across the border from US to Canada and vice versa. So, I’m going to keep two separate lists and match US w/ US and Canada w/ Canada!
***If you’re in the UK, please contact Carol Anne from This Is Rock Salt at rocksalt@thisisrocksalt.com to get involved!

Playing Catch Up

Okay, so Im so sorry I've been gone for so long. My computer is giving me so much trouble.  I was finally able to bring it home today, but of course, it's still broken, and the guy who fixed it isn't in until tomorrow morning, so now I have to go another night without a computer. 

I want to let you guys know a bit about what's been going on this week, so hopefully my computer holds out long enough for me to type it all out!

So last Monday was weigh in day.  I hadn't worked out the prior week much, but I did do my best to watch my calories and hardly went over.  I was hoping for a decent loss, since my losses have been so small.  And it turns out, I gained .2.  I know that's not much, but when you want a good loss, any gain is a huge gain.  I was so, so disappointed.  I wasn't prepared for a gain. 

So, because I knew I had a busy week coming up, I decided to take the week off of counting calories.  I knew I had a lot going on, and I was just so mad that my hard work wasn't paying off.  I wasn't giving up, I was just taking a week off. 

Monday and Tuesday were our days off, and we spent them hanging out, not really doing much.  It was nice to have some time to just relax, and not worry about doing anything special.  We did go out to dinner with my parents on Tuesday night, to celebrate my birthday, and we went to a Japanese Steak House.  So good, too much food, but it was delicious. 

Wednesday was my birthday. I turned 28, ugh. I don't know when I got so old!  Cody had to work all day, so I went to the Zoo with some of the girls I worked with at my old job (my last day was Sunday).  We had a great time, and then spent the afternoon shopping, before going to dinner at Cody's restaurant.  I had a good time.  My mom got me a Garmin for my birthday! I will post a picture of it soon, it's so pretty.  It's just a basic one, not one with a GPS or anything, but it's a HRM and it will track my workouts. I'm so excited to use it! 

Thursday, I got hired into my new job!  I'm working as a restaurant manager, at a restaurant I worked at a few years ago, which is also the one that I met Cody at.  I'm so excited, but I'm extremely nervous.  It's such a good thing for us though, because my pay checks will be just over double what I was making at my old job, plus I will get paid vacation time, and great insurance.  All good things!  I have to go to Detroit this Wednesday to fill out some paperwork and stuff, and then hopefully I'll be starting the week of the 13th.  I didn't work at all last week, and it looks like I'll be having all this week off too.  It's a great little vacation before I start my new job where I'll be working my butt off!

Friday I went downtown in my city to hang out with my sister and my friend Kaysha.  In my city, we have this huge festival that happens each year at the end of July/beginning of August.  It's a week long, and there's a carnival, and lots of activities.  There's also a race, which I wanted to run but never got around to signing up for (but I plan on doing it next year for sure!).  So Friday night, we went downtown, and walked around the carnival, ate some carnival food (not too much though!) and had some drinks at a local brewery.  It was a lot of fun, but I got home late, and had to get up early the next morning, so I knew I wouldn't get much sleep. 

Saturday is the big day of the festival.  There's a huge parade in the morning, and then fireworks at night.  When I was in High School, and even a few years after, I was actually in the parade.  I did Color Guard with the Marching Band for 2 years, and then I taught for a few years too.  After that, I was either living in Florida, or working, so I haven't been to the parade in a few years.  It was super fun, and I got a pretty good sunburn, but I had a good time.  That night, I went to the fireworks with my family.  I love the fireworks, but it was raining, and I knew, again, that I'd have to wake up early, so I didn't enjoy them as much as I wanted to. 

Sunday was The Color Run!  Oh man, such a great time.  The race started at 8am, so it was an early morning.  My friends came from Chicago and they were staying in Grand Rapids, where the race was, and I live about 45 minutes away from the city, so I got up at abut 5am, so that I could drive the 20 minutes from my house to my parents house to get my sister, and then head to Grand Rapids to pick up my sisters friend, and then to the hotel to pick up my friends and then head to the race.  There was about 10,000 people at the race, so it was super crowded.  We went right to the starting line, and waited for our turn to start.  I was hoping to run as much of it as I could, but my friend Sarah who was with us has a very low iron deficiency, and that makes her legs cramp up bad, so as soon as she started to run, she cramped up and had to walk.  Since we signed up as a team, we weren't going to let her walk the whole thing alone, so we all walked with her.  It was sooooo much fun.  It's fun to just not care about getting messy, and be able to have a few moments of carefree fun.  At the end of the run, everyone gets in a big group and at the same time, we all threw our color packets in the air.  If you didn't get much color on you during the race, you got a ton on you during the throw at the end!  It was so fun.  After that, we spent a good part o the day hanging out with my friends from Chicago, and then I spent the rest of the day taking a nap, since I'd gotten about 3 hours of sleep Saturday night.

So there you have it!  That's been my crazy week! I am back on track now, counting calories, and working hard at watching my sodium, since I think that's what caused my weight loss.  I ate a lot of things with high sodium at my last job, so I think that might have been part of the issue. 

I hope everyone is having a great week!  My next post (tomorrow, when I get the computer back, again) I'll add some pictures from the week, and then also post my Foodie Pen Pal Reveal post!

Still here!

I'm at my parents house, using their computer....just wanted you all to know that I'm still alive, and still blogging....my computer is broken, and it's been in the shop since Monday.  :(  I am hoping I get it back by this Monday, so I can write one huge long post about all that's gone on this week!

Hope everyone is having a great week! :)