My new step forward.

Enough is enough!
I have made the decision to publicly commit myself to losing some weight. I’ve 
let things get out of hand and I am committed to losing the 10lbs (I gained in the past year), in the next 90 days. Things got out of hand and I am not quite sure how.... I’m going to post a new picture of myself on this blog to hold myself accountable once the time is over.

I am not overweight. I understand that. But I miss my favorite pairs of jeans and I hold all my weight in my thunda thighs. I feel like losing weight would be much cheaper then buying all new clothes!

This would be a lot more fun and lot easier to accomplish with some friends, so if you are ready for a change too then send me a message.

I have been working out, eating healthy, and doing everything right for 5 months now, and there has been no change.  Going from not even being able to running a mile, ever- to running my first 5k, and all the training it took, I would have assumed I would have lost a pound, or at least a measly inch.  Nothing!

I know a ton of awesome people in town who started in this product line called Nutrie.  They kept badgering me to join in and start using the product.  I am an extremely skeptical person.  I don't like when people try to sell me stuff, especially when I really don't need it. I even hate trying to sell my handmade items!

I started seeing the changes in these people though, their excitement, their enthusiasm, and their weight loss.  I started thinking.... "man... if it is working for them, then I need to give it a shot, because what I am doing is obviously not working..."

I have finished my first week of the Skinne shots from Nutrie.  I have lost a pound.  I have more energy, I have more vigor, and I don't slump in the middle of the day.  I WANT to go work out, I WANT to eat healthy, and my cravings are all but non-existant. 

I was also very excited to hear that Nutrie can pay my mortgage as well.  Eventually I can get free product, and I look forward to that!

If you are event the slightest bit interested, even just a little, please ask me about Nutrie.  I really think it can make a difference.  I have 90 days of change ahead of me, and I am so excited to share it with everyone. 

Check out their website - http://www.nutrie.com/  and then come talk to me about it!!!

My first 5k ever!

Before and after shots of my first ever 5k! My first time fully running a mile with no walking was about a month ago (under 15 mins, I have ran really slow miles before). The best mile I have ever done was last week at 10 mins, 41 seconds n a treadmill.  I tested out my 5k time on a treadmill last week, and came at 43.55.

I kicked that first mile in its booty at 9mins on the dot. After that, I slowed down, the hills around Perry Farm are brutal!

My time was 40.33. My favorite part was the last .10 mile before the finish line. I felt like death, soaked through with sweat, face beet red, exhausted, but I had my St. Joes students and parents cheering me on, running along side of me screaming my name, rooting for me. I have never felt that amazing before. 

I am going to continue training, and I have 5 more 5k's in the area that I am signed up for this summer. I am so proud of myself for pushing to do better in my life. I have an easy goal to beat. And I will beat it!

New Chair!

So, I love my craft room.  I love all the cross stitches and embroidery all over my walls, I love my bookshelf (though that bugger will be painted when it starts getting warmer outside). I love my drafting table for my quilting board, and I love my tiny ironing board.


I hate my sewing table and chair.  Whenever I use my sewing machine, my table vibrates.  Full out vibrates... Thats what you get when you are using a folding table!  My chair is the matching set of the folding table, so as you can imagine it is very uncomfortable.

Whenever I sew, I worry that because of the bouncing, my sewing is not as great as it could be. (so the table is the next thing I need replaced!)

Dad visited yesterday, to fix my non working oven (sigh...) hang a painting, fix my garage door, and my front door.  He brought a chair that he found in the next door neighbors garbage.   My family dumpster dives. 6 month old vacuum cleaner, that only needed a belt.  Valued at $600. Replace the belt, and it works.  Why would you turn that down?!?

He brought a beautiful sturdy chair, which really just needed new fabric.  So I took care of that today!

Cute right? The fabric looks iccky though, and I do not allow iccky!

Gross right? 

Took off the cushion, and didnt look too bad, so removed and tossed the fabric, sprayed down the particle board with  a bleach mixture to get rid of the decolorations, and let it dry.

Cushion looks pretty good, and its squishy!

New fabric added and stapled!  Not professional, but works for me!

My new chair! 

KITTIES EVERYWHERE!

 I love it so much! I am glad I got off my tukus to figure it out!

Happy Holidays!

I have been absent more then expected this year for my blog/podcasting.  For some reason, this second year I feel I have to prove myself even more at my job then I did last year.

Last year every knew the band sucked (well two years ago). So any improvement I created with the program was DRASTICALLY better.  But now that we have taken that step up, and lost 4 really GREAT musicians to graduation, we have to work even harder to get to that standard.  We had our Christmas concert last week, and while the students knew their notes, the tuning was off.  (silly violins who do not listen to me when I hand them the tuner and say "fix it")

I am proud, because we can carry a tune.  While its not the best HS band in the world, we are a standard, small, private high school band.  We do not meet as much as public schools, we do not have as many students as public schools, but we do have quite a few students who will work very hard for the concerts.  I just wish everyone was as "all in" as I am!

I have been keeping busy craft wise, amazingly doing a whole bunch of quilting! I surprise myself sometimes because I realllllllly hate sewing.  I am slowly changing my mind.

I am currently working on two quilts- the first one is just missing the binding, and the second one needs fabric for the backing.

This is my baby quilt that I am almost done with!

Coda approves!

My second QIP (Quilt in progress) is laying folded up in my craft room waiting for some extra fabric!  

I just have to get through this week! I am taking some band students "caroling" this Tuesday for the local Hospice Christmas dinner, then Wednesday night is the Grade School Band Concert. Saturday is Steve's college graduation, which I am ultra excited for! 

Once this week is over, I will have so much stress off my back! I am utterly excited!

Happy Thanksgiving!

I will make this post short and sweet!

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