Ok, so here I am again. Hopefully continuing on with this blog until the ultimate achievement has happened, which is Adipose Nirvana!!
In all honesty though, complete nirvana may never happen, because I know myself and I know I like to be lazy and eat cookies and I'm sorry but salad is for rabbits, I don't DO salad.
If you're reading my blog for the first time, I would suggest going to my previous entries to get a good understanding of what this is all about.
First things first!!
What has happened since the last blogging?
School and we moved!
Wow that's some random things, let's break it down and figure it all out. Dang, this may be a longer blog than I planned..
1. School
So I signed up for school, went to PIMA medical institute for their veterinary assistant program. It was amazing! I learned a ton, learned a lot of skills to help me in the field, met a lot of people, made a lot of friends, and in the end, I'm very glad I did it. I did have some issues from being in school though...
Being in school at night and watching the kids during the day was emotionally and physically draining, but I didn't mind it. What I did hate though was not being able to go to the gym. The gym we were at would not allow us to bring the kids twice a day to their daycare, so we were unable to go to the gym, and I found it frivolous to spend so much on a gym membership, we're talking about $100 a month, when no one could use it. If I went in the mornings, husband couldn't go at night, and vice versa, so it was infuriating, and thus began the cycle of not working out again. I tried walking everyday with the kids and the puppy before he passed away but it became a circus and I didn't want to deal with the shenanigans of it anymore.
Another malfunction with school was the fact that I didn't see Robert anymore. This caused relationship hardship and strain and emotions began to grate in unpleasant ways. We don't do well apart from each other, and never saw each other anymore. It's kind of awful but it's taking time to get used to. Eventually I'll continue with the vet tech program, prolly not till next year, but it'll be hard again cause this time i'll be working during the day and doing class at night.
2. Moved
We moved out of our apartment in to a house! A 3 bedroom house with a huge backyard for the kids and our new adopted dog! A house in the country where it's quiet and peaceful! A safe neighborhood and country school! What could possibly go wrong!?
Ug, don't get me started. This is totally a good thing, but we jumped at the wrong opportunity. When in the apartment we had little time to move, and could not find a place to move, so when this house came up on CL, it seemed like a good thing. The price was right and the tenant convinced me the bills were reasonable and all that's nice and sugar and spice basically.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a complete downer, it's just I wished we would've thought ahead a little bit more and all. We're almost 30 miles out of town, which wasn't that big of a deal because the bills were supposed to be lower and with rent being lower it was supposed to even out. Well add into that bills that are 3x the original guesstimate and we're pretty much drowning in it. I'm trying to find work but having a hard time because of the daycare situation and the fact that our daughter is in school 4 days a week, not 5, so that's a day where I have to figure out where she can go.
I also had this ideal of having this huge yard where we could build a chicken coop on one side and the dog, and now dogs because we adopted another dog, could hang out on the other. The kids could play in the yard and it would just be this happy ideal country life thing going on. Reality check = huge yard full of noxious and allergy inducing weeds, so thus the kids can't play out there because of allergies and no lawn mower, and we don't have the time to care for livestock.
I thought I'd be ok with being out here, but it's very isolated and lonely. I didn't realize how social I actually am. So basically, I'm isolated and lonely when Rob is gone, the kids can't even go outside because it's been too hot or it's a mudhole outside, and I can't go into town because I never have the gas.
Not to mention the mileage I'm putting on a car, an old 96 van, that keeps dying. Just got it fixed again (thanks mom and dad!) and now the fan went out a couple days ago, so no air, a/c, and the windows don't work. It's a damned death trap right now. Ug
Enough pity party though. We've learned a valuable lesson. Obviously. Now we just have to suck it up 9 more months until the lease is up. By then we'll have money saved up to move into a house in town. But with both of us working we can afford 1200 rent, which is the majority of the rent for homes we're looking at. I just wanna be in town now, but we must push on!!
So that's pretty much what has been going on..
Yesterday we got a gym membership at Fitness 19, which is a small gym in town. It's a great gym, and not fancy, but for the affordable price and their awesome daycare we can't go wrong :)
I worked out last night, did a ton of cardio on the treadmill, elliptical, and the bike. Did some free weights and machine work. So we'll see how it goes. I'm still determined!!
Goals are pretty much the same, let's keep it simple, since I'm sure you're tired of reading my ramblings..
Weight: 234
Goal Weight right now: Under 200 lbs!!
There, easy right?
Ha ha..heh..ug, long road ahead....
Till next time <3
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