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New Year, New Me

The new year came and went, I barely stayed awake for midnight myself! One of my resolutions was to eat better and lose some weight. That resolution really became a need when I saw myself in some Christmas pictures, wow! So here we go, it is day four (I procrastinated starting my diet!) and so far I am down just two pounds but I feel confident that I can do better in the coming weeks.  The plan is to try to post here as we go to keep myself accountable. 

I would really like to lose at least 50 pounds by August, that is when I will be starting clinicals in Nursing school and our uniforms are all white… I will be nervous enough without having to get a HUGE white uniform that shows all my flaws! 

One of my first steps is drinking more water- like any water is a change… I am horrible at drinking water usually. After four days of making sure I drink at least 60 ounces of water a day I am noticing that my skin is clearer and I am less itchy, and I am running to the bathroom like I am pregnant again but I am sure my body will adjust to actually being hydrated soon! :-)  

Stay tuned for updates and more pictures along the way, if you would like to join me in my journey let me know, I will be happy to add a link you your blog in future updates! Here we go! 

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Late Night ‘Mental’ Energy Surge

I hope I am not alone in this problem! I battle with insomnia pretty frequently, so often I am too tired to get a lot done that isn’t absolutely needed. At night when I am finally feeling tired and relaxed, trying to go to sleep I tend to get this amazing positive energy burst, at that moment; often 2am or later; I feel like I am going to be able to clean the house, organize the closets, dust the cobwebs; even work out the next day…. Then the next day comes and I am just as tired as the day before!

So, for about 30 minutes most nights I feel amazing, I don’t know if it is the relaxation that is giving me the false sense of being rested, or if I am just plain crazy. I have even tried to get up right then and start cleaning or working out- just to quickly peter out after about 20 minutes and feel like crud and head back to bed!

I am hopeful that one of these days I will wake up feeling as good as I imagine the night before; until then the clothes stay folded on the couch, the fans are dusty, and the cobwebs are happy. Has anyone else experiences this kind of feeling? Any tips to make it last to the next day? :-)

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Blah…

I am missing digital scrapbooking, missing having friends, missing cleaning, missing everything right now. College this semester is taking every bit of me and what little I have left is spent with my amazing daughter and sleeping (or wanting to at least!). I love college, really do- I am not complaining, I just miss having time to do other things. I don’t really ‘know’ anyone, I have people at school I talk to, but haven’t figured out how to make any of them ‘outside of school or facebook’ friends, I am just too damned shy. I know you think I am exaggerating but I don’t even know any of them well enough to ask someone to go see the new Twilight movie when it comes out. (even though I know it is a silly movie I love them!) Sadly, I am sure if I gathered the courage there are at least a few who like me enough that they would say yes, or even want to go out to lunch or something. I just don’t know how to make that next move.

I have the same issue everywhere I go, on the off chance that I meet someone in a checkout line or restaurant or whatever and the conversation goes well, I never know how to make that next step of like ‘hey we should get together again sometime, here’s my number’; sounds so easy when I type it, but actually doing it…. It isn’t like I can’t talk to people, I have great conversations at school, about family, politics, school, etc. I am able to approach someone and start a conversation on my own lol. I just don’t know how to make friends.

The one ‘actual’ friend I had actually had to track me down online after we met at a party years ago and had a great connection. We remained friends for quite a few years before we drifted apart for various reasons.

I don’t even keep in touch with family, we all keep up on facebook but I dread the thought of randomly calling a family member and saying ‘hi, what’s going on in life?’ I want to, I would love to be closer to the family that lives nearby, but I just have some deep seated issue that keeps me outside of everything. I am sure a psychologist would have a field day with this post!

On the plus side, not having a life is really helping my college career! I am still getting all A’s in my classes; taking Statistics, Human Nutrition, Anatomy and Physiology II, and Sociology. (lots of work this semester) Next semester I am taking American History, Pharmacology, and Microbiology; then in the summer I am doing English II and Chemistry and I will be all done with my AA degree. If all goes well I start the actual Nursing program in the Fall and will have 4 semesters after the fall before I have my RN licence. This is taking FOREVER but it will all be worth it in the end!

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Unreal Candy- Amazing Taste Testing Party

I had the opportunity to host a party for my friends to taste the new ‘Unreal’ Candy- Unjunked candy with no bad stuff. I had a ton of pictures but my wonderful four year old got a hold of the sim card off my desk before I could download them- and it is ruined now. We still had fun though so at least we all got to have some great candy!

My favorite were the Unreal 77- the peanut butter cups- while they didn’t taste exactly like a reese’s they were amazing! My daughter and her friends loved the Unreal 41, like M&M’s the most, and the men preferred the Unreal 5; saying it tasted like a snickers.

The party was a blast, everyone got to take home lots of candy and information and the video was super fun to watch, the kids loved it of course! Candy is candy to them, the adults were just happy it was a cleaner candy! We all got #GetUnreal and pledge to help others get unjunked by sharing the story of how their candy got made with no artificial ingredients, all natural good stuff, no GMO’s, no saccharin, glucose, additives or preservatives. It’s just better for us in every way. #GetUnreal and #GetUnJunked today!

I was given this opportunity by The Global Influence and Unreal Candy. They provided the party supplies and compensation for this post. All opinions are our own!

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MIA Blogger Alert

Bad blogger! I know I have totally abandoned this blog; but one day I will have time to come back and talk again. For now though I am super busy with college and my darling four year old that has really become a little pistol!  Things are going great- aside from fighting insomnia my health problems have really gotten better.  Emotionally I am fighting some issues, it is coming up on two years since we lost our little boy and that keeps creeping into my head at the wrong times for some reason.  

I apply for the nursing program again in March, and as long as I keep my 4.0 I should be able to get in with no issues so that is part of the reason I am never here, these classes are tough!! 

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