Happy Day.

It was even MORE humid today than it was yesterday if you can believe it. Well, chances are you're probably experiencing it, too, and I'm sure you CAN believe it. I'm seriously so glad we moved back to PA, I wouldn't be able to stand this is we were still in Maryland.

Anyways, let's back up. First thing this morning - it's WI Friday. Step on the scale, after doing everything that would make me loose weight, bathroom, strip down, ya know, the norm. You know what the scale said? 150.8! This is exciting news! I'm really trying to step off the scale more, and not obsess over it, but for right now, this is how I track my progress.

Sorry for the bad picture.

After I did that, I was debating what I wanted to do for my cardio today. It was SO humid though, I knew I couldn't going on a long run, especially after my run yesterday. I was in the mood to run though, but I knew only running 1 mile wouldn't be long enough for some cardio. My plan was to do a run then bike for about 2 miles. So I set out. By the time I was done by run though, I was done. I put my bike back and came inside and downed a bunch of water.

Awful picture, I'm trying out my "it's HOT" face. Does it work?

But I am really glad I went. If nothing else, I showed myself what I really could do, averaging about a 10 minute mile for most of the run, other than a few walking breaks.

Isn't that AWESOME? I'm rather proud.

Another pretty bad picture, but it was so humid I was sweating all over my whole body, even my KNEES were sweating. I really didn't want to shower, but after coming in from outside I had no choice but to hope in for a cold shower.

As for my weekend plans, it's gonna be pretty low key. Mr. Skinny and I are planning on going to see Harry Potter in IMAX/3D tomorrow night and hopefully we'll go out for dinner, too. Monday is my doctor's appointment, so I'll be back on Monday with an update on what she says about our TTC plans!

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What are your plans for this weekend?

Have you been exercising in this heat/humidity?

Humidity.

Wow, it's muggy out there!

Take a look at that - 97% humidity! Then take a look at the time - 5:58AM! Does it officially make me a runner that I got up that early to run? I was on the road by 6:10AM, and would have been there earlier if I knew what time it actually got light outside.

Mr. Skinny has had this dream of me making him breakfast every morning before he leaves for work. I refused to do it in Maryland, but now that we're back in PA and living with my parents AND I didn't have a job for so long, I started getting up with him at 4:45 to make his egg sandwich and tea, and pack his lunch for him. Usually I would go back to sleep, but after being awake for about 30 minutes, it takes me a while to get back to sleep. Since I've started working, I've been getting up at 7 to get some cardio in before work, so this lets me sleep for no more than 1 hour after Mr. Skinny leaves. I wondered if it was really worth it. So today was the day to see if it really was. After Mr. Skinny left about 5:20 or so, I went back into our room and played on my laptop for a bit since it wasn't light enough out yet. I got dressed, ate my pb&j toast for breakfast, and headed out to run. At first, it wasn't awful, but it was humid. By the end of my run, however, it was HUMID! After the sun came up it was just seemingly impossible to breathe.

I didn't run the whole thing straight. At first, I ran 10 minutes, then walked for 2, then ran 5 minutes and walked for 1. After I got more tired though, I was walking more. However, I shaved 2 minutes off my 5K time from December! I was so excited for that! It was motivation to continue running for sure!

Once I was done, I stretched and took a cool shower. I'm all ready for work now, boo, minus packing my lunch, which I'll do after hitting "post".

So let's discuss this pace. Do you see that green part in the upper left hand corner? Ya know, that part that says I ran a 6:51 pace? I think it's full of bologna! There's no ran I ran that fast, I don't even think I can sprint that fast. So I'll be taking my 11-12 minute pace and sticking with that. The only thing I can think of is that I was running downhill, but I still don't think that would have been that fast. You can see I took a good amount of walking breaks, but it is 97% humidity.

Tomorrow I'll be back with a WI post, I haven't been doing them as weekly as I'd like to be. Good news? I know I'm down lower than I've been since I don't even know when. :)

Happy Thursday!

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How do you keep cool when exercising in high heat/humidity?

TTC.

I think I'm going to start to be a lot more open now, especially since we're officially in the beginning processes of TTC (trying to conceive). I thought about making a blog specifically for that, but this blog would just be left behind, and I don't want that. I might go changing the title a bit, but for right now, I'm just going to keep everything here and update you all. Hopefully no one leaves my blog because they don't want to read about the new part of my life.

Yesterday, I spent some serious time with God, praying and asking for His help in making this decision. I know my mom isn't going to be thrilled. Well I mean she will, but I know she'd prefer if we waited a few years. She wasn't ecstatic when we got engaged at 18/19 and married at 20/21. I don't want to sound like a bratty teenager, but she can't tell me what to do. Honestly, this decision is between Chuck, me and God. We aren't doing it to please anyone else, it seems like all signs are pointing toward starting our family, even if it doesn't make the most sense to us. I know He'll take care of us. Yes, we are living with my parents, and we're not planning on living her forever. I think my biggest worry is that my mom is going to think we're taking advantage of her hospitality by letting us live here. I know that she would never kick us out, but it does worry me that she might through it up in my face that she's letting us live here for free. I'm worried she's going to think we're irresponsible and didn't think things through. But I try to not worry, and I've been praying that God works on her to help her understand that this is our decision, and we're doing it for the right reasons.

I really don't like my job. Yesterday, my boss decided to through me a little "pop quiz" to see how much I learned my first week. The questions included naming his education and working credentials, what kind of work we specifically do, the address and telephone number of my employer and how I do certain tasks. Now I've mentioned before, this is a part time job, only about 20 hours each week, in finances. I've never had a finance class in my life. Never. My boss wants me to think of my feet, push me out of my comfort zone, and I could understand that if this was going to be my career, with room for promotions and career advancement, but it's not. I flat out told him during my interview that my dream job was to be a stay-at-home-mom. He knows that. Other than him, there is one other employee, his assistant. G told me that he wanted to catch me off guard, and that it was my responsibility to google his name and find out everything that I could about him. The reading materials he suggested I read? I should have brought them home to show that I was really gung-ho about working.

Are you kidding me? For a part-time job with no career potential you want me to waste my time googling you at home?? No. Freaking. Way.

I was SO livid when he told me that. I was seriously ready to quit on the spot. When I told my mom after I came home, she actually suggested that I quit since it didn't seem like a good fit for me. I'll suck it up, but the only thing that's getting me through is that I should have less than 1 year of working there.

I spent some more time in prayer today, and still feel at peace with our decision. If I was obsessed with babies before, I'm so much more obsessed now, Mr. Skinny actually commented that he thought my obsession would go down, but it's spiked up. I go to the doctor on Monday for a check up and I'll be mentioning that we're ready to start TTC and see what she says. I'll be finishing up with my pack of birth control pills this week, so my only question is about my weigh. I've lost 30 pounds, I know I'm not in a healthy BMI, but I really don't think I could ever comfortably get there. 132 lbs. my butt. I'm okay with waiting until I'm 140 if she really recommends it, and I'm thinking that I'll give myself two months to really loose as much weight as I can (healthily), really focus on what kind of foods are going into my body, focus on my taking my vitamins daily, saving money, praying and preparing our marriage for this new stage.

For right now, I'll keep the TTC/baby posts at a minimum, hopefully, as I'm still focusing on that "skinny" stage before the TTC stage. My focus on the blog is still going to be becoming a healthy person, whether that's a healthy pregnancy, a healthy body before pregnancy or post-partum, health is the main topic. I just might be asking a few more baby questions to the moms, pretty sure they're just two - Kara and Tina - who read my blog.

Have you ever had an awful job/boss? Tell me about it.

When did you know it was the "right" time to have a baby?

Life Update.

I'm sorry! I've fallen off the blogging wagon in the past week. With the new job, the Harry Potter premiere and my graduation party weekend, it's been hard to find the time to update you, my lovelies! Let's start with the job. Sorry for the long post with no pictures, but there is some exciting news if you keep reading!!!

It's okay. It's a job, I don't really love it, but I probably won't be happy until I'm at home holding my own child. My boss, let's call him G, is a believer of figuring things out for yourself rather than being trained, while I would prefer proper training first. I ask him questions and his answer is "figure it out for yourself. When I was in law school I had to figure things out for myself." And I would love to answer "yes, and that's why I'm not going to law school, thanks." It's a little annoying, but you'll have that. I can't complain, it's 7 miles away, and I only have to work 20 hours/week. It's a laid back job, G is flexible and he knows the family, after all it was Mr. Skinny's grandma who told me about the position. It's interesting enough, just not what I'd like to be doing all day long. I'm getting the hang of it, but it will probably take a while until I'm really comfortable in the position.

Secondly. The Harry Potter movie. It. Was. Phenomenal. Honestly. As a true Harry Potter nerd, I loved this movie. I've accepted that the movies and the books are different and are going to be different, but this movie followed the book pretty closely. After just re-reading the books over the last month, it was fresh in my mind. There were some things that I wished they focused on, and parts I thought they were going to change, but happily, they didn't. It was a tear jerker for real and I'm glad that I had tissues. I went to the midnight release with my brother, his ex girlfriend, and her cousin. It's a pretty awkward situation, so I'm glad I had my iPhone to keep me busy for those few awkward hours.

Next is the weekend update. Friday my aunt, two of her kids and their spouses, and all my little cousins. Baby fever hit again, of course, but this time Mr. Skinny actually told me to toss my birth control. He's ready to start our family! This was a huge surprise to me, and while he was okay with starting our family in the next few years, I really didn't think that it would be quite this soon. I've written on this a bit, but after Mr. Skinny's grandfather died in February, I felt like it was our time to start trying, I don't know why, but I just felt like it was time. I knew I had to graduate, I tried to find a job, blah blah blah. Now that I couldn't really find a job and Mr. Skinny has a rather good time, it's time. I spent a good chunk of time this morning praying about it, and after a long and serious talk last night with Mr. Skinny, I really feel at peace with our decision to start trying in the next few months. I feel like this is what we're supposed to do. So for right now, no one I know in real life knows, and we're not planning on telling anyone just in case we get some "you're not ready" comments. This is a decision between me, Mr. Skinny, and God.

Graduation party went well, but now I know that we aren't going to have a ton of parties with both families, it was awkward and no one talked. Sunday we were on the boat all day and wow, am I sore from that!

Anyways, that's some exciting news, right?

I have a question for you readers now. Would you prefer that I kept this blog, changing the name slightly since I'm obviously going to be going on the road opposite of skinny when I'm pregnant, or should I start another blog for baby makin'? What do you think? Would you keep reading a baby makin' blog?

Shopping Time.

Quick post today folks, I'm off to my first day of work in a bit!

First off, my weekend was great. Saturday was a bit boring, but Sunday definitely made up for it. My in-laws all came over to go swimming, and we had a blast, even though my back got burnt to a crisp! We were expecting to go on the boat, but my dad's 44 year old boat and 29 year old motor didn't feel like starting. Dad stopped at the boat store yesterday and they *think* they know the problem. I hope so, because I want to go water skiing this weekend!! It was still fun just swimming though. My sister in law's dog had a blast though, and was quite exhausted on the way home.

Yesterday was shopping day. Back when I went to Disney World in March, my mom got a $50 Boscov's gift card for making the arrangements through their travel center. Since it was my birthday, she gave me the gift card. With my new job, I need some nice clothes, so I thought it was time to use my gift card! I'm not a huge fan of Boscov's, but it was nice to not have to pay for clothes. I got a skirt, khaki capris, one shirt and a pair of shoes. I didn't take a picture of the shoes, I forgot.

This morning, I went for a short (1.5) mile run, then thought it would be a good idea to jump in the lake, so that's what I did! All in all, I burned 424 calories between the swim and the run. I might just have to make swimming after running my normal thing!

I've gotta make my lunch, then I'm headed to work. I'll hopefully check in tomorrow, but forgive me if my blog falls by the wayside while I'm trying to figure out my new lifestyle.

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How do you cool off after a run?

Do you forget to put suntan lotion on?

Dorky Qualities.

Sorry for the missed post yesterday. I was in front of my computer all day watching this:

while reading this:

That's right, I'm such a nerd that I watched the live premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 for 4 hours yesterday. All while reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix during the more boring parts.

I'm just that cool. I finished OotP (Order of the Phoenix for all you non-HP nerds ;) ) yesterday, and had just started it on Tuesday. Yes, that's 3 days to read an 870 page book. I know, I'm a loser, Mr. Skinny tells me all the time.

I actually teared up during these last speeches at the premiere. Emma (Hermoine) was crying, and Jo (the author) was crying, too, and it just hit me how much of an impact these books have had on my life. The last movie coming out marks the end of an era, not just for Hollywood, but for me, too. The books first came out in 1997, I was 8 years old. I didn't start reading them until after the second film came out in 2002, but I've watched these movies countless time, and read the books countless times as well. With the release of this last movie, it marks the end of my childhood. Yes, I know that I'm 22 years old and my childhood was over a long time ago, but it's deeper than that. These actors are the same age as me. While I was reading the books, I was nearly the same age as Harry, Ron and Hermoine. This is a big deal to me. I'm going at midnight with my non-HP book fan of a brother, but we'll have a good time.

In other news Wells Fargo FINALLY called me back, after I called the woman who I initially talked to when I set up the phone screening who then passed on the message to the HR woman whom (who?) I was trying to contact. I didn't get the job, surprise there. So I'm going to call Mr. Skinny's grandma's financial advisor and tell him that I'm interested in the job that he's going to offer me. Looks like my summer vacation is coming to an end.

I weighed in today, and boo, I was up, but I'm not going to officially track it since I'm pretty sure it was a fluke. I made homemade French Onion soup last night and the canned beef broth and cheese were NOT my friends this morning on the scale. But before I could wallow over it too long, I went for a run. I did a total of 2.78 miles, running a little over 2 miles of it.

Then I did some weights. I did weights on Wednesday though, and I'm sure sore from it, so I only did what I felt I could do, and I'll hold off on weights until Monday when I'm (hopefully), not sore anymore.

I finished up with a protein shake, and a shower. Now I'll be getting back to reading the next Harry Potter book - Half Blood Prince. I have to finish the books before the movie comes out next Thursday night at midnight!!

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Are you a Harry Potter fan? What's one of your dorkier qualities?

Just What I Needed.

As most of you know, my last few runs have been "eh" I'm not really sure what is it, but they just haven't been great. I'd take a walking break when I feel like it, maybe I just haven't given my runs my all. I actually thought about going on a few electronic free outings to see if I could just get out of my rut as of late. Since I haven't been able to do that second one mile run in W6D2 I thought I'd just head out and see what I could do. I did run yesterday, so I wasn't expecting a whole lot today in my run.

I might have mentioned it before, but when I run, I can't pass my house without being finished. I need to run loops, I don't like running the same road multiple times, and I can't pass my house and do a repeat of the run I just did. I know it's all in my head, but I just can't. I've also mentioned that because my house is on a lake, we're up on a hill, and I won't run up that hill, it's a HUGE hill. So my running trails have been pretty limited. Today though, I branched out and ran on the Main Road. I ran down the hill, to the Main Road and kept going. It was something new and it was wonderful.

I wasn't sure if I was going to try to repeat W6D2, or what I wanted to do. If I was going to move onto the next day, it's a 2.25 mile run. Straight. No walking breaks. I wasn't so sure if I wanted to do that, so I kept an open mind. Well once I did my warm up walk, and starting running, it took me awhile to get into my groove, but I was doing pretty well. Then, once I started back up the hill, my phone rings. It's the guy who was coming to fix the chipped windshield in my car. I had to answer it. This was enough time for me to walk, albeit very slowly, up the hill. Once I made it up the hill, I picked up my run again, checked my GPS and saw that I walked about .11 - no big deal. I took one short walking break and ran until I did a whole 2.25 mile run! And I'm psyched about it! It was seriously just what I needed to boost my confidence about running and convince me that I CAN do this!

On the job front, Mr. Skinny's grandma's financial advisor offered me a job! It's part time though, only 15 hours/week. I STILL haven't heard from Wells Fargo. I called the store I interviewed at and she said she couldn't tell me anything, I had to wait until I talked to HR. What. A. PAIN! I just want to know if I should hold out for this full-time job, or if I should just take the part-time job. I will say though, if I take this part-time job, then it's going to be for a while. He doesn't want to waste his time training someone if they're going to ditch him for a full time job in a few months time, which I completely understand. So I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place. Awesome. I think I might call the store again and demand that I talk to someone. I just need to know if I have the job or not. Why is this so confusing?!

We'll all get it figured out.

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When was the last time you got that extra boost you needed?

Do you have any advice for me?