I like taking pictures of food I cook/eat. I sometimes draw, paint and craft things for people I love. I live with a man who just so happens to be the love of my life, so it's pretty convenient.
My current priorities are to be healthy, save money for a bigger home and get back to creating things.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
MISSING LEMON
So as I was cleaning my fridge, I had placed all of the items from the lower level onto the floor so I could do scrub off all the sticky gunk inside. Bronson took interest of a large lemon I had placed on the floor next to all the salsas and cooking sauces, and he proceeded to toddle off with it as children so often do with things that don’t belong to them. He’s play fighting with the lemon and I’m finding it so adorable. After I was done cleaning, I turned to find him looking/sniffing for something. I walked over to see if he had accidentally lodged the lemon into a crevice he couldn’t get it out of. Turns out he lost the fuckin’ lemon somehow in my small home, and I looked EVERYWHERE and could not fuckin’ find it. So now there’s a lemon sitting somewhere in the house that’s going to rot and be disgusting and ruin my life some time in the near future all thanks to my asshole dog.
Tomorrow’s the big day!
My sister’s big day, that is.
I can’t believe how stressful this whole process has been for me, and I’m not even getting married. As the only sister and the maid of honor, this has certainly been a very time-consuming and costly experience! I don’t mind it one bit though because she’s family and this was all for her. I just finished writing my speech, so I’m definitely feeling much lighter. I’m currently working on the nails on my right hand, then I’ve got to make a card, shower, and head over to the hotel. I’m excited for tomorrow, although still stressed, but I guess I have to admit that I’m more excited for my day-off on Monday when I can FINALLY relax. And eat so much pizza that I pass out.
Are your shorts supposed to ride up your thighs when you run?
Or maybe my thighs are too meaty?
When I had an obsessed focus on health and fitness in the cold fall/winter of 2011, I wore sweatpants to jog/run every night and never encountered this awkward problem. But I’m really happy to be back on the grind. I’ve been eating much cleaner and have started back on my 2-3 mile nightly routine. When I had last been physically fit, I was doing 4-6 miles per night, so call this baby steps for the time being. I had fallen off the wagon last year in April due to life/physical complications, and just stopped trying to live a healthy lifestyle (ironically.) Big mistake. But I feel very determined right now to better myself and relive all the happiness I had felt from treating my body the way I should. I have been at it for about 3 weeks now, and I’m already feeling/seeing changes in my body and my food cravings. My biggest goal right now is to eliminate processed foods from my diet. The biggest challenge I’m facing in that aspect is SNACK FOODS. Chips, veggie straws, pretzels thins, chocolates bars.. I have to stay away all together or else I’ll never stop wanting them.
As lazy as I can be, I have slowly and happily reinserted exercise as a part of my daily routine. It’s really nice to have that alone time, when I get to enjoy my guilty pleasures on my iPod, like Eminem and Immortal Technique. And yeah, I still use an iPod because I don’t know how to listen to music on my Android phone. I just don’t.
I’m turning 27 this year, and I want to feel my best at that age.
Okay, and I want a reason to treat myself to new clothes and tattoos, too.
Had a very GREAT day today :) Nothing special happened, but things just worked out. I had been stressing for the past couple of weeks over my sister’s bridal shower, that I was planning, which took place on Saturday. It went very well, and I’m relieved that it’s over! The next challenge in my life was to take care of the whole “not fitting into my maid of honor dress” debacle. I had ordered the dress in January, to find that I wasn’t able to zip it all the way up. I figured I’d have enough time to shed the extra inches, but of course, before I knew it, it was less than three weeks to the wedding date. (20 days from today.) David’s Bridal’s online store has a 14-day return policy, which obviously no longer applied to me at this point. I was, however, able to get a customer service rep to approve my RMA request on my old dress upon placing the order for a replacement. So, I marched my butt into a David’s Bridal store after work today just to try on their dresses to get a better idea of my accurate size, and they ended up helping me find a new, cuter dress, fitted me to my correct size, ordered the dress for me to be delivered to the store BY the 16th, AND exchanged my old dress so I only had to pay for the difference! It was magic. I know it doesn’t sound like a big deal, but David’s Bridal has a strict policy of not returning their online orders in their stores, blah blah. Oh, and the manager even asked me to consider working for them as a consultant because I guess I was very personable. Such a great experience. I walked out of the store feeling a huge weight (not literally, BUT I WISH, AMIRITE?!) lifted off of me.
The rest of my night was swell, as well. Everybody I had encountered in every store was a sweetheart, and my spirits have definitely been lifted. I’m feeling GREAT, and I just want to shout it out loud.
Now if only the “Super Cleansing Cocktail” from Mother’s that I drank 2 hours ago would go into full effect, we’d be in business…
Day made ♥
I got to work from home today, which SOUNDS nice in theory, but it just meant I was working the ENTIRE day and took absolutely no break to unwind while I ignored my puppy :( But then I got an Etsy e-mail notifying me of this wonderful, uplifting message. Someday I will get to quit my 9-530 and devote ALL of my time to making people happy with cuteness and handmade goods. Someday :)
Although every sale is appreciated, and I could certainly use the money, this one makes me just a little sad. This is one of the only two of my original pieces signed by Norman Reedus, and it’s mailing out to Dallas, TX tomorrow. I’m definitely keeping the other one for myself!
My response to a very inconsiderate individual, who had first messaged me on 1/28, saying that she had wanted to buy one of my paintings. She asked if I could lower the price, which I did. And if I could ship to Canada, to which I said of course, but I needed to check the shipping cost. And she asked if I could add/paint sesame seeds onto the painting, which I promptly did. Mind you, I was BEYOND sick at that time, all the while running around, getting things done for this complete stranger, whom I had blindly perceived to be a nice person. On 1/29, after multiple friendly exchanges, I told her that I would keep her updated on the shipping cost, and she wrote back immediately on 1/30 to ask if I had gotten the shipping “figured out yet,” as if I didn’t have anything else going on in my life that preceded in importance. So from then on, I knew she was pretty eager, and I was going to try my best to get everything done ASAP. I had given her both the FedEx quote and USPS quote by 2/1, then she never responded again. I wrote her again on 2/4, to check in and see if she would respond then, and of course, nothing.
This kind of stuff happens, and I understand that. But I really just couldn’t go on with life without letting her know that it’s NOT okay to be this inconsiderate to somebody who’s trying to help her. I could care less that she’s not buying the painting, but to not even validate all of my efforts/time spent with a response? That’s plain despicable. Lesson learned: Canadians aren’t always that nice, eh.
Hallelujah
I officially have more money saved than money owed.
This is such a great feeling.
I’ll obviously still take my time to pay everything off, so I have money on hand for whatever curve ball life may throw my way. (I mean, it’s the sensible thing to do.) But I already feel so free!
Fuck off, credit card debt from paying for my 2013 car insurance.
Fuck off, car loan!
