. work out Wednesday .

Ahh...I feel like when your keeping track of the week, they go by a lot faster.

I've been living here for 3 weeks and still haven't found a job. This whole sitting on the couch doing nothing has cause extreme laziness to kick in :) I'm trying to enjoy it before I start working...if I can find a job in this town.
I'm figuring out that setting deadlines works for me. I was trying to set the deadline for when school starts but I'm having a hard time getting my butt in gear. Maybe its because I won't be super upset if I don't have the body of my dreams when school starts. SO...I've decided to make a make-pretend kinda deadline :) I'm pretending that August 27th, the day school starts, in my mind is my wedding day!! I'm so super excited for the day I get married and I will have the dream body by my wedding day. Now there is no way that I will be getting married August 27th seen as how I'm single, but I'm going to make myself believe that it is anyway...for work out purposes and health reasons. The doctor said my cholesterol is on the higher side and I want to be comfortable and confident when I start school.

I just started working out today, this morning actually. I've had a lot of stuff to do with showings of the house, which kinda puts a dent in your day. So somehow a 20 minute workout doesn't seem managable..weird!  Today I started on the 30 day shred from Jillian Michaels, I've done this work out before and I really liked it. I'm going to do it in a different order though, because I'm a big fan of muscle confusion and I think the concept of P90X is great. So here is how my days will look

day 1: 30 day shred phase 1
day 2: ab ripper from P90X
day 3: 30 day shred phase 2
day 4: ab ripper from P90X
day 5: 30 day shred phase 3
day 6: ab ripper from P90X

Yes, I will attempt to work out 6 days a week and have Sunday be my rest day. Or the day where I will take Izzie for a super long walk (our super long walk the other day turned out to be 20 minutes....I was so bummed!)


here are my measurements for this week:
weight: 154.0 (I have been eating super unhealthy this week, thats probably why I gained a tiny bit back..oops)
chest: 38"
waist: 30"
hips:41.5"
left thigh: 24"
right thigh: 24"

Well there ya have it. So far my progress is goin slow. One of my friends from Virginia is getting married July 14th and when I go to her wedding, I want there to be a change in the way I look. Now that I don't see my friends from there at all, I'm hoping they will be able to see a slight difference :)

Happy work out!!

xoxo E

. 10 day you challenge : 10 secrets .

Hey ya'll. I've been trying to find blogs that are very inspring and where some godly women write and I'm happy to say I found one!! Her name is Ashely and she blogs over at the christian wife life, and I've been reading some of her past posts. I found a fun challenge that I thought I would participate in, even though she started her's in September :) 

 

10 secrets...here goes nothing


1. I try my best at being organized but its a complete mess in my head sometimes and things get forgotten or ignored.

2. I wish people would leave more comments on my blog so I can see who reads what I have to say.

3. I haven't worked out AT ALL this week!

4. I'm working really hard on this but sometimes I get super jealous and it is NOT a good thing

5. I would love to audition for a play, but I'm too scared

6. I wish I could take back some of the choices I made throughout my life. It's nice to know that God will always love me and has already forgiven me for the mistakes that I made.

7. I have a hard time coming up with things to blog about :)

8. I'm incredibly lonely at this point in my life, but I know that this is just temporary.

9. I sleep with a night light (I got this night light because I didn't think bats would come to a room that was lit up...but according to google that's not true, BOO)

10. Sometimes I wish I was famous



Well, there ya have it, 10 of my secrets (that I don't mind sharing with the world)
If you like to link up with this challenge, leave a comment so I can read yours!

xoxo E

. Ahhh bats .

I have been wanting to post this for a while now. This story is funny now but with a lot of things...it wasn't at the time!

Ps. My apologies, this is a lengthy story, I just don't want to leave out any details.

It all stated 3 years ago, a new found hatred and disgust developed into sheer terror :)
I had just started living in my house and while I was watching TV,I heard something in the kitchen. It was like someone was going through my cupboards. I freaked out, ran to my car and called my dad. He told me to go in and check the house, he'd stay on the phone with me. I checked, and probably screamed once or twice from my own shadow...nothing, the house was empty. Fast forward a few Weeks. I just got izzie, and my mom and sister were visiting, my house for the first time. I retired to show my mom the basement but when I opened the door and saw a bird fly around,I figured the tour of the basement was going to have to wait. Its the middle of the night and I get awakened by a flapping noise. I look up to see this stupid bird flying in my bedroom! So I leave izzie, walk over to where my mom and my sister are and tell my mom that the bird that was in the basement is now in my bedroom. It only took her a hot second to realize it wasn't a bird...it was a BAT...IN MY HOUSE! my mom and I ran downstairs to look up a phone number in the yellow pages. Meanwhile the bat when from my room to say hi to Lynne, and she freaked out and was downstairs in 3 steps. Lynne and my mom locked themselves in the bathroom and told me to go get izzie seen as how she wasn't vaccinated against rabies. I run upstairs, grab izzie and on the way to the bathroom I ran into the bat and he hit me in the face with his wing!! Not knowing what else to do,I called the police. Not 911, just the regular number. I was calling to ask them who to call and they said they would come over. The officer and I searched for almost an hour and finally found it, as a tiny ball in the basement. The officer killed it and took it to get tested for rabies.
Since that time, I've caught 2 bats in mouse traps...which the exterminators don't know how that happened once let alone twice.
Well right before I moved to VA, I was sitting on my bed worth NY bedroom door closed. I heard a noise and saw a bat crawl under neath my bedroom door. It started flying so I grabbed izzie and put her in the bathroom (a. She is vaccinated, but I don't want to take any chances b. We quickly found it the bats were coming up thru the air vents...its an old house). I called the police and the officer came to kill it. An hour later, we could not find it. He gave me his number and said to call because he was going to be on duty all night. I fell asleep and about 3 hours later woke up to my cat sitting on my pillow, hissing at it! Strangest thing! Then I heard it scream, the bat screamed from WITHIN my BED!! So I called the cop back and told him it was in my bed! He came over right away and stripped my bed...nothing. I told him it was in there and sure enough there it was...it had crawled INTO MY PILLOWCASE!!! I had literally slept on a bat for almost 3 hours!! It even freaked the cop out. I didn't sleep that night, not a wink!!
To say I hate those suckers is an understatement. They scare the crap out of me! Off course I wrote this post at 3am, while listening to noises. There is a bat in the house...I can feel it. People will probably think i'm crazy But I can sense it. Off course I can also hear it, I can hear the sound of its  wings. At some point I might have to go get a rabies shot...just in case. I won't be sleeping tonight (6/8/2012), I have migrated to the couch, and turned all the lights on. I'll sleep when its light outside :) (little update...I went to bed at 6am when it finally got light out, and they got quite as soon as the sun came up. So far no luck in finding someone that can help me evict them!)
These days I sure would like a boyfriend/fiance/husband to protect me from critters :)

Hope y'all enjoyed my bat story...and if you have a solution to get rid of these nasty little buggers, please let me know!!!

Xoxo E

. Home sweet home 1.0 part 2 .

Here is part 2 of my home sweet home post!! Yay for another picture overload :)

{guest bedroom}

{future roommates bedroom...its bigger then this picture makes it look}

{My bedroom....and izzie}

{the best part of the house...MY CLOSET (im in love) }

{upstairs bathroom}

{Izzie's area}

Well, there ya have it...the tour of my house is complete :)

Hope ya'll enjoyed!!

xoxo E



. Home Sweet Home 1.0 {photo dump} part 1 .

{I'm making this post 1.0 because I tend to move a lot...}

WARNING: This is a super long post :)
Yay, I feel like I'm finally settled into my house in New York. I haven't lived here for that long, but its starting to feel like home again.

Background story: I never really liked living in the dorms, I was already 21 when I was a freshman. So I looked for an apartment off campus to live in. My dad thought it was a better idea for me to look for a house. He would buy a house, rent out the rooms and make the money that he spent on the house back. I thought this was a GREAT idea. So, I started looking for houses. I found an adorable 3 bedroom house, with an amazing master bedroom closet...I was SOLD! It was the first house I looked at, it had gone on the market the day before. I told my dad all about it and had him look at pictures online (mind you both my parents live in the Netherlands). He liked and 2 days later we offered the asking price in cash...they ACCEPTED and the house was MINE..well not really, but you get the idea. My parents never even saw the house before they bought it but trusted my oppinion on it. I had never looked at a house, let alone buy one, so I figured we placed the offer, it got acccepted, I could moved in next week, no?? Yea NO, big no! I guess that is not how that goes in real estate. It took close to 2 months before everything was done. Getting a lawyer, getting the money wired, doing a home inspection, waiting for the repairs, then you get the key. By this time my dad had flown for my birhtday, and I got the key the same week. We painted and I moved in. It was built in 1925 and it has the original hardwood floors in it. I love this home!!!

Fast forward: I moved away from New York in 2010, to head down to Virginia. I put the house on the market and my best friend and her then fiance moved in. It was nice to have people living in it so that it wasn't sitting here empty. My friend moved out in March of this year...and the house is still on the market!!! We have gotten one lowball offer, and we didn't even counter. It was more a slap in the face, not an offer. I love living here but I want this house to sell...its time for a new owner :)

If anyone is interested in it, its is in Fredonia, NY and its currently for sale at $119.900 which is a steal considering it was appraised at $139.900!!! (email me!!)

I wanted to post some pictures so that you guys can see how cute this house is :)
PS. this will be a picture overload...but I didn't want to leave anything out

                                                                                                                       {foyer}

{foyer}

   

{living room}

{dining room}

{downstairs bathroom...yes I know there is carpet in the bathroom, im working on that :) }

{kitchen, which will hopefully soon be painted white}

{laundry room}

{izzie's fenced in yard..thanks dad, she loves it :) }

{stairs}

{Office / Mary Kay area}

 

There ya have it, the first floor of my house. I'll be back tomorrow to upload some more pictures, I'm finally getting internet. NO MORE HOTSPOT that doesn't really work well or stealing borrowing my neighbors internet, but MY OWN!!! Can you tell I'm excited :)

xoxo E

. work out Wednesday .

Ok, so here is my first weight loss, get healthy update! What a week it has been; not really but I like to think I have a life :)

I hate doing this on a Wednesday, my OCD wants things to start on Monday...the beginning of the week. So last week when I made the decision to start working out, I wanted to start P90X on a Monday. So I did take Izzie for a few long walks between last Wednesday and Monday.

I went to the beach with my freshman roommate, who I haven't seen in about 3 years! We had so much fun laying out on the beach...at lake Erie. Now, note to self, I HAVE GOT to be more dilligent about putting on sunscreen. It wasn't too hot so I didn't feel like I was burning...HOWEVER, when I got home, it was a different story! My upper thighs are scorched, they turned a very unpleasent purple-ish color. And my back...jikes, I had my friend put lotion on my tattoo, so I have a perfect circle around my tattoo, and the rest of my back is completely burned. I was in so much pain, working out Monday was not an option...neither was walking! I did run up and down my stairs yesterday which may or may not end with me falling at some point :)

As for my eating...another JIKES! I found Oreo Birthday icecream in my freezer...need I say more?? Oopsies! However, I did drop a tiny bit in weight, whoop whoop! My weight as of this morning is 153.8lbs! I'm not super proud, but I'm glad I lost some weight instead of gain some...gotta think of the positives here.

So there ya have it, I will be starting my P90X on a Wednesday...TODAY!

xoxo E

. Happy birthday izzie!!! .

Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday dear izzieeeeee
Happy birthday to youuuuuu

Today my sweet nator turns 4!! Crazy to think we've been together that long. I love her more & more each day and can't imagine my life without her!

{left: Izzie posing with her new toy. right: Izzie posing with her birthday card...this is the first year I couldn't find a pug birhtday card for her...a poodle had to do}

Here is the video of me singing happy birthday to izzie...don't mind the obnoxious singing :) (and the baby talk haha)

happy birthday Stinky! Mommy loves you!!
xoxo E