So...I have a quick minute here at work and thought I would blog real fast. I hope all of you girls are doing great! I can't wait till I am somewhere that I can actually take the time to check in on everyone. For me, the weightloss has been going good. I don't know if it's because I'm stressed and not eating here at work (because I don't/can't take a lunch break), then by the time I get home and get everything done, I'm so exausted that nothing really looks good...not even supper that I cook. This job is really taking a toll on me..mentally and emotionally. I KNEW coming into it that there would be ALOT more stress and responsiblities, but I never knew what I was getting into. SOOOOOO....my last day here is going to be this friday (hey, at least this time it's by MY choice to leave..)lol. I talked to my old company and they want me to come back in July, so I may just take the summer off till then if nothing else looks good.
I haven't got a chance to weigh myself, BUT my clothes are fitting so nicely! AND guess what.............yesterday before work, I saw an old pair of my Express black dress pants in a size 12 and thought, EH what the heck, I'll try em. I got them on AND zippered/buttoned. Now, I wasn't brave enough to wear them to work, because they were snugged and showed alot of lines and ummmm curves..lol. BUT I did get them on! Yay!
Well.. I'm off to read up on some blogs while I have a moment. I will catch you all sometime soon I hope!!!
Ok ladies.. I GOT THE JOB! I have to tell you, I feel quite honored because they DID NOT even do a interview with me. ( I guess the first four that I did before was enough) I was seriously expecting a good week or so of interviewing, but nope. I got a email yesterday asking if I could start on monday, that's right, MONDAY and that they were excited to have me working with them. That means, no interviewing (which I'm actually quite good at considering I look a class in college on it). Bet ya didn't think an interview could last a whole semester!? HUH.. lol. It can. Honestly, that was the most beneficial class I took in college (besides debate, which I use everyday with my poor husband)hehe..
Anyways, I am extremely excited to start this new chapter of my life, but at the same time...EXTREMELY sad to be leaving my girlfriends here. They really did become more than just my co-workers.. Makes me wanna cry thinkin about it...(but we've done alot of that here at work lately, so I'm pretty cried out for a girl that never usually cries..lol.) I don't know how you girls are, but I REALLY don't call people friends unless they truely are. There are two girls here that I am gonna REALLY miss.. just like I will really miss blogging with you ladies everyday. Hopefully the new job allows some personal use with their computers. I think I will have my own office again, so it shouldn't be that big of a deal. I do however know that I will be taking on ALOT more responsibility there than I have here, which is hard to imagine. That is one of the reason I took this job first before finishing their interview process there.. it was alot of uuuuuuuuuughhhhhhhhhh.........stress...more stress and even more stress...lol. Either way, I'm looking at it like a challange and HEY if I don't like it there and this corporation decides that they are in the clear with the recession "crap" and calls me back to work here, then I will come happilily. This is a great place to work, as mad as I was that this whole laid off thing happened, they are honestly really good to their employess.. I think every company is financially scarred and panicing right now.
Ok, so now back to the weightloss subject! I have been doing super great on the challange for FIT and I'm really feeling stronger. I am doing my girlie pushups... but hey, maybe someday I will make it to my "manly" pushups..lol. My husband showed me a good way to start doing them like a man lastnight.. we have a stone mantel that wraps around our fireplace at the bottom(the mantel only comes not even to my knees) but it is very large (about 1/2 the size of that whole wall) and he showed me how to do a easier push up off there rather than doing the girlie ones. I liked it, but I was so scared my hands were going to slip off the mantel and I was going to do a header onto a very THICK, HARD, unforgiving stone surface..lol. So I think I will wait till I'm alittle stronger to do them like that! I have been trying to stick to NO MORE than 1200 cals a day...that is going great and I'm getting all of my water in...... plus.. here's the kicker..I DO NOT have my cup of coffee in the morning anymore with the ton of flavored creamer!. I have to admit, I am alittle more irritable and my day just doesn't get jump started as well, but I did it! (When I made that goal, I was like...eh, I'll throw it in there, but it probably will never happen..lol.) But hey, either way .. I kicked the habit. Well, it's only been 3 days now, but that's better than nothing..right!?
Well... I better get back to work and do SOMETHING here my lastday..lol. I can't wait till I get to pass off all my opened claims on the boss ...haha... She's a ***** ..wonderful person.. Good luck to all of you girls! I'm going to be soooo excited to see the progress of everyone. I really am going to try and check in on everyone as much as possible. Love ya girls!
Ohh yes, this is going to be a VERY long day. My wonderful baby girl decided it was time to get up at 3:06 a.m. Yes yes... 3 AM. Who does that!? On top of it, because of everything that happened yesterday (see prev blog) I COULD NOT fall asleep. I tried to lay down at 10:30 pm and just tossed and turned, thinking about what to do about this whole job thing. So, the last time I looked at the clock it was 12:52 am. Then she got me up at 3:06 am! Ughh I feel like complete crap and I just know I'm draggin butt.
BUT to make matters worse, I get to work and my boss is all like.. "awww Jade, are you okay? You look like you didn't sleep lastnight?! Were you crying?..This must really have taken a toll on you".. Now girls, I don't know how all of you deal with things like this, but I am WAY to proud to let them think they got to me.. soooo I gave an ear full back .... "NO ACTUALLY my daughter was what kept me up lastnight till this morning. I never cried about this company making the decision to let me go and my husband and I talked about it, we figured out that we will be just fine until I find something that suites me. So sorry if that dissapoints you." By the way, I need a letter of recommendation for "insert co. name" (I told her the name of the company and she was like..." How did you get an interview for there?!" Because, girls .. this is a really really well known, GREAT corporation to work for, so I REALLY wanted to throw this in her face..) This company is one of the two that wanted to hire me but you have to go through MANY interviews before it's a definite. So, when this company (the one I work for now, said that they wanted me to start A.S.A.P, I jumped on it.) Yesterday when I faxed my resume's to the 2 companies this particular one called me back yesterday. So.. I will start my interview process all over again and cross my fingers...keep yours crossed too!!!! But ... the look on her face when she heard who I MIGHT be going to was priceless.....hahahaaaa and the icing on THAT cake was she was the one that had to write the letter of recommendation for me...HEHEHEHE.
So yeah, things are going to be okay I think... well they have to be, there is no other choice, they will be. All of you girls are so amazing! Thank you for all of your well wishes and baring with me through that rant yesterday..lol. I was sooo mad though, I have to vent to someone and you girls definatly are my first choice to talk to! I hope everyone has a WONDERFUL thursday and stays on point with diet and exercise!!! You are all doing fabulous!
Okay.. so I am going to make this short and sweet. I am sitting here at work, it's 3:05 pm. About an hour ago I was called into my bosses office and told that because of the ecomomy and the recession "rumors" they are letting me go. I'm layed off... ok, so I wanted to throw up, cry and kill someone all at the same time. I should have seen this coming when 2 of the ladies that have been here 10 years were "layed off". But honestly I thought that would never happen to me. They say that I will be called back as soon as things get better with the corporation, but personally .. they can take their freakin stressful and ungratifying job and shove it up their asses. I can't wait to see the big wigs try and deal with the B.S. I deal with everyday. So.. you may be asking yourself (as I was too when my head was spinning out of control in that office) when am I done here? Ohhh that's the beautiful part of this entire F'd up story.... FRIDAY. Yep, that's right.. 2 days notice. Isn't that PROFESSIONAL. So, after friday.. I really don't know when I will get to blog again or talk to you girls seeing as though I have no computer at home. I faxed my resume' two 2 different companies that wanted to higher me when I took this stupid flippin job. Hopefully I will get one of them and have some sort of computer freedom. Either that, or eventually invest in a computer for at home. But for right now, that is soooo not going to fly with the husband. He is way more pissed off than I am right now ( which is hard to believe.) He wanted to me to take my stuff off of my desk and leave today... I just can't do it though. Plus I need a good referance.. I will still get to write in the blog for two more days though...... I just really needed to share it with you girls because for some reason we really seem to understand and help eachother in bad situations. I love ya girls!
So ladies.... you want to lose weight and feel sexy while doing it!? DON'T do the Carmen Electra Striptease exercise video..lol. One of my E.P friends mentioned how she does her work outs via On Demand through the cable company. So I was like....DANG! I have On Demand, I never thought that they had exercise video's.. I just thought it was for movies and kids shows. So lastnight I mentioned it to my husband and he was like...yeah.. let me show you how to get to it (because he is WAY better at navigating that T.V. than I am).They really do have the best selections ever!!! Thanks E.P. buddy!
So.. I found it and said... WHOA there is ALOT to choose from. So I see this Carmen Electra striptease video. He was like...yeah yeah yeah.. DO THAT ONE..lol. (You do not take your clothes off in this, you just do some really provocative exercising ). Anywho.. so I'm like.. yeah, WOW I really like this while I was warming up. It was fun and not fast..it was great! Then, the next thing I know Carmen slips into her barely there outfit with her other two playmate lookin girls by herside that are in their barely there outfits... and I'm like DANG GONE I don't feel to sexy anymore!
Well to make a LONG story short, I still was doing the exercises with her, but I felt like a fat blob doing rediculous things that fat blobs just shouldn't do! Now, my husband thought this was the greatest thing since sliced bread getting to see me do that crap. BUT the icing goes on the cake when my daughter (almost 3) gets up from her Brat dolls and Barbie house and starts dancing like a STRIPPER. Okay, I shut that freakin thing off A.S.A.P. I never even thought she was paying attention! I thought she was playing.
Ohhhh man, I had to bribe her with cookies NOT to do that infront of Grammy G.G. That's Alana's great grandmother and my gram who basically raised me. She is VERY VERY strict and VERY strict in her beliefs for what a proper woman should be doing and what a proper woman SHOULD NOT be doing..lol. Needless to say, my rating for Carmen is a 10 if you want to learn how to be a stripper and a ZERO if you have any child at the age of comprehension in the house with you! hehe..
So... I tought my daughter to be a stripper...there is my highlight for the night. Beat that one
I am just going to copy and paste what I wrote to Rach-H-S because it partains to all of you girls that gave me the great (and logical) advice to just get rid of the oreo's! Here goes...
Thanks for the advice!! You basically slapped me in the face with the HELLO IDIOT GET RID OF IT..lol. I needed that. My head says.. throw them out, my tummy says.......please please please. Anyhow, I had my friends take them for me and get rid of them. I told her to pick a random trash can so I can't dig through the trash for them..hahaa... I'm seriously kidding about that one! Ew.. but thanks!
So there it is! I didn't eat em...YAY! Although, I honestly wanted to!
I thought this was hilarious.. if your a mom, grandma, aunt..anyone around kids and you get the million questions a day.... you'll understand.
~ Little Tony had been playing outside with the other kids for awhile, when he walked in the house and asked.." Mom, what's that called when two people sleep in the same room and one is on top of the other!?"
She was alittle taken back, but decided to just tell him the truth and give him the birds and the bees talk. " It's called sexual intercourse, darling."
Little Tony just said.." oh OK!?" and went back outside to play with the other kids.
Alittle while later, he came back inside and said angerily.." It's NOT called sexual intercourse, it's called BUNK BEDS!
I'm definatly lovin all you girls that reassured me that ALL THOSE cals do not count because it was my birthday...lol. NOW................if we could just get that scale to agree with us..haha.
Okay girls... I have a huge problem now. I didn't know if I should even say this, but I need to put it out there and get help with how to over come it. Ever since I ate that junk over the weekend, I can't seem to not crave it. We still have left over ice cream cake in the freezer from the girls at work here and a bakery cake that my gram got me on the stove. Then there's the flippin mint oreo's that my husband bought because he said they would taste REALLY good in with the ice cream cake...ugh, I haven't ate either cakes AT ALL... I have left them alone (not because I wanted to, but because I knew I would have to answer to the scale.... and even scarier to you all and myself). BUT those oreos... I ate 3 of them lastnight and I have to be honest... I really really wanted and more! Now I feel like that's all I think about... JUNK FOOD!
I never even was a sweet tooth,junk food, person. You know how you have the two types..Type A) Sweets eater...Type B) Just straight eater (ex: pizza, chips, any kind of carb..) I am sooooooooo a type B! I never craved cake or ice cream or chocolate. BUT now..........mmmmm... that's all I want! Josh packed my lunch for me and God love him, that was sweet (he never packs my lunch, but I was running really late). Well, I get to work, go to pull out my yogurt, applesauce, and NutraGrain bar that I always eat between 8 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. I try to space them out till lunch, then I have my Smart Ones. So... I get into my lunchbox and guess what's starring me RIGHT IN MY FACE!?!?! A bag with 6 oreos in them! Now, I know my husband IS behind me with the whole losing weight thing, but he honestly doesn't understand that I just can't start eating that stuff again or it's gonna be curtains for the diet challange. He is NOT trying to savatage (spelling) me. I know he isn't. He isn't that type of person. But I feel like he isn't understanding, either that, or just isn't listening... ok, so I know this is a bunch of ramble, but I just needed to get it out there.
So yeah, I have oreos sitting at my desk right now and for some small reason it feels like putting a rope in front of a mad women and seeing if she will hang herself....lol. More later.
You girls are so wonderful!!! Thank you for all the birthday wishes! I'm so excited about getting my treadmill .. I'm getting antsy! It won't be here for 10 days! lol.... oh well, all in good time I suppose.
Well, I didn't do very well as far as dieting this weekend. Besides the ice cream cake here at work, my family did the BEST birthday dinner for me. I tried to watch what I was taking, but none of it was very healthy. I just don't really understand that kind of thing. I know they did it FOR ME, but they all know I'm really trying to watch it and it's like HELLO......this is really NOT good for a diet..lol. Then, of course ..me and my husband went out for my birthday.....sooooooooo ...I really don't know how many cals I stacked up in the drink department. BAD BAD.....................I had a blast though, so I'm not horribly upset at myself. I just will be strict from here on out!
Well.............it's time to check in on all mah girls!
YAY!!!!!!!!! It's my birthday and really don't have much time to write this blog.....BUT I have to let you girls know what I got from my WONDERFUL husband!!!!!!!!!!!! Besides money for my hair..clothes..nails.. blah blah.. I GOT A TREADMILL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just wanna cry!!! I
t's on HSN.com right now. You get free shipping (which saves you OVER $100.00) and there was NO taxes on it for me! You can do flex pays on it, which would only be $115.99 a month for 5 months!!! It's the ProForm 665 E Cardio Trainer for $579.95. But with the FlexPay's.. that's better than the gym payments! Plus after 5 months, it's payed off for life...haha.
It has 16 built-in preset workouts - 4 weight loss workouts, 4 aerobic workouts, 4 endurance workouts and 4 performance workouts; each workout is designed by a certified personal trainer.
Auhhh...........life IS good! My hubby is too awesome! I love ya girls. Take a look at it. I've been watching it for ALONG time and this is the best promo they have ever offered on it. P.S. ProForm is the best of the best as far as I'm concerned. They always sell out as soon as they come in (for the good ones).
I better get going.. today is crazy here at work, plus they got me a ice cream cake from the DQ...ughhhh how do I say no....
) This company is one of the two that wanted to hire me but you have to go through MANY interviews before it's a definite. So, when this company (the one I work for now, said that they wanted me to start A.S.A.P, I jumped on it.) Yesterday when I faxed my resume's to the 2 companies this particular one called me back yesterday. So.. I will start my interview process all over again and cross my fingers...keep yours crossed too!!!!
But ... the look on her face when she heard who I MIGHT be going to was priceless.....hahahaaaa and the icing on THAT cake was she was the one that had to write the letter of recommendation for me...HEHEHEHE.
). Anywho.. so I'm like.. yeah, WOW I really like this while I was warming up. It was fun and not fast..it was great! Then, the next thing I know Carmen slips into her barely there outfit with her other two playmate lookin girls by herside that are in their barely there outfits... and I'm like DANG GONE I don't feel to sexy anymore!
