Buh-bye blogger.

Got word that google is getting rid of blogger.. I had no idea. So I've moved to Wordpress. Diordamsel.Wordpress.com subscribe to it. Comment. Tell me what you think. I wanna her from you! This will be the last post here!

I'm fat.

You wanna know what's depressing? Being fat. Not just fat, but unhealthy. About 3 days ago, I realized that not only did I gain all the weight I lost back, but also a few extra pounds. GROSS. Also, I weigh 40 pounds more than my boyfriend. He's 6'2" and I'm 5'3". DISGUSTING. Needless to say, I have spent the past 3 days planning out a new lifestyle. Not a diet, but a new way of life. I refuse to let myself be another obesity statistic!
I have been following an Ambassador in my company named Kaelin Tuell. If you don't know who she is, Facebook/Instagram her! She is so inspirational. She was my weight a year ago and is now 3 days away from Er first fitness competition. She has shown me that it is possible. She eats clean, works out, looks freaking amazing, and is a role model and maxim leader within our company. I strive to be her. She is my gol.
So my plan: eat clean, work out, be positive. Sounds easy, right? Yeahhhh... I have spent 3 days meal planning for a month. I made grocery lists. (And naturally, I had to coupon! I'm addicted.) I am going to get back to Insanity. It's an easy program to follow and I know it has results.
I will be fit and healthy. I'm not striving to be skinny. But I don't want to be out of breath from walking up the hill to the mailbox. It's horrible. The other changes that I am making are taking Charlie for an hour long walk EVERY DAY! Our neighborhood is hill-y and huge and he will love it. And instead of buying a riding mower, we are buying a push mower. This may not seem like a huge deal to you, but we have 2 yards to mow. One here at the Charles ave house and about a Half acre of straight hill at the Eldersville road house. And I will be doing ALL the mowing. Plus I will get an AHHHHHMAZING tan :)
Just a heads up for you if you follow me here or on Facebook and Instagram: my profiles and blog will be full of workouts, results, and food. And some motivational quotes and such. I am living a strictly positive life from here on out. I hope you will support me. I can't wait to see results and feel better.

Supervised peeing.

You know what's weird...
Having someone watch you pee. I had to take a drug test today for a new job. Some of them just lock you in a room with a toilet and no running water, and some lock themselves in there with you and stare at you as you try to "gracefully" pee in a cup. The no running water thing is an issue for me because, well I don't want to stand there with piss on my hands for 3 minutes until they validate my pee came out of my body at the proper temperature. But what really gets me is when they sit and stare at you while you do it. Nothing shuts down a bladder faster than someone staring at your vag. On top of that, my blood pressure usually sky rockets and my pulse is bounding and I almost pass out. Then I start wondering about everything I have ingested in the past 6 months. You know I did eat one of those suckers from the bank. Maybe those sneaky tellers coated them in something. It did taste kinda funny. And what about that time I dropped a fry on my kitchen floor and ate it. Maybe when I was walking outside I stepped in drugs and tracked them into my kitchen and now it's on my fry. And what about those Nerds candy... They suspiciously always jack kids up and make them crazy. So, now I am in the waiting room and I feel like they are eyeing me up and judging me. Then after all this, they want me to pee in a cup. Yeah, right!

UPDATE: I got the "no running water" test. Nobody watched me. But the lady didn't think it was funny when she asked if I have recently used any drugs and I responded with, "I'm not 100% sure. I dropped food on the floor last night and ate it." She gave me a look that said, "are you high right now?" And if there would have been a box that said "is patient currently exhibiting signs or symptoms of intoxication?" She would have definitely checked yes.

Goodwill Treasures #1

I bought this God awful candelabra from Goodwill a couple weeks ago. It was $3. Lately, D keeps asking me what I am gonna do with it or where I am gonna put it. (It was really ugly originally.) So i decided to do something with it so he'd stop asking.

It was super tarnished and dirty. First, I washed it. Next I wanted to clean it up and get rid of the tarnish. I didn't know if the silver plate would be pretty once cleaned up. Now, I don't know if you know this, but silver and silver plating can be cleaned very easily using toothpaste. I put it on a wet rag and then just rub.

Look at the difference in the picture below. Its kind of hard to see. The tarnished, unclean, side is towards the top of the picture. The cleaned potion is on the lower part of the picture. It literally took me less than 15 minutes to clean the whole thing.

I decided to spray paint the thing. I would have love to do it in white, but I had lack on hand. So that's what it got. The black will match the bathroom anyways. I had to do a couple coats, and they were sheer. The finish didn't want to hold the paint. So I did several light coats and then I had to let it sit forabout 18 hours before it was dry.

Let's talk about poop, baby,

This goes out to Alyssa.
And anybody else I may have ever discussed defecation with.
We are now best friends.

Adventures of living with a romanian #213

1) They may in fact not know the difference between wiener and winner. Don't tell your boyfriend that he is "acting like a wiener" because he might say, "but i didn't win anything?"

2) Due to his accent, he believes there are 2 different pronunciations of the word 'piss'. He thought piss, as in you are pissing me off, was pronounced "peas-ing" and piss, as in taking a piss, was pronounced the regular way.

When these incidents occur, it's probably best not to laugh before explaining the difference. I think I "peas-ed" him off. 

The Emerald Experience.

Ok, so lately i have been missing The Emerald City lately. I saw this on Pinterest, posted by one of my WA friends, and I died laughing because it's so true. Not only that, but people act so differently here. This is for my west coast people!

 

You know you're from Washington state when:

1. You know how to pronounce Sequim, Puyallup, Sammamish, Enumclaw and Issaquah.
2.  

   You consider swimming an indoor sport.
3.  

   You see a person carrying an umbrella and know they must be a tourist.
4.  

   Your lawn is mostly moss and you don't really care.
5.  

   Honking your car is for absolute emergencies.
6.  

   You're extremely picky about your coffee.
7.  

   You rarely wash your car because it's just going to get washed by the rain tomorrow.
8.  

   Northfaces are always in fashion.
9.  

   You take a heavy coat and a hat with you for a day at the beach.
10.  

    Half of your food is organic.
11.  

    You are a full supporter of one of Seattle's sports teams, even though you know they aren't that good.
12.  

    You play the "no you go" at four-way stops.
13.  

    You can tell the difference between Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Korean and Thai food.
14.  

    You know what a Dick's Deluxe is.
15.  

    You won't go to Forks because of all the Twilight fans.
16.  

    You will never forgive A-Rod

 

Ok.. let me tell you. I lived in Enumclaw and worked in Puyallup, and it still took me ahile to learn the names haha When I first moved to WA, i pronounced Puyallup, "poo-YALL-up". People used to laugh at me. Alot of people may not understand the umbrella thing either. In Seattle, NO LOCAL USES AN UNMBRELLA. One, its too windy and two, its usually this weird mist that just isnt enough for an umbrella or the wind blows it sideways. lol Hence, the northfaces.

 

Also, I never realized how true the honking thing was. But here in WV, everybody honks for everything! Its strange. And as for coffee, I got so spoiled in Seattle. I worked next to this little coffee stand called "Clancy's". Those girls could make some mean coffee, and it was CHEAP. I loved that place. Here on the east coast, even when you go to a starbucks, its just not the same. They dont "understand" coffee here. When I first moved back to WV, my mom and I were out somewhere and we asked where we could get a good cup of coffee, and a guy told us (enthusiastically) about the great coffee that 7-11 had. BARF. Thats not coffee. Thats warm motor oil.

I wanted to find one for WV, but all I could find were the stupid ones about dating your sister lol.

Fake and Phony.. or just Fantastic?!

My mom made this "Faux Shepherd's Pie" and every now and then I get a hankering for it. Well, as you read, I made it last night. It was delicious! Its super easy, and it's one of those recipes that tastes even better the next day. I used a 13x9 pan for mine, but you could adjust the recipe for any size. This recipe is one you can really play with all together and change a lot to suit your tastes. I did mine the suuuper easy way and used instant potatoes because I was too lazy to make real mashed potatoes. Hahaha

 

2.5 lbs of ground beef

12 servings instant potatoes

2 cans of crescent rolls

shredded cheese for topping

seasonings (salt, pepper, etc)

 

 

1) preheat oven to 350-375

2) brown the ground beef. add any seasoning to flavor.

3) make instant potatoes.

4) layer in pan. i do mashed potatoes on bottom, then ground beef.

5) unroll crescent roll dough, and lay flat across the top.

6) bake 15-30 minutes or until dough is cooked and slightly brown.

7) sprinkle cheese on top and put in oven until melted.

My favorite part is this----->
I eat the raw dough :) I love it.
I know it's weird, but it's good. Try it!

The finished product! It was delicious. I purposely cut myself a piece and then wrapped up the rest so that I wouldn't keep eating it. Because I totally would have.

Let me know if you try it and how it came out!

Changes.

Changes are hard to make. I think we all struggle with them. Sometimes, we stick with them forever and sometimes we quit after a few days or weeks. I am making a change. I am changing my life! Starting today, I am participating in a 90 day challenge to get my body back on track. 2 shakes a day and a well balanced, healthy meal. I am also going to try really hard to walk for an hour atleast 5x a week. Charlie will love it. I bought new tennies and a new sports bra to help get my butt in gear! lol

I think we all know how much motivation that I DONT have. lol But I am going to give this every ounce of effort I've got. I am going to post my recipes for shakes and meals and my exercise. Wish me luck :) Tonight, I am going to make Faux Sheppard's pie! Its a recipe my momma always made and I have been craving it for weeks! I will post that recipe later.

So, we found out this week that our boiler system (yes.. this house has a boiler -_-) needs repaired. We have to replace 3 temp control valves that run $99 EACH! Ugh.. good think we dont need heat for a while. haha I am kind of excited for all this warm weather because that means that I can actually do some yard work soon! I cant wait to clean this place up and get it looking presentable. This neighborhood is like Pleasantville; all the ladies have their yards manicured and so pretty and they all wave and tell you "Good morning!" when you walk by. I NEED my yard to look nice..

So, questions for all of you:

1) What are some great tasting healthy meals that you have tried?

2) What are some gardening tips, tricks, or ideas that you have used and loved?
3) What changes have you made that were hard to stick with, but paid off?
4) What are some ways that you have increased your motivation and determination?

Stuffed peppers.

So I cooked for the Romanian today. He picked stuffed peppers. I've never made them. So after an hour f looking up recipes and how to cook them, I got frustrated. And I made my own recipe. And thank god, he liked them. So here's what I did.

10 green bell peppers
Salt
Oregano
1 can of diced tomatoes
1 small onion
1 jar of pasta sauce
2-3 cloves of garlic
2 cups of cooked rice
2.5 pounds of ground beef
Shredded cheese

1) cut the tops off the peppers and clean them out. Save the tops.
2) chop the tops of the peppers up, and combine with chopped onion and garlic, and ground beef in pan. Cook until peppers are soft.
3)combine half the jar of pasta sauce and cooked rice.
4) place peppers in a pan standing upright
5) full peppers with mixture.
6) pour rest of sauce over peppers.
7) cook for 45 min at 350 degrees covered tightly with foil and 25 min uncovered. Top with cheese and cook for 5-10 more minutes until melted.

Let's start this off the right way.

You dont know me. I don't know you. So, here's 11 things about me maily because I couldnt come up with more. You probably don't care, and I probably don't care that you don't care. But there are some things you should know before we dive into my life.

1) I'm sarcastic. Like really sarcastic.
2) I love to cook/bake/grill/broil. Basically anything with food.
3) Because of #2, I am a little overweight and out of shape. Not much, but enough.
4) I am ironically obsessed with nutrition/fitness, but lack any motivation.
5) I am the worst procrastinator EVER.
6) I am addicted to planning. I have 3 planners: school, work, bills & stuff.
7) I am in a long term relationship with a Romanian guy. Its pretty interesting.
8) We just moved into our first house!! :)
9) I am ADDICTED to Pinterest.
10) I have a minpin named Charlie who is like my child.
11) I am in nursing school.. finally.

I dont really know how often I will blog or what I will blog about. I have always been blog obsessed and I figured, "hey what the heck? I'll try it." so here goes nothing.