TCD episode strikes!!!

well i have been sick since friday, and have had no voice since saturday morning. :-( it really sucks. my friend Ty at work thinks i have TCD, or Teller Consuming Disease. Its possible since i AM a teller and all. lol. but whatever i have it isnt fun. another girl at work is also sick, and she probably has TCD also. I still think "TCD" is something Ty made up. . . but shhhhh we wont tell him i said that. this morning i got up and ready for work, went to work and then they sent me home at 11am cuz they thought i looked like i was dying. ha ha ha. well i guess i feel like im dying, but i hated to call in sick two days in a row. so ya, now im at home with nothing to do and sicker than a dog. O, and im looking for suggestions on ways to cut off my nose so that i can stop sneezing. . . any ideas welcome! i cant stop sneezing or coughing and they are both driving me insane, not to mention making my throat sore. well ya so that is how my weekend went! hope yours was better.

dont take life for granted. . .

okay so today was not a good day by any means. my lil sister, mady, headed out this morning with her friend alana to pick up one of mady's friends from boise. little did they know what was about to happen. Mady totalled her '07 toyota matrix and could have been hurt alot worse than what she was. the scarey thing is that we could've lost her today if it wasnt for the lord watching out for her. i guess she dosed off at the wheel and when she looked up all she saw was the back of a truck right in front of her and she slammed on the brakes and tried to swerve out of the way. but in doing so the car started to spin out of control and before they new it all the windows were blown out and mady had a huge gash in her forehead. she got taken to a hospital in Mt Home a little outside of boise where they had to stitch and staple her back up. She's much braver than i would have been, im a pansy when it comes to these things.

the above picture is what her cut looked like before they stitched it up. she said that you could see clear through to her skull. and the one below is what it looked like after the dr had put in the staples and stitched her forehead back up.

its times like these that give you a shock and make you think how quickly life can change in the blink of an eye. i dont know what i would have done if i would have lost her today. she is my best friend and i dont think i could live without her. cars can be replaced but sisters cant! mady is not the easiest child due to the fact that she usually thinks she is right and has a hard time taking advise from other people. she likes to do things her way most of the time. this is why when my mom told her she thought it was a bad idea for her to drive all the way to boise alone, without the parents, mady got mad and said she was gonna do it anyway and that there was no need to worry she knew what she was doing. (my mom is still recovering from knee and neck surgery and trying to deal with her mother, our grandmother, who just fell this past week and broke her arm and had to have surgery as well. that is why my mom let mady convince her she was okay to go alone.) what happened today will probably wake her up a bit to the fact that no one knows everthing and she does need to be a bit more careful and aware of how much learning she still has to do in life. this does however make me very sad to think that this is the way she has to learn this lesson. she has worked hard for the past year for that car and was following exactly in my footsteps just as i did when i bought a brand new car at the age of 16. it makes me sick to think that she might not have a new car for a while. its a privillage that alot of people never get to experience. and she is alot like me, when she is stressed her car was her outlet. she would go driving just to get away from the chaos at home. it might be a while before she can get back out there behind the wheel of another "dream car" for herself. but the most important thing is that we still have mady!!! there will always be other cars, but mady is a once in a lifetime gift to this family and i am so greatful to heavenly father for letting her stay with us. her friend alana was hardly even touched which is even more incredible. thank heavens for angels watching down on us.

WII (gonna be) FIT!!!

I GOT A WII FIT FOR MY BIRTHDAY!!! and it told me i was Obese! LOL. well i guess i kinda am. So i am gonna work really hard not to be! Its really fun to work out on tho. i have learned that my center of balance is slightly off, which could be the reason why my back hurts. Im getting really good at Hula-Hooping tho! he he he. its a fun game on the Wii fit game that burns calories. It also has Yoga, Strength training games, and other fitness programs. Its nice cuz it doesnt really feel like your workin out but you are. and time flies by when you are doing it. Before i know it i have worked out for like an hour!!!

o and i guess i should give you all an update on our 30lbs in 3 months plan. . . the first week i dropped 2lbs, YAY, but the second week i didnt loose any. So im steppin up my game!!! im gonna work out more and try to go on regular walks with the Pooch! im sure she'll love that too. but all the other contestants at work are doing good too. they have all either dropped weight or stayed the same. and the way i see it, is if you aren't gaining your doing pretty good. :-) keep up the good work everyone! We can do this, WE WILL DO THIS!

NEW PLAN!!!

okay so many of you know that i was planning on buying a bullet bike this spring!!! well. . . i dunno if that plan is gonna unfold to well just yet. ya'see i have had some issues come up that might effect that purchase. first, i had to enroll in benefits through my work this past october of 2008 due to the fact that i get kicked off my parents insurance as of march 18th (my 23rd b-day). this takes an average of 50 bucks out of each paycheck. second, my job put a freeze on raises this year due to the economy. they will re-evaluate everything at the end of the year, and if they can afford to give everyone a raise then, they will. and third, rates are awesome if you are lookin at buying a house, which i am. and also if you buy a house this year you get 10 % (up to 8,000 dollars) back on your taxes next year. SO HER'S MY NEW PLAN: i think i will hold off on the bullet bike until i get that 8,000 dollars next year, and i WILL buy a house this summer. that way i will probably not have to finance the bike and i will have a house and all my other debt will be paid off by that time. so really the only debt i will have when i buy the bike will be the house. :-) i think this is just the answer i have been looking for and it feels like it is the right solution to my dilemma of how to get both tasks accomplished and be the safest i can be financially. let me know what you'all think!

Im gonna be HOT!!!

okay so here's the plan. . . 30LBS IN THREE MONTHS!!! the girls, and ty, at work and i are gonna loose a set amount of weight by the end of may. Jennie and i are doing 30lbs each, i think ty is too, and then melissa and kathy are doing 15lbs each. we started last sunday (which was march first) and we weighed in on the following monday. we will weight in each monday, and record how much we have lost each week. at the end there will be a small cash reward for the person who gets closest to their goal. SO. . . here's the good news. . . as of today i have lost 3lbs. IM SO EXCITED!!! that means im right on track. :-) im so excited to have girls like these (and one guy) in my life to adventure out on this journey with. its hard to loose weight alone, so i think this will deffinately help me by having a group to do it with.

there are many reasons why i want to do this. 1) for my health. i want to be a healthier person who loves what she looks like and feels confident about ALL of herself. 2) someday, if i get married and have kids, i dont want people to look at me and wonder if im pregnant or if im just fat. i want to have a cute pregnant lady belly if i ever have kids. 3) i wanna be HOT! HOT! HOT! im buying a bullet bike soon (maybe not til summer now) but when i do get it i dont want to be the "fat chick with a bike" i wanna be the "babe with a bike" lol. 4) when my sister gets married in the future i dont wanna be the fat maid of honor. i wanna look AND feel good being her maid of honor. and 5) my family is probably gonna go on one of our last family vacations this coming december to florida. i wanna be able to to wear a bathing suit and look good in one. and i wanna be able to wear shorts and tanks and not worry about how fat my legs or arms look. SO THIS IS IT EVERYONE! its NOW or NEVER! and now is as good as time as any. i cant continue to keep putting it off til the next day. IM DOING IT NOW. I'VE MADE A DECISION, IM COMMITTED, AND I WILL SUCCEED! that is my promise to myself. so here's to us! we are gonna do it together and make it happen.

AAAGGGHHHHHHHH. . . CHEMISTRY!!!!!

okay so here goes guys. . . i am about ready to head off to take my chemistry mid term. . . I FEEL SO UNPREPARED for it. im way nervous and i hate this feeling. this subject went from being one i started out understanding to now, 4 chapters later, KNOW NOTHING. i dont know what the hell im gonna do. maybe i will be granted a superpower for guessing the correct answer on all of the questions, ya think? naaaaa, that would never happen. and im sure it doesnt help that im blogging right now instead of studying. lol. but it got to the point where my mind just needed a 15 minute break from molicules, dot structures, chemical mixtures, compounds, and everything else that i dont understand now. i think if i fail this mid term i am going to withdraw from the class instead of getting an F on my transcript and having to re-take the class just to get that grade off. i dont think i even need the class anymore, because i have pretty much decided that i am not gonna go into the medical field. i dont know what i want to be when i grow up, but i dont think the medical field is for me. so wish me luck and maybe if i get a C on the test i will keep pluggin along so that incase i do decide to do something medical i will have the class already done. who knows. . .

DYSON UPDATE!!!

okay so i dont think i have ever vacuumed this much in my entire life! ha ha ha. man i love that sucker upper machine. it picks up everthing. but i had a bit of an accident today. . . i caught the edge of one of my rugs in my kitchen and it litterally skinned the rubber backing off of the corner of the rug. HA HA HA that just goes to show you how powerful these vacuums really are! my rug is okay. . . for now. im just so amazed at how much dust and dirt i pick up. it makes me sick! well just thought i'd share my silly miss-hap tonight. lol