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October 31 Happy HalloweenTonight is the night I’ve been waiting for all month long! I’m SO excited about Halloween this year. My Prince and I have new props to put out this year. It’s actually pretty gross. It’s a little grill, with a light to look like fire, and crackling noises plus it came with charred body parts. We also bought some small body parts that are squishy and slimy in your hands like a lung, brain, ear, and nose props. Plus, I found some body part gummy candy. I can’t wait to freak the kids out with that. It’s going to be great!
The difference this year from past years is that I’m actually working today. I usually take off for Halloween because of all of the hard work that goes into setting up our props. I’m going stir crazy being here at work today. I keep pulling Halloween tricks on my co-workers. I’m sure in the future they’ll beg for me to take off for Halloween. I’m sure I’m driving them all crazy.
Here are a few of the props we have (just to give you an idea):
Plus we have some zombies to add into that but I can’t find them online.
Weight Time:
Ok so today is the weigh in day for Tales from the Scales. I’m happy to report that I’ve lost three pounds. I’m chalking this up to my new diet lifestyle. I’ve made it one week as a vegetarian just three more to go. It’ll be interesting if I decided to stick with this or not. So far it looks like I will.
Happy Haunting,
~ Fat Chick October 29 JasonWhen I was growing up I was not allowed to watch any of the Friday the 13th movies. For some unknown reason this thought process carried on into my teenage years and even into my young adult years. Last October My Prince just about wet himself when we strolled through Wal-mart and found a display case of all of the Friday the 13th movies. They were only missing one but were only about $10 per DVD. The funny thing was I still wasn’t interested in watching them even though they had been forbidden all through my childhood.
Well, this weekend My Prince finally sat me down and we watched the first and second Friday the 13th. I must admit that I enjoyed them. It was refreshing to watch these ‘old fashioned’ horror movies. Today’s horror movies are so gory and filled with blood or torture porn that it disgusts me and makes me question what kind of minds thought these movies up.
Don’t get me wrong; I think the Friday the 13th movies are completely cheesy but cheesy in a good way. I can see how these movies were inappropriate for me as a young child but now I think they are great classics.
Happy Haunting, ~ Fat Chick October 26 Veg it up! Organic style… As was said in my last post Skinny Bitch was an extremely interesting read for me and apparently has pushed me into a new lifestyle. I’m not usually sold on an idea after reading one book, pamphlet, website, etc. but Skinny Bitch really spoke to me when it came to not eating meat and products with chemicals in them.
In the past I’ve toyed with the idea of becoming a vegetarian because I wasn’t eating that much meat to begin with. But when I did eat meat it was lots of chicken and on the weekends lots of beef. My Prince is big on steak. Some times I ate it just because he was in the mood for it and other times I ate it because I actually wanted it and was usually disappointed once I had it (not all the time).
About halfway through reading Skinny Bitch I couldn’t stomach the thought of eating meat again. I thought this feeling would fade and I would be back to my old self but I found myself not stomaching the idea of eating meat the rest of that day. The next day came and I still didn’t want to touch the meat or milk for that matter. It just seemed like all of my food was now tainted. If I didn’t do something fast I was going to starve to death.
At the end of the day Wednesday I found myself rushing to the grocery store and heading straight for the organic section. That’s right, not only was I now avoiding meat and milk but also I didn’t want anything that wasn’t natural. This was completely unnatural for me. With my new book in hand and empty basket in the other I started to load up on groceries that I’ve only glanced at while passing through the store to my usual groceries.
I bought soymilk, organic/vegetarian frozen meals, meatless/organic lunchmeat, organic bread, and even yummy organic cookies. I thought I was going crazy but I was too hungry to care. Over the last two days I’ve tried soymilk for the first time, ate dishes with tofu in them, and haven’t touched meat, milk, or anything else that I’m used to eating.
After my shopping trip though, I still wasn’t convinced of this new decision and figured that this still was just a phase. So, I decided to do what I would have normally have done which was read more about vegetarians, organics, and slaughterhouses/animal abuse. The things that I found on the web only reinforced what I read in my book. The next thing I knew I was signing up for a free vegetarian starter kit and pledging to eat vegetarian for at least the next 30 days.
It’s still strange to me that I’ve jumped head first into this after reading a book. That’s very unlike me to do that. I always want all of the facts and arguments and I want to see both sides of a point of view before I form my own thoughts and opinions. But not this time… perhaps I was meant to be a vegetarian all of this time and just never realized it? lol
With everything I read I understand that my body and health will improve with these changes and we all know how the “Fat Chick” has been struggling to become the “Skinny Chick” for quite some time but funny enough that isn’t even what’s at the forefront of my mind on this issue. What I’m thinking about are those helpless animals and cruel lives they live and the horrible abuse they are subjected to. Then comes the truth behind my security blanket. Meat (whether the animal was healthy or not) is decomposing flesh and body parts. That makes my stomach turn over. For my whole life I’ve lived behind the ignorance defense when it came to eating. If it doesn’t look like an animal and I didn’t see it ‘prepared’ for my plate then I don’t care and I’ll eat it. That has been thrown out the window.
All I can think about is what those animals have been through. Not to mention the graphic details that were relayed in my book and the horrific short videos that showed me what these animals’ lives are like before/after/and during their fate to the slaughterhouse. In my book an animal’s rights worker was quoted as saying, “If slaughterhouses had glass walls we’d all be vegetarians.” After just glimpsing into that world I now know why.
I’m still questioning myself wondering if once my commitment to the 30 days is over if I’ll continue on down this path or if something will come along and yank me back to my pre-book days. I guess only time will tell. As for the next 30 days you can consider me a vegetarian.
All of this occurred during the week, which means I had not yet discussed it with My Prince. Last night he invited me to the Pens hockey game. We usually go out to eat before the hockey game and this was no different. When he suggested we go to our favorite Chinese place it was time for me to spill the beans.
It was difficult trying to discuss this sensitive matter with his Dad there but My Prince got the point. I’m going vegetarian. He doesn’t yet know that I’m only trying it out for 30 days (to begin with) and he doesn’t know how I came to this decision. But since we usually go out to eat on Friday nights (and the rest of the weekend) I’m sure we’ll discuss this in full detail tonight.
My Prince was surprised and had different thoughts and emotions on this subject but agreed to wait to hear me out before protesting. That’s one of the reasons why I love him so much.
One of the surprising aspects to this has been my weight. I weigh myself every day and note the changes of time and the effects of different food on my body and my weight. According to my scale I’ve lost 2.2lbs. since Wednesday when I started this crusade. Plus, for the first time ever recorded in my world’s history, I ate Chinese and went down .2lbs. instead of up. My dish was appropriately called “Fresh Vegetables”. It was a mixture of veggies over steamed rice and was absolutely delicious!
I think I’m going to really like the benefits of this decision.
~ Fat Chick October 24 Skinny Whhaaa???If you look over at my list of books you’ll see a new addition titled Skinny Bitch. I first saw this book this weekend on the ‘bestseller’ shelf at my local Borders store. Then when I went to Curves this week a few of the women were talking about it and recommended me reading it. Any time I get a recommendation I always have to follow through with it and read the book.
So, since I had just acquired a coupon in my e-mail from Borders (Conspiracy? Maybe.) I decided to go back to the bookstore and buy it. I couldn’t put the book down. I put it down twice, once to try to choke down my lunch and secondly, to go to class. I finished this book in one day. My feelings over this book are quite confusing. Allow me to do my best to dissect them. The first and foremost aspect of this book that jumps to the front of my brain is, “Wow! These women really know how to keep healthy bodies and I applaud that.” They throw so many health facts and nutritional facts into you face (with sources to back them up) that you begin to wonder how you’ve managed to survive this long on the foods that we eat.
The following thought that jumps out about this book is the word ‘repulsive’. There are a few chapters dedicated to the chemicals that are present in our food in one form or another that should have warning labels on the food not just ‘nutritional facts’, the way animals are treated before, during, and after the slaughter house that would make the biggest meat eater want to go vegan, and several of examples of how the FDA, USDA, Dairy, and Government are all putting money into each others’ pockets while we are getting sick, diseased, and dying from their deals and oversights. These chapters affected me the most. Here is an excerpt from the book:
“Cows are injected with bovine growth hormones. Their udders, under normal conditions, would supply about ten pounds of milk a day. Greedy farmers have their cows producing up to a hundred pounds of milk a day! There is no gentle farmer milking the cow with a bucket between his feet. Cows are milked by machine; metal clamps are attached to the cows’ sensitive udders. The udders become sore and infected. Pus forms. But the machines keep on milking, sucking the dead white blood cells into the milk. How freaking gross is that? To get rid of all the bacteria and other shit, milk must be pasteurized. But pasteurization destroys beneficial enzymes and makes calcium less available without even killing all of the viruses or bacteria. Hell, even radioactive particles are found in milk!”
To hear these two ladies describe animal meat as decomposing bodies that we are consuming just curls my toes. Add on top of that the abuse the animals receive in the slaughter house that range from cutting off chickens’ beaks with a hot knife while they are still alive to boiling pigs/hogs alive was enough to sear these images into my brain any time I consider putting meat back in my mouth.
Don’t get me wrong; this book isn’t all about the bad and the ugly. They dedicated chapters to what to eat and what not to eat, websites for more information and helpful tools, as well as books and magazines to further educate you on their points. Not to mention a whole month’s worth of a menu to follow. They might not be polite about the point they are trying to convey but who wants nice and sugar coated (pun intended) facts when it comes to our health?
Now all I have to do is figure out a way to convince My Prince to try this new way of eating for at least 30 days with me. I’m thinking the odds of that happening are pretty slim but I could always read the most gruesome details to him and see if that doesn’t change his mind a little. What’s 30 days, right? If you or someone you know has read this book let me know your/ their thoughts on it. I'm curious how other people have reacted to this book of new information.
As for my own weight and nutrition I’d say I took a bit of a landslide with a 2lb. gain, but last weekend I didn’t eat that great. That’s the story of my life, right? Perhaps not any more after reading Skinny Bitch. Also, tonight at Curves we’re having a guest speaker come who is a certified nutritionist, whose name has escaped me at the moment. I’ll let you know how that goes.
~ Fat Chick October 23 Germs and SpooksDear Sick Co-Workers:
I am so happy to see that you love coming to work so much that you come in even when you are sick. I know staying home from work is like telling a child he can’t go to Disneyworld because he’s sick but really, you should be able to make the mature decision that just maybe you should stay home this time. I think I can speak for all of those who have not been infected by the coughing, sore throat, and feel like hell germ that we really rather skip out on that fun experience and continue down the healthy path. But when you continue to come into work and contaminate the recycled air that the building pushes through the office you make it harder for us to dodge this nasty little critter. Not to mention your one and only IT person (oh yeah, that’s me!) has to touch your disgusting keyboard and mouse when you have a problem that you want me to fix with your computer. I understand that we both know you are way too sick to have me walk you through the process of trying to fix it yourself and therefore cannot use these instruments forcing me to allow your sick germs onto my healthy hands. But don’t you think maybe that you wouldn’t want your only IT person getting sick? If no one else in this office matters to you your one and only IT person should matter. Not to mention, that much like you, I’m saving my sick days for days that I just want to call off for and have a good time. But if you keep coming in increasing my chances of getting sick I might have to actually use those days when I’m not feeling well, unless of course I decide to return the favor and give you my sick germs if and/or when I become sick.
Get well soon,
Your healthy co-worker
As you know I was supposed to go to The Scream Asylum this weekend, well unfortunately, that did not happen. But fear not dear reader! I intend to go this Thursday assuming I don’t get that nasty virus mentioned in my above letter. Yeah, that’s been great. The two main people who have been sick are managers who keep coming in to work. The one (who is my direct manager) has been to the emergency room twice and yet keeps coming in. She’s not in yet today but it was lovely to have her hack up a lung at me (since I sit right outside of her office). She lost her voice and the other manager who is sick has lost her voice and sounds horrid as well. I love the corporate world. I’m trying desperately to stay healthy because we all know I’d die if I were sick for Halloween. But I bet I’d make a cool prop, lol.
~ Fat Chick October 19 The Scare HouseThe Scare House lived up to its reputation and more! Going on a Thursday night proved to be a brilliant plan as the line was rather short and we waited about 15 – 20 minutes before we got to take the walk. The first thing that pleased me was the hostess asking us how many were in our group and sending just the two of us in instead of combining us with other couples. Don’t get me wrong, I usually welcome others into our group because I get a kick out of seeing the inevitable scared girl screaming and clutching onto her boyfriend while he pushes her towards the ‘monster’. But since this was supposed to be a step up from your usual haunted house I was happy for the opportunity to explore on our own.
Since My Prince is easily startled he usually sends me in first and this was no exception. The first part had a similar layout as a house where we went through a sitting room, a little girl’s bedroom, the backyard, and of course the bathroom. Each scene was done so elaborately right down to the minute details of dust, blood, and the clear, wet, sheen one would expect to find on a pile of decomposing bodies you almost had to remind yourself where you really were.
My first scare of the evening, and most prominent, was what I interpreted as an outdoor type scene with tombstones and a skeleton dressed in a suit sitting in a chair. As I was taking in the scene before me I noticed a white ruffle in the corner but my attention was quickly averted to something else in the room. When I turned around to proceed forward the white ‘ruffle’ was standing in front of me in the form of a ghostly looking bride who sneaked up on me so quietly that it seemed she appeared out of thin air. Of course this made me cry out in surprise at which threw me into a small fit of giggles. The ghostly bride proceeded to talk of her ‘missing’ groom and asked me to be a bridesmaid. It was a great scene and I must give props to the ghostly bride with the impossibly quiet feet!
Each room opened up to a more gruesome sight than the last, when finally we reached an opened area or large room with a book shelf lining the one wall where the books were mysteriously moving about on their own. To a bookworm, this affect could not have been cooler lest they physically floated off of the shelf and into my face. In this room the Dentist’s intern who was a very hyper fellow demanding to see our teeth and tonsils while he waved his flashlight around in our faces greeted us. At this point I was positively bouncing on my feet with anticipation of seeing the dentist who is featured on their website’s trailer.
The young apprentice sent us down a short hallway filled with the sounds of a dentist’s drill filling our ears that opened up to a small, dark and dingy dentist’s examination room where the dentist, with his back to us, was hunched over his latest
Reluctantly we moved forward into a series of dark and smoky hallways littered with piles of what used to be decomposing bodies. Along the way we were startled and entertained by a group of differently attired demons provoking us to stop and ‘play’ with them. Nearing the end, a woman dressed as if she had awoken from a deadly nightmare only to realize it was actually happening, yelled ahead to her ‘friend’ Billy Bob to take care of, “the short one in the back with the curly hair” (oh yeah, one of the actors made My Prince and I trade places some where in there having him take the lead). Once I rounded the corner the fog and strobe light caused a quick moment of confusion as I tried to adjust to my new environment only to see in a side doorway a large and burly man coming at us with a chainsaw. This was extremely excellent and brilliant on the part of the person who thought up this room. The strobe light coming from the doorway gave the chainsaw man a ‘growing’ affect to him. That along with the fog gave you a very horror movie type setting that would have had any other person running and screaming out of the room. But since I am not your average person all I could do was stand there and stare at the chainsaw man probably ruining any and all hopes of making the “short one in the back with the curly hair” run out screaming. My Prince tugged on my hand and led me down some steps where we stepped back into the night air. Our adventure was over.
I give The Scream House four out of five severed heads for great originality, awesome props, scenes, makeup, and costumes, and for actually giving me a good scare or two. My Prince and I agreed that this was a ‘must do again’ before the end of the season.
This weekend we try The Scream Asylum that features three different haunted houses with three levels of intensity. They use a scream intensity rating level of: Scream Factor 1: for the tame of heart. Scream Factor 2: for the brave. Scream Factor 3: for the truly daring! Will The Scream Asylum have me running out crying? I’ll let you know next week.
Happy Haunting,
~ Fat Chick October 18 Gar-Halloween-FieldLast night, after I finished up with my Halloween decorating, I grabbed a blanket and pillow to snuggle up with on the couch while I watched my two favorite Halloween episodes. I started off with It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown and then watched Garfield’s Halloween Adventure. Now, I know what you all are thinking, “For goodness sakes woman! You’re 25 years old, grow up already!” To that I reply with, “No!” There are certain ‘movies’ or ‘episodes’ in ones life that has special meaning to them making them feel all warm and fuzzy all over. These movies do that for me and so do all of the great Christmas movies that I’ll be gushing about in December. But for now, lets concentrate on one of the forgotten holidays that most of the stores skip over and jump straight to Christmas.
Allhallows Eve or what we refer to here in the U.S. as Halloween. Dictionary.com defines Halloween as “the evening of October 31; the eve of All Saints' Day; Allhallows Eve: observed esp. by children in costumes who solicit treats, often by threatening minor pranks.”
To me, Halloween means, lets see who/what can scare me this year? As My Prince and I go on a search for new and unexplored (by us) haunted houses and horror movies. Then on Halloween night it turns into, “Ok so you’ve had your chance to try and scare me all month. Now it’s my turn to try and scare you.” As My Prince and I scare the living daylights out of the neighborhood children.
Tonight My Prince and I will be chartering to unknown territory as we try to get the pants scared off of us. Now I do have to confess something about My Prince before I continue. As I’ve explained before I have to go to great lengths to be scared by a haunted house because of my past. My Prince however is extremely easily startled. For instance, My Prince goes to the bathroom and I follow him (with his knowledge) and wait until he emerges from the bathroom. I step out of the shadows of the hallway and yell “RAH!” He has a heart attack. He has tried similar (only less obvious) tactics on me and has only gotten me back on a few occasions (remind me to tell you the story about him hiding in the bushes at my old apartment and where I currently live). So, I more or less drag him to these haunted houses and he ends up more scared than I do because someone has jumped out and startled him.
Tonight we’re trying out The Scare House as long as it doesn’t rain (or if I have my way, we’re going). We’ve never been to this place but I’m rather excited because the makeup of the actors is professionally done and the sets where the different scenes take place are also done professionally. That’s part of the problem with other haunted houses they aren’t authentic enough to scare me. Will I finally get the scare I’m looking for? I sure hope so. Only time will tell. I’m also hoping to go to The Scream Asylum this weekend. I can’t wait to report back on what I find out.
Two years ago My Prince and I went to the West Virginia State Penitentiary and were highly disappointed. The first ten minutes was the best part of that whole outing and it was scary because they locked us all inside of the cells in the pitch dark. That gave me the willies and My Prince’s Mom the Royal Queen even held my hand while we were in there. Part of me was grateful for it. But nothing happened and they let us out and the rest of the ‘tour’ was a let down. We actually enjoyed the daytime tour of the jail itself more so than the haunted house part.
Also, as far as horror movies go My Prince and I watched Rosemary’s Baby and The Shining. I must confess that I was disappointed with Rosemary’s Baby. I lasted through the whole 2 hours and how many ever-odd minutes waiting to see the baby only to be disappointed that you never get to see it. How disheartening! But The Shining has always been one of my favorites. I used to watch this with my Mom every year for Halloween. I hope to make it a new tradition with My Prince. This time last year I actually read the book for the first time.
Much like Garfield, I feel my middle name is “Halloween”. Fat-Halloween-Chick, just somehow doesn’t cut the mustard though. So, just call me Gar-Halloween-Field!
Happy Haunting,
~ Fat Chick October 16 A Stroll through the OrchardsLast weekend My Prince and I went to Soergel’s Orchard for their “Apple Festival Weekend”. At the time we didn’t realize that was going on because our trip to Soergel’s was completely spontaneous. We happened to be having brunch in the shopping center across the street from Soergel’s and I made the comment to My Prince, “When are you going to take me there? In all of the years we’ve been dating you’ve never taken me there.” Much to my surprise he said, “Do you want to walk over now?” I was very excited!
There was so much to see and do and SO many people! After fighting our way through the crowded parking lot and past the crowds of people we made it to the apple orchards. I’ve never gone walking through an orchard before (but now I guess I can’t say that) and let me just say it was extremely romantic and beautiful.
The orchards lead us over to the pumpkin patches. I love picking fresh pumpkins from the patch and that’s exactly what we did. We got our hands on a wagon and put two very large pumpkins inside of the wagon to pull down the hill. I then insisted on us also picking up a few of the smaller pumpkins to get (they’re just so cute). Then we walked our pumpkins back to the car. After all of that hard work we got some refreshing bottles of apple cider and went on to explore some more. We went into the lovely gift barn, then stopped by to see some friends, then made our way over to the market, and ended in the garden center.
We ended our adventure by walking across the parking lot to Bruster’s where I enjoyed the most delicious Pumpkin blast. YUM!
This weekend Soergel’s is having a Pumpkin Festival! But we’ll be biking at Ohiopyle enjoying the autumn foliage. Perhaps next year we’ll go to the Pumpkin Festival.
~ Fat Chick October 15 Isn't Life Interesting?Last Thursday (10-11-07) was my last day at Curves for the volunteer group I signed up for. Since it was my last day they wanted to weigh me, give me a body fat analysis, and take my blood pressure reading. To my surprise I found out that in the three weeks that I’ve been volunteering for this study I’ve lost 3lbs., 2% body fat, and lowered my blood pressure. Color me happy! I think I need to sale my home scale (anyone interested? lol) because according to it I have not lost that 3lbs. nor have I gone down 2% in body fat. Curves uses your typical doctor’s scale that we all love to hate and they have a high tech digitized scanner for body fat. I think I’ll take their word for it that they are correct. After all, they are the experts, right?
I’ve also have grown so used to my weekly routine of working out there three times a week that I’ve signed up and am now a full fledge member of Curves. The women there are so nice and the workout routine changes so much that I don’t get bored. I’m very happy that I found Curves and highly recommend it to anyone who is thinking about trying them out.
As for my idea that I mentioned in my last post, I think I’m actually on to something. I am the Maid of Honor for my sister’s wedding, which means I’ll be immensely involved with the wedding planning and helping of coordination. With this being said I asked her if I could be her official wedding planner. She was more than thrilled with the idea because she feels completely overwhelmed and informed me that she is very unorganized with all of the details that she’s gathered so far. I’m planning on purchasing wedding planner software to help keep me organized. I really hope I can make this take off for something to do in my spare time and for some extra cash on the side.
I’ve already designed her ‘Save the Date’ cards, which is one less expense she doesn’t need to worry about. I also showed it to a few of my single co-workers who all but practically begged me to design some for them as well. I’m going to put my name out there and see if I get any bites. I think this would be a wonderful adventure to try and embark on.
Also, a local gift basket business is looking for holiday help in my neighborhood. I’m thinking about giving them a call to see if it’s something I might be able to stick my hand into as well. I could use the extra cash and if all goes well, perhaps, I could strike up a business relationship with them and use them as a vendor for my wedding planner future.
I feel like I’m really putting myself out there and am on my way of discovering who I am and what makes me happy. I can’t wait to see what happens next!
Stay tuned! ~ Fat Chick October 10 Has it been a whole week already?I can’t believe it’s been a whole week since I’ve lasted posted. I’ve been meaning stop in here and put something up but every time I tried I got interrupted.
So, lets start with my weigh in today. It’s Wednesday, which means over at Tales from the Scales I need to post my loss or gain. Well, this week I simply stayed the same. I didn’t gain or lose anything this week. I’m getting pretty tired of seeing that same number on the scale. I think I need to go see a nutritionist. It seems like every time I try to alter my food intake I either gain or stay the same and just sometimes lose. We’ll see, I’m still pushing on.
Last weekend My Prince and I went to our first ‘haunted house’. It wasn’t so much a ‘house’ as it was a bunch of portable trailers. You know the kind you get for storage? It was… different to say the least. We went to “Terrors by the Lake”. We were both very excited about going back here because two years ago (I think it was that long) they had a fire and closed up. So, when I discovered they had returned we knew we had to go back. When we arrived we were skeptical about going through it. I asked a group of people who came out if it was worth the money to go in. The guy in the group shrugged and said, “Yeah, I guess so.” The girl in the group said, “Are you easily scared?” I replied with, “No” and she said, “Then probably not.” Well, of course we didn’t listen to the wise and knowing girl and went inside. It was disappointing. Now don’t get me wrong it wasn’t horrible but I have a high standard for when it comes to haunted houses.
When I was in high school I worked for a haunted house so I became slightly desensitized to haunted houses. I learned all of the tricks and once I figured out that all of the ‘monsters’ were just people like me trying to scare me I started laughing every time I went through haunted houses. I more or less go for the props, cool costumes/make-up, to see other people who are more easily scared go through screaming, and to see if anyone can actually catch me off guard and scare me. Meaning, I still have a good time going I just laugh instead of scream, which doesn’t always make the actors/actresses too happy.
So with all of that being said I tend to be more lenient when I judge haunted houses and this one was just not that great. Take the kiddies to this one because adults and teenagers probably won’t get too much out of it.
I had my class again last night and was disappointed to find out that I got a B- on my quiz. I wasn’t surprised exactly, just disappointed with myself I suppose. But I have another quiz next Tuesday so I can do my best to make up for it then or at least that’s what I keep telling myself.
Speaking of my future, I came up with an idea yesterday that I think I’m going to enjoy immensely but first I need to gain a little experience before I can jump in. With that being said, the only hint I’m going to give is that my sister is getting married next October and I’m hoping she’ll help me with the start of my little endeavor. I’ll keep you posted.
I think I rambled on long enough and will wrap this up. But one last thing before I do, tonight I’m going to the Penguins’ game and am SO excited! GO PENS!!!!
Happy Hump Day, ~ Fat Chick October 04 Late Weigh In and Other TidbitsWho would’ve thought that when I promised a post for yesterday that I would have to break that promise? As it goes, work had me incredibly busy so unfortunately I’m posting my weigh in a day late.
This week I’m up .4lbs. I’m not thrilled but not devastated either. My Prince’s Dad made his famous meatloaf, with a side of broccoli, and a nice piece of Tuscany bread on Sunday. Then there was dessert… oh yes the dessert. It was a delicious strawberry cake, with a mound of ice cream on top, and chocolate topping over it all. So, am I surprised I’m up instead of down? Nope, not in the least bit surprised. I must remember “portion control” on the weekends. No matter how good the meal is! Other than that I did well with the rest of my food last weekend. My Prince and I even went for a long walk after we indulged in his Dad’s famous recipe, so I’m sure it could have been worse.
Also, I’m still going to Curves, I’m a bit bummed because I only have four sessions left before it is over. I would like to join but My Prince and I are planning on living together next year and might move in to a place that has a gym. I hate being in this position because if I don’t sign up for a membership at Curves my luck we won’t move into a place with a gym. But if I do, we’ll most likely end up living somewhere that does have a gym. I’m torn! I really like the environment at Curves. All of the women are so nice and the equipment is really easy to use as well as challenging. Not to mention it’s located at a very convenient location for me. So that even when I do move with My Prince it’ll still be within a reasonable distance from where we would live.
While I’m on the subject of weight loss and food let me just say that I tried these New Carmel Apple Weight Watcher Muffins and they are fan-tas-tic! I love these because they have that fall flavor without all of the calories. I will be stocking up on these. I’m also almost through my box of Curves Honey Crunch Cereal and am thoroughly enjoying it. It also helps that 1 serving is 1 cup. But the flavor is great and I’m eager to try the Whole Grain Crunch next.
Ok enough food talk; lunch is still another few hours away.
I have some great, fantastic, fabulously wonderful news (can you tell I’m excited?)! Last Tuesday I had a quiz in my class that I’m still not telling you what it is for. I was extremely nervous about this quiz and studied for it like it was my midterm. When I got the quiz the whole second page troubled me. The first page I did rather well on, I was certain of that, but that second page threw me off and I decided to attack it with what I thought was right and wrote ‘til my little heart’s content.
Well, this Tuesday we were having another quiz and were told that after that quiz to come out into the hallway and discuss last week’s quiz with the Professor. I was shaking in my knees as it was about what my grade was going to be and now I had to let my Professor torture me further by telling me what kind of a failure I was. Needless to say I was not happy. Finally, when I finished my current quiz I very timidly walked out into the hallway. My Professor seemed pleased to see me and pulled out my paper. I looked at it and saw nothing but pencil marks all over it. I was crushed! But my Professor just scanned down the front page doing little, “mmm-hmm’s” and turned to the second page and pointed out my grade to me. You would not have believed my relief when I saw a 100% on there and my Professor smiling at me. He even said, “You really know your stuff!” Then he scanned the paper again and found a question and read it to me and pointed out my answer to me. He said, “You know, you are one out of two people in all of my classes this term to get this answer right.” He said, “I started to think I didn’t cover it until I saw word for word (as he pointed at my answer’s words) that you answered it exactly right.” I wanted to cry and kiss him! LOL He beamed at me from ear to ear and finished with a, “Good job!” I was flying! (I think I still am) The class has been a big stress on me. For starters, I’ve never studied this subject before. Oh, wait, that’s a lie. I touched on this subject in high school… seven years ago. Not only have I not studied this subject extensively but also, I’m not currently employed in this field. Where as most of my classmates are employed in this field, have been studying this subject, and are working on Associate/Bachelor Degrees. It definitely made me feel good in a world that is so foreign to me (or rather not so much) to do so well. I’m actually considering putting my resume out to a few job postings I’ve found or volunteering somewhere to gain more insight on the subject. I want to be certain before I jump in. But you can bet I’m doing my happy dance, regardless.
So, how’s that for a post? LOL
Happy Friday Eve,
~ Fat Chick P.S. Check out Tales from the Scales and see how everyone else did or even to join the challenge! October 02 Not a real postI have a big quiz tonight in my class so I'm studying hard and working hard when I have to =P. I'll be putting a real post tomorrow.
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