Belated Birthday Post

So considering that my birthday falls on a holiday, we are often off doing something holiday like instead of truly celebrating my birthday.

So my fiance and I often celebrate with just the two of us, a couple days later.

So a couple days later, my amazing fiance and I went out to a delicious Hibachi dinner.

I am obsessed with Hibachi, the food is so good, and the show is too fun!!

Then we went out to get some fun new stuff with the few gift cards I got for my brithday!!

Including:

I absolutley love them!!!

Now I just need a more fun place to wear them other than work!!

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Wedding Wednesday # 19

It's my Wedding year!!
I can not believe that it is already 2012 and that in just 109 days, 3 months 2 weeks and 4 days I will be getting married & becoming a MRS.
With the new year here, I am starting to get quite nervous!! 
Lots of things to get done, so I made a list:

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First on the list today: Head out to pick the ribbon for the cake!!

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Love it!! 
Next will be to call the seamstress to set up and appointment to get my dress altered and to set up our second marriage counseling session/ meet with the ceremony musician. 
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Eeeep it's coming so fast!!
xoxo.

A Little Bit of My Christmas!!

1. Halter Block Dress from Express (Bridal Shower Dress)

2. Strapless Dress from Charlotte Russe 

(I got it in White for the first day of our honeymoon)

3. Horizontal Striped Bandage Skirt from Express

4. Bandage Skirt from Charlotte Russe

5. I Eat Mainely Lobster by OPI

6. Are We There Yet by OPI

7. My Address is Hollywood by OPI

8. Road House Blues by OPI

9. Charmed Memories Bracelet

10. Running Shoe Charm

10. (oops two 10s) Engagement Ring Charm

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Just a little preview of some of what I got!

Hope everyone else had a perfectly amazing Christmas as well!!

Goodbye 2011, Hello 2012

Recapping

  2011:

Began wedding planning

Bought my Wedding dress

Bough my wedding ring

Graduated from Graduate School

Got my first real job

Moved across New York State again

Got my first non college housing Apartment

Got on my own cell phone bill

Helped Save lives.

Here is was 

2012 

has in store for me:

Getting Married

Getting a New Last Name

Flying out of Country for the First Time

Going on our Honeymoon

Baby Planning

My first raise at my new job

Buying a my first New Car

Lots of fun things to look forward too!!

Some

2012

Resolutions:

Actually keep up the full work out regimen until the wedding

(2x on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday)

Stop drinking Soda

Stop Biting My Nails

Stop swearing. 

Feel like these are able to be accomplished esp the workout one. 

The only one I haven't done yet is the Friday one because I am too lazy to wake up at 5am before work to go. 

But with 3 months and 20 days until the wedding,

I am giving myself no choice!!!

Happy New Years Eve/ Happy Birthday!!!

Happy New Years Eve everyone!!!

Know what that means!?

That means I get to go out and pretend everyone is celebrating me!!!
Because it's my birthday!

Wooo!!

Be safe & have fun!!

Reasons To Be Fit: Weekly Workouts

I get a lot of comments from my other lovely bloggers stating to come how give them motivations for their workouts or to get them to the gym.

Well these are my motivators, so hopefully they can motivate you all!!

Monday:

Double work out this past Monday. 

Miles: 3:23 & 3.10

Time: 30 minutes for both

Pace: 9.17 & 9.40/ mile

Both really good runs. Was going to take it easy for the second time I went to the gym but decided after the first mile that I was just going to go big or go home. Felt pretty good during both runs though. No cramps, no pains. Would have kept going if it wasn't for people signed up for me after me.

First round did a nice arm work out, second time to the gym did some crunches left feeling pretty sore and loving it!!

Tuesday:

Miles: 3.17

Time: 30 minutes

Pace: 9:27/ a mile

Made the stupid mistake of wearing pants to the gym. I was like dying of heat exhaustion! It was awful, so I can imaging that if I had shorts on the run would have gone a bit better. The beginning started off really well though. 

Worked out some legs after this.

Wednesday: 

Miles: 3.34

Time: 30 minutes

Pace: 8:58/ a mile

Wooo!! Sub 9!! Hardly made it under 9 but made it none the less!! Learned my lesson with the pants so wore shorts and really felt pretty good the entire time. The last 5 minutes were a little hard breathing which is a first for me. Not really sure what was going on with that.

Did a nice arm/back workout after that.

Total Miles: 12.84

Was hoping to work out just as much but unfortunately I have a dentist appointment right after work tomorrow. Hoping to get in 3 times if I can get myself to wake up at 5:30 am to get my butt to the gym!1

Convince Me

So I am sitting here on my amazing corduroy-ish couch completely energyless, and absolutely unmotivated to go to the gym watching mindless TV until I can spot enough skinny girls to get my tush motivate enough to go run.

As I was flipping through the channels, I happened across Hoarders on AE.

Now this is not my first time watching this show, but as I sat there watching the tons of useless junk that these people have piled up, I couldn't help but think about how unbelievable powerful and intimidating the human mind can be.  

It it unbelievably crazy that our brains can convince us of such powerful things. 

It can make us feel so uncomfortable with throwing things away that it can actually convince us to keep them incase we need them later. 

I'm not going to lie, I am sure everyone has experienced some maladaptive symptoms. 

I have kept a shirt in the closet that I have only worn once thinking well what if i really want to wear it another time. 

I have triple checked to make sure my hair straightener was off, or the my door was locked. 

Everyone has a few of these tendencies, but for those who are not so lucky, they can become full blown slaves to these symptoms and I find it one of the most interesting things ever. 

Maybe it's because I work in a hospital.

A human mind can convince a person to check over and over things or make people so uncomfortable that they have to count and turn things on and off until it feels right. It can convince people that germs are so grotesque that they have to wash their hands in routine abandoning their other responsibilities like their children. 

It can convince people to experience symptoms of pregnancy and actually just appear to be pregnant all because their minds think they are. 

Our minds can cause us to hear and see things that are not there. 

It just astonishes me. 

With that being said: Cue my Mother-In-Law-To-Be.

You all may know the MIL despises me. Like totally avoids my texts, and is not even coming to our wedding hates me. 

Now Cue her House.

She is the epitome of Hoarder. 

Like junk pilled up the walls can only walk through a path to get to where ever you are going. Now I have only been in her house like twice, so I don't think she is to the point where she is keeping garbage, but she is hardly able to pay her mortgage because she wastes so much money buying useless things that no one needs. 

Watching her do this hurts so much inside because I see so clearly that she needs help.
It's only a matter of time until she does get to the garbage phase, but I don't know what to do.
She won't even talk to me so I can't help her & my fiances twin is so brainwashed by her that he really doesn't see it & has become so much like her that he is miserable and bitter all the time. 

I guess mostly I just need to vent.

But if anyone has ANY idea on how to deal with a hoarding mother in law who won't even talk to you I would LOVE to hear it!!

xoxo.