Aloha, lovelies!

Can I just say that my favorite month is finally here?! Excited doesn't even begin to cover it! My birthday is also only THREE days away! I'm not all that happy about turning 24 (it sounds so old!), and even though this sounds a bit selfish, I can't wait for presents/money, haha. But really, I'm ready to just hang out with my family too because we haven't done that in a while. Last year I made my own birthday cake and I'm most likely going to do the same this year. As for birthday plans, as of right now, I have none. I was thinking of getting a few friends and Josh together and go out to dinner or something like that. I'll have to think on it more though.

In other news, school is nearly halfway done! It's actually going by really fast week by week; at least it has been for me. And I've been doing so well in my classes! I haven't gotten anything below a B. I usually have at least one C in there somewhere. But I'm not gonna jinx myself. :) I still need to make my FINAL schedule for next year, but these two classes are trying to give me problems. It'll work out though.

So, regarding weight loss and healthiness, I'll admit that I fell off pretty hard these past two weeks. Halloween candy is beyond tempting! Plus I haven't had too much motivation to work out or anything. But I discovered something that has really boosted my inspiration for healthiness X 10. That something is tumblr! It's a bit like Twitter, but it doesn't have a type limit and is very image-based in design. There are tons of healthy food and exercise blogs on there that just really boost my confidence and get me going! I still have a goal to have all my weight loss be done by this time next year, but because of tumblr, I've started to realize that it doesn't matter when you get to your goal weight as long as you start on the path.

Since I follow so many positive blogs, they're always in my dashboard (a newsfeed, basically) and are there to motivate me when I just don't feel like doing anything, or that I can do this at all. It's really exciting! Here are a couple of images that I saw today on my dashboard:

(For when I really want something awful for me!)

(Always a good thing to remember :])












I was going to end with some music, but I figured this is pretty long enough already, so I'll make a part two in just a second. Later, lovelies! <3

Jessica

When I started this blog, I really didn't take into account how stressful school was going to get for me. I didn't realize how much time I was going to be spending so various projects and labs and design work. So while I'm definitely not going anywhere, I might have to rearrange how I blog.

I was thinking that instead of M-Th, I could post biweekly (no specific days, just randomly). One post could be a healthy living round-up type deal. The other could just inform y'all about what's going on in my life, etc. I think for right now it would be best, since otherwise I wouldn't be able to post for days at a time because of school, like recently. Wish me luck! I've actually made all As and Bs on everything so far, but extra luck won't hurt anything. :) Oh, here's a bit of good news- I'm applying for Spring 2012 graduation tomorrow! Yay!!

Later, lovelies.

I go through artist obsessions when it comes to music. I get stuck on one CD or artist for a long time before moving on. A few weeks ago I was obsessed with Will Holland's CD and posted one of his songs in my last Trance Track Tuesday. I've moved on since then! Right now I'm obsessed with Raise Your Weapon by Deadmau5. I like nearly everything he comes out with and I just now discovered this song. It's actually closer to dubstep than trance, but the two are kind of musical cousins, so I figured it would still count. :) I need to find out who does the vocals for the song too, because it's so pretty. Anyway, happy listening! <3 Later, lovelies.

Even though the buildup to Halloween is one of my favorite parts of the year, there's something else that trumps it just a little bit. What is it, you ask? The countdown to my birthday! It's only one month and 9 days away, and despite the fact that I can't even fathom being 24 years old, I can't wait!

It sort of ties in with my motivation topic for today. I'll let you in on a secret that I'm pretty embarrassed about- this summer before I started seriously thinking about changing my diet, etc, my doctor put me on blood pressure medicine since it was too high. Definitely not my proudest moment. I went for another checkup about 3 weeks ago, and it had gone down a bit. Yay! :D I'm still on it and have a while to go, but I have a final yearly checkup in December and they told me to lose at least 10 pounds and see where that gets me.

I have faith in myself that I can do it! But it does make me sad that I'm so young and already on medicine like that. So a really big motivator to be healthy is so I can be free of unnecessary medicines. I don't want to have to take any pills that I don't need to, and once I lose my goal weight for May, it's extremely likely that I can get off of it!

You know, once I sit down and think of all the benefits, motivators, and the like, it makes me wonder why I'm only just now taking action. But at the same time, hindsight is 20/20. I'm wiser now, which is a good thing. And I'm slowly on my way to making a big change! Later, lovelies.

Jessica

By the way, I have had an awful case of the Mondays! Our toilet over flooded today. Needless to say, it was not pleasant. One of my cats got stuck in our attic and I had to pull her down while standing on a chair. What do I get in return? Scratches! Then I was carrying my dinner to the table and somehow managed to drop my entire plate on the floor. Ughhhh, get here fast Friday!

Oh my God.

All my classes have been conspiring against me for the past two weeks. Insanity! I can't tell you how happy I am that everything is done! I've really missed blogging and I'm so glad to be back. Since I haven't gone by my daily blogging formula for a while, this is mostly going to be an update/random post. So what's been going on while I've been going?

First of all, my dad's birthday was awesome! We had a ridiculously unhealthy weekend- we ordered from On the Border and had sooo much Mexican food! Haha. We didn't make it to go see The Lion King in 3D, but I heard that it's out for an extra week! We just might go this weekend.

I also finished Game of Thrones. I'm on to the second book in the series, A Clash of Kings. It's definitely official now, I'm obsessed with this series. If you still aren't reading them, you seriously need to start! The only thing I don't like about this book is that there's lots of new POVs from other characters, and I have a hard enough time keeping up with the main ones!

Oh, this is the best news from my break- my mom has been doing exceptionally well! So well in fact that her doctor said it would be okay if she went back to work next week! For those who don't know, my mom is a tutor for kids after school and I help her out twice a week. It's SO fun and fulfilling, so I can't wait. The amount of students, hours, and days she works are all going to be scaled back for the moment, but that's ultimately less stress for the both of us, which is good.

Hmm, what else? Oh yeah! It's finally fall, which is my absolute favorite time of year! The weather is changing, Halloween (an opportunity to watch tons of horror movies!) is just around the corner, and so is my birthday! Everything about this season is fabulous. I might cave in and make some chocolate spice cupcakes for the occasion. :) Anyway, that's about it. I'm so glad to be back to blogging. <3 Later lovelies.

Jessica