Midterms and Moving

We FINALLY got to move into our apartment! It is so awesome! We are very excited to have a home base now. Mom and I drove the Yukon pulling a trailer full of furniture for our place from Boise. I spent a few days there packing up and loading things in. It was so much work. I surprised Kory with a piano! Mom is letting us borrow hers for a few years until Kory can get his own. I hope that he is able to enjoy it. I know he would be way more excited about a TV than the piano (opportunity cost wise, if he had to choose between the two he would pick the TV). But I really wanted to surprise him with something I knew he wanted. I hope he sees it as something he will enjoy more than something that is in the way of him getting what he really wants, the TV. Our apartment is fully furnished, thanks Mom and Dad! But even better, Mom has been here to help us get settled and allow for both of us to stay here. I stay in the bedroom with Mom and Kory sleeps on an air mattress in the family room. I bet he will be so sick of air mattresses by the time November 8th rolls around. When Mom leaves I will probably go stay with my friend Emily again.

Kory has five, I repeat FIVE tests this week! He has a test in every class he is taking this semester. Which, by the way, are very challenging classes. Therefore, Kory needs to stay at the apartment more than I do right now. I can handle it a little longer, even though it kind of starts to weigh on you after a while. I think Kory and I are both feeling the burden of this awkward transitional stage. But don't worry about us! We are very happy and healthy (for now, let's hope it stays that way)! So back to the tests, Kory took his Calculus test on Friday and he got a 95% only missing one question. What a stud! He is so smart. He says he is going to contest the question he got wrong, if it's the one that he thinks it is. Oh Kory, so competitive but it really pushes him to be the best that he can be. I am so proud of him.

Since we have the Yukon and trailer down here we went and picked Kory's things up from his friends' basement (they were being stored there for the summer). Somehow when Kory was getting in and out of the car his phone was dropped on the ground in their backyard dirt. Well unfortunately, he ended up driving over his phone! Luckily, it still works! But both screens in his phone are completely shattered. So don't try to text him, and if you call be sure to leave a message because he surely cannot see a thing. That was the sad story of the weekend.

Wedding planning is coming along very well. Things are crazy busy right now. I had a consultation with the cake and flower ladies. It went really well. There was one point where we started talking about prices that I got a little stressed and my eyes watered up. My mom said, "look, she's going to cry." So of course, since she pointed it out...I cried! In front of the cake lady in the middle of my consultation appointment! It was so embarrassing. Funny how you can hold back your tears no problem as long as no one asks you what is wrong or points out that you are about to cry. Stupid birth control combined with stress makes for easy tears haha. But anyway, after that I think she felt sorry for me and she kept talking about things that she would do for free for me (and Kory). Like a 4 inch cake for Kory and I to take home, and some intricate design work that she normally charges a lot for. It was really sweet of her. I think everything is going to turn out so great! I have this vision of how I see things, and sometimes other people have different ideas than I do. That is hard sometimes, because I really am trying to make everyone happy. I hope that I am because I really do care a lot about making it a special occasion for everyone.

There is so much to do and so little time. I am super tired. But absolutely love life right now. I am so happy! I feel truly blessed to have so many amazing people in my life: my wonderful fiance, my parents, my brother, my future in-laws, my friends.

Go Me! Workin Out!

I am getting back into the routine of heading to the gym a few times a week. I am really determined to get back into really good shape. I mean REALLY good shape. I want to lose about 20 pounds and 8% body fat. I'll let you know how things are going as I keep working on it. I will be working with a personal trainer, which I think is just the thing I need to get things going. I met with him today for the initial consultation. He said that in order to get down to where I want to be, which he thinks is a really good goal, I need to have between a 500-1000 calorie deficit daily. Which basically means I need to burn between 500 and 1000 calories more than I consume each day. For now, my goal is to do at least 30 minutes of cardio about 5 times a week and to write down everything that I eat. I know right now I am eating WAY more than 1400 calories, which is what he said I should be shooting for haha. I probably eat like 2200, I love food!

I have found this really cool website, thanks to Women's Fitness magazine. It is called RUNNER+. It is a website where you have a profile and you can log all of the runs that you do. It tracks your runs on charts and shows the calendar of how much you ran on which day. But the coolest part is that it has challenges that other people on the site create which you can join. It is really awesome and so far has really been motivating me! I love to come home after I have been at the gym and sign in and log my run and see how I am doing compared to the other people at my level. The awesome thing is that it has people from every level, beginner to very advanced hard core people. Maybe one day I will be hard core, but for now I am just your average Jane trying to get into shape!

Check it out, this is the link to my profile but you can see what RUNNER+ is about from there:

I also want to announce that I have decided to separate my life blog from my fitness blog. So if you are interested in my fitness progress then check it out at GoMeGetFit.blogspot.com Thanks for supporting me!

This will be me!!!