Two Years

Two years ago today I married my best friend and the love of my life.

Its been a great couple of years and I'm looking forward to the many to come.

I love you Mr. W, more than words can describe ♥
even though we are 7772 miles apart just remember I'm always by your side.

Ship Shape

I have a few main goals to accomplish while my husband is deployed, and one of those goals is shared by many other military wives with deployed husbands...

To look good when they come home.

and for some it turns out well... but for others, much like myself, its easier said than done.

You see, if your anything like me, you get in these kicks of "ok i'm gonna do it this time, i'm gonna stick to my workout plan and my diet" but those don't last very long... for me they last about 2 weeks and then I start slacking... BADLY.

I have come to learn that the best diet for me isn't necessarily to change WHAT I'm eating but to change HOW MUCH I'm eating. I've found that i need to keep eating what i usually eat, just don't eat until I'm full, especially if its that super uncomfortable kind of full, I need to eat just enough to leave myself just a little bit hungry... this makes your body think its still hungry so it will start using up fat in your body without putting it into starvation mode which slows down your body's fat burning speed (in order to make the fat last) not to mention eating small meals throughout the day will help your metabolism in the long run making it easier to stay thin and keep losing weight... This kind of diet is good for people like me because I LIKE FOOD and I don't want to restrict WHAT I'm eating if i can just eat a small amount of it and be satisfied which will keep me from going off my diet.

As far as exercising goes for me... i do good... when I'm motivated. which last for like 2 weeks and then it turns into "i'll just go to the gym tomorrow" or "i just too tired today." I need to stop making excused and just do it... and i have a new goal to go to the gym at least 5 days a week. 

SO here is my master plan...

go to the gym Monday - Friday

10:00 am - 11:00am (at least)

Take the weekends off to rest and recover.

Hopefully I can stick to the plan this time... if not i'll get a good kick in the pants by a friend of mine who wants to become a personal trainer and is making me one of her personal projects, which is A-okay with me because that will give me the motivation and push that I need to keep going... she may not be able to do all of it with me just yet, but she can still yell at me or whatever it takes to get the job done.

So wish me luck because this one is gonna be a race against time.

Cover Songs

So today I was on youtube catching up on all the new music videos that are out and I searched for "Till The World Ends" only for this AMAZING cover/remix to come up and I was honestly amazed at how much I LOVE THIS SONG...

And this led me to search for amazing cover songs. So here are my Three other finds...

and last but not least...

Enjoy :D

Osama Who?

So as many of you know... Osama Bin Laden is dead.

not even moments after the news broke my facebook was flooded with status updates about it. As i read some of the updates and the comments on them I couldn't help but be offended, especially when people would ask "Who Cares?" So this is what I put as my status...

"for all of you who dont' care or are asking "who cares?" about the death of Osama Bin Laden... i'll have you know that i care as well as many other military members and their families... its a very big deal to us especially if our loved one is overseas... so think about that before you ask that kind of question!"

So if you saw this let me explain myself... I know some people don't think its that big of a deal. But as an army wife... it is a very big deal.

This death could be a good thing or a very VERY bad thing... as I was watching CNN last night I heard the news anchor say that this death with cause the Al queda and all other terrorist organizations linking to Osama bin Ladan to become lost.

Just because they lost their leader doesn't mean the war is going to stop... not even close. His followers will be mad and retaliate. Things may get better eventually but not right away. As much as I (and many other people) wish that it worked that way, it doesn't and we all know that. If anything it will get worse before it gets better.


With my husband being currently deployed I'm worried about him more than ever.

Disordered

The title pretty much sums it up...

I have had a realization of sorts today... my priorities are not in order. So I'm using this post to sort them out...

Priorities BEFORE my realization

1. Lilly
2. ME
3. family
4. bills
5. having fun
6. friends

Take a moment to look at this and notice that I've been messing up lately. For example look at number 2 and then look at the bottom... messed up, I know.

I've been worrying more about myself than my family or friends... granted Lilly will always be my #1 but my family and friends should have been higher up on my list. especially above myself. because even if i'm not taking care of myself, a loving and caring family and group of friends can get you through just about anything.

if your wondering where all this is coming from here it goes, It took ONE text message from a friend of mine to make me stop and think "what are you doing? this is one of your best friends and you haven't had the common courtesy to stop and call her in the past 2 weeks just to see how things have been?" because if i had done that i would have known that i had a friend in need, but my head has been up my butt lately and i need to take 2 seconds to pull it out and take a look around.

I've been worrying too much about myself and not about what really matters in the end.

lately its been...

I wanted to go swimming
I wanted to go have fun

I wanted to go workout
I wanted to stay home
I...
I...
I!

I have so many friends in the same boat as me with this deployment and I seem to forget that at times. If I'm feeling lonely chances are one of them is also feeling lonely, so why not pick up the phone and ask them to hang out or work out or something... ANYTHING?

These are the things that have been on my mind since I got that text this morning.

So I'm re-prioritizing... and here it is

AFTER my realization

1. Lilly
2. Family
3. Friends
4. Me
5. Bills
6. Having fun  

(don't get me wrong i love to have fun as long as everything else is taken care of)

And to my friend who sent me that text... 

if your reading this...

I really am sorry

Thursday 5

And the words of the week are...

lets see if I can come up with five things that have been....

Dazzling

Spectacular

Terrific

Perfect

Ecstatic

1. Lillian is simply Dazzling lately... every day she is doing new things and I am Dazzled by how quickly she learns

2. I'm really hoping to look Spectacular for Mr. W's return ;)

3. We have had some pretty Terrific weather here lately... nice and warm but not too hot (not yet anyways)

4. Mr. W is my Mr. Perfect ♥

5. I'm Ecstatic at the prospect of possibly seeing my hubby this weekend at the VTC.

Sun. Burnt.

So this past Friday I took Lilly to go swimming at a friends house... it was a beautiful sunny day which I knew meant we would both need sunscreen... I put some on Lilly every 30-60 minutes and I put some one before we went do to the pool... keep in mind this was 50 SPF lotion. We were out for about 3-ish hours.

We got back to her place I took one look in the mirror when I was changing and I was BURNT... i looked like a dang lobster!

Lilly was only a little pink on the tip of her nose and her right cheek.

This is my sunburn... 3 days later (today)

Thank goodness for Aloe! Its days like this I wish Mr. W were here to rub it on my back in all those painful yet hard to reach places :(