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Last weigh in for Down and Dirty in 30!

Becca — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:24:06 +0000

I weighed in at 152 this morning. That’s up 1.6 pounds since two weeks ago. I have been sick the past few days so who knows what is going on with my body.

So I end the challenge having lost 2 pounds, that’s better than nothing! I haven’t measured myself yet so that will be interesting.

This past weekend we were in Memphis and I ran/walked 6 miles at a local park. I was very tired at the end of it but was pretty proud of myself because my first mile was done in 11 minutes, and that was up a small hill! Running outside is much more fun so I think for my longer runs I will head out to our Greenway, much more fun!

School has started back up but I still made it to the gym yesterday and did 3.95 miles on the elliptical machine. I was very tired at the end of that as well, but like I said, I’ve been sick.

I’m working on getting up some recipe posts, including a gluten-free bagel one, thanks to Elizabeth.

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First semester redo

Becca — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:06:09 +0000

I am currently at work, watching the minutes tick by slowly on my first day back at school. I’m calling it the first semester redo because although I passed the majority of my classes last semester, I’m still considered a first semester nursing student because of Pathophysiology.

So as I sit here, I am enjoying the first day so far, probably because of the freshmen. Most of us have been there, a timid, shy, and probably scared 18 year old (although some are older) who just left the comforts of high school.

I definitely remember my first semester away at college. I’m pretty sure I called my mom daily and oh yeah, I was a mess, but weren’t we all? The first year of college was life changing. I started out as a music major and then after that first year I knew it wasn’t for me. I love singing, but somehow singing for a career made it less fun and enjoyable. So I changed my major to Journalism and I now have a degree in Journalism, that I don’t use. Oh well.

Anyways, today I am sort of sad because I’m not with my friends as they journey into the world of Pharmacology, Research, and Intro to Nursing clinicals. Instead I will be learning about End of Life Care, Pathophysiology, Nursing in the Media, and Nutrition. All important, but not moving much down the path which I thought I would be headed. I hope that hard work will pay off and at the end of the semester I will be a second semester nursing student with clinicals next semester. I think the most frustrating part is knowing how well I did in everything else, but yet a 74.2 is going to hold me back. Ugh. Oh well.

So here is to another semester, hopefully this one will fly by and then it will be Christmas and before I know it, clinicals.

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Project 365: Week 33

Becca — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:11:13 +0000

This is a shorter week since I was late this past week, but alas, here it is.

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Gluten free and the end of the summer

Becca — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:00:51 +0000

I went gluten-free two weeks ago. I wanted to know if gluten was the cause of my stomach problems so going gluten-free was the way to find out that didn’t mean a doctor visit and shelling out lots of money.

This weekend I will be eating gluten to see if it makes me feel sick and if it does, I will go back to gluten-free and if it doesn’t, I may be forced to eliminate dairy from my diet and see if that helps.

This week we are in Memphis to visit with family before going back to school next week. Monday we stayed with my parents and (briefly) saw my brother and his family. Tuesday we drove to Memphis and we will be here until Saturday. I haven’t been online much except to check my e-mail on my iPod so if you have noticed my disappearance, that is why. I haven’t slacked on my workouts either, I’ve been keeping with my schedule for the half marathon so that makes me happy. Saturday morning I am set to do 6 miles so we’ll see how it goes and if I’m dead for the ride back to the ‘boro.

I think this week is going by way too fast and it disappoints me that I am not enjoying it more seeing as how it’s my last week of freedom until, basically, December. I’m excited and nervous for the new semester, but mainly excited because I feel like I will finally be on my path to becoming a nurse again. I am not looking forward to burying myself in the books again, but hopefully this time around will be a tad easier and my schedule is a less busy so I’ll have more of a balance between studying and fun time. It will probably also help that we got rid of my biggest distraction: television. Ahem.

So, here is to a new chapter of our lives: Gray’s senior senior senior year and more nursing school.

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When good friends go bad

Becca — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:09:38 +0000

This past week I closed the door on a friendship that began my freshman year of college. I’m not going to go into details here because I respect the privacy of the person, but I will say that I don’t actually care too much that it ended. Yes, I’m sad that the other person chose to close the door, but at least now I can move on with life and I think the past few years I’ve stopped caring about the friendship anyways and really, I just needed to say some things to them and move on. If only it were that easy for everyone, but it’s not and another friend of mine is still hurting from that same person.

The whole experience has taught me a lot about friendship, conflict, and resolution. I still have issues in some relationships because the other person can not handle conflict well. I’ve been through my share of fights, ask my husband or my best friend Trina and they will tell you that my relationship with both of them has not been sunshine and daisies the entire time… but whenever we have a fight, we usually resolve the conflict and move on. There is nothing in my friendship with Trina that bothers me, at least not at the moment… we are women after all.

The truth about friendship in my life is that I am usually burned by friends. I don’t let people in close for a while and then when I do, I feel so sad and rejected if they don’t stray true. Granted, I know that people are humans and won’t always stay true, but that doesn’t change the face that I will be hurt by them at some point in time. The friends that I find that are true I stick to like glue. heh I fight to keep those friendships and will work for them. Friendship is not just a one-sided street, after all, it takes two to keep one alive and as much as I like some people, I get tired of pursuing all the time.

Ironically, all of this friendship craziness comes days before Trina moves about 30 miles down the road from me, making seeing her a little more difficult than usual. I imagine I will probably only see her once a twice a month now with school/work starting back in schedule and of course, she will no longer be a five minute drive away. However, I am thankful for electronic devices because they allow us to keep in touch whether by e-mail, facebook, twitter, blogs, phone calls, or text messages. With all of these devices, I’m surprised the previously mentioned friendship failed. I guess some people just don’t want to make any effort to keep a long distance relationship alive, even if it’s just a facebook message every so often.

Alright, I’ll get off my soap box for the day.

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Project 365: Week 32

Becca — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:01:17 +0000

No weigh-in today because I’m behind on Project 365… and I am missing a few this week, apparently.

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Down and Dirty: Weigh-In 3

Becca — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:00:14 +0000

So I haven’t been reporting since this challenge started, but I’m here today!

I weighed-in at 150.4 this morning!! So I’m down 2.2 pounds from last week.

My measurements are (this week/last week):
Waist: 31.25/32
Hips: 39.5/39.25
Thighs: 22.5/22.5
Bust:30/31.25

So I’ve definitely lost some inches this week! I was pretty excited because this shows my hard work is paying off and definitely gives me motivation to keep going.

I’ve been training the past few weeks for the Middle Half Marathon and that is all at dailymile.com… I’ll put up a widget on here asap.

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Project 365: Week 31

Becca — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:36:17 +0000

It is always fun for me to look back on my week in photos and see what we’ve done. It’s also fun to go back to the beginning, which feels like soo long ago… back when we both had more hair!

I can honestly say that I’m not entirely sure I would do this again, but I do think I will try other photo projects after this one is done…

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When it rains it pours

Becca — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 20:11:19 +0000

Because that’s just how life seems sometimes.

Basically, we made it to August before having to spend money from savings. Over a week ago we had to fork over a lot of money for health insurance because ours expired at the very end of July. That wasn’t too horrible, but I knew in the back of my mind that this left us very little in our savings and usually that’s just an open door for more money troubles to come our way.

Ahem.

So Saturday morning, the morning of Teresa’s wedding, we are driving to run some errands… We are almost to Wal-mart and the truck starts acting stupid. We end up making it back to campus, where I was going to run, and Gray proceeds to call my brother and his dad. Thirty minutes later I’m halfway through my 4 mile run but decide to quit and we make it home. See, we were supposed to go to Teresa’s wedding Saturday afternoon and we had to make arrangements for Trina to come get us instead of meeting at her apartment. Stupid truck.

On the way to the wedding, Gray is talking to my brother and they work out a deal on a car my brother has. For only $300 he will fix it up for us and get it running. There goes our savings. The next day we wired the money to him and got a friend to take us to Wal-mart where we bought a bike for me.

Monday morning we leave the house at 5:30 on said bikes and ride all the way to campus. I complained the first few minutes about the bike seat and the fact that I was sweating… AT 5:30 IN THE MORNING. When we got to school, I mapped the route out on dailymile.com and yes… 2 miles and some change… crazy. I can see how it’s a good workout and better for us, but it’s just so humid and hot outside that it’s torture!

We rode our bikes to work for the entire week and I must say, it ended up being alright. I did trade with Gray and used his bike until Thursday when we got me a new bike seat. However, that was rather rough and we ended up returning my bike and got another one, similar to what Gray already had. I rode it on Friday and was well pleased, haha.

We do have the car and it works, but has the “check engine” light on… and that is a whole spew of problems in itself. We’re taking it in tomorrow to be looked at because the tags expire in September and apparently the car will automatically fail the emissions test if the light is on, regardless of whether or not it’s an actual emissions problem… great, I know. The car itself is not worth putting a lot of work into it so I imagine that if it’s too much money we might just sell it back to my brother because he can use it back home without passing an emissions test. ugh I hate grown up problems.

We’re actually starting to shop around for another car because that was what the plan was for this fall, get me a car so that I can drive to clinicals in the spring.

So yeah, a lot is going on and to top it all off I have a dentist appointment on Tuesday that I might have to cancel. My eye twitch has returned, I’m pretty sure it is stress related and so I need to work on getting rid of all this stress in a better way.

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These are the Moments

Becca — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 18:58:09 +0000

Last Saturday, in the midst of car troubles, Gray and I went to Teresa’s wedding. Teresa was my RA (Resident Assistant) my Sophomore year in college and she was also my bible study leader that year.

The first time I met Teresa was after a very long car ride with my parents. I walked inside the lobby of Wood/Felder and was greeted by Teresa, with a smile and well, extreme happiness. I was very overwhelmed by her presence and joy and thought to myself, “Wow, she is happy!” My mother even made a comment on how happy she was, which is saying a lot because those of you who know my mother well, know she is just a happy person.

Later that day… or the next day, it’s kind of fuzzy now, I was leaving my dorm room when Teresa stopped me and introduced me to Trina, who is was diagonally across the hall. I remember Trina and I were both hesitant because we didn’t know each other, but it is kind of funny to look back on my memories to that moment.

Teresa went out of her way to get to know me. Somehow she talked to my roommate, Mandy, and discovered we would both be interested in a bible study. I’m not going to lie, I wasn’t that into it back then… and we (Mandy and I) forced each other to go to the first meeting. It turned out that Trina was there, along with Shellie, Candi, Amy, and Shannon. Apparently my first impression of the group was good because I kept going… and something happened…. I grew in my faith.

Sophomore year was my renewal in many ways and when I look back, I am extremely thankful that Teresa was there. Even though I grew up in church, it took a sweet girl like her to show me what it truly meant to walk in Christ and I will never forget her and what it all meant to me. She inspired me so much that I became a RA for the next two years because I wanted to make an impact on my residents. I know I was far from the example she set forth, but I can rest easy knowing that I did have an impact on some of mine.

I cried at her wedding. It wasn’t a blubbering by any means, I just teared up but it was just so nice to see her finally so happy. There is so much more I could say, but for now, this is all.

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