Buying a Car

I feel like this has been a LONG time coming, but the Husband and I are finally going to go look at a new car today! Thank the freaking lord. 

I don't even know if I shared this with you guys, but my car finally bit the bullet back in September. And we have been sharing one vehicle since then. We have been trying to come up with a good size down payment so that our payments wouldn't be ridiculous. But after sharing a car for five months,  it made absolutely no sense to wait another few months to save a few thousand dollars more for it to only affect our payments by $40.

Don't get me wrong, sharing a car really hasn't been that bad. At first it wasn't a huge deal. It was actually working out quite nicely. We were saving some extra money by not paying insurance on my old car and we weren't spending as much in gas. But then all of a sudden it wasn't working anymore. 

We are both tired of waiting around on each other to go places. Or not being able to go somewhere because someone else has the vehicle. We just can't take it anymore. And I am tired of being late to work every damn day because he can't get his butt out of bed on time. We are driving each other nuts.

But if all goes well today, we won't have to deal with that anymore. Yay! I can't wait! I just hope that we can find what we are looking for at a price that we are comfortable with and that they have it in a color that I like.  I refuse to buy another red vehicle. I have my reasons. And we have already got our financing in place. I took care of that this week already. I am a planner after all.

This is what I want. This color would be fine too!

So fingers crossed everyone that on Monday my weekend recap will include a picture of my new car! Eeek! I can't wait! Have a great weekend everyone! Hope the weather is nice wherever you are reading from!

Holy Snow, Batman!

Okay, so I realize that we are not getting anywhere near the amount of snow that some of you are. But, when you come home at around 8:30 pm and there is no snow and then look out at 10 pm and there is already almost two inches, that my friends calls for a "Holy Snow, Batman!"

There was no snow anywhere when I got home yesterday

Granted this happens quite often here in CO. It snows like crazy for a few hours and makes the roads an absolute mess. People then proceed to freak the eff out because we have a few inches of snow on the ground and heaven forbid you have to drive in it. This in turn makes my morning commute one hell of a headache. 

It will be okay people. I promise. Just slow your ass down and don't be an asshole and ride the person's ass in front of you. And yes the roads may look just "a little wet" or they have "just a little bit of snow on them", but in fact they are probably very slick and icy due to the ridiculous wind we have right now. Once again, don't be that asshole that goes flying around everyone and then proceeds to cause a 10 car pile up. It's not cool and it ruins everyone's day.

Okay, that is my PSA for the day. Hope you guys are having a great Thursday! 

Weigh-In Wednesday

This week feels like it is flying by. Probably because I didn't have to work on Monday. But nonetheless, it is time for Weigh-In Wednesday!

It has been two weeks since I did a WIW post, so I have a few things to report. First, I had a session with my personal trainer on Monday. Every month we take measurements and he does my body fat percentage. Well this past Monday my body fat percentage is finally in the healthy range! Whoop whoop!!! I was pretty stoked about this. I don't even know the last time that I was ever in the healthy range. Probably High School. 

All of my measurements also went down by almost two inches. My trainer was kind of in shock. He couldn't believe how much more weight and inches I had dropped since we did my measurements last. I kind of couldn't believe it either. I mean I know how hard I have been working and I know that I am losing weight, but when you see those measurements in writing and see how much you have actually lost, it kind of blows your mind. But in a totally rad and awesome way! 

Okay, down to the good stuff. My weight as of this morning is 188.2! I am down 4.4 lbs since my last WIW post two weeks ago. 

I have set a new milestone goal for myself. When I hit 50 lbs lost (16 lbs to go) I get to get a new tattoo. I have been wanting a new one for a long time, but this gives me the motivation to actually get it, so I am going to make it happen!

I am keeping my goals the same. Exercise six days, watch my food and calories and drink lots of water. Ya know, the stuff I have already been trying to accomplish.

Well, that is all I have for today. Sorry for such a short post. I have to get back to work though. Thanks for stopping by! Have a great Hump Day everyone!

A Week Off & My Weekend Recap

Woah! It has been over a week since I posted last. I needed a little bit of a blogging break. Not that I blog every day, but I just had so much going on that I didn't have time to even think about blogging. So instead of trying to throw a few posts together and half assing it, I decided to just not even think about it for the week. But that nice little break was exactly what I needed to get myself back into the blogging mindset. So thanks for sticking around, if there is in fact anyone out there that still reads this. 

Okay, onto my weekend recap. This weekend was crazy!! Friday was Valentine's Day, but we didn't celebrate it. After discussing it with the Hubs, we decided that we just didn't even care. Here's the thing, I have always hated Valentines Day. Whether I was single or with someone, this particular day has always just been a huge disappointment. And I inevitably always have a really shitty day. It never fails. Not to mention that trying to go out to do anything on this day turns into an Olympic event. Everywhere is so crowded and you have to wait forever and then you add in how expensive everything is. I just can't handle it. So we decided to skip it this year. We grabbed some soup and sandwiches from our favorite place (to-go) and went home and watched the final two episodes of the first season of Game of Thrones and I worked on stuff for my SIL's baby shower. 

Saturday morning I got up earlier than I would have liked to, but I had shiz to do. I got myself ready for the day and then had some breakfast. My first stop that morning was Target for a few additional things that I needed for the baby shower. After that I headed to the gym to go to Zumba. After Zumba, I headed to Sam's Club to go pick up all of the food and the cupcakes for the baby shower. My next stop was to drop everything off at my SIL's house and help her around the house for a bit. My oldest Niece and I also did a little bit of running around and then went and got lunch. Afterwards we headed back and we got a few things cleaned up and and some of the stuff put together. 

Riding a horse while running our errands 

I left there about 4:30ish and had a few more places to stop before I headed home. I was absolutely exhausted by this point, but I still had so much work to do for the shower that I had to push through and just get it done. We grabbed dinner at some point and some frozen yogurt to go along with it and then I got back to work on the shower stuff. I didn't go to bed until about 1:00 am. I don't even think my head hit the pillow before I was out. 

Sunday once again I was up way early. I had to run to the store to get some more damn ribbon to finish my last project for the shower. It never failed, I ran out of ribbon every time I tried to finish a project. What a pain in the ass. After I ran to the store and finished the last project, I got myself ready, loaded up the car and headed out for the day. My first stop was at Party City to pick up the balloons for the shower. I ordered these balloons on Friday and I ordered orange and brown balloons. I get there to pick them up and I look at my order and the first words out of my mouth are, "Why are there red balloons in my order?" The girl looks at them and says, "Those aren't red, those are brown." Ummmmm......no! I know what color red is and I know what color brown is and I am sure as shit that those balloons were red. 

Definitely not brown!

Even after questioning the color a few more times, the girl was being a complete ass and trying to tell me that nothing was wrong. I didn't have time to stand there and argue, so I took them and left. I was absolutely fuming. Fortunately I was able to stop at Albertsons and pick up some green balloons to go in the non brown balloons place and it didn't take but a few minutes. 

I got to my Brother and my SIL's and we went to work on getting everything set up and all of the food prepared. Around 2 pm everyone started showing up and the shower began. I will do a whole other post on the shower and all of the fun details later this week. 

After the shower I headed home and at this point I was done. I just sat on the couch and kind of stared off into space. I was so out of it because of how tired I was. I was ready for bed. I went to bed at about 9:30. That is how tired I was. 

Thankfully I didn't have to work on Monday. Thank you Presidents Day! I didn't get to sleep in unfortunately because I had to drop the Husband off at work, but I did get quite a bit of sleep. Most of my day on Monday was spent running around and returning things that I bought for the shower but ended up not using. AND I went and complained to the Manager at Party City and showed him a picture of the balloons and he flat out told me that they were burgundy and not brown and happily refunded me my money. That's right stupid girl from the day before!

The rest of my day was spent doing laundry, grocery shopping, and doing a little bit of work from home. I also went to the gym and had a session with my personal trainer. I will talk more about that on my Weigh-In Wednesday post tomorrow. 

Overall it was a crazy weekend, but it turned out to be a great weekend! Sorry for such a long post. Told ya I was ready to get back into the swing of things, haha! Hope you guys had a great weekend!

Weigh-In Wednesday

It's that time again. Time for Weigh-In Wednesday.

Let's start this post out with a little bit of honesty. I feel like I have just been going through the motions lately. At least when it comes to my eating. I have been cheating here and there and it definitely shows on the scale. I definitely haven't been doing the best that I can. But I am not going to beat myself up about it. I just need to try and do better over the next week. That is all that I can ask for.

I also had a session with my trainer on Monday which was freaking awesome. He showed me a ton of new upper body stuff that I am excited to work into my workouts. My arms and my chest are however still sore. Even turning the steering wheel in the car was painful the last two mornings. But that does mean that it is working. And I am still keeping up with going to the gym six days a week. I think I am finally in a great routine. I just need to keep spicing that routine up(if that makes sense) so that I don't get bored and fall off the band wagon.

Okay, down to the good stuff. I promised you guys measurement this week, so  here they are.

I am only down 1.6 lbs from last week, but a loss is still a loss! And I can't get over my measurements just within the last month!!! Especially the hip measurement. I re-measured myself a few times this morning to make sure that I was seeing things correctly! Even though I have been struggling the last few weeks with my eating, I have to be proud of what I have accomplished. I think seeing these measurements this morning was just the push I needed for the next week!

Goals for the week: Drink more water! I say this every time, but I need to keep up with this. And just doing better on the whole eating thing. I know I can do this. Look how far I have already come. I can't stop now. 

Thanks for stopping in today. Hope you are having a great week! Hopefully it is warmer where you guys are, because it is freezing here!

A Baby Shower for my Nephew

I told you guys a few months back that my Brother and SIL are FINALLY having a little boy! And I couldn't be more excited about it! So of course I was excited when I got the go ahead from my SIL to throw her a shower. 

After a few discussions, my SIL gave me a few theme ideas and of course my first stop was Pinterest to see what I could find for these particular themes. A few that she threw out were sports, cars, and camo. After searching through Pinterest for a few hours, I finally decided that I liked more of what I found for a camo themed baby shower. 

I know, I know. It is definitely different, but if you knew my Brother and my SIL, you would know that this really does fit them perfectly.

After I picked a theme I set out to find the perfect invite. I stumbled upon a really cute design from Merriment Press and after showing it to my Brother and SIL and getting their approval, I ordered them.

Stephanie at Merriment Press was amazing to work with. Not only was she quick on getting back to me and getting me the proofs, but if I needed anything changed, she did it quickly and had it back to me within a few hours. And not to mention her prices were really reasonable!!

Here is what the invitation looks like...

After I received the final proof, I took these to Staples and had them printed and cut. Which saved me a ton of time. And then I went and picked out a background paper (the orange border) and then assembled them and got them sent out. I love them. They are definitely camo, but they still have some cute touches to them that don't make them super over the top. Sorry for the crazy star shapes. I didn't really want to show all my personal info for the world to see, haha!

I also worked with Stephanie on a few other items for the shower. I will show you most of those after the shower is over, but one of the things she did for me was a registry card to put in the invites. We didn't want to overload the invites with too much info, so we thought this was the best way to go. She did a great job on them.

Sorry for the blurry pic. 

I was very impressed with how they turned out. And I have already heard from a few of the recipients and they are loving them too. And most of all my Brother liked them. Whoa! That is a big deal, haha!

I can't wait to show you guys the rest of the stuff that I am working on for the shower. But I only have two weeks to get everything done. Hopefully I can get everything done that I want too. Eeek!

Have a great day everyone!

Weekend Recap

I can't even really remember what happened this weekend. I think that has to do with how embarrassed/upset/pissed off/frustrated I am with how horrible the Broncos played yesterday. Ugh! I can't even talk about it without getting pissed. I know it is just a football game, but when it is your team and they finally get to the Super Bowl after 15 years and then don't even show up to effin play?! Ugh!!! I can't even fully describe how it feels! 

With that being said, I am still a Broncos fan and always will be. I love my team and will always bleed orange and blue. I am still so proud of the season that they had. I guess making it to the Super Bowl and choking is better than not making it to the Super Bowl at all, right?! And...there is always next year! Trying to stay positive here.

ALWAYS a Broncos Girl! Even after losing the flippin Super Bowl

Okay, on to something not so depressing. I actually managed to get a lot done this weekend, even with the weather being crappy. All week they kept telling us we were going to get snow, but they kept saying "Oh it will only be a trace amount." Yeah, how about six inches or more over the course of those few days. I swear we spent most of our weekend shoveling snow. We are running out of places to pile it up. Oh well though, it looks pretty, haha!

Friday we closed our office at 2 pm due to the weather, so I ran a few errands and then went and picked up the Husband from work around 4 since they were letting them leave early too. After I dropped him off at home, I went to the gym for a little bit. It was kind of a blah night at the gym though, so I didn't stay long. I headed home after that and after having dinner I worked on my SIL's baby shower invites and finished them so that I could get them in the mail. 

Saturday I woke up early and went to Zumba. After Zumba I ran a few more errands including going to the Tattoo and Piercing place to get some new hoops put in my tragus piercing. No matter how hard I try, I can never get the stupid little ball on, so I just let them do it. They have pliers and stuff that they use that makes it a lot easier. 

After that we went downtown to our favorite spice shop, Savory, and got some new spices for cooking. Then we grabbed some coffee and went and did our grocery shopping. I knew it was going to be a crazy weekend for grocery shopping, but I also knew that I didn't want to have to worry about it on Sunday. 

After we finished our grocery shopping, we went home and made dinner and then proceeded to watch a few episodes of Game of Thrones. We only have two episodes left in the first season, but all I have to say is eff those stupid Lannisters! Ugh! I can't stand them. Especially Joffrey! Ugh!

In the hours leading up the biggest disappointment in the history of disappointments, I stayed busy with laundry, shoveling more snow, cleaning up the house and going to pick up some delicious BBQ from Bird Dog BBQ.  After that we watched the above mentioned disappointment. I do have to say though that I thoroughly enjoyed Bruno Mars' halftime show. For once I feel like they got that part right. AND I absolutely loved all of the T-Mobile commercials with Tim Tebow. 

I mean it's freaking Tim Tebow! I love him, haha! 

After the aforementioned disappointment, I spent the rest of my evening sulking/pouting/whining all while getting the rest of my laundry done and taking in my workout pants so that they aren't falling off my ass when I am doing mountain climbers and burpees at the gym anymore. What can I say, I am cheap and I am tired of having to buy new clothes just for them to not fit in a month or two. Hopefully I fixed that problem for a little while though. 

That was my weekend. Pretty good except for Sunday evening :( How about yours? Do anything fun?