Red Rocks Community College!!! :D

OK, so I'm going to admit that I'm super excited to be going to classes again!! Due to my procrastination and lack of motivation and responsibility in the past, I screwed up big time in school. I won't go into details about it but I am regretting it at the moment, and I don't regret things. I know that once I get back on track and finally graduate that I won't regret it because what's the point? Anyways, I applied to Red Rocks Community College (RRCC) and I am able to take classes AND get financial aid from them without having to pay for classes first!! This way, I can actually afford to get an education. I was actually the first person to post on a discussion that is due next week, and it just opened this morning! I am going to get motivated this semester: no more procrastination, no more making excuses, no more blaming myself for what happened in the past that I can't change until I get my act together! It feels good to be a college student again lol

Chicken, Tea, and Eggs. Oh My!

It's been 3 days since my Junk Food Strike. I've been living off of chicken, vegetables, eggs, tea, and water.

Breakfast: 3-4 eggs, plus chicken breast if I feel hungrier.
Lunch: Chicken and vegetables
Dinner: Lots of chicken and some vegetables

The vegetables I bough were broccoli, yellow squash, and I had potatoes but I need to get more variety next time I go to the store. Honestly, it's not that bad. I really like chicken, eggs, and vegetables so I've even been feeling better health wise, well I didn't when I first started. I think I was going through junk food withdrawals because that's what we were living off of for a while but I have noticed (or I think I've noticed) that I lost some weight. I don't have a scale at home and I don't like tracking weight as a way of losing weight anyways but I noticed that some parts of my stomach look smaller! Yay! Hopefully this is the way to go for me, I've tried so many different diets but they never stuck. And making these meals is very easy too. I have a NuWave Oven that I got from an infomercial, cooking anything in this thing is a snap and faster too. Then, I got the ZipLock Steamers. I just cut up vegetables, throw some seasoning in there, and freeze it to use for a dinner later. Maybe all the time savers is what is working for me too...

Clean, Clean, Clean

Tommy's at work today so I'm at home alone with the fuzzy children. I decided yesterday that I need to motivate myself into losing weight. From now on I won't be eating any fast food for 1 month and I'll be preparing food at home. I decided to just do 1 month right now since I quit a week into my plan if I make it too long... I made Baked Chicken, Rosemary Potatoes and Green Beans, and Biscuits last night. I love eating steamed vegetables, I just don't have a lot of seasonings so the ones I make taste bland. I did cheat today and ate some graham crackers with chocolate 5 minutes ago, I was SO hungry. I've been cleaning all day though and needed some fuel, maybe some more cleaning will distract me from eating until dinner.

Front Range Sucks! Part II

So Front Range sucks even more now. I won't go into detail with it but I decided to drop classes there and sign up at Red Rocks Community College. Hopefully they won't screw me like FRCC did. I don't understand why they want payment up front, can't they just wait until the student loans come in? I thought you cared about a student's education and future?! One thing I like about CSU is that they let you take the classes until the financial aid comes in and if they don't get paid by the end of the semester you can't register for the next one. I think this is a much better way for the students. I just want to finish up my 3 core classes so I can just finish my Equine Sciences degree!!!!!!

P.S. Why is Karma such a bitch?!

New Boots!

So I finally got my new boots!!

These are the Dark Brown Rawhide Punchy boots in the Stampede Collection from Justin Boots. If anyone wants these boots then the product number is #L7303. Anyways, these are only my 2nd pair of boots, I've worn down my first pair so much that my foot can be seen from the side when I step, but they did last me 3 years! THIS time though, I do realize that you have to take care of them and use leather conditioner so hopefully they last a lot longer.

Front Range Sucks!

Today was the first day of school. I'm finishing up my core classes at Front Range before finishing up at CSU but they never make it easy for me. I'm waitlisted on a Chemistry class because they kicked me out of it for owing them money from last semester. They could have told me this LAST semester! Now I don't have financial aid either but I have to pay for classes up front which is complete BS. I don't understand why they do this. I lost money because of them a few semesters ago and they say I owe them money!? I just want to end this semester and finish school, I've been in school for too long. I just want to stop being a student and get a job to support Tommy and I.

Just Another Day

I'm finishing my leftovers from Taverna, an AMAZING Greek Restaurant in Fort Collins. I would recommend everyone go there at least once, you will not be disappointed. Anyways, worked today and then went to dinner with Tommy. I've realized that we need to be more spontaneous in our relationship. We work all the time, come home, eat dinner, maybe watch T.V., and then go to bed to start the same old routine again. When he lived in Missouri, we had all sorts of things to talk about but now it seems that we talk about the same old thing time and time again. We need more vacations, and a digital camera! Lili, our little furry child, decided to chew up my first camera because she was bored... (I need to figure out how to add photos to the middle of posts now). The pictures Tommy and I have together were pretty much taken by other people. Hopefully we can save up for a good camera (I've got my eye out for this cool waterproof one) and start adding a little more adventure into our lives!

First Posting

I'm sitting at home right now waiting for Tommy, my fiance, to come home. I was Facebook stalking my friends and family like I usually do when I'm bored and decided to change the date of our wedding on our (more like my) wedding website. We've been talking about moving the date back one year so that we can save up money for the ceremony and honeymoon and hopefully I'll be done with school as well! Anyways, if this post doesn't make sense it's because I'm rambling right now. While I'm trying to find something else to do on the site I saw that you can get a blog started on it. I didn't want to just have a wedding blog though so I Google-ed (Google is a verb now, right? lol)  blogs and found this. So this is my attempt at blogging. I had one on MySpace but that died with the site once I joined Facebook. So hopefully this works out, I wasn't much of a poster before and don't really think that I should tell everyone about my life but maybe this will help me express myself more. Well, here goes the first post.