Hard Lessons Learned; Scarlett Edition

Well so much for having life happen every day right? Lol. Well a ton of things have been happening over here lately! I’ve been doing better with my craft blog (slightly neglecting my “life” blog..oops) which means I’ve been super busy with crafts and such over at FROM ''EEK!'' TO CHIC If you don’t already follow, take a peak over there and check it out! I’ve put a hold on my Weight loss blog DIARIES OF A FED UP FAT GIRLTill January, when I will be totally ready, mentally and physically for a diet that is so strict. So those are my updates on those. Now for a little “LIFE” in this “LIFE” blog.

     I’m not sure if any of you know but we got rid of Scarlett. No Scarlett isn’t our dog, child, or relative. Scarlett was my car. (Yes, I am weird and name my cars)

This is/was Scarlett.

She was pretty, um..pretty..and uhh..pretty. I got scarlet about 2 months after Tyler and I got married in 2008, and let’s just say that she has been trouble ever since. I should never have gotten her, but we have learned some lessons, mostly the hard way, while Scarlett was in our possession. Going through, 1 clutch (almost 2), a radiator, having to get her towed 2 times, getting her towed away for being illegally parked once, 2 sets of tires, Who knows how many speeding tickets, 2 expired registration tickets, 1 exhibition of speed ticket resulting in court, some hoses, broken heater, passenger window broken, being almost killed by an aggressive driver in Roy resulting in a hitch puncture in the bumper, some idiot throwing a can of pop over the fence and denting her, Here are my lessons, followed by a story to go with each of them.  

1-     DO NOT under ANY circumstances, but a car without having a mechanic look at it. I was such an idiot lol. Ever since the Hyundai Tiburons came out, I wanted one. And when my 1996 Saturn (Platty) 

      Exploded it was time to get a new car. In the mean time I drove The Blue Death (1985 Toyota Corolla my family got from my uncle Mark for $1)

      Till Tyler and I got married and settled. So in June we bought it from these people in Orem. Let’s just say that we put more into that car then what we got out of it when we sold it 2 years later.

2-     With that said, DO NOT buy a car just because it “Looks Pretty” Scarlett was cute! Way cute! But she ended up being a POS in disguise. Right when we got it and we were driving it home from Orem, the airbag light went on. A couple months later, the radiator cracked, then it needed new hoses for the intake, then the converters were plugged, then I needed new tires, then the clutch went out, then a year later, I needed MORE tires, then the clutch started going out AGAIN! Freaking money pit!

3-     NEVER trust a bunch of red necks that have gotten both their licenses taken away BECAUSE of the car. HAHA. These people were ridiculous. I don’t know WHAT I was thinking. They both had their licenses suspended for speeding, DUI, and something else. But that was another sign that I should have stayed FAR FAR away! BUT she was pretty…

4-     DO NOT buy a 6-speed turbo standard transmission car even when you LOVE to go fast. You will get tickets. I learned to drive on a manual transmission. I would prefer to drive a standard anyway, less boring when driving far lol. I love (let me put that in passed tense…LOVED) driving fast. Like all my family says, I was like born to race because I love driving fast, and I get anxiety when people pass me. So I just try and stay ahead of everyone J Now this is where the cops interrupt lol. Cops HATE when you go fast. Therefore I got MANY speeding tickets and Tyler wasn’t happy about them at all. Oh and all that crap about being nice to the cop and usually you can get out of it is a bunch of BS. I have only been rude to 2 cops ever. 1 when I was getting pulled over for no seatbelt, and the other time was when I got my exhibition of speed ticket. All the other times I “should” have gotten out of them because I was being so nice. BUT NOPE!

5-     If #4 applies to you, MAKE SURE the car isn’t RED. Cops say that White is in fact the top color that gets pulled over the most, but I think that is a LIE! I got pulled over SO many times it’s not even funny.

6-     BE VERY CAREFUL with used cars from red necks. They DO NOT know how to fix a car the right way. They use super glue, duct tape/electrical tape to fix things that should be fixed by a professional. LOL. Okay this one is really funny actually. The first thing to go out in my car was the radiator. It didn’t go out really; it just had a crack in it that the previous owners tried to fix with super glue. Yeah...what in the crap. THEN after one day of my car just shutting off I lifted up the hood and found that the hose coming from the air intake was cracked, and had been for a while. THEY FIXED IT WITH A COMBONATION OF DUCT TAPE AND ELECTRICAL TAPE. UhM HELLOO?!? So I had to get a piece of hose that was like $7 and it was fixed. Now why didn’t they do that? Because they are red necks.

7-     NEVER trust a MONTE’S SERVICE to do mechanic work. This is kind of harsh, but I don’t really care. When my clutch went out, he replaced it. After he replaced it, my horn didn’t work, my heater didn’t work, my hazards didn’t work, my bottom set of lights didn’t work, my passenger window got stuck rolled down, (I had to take the freaking door panel off and rig it so it would stay up, and it still leaked) and not to mention 1 YEAR after he replaced the clutch for $1200, it started going out again!!! And after I told him about all the stuff that went out after he replaced my clutch, all he said was bring it over and we can go over price when I take a look at it. UMMM PROBABLY NOT BUDDY, YOU FREAKING BROKE IT SO YOU FIX IT. And he refused. So I drove around for about a year I drove around with all those problems! Then the clutch started going out AGAIN.

8-     DON’T buy a car that is 5 years old and has 95,000 miles. I still have no idea what I was thinking. They must have driven to Egypt or something lol. But driving almost 20,000 miles a year must mean you don’t really care about your car. AND it had so many dings and scratches on it. They didn’t care. My advice is to buy from Grandmas lol.

9-     Screeching your tires while pulling out of Pizzeria is considered Exhibition of speed and results in a $1000 fine if you are not brave and take the cop to court for over- exaggerating. This was the most ridiculous thing known to mankind. So we were sitting at Pizzeria on Washington after we went to the ATV Rodeo. We all decided to leave at the same time and I was second in line to get out. In front of me was Conner, and behind me was Mindy and Zach. I pulled out and my tires BARELY screeched. I got to the light and started going as it turned green and BAM got pulled over. That cop was such a freaking JERK! He was like screaming at me. And when I told him that they barely screeched, he yelled “DO YOU WANT ME TO IMPOUND YOUR CAR RIGHT NOW? YOU WERE OUT OF CONTROL!” Yeah so long story short Exhibition of speed tickets are like $1000 and I only had to pay $90 because I went to court and told them that he was over exaggerating and I WON J HA HA!

10-Make sure to ALWAYS check your registration papers. Sometimes the DMV will give you an 8 sticker when you need a 6 sticker, then when you get pulled over, you get a ticket for expired registration. Last but not least. I received 2 tickets for this. When I got my registration papers at the DMV they were supposed to give me a 6 sticker, but she gave me an 8 instead. Who actually looks and makes sure they match? I sure didn’t. But yeah sure enough when I get pulled over, BAM TICKET. So be sure to always check your sticker and month just in case!

So there are some stories about Scarlett. I will miss her speed and her comfy bucket seats, but I will DEFINITELY NOT miss what we were paying to fix her. So last Wednesday when the clutch started going out again, we took her to First Choice Kia in Kaysville. Tyler’s friend from work’s husband is the GM there and he hooked us up with our new baby.

BETTY WHITE!

Like Scarlett, I have always LOVED the Kia Souls, BUT Betty comes from a dealership where they actually make sure they are mechanically sound before purchase, so we were safe! :) 

I love Betty. It took me a while to come up with a name for her, but Betty White is hilarious and catchy. I always like the older names, Basil, Edna, Ruby, names like that. But Betty White is just awesome! Although Betty isn’t very fast, she is reliable and super cute. AND Titan can fit! Although the scariness of having a new car, with a new car payment, is kind of overwhelming, she is so much better than Scarlett. We owed $4700 on Scarlett and only ended up getting $2000 for her. But I could not be happier to NOT have that car in our possession any more. In fact, I kind of hope they blow her up. I couldn’t and wouldn’t feel comfortable letting someone else buy that car. It is a black hole. And I know they fix them up, but still. Scarlett is cursed; my God have mercy on her soul. (Is that bad to say?)

Needless to say, we are very happy with our new addition (car addition) to the family. We want to make sure that we still have money to do the things we like, (like crafts! WOOOT) and be able to quickly get out of debt, so Tyler is getting a second job. Can I just say what an awesome Husband he is? I really can’t even express how good he is to me. He is literally my best friend. It takes a lot to go out and willingly get a second job so that your wife can have the car that she wants. I love him so so so much and he means the world and so much more to me. He works hard, and deals with my attitude, my crafts, my weaknesses, my hard head, and my blanket-hogging-ness lol. Words can’t even explain how much he means to me, and I appreciate everything that he does for me. I am very happy with the life that we life and I am very excited for what is to come in our life together. I can’t wait till we can be sealed in the temple so he can be MINE for ETERNITY.

(is that selfish? ;) )

Murder @ 1:30am

So Since about 10pm I have been working on my blog appearance. I found a really fun link to this tutorial of how to change the fonts of your post title, date, and sidebar title..well unfortunately after 3 or so hours of calmly trying to get it to work, I am going to give up and go to bed...before I totally MURDER someone. Have you ever seen Brian Regan...MMAAAANNN SSLLAAUUGGHHTTEERR!! That is what I feel like right now. JK. But really, I am so irritated that I could chuck my computer out the window. But unfortunately I do need it, and I have NO money to buy a new one. So I guess I will just take a deep breath, count to ten, and walk away. Yep you heard me computer, I am being the bigger person and walking away. (That doesn't happen very ofter) Good thing it is 1:30am or I would be screaming..lol. Well Farewell blogland. I assure you that you will be hearing more from me from now on. Since I have 3 different blogs now lol. This one will be written in more frequently though because it IS about my life...and life happens every day. OKay Okay, I'm getting weird, that means it's time for bed. Night!

PS Check out my new signature thingy.. CUTE!! ;)

I have fallen in LOVE!!

So not until recently, have I become wrapped up and totally consumed in the whole blogging world. One day I came across a blog, and found THE cutest things EVER. Figuring that she probably had friends that were just as creative, I looked at some of the peoples' blogs that she had been featured on, and that is where I found Destiny. She is SUPER creative and I love everything she posts! I am OBSESSED with her blog, and look at it frequently, for ideas that I can put into my own house. Here is a link over to her blog that I think you will totally love, just as much as I have!!

here!!

(i'm not sure how to do the whole picture link thing yet :)

Interesting Month..lol

What an interesting month…that’s all I can really say. Here is a fair warning that this post is going to be really long.

Let me think of where to start.. We’ll start with the Lasagna Hand..

Okay so when we first moved into our house, like the first thing we did was tile down in the laundry room because it was disgusting. So anyway. Thanks to Mike and Taylor it only took like a day. Then we moved our new washer and dryer down there. There are a few things that I would like to complain about down there, lol. First off, there are SO many holes in the sheetrock, it’s scary. You can see the cement foundation. Why these weren’t fixed before we moved in, I don’t know. But anyway, not only is the sheet rock messed up, but the hose that comes off the dryer and goes outside is facing the wrong way. So when it’s hooked up to the dryer, it has to stand like a foot away from the wall so it doesn’t smash that hose. It looks retarded. Before the “lasagna hand incident’’ happened, we planned on re-doing those walls anyways. But now we get to do it sooner than we thought! But now I will tell you this disgusting story lol. So a couple weeks ago I was watering my flowers that I had just planted, and my lilac bushes that we transported. So I was watering away, and got a little carried away with the hose, spraying off the 2 giant windows in the front of our house, along with the driveway, the patio, in between the front door and the glass door, the garage door, and the RV pad lol. I LOVE cleaning with the hose. So anyway, when I was done, I went inside and went down to the laundry room to get some tiles that we had left over, so I could paint on them. (one of my million projects) So I’m down there and I smell something out of place. You know when you spray off cement, or a garage with a hose, and it smells like musky? That is like one of my favorite summer smells by the way and I knew I shouldn’t be smelling that inside the house. So I start investigating and I look behind the washer and dryer and it’s black. I was like what the heck.. So I walk over there and I look and there is about an inch of water. I was like WHAT THE..WHERE IS THAT COMING FROM?! Then I look down and coming out of the sheetrock is this thing. Seriously it looked like someone made a life sized hand out of lasagna noodles. It was the sickest thing I have seen. I really should have taken a picture to show you. So I screamed up to Tyler and he came running down and I showed him, and he was like what in the heck. I told him to touch it and he refused lol, so I grabbed a hanger and poked it. I half expected it to grab the hanger. But nothing happened lol. So we decided to see where the water was coming from. We thought it was coming from the outside because I had just over done it with the hose. So I was freaking out. That would have been so expensive to fix. But I finally got back behind there and looked on the back of the washer. There was rust coming from the hot water hose. So we turned on the hot water and sure enough it was leaking. We NEVER use hot water to wash clothes. But I guess the time I wanted to wash my whites and use bleach it started leaking then, and since NOBODY noticed it. What the? How was that possible? We go down there every single day. Anyways, so we had to shut off the hot water. Then we moved to washer and I crawled back there and started cleaning. Let me just tell you, that was THE sickest thing I have ever done in my whole life. There was wet, nasty mole everywhere, and the drain was clogged. We had to pull up 5 tiles because the water and mold had gotten under there too. The smell was awful! I would rather clean up fecal matter mixed with vomit, than have to do that again. I was so emotional when I had to do it. It was so hot, and muggy, it smelled like death, and not to mention a spider was like trying to attack me when I was wedged back there and couldn’t move, and Tyler just laughed at me. NOT FUNNY. Well now it is..but it wasn’t when it was happening. But I successfully got all of it cleaned up and we put bleach everywhere to make sure it doesn’t grow back. Now we just have to replace the sheetrock. Then I can paint it down there and make it way cute! I’m way excited!! Later that day, the toilet got clogged. NOTHING was working. Not even the plunger. Every time you would plunge, it would flip inside out, it was so frustrating. So we called Josh, who lives in the basement to come up and help us. Tyler and Josh took the toilet off the floor and surprises went everywhere!! I could hear gagging and heaving, and I was so glad that I didn’t have any part in that. Tyler came out almost puking and told me what was clogging it…a huge ball of Q-tips!! Guilty, But I couldn’t help but laugh. So for starters, NEVER put q-tips in the toilet! “) So that whole day could have been on an episode of Dirty Jobs! I’m glad that day was over fast! But now everything is up and running!!

There was also a ton of drama that happened shortly after all this, but I really don’t care to much about it to waste my time writing about it. So that’s pretty much all I’m going to say.

A while back my grandma’s brother Paul, purchased a new house. He still hasn’t moved out of his old house, and he is trying to get rid of a bunch of stuff he has. So on Monday Tyler and I picked up my dad, and borrowed Jodie’s truck and headed down to Murray to pick up his cabinets! We have been looking for some reasonable priced cabinets so we can re-do our kitchen. The kitchen is ridiculously out dated and need’s to have a face lift! But we are so tight on money right now we can’t spend a fortune. So free cabinets?! HECK YEAH! We go down there and we have to wait about a half hour till Paul and his wife get there. We go down to the basement where the cabinets are, and there is so much stuff down there!! And It’s all vintage!! We got some way cool stuff, that I am excited to say that It’s been handed down. We got some cabinets, a snow blower, this really cool trunk thing, and my favorite lol, a window washer squeegee with a long handle so I can clean the front windows! Yay! I’m way excited! Now we just have to sand down the cabinets and stain them!! Remodeled kitchen here we come!! WoOt!

Another thing that we got on Monday was a twin size mattress. We have been looking for one forever lol. It’s for Titan. Ever since he was a puppy we have let him sleep in the bed with us. It was okay when he was littler but now he weighs about 200 pounds and its like sleeping with another adult male that kicks, and scratches you while you are sleeping. Not that I don’t love Titan to death, its just that he is ENTIRELY too big to be on our bed with us. We have a king bed, and still it’s just not working out. So we got him his own bed and blankets and stuff and HE LOVES IT! The first night was rough, and he whined every 2 seconds, and we got probably like 3 hours of sleep that night, but I am happy to say now that he loves it. The past 2 nights he hasn’t given us any whining or anything!! Yesterday I was cleaning and I put the mattress in the closet because it takes up a lot of room, but I asked him where it was and he ran through the house looking for it! Then when I opened the closet and asked him, he started freaking out and smelling it and whined because he wanted me to get it out! So how we can finally use our Nice quilt that my step-mom made us for our wedding! We haven’t been able to use it for 2 YEARS!!! And I must say, with our newly painted bed set, it looks way cute! Now if I can only figure out how to put my art on the wall..its too heavy!!




I have some exciting news for my boutique! I am going to start online and see if I have any success, if I am successful, I am going to open up an actual store with my friend Tricia! Like myself, Tricia LOVES doing crafts! We are going to kick some butt in this business!! So Bring it on!! I’ve successfully made a facebook page for Vogue in Rogue Boutique and Décor, so go and check it out!! http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=lf#!/pages/Vogue-in-Rogue-Boutique-and-Decor/120262977992344?ref=ts
I am trying to add new things daily, but I work full time so it’s kind of hard to keep up on everything. But I love being busy!



Here is my to-do list according to importance and budget lol.

1- Find a truck
2- I have an order of 8 shirts for a dance team that need to be done by Thursday!
3- A way cute onesie to design and make.
4- Some designs for the girls at lifetime.
5- (3) different famly tree magnet boards
6- An interior sign for my friend’s playroom
7- Build a counter/desktop for my computer/craft room.
8- Build an arbor for our patio.
9- Re-upholster this really ugly chair into ZEBRA PRINT!! (so so so excited for this)
10- Sand down our countertops/cabinets, and get going on our kitchen makeover.
11- Sand down the ugly peach color painted siding we have.


WOW..I have TONS to do.

I’ve decided that I’m going to turn this blog into a blog for my boutique, and crafty things I do, and also keep up with the Douglas family! I really should be blogging on a daily basis, maybe if I start featuring things from my boutique I will be better about blogging more. We will see about that though right? Haha

It's Spring time!!! YaY!! APRIL FOOLS!!!

So today Is April Fools, and it is freaking SNOWING. What the crap is this all about? Last week it was warm! I just LOVE Utah weather…NOT. Lol.

So finally I broke down and made it so that we get internet on our desktop now! I’m way excited about it! I couldn’t take it anymore so I just drilled a hole in the wall and fed the internet cord thru the wall. But our laptop still doesn’t connect, so my uncle said he would come and fix it for us. But in the mean time, I can get so much done! I have been looking for legit ways to earn more money, but while I am at home, since I already work full time, so I was looking around at jobs for ChaCha and I had to take this test to see if I was fast enough at web searching. It was intense lol, but I ended up being fast enough so now I have to watch a bunch of training videos to be able to do it and make money. I think it will be fun! I’m sure they don’t pay very much, but still. Money is money right?

The day I got my internet hooked up I posted a bunch of pictures of stuff that was on there. One was a shirt that I designed in like December. Anyway, I put it up on Facebook and a lot of people were interested in it! My cousin’s husband saw it and we started talking about shirts and stuff. He asked me if I would design some shirts for his band that he is in! I’m SO excited! This may be the point where I get my shirt store going!! I’ve set up an account with a store website, and I’m looking forward to getting it up and getting some shirts sold! YaY!

I am going to start blogging on a weekly basis and giving updates on my weight loss! I’m excited!!

Weight Update!!

Here is a weight update!! I started my ACTUAL weight loss program and diet stuff on March 23rd, and I weighed myself on the 30th and I had lost 8 pounds already!! 8 POUNDS!! WOW! I plan on weighing in every Monday from here on out! Just so I can keep it on a schedule! This week has been really hard. I’ve been sick, so I haven’t been able to make it to the gym at all, which sucks. When I get better, I am going to run my tail off!! My diet consists of a plethora of things lol, here is what I am sticking to.

1: PORTION CONTROL
First my problem over the past 2 years has become the amount of food I would eat in a sitting. I would eat and eat until I was stuffed. And we all know we hate that feeling. Immediately after, you think “wow I shouldn’t have eaten that much.” Now I am keeping my portions small!

2: TOO MUCH (pretty much the same as 1, but I look at them differently)
My second problem as I mentioned /\ up there, was eating until I felt like I was going to explode. Everyone is guilty of this and I know it. After I would clear a plate, If I didn’t feel like I was going to spew I would just keep eating till I got there. Now I am training myself that 1 helping, is plenty...no need for seconds. So I don’t feel like puking after I eat. Not to mention, if you don’t over-eat, you don’t feel like you have 1) a food baby 2) to undo the button on your pants 3) to just sit around for a while until the food settles.

3: HMM..I’M BORED…*WALKS TO THE FRIDGE*
Thirdly we have the compulsive “I’m bored…what should I do? WAIT…lets eat, just because we don’t have anything else to do!!” problem. I have done this so many times I can’t even count. Now I only eat when I am hungry, and before I eat I make sure to drink a big glass of water, just to make sure I’m not getting hunger and thirst mixed up. Actually a lot of people confuse the two! Which leads me to…?

4: SAY NO TO POP!!
About a month ago I stopped drinking pop for about a week, and when I went to weigh myself to see how much I had lost, I was surprised to see that I gained 2 pounds!! What the crap?!? SOOOO I celebrated in buying a 12 pack of Dr. Pepper and drinking pretty much the whole thing. (Over the course of a week or so) But now I am on the pop wagon again and have not had pop for about 2 weeks now and I LOVE it! I do miss the carbonation though...there’s nothing like the first drink of a cold can of Dr. Pepper!..Ok, Ok..i need to stop with that lol. What I’m doing is making sure that I have water with me at all times. I have this mug I got from my grandma’s house; I call it a pregnant mug lol, its one of those mugs you get from the hospital when you have a baby hahah. But it’s easy to take around with me! BUT I have to MAKE SURE that I put a ton of ice in there, cuz I hate warm water.

5: CARB MONSTER…
One of the things that I LOVE to eat is CARBS. I kind of felt like Regina George in Mean Girls when she is like “Is butter a carb?” Lol! I just love Potatoes, Rice, Bread and Pasta. Really those were like my favorite foods!! And although carbs are good for you in a way, I try to stay away from what I can. If I have to eat them, I just make sure its not much.

6: NOT SO SWEET…
I have THE worst problem with chocolate. Chocolate is the most delicious thing ever created! Especially Hershey’s Kisses and Cadbury Eggs. Those are my main weaknesses, when It comes to candy. I’m just monitoring the amount of sweets I have each day, which is sometimes none at all. No more hand full of kisses or Cadbury eggs for me!

7: …PRETTY MUCH LIKE CRACK.
I think the area that I honestly have a problem with is fast food. No joke, I was ADDICTED to fast food. I don’t even know how to even explain it. For example I would be sitting at work and be thinking how good a subway sandwich sounded. I would leave work and be on my way to subway and I would be close to McDonalds and I would smell it, and my mind would just change to how delicious McDonalds, chicken nuggets, fries, and a double cheeseburger…plain, would be. Have you even seen those cartoons where something smells so good, that the character would like raise up out of their seat, their nose would hit the smell (the stuff that looked like smoke lol) and just float over to whatever smelled so good? That’s how it was, sadly. So I would just stop there instead. I can not express how badly I was addicted to that place. I mean I’ve never been addicted to crack or anything, but holy crap, I felt like a fast food TWEAKER!! Not even kidding. When I would eat McDonalds i would be totally oblivious to how many calories I was eating. Not to mention what I would get would be anywhere from $7-$10! A DAY!! That makes me want to puke. You know how much money I was spending on food? And not just any food, food that Is so bad for you, so greasy that you can practically smell the blood-clot, stroke, and heart attack coming your way. I’m happy to say that now I don’t go to McDonalds every day! It’s been probably the hardest thing for me to stop, but I believe that you must replace addiction, with addiction. My new addiction is the way I felt when I stepped on that scale and saw that I was down 8 pounds. I’m finally at the point where I want this, and I don’t care what I have to do to get to my goal weight.


8: EXERCISE IS KEY…
I can’t stress how important it is to exercise. Even if its just walking around your house or whatever. Just so your heart rate is elevated, and you break into a sweat. Since I have been sick, I’ve been doing some things around the house that get me sweating. For example, both of our spare rooms are a mess. Until we decide what we are going to do as far as carpet and wall paint, we don’t really want to unpack everything. So we still have things in boxes. One day I moved everything out of the smaller room and brought my computer in there. It was some pretty hard work actually, and with lifting and going back and forth, I felt like I got in some sort of a workout, even though I was sick. It’s mind boggling to think of how many calories things are, then think of how much exercise it takes to burn those calories. For another example (I’m full of those today) 1 can of pop. Usually a can contains about 250 calories. If you get on a treadmill and walk to burn off those calories, you would need to walk about 2.5 miles just to burn off that can of soda. That is ridiculous! So be extra careful about what goes in your mouth, and know how many calories you are taking in and burning.
My sister, my friend Mia, and I all have passes to Crossroads Fitness! We are trying to go as often as we can. My goal, for a little while, will be going to the gym at 6am Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at around 11. My exercise is just solely cardio. Which gets old really fast, but it’s what gets you losing weight the fastest.

9: SUPPORT DIETERS lol….
Nothing else affects the outcome of your diet, and weight goal success more than a support system. I can not tell you how hard it is to follow a diet and exercise program when you don’t have people who want you to succeed, and are willing to help you out any way they can. My first attempts in my journey to being healthier, I did not have a support system at all. Left and right, suggestions of fast food for dinner would come about. I would be too lazy to go to the store with my husband to pick out healthier things, so he would get what he knew I liked, but was a big no-no in my diet. When you are stuck to a diet, it sucks when you are tempted with things. Now I can say that Tyler and I are now on the same page. Tyler and I really want to have a baby. I know that I am not healthy enough to have a baby yet, and Tyler knows it too. So he reassures me that my hard work is paying off and I am getting closer and closer to my goal each day. I am so grateful for such a wonderful supportive husband. I love him so much!

10: KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE PRIZE
Most people get discouraged when they see people in magazines or on TV that look good. I personally used to be one of those people, but now I have changed my thinking. There is nothing stopping me from looking just like that person except myself. (Yeah I know I won’t EVER look like Heidi Klum, but you get my drift) I saved all my clothes that I had when I was skinny and I keep them for motivation. I have the cutest jeans that I got from Abercrombie & Fitch like 3 years ago, along with a super cute shirt that I wore 1 time. I have a ton of way cute hoodies that I keep too, one of which I wore to work today!! The only thing I have to complain about is the fact that I don’t have very many clothes now. When I was at my heaviest, I literally had 2 hoodies and 1 pair of pants that have been washed so many times that it made holes. So for my birthday my dad and step-mom got me a gift card at Maurices so I could get some clothes. They are so cute! But now I don’t fit into any of them anymore lol. Well I can wear them, but I look retarded because they are so big. Every 2 steps I have to pull up my pants, and if I bend over, yep HELLO BUTT CRACK! Hahah. But I am so excited that I am finally on the right track to becoming my old self. I miss my old self. I miss the outgoing, outspoken, softball-loving girl I used to be. But let me just tell you, I am on my way to being that girl again!


Now that I’ve taken up pretty much my whole day blogging I think I should probably stop typing! I still can’t believe this weather today! It’s spring time!!!! APRIL FOOLS!!

See you in a week!! Maybe less..

New & Improved :)

Okay, since I have once again slacked on my blogging efforts I’m writing another one to try and tell myself that i need to blog more. We’ll see how that works…lol.

Since about 4 months after my wedding I’ve been really depressed. And really the only thing I am depressed about is my appearance. Since my wedding I’ve gained a lot of weight, and its taken away who I am. Usually I am an outgoing bubbly person who loves to laugh and go on adventures. Now I am quiet, shy, self conscious, girl who doesn’t like to even take her dog for a walk because she is afraid of what people will think of her. So now I am on a mission to get myself back! And I WILL do it! Over the last couple years I’ve slacked on my hair, my body (my weight especially), my teeth (lol) my clothes, and pretty much everything. I am determined to get healthy, stay healthy, and have fun in the process.

Which leads me to my next subject. There are some exciting things that are happening in my life right now. Like I said above, I am going to be working on getting myself back and to do that I am going to start going to the gym every day that I can. I’m looking to go at 5:30am, I’ve done it probably 3 times and I can’t tell you how good I feel the rest of the day. When I get back from work all I want to do is make dinner and relax, so working out after work is SSOOO hard. I’m also going to get a tanning pass at Crossroads Fitness (my gym) so I can work on my tan. And let me just tell you, tanning helps me in so many ways. Its bad for you I know, but it helps with my depression, makes me look skinnier (lol) and it helps with my self esteem. But I’m going to promise right now that I wont get carried away and turn into those girls we’ve all seen, that look like a walking leather strap. Hahah.

I’m so excited for spring to be here so I can get my yard cleaned up!! I’m going to build a fire pit, put up a hammock, get a garden going, and fix up the outside of the house..in needs something, I HATE the paint and it needs some different siding. I’m actually excited to mow the lawn and weed whack! Is that weird? Lol.

Another thing that I am excited for is the church. I know I haven’t been one to go to church and be super spiritual, and ya know basically I’ve had some problems with drinking and drugs, but to tell you the truth. I’M DONE!! It’s just not fun for me anymore. There are more important things in life than that. First thing we’re going to do is get on the track of being sealed in the temple. I’ve been worrying a lot lately that if something happens to either one of us, we would never see each other again, and that scares me. I love my husband more than anything, and the thing that is most important to me is being with him for eternity. So that’s what we’re going to do, and I am SO excited for that. But I am scared at the same time. There are a bunch of people that I’m close with that don’t go to church. And that’s okay. I just don’t want any of them to judge me for it. If they do, I guess its their choice. But there is nothing wrong with people that go to church and live through the gospel. And I just want those people to know that being active in the church will not hurt our friendship :) I love everyone! (Minus Robin from work, he can jump off a cliff) lol

That reminds me. This past week at work has been so hard. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, my co-worker Hollie and I, have gotten into some huge fights with the artist. He has said such mean and hurtful things to her and I. It’s so hard to be here, knowing that someone in the work place is doing what they can to see you lose your job. Its so disheartening, especially in a time like this when I am trying to change my life. I don’t even want to put on here what he said about me, but let me just tell you, it’s going to take me a while to be able to forgive him.

Anyways onto a better note, we finally took Titan to the vet to see what was wrong with his ear. He actually has a yeast infection in both ears  poor Buggy! I love him so much and I hate when he gets sick or there is something wrong with him. Hopefully the stuff the vet gave us works so he will stop itching his ears and shaking his head! (it gets really annoying when you are trying to sleep lol)

I really think I have typed a novel today so I think I will end my blog there. Some good/bad happening right now, but let’s just say that things are definitely looking up for us! :)

-Jaimie

Broken Promises, Hacked hair, and career ambition!

As my continued efforts to blog on a daily basis keep failing epically, seeing that it is February 1st and I haven’t blogged for over a month..I am going to start trying to blog on my phone! Wish me luck :/
I got a wireless card for my computer over the weekend, and tried to install it on Friday night. Well lets just say that we lost the password to the router while we were moving so I couldn’t get into our network. Then I decided that I needed to go to the laptop and see if I could disable the password security feature, but during my adventure, I was successful in disabling it, but then the computer wouldn’t connect because it wasn’t compatible with the default settings :/ so now we have no internet besides our cell phones, and our wireless network is open to free loaders lol. So today I have to go home and fix it. Anyways, maybe after I get my computer all set up and actually able to connect it to the internet, I might be able to blog daily. But we will see about that ;). I have been getting a lot of leads for shirt designing so I am way excited to get my computer up and get some more shirt designs going. (yes I need the internet lol)

While I was getting my hair cut on Friday, I decided on what I am going to do for a career, and I am SUPER excited! (We cut off 14 inches!!!)

I have 2 separate things that I want to do,


1: I’m going to open up a salon. I have a name picked out and everything already! But I am keeping that a secret till it gets a little closer to becoming a reality. I don’t want anyone to steal it!

2: I am going to open up a boutique! Focusing on clothing and home décor. I will have my own designs up for sale, including male and female clothes, and maybe even kids. Along with other clothes that will be sold there, there will be jewelry, wallets, hats etc. I am so excited!! I haven’t picked out a name yet for it, because I can’t come to an agreement with myself on a name that focuses on male and female audiences. I liked Blissful Boutique, and Chic Boutique, but they are too girly. So I am open to any suggestions if anyone has any!!

I am so excited to get these things started, and I am totally serious about it!! I will have to take it one at a time though, so I am still unsure of what one I will make happen first. But everyone keep me in mind when you want to buy clothes ;)

That will be all for now!