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Friday, July 10, 2009
I've been obsessing over my weight lately. Not a good idea. Especially when I got into the real logistics of losing weight. Here goes:
General rule: Lose 1 lb a week.
I need to lose 60 lb to be at a normal weight.
60 lbs = 60 weeks (lame! by the way)
1 lb of fat ~3500 calories.
So to lose 1 lb of fat a week, you'd cut 500 calories a day out of your diet or workout 500 calories more a day. So instead of 2000 cal/day, bumped down to 1500... plus a few workouts a week.
But then I was looking online and discovered this was inaccurate.
It takes 1636 cal/day just to run my body. I use right about 2100 additional calories in my daily activities- sitting, reading, writing, playing with the kids, etc. So that's 3736 calories a day to maintain the weight I'm at. At 1500 calories a day, that breaks down to 1.5 lbs a week without any exercise.
This will of course all change as I lose weight. It also made me wonder exactly how many calories I've been eating in a day to be GAINING weight still. Scary thought.
That's the breakdown. I'm going to stick with the 1500 cal/day and try to exercise a couple times a week. In theory, this should work well for awhile.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
1:56PM
I added all the kids I could find from Hartley on Facebook last night. I'm talking to Jon right now about all the shenanigans going on in life. But I suddenly feel like I've wasted my potential since elementary school. I've never honestly felt like I've wasted a large chunk of my life. Moving to Ankeny was a big hit, and yeah, I let a lot of things slide more than I should have. But then I hit bottom in college and REALLY wasted years of my life. Not a good feeling. Not at all
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Last night at HyVee, I was getting ready to throw away some pizzas when the gal counting down the register turned to me and said "How do you not go crazy here?" I responded with a kind of WTF glance at her and she continued "All the time with that never-ending chatter from the cooks?" Ah! Yes, the cooks talk a lot. Everyone in our departments talks a lot. I just tune it out, which is what I told this lady. "I don't think I could do it. They just talk ALL THE TIME and you can't even understand a word they are saying." I'm thinking to myself, what the hell do I care? If they have something to say to me, then they will. I don't generally listen in to the English speaking, so I don't feel like I'm missing the oppurtunity when the cooks chatter away to each other in Vietnamese... All the while this lady is still talking to me and ends with "I know we don't have an official American language, but they should be speaking English. My country allowed them to come here after all." At which point I left. This came from a woman who I really like and talk to quite often. I was stunned to heck and back that she uttered those words.
First of all, the cooks can speak English. They do so quite often. They're not the best at it, but it's worlds better than if I were to try to speak to them in their language... not even sure what "hello" is.
Second, they don't need to always speak English. What the hell is that? It's easier for them to communicate in their own freaking language, so why not?
Last, the part about "my country allowed them to come here" really got under my skin. I hate that ethnocentric bullshit. By some fluke of the universe, you happened to be born between two imaginary lines and suddenly it's not only "your" country, but you also imply that others must be approved of and allowed in to this wonderful and perfect place that you have ownership of? Bullshit, my friends. Just bullshit.
On another note, one of my two year olds will NOT fall asleep. He is driving me nuts.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
I brought the laptop with me to work today because I figured I'd get some work done and google "Coloring sheets" for the kiddies. I found some good ones. Then I looked up directions to Climb Iowa because Ben and I are going to try out our mad climbing skills tonight instead of the usual workout at the Y.
Then I thought I'd hop on facebook and waste the rest of naptime sending unneeded flair to people. The daycare was wise enough to block facebook and myspace apparently. So here I am at livejournal catching up on months of missed LJ updates from friends ^.^ Thank goodness the two year olds sleep forever. By the time they get up and everybody has gone potty, I'll only have two more hours until I leave work... for work at HyVee. yay.
Despite the lack of communication with anyone older than 2 for most of my work day, I really like my job. Lesson planning consists of finding art projects and different things for the kids to play in for sensory time, but it's better teaching experience than making pizza or working at McD's. I hate changing diapers 4 or 5 times a day, but I love all the hugs. Plus, the majority of the adults that work here are fun and easy to socialize with when we see each other.
Work takes up most my life (and so sadly most of this entry). I was stuck with an awful sinus infection that kicked my butt for 2 weeks, but I'm getting back into the routine of taking my gym bag to work with me so I can go to the Y right after work. 3 nights a week I'm taking dance classes. I'm running 3 nights a week, too. I get so bored running inside, though. Outside of work and working out, the norm is hanging out at Gweedo's on the weekend, watching movies and whatnot. Lately I've added in a few trips to Porky's to hangout with people from work. Also, more trips to Iowa City. For some reason going out with Katy and Meagan is just more fun than going out with Gweedo, James, and Amanda.
That's my life right now. It's kind of routine, but I'm actually really enjoying it :) I'm excited for nice weather so that I can start hiking again. The daycare is about 5 minutes from Saylorville, so I might start going out there on my breaks when it's nice enough.
Current mood:  exhausted
Monday, November 10, 2008
I've been sickly for a few weeks and haven't really had time to get well because of the whole working 62 hours a week thing. It's a sinus infection, so mostly, it's just really annoying.
I was exhausted today so I layed down for what I thought would be maybe a 30 min nap. I slept from 4:45-7 instead. Had a weird dream. I dreamed I was staying over at someone's house. It was gigantic. It was also the church that my dad used to go to AA meetings at. I was staying on the 2nd floor which was being remodeled, so the floor was made of cardboard. It was a little freaky. I do remember wanting to go explore and see what had changed since I was there last. The last things I remember is being with someone and we're being chased through a neighborhood. They have locators on us, so they have the advantage and we eventually get caught.
Current mood:  cranky Current music: Polar Express
Friday, October 31, 2008
Yay for Halloween :)
I was a kitty cat for the daycare/Hyvee today. Super cute actually.
Dressing up each day at work reminded me so much of the dress up days at the HS the week of homecoming. We had pajama day, hero day, hillbilly day, and costume day.
After work, Ashley and I went up to McD's to get icecream and inadvertantly created a scene resulting in Billy yelling "It's Annie. You know her. It's OK to give her icecream!" It was funny to me, I'm not gonna lie.
Last weekend I was a dead housewife in rebuttal to James continuously reciting stupid sexist jokes and commenting that it'd been half an hour since he ate dinner and that there were still dishes in the sink. Boys.
Katy and I finished up Halloween by going to HSM3. It was a fun way to end the day. Good and silly times.
This weekend should be busy. First thing in the morning *I'm thinking around 10*, I will tackle the task of washing the Pyrenees, the husky, and yes, the Newfie. In actuality, Denver and Kye will be harder to wash than Bailey I imagine. After that, I need to clean in my room... dust, vaccum, etc etc. Then I want to go get some of the outdoors pics I've taken over the last year and blow them up to get framed. Also, thought I'd do a couple from my bro's trip to Yellowstone for a bday present for him. I'd like to take a trip to Valley Junction just to window shop for things that I will never need :)
In a couple weeks I want to head back to IC to visit Meagan and Katy/Becker and hopefully Stina! Thanksgiving plans were set finally- dinner at my aunt's in Nebraska. Nebraska offers more than just aunts... It offers dad and exstep mom to visit, half sister to visit, 2 step sisters to visit, Nicky, and Dylan. It'll be fun to try to get all that plus the old neighborhood driving done in a day and a half. But I'm excited. We haven't had a whole day in Lincoln in a long time and I've missed the hometown lately.
Current music: Pepper- Butthole Surfers
Thursday, October 30, 2008
A lack of anything on TV led me to watching LA Ink. The acting in that show is awful as can be, but I do like the stories behind the tats and I like the tats most the time, too.
In any case, Laswells are known for their tattoos. I went with my dad when I was 8 to watch him get one done. Ben and I both wanted to get something done while we were there. The tattoo my dad got was the start of a back piece. It's of 2 kids jumping off a cliff with pueblos in the background onto a pegasus. The two kids are Ben and I. He also has 3 pixies- one for each of us kids. He has a floral one that he got to cover up his first wife's name and to match one that my step mom got. He has a cross that he tattooed himself. He has a couple more.
I now have 6. The strawberry was for my HS life... to remind me of the friends and the good times lived as Strawberry Shortcake- going to GSA, watching stupid movies, wearing pigtails a lot, being a ghetto punk princess as I was once called. The butterfly I got after Matt and I ended, after the first year of college was done, after things with Josh and Kenney both took nose dives. I was free... lol and then I met Billy! The cross was a dedication to my family and to my beliefs. Family, love, sacrifice, forgiveness. That one was a stroke of genius. After that I got my white rabbit done. I was a big fan of the story and I was lost as hell when I got it- David, Kenney, Billy, school, work, everything was a nightmare. Then I got the symbols for earth, Saturn, and Capricorn done to remind me of who I am at heart. Despite experiences and despite whatever messed up genes I inherited, I'm my own person who makes my own decisions. Most recently, I got "No regrets" done on my foot. To remind me that even though everything with Billy was an awful and drawn-out mistake, it helped me make me who I am and helped me realize what I really found important. It also helped me realize that I really can walk away from that stuff and live. So even as foolish as it all was, it wasn't worth regretting.
So what's next? Immediately, I want to get 3 stars done on my side. One when I finish a 2 mile run, one when I finish a 5k, and one when I finish a 10k- like gold stars for my efforts :) Also, two Alice in Wonderland tats... one of the mad hatter running. One of the hatter and hare stuffing the doormouse into a teapot. Then, my signature flower. Then who knows!
My dad instilled a love of tattoos into Ben and I. We used to try to give ourselves them in elementary school with needles and markers... probably good none of those lasted! Ben has 4 really large tats that as far as I can tell have no symbolism to him at all, but they are magnificent. My cousins Chris and Alex have a fair amount of work done as well. I need to find out if they have stories behind them.
Current mood:  accomplished Current music: Jesus Christ by Brand New
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
So the HS reunion was this last weekend. The long standing drama between friends and catching up with people after years made for a really great night.
Finally got my number changed to get away from Billy in a more permanent sense. It'd be all well and good for about a month before he'd text message. New number is 343-6121 :)
Monday, September 4, 2006
High School Meme that's been floating around
1. Who was your best friend?
Can't name just one of course... Matt, Lindso, Meagan, Ann, Sara McD, etc etc
2. What sports did you play?
Bowling! :)
3. What kind of car did you drive?
I had my awesome camaro back then
4. Friday night -- where were you?
work or the movies
5. Were you a party animal?
hahaha no
6. Were you considered a flirt?
eh so so
7. Ever skip school?
Not once... such a good girl
8. Were you a nerd?
Pretty much a "duh" on that one
9. Did you ever get suspended/expelled?
Nope never, didn't even get detention until senior year and that was because I got my senior pictures done during school hours!
10. Can you sing the Alma mater?
I remember parts. And the words my grandpa and I made up
11. Who was your favorite teacher?
well the Cowgers of course, Mr. Peterson, Baker, Brejcha definately
12. Favorite class?
honors psych
13. What was your school's full name?
Ankeny High School
14. School mascot?
The Hawks
15. Did you go to prom?
3 years, yup!
16. If you could go back and do it over, would you?
uh... no. It was awesome for the friends and learning, but I wouldn't want to relive it.
17. What do you remember most about graduation?
My hair looked like butt! and I wasn't sure my dad was gonna make it
18. Favorite memory of your senior year?
Discofest after madrigals- haha :) 8th hour roaming the halls with Sean and Matt
19. What were you voted in your yearbook?
haha nada
20. Did you have a job your senior year?
HyVee Pizza shop, Kohl's, Sonic
21. Who did you date?
Matt
22. Where did you go most often for lunch?
I was one of those weird kids who stayed at school for lunch
23. Have you gained weight since then?
Same!
24. What did you do after graduation?
worked a lot, caught up on my movies/TV
25. Who was your crush?
Matt
26. When did you graduate?
2003
Saturday, July 1, 2006
List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your LiveJournal along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other people to see what they're listening to...
1. Doing too much- Paula De Andon
It's just a good song to drive around with and listen to
2. What You Know- TI
3. Riding- Chamilionare
It's the classic work song of the moment
4. Hate Me- Blue October
5. Du Hast- Rammstein
6. Steal My Sunshine- Len
7. I am the Highway- Audioslave
Too lazy to figure out the tag thing SO! people to tag: Katy, Stina, Rich, Megan, Becker, Nick, Hannah
Thursday, May 25, 2006
3:17AM
Another month come and gone kids. Sheesh. I gotta get back to this! I miss my LJ sometimes :)
The past month, couple months in all reality, have been crazy. I'm back home. Finals went alright. Moving out was sad. For once my roommate and I will continue to be close friends after the dorms! I'm so happy to be living with the girl I will be next semester. It should be fun :)
Work is work is work. I had exactly 40 hours last week. Hopefully nothing over. It's starting to warm up, which makes work poopy. And happy meal hell days. Ugh.
There's been lots and lots of hanging out lately. Movies mostly. A lil hiking. A lil walking. I can't wait for Red Cloud.
There should be lots of traveling this summer. Colorado is up next in June. I'm excited :)
Current mood: creative
Thursday, April 13, 2006
2:50PM
It's been over a month since I've updated. Whoa. Nothin really going on right now. I just finished practicum. I love teaching. I know it for sure. There's been much drama at McD's as per usual. People from work bowl every Thursday. It's really fun and makes me happy. My average remains the same, but meh. This weekend is the big bar crawl up in Iowa City. I'm excited. I always get excited about leaving central Iowa. School will be done in *really* 2 weeks. Jeez. I gotta get on some stuff. This summer promises to be a good one. Several trips planned. I can't wait to get to Red Cloud. I miss it so. Have found some cool old school people on Myspace. And randomly, I had a dream about Grant Hobin last night. Everyone was on some college field trip (people from HS) to Simpson, where Grant goes to school. Weird.
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Pretty normal past few days really
School continues. As if it would stop :-P I should be working on my Internet scavengar hunt... but I'm not. Shouldn't take long anyway. Am actually going to go to philosophy tomorrow. I suppose I should. I haven't gone since our last test :( I should drop it, but I can't really afford to.
Had PMN tonite, as we usually do Mondays. Tonite it was Inspector General. I don't know how, but somewhere along the lines I've developed a certain fondness for really bad, old movies :)
I've been thinking too much lately. There's been so much going on. Things are starting to seem like their settling down. Saturday, Dani had her birthday celebration. We ate at Jade Garden and actually had some fun. Jeff and Gweedo both behaved, so that was really nice. Sarah, Dani, and I have decided to try and make Friday nights a girl's night so we can sit and bitch about the past week. Makes me very happy :)
There's this guy who used to work with us at HyVee. Leah, Nelline, and Andrea would know him as "the creepy produce guy". His name is Jason. Anyway, I found out when we worked there *we woulda been 17?* that this guy liked to hit on young girls and try and get them to sleep with him and his wife. We already thought he was weird b/c he'd get food from us and say strange things like "Thanks cutie. You girls have the best food around *wink*" So I told Leah about it one day and we turned around and there he was. Creepy.
Eventually we all left HyVee for Kohl's. Not b/c of him, just b/c it was HyVee :) Dani and I end up bein in the same dept. Before the store opened, we were working one night. As I was leaving, he was entering. Turns out he's my manager at Kohl's. I can remember one conversation where I told him I had to get back to the high school for my last class. He looked disappointed and asked if I had big plans for afterschool. I shrugged and told him I'd probably hang out with my boyfriend. He smiled and asked how old my boyfriend was. :( Eventually I left there and went to Sonic. I worked with his mother. AH!!! So finally I head to McD's and he's friends with Amanda E and her sister.
So this long story has a point. He came into the store last week. He was a parked order. God knows why he came in. He just smiled at me and never said anything. I told Billy I was creeped out by him, but Billy didn't actually see him. I told Dani about it at dinner and we all had a big laugh. After dinner, we ran into McD's so I could request some time off. He was there again. I told Billy about it after he left and he's like "I wondered why he kept smiling at you like that" And after all that, he came thru drive-thru yesterday, too. It's starting to scare me some :(
Wow that's long
Wednesday, February 1, 2006
2:04AM
I'm in the process of making my GJ, theshortone, and the other diaryland one inactive. I'm not one who likes to get rid of diary enteries, but it's time to narrow down the journal uses. I've found some weird enteries, but this one was just weird:
2002-03-03 - 1:31 a.m.
One day, Dusty was snowboarding through the mountains on a sunny day. It was getting on towards the evening, so the mountains looked magenta and orange due to the reflection of the sun, as was his face. Dusty was happy because he had just bought a new brown ski suit and green goggles for his snowboarding trip. Suddenly, Dusty lost his balance and fell. In order to stand back up, he had to take off his boots. One foot landed in a snow drift and one in a patch of nettles. Dusty immediately feel back onto the ground in pain. After itchy his foot for a long time, it was red. His other foot, obviously very cold from the snow, was blue. Dusty was able to snowboard, barefoot, back down to the ski lodge where he received medical attention and a slap across the face for being so stupid. His friend KG took a picture of Dusty smiling with his brown ski suit, green goggles, blue foot, red foot, and with the mountains in the background. It is now hanging next to the Mona Lisa.
Monday, January 23, 2006
8:45PM
I think I'm gonna go "friends only" on this too...
School and everything is going well. It's nice only having 2 classes a day (1 on Friday). A lot of times it's nice to be home for work. I don't like missing hip hop class with my roommate and our friends. We've taken to having dance parties at least once a week in our room that are completley stupid. Very cool.
My MW classes, altho sometimes seemingly pointless, are good. Stacey is in that class with me. It's cool that we knew each other kinda well in debate, hardly any in HS, and now we're friends. Also the nice thing about my MW classes are most the same people were in classes of mine last semester and we have the same classes MW. There's a lot of group work, so we know each other. And our reading teacher is a lil psycho and insists on many, many games of "getting to know you" variety.
It's been awesome to get back to Salt. My new cross is a wonderful reminder of the person I want to be. It was weird to see all these people that I had met on the New Orleans trip at Salt.
There's been a little drama around, but really nothing horrible. Amanda and Dick broke up, but we're still going to be roommates next year. I'm excited to be living on my own! Well, ya know, moreso. I wish I could move out this summer, but I have bigger priorities first.
I have a lot on my plate this semester. Lots of projects, an experiment, numerous papers, finalizing degree audits, in general preparing for life after college. I can't believe there's only a year and a half left. Work isn't stressful, just make TR's rushed. I have a Dr. appointment March 10. I weighed -4 lbs of what I weigh now. I want to be under that by then. Not an insanely hard task, but still requires change.
Ah, drama, I'm off to meet you. And then read philosophy. Word to your requiem
Current mood: productive Current music: Ludacris and Nate Dogg~ Child of the Night
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
2:03AM
Thanks to Pete's last entry, I remembered debate for the first time in a long time. Long hours spent in the library, everyone at a computer island talking to each other on AIM, crying b/c Josh cheated on me. And the debate closet. LOL I hadn't thought about that room in a good four years!
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
2:26AM
It's crazy how little I've been updating my loverly LJ. Will have to work on that! I had today off from work and school. So Veronica and I went shopping. 6 hours later, I've got a lot of new crap :) Also went out with David and Katherine, which woulda been a lot of fun if it hadn't sucked :) Still, it's always nice to have new people to go out with.
Updated one of the other diaries. Or I will actually. Tomorrow's gonna come to soon!
Monday, January 9, 2006
11:04PM
Ben Blakely is extremely good people.
*story* Ben got a new girlfriend officially yesterday. I found out thru the wonderfulness that is facebook. Now, while it's true that if given the oppurtunity I would totally take Ben all for myself, it always makes me happy when he's happy. In any case, I had seen him earlier this morning and he didn't mention anything, so when I saw it on facebook I immediately IMed him and told him it had ruined my day that he hadn't mentioned anything and that I was more upset than his "we're like brothers" joke (in which I didn't talk to him for 3 days). So he asks if I'm in my room and before I can even respond, there's a knock on my door. He came up to apologize and tell me all about it. Ben and I are kindred spirits in a sense. We don't ever hang out now, but we still have our things. I made a sarcastic joke about how I loved my life being complicated and Ben joined right in with how he can't stand things being uncomplicated b/c it's boring.
Tuesday, December 27, 2005
9:31PM
Work kinda blew today :(
Case in point:
Taking orders: Kevin Crall comes through. Actually acknowledges me. Depressing.
Handing food out: This guy is bein sorta a dick. He upsets the girl taking orders a tiny bit. He gets to my window and he's like "Annie! How are ya?!" Thank you, Andy Ware. I WAS good :-P
I'm very tired :(
I may not be as manic as, persay, my dad, but I finally have seen my manic part. The urge to run and flee and just leave is manic. Blah.
Have something really mean to say, but can't. Kinda makes me mad
Harry Potter is on and thus, good times. And maybe a nap!
Sunday, December 25, 2005
4:34PM
The "haul"...
mp3 player of the Samsung sort, DVD player, 2 DVDs, a really cute old looking hat box, Thomas Kinkade calendar, a Budha statue from my dad, a bunch of candy, Blackshirts sweatshirt, and a really soft throw blanket :) Yay fun!
I've already put a lot of music onto my mp3 player, so awesomeness.
Also received gift cards to Best Buy, Barnes and Noble, and Quick Trip.
Past couple days have been weird. My dad showed up. Been lots of driving around with Sarah, Gweedo, and Dick. Saw Tiano and Glassman a couple nights ago. Work has gone alright. Last night ended up bein pretty boring and slow.
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