I really really enjoy reading all of these blogs that I've been reading lately. Sometimes I feel like I'm living vicariously through you guys LOL. No but really, I love reading and could read all day about the random things that are posted. And lately, I've been really into reading birth stories. I know that seems weird because I'm not pregnant and probably won't be for a while, but I know that I will be someday so I can kind of imagine myself in that place and...it just makes for an interesting read for me.
So anyway, onto other things!
1. Yesterday I took 3 hours of personal time from work so I could get my name changed FINALLY. I have been so lazy with that but mostly because I didn't know where to go and it just seemed annoying and confusing but I decided to just do it. I got to the DMV and realized, I only had a copy of my birth certificate and I needed the original. So....I just went home and watched Teen Mom. Mike had printed out a form that I needed to fill out in order to get my birth certificate so I filled that out and sent it off. And now I wait.
2. Today is my brother-in-law's birthday. Tomorrow we will celebrate it by going to breakfast and then to a movie. Should be a really fun day. I'm excited! Plus it's the weekend and I want to sleep in and relax and not worry about things that I "have" to do. Bring on the freakin' weekend!
3. My sister is coming to visit Mike and I next month for Thanksgiving and I can hardly wait. We bought her plane ticket the other day so it's official! She'll be here from the 20th - 29th. We have made many a list of things that we want to do together while she's here including cooking a huge Thanksgiving meal. It will be my first so I'm slightly nervous but mostly can't wait for it.
4. Fall is definitely here. It's been really rainy/cloudy lately but I love it. I love how it illuminates the green that is still left on the trees and the grass. Snow is another thing...that would be dreary to me so I'm going to soak up the cold days without snow while I can. It just seems cozier.
5. I have been trying to workout more lately and get to my goal of 115 or at least more muscle and less flab. So far it's going pretty good. I've worked out about 3 times this week. I normally would be disappointed that I didn't workout more but I'm gonna give myself a break on the guilt ;) I've been eating less and eating better as well so I'm just going to sort of go with the flow while still being (mostly) good. I am somewhere between 126 and 128 currently. So I have about 12 lbs that I want to lose. I'm hoping by the end of this year but eh...we'll see. I have been updating my www.lizzyfitness.com blog more though and I'm almost to 1,000 uniques for the month!! Exciting!
6. Mostly my life is quite consistent so nothing interesting is going on right now. I can't wait for the day when this blog turns into a baby blog. I'm obsessed which is a bad thing I guess and sort of annoying to me since I can't have what I want right now. On a good note though, Mike and I are working really hard to pay off our debt. At the rate I'm going, I will have all but my school loans paid off by MAY of next year. WOW...for me, this is amazing. Let's just see how much debt I have gotten myself into since I moved away from home at 18.
- car wreck in December of '07. My fault, 2 cars involved, no insurance. Talk about a wake up call.
- $3,000 credit card, almost 30% interest rate.
- Ideal Image laser hair removal (finally paid off now).
- $3800 car (will be paid off in December YAYYY).
- small credit card $600 (will be paid off in December as well!).
- I did owe my Meme some money (a lot) but she crossed that off as paid in full. She is so amazing let me tell you. She practically paid for our wedding. I am just so blessed to have her in my life. It's our little secret that I'm her favorite grandchild ;) Shhhh...
- then of course school which is FREAKING annoying but oh well.
- other smaller debts that I've paid off over the last few years as well that I don't wish to remember ;)
So needless to say, I can't wait to be out of debt and putting my money towards things that I actually want or need. Savings account, house, traveling, eventually babies, etc. I am stoked. And Mike just has his car to pay off and then we are good. Man this is a good feeling. We both agree that we are happy that we got into the whole debt thing early on in life and learn our lesson rather than later on when we have kids and more responsibility.
Speaking of traveling; I have a "baby bucket list", or in other words, a list of things I want to do/places I want to visit before we have kids! Here it is:
A) Travel to Colorado for a visit. This will be checked off next weekend!
B) Take a long weekend and fly to Cali and go to the beach.
C) Trip to Romania to visit Mike's family. This will be checked off next fall!
D) Visit my family in Alabama.
E) Go to Vegas and celebrate my best friend's 21st. This should be crossed off in December of next year.
F) Get to my goal of 115 lbs
G) Purchase a house or apartment.
H) Finally pass my exam and become a personal trainer.
Those are the main ones. I have lots of smaller things I could add but if I accomplish all of what I listed above, I will be just fine. Since I have to wait until Mike thinks he's ready to have a baby, I figured I could have some fun ;)
I think I should head out now. I've been typing your eyes off for way too long...so off to work I go! TGIF friends!
Love and Friday,
Lizzy
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