Bullett Points

• My car was fixed! It looks amazing. I had a really sweet rental too while it was at the shop. They gave me a Nissan Altima and it was really fun to drive for 4 days. Although I was super happy to get my car back! It looks so shiny and new again. lol

• This past weekend I went up to visit my grandmother for mother's day. It was just me, my mom and aunt. It was so beautiful out and as a surprise my grandma ended up making homemade manicotti! Heaven!!

• That night I had my monthly fancy pants dinner. The food was out of this world! Then we all went out for a few drinks. It was a really nice evening and I love having these monthly dinners. It's turning into something I am always really looking forward to doing.

• This weekend is my friend's bridal shower. I am excited to see all my friends. It's been a while since I last saw them. I have my dress all picked out. I love any excuse to get dressed up. lol. Before I head down to Balimore on Saturday, I'm running a 5K that morning! I hope I do well and I hope I won't be too tired on the drive down.

• Speaking of the wedding, I have my shoes for the wedding. They need to be broken in but everytime I'm home I am just wearing them while on the couch. I'm debating on wearing them to work one day. lol. I'll look like a goofball but at least I know I'm breaking them in. What do you think?

• I feel like I have more to say, but can't seem to find the words. Hopefully I can do a better blog later! It's crazy for me this month and I feel like I have have any time to do anything. I am in desperate need to get a pedicure, but have no time on the weekends. So now I'm trying to go during lunch sometime this week. I am looking forward to things calming down soon.

My first mudrun! With lots of pictures

It finally happened. I did a mud run! A crazy 5 mile obstacle course that was one of the hardest things I've ever done. I can barely move my body today, but I had a blast!! And I can't wait to do the next one!

There was a ton of people from my gym who did the race. We all took a giant yellow school bus down to the stadium. We had such a large group, we won a contest at race and got an obstacle named after us!

 Here we all are before the race began.

 That's me climbing up a hill

 Helping my friends over a wall

That's me climbing over the wall!

It hurt a lot coming down. My face says it all

Here we are getting out of those tubes. There were half filled with water! One of my friends said it was like the scene in Shawshank Redemption, but without the poop. lol

Here I am running through the electrical wires, trying to not get zapped.

 Didn't work. I got zapped a few times and went down when one hit my knee. lol

We are about a half a mile from the finish line and still have a smile on our faces!

I finished in one hour and 23 minutes!! I am so crazy proud of myself!

Not that muddy after the water but pretty gross all the same. Couldn't wait to get changed!

This is something I'll never forget. There were so many obstacles that I thought for sure I wouldn't be able to do. Like climbing over those walls or up and over a cargo net!! But I did them all (expect for the monkey bars!) and finished strong! Even this time last year I could have never imagined doing something like this. I hadn't even run my first 5K yet and here I am doing a 5 mile obstacle course! Amazing!

With the good comes the bad...

Life for me the past few months have been pretty great. There was some bumps but in general it's been pretty fab. Well I knew sooner or later something bad had to happen.

I was in a car accident two days ago. I was sitting at a red lady and a woman smashed into me when she was trying to make a right turn. No one was hurt thankfully but the damage on my car is a lot. Plus I hate accidents. I was shaking all day long after it happened.

I got the estimate yesterday and it's going to cost over $2,500 to fix! Thankfully this accident wasn't my fault so I am not responsible for any payments. However the other people are upset to say the least at how much it'll cost to fix it. They wanted to pay out of pocket and they had assumed the damage would only be a few hundred dollars. Now that we are in the thousands they will need to go through insurance. However they want me to go for another opinion. Which is fine, but I also don't want this repair to take forever.

I'm going to be travelling a lot starting in about 3 weeks. That's my time frame. It needs to be done by then. The man at the shop already told me the repair will take at least 5 days to get done. Meaning we need to get this show on the road. I emailed him the estimate and now I'm waiting for him to get back to me on what the next step will be. Hopefully they won't be difficult.

A really awesome weekend (with some pictures)

For months I've been freaking out over the fact that I could not fit into my bridesmaid dress. I had ordered a size smaller, thinking I would be able to fit into in no time, and would probably need it to be altered. Then my weight loss all but stopped and the wedding kept on inching closer and closer. Two weeks ago I had tried putting on my dress. It fit better than last time but still would not zip up all the way. I had a big gap at the top.

I started to really freak out and wonder if I should just cave and get the dress in the bigger size. I put my head down and really crunched down. I lost 6 pounds in 2 weeks! On Friday I held my breath as I put the dress back on. And it freaking zipped!!!!! granted it's still very tight but at least that thing zips up all the way!!! You have no idea how relieved I am. I just need to lose a few more pounds and this baby will be perfect. The wedding is 2 months from today!! Now I can get really excited and happy about it knowing the dress fits.

Since the dress fit, it gave me the courage to try on my size 10 jeans that I bought a while back. And those fit too!!! Yay no longer a size 12!!!!

Also on Saturday was my gym party where they announced the winner of the team challenge!! I am happy to say my team WON!!! Yippee!!! All that hard work and effort paid off! The score was so freaking close. We just barely won, but a win is a win!! We got our names on a plaque and mine was up top for being a captain! The party itself was a lot of fun. I drank way too much and ate way too much. lol. But it was worth it and so much fun.

For winning I got a bucket filled with goodies. including that giant whistle! I love it.

Here I am in my size 10 jeans!! I felt awesome that night.

On Sunday I went shopping with some friends from work. I spent a whole lot of money on new smaller clothes! It was awesome!

My Weekends Ahead

Needed a place to write it down so I wouldn't forget. lol

Weekend of April 21 – Gym Party Saturday, shopping sunday

Weekend of April 28 – going out for friend’s birthday

Weekend of May 6 – Mud run!! EEK!!

Weekend of May 12 – My monthly "fancy dinner" with friends.

Weekend of May 19 – 5K that morning, then leave for Baltimore. Bridal shower on Sunday

Memorial Day weekend – May 25 – PBA Ball Friday, 5 mile race on Saturday morning then cousin’s college graduation up north

Weekend of June 2 – DC for Friends bach party

Weekend of June 9 – Bridal Shower

Weekend of June 16 – might have to take another trip down to Baltimore to help out bride

Weekend of June 23 – Wedding weekend in Baltimore!

New Direction?

I've been finding it hard to blog lately. I'm not giving up on it yet, but I feel like I never really have anything good to say. My life is in a wonderful place right now. When I first started this blog I was miserable and I used this space as a place to vent and work through my feelings. Now everything is peachy.

Hmmmmm, Maybe I need to change the name of my blog. That actually might help me. I need to find a new direction for this space. Should it be more about my weight loss and fitness? Stay the way it is now? Or something totally different? Well that will have to go on the back burner for a little while.

The next few months I am a busy busy lady. Almost every single weekend from now until the end of June I have stuff going on. Lots of travelling and wedding related stuff for my friend. Throw is some upcoming races for the weekends in between and my head starts to spin a little.

I wish it wasn't so busy though. I have been wanting to give online dating a try again, but my weekends are so full I wouldn't be able to actually go on any dates in the near future. Not that I think I'll be flooded with offers anyway. The last time was a total bust for me. But it's something I'm willing to give another shot at anyway. I'm in a better place now than I was the last time I was on there.

My gym challenge is finally over. The last week of it was so stressful but it's done. We will find out which team won this Saturday at the party. I really hope it's us. We were on a roll for a while points wise, but final weigh ins and the last challenge will probably be the deciding factor. Either way Saturday is going to be a blast! I can't wait.

The spring cleaning last weekend was also a success. I got rid of 3 black garbage bags of clothes. Half my closet is now empty waiting for me to fill it. I did some shopping last weekend and got some awesome stuff. This Sunday a few friends from work and I are going to go to the outlets.

Any suggestions on where I should take this blog would be much appreciated!