I have a serious issue with the way my body looks. Regardless of how active I am (or aren't), how thin I am (or aren't) I always see the same flabby body in the mirror. I am super self-conscious and self-degrading.
In an effort to fix this, because logically I know it's ridiculous, I did a Juice Cleanse last weekend (which was a disaster, basically) and now I've started on a regimen that Glamour (yes Glamour, the magazine) has put together.
It's a twelve week program that regulates my diet, creates work out plans and forces me to blog (there and here) which keeps me honest and hopefully active.
This will hopefully get me on track to be HEALTHY (versus thin) and hopefully, happy. I'll be eating better! Working on my strength (which is important, especially because my knee has been hurting)! and Getting me moving!
Day 1 is tomorrow at 9 am. Wish me luck!
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Saturday, August 21, 2010
The ZOO
This is a zoo post. Seriously, I am posting about a trip to the zoo. A trip that I took.
I am twelve years old and this is show and tell.
All pictures were taken with my iPhone at the Tacoma Point Defiance Zoo. My last memory of this particular zoo were pretty dim; I think there was construction, the animals were subdued.
Today, the weather was cool-ish and we (my mom and I) went during feeding/play time. It was probably one of the better zoo experiences I've had recently or ever. There were baby tigers feeding with their mama and NEW! clouded leopards which are extremely rare. The keeper was playing with one of the leopards which acted exactly like a puppy except, you know, lethal. The Polar Bears were pretty frisky and crowds were decently low. I was able to snag a front row view at every habitat.
Rare Clouded Leopards
Leeeeeeeeeeemurs
Fighting Polar Bears. I am an awesome photographer. This was totally planned. . .
I am twelve years old and this is show and tell.
All pictures were taken with my iPhone at the Tacoma Point Defiance Zoo. My last memory of this particular zoo were pretty dim; I think there was construction, the animals were subdued.
Today, the weather was cool-ish and we (my mom and I) went during feeding/play time. It was probably one of the better zoo experiences I've had recently or ever. There were baby tigers feeding with their mama and NEW! clouded leopards which are extremely rare. The keeper was playing with one of the leopards which acted exactly like a puppy except, you know, lethal. The Polar Bears were pretty frisky and crowds were decently low. I was able to snag a front row view at every habitat.
Friday, August 20, 2010
Thursday, August 19, 2010
speaking of saving money
Ok, so, even though I'm making more money this summer and spending less than I originally budgeted I'm still all about a good coupon.
I introduce: GROUPONS!
I got $50 dollars worth of GAP clothing for TWENTY-FIVE bucks, yo.
The deals range from Zoo memberships to cheap-as-heck haircuts. Just recently a top-salon featured a haircut and styling for on 30 bucks. They have everything from restaurants to bars to mani-pedi packages.
It's sweet, really. I hear-by recommend.
I introduce: GROUPONS!
I got $50 dollars worth of GAP clothing for TWENTY-FIVE bucks, yo.
The deals range from Zoo memberships to cheap-as-heck haircuts. Just recently a top-salon featured a haircut and styling for on 30 bucks. They have everything from restaurants to bars to mani-pedi packages.
It's sweet, really. I hear-by recommend.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Rent the Runway, juice cleanses . . . wait, what??
Two things that are absolutely girly of me:
1)I'm starting a Juice Cleanse similar to the BluePrint Cleanse lauded by all celebrities except that I'll be making and/or buying all my own juices rather than having a company ship me my menu. I've already started by eliminating caffeine, albeit slowly, avoiding meat and eating more veggies. I'm only going to do it for 3 days, days during which I won't be working because I'm little worried that the all liquid diet will leave me a little weak-kneed.
I'm excited because I've been filling up on crap - working at a sausage restaurant will do that for you - and I've been feeling sick for awhile. Hopefully, I can stick with it.
2)OMG! I'm in LOVE with Rent the Runway. For serious, it's about the coolest thing I've ever heard of. Girls, you can get thousand dollar dresses for a simple rental fee of 100 dollars. You get the dress for 4 days, you can spill wine; stick the zipper; lose a jewel from the fabric - no harm, no foul! It's perfect for those weddings, high school reunions or meeting-the-parents situations where you want to look on-of-a-kind snazzy but don't or, these days, can't drop the cash. WELL worth signing up, even just to window shop all the gorgeous designs.
Check it out!
It's strange for me to find this inner-girl, but refreshing too. My inner mean-steak has been peaking a lot lately so I'm hoping the cleanse plus this opportunity to save money are going to help me calm down, and get nice again. Not that I was very nice to begin with, but you know. If wishes were kisses...
1)I'm starting a Juice Cleanse similar to the BluePrint Cleanse lauded by all celebrities except that I'll be making and/or buying all my own juices rather than having a company ship me my menu. I've already started by eliminating caffeine, albeit slowly, avoiding meat and eating more veggies. I'm only going to do it for 3 days, days during which I won't be working because I'm little worried that the all liquid diet will leave me a little weak-kneed.
I'm excited because I've been filling up on crap - working at a sausage restaurant will do that for you - and I've been feeling sick for awhile. Hopefully, I can stick with it.
2)OMG! I'm in LOVE with Rent the Runway. For serious, it's about the coolest thing I've ever heard of. Girls, you can get thousand dollar dresses for a simple rental fee of 100 dollars. You get the dress for 4 days, you can spill wine; stick the zipper; lose a jewel from the fabric - no harm, no foul! It's perfect for those weddings, high school reunions or meeting-the-parents situations where you want to look on-of-a-kind snazzy but don't or, these days, can't drop the cash. WELL worth signing up, even just to window shop all the gorgeous designs.
Check it out!
It's strange for me to find this inner-girl, but refreshing too. My inner mean-steak has been peaking a lot lately so I'm hoping the cleanse plus this opportunity to save money are going to help me calm down, and get nice again. Not that I was very nice to begin with, but you know. If wishes were kisses...
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
pick-me-up
So. Yo. I had a bad day. BUT then MTV lovingly provided me with a rerun of Real World: New Orleans.
The scene: A street in front of their house, late evening.
RW Boy 1: Did you put my toothbrush in the toilet?
RW Boy 2: Oh, yeah, I totally did that. (And, I'm not kidding. He actually KNOWINGLY used the other guys toothbrush to clean the toilet - like that's not psychopathic.)
(Fighting obviously ensues. Let it be known that this fighting was pretty lame by MTV standards.)
RW girl: Guys, this is embarrassing.
Boys continue fighting.
RW girl cont.: There are people filming from that balcony. Do you want this caught on camera?
She strikes a chord. Boys suddenly stop fighting.
Obviously, they don't want this on YouTube. HD ONLY, bitches.
I mean. Does anyone else find it hilarious that a reality star (DURING the taping of THEIR reality show) is worried about being "caught" on camera???? Seriously.
The scene: A street in front of their house, late evening.
RW Boy 1: Did you put my toothbrush in the toilet?
RW Boy 2: Oh, yeah, I totally did that. (And, I'm not kidding. He actually KNOWINGLY used the other guys toothbrush to clean the toilet - like that's not psychopathic.)
(Fighting obviously ensues. Let it be known that this fighting was pretty lame by MTV standards.)
RW girl: Guys, this is embarrassing.
Boys continue fighting.
RW girl cont.: There are people filming from that balcony. Do you want this caught on camera?
She strikes a chord. Boys suddenly stop fighting.
Obviously, they don't want this on YouTube. HD ONLY, bitches.
I mean. Does anyone else find it hilarious that a reality star (DURING the taping of THEIR reality show) is worried about being "caught" on camera???? Seriously.
Friday, August 6, 2010
Children's Books
I was having one of those tangent conversations the other day - you know the kind where you start in one alley and then all of a sudden you're on 5th avenue and then your back at the alley but not before you make fifteen stops along the way. Does this make sense? I mean, we just kept talking and it was very meander-y.
Somehow, a memory of a mouse who was a dentist and who helped a fox and didn't he remember? I mean, he had to remember? Except, he didn't and I'm talking about Dr. De Soto!
The conversation took a sharp left from there and we started talking about our favorite children's stories and I remembered the one about the donkey and the rock and then he turns into a rock and I'm talking about Sylvester and the Magic Pebble! Which, he also didn't remember.
Then, you must remember the one about the monsters and their ugly, ugly island and the pretty, pretty flower? Well, he didn't. And, I was so indignant! So, I googled the last one (whose title I couldn't remember) and then, and then, and then: Rotten Island!!!
A few more right turns later and I realized all those books which meant so much to me as a child - so much, that I was happy to snap and snarl at my friend for never having read them - all those books? Were written by the same man.
William Steig.
He also created Shrek.
I mean, seriously.
Somehow, a memory of a mouse who was a dentist and who helped a fox and didn't he remember? I mean, he had to remember? Except, he didn't and I'm talking about Dr. De Soto!
The conversation took a sharp left from there and we started talking about our favorite children's stories and I remembered the one about the donkey and the rock and then he turns into a rock and I'm talking about Sylvester and the Magic Pebble! Which, he also didn't remember.
Then, you must remember the one about the monsters and their ugly, ugly island and the pretty, pretty flower? Well, he didn't. And, I was so indignant! So, I googled the last one (whose title I couldn't remember) and then, and then, and then: Rotten Island!!!
A few more right turns later and I realized all those books which meant so much to me as a child - so much, that I was happy to snap and snarl at my friend for never having read them - all those books? Were written by the same man.
William Steig.
He also created Shrek.
I mean, seriously.
Sunday, August 1, 2010
hipster-shmipster
I'm suffering through an insufferable HGTV obsession which inevitably leads me to online design websites such as: design*sponge or apartment therapy and this last one lead me on a tangent to nameberry. And all this combined got me thinking about all the things that hipsters have ruined for me.
Cool Baby Names
See: Hugo, Oliver, Lola, Theo, and Roman
Bicycles, leggings, FLANNEL, The Decemberists, etc., etc., etc..
Hipster, I think, has become the new WASP with all the negative connotations.
However, damn the man. Be I ever pregnant, I will happily raise my kids, Hugo and Lola, while wearing flannel and jamming to the Decemberists. I will live in my converted industrial-style loft with my hodge-podge coffee mugs and my vintage art and I will be happy, damn it.
Also, I want to live here:
(click here: Arielle's Carnevale House for a tour via apartment therapy).
Cool Baby Names
See: Hugo, Oliver, Lola, Theo, and Roman
Bicycles, leggings, FLANNEL, The Decemberists, etc., etc., etc..
Hipster, I think, has become the new WASP with all the negative connotations.
However, damn the man. Be I ever pregnant, I will happily raise my kids, Hugo and Lola, while wearing flannel and jamming to the Decemberists. I will live in my converted industrial-style loft with my hodge-podge coffee mugs and my vintage art and I will be happy, damn it.
Also, I want to live here:
(click here: Arielle's Carnevale House for a tour via apartment therapy).
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