Showing posts with label Snark. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Snark. Show all posts
Monday, October 1, 2012
In:
Alltheweigh.com
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Elmo the Cat
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FMM
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Friend Making Monday
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Mom's Wisdom
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Snark
FMM: Uniquely You
Uniquely You
1) Do you prefer to talk or text? Seriously it
depends on the person, for example….if it’s my mom defiantly talk. I can be
texting her for 30 minutes and call her and she will ask me exactly what we
texted about… better to save my fingers and simply call her. And let’s be
honest there are people that everyone prefers to text cause if you call them
(and they pick up) you will be on the phone with them for hours talking about
everything from their toe fungus to what they ate for lunch two weeks ago
2) How often do you make your bed? I make my
bed every day. I have to. My room might be a mess, but at the end of every day
I know that I will come home to a nicely made bed with a hint of Lavender Vanilla
spray (try it people…. its amaze-balls!!)
3) What sounds do you hear right now? My cat
Elmo snoring … he’s sleeping peacefully while he demanded that I wake up and
feed him
4) List three things that you always carry with you. Phone,
wallet and a bottle of water… I will start to panic if I don’t have any of
those things with me
5) What are your favorite TV shows? Really? And
easier question is “Tyra, what don’t you watch?”... pretty much anything on CBS
except Big Brother (I don’t specifically have an issue with CBS as a network…
but I never forgave them for passing up on Ringer and placing it on the CW where it died a
cruel and painful death…I think it would have done a lot better on CBS….I take
my TV VERY seriously)
6) Is there a hobby that you’d like to devote more time
to? If so, what is it? I really want to get back into cross-stitch, it’s
so relaxing but it’s time consuming because I really need to focus on just that
which means, computers and TV have to be off
7) What is your favorite drink? I am strangely addicted to Crystal light,
when I gave up coffee and soda CL became my go-to drink...I go to my mom’s
house and drink up all of hers, them come home and make my own… I don’t make
like a little water bottle… oh no! I will make gallons...
8) Share
a couple of cool facts about your family. Apparently my
mother holds a patent for a specific kind of liner used in caskets…
9) List one thing that you will do for yourself today. I
will continue to dedicate myself to being healthy and losing weight
Thursday, August 30, 2012
In:
5 things....
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Dance
,
Snark
Dance Like Nobody is Watching!
Everyday I'm feeling better and stronger, but not quiet feeling like I'm ready to go back to my regular exercise regime. So I'm dancing... I LOVE to dance (when no one is watching me), so I thought that I would post the 5 songs that are the top five rotation in my dance play list...
1. My friend Marie and I were talking on Facebook about our mutual love of K-Dramas,. And she sent my this YouTube link. At first I thought it was a joke, I have NEVER laughed as hard as I did watching a video..there is a lot of questionable things in it (I'm just gonna say it's a cultural thing) But the truth is this song is super catchy, and I even know some of the words, although I'm not sure what I'm saying... AND I know the dance...I dare you not to watch this video at least twice...
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
In:
5 things....
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Blue Team
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Food
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Learning along the way
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Mom's Wisdom
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My Fitness Pal
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Snark
,
Transplant
,
Wisdom
Expect the Unexpected
Last week Tuesday I went into the hospital to
have an ERCP and have a stint placed in my bile
duct. By all accounts I knew this was gonna block out an entire day for me and
probably the day after. Who knew that an hour long procedure was gonna land me
in the hospital with severe pancreatitis. I always
tell people if there is a side effect, Tyra will get it... no
exceptions.
Fast forward to a week later, I'm out of the hospital but still
suffering from pancreatitis. Tramadol and Hydrocodone have become my very
best friends. Needless to say, exercise has been the very last thing
that I want to do. I have been trying to walk... but I can only do .5 mile
before my stomach starts to hurt (and that really wears me out).
5 Things I Realized While in the Hospital
1.
Nurses love me - Seriously they do, and I'll tell you why. After
having two transplant and various other transplant related problems,
I consider myself to be a seasoned patient... a professional if you
will I don't call them, I don't bother them, and most
importantly I remember that they are human, who have flaws and who work a very
difficult job and the last thing they want to deal with is a patient who is
annoying and crabby. As a patient I only want to do one thing... take my pain
meds and go to sleep, okay so that was two; now if only the person that I
shared the room gotten that memo. (This was the first time that I've ever had a
hospital room mate so it was an adjustment for me too) My last hospital stay
would have been much more pleasant. Not only did she annoy her nurses, she
annoyed the nurse techs, the front desk people, the dietary folks, me
I think she might have even annoyed my mother. Let me give you an example: if
she need the nurse she would press the call button and ask for the nurse if she
didn't come in two minutes she would call again... then again if she didn't
show up... finally she would get up and go the nurses’ station and make a stink
about it... she did this several times a day... thank goodness I had my iPod.
2.
I
love my family - My mom
came and say me every day after work and we would have dinner together... okay
I wasn't allowed to eat, so she would eat and I would sip water..AND she
brought me panties...I don't know about you all but this was not a
planned hospitalization, so I had nothing but what I came in with, so I
was ever so grateful when she came with a brand new package of panties. My
(sort-of) step-dad was awesome as well, he threatened to come and break
me out of the hospital..when I started complaining about missing my cat.
3.
They
have some premo drugs at the hospital - Self explanatory!!
4.
I
missed the inter webs - Since my phone was dead and I didn't get my
charger until the day I was discharged I wasn't about to get online.
Which meant that I wasn't able to log into MyfitnessPal and
after my streak of logging into for over 350 days in a row, I had to start
over. Also I missed all of the awesomeness that was going on over at the Blue
Team. Sunshine made me this for me... I love it!
5.
Clearly
I am hilarious when I'm high on pain medication - Apparently I told my doctor right when they
gave me medication before my procedure that I needed more knock-out drugs than
the average person cause I'm a ninja.... You heard it here first peeps..I'm a
bloody ninja! I took this picture while on some heavy duty medication... so
clearly my wicked sense of humor is still here
Saturday, June 16, 2012
In:
Accountability
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Blue Team
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Everybody Changes
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motivation
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My Fitness Pal
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NSV
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Nutritional values
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Snark
,
Transplant
Almost a year later
Since I'm not able to lift anything or exercise I figured I would revisit my blog and apparently I haven't blogged since February... geez... I've been a busy girl... okay maybe not so busy....but LOTS of life changes. So let's take it slow....
SPRING (Feb, Mar, Apr)
This past spring, something snapped in me, I don't know what it was but for the first time I wanted to de-clutter my life and my body.... got rid of people in my life who really just negative and non supportive. It's always a difficult decisions, but one that I haven't regretted yet. This made me more determined to lose weight and get "me" back.... It was also during this time that I learned about my arch enemy.... my arms...but I can't complain... things are shrinking... and I'm happy about it!
SUMMER (May, Jun....)
My mother thinks I'm starving myself, she hasn't come out and say it... but she thinks I don't eat enough food...for the record my base caloric intake is 1310 (more when I exercise,but I am almost always under no more than 200-300 calories) Every time I go over, she tries to feed me...I have to remind her that I do eat cookies, I do have ice cream...I do eat food. But I just make sure that it stays in my range... she continues to look at my like I've starving. Then I took this picture and she damn near lost her mind and determined I was too skinny (notice my arch enemy the hanging arm flab)... clearly she hasn't looked at the scale.
I brought a dress... that's not all that odd...but this dress doesn't have layers or an empire waist to hide the belly fat ... it straight up and down and it shows everything and I brought it!!
Right before my birthday I went shopping for new bras... my boobs are completely unrecognizable they've gone from a 42DD to a 38C...I miss my boobs, and I fear if I continue to lose breast fat at this rate, I'll be a A when this journey is done... Fair readers please pray for my breasts (I can almost guarantee no one has asked for a prayer like that)
But the best part is my BIRTHDAY!! I turned 35 (and to be honest I totally don't think I look 35!)
So many positive and wonderful, and some sad things have happened since the last time I had an entry...but once thing that hasn't changed I remain committed and WILL reach my goal!
Almost a year since I decided to lose weight, and I'm half way there, * feeling positive and excited about the next half of my journey!
* So whenever I tell people how much weight I want to lose they look at me like I've lost my mind. My goal has always been to get healthy... not to get skinny...
Until next time ....
This past spring, something snapped in me, I don't know what it was but for the first time I wanted to de-clutter my life and my body.... got rid of people in my life who really just negative and non supportive. It's always a difficult decisions, but one that I haven't regretted yet. This made me more determined to lose weight and get "me" back.... It was also during this time that I learned about my arch enemy.... my arms...but I can't complain... things are shrinking... and I'm happy about it!
 |
| flabby arms |
My mother thinks I'm starving myself, she hasn't come out and say it... but she thinks I don't eat enough food...for the record my base caloric intake is 1310 (more when I exercise,but I am almost always under no more than 200-300 calories) Every time I go over, she tries to feed me...I have to remind her that I do eat cookies, I do have ice cream...I do eat food. But I just make sure that it stays in my range... she continues to look at my like I've starving. Then I took this picture and she damn near lost her mind and determined I was too skinny (notice my arch enemy the hanging arm flab)... clearly she hasn't looked at the scale.
I brought a dress... that's not all that odd...but this dress doesn't have layers or an empire waist to hide the belly fat ... it straight up and down and it shows everything and I brought it!!Right before my birthday I went shopping for new bras... my boobs are completely unrecognizable they've gone from a 42DD to a 38C...I miss my boobs, and I fear if I continue to lose breast fat at this rate, I'll be a A when this journey is done... Fair readers please pray for my breasts (I can almost guarantee no one has asked for a prayer like that)
But the best part is my BIRTHDAY!! I turned 35 (and to be honest I totally don't think I look 35!)
So many positive and wonderful, and some sad things have happened since the last time I had an entry...but once thing that hasn't changed I remain committed and WILL reach my goal!
 |
| almost half there! |
Almost a year since I decided to lose weight, and I'm half way there, * feeling positive and excited about the next half of my journey!
* So whenever I tell people how much weight I want to lose they look at me like I've lost my mind. My goal has always been to get healthy... not to get skinny...
Until next time ....
