Candy says I've come to hate my body...

Love using song lyrics as my post titles, btw. Just sayin.

So not the best day on the weight loss front. Still trying to find new running shoes. Just taking far longer than I thought. Went to Sports Authority tonight on the way home. Who knew they didn't carry Reebok? WTF? But I did find a pair of Saucony that I really liked. Too bad they lacked them in my size. Lol. Maybe I'll try to hit Lady Footlocker in the next few days to see what they have. Watched my food intake as best I could today. I found a new breakfast item that I really like: Vitatops. So far I've tried the banana nut and the cran-bran flavors. Very yummy and healthy. I've been eating them with turkey sausage links. I gotta have the protien with breakfast and I can get the pre-cooked links and just microwave them in the morning. Don't even realize it's turkey sausage by the taste so that's good. And started my H2O push. Can't drink just straight water all day so I started with some iced tea, sweetened with Equal, and then had 64 ounces of water. Pretty proud of myself for that. Just hope I can maintain it and remember to drink the water on the weekends. That's when I'm really bad about it.

School picks back up Monday so I'm going to get my books in the morning before work. Western Humanities, American Government, and Health Care Ethics. Gonna be a heavy load but I'm trying to knock out all of my GenEd in the next two semesters so that once I start nursing school, all I have to do are core classes. Speaking of which, submitted my nursing school application today. Deadline is March 31 but I'm hoping I'll either get a response faster this way or at least get points for being early. Now I get to play the waiting game.

Welcome to the jungle...

A brand new year. Brand new resolutions. Except none of them are all that new. I think I've made all of them repeatedly over the last few years. But I actually wanna keep them this year. So here goes the list.

• Lose some weight and get back into shape. I know I'll never be a size two again. Or a size six, for that matter. But I don't like the number on the scale or how my clothes are fitting. I currently weigh 170 pounds. Which I don't like. But I've already started eating less and as soon as I can find some new running shoes I'm gonna get back to working out. (The old ones make my ankles and knees hurt.) I'm gonna get back into shape. And get back into my cute clothes. It's gonna be easier for me to find an outfit for next New Year's Eve, cause I'll be able to be on the lookout for smaller sizes.
• Save more money. I've actually already started on this one with an automatic transfer every week to a savings account that is not linked to checking (too easy to swap it back). Started this one last May and it was great to have money already set aside for Christmas gifts and not have to scramble to figure out how I was gonna pay for everything. Hopefully this goal will also lead to me getting out of debt. Damn appendix. Hospital bills suck.
• Explore this awesome state. I've lived here for 13 years and there's so much of it I've never seen. I plan on seeing it and taking my little man with me.
• Take a vacation. I've never taken my son on a vacation without my parents. And that was only once. He's six, for crying out loud. We're going somewhere. Just gotta figure out where.
• Get into nursing school. My application goes in on the fourth of January. Which should lead to me starting in August. Not really a resolution I can do much to keep, besides sending in my app. But I wanted it in writing. :)
• Become more organized. I would love to be able to know how much money I have to spend on groceries without having to check my balance online. I'd also love to be able to find my black heels without having to search or grab my jacket without having to check in fifteen different places cause I'm not sure where I left it. I'm a mess.

So there it is. Hopefully my blueprint for 2010. One can pray, at any rate. Oh and I'm gonna be nicer to those around me...and myself. Somehow I think the first part of that is bound to be easier than the second. Wish me luck, cause here I go!!!