Looking Up

Hello Readers, 

You might be wondering why my blog looks a lot different... Well clearly I have decided to change it. I have been wanting to change it for awhile now, and found myself getting bored with the "dynamic view" templates. I wanted to find something a little less busy. I was browsing around and found this- a simple style with a picture at the top. I might change the picture occassionally depending on how I feel, but for now here it is! The new (and hopefully improve) I like boring things!

picture taken from Everyday Elsie

And yes I chose this as my blog name because Andy Warhol is one of my favorite artists.

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Onescore and Two Years

This past Thursday I celebrated my 22nd birthday. It was also Christopher's birthday (he turned 18). Although my day was pretty low-key I wanted to share a few pictures and what I did that day.

I started off the morning by heading to Ludlow Central Bakery with my Mom. Since we both have been dieting strictly and decided to take the day off you better believe we nearly drooled on their display cases! 

 I ended up picking a pastry roughly the size of my head! (Don't worry I couldn't eat it all!) 

After that we drove in the car to downtown West Sringfield so I could get my TB skin test done (shout out to education majors). They checked it and lucky me I am TB free! 

We drove out to a credit union in CT next (I know, I know this story is really exciting; doctor's office and credit union, what could possibly be next?!)

On our long drive out and back I spotted a sign for German Shepherd puppies. Christopher has been asking if we can get a german shepherd so for his "present" I sent him a picture of this sign. (I am broke right now lol) 

Once we arrived home we hade a delicious lunch of Turkey Club sandwiches and watched an episode of 24 (a TV show my mom, chris, and I watch). 

After lunch we headed to the mall to do some birthday shopping. We both had a little leftover birthday money that my parents weren't sure what to get, so I ended up picking out a new pair of running shoes! Which I love dearly! 

Later we went out to dinner at Olive Garden, and I ordered way too much food, that again I couldn't finish (lucky Chris who ate my leftovers)! 

We came home and opened presents even with Gabby watching on Skype. I got some really nice presents and my mom was kind enough to let me shop with her and pick stuff out that I wanted. 

My birthday gifts included: 

Earrings and a necklace to go with my bridesmaid dress

Shoes that compliment the dress and jewlery

New running shoes

 Grey lace dress from forever 21

Antique sewing basket stocked with teacher supplies from gabby

and $20 Khol's cash from chris: which I put towards purchasing a professional "teacher bag" 

I loved all my gifts and the lovely FB messages or texts and calls from family and friends wishing me a happy birthday! 

We had ice cream cake after and played some board games! 

The ice cream cake included: oreo cookie crust, moose tracks ice cream, a layer of hot fugdge, peanuts, peanut butter, and whip cream, topped off with broken up reese's cups and sprinkles! Yumm! It tasted like heaven in a piece of cake!

I had a lovely relaxing day, although I can't believe I am 22. It sounds much older than 21. I feel like the past few years since 18 have just raced by. I wonder what the next 5 years might hold for me. Aside from the rest of this year I have no clear future plans. I am exploring lots of options and have no idea what direction life might take me. But for now I am gonna focus on taking it one day at a time. 

Thank you to everyone who has loved or cared about me at any point in my life. You have helped shape me into the young woman I am today, and I only hope I can inspire and share love with people as much as I have been blessed with in my life. 

<3 Have a great day everyone! 

Diet Update

Hello Fellow Dieters and friends...
Sorry I haven't been posting diligently about my diet, I figured a quick update would do well!

Diet: I am about a week in to cycle 2. I had been doing good with not cheating at all, but honestly a few days I took off from my diet. A special trip I made to Utica, my birthday, and Father's day observed. I am maing pretty good progress, however I haven't gotten on the scale in a few days :) but I am hopeful.

My latest weight: 177.6 (about 10lbs lost!)
I can't find the sheet with my updated measurments, but I lost a little bit most places, but not my waist :/ oh well. I am a work in progress.

In my exercising I am in "week 3" of the C25K program. It is going well. I was starting to have severe joint pain from running last week, but got new shoes for my birthday and the problem has greatly decreased already!

Comment on this post and let me know how your diets are going!

*Also if anyone wants I can do more posts about diet recipies or other things I am doing. Let me know if there is any desire for this*

B is for Band

About a week ago I got a text from Evan, a guy I am working with this summer asking me if I wanted to sing in a gig with him. It was all music I am learning for camp so I said sure. I showed up to practice and met a few other people: a violinsit/singer, another female singer, and a drummer, plus Evan on Guitar. We spent an hour and a half jamming out and practicing. The next night we showed up at the Elevns, the club we were playing at. We ended up going on an hour later than expected, and the show wasn't perfect but I had a lot of fun and got a bit of cash for it. It does sound a little strange playing camp music at a club, but the style is really folk-like and really just fun to sing and listen to. There were even a few people who came who are diehard Shiprockers. (fans of shiprock and anchordog project).

Either way it was the first time I had performed in any venue like that and I really enjoyed it. Not to mention collaborating with other local musicians here was really fun. I hope I can jam with them all again! Not to mention it was cool to get a "B" on my hand for Band instead of an "X" :)

Meowza!

So let's talk about how I am a terrible blogger lately and haven't posted anything! You are about to get a bunch of posts about so many things! First things first: Cats.

We have 3 cats, and I have found myself spending a lot of time with them. They are all super cute, but don't really get along with eachother :( We are trying to get the 2 newer cats to be nice to our older one.  For a better take on what is going on with them read my mom's really funny post about Cat Survivor!

They all have cute moments though! 

 Maggie

 Macey

 Marilyn

Sometimes these cuties make it hard to get things done :) 

Have a cat-astrophically wonderful day!