Kick Up Your Heels~It's FRIDAY!!

As usual, I'm estatic about Friday. No surprise there. Today I'm especially so, and extra impatient for five o'clock, because I am going to see KISS tomorrow!! This is kind of my middle school fantasy concert come true! I've probably told this story before on my blog, in middle school/early high school I used to babysit two little boys (brothers). When they went to sleep there was NOTHING to do so I would sit in the kitchen waiting on their Mom and listen to the Classic Rock radio station. I would read their mom's Cosmopolitans and other big girl mags. That began my love of Classic Rock, and although I stray from it, or forget it sometimes, I always come back to it.

I've never seen KISS before, but from what I hear they put on a great show! I am looking forward to it so much and will post pics.

This is Trinket this week.


I am STILL 150 pounds and wearing dresses to work because all my pants, and especially jeans, are tight. BUMMER! :-( I'm keeping up with the gym (and attemping to eat better) so hopefully soon I'll see some results. Getting back down to 145 or 140 would make me so happy right now.

Have a fabulous weekend!!
XOXO
Gamecock Queen

p.s. As promised, here are the pics of the Pirate Birthday Party we attended last weekend. If you can't tell, I was DESPERATE, just DYING, to get away from the guy I'm talking to here! I was thinking "HOW can I escape and get you to leave us alone?!" LOL

Product Recommendation {Zzzz}

I used to post about products on a {semi}regular basis. Like most girlie girls, I love my products! And probably have WAY too many of them - if you saw my bathroom you would agree. Anyways, I'm going to attempt to bring back product reviews and recommendations to my blogging.

My BFF/roommate A introduced my to this stuff. It is Bath and Body Works Warm Milk and Honey Pillow Mist. I don't know for a fact that the actual smell really puts you to sleep, but I love the scent and I think since I think it works it's somewhat effective. I guess what I'm saying is I'm not promising this is going to cure hardcore insomnia (which I've suffered from off and on since I was about 14), but on a good night you will enjoy falling asleep to this light scent. I spray my pillows and the pink pig stuffed animal I sleep with. Yes, I'm 26 and I sleep with a stuffed animal. When I used to travel for my old job I had MAJOR sleep issues and began traveling with a collection anything and everything that could be of aid in helping me sleep...Advil PM (I take the gel caps), a white noise machine (which I no longer use-it broke and was on the pricey side so now I just keep a fan on for white noise), a sleep mask, and my stuffed animal. Juvenile, I know, but I liked having something familiar in my hotel room.
I have to admit, when I am able to get quality sleep, it's like a sport or hobby to me. I really love it. That may sound really lazy but when you've struggled with as insomnia as much I have, you enjoy it when you can get it.
Zzz...Zzz...Zzz
Gamecock Queen

FAT Friday :-(

This summer I've taken it easy. I've been enjoying the occasional "adult beverage" at the pool, going out to eat a lot (esp. fast food on my lunch break - w/ an hour for lunch it's hard to do much else), and buying TONS of yummy groceries (read: junk food) from my local Piggly Wiggly.

My body has always been pretty forgiving of eating bad. However, I've ususally only done "cheat days" and haven't eaten poorly ALL the time. Until lately. I don't know what has come over me!

I got on the scale on Sunday and I was HORRIFIED! I will be totally honest and tell you that my scale was at 150! That is the MOST I have EVER weighed. I knew something was up because my clothing has been tight, but I thought maybe I was bloated. Not so. This is ALL from food!

In my tip top best shape I weigh 135. That is IMPOSSIBLE to maintain and I don't have to look like that to feel good. It was from following a VERY strict diet and was when I was doing pageants. I can be happy without being that small, although let me tell you, it felt like a million dollars.

I'm 5'10", but I'm small boned. I'm good with weighing 140. I feel great and my clothes fit great. I can deal with being 145. BUT this 150 pounds has GOT to go!

So, after Sunday (I had already been to Sonic) I have had NO fast food. I've brought my lunch from home (a turkey sandwich most days) and have kept snacks in my office so I don't become starving and pig out. I've had dinner at home every night as well. And I plan to keep up the eating at home instead of going out.

I've also recharged my gym workouts. This week I did:
Monday: 30 minutes of cardio (treadmill) + some machines (legs)
Tuesday: Spinning class (I died!)
Wednesday: Yoga
Thursday: Body Pump (a weight lifting class)
Friday: Today after work I'm doing JUST cardio....I plan on about 45 minutes.
Saturday: OFF - letting muscles rest
Sunday: Cardio (they are playing Beverly Hills Chihuahua in the cardio cinema at my gym-perfect motiviation to go!)

Last Halloween I was a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader for Halloween and I was in pretty good shape! I was going to spinning classes a good bit then. I felt like I rocked the belly baring Cowboy Cheerleader uniform. Right now I feel bad wearing my two piece at the pool :-( This seems like it's happened overnight, and I am going to put a stop to it!

If I can just lose 5 pounds and be at 145 I'll stop freaking out and be happy. Anywhere in between 140 and 145 is good for me weight wise and my clothes won't feel like they are cutting my circulatioin off.

What's a post with no picture? This is us in Helen, GA last weekend. I was NOT on a diet then...we had fries, a funnel cake, a candy apple, and fudge! It was oh so good.

Hope everyone has a terrific weekend! We are going to a pirate theme party and wearing costumes so I'll post some pics.

XOXO
Gamecock Queen

My Weekly Blogger....

OK so I haven't been on here in a week! Except for to read a blog or two here or there when I've caught a spare second, I just haven't had the time. Right now is an EXTREMELY busy time for me at work as all the students are about to come back. Today I'm trying my very hardest to get caught up-there is nothing, NOTHING, I hate more than having to leave something sitting over the weekend for Monday morning. Yuck.

I'm SO excited for this weekend. To say I'm overexcited is an understatement. This weekend A and I are going to Helen, GA. There is an adorable little Alpine Village there we will be visiting. It's a little hokey and touristy, but we are going to embrace it. It has all the usual stuff-county fair stuff, crafts, homemade candles, homemade fudge and candy. We will also be tubing the Chattahoochie River. I can't wait!

This would be the river Deliverance takes place on. I'm not a big fan of the movie (and it seems like it's always on TV), but I did like the book. The book is very suspenseful and I thought it was better than the movie. James Dickey, who wrote Deliverance was a professor at the university I attended.

Everytime I say that we're going to be tubing the Chattahoochie River I start singing Alan Jackson in my head "Way down yonder on the Chattahoochie....."

Here are a few pics of Helen, GA. I've been once before, with my Mom and her AWFUL boyfriend, Claude. He was truly terrible and we are still laughing about him. When we went before it was about 1993 but I remember it pretty well.



Hope everyone has a fabulous weekend!!
XOXO
F

Can You Handle This Much Cuteness?!

This is my BABY, Trinket! THE LOVE OF MY LIFE! I love this "Little Monkey" so much! She is easy going, loves to ride in the car, loves to take naps, go for walks, and is easy to travel with! Somehow she is both high maintenance and low maintenance at the same time, if that even makes a lick of sense. I just really feel that she and I were made for each other.

I have ants in my pants to get out of the office right now! BUT, doesn't everyone ALWAYS feel that way? Espeically on a beautiful sunny Friday afternoon? I think I just have ants in my pants in general. I'm ready to take a trip or something. OK, I have one more hour until 5:00. Hopefully I can make it that long.

XOXO
Gamecock Queen