Back on track

Hey everyone! After failing miserably with my time management the other day, I am proud to say I am back on track! I managed to finish all of my work without pulling all-nighters! Now that school is a bit more under control, I have a bunch of stuff to get caught up on, like cleaning and organizing my apartment (my mom so graciously did all of my laundry for me when I went home, and I have yet to put it away, AH!) and also fun wedding decisions (like the DJ and table runners, and on and on). Anyways, last night I posted on my facebook status of how hard being in a military relationship is, and I had a bunch of friends with significant others in the services "like" it. Seriously, if you haven't ever experienced being apart and out of touch, it is truly difficult to maintain a functional relationship. I am so happy to have such an amazing man by my side to spend the rest of my life with, and lord knows I miss him like crazy when he is gone! But somehow, even when he is out busy playing Army, he manages to remind me how much he loves me, and for that I am truly grateful. So to all my sisters and brothers in arms, thanks for being amazing! Ok, so on to to other things... below ya can see my outfit for the day and the workout we did this morning at PT. Hope ya'll have a great day!

Feb 1st, 2012 (holy cow it's February already!)

Workout-- This morning we did a circuit workout comprising of 5 different stations for 6 minutes each.... it was pretty killer! We did pullups (dime drill consisting of 5 regular, 5 chin ups,10 with reverse grips, 5 feet to bars; then sets of 5 regular pullups and 20 leg lifts....I couldn't do all of those without some help or modification though), overhead arm claps, partner assisted military presses, partner resistance pushups, regular pushups, ran multiple flights of stairs, box jumps and dips, and then 6 minutes of abs (crunches, side crunches, situps, mason twists, flutter kicks, 6 inches). To finish up we did 1 minute of situps/pushups/mountain climbers as an entire company! I was smoked by the end!

Outfit-- I have a presentation for my class today and thought about wearing a dress, but decided I was much more comfortable in jeans. I got this shirt and hadn't wore it yet, so decided today was a good day to! I really like pairing black and brown together too, and this shirt has a slightly lacey look to it, so I thought boots would be a good touch. Paired with my MK watch, a pearl necklace, and white stud earrings :)

Wedding-- I am thinking about booking our honeymoon for St Lucia and staying at the Sandals resort....I really want to wait to see what Casey thinks, but I am afraid rooms might be booked if we wait till March, and luckily they have a fully refundable deposit up to 2 months before your trip, so I feel like its a good idea. But, who knows, maybe I will just wait and if its available then its a sign! I also plan on booking the DJ this week.

Distance-- SUCKS. which goes hand in hand with Complaints-- I have really been failing here. I should stop complaining about missing Case and instead remember how lucky I am to have someone to miss.

OK lovelies... that's all for today. Until next time,"Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive, that is youer than YOU!" ~Dr. Seuss 

PS: a friend posted this on Facebook and I wanted to share...military members can get free calls via google voice! Got to remember this when Casey deploys! Click here for all the info!

Time Management FAIL

Hey ya'll! So I'm still super swamped with school work, and I guess I am having a bit of a time management issue. I have 3 papers and a 30 minute project due by tomorrow and this is how my day went yesterday--

Wake up for PT at 5:45am, read before PT at 6:30am, workout till 7:30am (see workout below)

Breakfast out (woops, so much for not eating out as much) at Panera till 8:30am with Allison

Come home, shower, and play on facebook and pinterest till 9:30am

Research and write my paper for a good hour or so, then take an hour to two hour break with wedding stuff, oh and be sure to check facebook and pinterest!....Repeat for the next 6 hours! FAIL!

As you can tell.. I only finished one paper and got about 10% of my big paper done! BUT I did create and order my save the date cards, buy my plane ticket to see Case over spring break, and research wedding DJs! Hahaha. Next time I better work a bit more on managing my time better! Anyways, a quick summary of my workout yesterday, and today's hopeful workout plans is below. Have a fantastic day!

30 Jan 2012

Workout-- Run about 2.5-3 miles at a pretty slow pace (30ish mins) over minor baby hills; pushups/situps at the end of the run until we had to end PT...if you are just starting out with running, going slow is 100% OK as long as you DO NOT GIVE UP! As the Army says, just airborne shuffle at least (meaning, keep your legs moving at a slow jogging pace instead of walking). 

31 Jan 2012

(proposed) Workout-- 50 jumping jacks, 5 pushups, 20 crunches, 20 mountain climbers, 30 second plank and 7 burpees; repeat 3 times. I figure this is all I really have time for today with all the school work I have to do! Anything is better than nothing though!

 (Wish I had her body..and her boobs! From fuckyeahfitspo.tumblr.com )

Until next time...you will get out of life what you put into it! Give it all you have!

SWAMPED!

Hi! So I just got back to my apartment and I still have SO much to do for school, but I wanted to post a quick update. I got SO much wedding stuff done this weekend, and I am super excited for how it is all coming together! I also got a very nice surprise with ALL of our engagement photos coming back, and I have to say, I AM STUNNED! They are gorgeous and perfect and I don't know how I am going to pick my favorite(s) for Save the Dates! A quick preview our photographer put together can be seen here. And here are some of the photos I love (though I really love them all!). I think I may do one whole post sometime next week of the photos though :)

All credits for these photos goes to Zelo Photography-- check em out at zelophotoblog.com!

  (A way to incorporate the military without SCREAMING it!)

Hope you enjoy them, and I will be posting as soon as I can :)

Until next time... "you have to be willing to get happy about nothing. -Andy Warhol." Stay smiling and beautiful!

School is getting very tiresome already!

Hello there lovelies! 

I am already slacking with my whole idea of trying to post everyday, but school is getting the best of me right now! While we only just began in the beg of Jan, I already have a ton of stuff due! But, thankfully this is my last semester :) So this entry will be a quick one since I need to do some homework, and I probably wont post again till next week (I am going home to visit my family and get some wedding stuff done, yay!). Anyways, here's how my Wed and Thurs have played out:

Wed Jan 25

Workout-- None; we had PT in the morning except we had to grade the PT test so no workout, and then I had to do some homework before class, and class went till 8pm; after that I ate dinner and it was already time for bed! Gotta make up for this tomorrow..

Outfit-- This was actually a good outfit day for me! I wore a shirt I received from Case's mom for Christmas with jeans, a scarf, and a cute pair of boots... see below-- the back of the shirt was super fun :)

I actually got a ton of compliments on my boots, which was awesome since they were under $10 from Kmart! (I bought them a few years ago though). To top off the look I added some super cute earrings I got from Aldo the other day and my Michael Kors watch. All in all, I think I did a good job on this resolution for 2012 today!

Complaints-- Still upset about the Army stealing Case, but I think I did a better job about not complaining about it!

Thurs 26 Jan

 This got me going today!

Workout-- I went on a 2.4 mile run today on this little loop I mapped out that has some small baby hills thrown in! I'm really glad I did this because I had such a hard time getting motivated... But, once I got out there I thought I would only do about a mile or so since I was feeling so "blah" but after I finished each "lap" of the loop I kept telling myself, "no... no quitting! You will stop when you stop, not when you're tired! You can run more!" So that's what I did, and I actually ran it in a pretty fast time for myself so I'm pretty happy :) 

 This is how I felt today while running!

Uniform today so no cute outfit!

Wedding-- 177 days to go! I found out our engagement photos *should* be done by tomorrow evening, so I am looking forward to seeing those (and posting some here!) and then getting my "save the date" cards sent out! AH!

Not a whole lot to say about today...had class and got fitted for my dress blues (only 90ish days left till commissioning, yay!) and now relaxing and trying to get some work done for both school and the wedding. I'm so excited to go home and see momma and faja and to check out my wedding venue again since its been a while, but I'll need to make sure I stay on top of my resolutions! Hopefully when I blog again next week I'll have lots of good things to say :) Hope you all have a lovely weekend...

Remember that today is just another day to forget yesterday and become the YOU that you have always wanted to be!