My 23rd birthday

My 23rd birthday was yesterday. Monday I had dinner at Tapa the World with both of my beautiful sisters. The food was not good, nor was the service. But Yogurt A Go-Go afterward was. Tuesday I went to my favorite, Chicago Fire, with Rose. And James got me a Wii (!) and vase of tulips.

In my 22nd year, I moved to the neighborhood I've always wanted to live in. I moved in with James, the best guy I could ever ask for. I started my career in the industry I always dreamed of working in. I was promoted twice.

It was a great year. I hope every year gets better.

May/June weight loss

I was supposed to update my weight loss progress (ahem, or rather, weight gain…) at the end of May. However, I didn’t own a scale and my boss took the one that we were using for The Biggest Loser contest home. I was weighing myself at the gym, but I always go after work. You are mistaken if you think I’m going to count my end-of-the-day weight, after eating 2 – 3 meals! That makes a big difference!

So this weekend I finally picked up my own digital scale, which tells me I’ve gained 1 pound since the end of April. That’s not as bad as it could be, but still crappy. I’ve been working a little more, causing me to miss my kickboxing class. To make it, I have to leave right at 5:00. And if I can’t go to kickboxing, I sometimes won’t work out at all, because everything else is boring and hard! I have lots of lame excuses and need to do better :(

I’m still keeping track of my calorie intake, which is probably why I haven’t gained more. I’m eating about 1700 a day. The goal is always 1500, but I’m not going to go hungry!

Next update to come in a month or so…

A busy weekend

This weekend was a lot of fun! I was able to see my Aunt Karen for the first time in years and hang out with all 3 of my siblings.

Chevy’s on the river on Saturday.

Sunday we had brunch at Bistro 33 – good food, okay service – and walked to Capitol Park, followed by a Rivercats game (goal #57).

What I was not able to do was laundry, and man do I need to... but I just don't feel like it tonight

Such a Pretty Fat by Jen Lancaster

I've finally started reading books! It's been a really bad habit of mine, like forever, to watch way too much TV. Whenever I'm bored I have the TV on and I never think to pick up a book. I feel lame whenever people talk about their favorite authors and I really have nothing to contribute, because I never read. That's why I put reading on my list of 100 goals to accomplish before my 30th birthday.

I just (well, a few weeks ago. I forgot to blog it though) finished Such a Pretty Fat*. Several of the women in my office had read it and loved it, and they assured me that with my sense of humor I'd love it as well. It's a memoir about Jen's attempt to loose weight to improve her health. It's really funny and I did enjoy it. It's totally a chick book.


I have several books on queue that my mom's recommended and snuck onto my nightstand when she came to visit. She always hides food in my fridge and books and magazines in my bedroom when she comes to visit. Hopefully my next book "review" will be soon!

*Blogger doesn't let me underline words that aren't links. This is bothering me because the correct way to write a book title is to underline it, not italicize.

Goals #96 and 97

Goal #96: Go see The Undulations play live.

Goal #97: Go to Music in the Park.

Wednesday night I multi-tasked by seeing The Undulations at Music in the Park in Davis.

The Davis one is nice because the have a concert combined with a farmer’s market. We bought cherries and a giant zucchini. Sadly, they didn’t have the sweet potatoes I’ve been dying to eat for the last week, so I will have to go to Safeway this weekend.

The Undulations have another show tomorrow that we'll be going to as well.

>List of 100 goals<

Goal #60: Hang out with my cousins

Since I wrote this list I’ve had plenty of quality hang-out time with my cousin Heather. I'm glad we're practically neighbors now!

And Thursday night I got to see another cousin Amanda, who I hadn’t seen in a whole decade! I did see her for about 20 seconds in 2003 or so, but I’m not going to count that.

I think I can declare this goal accomplished.

I also have solid plans to cross off lots more goals over the next few months! Specifically, numbers 31, 55, 94, 96, and 97... as well as tentative plans for 23, 24, 25, 26, 50, 57, and 69 by the end of the summer. That's some serious goal accomplishing :)

Monterey

We headed to Monterey for Memorial Day weekend. I don't like any of the pics we took, but here's one of the coastline in Pacific Grove.


On Sunday we went whale watching and saw humpback whales and tons on dolphins. That was fun - but COLD!