April 1st = Success

Today, I was suprised that no pranks were pulled on me or my friends (that I knew of). Seeing as we are in college, there was definitely potential to have a disastrous day, but it was uneventful. Maybe that was because it was the first day back to school and everyone was tired from their spring break adventures. Anyway, it was a success because it was a good first day back and no catastrophes!

Off to the gym tonight. I gained 5 pounds from being home for 1 week, count it... 1! That's pretty sad. I didn't even eat junk food, I just ate a bunch of leftovers. Oh well, it will likely come off in a week because I can't eat much at the cafeteria except for fries and salad, so not to worry. Also, I have decided that I want to have a toned body for the summer this year. Most of my life I have been slightly overweight, enough to make me uncomfortable, but I don't want that to be the case anymore so I have to change it. If I make it to my desired fitness level, I will not wear a bikini still, because it is so not modest enough for me, so I will continue to wear my tankini... under guy swim trunks and my surf shirt. Even that barely hides me enough for comfort and the shorts go slightly past my knees and the shirt has sleeves half way down my arms. Seriously, if I could swim in sweatpants and a long-sleeve shirt, and not look super silly and if the material didn't cling to my body when I got out, I totally would!

Moving on, I have no homework. It's the craziest thing but I actually did work over spring break. Shhh, don't tell anyone. But I think I should start working ahead from now on because this is pretty nice, not having to do tons of homework for the classes the next day. Plus, now I have time for the gym.

By the way, Pinterest is dangerous for me. I go through the fitness section and I'm all pickin' out workouts thinking, "Ya, I can do this!". Then, when I have time, I don't do any of them... I wish I was better at working out, but I am working to fix this so that it is not just a wish. Folks, I don't know how to motivate myself. Looking at pictures of skinny, fit people doesn't work, it just makes me sad. Bribing myself doesn't work, I just give up and decide I didn't want the bribe. Same thing when I try to get friends to bribe me... Seeing my swimsuit doesn't motivate me because I just got a bathing suit that works for me, but when I am trying on bathing suits I just get depressed and start crying, leading me into a dark place for the next week or two. I tell ya, it seems so much sends me into a depression. I really do try to control it, and I try to take steps to manage or fix what is making me depressed, but sometimes I just can't hold it off. Does anyone have any advice? Besides sending me to a mental hospital or locking me away... Seriously though, I think, maybe, I should get checked out. Back to my motivation problem. Does anyone have advice for motivation? Any advice at all would really help, with any of my posts because I am pretty sure I come off as being a huge sack of crazy rolled into a 5'7", slightly chubby package.

Daily Thanksgiving: Psych was cancelled, I am done with most of my homework and reading for this week and April Fool's Day didn't involve pranks! This was a good day. And I get to work out, which I am excited for, making the day even better.

Big News!!!

Hey guys, I just wanted to let you know I made the big leap... I have a boyfriend... Oh golly, I can't do this. That was an April Fool's joke. Not very good, I know, but I had to try it.

Anyway, I got an email from one of my professors saying she would not have class today and I think she means it, but I can't help but think it could just be a prank. So, I will probably not go and see what happens. In the 5th grade, my teacher played a mean prank on our class. We had just gotten done with our standardized testing that we had to do every year, but he pretended like he had forgotten to give us a test. So we were all getting stressed out, wondering how this could have happened. Then he slapped a piece of paper onto the whiteboard with "April Fool's" written across it. We spent the rest of the day (about 3 hours) outside playing kickball with the teachers and other classes from our grade! It was so much fun, I miss kickball.

Everyone be careful today. Beware of the sugar in the salt shaker or salt in the sugar container. Watch for faucets that spray you and other shenanigans today as we make our way cautiosiously through the day of pranks.

On a completely random note (what's new?), I bought Francesca Battistelli's albums on Amazon. 1) Her music is amazing and such a blessing to me. 2) Amazon is so much cheaper to buy music through than iTunes!!! How did I never know this before? One 11 song album was $4 compared to $10 and the music downloads/imports into your iTunes account if it is on your computer. Plus, they have coupon codes and discounts available a lot of the time, you just have to search for them. I am all for saving money and this is a great way to do it when you buy music. Also, take a look at Cloverton. My favorite song of theirs is "Take Me Into the Beautiful" but I bought their albums too and they are amazing!

An update on today will likely come later today, stay tuned...