Work actually wasn't too bad today. It went by relatively quickly, even though this was the longest shift I've worked so far. I took a half hour lunch though, so that could be why. Didn't have too many rude customers, and I even got to train a new girl. I've been there for two weeks and I'm already a trainer. Yay me! But yeah, she seems really sweet 'n I felt so bad for her because some rude ass old man went off on her for something that wasn't her fault at all. It states clearly in the guidelines for Kmart that you can't use your Employee Discount with a Credit Card but some people are fucking morons.

After lunch (when I went outside with wet hair and no coat to smoke) I started to feel like shit. My throat got really dry and I kept having to run over to the KCafe to get a drink of water, I could barely talk - and when I did, it was painful. I'm thinking my sister gave me her cold (she's been talking like a man for days) but that coupled with my going outside with wet hair, and smoking more often than before because I bought short cigarettes.. is definitely taking a toll on me. I got home and realized I had a stuffy nose as well, and now I just feel crappy all over. It makes me mad 'cause I was just thinking of how cute it'd be if I were sick and Jeremy came over to comfort me and make me feel better. Now he has the chance, but I won't see him 'til tomorrow after work. -Sigh.-

God, I'm the biggest baby when I'm sick. lol. He just signed on and I'm like "Hunny, I'm sick and I miss you!" Waah. lol. It's kind of funny how childish and clingy I get when I don't feel well. And now he's telling me that he doesn't know about Tuesday either. Maybe I'm too attached, but this really sucks. I feel awful and all I want to do is snuggle up with my boyfriend. But I can't because his stupid friend is back from the stupid air force and wants to hang out and spend stupid time with him. Ugh. I should've went after a guy who had no friends or family, lol. I'm such a baby. Blah. I'm trying not to be a bitch to him but it sucks that his parents are always getting in the way of us hanging out (even though he's almost twenty years old) and now his friend is. Well.. I can understand his friend getting in the way, he's in the airfoce and Jeremy never sees him.. but damnit, I don't wanna wait 'til Thursday. =( I know he feels bad though, he's telling me how much he wants to hang out with me too. Aw, he's suggesting we both hang out with him. But.. I don't wanna get in the way. He's gonna talk to his friend. ..Aw. I have the best boyfriend ever. ^_^

Doctor Emmett Brown

You are a brilliant genius. You can come up with amazing inventions from a machine feeds your dog to a time machine made from a DeLorean. Just be careful hanging clocks in your bathroom.

I keep a journal, and start challenges every couple of weeks. For example, I had my Birthday Challenge, which was the three weeks prior to my birthday. It is like a goal point. Then I write my goals for those weeks, and i weigh myself in every monday to see how I did. I also make workout goals, and this challenge (starting today) I am planning specifically what workouts I am doing each day.

What I have fell in love with and plan on doing a lot this week, is the free Jillian Michaels workouts On Demand on Exercise TV. They kick my butt! I'm drenched in sweat after, and I love it.

The last couple of weeks I have not been doing very well, and have actually gained some weight :( But I am never going to give up until I am happy with my body.

Ok. I did terribly on this week's challenge, but in my defense, I had company at my house until yesterday! Bah! I seriously need a do-over.

In other news, I have started South Beach phase 2. I can't do South Beach phase 1 because I'm nursing, and it's too restrictive. Basically, I can have lean protein, all the veggies I want (with a few exceptions like carrots) , 1 serving of fruit a day (with a few exceptions), 1 serving of whole grains (initially), water, coffee, tea, and 1 serving of red wine. If you want to know more about it, click here.I don't usually go for these type of diets, but I go back to work in a month and need to fit in my clothes, and I am in a wedding on 5/24, and the dress is a dang sausage casing....I basically can't have it suddenly be May and need to lose 15 lbs in 3 weeks, you know? So...I started yesterday.

In a way, one of the benefits of a structured diet, is that if you tell the important people in your life about the diet, they know the rules, and hopefully they won't sabotage you. So far, I've told my husband, my inlaws, and my parents about it, so they all know what I can eat and what I won't, which is good. In my case, it also initially eliminates a lot of my temptation foods, like pizza, fries, and burgers...(sweets have never been my thing.), which will definitely be helpful. I'll keep you guys posted!!!

Friends have been to Yunnan Yunnan will not forget the delicious taste meter bridge, the bridge of Yunnan Rice Vermicelli is our favorite food, one of our family every weekend must pass through the city to the south half of Main Street store go on a bridge Vermicelli, Rice Vermicelli说起过Bridge origins, there is a beautiful legend does. Mengzi not only the Red River state capital, or the world famous birthplace of the bridge Vermicelli in Mengzi Nanhu Park, there to commemorate the legend of love sculpture, stone sculpture next to record the matter, I can only remember the inscription the beginning of the next few:

"Health of a beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Mongolia, the wife of a certain magnitude, and Hui-yin with a son, and his wife love ... ..."

Vermicelli on the bridge of the legend, there are many versions of civil society, the content is very similar in most widely is the following two ways:

One of them:

Nanhu legend Mengzi county scenic old, often attacking the text of letters reading this book. Yang, a scholar, often within to pursue, his wife for every meal taken there. Scholar to study hard, often school food, as well as left-cold dish, body heat gradually. Anxiety distressed his wife, thinking to pay while in the hen house killed by casserole, sent to him. Then go after her admission saw sent food intact, the husband is still as silly as to stay in the side to read. Had no choice but to get re-heat food, when they found her holding casserole also hot, and opened the lid, the original surface covered with a layer of soup Cantharellus, combined heat and not paternity clay containers, the heat inside the archive in the soup . After his wife insulation on the method, and the other will be a number of rice, vegetables, meat boiled in chicken soup on the hot, hot for her husband to eat. Later, she follow the example of many such innovative cooking, cooking out Vermicelli really delicious delicious, as the scholar Yang from home to go through a small bridge, we put such eat called "bridge Vermicelli" .

Second:
Legend Mengzi County in Yunnan there is a scholar, I am very handsome, very intelligent, but likes to play, do not want to work hard to study. He has a beautiful wife and a young son. Between husband and wife, deep feelings. But the wife of a scholar-hi and for pleasure, and tired of reading deeply worried. Day, the scholar said: "You live for pleasure and not motivated, do not want to his wife and children to live up to it?" Wen made his wife, deeply ashamed of Health, in Nanhu study to build a single hard, his wife also share with the Health, three meals a day are sent to study the day of Health. A long time, Health studies Dajin, but also increasingly thin. His wife looked very distressed, thinking of tonic. Day, the chicken slaughter simmer soup, meat slicers, preparedness Vermicelli, ready to send a scholar Breakfast. Youngest son, the play will buy meat soup, raw wife accused mischievous son, picked up speed to meat, as it has been cooked, taste, the, rejoicing. That is, carrying cans basket and sent to study. Due to excessive physical exertion, halo bridge in Nanhu, Health news, see his wife had been awake, soup and Rice Vermicelli are intact, cover the noodles to the oil slick, no trace of heat, the suspect has been cold soup to cover the palm of your hand soup cans, burning hot, greatly surprised wife asked in detail the production of the whole, the wife of 11 Long Road. For a long time, the student said, this meal may be called the bridge Vermicelli. Scholar in the meticulous care of his wife, who has passed the tree, it is a matter by the local people was legendary Since then, spread like wildfire across the bridge Vermicelli become Yunnan were feeding.

Our family liked eating meter bridge, not only because of the bridge Vermicelli and delicious taste, but the main thing is that I particularly like this Catering Yunnan were behind the love story in China, have been handed down a much-told tale of love, the most beautiful The tragedy of the outcome, the story of a woman who does not love is the act of stooping to make, uphold justice, such as: Lovers, Liu Lanzhi,and so on, and the legend meter bridge the "yin and Hui" and "a's" and on Jon love in every possible way, into the life of a peck a drink in their own hands and made a pair of delicious meter bridge, there is no,rhetoric, not simply that the love feat, by the so one of the most usual chores of life, calm and collected so that their love has been passed down. Let future generations in the taste of this delicious, but also at the same time taste their love, this kind of love, not the wife of the woman all his life pursued by the highest realm of it?

Therefore,would like to suggest that married sisters, intentions for your loved one to do a delicious meal you not to lose sight of the day's three meals a complex, hidden in a bowl of that thoughtful and caring wins over a thousand words, let him miss a lifetime, chances are it will become a much-told tale through the ages.

An old Chinese saying goes: "birdnatural interest,painting a self-study," crass clumsy nature of the "Painting and Calli graphy" such things can be said to know ya, but life like "bird" natural interesting, our species have flowers, raised birds, raised fish, most of them from our family was "natural interest" is a fish.

Talking about my family for keeping fish in the "history", but some of the first was when I was learning that year Jon it has been the 2089. Initially fish is because kids like it, so bought a small fish tank, just bought a bag of several goldfish,for a water, think of it fed dry feed point entirely pleased to coax the children, there is simply not those little things in mind. Later, even goldfish slowly grown up, and I found myself in love with the beautiful elf, temporary, I've changed a big fish tank, bought the water, color of sand, oxygen pumps and other devices, Eight children are started by my "Aquarium" career.

I will never forget I am learning to come back the day Jon saw the house suddenly more then a monster (fish) that surprised when, more surprising is that he saw my wife that carelessness could remember every day to fish fed the two times, take care of perhaps; and two of my colleagues see my eldest sister to the fish tank when the water has always been afraid of smelly I actually put a pair of " hand" into the smell of fish especially when drought limits water fishing, It felt incredible. However, I was "no regrets" in to do all these things, because I think when I specifically undivided loyalty to "serve" the fish are, I can forget the heart all, that moment, I was happy.

Days later, Jon gradually take over my duties to remove fish tank into his thing, with the continuous accumulation of experience, we have acquired a number of filtration equipment, do not need regular sand and cleaning the water, but also to ensure the water quality to meet the needs of fish. Jon is a perfectionist, goldfish are not raised long ago, relatively expensive to buy a lot of ornamental fish, had raised "immortals" and "Red Beauty," and so on ... ... a series of tropical ornamental fish, but soon have died of. Finally, his interest turned to water-dependent, expensive to buy a good few of the species in the fish tank water, the easier to survive with the "traffic light", "Peacock fish," "Red Arrow" and other small-sized tropical fish, ornamental the effect is pretty good. Let me the most memorable was a weekend three years ago, I went to overtime, Jon Bird and Flower Market to bring his son to buy a 60 per of the value of water, he's the "lead" the consumer may be I had! We were also very poor economic situation, the debts incurred in the purchase of shares have not yet paid off, this kid do not waste money, I worked hard to add a ban is not enough water so he bought one. I scolded him a discredited by a few, he did not , only to pull一个 fish tank before I went to see his precious tree water, water is indeed very beautiful, but also the fact that later proved to buy water tree very value, three years have passed, and other aquatic plants are yellow fade, and for another exchange, can it maintain its vitality. This matter has been hanging on the lips I Jon, I have often become a "wronged" him, "" He's a strong "evidence."

Now, the fish has become indispensable in our home, "one", and since the sub-azithromycin to the edge of the fish tank, the feeding of the work by him to serve as each fish tank clean-up is a battle the whole family: archie , Jon sand washing, oxygen pumps and various decorations. I am responsible to help them open faucet clearance, and delicious snacks, fruits, etc. to feed into the son's mouth. After cleaning the fish tank crystal clear, green water, fish swim particularly at night, open the dome light, a person sitting on the sofa to watch the dynamic of this "beauty", was very quiet very satisfied, in fact, as long as a person can be together, what are the happiest.

This winter, my family a lot of dead fish, species monotonous, and yesterday I shot a few photos, the effect is not too good, Chuan-up and share with you now.