GOALS
So one of my bestest friends in the whole wide world is getting married in June. I am currently 30 pounds heavier than I would like to be. So, to solve this problem, I decided (last week) to lose 2 pounds a week (I think this is a pretty reasonable goal), so far I have lost 0 pounds a week. Granted that this is only the beginning of the second week and last week involved a road trip and a wedding, but still. I was hoping for at least half a pound. Anyway, here’s my genius workout plan idea.
So I have 3 pictures here. The first one is the little ‘workout calendar’ I made. Basically it has Monday-Saturday on there (Sunday is a day of rest for a reason); the next photo is my jar of workouts. While there are six days to work out, I have cut out and written down 9 workouts (which I plan to add to); and this last picture is of the most genius part of my whole plan: VELCRO! The cardboard calendar and all the workouts have been laminated with that do-it-yourself-sticky-paper I can’t remember the name of right now. I bought a packet of square velcro stickies at WalMart and POOF, my creation is complete. Exactly. The. Way. I. Pictured. (which doesn’t happen often).
GRE
Want to know something I really, really suck at (I suck at it SO much that I used two ‘really’s): Test Taking. I never bothered with the GRE because I got it mixed up with that other miserable test that people deciding to go to Law School take. I never realized you needed another test to get into grad school. I always thought that the fact you had gotten your bachelor’s was enough. Guess what…it’s not. So, now—because Jake and I both want to go to grad school—Jake and I both get to study for the GRE. Luckily there’s a place in La Grande that does testing year-round, and the school we’re looking at only looks at one part of the test, so we can totally bomb (not that we will, but hypothetically speaking) the math portion of the test, and that would be okay. Can I just say I am not looking forward to taking this test AT ALL. AT. ALL. (in case you missed it the first time). but we do what we have to do to do what we want to do. (remind me why I want to go back to mounds of homework again…oh yeah, I need a real job that I’ll enjoy doing…and for some bizarre reason, I like school).
GREAT LOAD…
As for the general update, Jake is still looking for work (seriously, you’d think with a BA we’d get something, but no). He’s also working out with me (less to lose weight, and more to just be in shape). I’m slowly working on a syllabus; designing a class for tech writing is a lot different from designing an Eng 101 class (personally, I prefer teaching analyzing literature to teaching how to properly format and write a memo). We’re excited for me to start working (and getting a paycheck!) in April, and even more excited to go to London/Scotland in May! I need to work on my HP paper, and find out how this presentation works (sometimes it’s just telling people what your paper is about, and other times it’s reading your paper, in either case, I need to know how long my presentation can be). As for other updates, Jake is listening to The Hunger Games on audio book, and is getting a lot of writing done. I’m working out on handouts for my class, and trying to get through the obnoxiously boring (and sometimes offensive to English Majors) book I ‘get’ to teach in April.
Well, That’s all Folks.
