Oh my

I'm torn between posting an actual post.. and just going to bed.

I've come to many unsettling realizations in the last few days. But I'm trying to stay positive.

But that is the reason for my uncertainty on whether I should actually delve into this post here. As it would certainly end most whiny-baby... And I already feel like there is WAY too much of that on this blog.

Random photo drop... Just a few pics that bring a smile to my face...

Don't worry about it.

Just some things :)

When I come home from Zumba, I shout into the back a "Hello!" to my Grandma.

She follows up with a "Hi! How was Zumby?"

I  LOVE that

I want a vacation to California.

Mostly for the beach.

Mostly for my cousins.

Mostly for the California smell.

Mostly for the Monteray Bay Aquarium.

Mostly because I want to stalk Conan O'Brian.

What a deliciously tall creepy ginger. :)

I am absolutely in love with the red in my hair. <3

I am getting SO excited for Glee to start!

3 more days!!!

I really am starting to miss snuggly sleepovers.

Mostly because he was a perfect space heater.

Green Olives stuffed with minced pimento are my FAVE.

I wish I could have a dog.

But when I think about it seriously, I decide it's best I don't.

I think my pup would get jealous.

does that make sense?

There's a boy at work.

He's in college.

He wants to go to med school.

He plays the piano.

He looks very similar to a certain single father I used to be all about.

I crochet him things during our shift.

He complimented my eyes today.

i think he should ask me on a date.

I'm pretty cold right now.

I LOVE that Jodi is hooked on Zumba now!


I need to stop looking at Blogs when I'm on my phone.
Because I ALWAYS want to comment.
But then my phone flips out and won't let me
And then I forget when I get back on the computer.

Jump up, let's get KRAZY!

That time of the week again!

This weeks loss: 1 lb

Total Loss: 6 lbs

Definitely not as much as I'd like... Especially after all that Zumba last week and this week! But I know what the problem is... and I'm going to be fixing that today.
What's the problem you ask? I don't eat very healthy. If at all. :/ So then when I DO eat, it's just crap food that I'm stopping to grab between jobs, or just a little handful of soy nuts here and there to hold me over. Or a black bottom chocolate chip cookie out of the vending machine at work. (oh man... I'm such a sucker for those, it's awful!) So today, I am going to go buy some groceries, make up a meal (totally just typed "metal"... I'm so hardcore.) plan, so that next week my total loss will be a whole TEN pounds! Wish me luck! (And Jeri, thanks for the website suggestion!)

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In other news, It's been another wonderful Zumba filled week! Starting bright and early on Monday morning with my Mom! Both times I've gone with her in the morning, she comes in to wake me up and I immediately say "NEVERMIND!!! I'm not going! It's waaaaaaayyyyy too early for that!!" But I get up anyways and once we get to the church and the music gets going, I'm so pumped! (Then I crash from my Zumba high halfway through the day and am a total ZOMBIE by the time I get home from work)

I love sleeping at my parents house though! And my pup loves it too. He follows me around all night, and once it's way past his bed time (since I can never get myself to go to sleep at a decent hour) he looks at me like "What are you doing still awake! I'm tired woman! Let's go to bed!" So I'll go pull down the covers and pillows, go take out my contacts, and when I go back in the room he's all snuggled up on the bed ready to go to sleep!

I just love him. And his cute grey beard that's coming in.

(even though it breaks my heart a little that he's already starting to grey :( )

I have just some random pictures that I was going to post... and I have no idea how to lead into them.. so I'm just going to go for it. Ha :)

 On Saturday when I was driving to work, it was SO FOGGY! It always gets super foggy at my house. But as I got closer to State St., and the fog started clearing a little, the sun looked AMAZING coming over the mountains through it all. I really wish I could have gotten a better picture. But I think these do it a little justice.

I slept under all of my blankets last night, which I don't normally do. I have so many blankets on my bed, I just go under the first few layers depending on how cold it is. And seeing as how last night was FREEZING!!! I decided it was definitely that kind of night. I woke up and found I had slept the whole night with this:

EEEEP! I'm just happy I didn't get jabbed! I don't even know how that got in there! :/

                               
                               That's all for today I suppose. :) Off to make the most of this chilly day!

Loca Loca Loca

This week has been great!
Seriously, I know I talk about Zumba a lot, and it probably gets super annoying... but I don't know what I would do without it! And being able to Zumba SO MUCH this week has not only completely distracted me from the stupid crap going on, but I feel SO amazing! There are not words to express how happy I am that my mom and I started Zumba. Most of all, that we found Cecy as our Zumba instructor!

 I've spent the majority of the night just sittin on facebook and looking at a million pictures, and started looking at pictures of my mom and I from a few months before we started Zumba.

We went from this:

To this:

 haha.. I couldn't pick just one, I had to do both!

I'm so proud of my Mama and how much she's lost! I wish that I had stayed as buckled and strict on a diet and she was when we started, but I was still eating pretty bad and kickin' back the hooch quite often (most times even AFTER zumba :/ ha) But serioulsy! Look at how good she looks! I love you mom!

I seriously feel so good right now after all of this "working out" I've done this week. And I can already feel a huge difference! I was watching a movie on TV with my grandma earlier. Holding the remote with one hand, and my other had just resting on my bicep. I went to change channels when a commercial came on, and just that small movement made me think "DAYUMMM!!! There's some nice feelin' muscle there Shandi!" haha. My arms feel toned. My legs feel toned. Even my middle is feeling better! (that's my most uncomfortable area, so that's AWESOME!) All I can think about is finding time to Zumba tomorrow. Which really would be quite easy seeing as I get off work at 2. Anyone down to Zumba with me? Let's find a place and come up with a time and let's do it! I've had a day to let my body rest and my muscles chill and stop aching so much! haha

This is my "I feel really good about myself so I'm going to take a picture with no make-up, hair not done, and no bra(tmi? haha)" picture. **also** note Gary the snail on my phone. haha. It makes me happy.

Anyhow, I hope everyone had an excellent week. And I'm sorry for yapping about Zumba non-stop every day of my life. I hope I'm not boring you to death!

Wednesday?

For reals on Wednesday even! Although, I was tempted to wait until tomorrow, as I will be doing TWO zumba classes tomorrow! haha.

I hopped on the scale today after Zumba and am down another 2lbs.
Total loss: 5lbs. ohhh yeah.
I'm pretty happy with that. :)


There's a lot to catch up on. Even though there's hardly anything to catch up on.

We came to an agreement that while we've been having a lot of fun, our once amazing friendship has disappeared. So we put an end to not being together and are going to focus on getting our friendship back to being awesome before one of us ends up getting hurt. It's so stupid. But it totally needed to happen. I'm just happy we both agree that we need to fix it now rather than wait until it's past the point of being fixed. I just love him.

and then i take blurry photos of myself.

Lots of Zumba this week. Tuesday night. Wednesday morning. I'm going to go help my mom teach at the church at 6:30am (yikes!) Thursday. And then Thursday night after work! (If I've survived!) I just love Zumba so much. And now that weekend snuggles are gone, it really is just about the only thing I look forward to. I can already feel the amazing difference just this week has made. And my legs feeling toned again. If Zumba were a man, I'd totally marry it.

I decided to start working on some shirts the other night to get myself out of my lonely funk. I've had back orders for my "Zumba" shirts I made a loooooong time ago for so long, I decided I might as well get on it. And update a little.

They're freakin' sweet. Once I get these done I need to start on making a variety of Shandi shirts also. I forget how popular they are. (haha, it sounds like I'm so vain, but really---they're in high demand)

I'm staying the night at my moms tonight so I can get up in the morning and go with her to teach her "Brazilian dance aerobics class" (can't call it the "Z" word haha) . I was originally going to finish making the shirts for Zumba tomorrow night, but I'm too tired. I'm surprised I've even blogged for this long! Haha. all I know is that there are not enough words to express how excited I am to go from sleeping in this bed:

to this bed:

ohhh I love big beds. And my parents guest bed is seriously soooooo comfortable. And the sheets are soooo cozy.

And I get the best snuggle buddy ever tonight too!

(sometimes when I ask for "puppy kisses" he gets confused and thinks I'm saying "bite my face off")

haha.

I just found this picture, it makes me miss being "skinny". It's from when I first moved in with my grandma, and I had gotten SO SICK right before then and couldn't eat or keep anything down for about 2 weeks and lost a whole bunch of weight. On top of already not really eating a whole lot because we were a bunch of bums and never had food at our apartment.   Anyhow... my goal is to be back to that! (I only have about 10 more pounds to go to the weight I was there... which certainly isn't my END goal... but for now that's what I'd like to focus on.)

That ending there was a bit random.

That is all for tonight. Hope every one's week is going swimmingly.

Wish me luck on waking up and working out at a most ungodly hour tomorrow! hehe

bloggin' explosion!

In my mind right now... This post is going to have soooooooo many different topics. But I'm also quite tuckered out from my exciting day, so I'll do my best to get it all in before I fall asleep on my keyboard!

First off! I know it's Thursday, but my good bloggin' friend Heidi has started a "weigh-in wednesday" feature on her blog, and I said I was going to join her, and then lady time showed up so I postponed. But I decided no longer! I must begin!

(she also has a super cute photo that she uses every week for her feature, so I decided to copy-cat and make one too!)

The last time I weighed myself, I weighed x amount of pounds (no way I'm postin' that number until I lose quite a bit more!) and tonight when I hopped on the scale, I was  3 pounds less! Yes! Honestly, I'm a little suprised about this, as I've been curing my self pity and lady time induced yucky feelings with eating (awesome?). But hey, I'm not complainin! Time to kick this weight-loss in to high gear! (continue reading for more details!)

Heidi is soooo cute and crafty! She's having a give away on her blog right now

Her etsy shop is sooo cute! I've been wanting to order things from it so bad, too bad I'm a po' Shando. At least when I get moved to full time at the job I'll be able to spoil myself with such delights! In the meantime,  I decided to enter the give away! :) *crosses fingers*!

Of course, went hangin out with the boys the other night, and I just LOVE Big D! He's such a goofball! I know, I know, I talk about him and always say the exact same things.. but he's just such a sweetheart. And makes me feel so awesome when he gets excited, almost like a little kid, when I go over. Haha... oh man.

I also got my hair done yesterday! My sweet, beautiful, incredible (Bride-to-Be) cousin Alesia does hair, and she's so good to me and does mine for a most reasonable price. :) I decided a few days back that I wanted something different, but not TOO different, as I love my hair way too much and changing it makes me nervous. So I decided maybe a little red, and a teensy twist on the cut would do the trick. Alesia said she could certainly deliver for me. And added the extra bonus of maybe some colored extensions. So she picked up some BRIGHT RED extensions and we had at it!

It's hard to tell the overall red color, I was trying to get a good picture to show it alll day, but none of them worked as well as I liked. But trust me... it looks freakin SWEET! I love it sosososososooo much! She's the best ever! And really the only one I trust with my hair anymore. I don't even have to tell her what to do, just let her have at it and I know I'll always leave LOVING my hair. (click on her name above and set up an appt if you're interested in some sweet hair action! Or click here for the FB page for her salon)

Speaking of my sweet, beautiful, incredible (Bride-to-Be) cousin Alesia, she usually has Thursdays off, and I had the day off from PH so we made plans to go to breakfast an hang out. She met me at my house and we ran a few errands. Picked up my good friend Erik. It was so nice hanging out with him. I've really missed him a lot. Even if he is having a tough time right now, it was just nice to know that we're still friends. We went to Callie's for breakfast. Mmmm. Dee-lish! 3 pitcher's mounds, and a million coffees (all around, not just me haha) later we headed off to take Erik back and then we went to do some wedding stuff! I'm her Maid of Honor and this was the first chance we've had to be together and start plannin'. Well, with me anyways. Haha. There was a bit of a panic-mode for a minute when she said she wants to go next month to get my dress! I want to be SKINNY for the wedding! So, time for this girl to start REALLY working to get smaller by next month! YIKES! I'm thinking about trying the whole "no-carbs" business, but it makes me nervous, especially since I don't eat a lot of meat... Anyone have any good "diet" type ideas? Or know a good carb-free meal plan?

I saw these super cute plates at the paper store we went to. I almost just want to buy them for fun!

my sweet, beautiful, incredible (Bride-to-Be) cousin Alesia

can you believe there's THAT many choices for envelopes!? Cuz I had no idea!

Needless to say, it was an AWESOME day! And to finish it all off, ZUMBA!

post Zumba sweaty-beauty! ha

I hope everyone else had a great Thursday!

Sunshine Sunshine is fine

Today was BEAUTIFUL! Just the kind of day I needed!
Even though I woke up late for work, I just KNEW today was going to be great the second I saw the sun shining through my blinds. Work at PH was pretty good. Came home early and hung out with my Grandma for a bit before my "in-between-jobs-revamp-nap". Went to work at the call center and kicked butt. Talked to my Team Lead about getting more hours, and he asked if I'd be interested in FULL TIME! (ah! I wasn't going to say anything so I wouldn't jinx it.. I just HAD to!) He's going to look over my numbers and we'll discuss it more after this week I think. Which is AWESOME because I reeeeeeeaaaaaallly didn't want to be working BOTH jobs while my parents are on their cruise and I'm kickin' it with my brother.


Anyhow. I went to the boys last night after posting that whiny baby post, and I just have to say, Matt and Dustin are my absolute favorites. They can always make me smile. And Big D and I, I swear it seems we've got each others backs when the one of us is feeling blue. And he's always so down to take pictures with me. And I like that, because then it still allows me to be a little vain on the bloggin photo business.

This one was his personal favorite, due to the face he's making. haha

And this guy just always makes me smile. Always has. Even during my toughest times with friends, the ex, myself, he's been my rock through so much crappy stuff and doesn't let me dwell on it. Sure, he'll let me complain for what's worth complainin, and then it's over. We move on. And that's the best. And is for sure exactly what I needed yesterday. (and the added bonus of snuggles and kisses isn't too bad either.. haha)

I should have gotten off of the computer so long ago and gone to bed. So I think I'll do that now. I hope everyone had a great Monday! And let's get this amazing mood to go all week! Even if the weather doesn't!


*also*

my body is trying to grow a horn... soooo not cool. (the white circle in the pic is my Mary Kay mask that I've been caking on there to try to make the sucker go away...) I've come to the conclusion that it's either a horn, or my body just decided that one head wasn't enough for this Shando, time to sprout another on the forehead.


So here's to also hopin' lady time induced acne goes away SOOON! hehe