A Little Late...

But hey, I've been busy... sorta.
I actually meant to post a picture of this on my last blog but I was too lazy to go downstairs and take a picture of it. I'd say it was a decent month. Missed some days most likely because of being hungover and then obviously because of work.

I did a lot of running, a few gym seshes and a few Jillian videos. Nothing burned any super crazy amounts of calories though. I'm working on that this month! I have definitely started increasing my mileage recently. I had forgotten that I kind of like running in the cold. It sucks at first, but once you warm up it gets more comfortable and the cold air starts to feel good on your hot skin.

I'm actually thinking about doing a 5k the Saturday after Thanksgiving. It's right by my house, so I figure, why not? I feel so guilty for barely doing any races this year. I wanted to beat last years number but not even close:-( Oh well, next year I will try! And I also think I'm going to do another half marathon next year. Haven't decided which one yet!

I'm so thankful that I was able to fall in love with running again. That has been one of my biggest accomplishments recently. I was really starting to feel like a failure for not being able to run anymore, but luckily I got my groove back:-)

I never thought I'd be writing about this, honestly. I told myself I'd never gain any weight back, but now I realize what people are saying when they talk about "maintaining" being harder than actually losing the weight. It SO is. It's so frustrating to go from feeling like the weight is just melting off you, to having to workout like a maniac and eat perfect just to drop 1 pound. I guess my tactics for losing weight before just aren't working the same anymore. I'm just not sure what I can do differently to lose weight!

You would think that after all that whining about not losing weight, that I wouldn't have a weigh in, but I do! Yay, how exciting! Granted, I'm a little behind on posting this weigh in, I have at least stayed the same weight since then. I guess this is just going to be a slow process the second time around. Here's the weigh in...

Previous Weight - 159.8 (10/11)

Current Weight - 157.2 (11/8)

Weight Lost - 2.6 Pounds

So basically a month to lose 2.6 pounds. That's soooo slow but I'll take it! It's better than nothing.

Here's a recent picture of me. We had beautiful weather the other day and I was actually able to wear this outside and play tennis! It was great!:-) I'm pretty satisfied with how I look although I am starting to run into the same issue I was having when I got to my lowest weight: my stomach.

I feel like I look decently skinny everywhere except my stomach. I guess I was just so fat that it really stretched out my stomach and most likely it will never go back to normal. It's super ugly and I hate it. I feel like I will never be fully happy with my body. I guess I will just have to deal with it, or get a tummy tuck lol... yeah right, maybe if I win the lottery!

I can't believe that Thanksgiving is next week! That's gonna be a bad day. I will not hold back one bit! lol. Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. I can't help it, I love to eat! And this will be my first Thanksgiving at 32. It will be my first Thanksgiving ever NOT spent with my family but I am totally okay with that. I'm excited to spend it with my fire department family:-) It's going to be a huge feast! Can't wait!

So yesterday I worked, but I was detailed to station 806 which is in the Largo/Landover area. It was by far the best detail I've done! The crew was great, the station is AMAZING, and the call volume was low. I just had a great time with the guys there. We played Foosball and Spades, and ate red velvet cake! It was sweet. Their station is so high tech, it's crazy! The best part was probably sleeping all night lol:-) Even though I slept all night, I still came home and went back to sleep until 1pm! What is wrong with me? I guess I just love sleep!;-)

Ok, time for me to get off the couch and do something productive. It looks kind of nice outside, so maybe I will go for a run! My next blog better have a kick-a** weigh in!!:-P

Toodles,
Anna

Where Has The Time Gone?

It's November 1st already, WTF?! This year has gone by so incredibly fast, it's ridiculous. Feels like just yesterday I was starting the academy, now I've been out in the field for almost 5 months. That shit cray!

Anyways, I'm really just writing this blog because I feel neglectful. Unfortunately, I do not have a loss to report. I suppose with the trip to Atlantic City for our anniversary, the constant partying, and being a little sick, I really haven't been doing my best. I've just been hovering around the same weight this whole time. It sucks because I know that I can get down lower than this, it's just taking so much longer this go around!

You may be wondering what the deal with the snake is. Well, this past week was crazy with hurricane Sandy making her way through Sunday-Tuesday. Sunday night while preparing, Charlie had brought in some tarps from the shed. Well, apparently something came in with those tarps... I'm upstairs watching TV and Charlie yells for me to come downstairs. I run down there and he says "There's a snake down here!" I thought he was joking, but there really was! This cute, tiny little baby snake! I didn't hesitate at all to pick it up. He was nice. I don't think it could bite me even if it wanted to! He was so soft and cute!:-) I wanted to keep him! But alas, Charlie made me let him go outside:-(

Back to Sandy... Charlie and I both had to work on Monday, so that kinda sucked. Surprisingly, our power went out Sunday night! Before things were even that bad. It was only off for about 3 hours though, then it came back on. We dropped Chief off at his Grandparents house and prepared for work. I decided to go in an hour earlier than I usually do, so I woke up at 3:15. Yikes. That wasn't fun. My drive into work was fine though, just a little rainy. Unfortunately, I was detailed that day to station 30. Weirdly enough, it ended up being SUPER slow! We only ran 7 ambulance calls total, transporting only 4 times. I almost slept the whole night! So all in all, not a bad detail.

Charlie came home to find our neighbors tree in our yard. It just clipped the gutter! I'm so glad it did not fall on our house! That would have been bad! They got it cleaned up early and the only thing left is the broken fence, which is not ours, so not my problem;-)

The storm wasn't as bad as it could have been, our way at least. Other places got it really bad and it looks pretty terrible. I'm so glad that my Grandma just moved from Ocean City to Berlin! Perfect timing.

Halloween was yesterday and it did not feel like it at all. It's just not the same as when you're little! I miss the good old days where I would be so excited for Halloween. The whole day would be spent preparing for trick-or-treating. It was such a big deal to me. I loved going around town with my family and trying to get a ton of candy. I wanna go back to that! Now I pass out the candy to the kids and I feel so old. Also, kids suck these days. We maybe had like 8 groups of kids, and they barely tried to dress up, it's such a shame. I wanted to yell at them, but whatever. It was still a pretty fun Halloween.

The 27th was Bobby and Laura's annual Halloween party. This year Charlie and I dressed up as Sugar Skulls. I thought our costumes were pretty awesome! They took a lot of time to put together, especially the makeup! But it paid off, we ended up winning "Best Makeup" category! Yay! We also got lots of votes for all the other categories. I was close for "Sexiest" and "Scariest" haha:-)

We got this cool shaker for our prize! Love it:-) It was a fun time and everyone's costumes were really cool and funny. Already planning for next year!

Last night I went out to Looney's in College Park to meet up with some of my PGFD friends. It was definitely a good time. It was packed! Lot's of people were dressed up in pretty good costumes. I didn't dress up but I did wear one of my white out contacts, and that got some stares! It was a great night:-) I go back for round 3 on Saturday lol. My life is so tough!

So, I recently added a new station to my Pandora and it had to be the best decision I ever made. It's played so many new songs I've never heard, but love! I feel like an emo/hipster music person now, but hey, I can't help it!

The station I added was "Heartbeats - The Knife" and now, for random entertainment, I will tell you some of my new top favorite songs! In no particular order...

The Knife - Heartbeats (obviously)
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - Home
Discovery - Swing Tree
Iron and Wine - Flightless Bird, American Mouth
Iron and Wine - Upward Over The Mountain
Lykke Li - Little Bit
Tim McMorris - Overwhelmed

I love them! All fabulous songs that are so easy to listen to. My favorite is probably "Overwhelmed" because it is such a sweet song. I wish someone would sing that to me! It's beautiful.

Currently I'm being a loser and watching my "shows." It starts at 6:00PM with Family Feud, then Jeopardy, then Wheel of Fortune. I know, what am I, like a single lonely 30 year old? lol just kidding. I just enjoy those shows. Jeopardy makes me feel like I'm kind of learning something, and I'm actually decent at Wheel! I would so go on that show and totally win!

Well, I will get back to my shows now, and then get ready for bed. I have to work tomorrow. Happy to be at 32:-) I better have a weight loss next time I update this joint!! Thanks for stopping by:-)

Yours truly,

Anna