MidWeek Update

So I am definetly not going to be able to blog everyday like I used to...especially considering I was jobless when I was doing that. But here I am :)

So this week has been great progress in the life change part of my weeks. I am not doing anything super special right now as far as working out. I am eating very healthy and getting walks in as I can. As far as the fitness thing goes, I fully intend on adding that to my routine, but with school finishing for the semester, I am trying my best to finish off with great grades. So there's that excuse :) lol.

BUT Ok, I am not going to admit my whole weight number right now,... because it is pretty disturbing and of course my heaviest. So on Monday it ended with a six, when I measured it in the evening and then yesterday it ended with a four, and today it ended with a 2.6. Is that correct?? Did I really loose 3.4 lbs in three days?!?!? I guess I will let you know by the end of the week when I continue to weigh. I am going to try and weigh ins every day if not a few times a week. I think if I keep close track without obsessing over it, then it will be good for me. And so far I have denied most temptation... which is good considering Christmas time @ a Dr's office= Christmas presents for the Dr's that are given to their assistants (AKA ME!)) lol. And all presents to the dr's office for some reason are not at all healthy....

But I AM EXCITED about this... I need to keep this momentum up and keep this going. I need to loose this weight. For me, myself, and I, and my husband, and family, and future children :) Oh, and I want to make a goal to loose a certain amount of weight by the New Year... What do you think that weight should be? It was going to be ten pounds, but if I already lost three... then that maybe easier than I thought.. So Help :)

SOOOO What's going on with everyone else? How is everyone else's diet or changes going?? I miss reading everyone's blog, hopefully I can get to it soon!!!!

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Post Thanksgiving!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

I hope everyone had a fabulous, wonderful, excellent Thanksgiving day!! I sure did. It was a long but short weekend all at the same time, probably because I worked Wednesday and then half days on Friday and Saturday, so it completely threw me off. For Thanksgiving though, we finally had it at my aunts house, which is a blessing because they have the most people.. my family only has 4, so it makes sense. But every year is a big deal because we have like 50 people in my immediate family!! But it was great. The family was altogether, which is the best part of the day. :) After my families' thanksgiving, we went to Matt's dad's house for dessert.. but when we got there, they were carving the turkey. So I was all confused and not at all hungry, but I was polite anyway. lol. Then woke up again on Friday for work :) YES!!

By the way, right now I'm watching "Chelsea Lately" and she is freakin hilarious!!!

I just finished a workout on my Comcast OnDemand and can I say that it easily kicked my butt. Like I feel ten thousand pounds over weight lol. I'm just a hot mess. But today I'm starting my not diet.. but "life change". And my lucky readers (Whom I think all disappeared on me), husband of course, and parents are the only people who know about it. Becuase everytime I try this, I tell everyone thinking that it'll be easier. BUT i have found out the opposite, like when I tell everyone, I think I just consider it like done already. I don't know how to explain it but its like the more I talk about it, the more I don't do it... cause I feel like when I'm talking about it, I'm doing it but that's not the case. Does that make sense to anyone else but me? lol

Also, I ummm am a little behind on the wedding posts recaps. I haven't ordered my pictures yet because we've been a little tight on money. But I am going to order the negative disk and make Christmas presents :) WHoop Whoop. Speaking of which I am absolutely thrilled for CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOO HOO

Ok, I must get ready for work.. I hope you all recover from the holiday nicely :) <3

Happy Thursday!!!

The weeks is almost over... YAY! I usually enjoy my weekends, but now I am starting to work every Saturday morning at the Urgent Care clinic we have at work.. so it should be interesting waking up super early on a Saturday... not so much fun.

We also still do the Cal games on Saturdays, so this should be interesting how they both work out. Thankfully the Oregon game isn't until like 4, I think. We've added a new member to our Saturday crew, usually it is just me, matt, and my father in law. But now we added my best guy friend Marcel. Him and the Hubby are completely the same person lol. Marcel calls Matt his "White version of himself" it is quite funny! I love seeing them get along so it is all good!

This weekend (starting tonight) Matt's longtime buddy from Alaska is coming down to stay with us. He is coming down to see the R Kelly concert, yes I said it, this man flew 3,000 miles to see R Kelly. lol oh, and us. He is quite a character. Unfortuantely, my house is still cluttered and kinda messy... and the hubby failed to do any cleaning this week. So he will hear from me after the friend leaves but I have to clean when I get off work tonight @ 8. Which I am not looking forwaRd to. lol. I do not like my house being out of order. I want people to be able to come over whenever they want and me not having to worry about like "Oh my goodness? Is it clean?" No, it should just always be that way. And don't get me wrong... I don't mean spotless but I do mean presentable.I enjoy inviting friends and family over and I want to be able to cook for them and spend time with them at my house... but I need a clean one in order to do so :) lol

Alrighty... that's my ramble for the day. I need to head to work before I'm late!!!

I also need to pray about some motivation.. I need something to start kickin my butt and getting back into a routine. Any ideaS?? What're you guys doing this winter to continue your goal for fitness??? Any new exercise crazes that ive been missing? Fill me in! I can't wait to read all about them!!!!


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Happy Harvest-Ween!

So I just completed this weeks homework assignment and finished working from this morning (yes, both on a Saturday!) And totally realized it was Halloween! I have never celebrated or been a big fan, mainly because I don't do Halloween for religious purposes... but also because I am a chicken butt.

So every year at church we do a Harvest Party with tons of games, candy, food, etc and its all free. So this year is no different except, this year I didn't head it up. I was so busy with life that I told my dad (the pastor) I can't do it this year. Which was a bummer because I love putting it together adn love all the support and volunteers we get (Which is no different this year) So thankfully, my cousins Heather and Tiffany headed it up and I'm excited to see what they have done! I am sure its going to be great!!!

So my dilemna is.. I have no costume! I know, what a bore I am right!?! Well I obviously don't do sexy costumes, and having nothing at home to throw on real quick, and despite their being a "Spirit" store down the street, I have never bought anything from there and still won't. So guess what I'm going to be for Halloween? Sam!! Lol. I'm just going to be me... but I wanted to stop in adn say hello to everyone. I hope you guys have had a great week.

Be safe tonight!!!!!! And go hit up your local church's Harvest Party... They are tons of fun :)

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I'm Here!!

I'm here... and this time hopefully to stay!! I'm so sorry about not posting and not commenting on other peoples posts! I sucked for the past few months. :) Congrats to HER for getting married!!!! I'm very excited for you both!

So I don't even know where to start with all of this :)

Married life is good, well great. It was a lot, LOT, of change in the beginning with the new job, semester starting, and being married. Lol. But that has passed for the most part and I am loving being a wife. I love calling him my husband, love waking up next to me, and love when we kiss goodnight. It's honestly an amazing feeling when you find that special someone and are prepared to spend the rest of your life with that person. So, what can I say? I'm a happy newlywed!!! :)

I got a new job about fifteen minutes from my house (on a good traffic day) and I absolutely love it. I'm a Medical Assistant in a Pediatric office and it's great. The atmosphere is great, the people are fun and great, and I love the patients. I love meeting new people, helping people, and seeing the kids get healthy! I am def a people person and the medical field is where I belong, it's where my heart is!!

With that said, I cannot wait until school and pre-reqs are over!!!! I want to be done with school and into the nursing program already. School this semester is going okay though. It's not exactly first on my list but I am getting it done and I know that doesn't sound the best but this semester I'm taking History and psychology of personality... so it's not absolutely pertaining to nursing :) lol. So we will see how the semester ends..

Youth group, in case you didn't know.. I'm the youth group leader at my church, and I love it! It is a great feeling to help lead young people to the Lord. We have currently renovating the middle building to make it the new youth room. It should be a great project for us all to do!!! I love it!!! I wish I could have a clone who could do youth group completely full time :) lol.

And now to the dreadful news.... I am almost positive I have gained all the weight I lost back, plus some. I feel like a freaking blimp sometimes. And tonight, my mom said something along the lines of my face looking a bit rounder... great mom, love the honesty. I mean, I'm not a completely idiot, I noticed it last week but just ignored it. So now, (AGAIN!!) I can't ignore it anymore. I want to be a great wife and give 100% to my husband, which I can't completely do if I'm a million pounds over weight. I want to give 100% for myself adn live the best life I can and live it to the fullest. I also, most importantly, want to live my life to the fullest that God wants me to live. I want to do all He has for me, but I have limitations if I'm this overweight. And if I want to have children, I want to be an active mother who is completely hands on with her children.. yet I can't in this shape. What the heck happened to the old Sam? The skinny Sam :) lol I have all of these reasons for getting in shape and getting healthy, yet I don't do them. Why is that?? Ugh, can you tell I'm a bit frustrated with myself lately? lol...

So the solution.. I'm thinking about joining Weight Watchers for starters. I know I need to make changes in my eating habits, especially since I'm the one who is doing the cooking. I have a few friends who seem to be doing well on WW, so I think I will give it a try. What do you guys think about WW and about this?? Since I am working 40 plus hours a week with just the Medical Assisting.. that doesn't include the youth group leader, being a wife, maintaining the house, etc I am going to take things slow to not overwhelm myself any longer. I need to find time to put work out in my routine because I know thats how I will see the most results... but I am thinking to add that slowly due to my schedule. What do you guys think?

Ok, I'm done blabbing for now. Let me knwo what you ladies adn gents think. I miss y'all :)

Sorry so long!!!

And Lastly, really?!?! Yankees in the world series again. UGH!!!!

Teaser

So I received some pics off of friends and families' cameras from the wedding. I will start posting more pics when I get the professional ones back..which I cannot wait for!!!

A mini update is:

I am officially Mrs. Semans :) (Except we haven't turned in the marriage cert. yet lol) I absolutely love being together, living with him (finally! Because we didn't do it before marriage) and all the fun things that come along with it.

I cannot believe the weddding has come and gone already! Honestly, sometimes it makes me sad to think its over already, after all that planning. lol. Thank God, I wasn't a stressed bride and rarely stresssed through the process or I'd be totally bummed! My dress is just handing in the closet because I havent had time to do anything with it! lol

So advice for upcoming brides: Unless a something major happens: the day will go perfect, it will be like your fairytale. Don't stress on the small stuff before the wedding.. and dont stress on ANYTHING the day of the wedding. Just enjoy all of it because that will be the fastest but best day of your life!!! And the most important part is your marrying your best friend; not so and so is coming or not coming, someone did this, etc. It doesn't matter. Trust me :)

After the wedding we went on our mini-moon for a few days in Reno/Tahoe area and then a few days of pampering. I will get into that more when I post those pictures!!! But it was a blast and a much needed vacation!

Now real life has completely set in. I got a great new job... as a medical assistant in a pediatric office, and so far I love it. This was my first week of working full time again in 3 months, so it's great. (Gonna be better when I get my pay check :) lol. It is really tough on the feet right now because I'm standing for 8 hours a day, but that will totally get better next week!

Along with job, trying to move my stuff in ( because its still at my parents house), and cleaning up the apt from all the presents we received, oh yea and adjusting to living with my new husband (who isnt the cleanest thing in the world :) lol, I started school on the week of my wedding too!!! So this past week I've been trying to play catch up to the two weeks I missed and it has been tough! I study at lunch, when I get home, and now on the weekends! Once I catch up to the work, I'm hoping to get in a routine of things so I can actually spend time with my husband :) lol

Okay, So I uploaded these onto my Picasa thing... so check out the pics from the wedding! Hopefully the pro ones will be here soon!
I can't wait to catch up on all your guys' blogs! My reader is FULL!
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WEDDING PICS

Wedding Pictures - Tackett