Written by my friend Teodoro Martin
I started a new diet and exercise regimen with a personal trainer at the new gym down the street. And, I am telling you, it has changed my life. I wake up every morning, run five miles, rest, drink my coffee, and hit the gym after my morning conference calls. She has taught me all about how to improve overall health and Just enegy information by what I’m eating. I eat a smoothie for breakfast (where I used to skip the meal altogether), a turkey sandwich for lunch with an energy bar, and meat and veggies for dinner. I’m not talkin’ a health fanatic smoothie, or a cardboard sandwich. This is real fruit, real bread, real chips, real meat stuff. I have lost fifteen pounds since June and still dropping! I have more energy than I did in my twenties. I just realized I sound like a commercial for weight watchers. But, it’s the truth, folks, I’m a changed woman. Now, go hit that treadmill and try to tell me you don’t feel better.
A couple days ago I went clothes shopping for the first time in I can’t even remember when. In the past I’ve always hated clothes shopping because I was heavier. I’d either not be able to find anything that would fit me, or I’d find things I like and they wouldn’t look half as good on me as they did on the rack. Because of this fact I have a closet full of clothes that are pretty much on their last legs. Some have holes in them, some are so stretched out they don’t fit right, and some just plain aren’t my style anymore; you can definitely tell that I bought them when I was in high school (over 7 years ago!)
But now that I’ve lost some weight, I decided that it was time to go get some new clothes and I asked my friend to come along with me since he definitely has better taste in clothes than I do. In the end I didn’t do much shopping at all though; I spent most of my time following him around while he tried on clothes. Not that I really minded though, since shopping with him is fun and I got to ‘yes’ or ‘no’ approve everything he was buying. In the end he ended up getting some polos, a few button down shirts, and some over-priced socks. I didn’t walk away empty handed though! I ended up getting a nice low-cut long-sleeved sweater that I can wear over my halter tops. Long-sleeves are something I definitely need since winter is coming and since I’ve lost weight I can feel myself getting colder more quickly!
No, not the TV show, silly!
I’m not in the medical field what so ever, and truthfully, hospitals tend to freak me out. But there is one thing that I actually think I’d like about being a nurse and that’s getting to wear nursing scrubs. I used to have a couple pairs when I was in college and they were some of the most comfortable things I’ve ever put on my body. So naturally when I came across Blue Sky Scrubs, I had to browse around and see what kind of selection they had. I have no clue where my scrubs got off too after I graduated, but lately I’ve been in the market to get a couple more pairs. I wore them as pajamas or around the house, but I know a few people who are RNs and say that scrubs are just as comfortable to work in as they are to lounge in.
So, like I said, I came across this website and was pretty thrilled that this site has scrubs that come in almost any color you could think of. Mostly when you think about plain colored scrubs, you just envision that teal-blue color that everyone seems to wear. But no, this place even has scrubs in black (earning them major points in my book!). I’m also impressed that they have a section devoted entirely to women (http://www.blueskyscrubs.com/categories/Scrubs/Scrubs-for-Women/) because many online retailers have mostly men’s scrubs.
Thanks for the article from Jermaine Haynes
The first thing we had set up when we moved to our new house was the rural internet service provider outside Cleveland. After that, the process was a lot easier. We could set up the electricity, water and our other utilities online. It is a lot easier than calling, in my opinion. When we lived in our first apartment, we spent a whole day setting everything up, making phone calls and making ourselves at home. I have to say that it has been a lot easier this time around. So far, I really like our new house too, not just because setting the utilities up was easier. It is definitely different than what we are used to. Before we were living in a tiny apartment atop some restaurant. Maybe that was part of the reason it took so long to get things set up. Although, it seems like in such a small apartment and such a populous place, it would not be so tough. We have really lucked out here with the space and we can actually see the stars now. There were some adjustments obviously, but overall, it was a really great decision. I can thank my husband for that I guess, but I can’t say I will tell him since I do not like to admit I am wrong to him!
December 6th, 2011 in
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When I was younger, I absolutely hated where I lived and I projected that hate onto the rest of my country. It was so bad that at one point in time I was even looking for Calgary apartments for rent because I figured that Canada had to be a better place than this. Now, however, I’ve moved somewhere that I absolutely love and I’m quite content to stay right here. I love Pittsburgh….just everything about this city. The people, the lights, even the traffic (at times). It’s great here, but that doesn’t mean I won’t ever want to move, and if I did decide to go on a Canadian adventure I’m sure Calgary would be the destination.
Don’t ask me why I picked Calgary when I was little…maybe because I had a few friends who lived there. Now I have some new friends who live there and I think it would be a nice place to live for a while. Of course there’s that pesky problem of me not even having a passport, let alone the credentials to move to and work in Canada. But those are both things that I could work on over time, plus if I could support myself for a time without a job, I could live in Canada for a while and then come back to the States if I needed or wanted to.
I hope that if I ever want to move away from here I’d be able to find a nice place there to live. I just need to save up the money to do something like that first! That means getting through school and finding a good job so that I can put some money away!
Guest post written by Matt Stone
I used to make fun of my roommates because they were worse than a bunch of old women watching a soap opera when it came to watching The Office. But they lured me into watching the show too and after I looked through all of their DVD collections and found all of the seasons before that to watch. Well, I caught up on the show during the summer because there are just no good shows on during the summer anyway.
After catching up on the show, I decided to look online to see if I could find some spoilers. My roommates were against learning of any spoilers, so I kept them to myself. But I also ran across some info on internet service providers in my area and showed it to them. After we looked through it some we decided to change over our apartment internet service over to it.
They were all really surprised about Andy being named the regional manager and I did a really good job keeping that spoiler from them, which I think they were glad about.
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