I went to Old Navy today and purchased a few items from their “Plus size” Section. Ha. It’s awesome ;) Anyway, onto the point of my story.. Gene and I basically try to avoid “trends” in as many ways as we can. But I am not a total rebellion and sometimes whatever is currently trendy is actually quite cute and I must indulge. With that being said, I sometimes have a heart attack when I see that my sister got a pair of $60 jeans from Hollister that are 30% torn up. It is just crazy to me!

So today I did the one thing I said I would never do, I bought a pair of torn up jeans. Yes. And they actually fit good and look kinda cute ;) I’m impressed. But just know that I did not spend $60 on them and really, that is the most important thing. So anyway, the funniest part of the story is that I was checking out with some young high schoolage kid that was either very, very metrosexual or not-quite-sure-yet homosexual, and he scanned the jeans and began to fold them as he told me that these jeans were very trendy. I just smiled and look at Gene with the “Oh my gosh did you just hear that??” look and the guy must have thought I was offended because he followed his comment up with “And that’s a good thing!” LOL. So anyway, we were walking out of Old Navy and I told Gene how badly I wanted to say “Oh… they are??? Ummm…. I don’t think I’m gonna get those anymore” after he told me how trendy they were, lol. But hey, at least I didn’t ask him where he got his braided hemp bracelet. That would just be trend overload.

Anyway, that is my post for today. I am trying to get into the shower so that I can get into bed by 11. I am very, very tired. For some reason I have slept like crap all week and it doesn’t seem to be getting any better. Not to mention I have a slight infection in the gums near one of my teeth and it is causing much unwanted pain!

(P.S. I think the weight loss thing is still going well. I’m fighting temptation better than I ever have in my entire life. I’m trying to eat my fruits and veggies and I am down a size in pants! I have a long way to go but gosh I feel SO wonderful now. I always feel like I have more energy than I ever did before and I never feel that so sick I’m gonna puke feeling after eating. I always feel satisfied.)

A quick one before I head off to bed. I don’t wanna break my record days-in-a-row posting so I gotta post at least something. And I think today’s topic is going to be about how pathetic I am as far as exercise goes.

First of all, Gene and I have been taking walks in the evenings and we usually walk for 1 hour. We walked a 5K (3 miles) in 1 1/2 hours so I know we have to at least be walking about a mile or mile and a half. It may not seem like much to you all but for someone who doesn’t exercise that much, it actually is quite a bit and I’m trying to work my way up! So anyway, now that you know that, you can know that tonight I attempted the treadmill and I lasted a whole eight minutes. Wow, I am some stud huh? Well, the thing is that the incline is set entirely too high and I was doing more of a slow jog than a walk and I think that is why I tired out so quickly. I’ll try again another day.. The way I look at it is that I at least got my heart rate up and broke a sweat.

But that is all I am posting about today. Gene has fallen ill to some kind of weird stomache virus or something. He’s dizzy and pukey and not feeling good at all. He slept all last night and all today :( So I need to get the load of laundry out of the washing machine and then get myself into the shower. I’ve got to get more sleep than I got last night or I wont make it through tomorrow!

My computer is running butt-slow! I think Photoshop CS is eating the system resources. I’m trying to get myself familiarized with CS so I can start using that instead of 7. I’ve had both of them installed on my computer for a really long time now, but I’m one of those people who gets set in their old ways and has a hard time adjusting to change :o

I am really excited for a couple of reasons. So I will explain them for you:

1. I’m excited that I have new seat covers and a steering wheel cover in my car. Target has some new “Seat Shirts”, which are seat covers for your car made out of t-shirt material. They’re absolutely adorable! I got a pink one for the passenger seat that has a 1950s housewife talking on the phone and it says “Oh no you di’int” LOL And then I also got one for the drivers seat, which is all black and has the “female” bathroom sign in pink. Keeyute! And the steering wheel cover is a light beige colored with brown paw prints, and its fuzzy!

2. I’ve been eating healthy. I don’t know if you remember me mentioning it or not but I’ve been lowering my calorie intake and trying to remember to eat my daily snacks to keep my matabolism up to par. Well, today I went to the doctor’s office to talk about what I’ve been doing and to make sure what I’m doing is healthy and good for my body. I started all of this somewhere in early January and since then I have lost 28 pounds! I really cannot believe it. It is totally motivating and now I want to exercise more and eat even better so that I can continue on this journey.

3. Tonight we’re eating Sushi! Hah. I know this seems so lame but I am totally obsessed with Sushi. I love it! And there is a place here that has it and it is sooo yummy there. Gene, Layla and I are going tonight. I have only had a dannon light ‘n fit smoothie and a couple of 100 cal snack packs today so I am armed with an empty tummy and ready to pig out :) I tell ya, when I first had Sushi I hated it. I thought it had this overly empowering yucky taste and I couldn’t stand it. Since then Gene and I have had it a few times and the more we eat it, the more in love I become with it. Especially the Philadelphia roll, it has smoked salmon and it just tastes delightful!

Anyway, I really need to get off of here. Gene should be home from work soon :) Hope you all have an absolutely wonderful weekend! I don’t know if I mentioned it in the last post or not but I got a new cell phone and it has a camera on it.. so expect lots of low quality camera phone pictures in the near future ;) Hah. I love the darn thing! And you better believe the first ring tone I put on there was Baby Got Back by Sir Mix-a-lot. And I don’t know if I mentioned this or not either but Sir Mix-a-lot is coming to town on my birthday this year and I am still thinking about whether or not I want to go. If you know me, you know my obsession with Baby Got Back. I’ve had the obsession since about 6th grade or so when I first heard the song.