I have heard that doing a push up while in bed
makes you work harder because
the mattress isn’t a stable surface
So this morning when I woke up on my stomach
I thought
I’m already in almost push up form
might as well give it a go
and so I put my palms down
and pushed up
the mattress was very unstable
and it made it very hard
I didn’t even make it all the way up
so on the way down
I flopped into my pillow and went back
to sleep.
the end.
this is a great song to run to… except it makes me a little more skippy and dancey then runny… so I have to really concentrate when I’m running to not start dancing. serious!
on that note. i think I would kick butt at being one of those dancing “CiCi Pizza” sign holders on the side of the road.
here’s some other songs in my work out playlist
the reason why the last post was entitled “Dream Bedroom” was because I was going to post pictures of what I really would like my bedroom to look like… but then I somehow started it off on the wrong foot by telling ya’ll about my weird burrito dream.
So anyway here are some pictures of what inspires me for what I would like my bedroom to look like. Chad is not on board at all. He thinks that if we had a white bed set that the kids would instantly go find themselves a mud puddle and then try to make snow angels on top of the comforter. But this is what I’m holding out for and I’m a girl who likes to pretend that I get what I want.
by the way I went to yoga last night you know because I’m on a quest for Serenity in 2010 and it helped a little. There was one part where I was meditating and she was saying “Whatever bad things are in your mind write down the one word that you associate with it, write it down on a piece of paper, roll it up, tie it to a balloon and watch it drift away” So I wrote down a word, rolled it up, watched it drift away and not kidding the balloon then popped and it came back down to me and i was like “stupid brain” so then I did it again… and right when I was tying it to the balloon she changed poses on us!!!
but it made me miss my sister Stephanie a whole lot. She is a great yoga instructor. She has this peace about her that I love and appreciate. And why I love it so much is because she’s really earned it. and I think thats why people can really feel it during her classes, because its real and genuine and trusting.
found this song the other day and i’m really feeling it right now
especially these words:
No, this is how it works,
You peer inside yourself,
You take the things you like,
Then try to love the things you took.
And then you take the love you made,
And stick it into some,
Someone else’s heart,
Pumping someone else’s blood.
And walking arm in arm,
You hope you don’t get harmed.
But even if it does,
You’ll just do it all again.
Well now that I’ve turned this into such a hodge podge of a post I’ll tell you something else. I dyed my hair the other day and also my eyebrows and it stained my skin purple. So I googled “how to remove hair dye stains” and it gave me some options. First I used baking soda toothpaste. then nail polish remover. burned! the other option they gave me was to get cigerette ash and mix it with shampoo but I didn’t have any cigarette ash on hand :( so I kept reading and it told me to get a mr clean magic eraser. I did that and it worked… but basically it was like sandpaper and it rubbed the skin off my face. it hurt so bad!!!
oh and I got a new headband yesterday at Target. it kinda looks like this
that about does it! have a great weekend - love shell
On Sunday after church as we were sitting in the car, waiting to leave the parking lot, Chad turned to me and said and I quote
“What’s wrong with your boobs?”
Well sweet heart, I bore your children and nursed them, that’s whats wrong with them.
“What do you mean?” I ask looking down. Yep there they are.
“Um it looks like you have 4 boobs” he smiled so nicely. A little too nicely in my opinion. and then his eyes glazed over…
(jk… guys! I was just kidding!!! I was just trying to make you laugh… on an unrelated note: Chad, Total Recall came in the mail today from Netflix…but I have no clue why you want to see it so bad.)
I felt for them. Yep sure as the sun rises, in this case my bra, I did indeed have 4 boobs. My real ones, and my bra ones. See I wore my slick g’s and my bra had no friction to save its life… so up it slowly crept until the underwire of my bra was sitting perfectly across my clavicle. I have no idea how long it had been like that, I always am a little absent brained at church with all the goings on of Primary. But I do remember during Jr Sharing Time that I had to lift my arms up a whole lot while doing this little dance with Tansy. So it probably happened then. sorry kids.
I don’t know if anyone noticed and hopefully no one did and no one thinks less of me. would you notice a girl at church looking like this?
4 boob has happened to me before. A long time ago in a land far away….
Back in college at UVSC I signed up for a racquetball class. Now see I have no NOPE not one drop of athleticism in my body. But one time when I was visiting my sister at college I played racquetball with this guy, who was muy bueno might I add, and he let me win. Probably to be nice, but for some reason I had it in my head that I was good at a sport finally! Not only good I thought, but I could (with training) be GREAT!
So the first morning of Racquetball I got ready for the day and for some reason wore the stupidest bra that I owned. A strapless bra. Which was leftover from my sister Stephanie from HS, who was at least a full cup size bigger than me, which made the bra… already unsteady as is with no straps, had nothing but air to grab onto.
So if you’ve ever been to UVSC, please remember now the hallway where the racquetball courts are located. Remember how two racquetball courts were completely visible from the hallway? Like you could walk down the hallway and press your face into the glass as you watched people play.
Okay so class starts and our teacher goes through some training and such and then pairs us up. I and this guy who looked oh so fine (and like 24/25, PROBABLY RM!), were paired up and played in the first racquetball court. The one right next to the hallway.
I was doing some pirouette’s and goofing around then switching it up by swishing my racket through the air like I knew what I was doing. Showing the guy that although I was 18 with braces, I could still be oh so cute (pirouettes) and tuff (swishing my racket)
So we start playing and I manage to get a few points. I had my game face on. Boo ya!! I was really trying very hard. Seriously I was trying to do my best and I was really getting into it. The only bad thing is when you have no athleticism in your body and you try really hard –> you look like a major dork. My arms and legs were all over the place… and I still run kind of funny… because I use to sit in the “W” form when I was a kid… Seriously. If anyone of you has seen me play any kind of sport and I’m looking like a goofball… (Need I remind any of my family members of my infamous dive attempts at Lake Powell) its because I’m trying really really hard to be athletic.
So I’m like all out of breath and we were taking a break… and I am doubled over trying to catch my breath, but still trying to be cute, so I’d look over at oh so fine dude every now and then and do a cute smile. :) and oh so fine dude is checking his watch. OH MY GOSH I’M LOSING HIM!!! I stand up, do a little jog in place, swing my arms around… getting back in my groove folks… getting my game face back on…
then all of the sudden Oh so fine dude is looking at me kinda funny… with a sort of bemused smile on his face… a little twinkle in his eye… oh yeah… I think he’s starting to flirt with me. score 1 for Shellie.
“Uh…..” he says… still smiling
“Yeah?”
“You have a little problem”
“What”
“Your uh shirt? You are having a little problem”
“Huh???”
I look down. What the???? There’s a weird lump around my stomach… WAIT A FRICKEN MINUTE! THATS MY BRA!!! My bra was like around my waist… like it was a freaking belt. a big bunchy belt. Awesome.
So I slipped the raquetball cord off my wrist, dropped it on the floor, turned around and walked out, grabbed my back pack, using it as a shield in front of me and went to the bathroom where I got it back in place, then went to the computer lab where I unenrolled from Racquetball 101.
THE END.
I learned to ride a bike when I was 10 years old. We lived in Garland Utah. The girl that lived upstairs in our apartment complex had to get both of her legs broken and re put together or something because she was bow legged, and the lower half of her body was in a full cast. It smelled like pee.
Anyway she had a bike. She couldn’t ride it. (Well I guess if we really wanted to we could have held her up on the bike and pushed her along.)
But anyway that is how I was given the opportunity to learn to ride a bike. and it didn’t take to long. although I had 6-8 months to learn to do so.
Chad was in an ATV accident. He is doing okay. He doesn’t have any broken bones, just scraped up real bad and pretty sore. oh and he’s loving that I’m taking care of him… I helped him go to the bathroom, take a shower, eat, put him to bed, dressed him, and rubbed his head and said “Poor Little Bunny”
I am really really hoping that we have enough money to put him in an elderly home when he gets old. Doing all that stuff is very draining.
The best VERY best thing of it all was this morning (I WISH I COULD TAKE A PICTURE!!!)
Last night before I got to the Instacare that Chad was at, Chad received a shot of very strong pain reliever because he was in so much pain. He received that shot in the behind. By a male nurse. AKA … Steve. No big deal.
But this morning after I helped Chad get undressed to get in the shower I saw the band aid that Steve had applied after he gave Chad his shot. It was a Tiger Print (see middle band aid)
Seeing that on Chad’s cute little bum just made me laugh so hard.
So last summer after moving to Georgia I gained 8lbs in one month. I just felt so gross, tired, and depressed, and lonely. So I would just eat and eat. Plus I hadn’t lost any baby weight since I had Kate. My clothes were not fitting and I had no energy.
So I went over to L.A. weight loss and started a program with them. Here’s what I ate on the plan when I first joined
3 servings of Vegetables
2 servings of fruit
3 servings of starches (carbs)
2 1/2 servings of protein
2 servings of Dairy
2 l.a. lites (protein bars)
8 cups of water
and it was pretty easy to follow. I lost 8lbs in one month. I didn’t feel that hungry and I was a pretty happy camper. I was thinking that by Dec 07 (losing 2lbs a week) that I would have gotten to my goal weight.
but 2 things happened after that initial 8lbs
1. I went in for a meeting with my counslor and she looked over my food journal and when she noticed that I had eaten “one strawberry milkshake flavored oreo” she looked at me and said “You shouldn’t have had that cookie… this is called a diet” I felt so bad. I was also kind of pissed at her for saying that. I was like why couldn’t she have said “you only had one oreo! thats great! thats great willpower” so I stopped going in.
2. They switched me to the lower food plan and I felt like I was starving. So I over ate every day. I was just soooo hungry. I couldn’t do it.
So for a couple of months I just bounced back and forth. I’d lose weight, I’d gain weight. Even after I joined kickboxing and felt like physically I was getting stronger I wasn’t feeling that way with my diet.
but this past April it clicked over in my mind. Every day I ate clean. I wouldn’t eat the kid’s left overs, I wouldn’t eat just even “one cookie” , I followed my meal plan and started working out at home. and then I started losing 2-3 lbs a week.
So this is what I eat every day (you might notice my new count up in my tick tock section. its for eating clean every day. which means I don’t detour off my meal plan… even for one little chocolate chip, or a handful of chips) This is my L.A. Weight Loss plan. and its their lowest level. So if you are at a lower level of weight you can follow this… but if you have more weight to lose follow the plan that I began on (mentioned above)
2 servings of protein
2 servings of carbs
2 servings of vegtables
2 servings of fruit
1 serving of dairy
2 protein bars (150-180 calories, 5 g protein, 3 g of fiber)
8 cups of water
this is how my day usually goes
morning
orange and yogurt
or
smoothie made with yogurt and strawberries
water
(NO BANANAS!)
snack
protein bar and water
lunch
salad with protein (sometimes tuna fish, sometimes grilled chicken)
piece of wwheat bread (2 slices if its “sara lee delightful)
water
snack
protein bar, water
dinner
green veggies
chicken
brown rice
dessert
fruit
(sometime I save my dairy serving for dinner so I can make a smootie at night so it feels like I’m having dessert)
thats it for diet
for exercise
I do kickboxing 3x a week
and fitness videos or walking on my off days.
I am so hungry. Sooo hungry. and yeah I’m eating. its not that kind of hungry. its the kind of hungry where I just want to EAT ALOT OF FOOD! I don’t want to say that I’ve been depriving myself these past couple of months by being on this diet. There’s definatly been times where I’ve eaten a cookie (Rachel Duffin Makes the best cookies in the world and I had to eat one of hers) and there was a time just last week where I “binged” (I had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and then some ice cream, and then 4 pancakes) (oh and a handful of chips) which in all actuality when I use to have bottomless pit in the past I would have had So much more than that!!! and…. it would have lasted all day long too.
but here’s some things that I can’t wait to get my hands on. which will be around winter time. In the past when I’ve been on a “health kick” it would last a couple of weeks, maybe a couple of months, and then I’d go right back into my old eating habits and gain all my weight back. I know that even after I go off my diet I’ll have to still keep things on track. I’ll have to limit my treats, and limit my portions. I’ll have to always remind myself to make the healthy choice. which for me is the best choice. because its really really really easy for me to gain weight. I could look at a piece of cheese cake and gain 5 lbs.
Rachel Duffin’s chocolate chip cookies.
$6 burger from Carls Jr
Krispy Kreme Donut
French Fries
with Fry Sauce
Peanut Butter Cookie with Chocolate frosting from Hungry Bear Cafe
Burrito with cheese and sour cream
Fettucinni Alfredo
Rocky Road Ice Cream
BREAD
BUTTER
BREAD WITH TONS OF BUTTER ON TOP
BREAD WITH TONS OF BUTTER AND HONEY ON TOP
Chuck-o-rama
Golden Corral!!!!!!
