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| Me now... this pictuer really makes me feel sick... I seriously let myself go |
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| This is where I want to be again! IT WILL HAPPEN! |
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Monday, June 27, 2011
I want my body back!
Alright well this has been a goal that has been some what up in the air since I moved to Italy. I did put it into progress when I got here but my allergies made me super sick and went out of controll. Well since now I have out appartment more in order, I've been looking at a few of the recent pictuers taken of me and excuse me for this, but GOD DAMN I LET MYSELF GO! I mean Jesus! I use to be really fit and when I met my husband I was only 10-15 pounds from my goal (was around 145 at the time). Now since then I gained another 35-40 pounds! My God, I seriously was a big time stress eater when Nate was in Korea for a year... I should of had better controll so now I need to lose all this because it is a no go lol. I know some of you might think I'm being hard on myself but I kinda need to be if I'm gonna get back my body!
So right now I'm setting my first goal. Two months from today I need to lose 10 pounds, which will be about 2.5 punds a week. It's going to be super hard because my husband is a junk food lover (he eats soooo much of it, but where does it go?) and I just need to fight it with a salad...
Day 24
A travel story.
Hmm, well since right now my life is a travel story, I'll do one from my childhood. When I was in elementary (I can't remeber what grade) I went to Laos with my mom. As some of you know my mom is from there and immigrated here during the war. She wanted me to see and learn when her side of the family came from and see how she lived. Which they still lived that way when we went to go visit. I don't know if it has changed any since Laos is a third world country and the little village she lived in was pretty much no where near any major cities. I got to meet family that I thought didn't exisit and got to live her life for a month when I was younger.
Hmm, well since right now my life is a travel story, I'll do one from my childhood. When I was in elementary (I can't remeber what grade) I went to Laos with my mom. As some of you know my mom is from there and immigrated here during the war. She wanted me to see and learn when her side of the family came from and see how she lived. Which they still lived that way when we went to go visit. I don't know if it has changed any since Laos is a third world country and the little village she lived in was pretty much no where near any major cities. I got to meet family that I thought didn't exisit and got to live her life for a month when I was younger.
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Day 22
A favorite recipe
Oh my I have a few favorite recipes! Haha, well I'll go with my yummy baked cheese cake one. This is my hubby's favorite sweet desert thing to make and we both LOVE cheesecake! This is pretty much a basic recipe for a plain one, but I always spice it up depending on my mood and change it a little bit.
Baked Cheese Cake
Crust:
2 1/4 cup graham cracker crumbs
1/2 cup butter or margarine, melted
*Sometimes I get lazy and just buy the crust premade in the tin :P
Filling:
1 (8 oz.) pkg. cream cheese, softened
1 Tbsp. lemon juice
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup milk
Dash of salt
1/2 tsp. vanilla
2 eggs
Topping: (This part is optional, but it is super yummy!)
2 Tbsp. sugar
1 cup sour cream
1/2 tsp. vanilla
Combine graham cracker crumbs and butter, press into buttered 8 inch pie plate to form crust on bottom and sides.
In a mixing bowl, beat cream cheese until fluffy. Gradually add in lemon juice, 1/2 cup sugar, milk, salt and vanilla.
Add eggs, 1 at a time, mixing well after each addition. Pour filling into crust.
Bake at 325 degrees F for 25 to 30 minutes or until set.
Combine the 2 tablespoons of sugar, sour cream, and 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla; spread over top of cheesecake then bake for 10 minutes longer. Chill for 5 hours or more before serving.
Oh my I have a few favorite recipes! Haha, well I'll go with my yummy baked cheese cake one. This is my hubby's favorite sweet desert thing to make and we both LOVE cheesecake! This is pretty much a basic recipe for a plain one, but I always spice it up depending on my mood and change it a little bit.
Baked Cheese Cake
Crust:
2 1/4 cup graham cracker crumbs
1/2 cup butter or margarine, melted
*Sometimes I get lazy and just buy the crust premade in the tin :P
Filling:
1 (8 oz.) pkg. cream cheese, softened
1 Tbsp. lemon juice
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup milk
Dash of salt
1/2 tsp. vanilla
2 eggs
Topping: (This part is optional, but it is super yummy!)
2 Tbsp. sugar
1 cup sour cream
1/2 tsp. vanilla
Combine graham cracker crumbs and butter, press into buttered 8 inch pie plate to form crust on bottom and sides.
In a mixing bowl, beat cream cheese until fluffy. Gradually add in lemon juice, 1/2 cup sugar, milk, salt and vanilla.
Add eggs, 1 at a time, mixing well after each addition. Pour filling into crust.
Bake at 325 degrees F for 25 to 30 minutes or until set.
Combine the 2 tablespoons of sugar, sour cream, and 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla; spread over top of cheesecake then bake for 10 minutes longer. Chill for 5 hours or more before serving.
Thursday, June 23, 2011
It's been a little bit...
So the last time I've updated you guys on live here in Italy was when we had only been here for a month. Haha I feel like I've been here longer than that but I haven't. We've gotten uses to a lot here so far. I've made a few friends. We traveled a little bit, we've fought, we've laughed, lol gotten irritated with the country. Just a lot really.
Well since I got here I joined the spouses' group for the squadron that Nate works in and I have met some wonderful ladies! I also was able to do a little word of mouth about me doing hair and it seems to be getting out with them, which I'm happy about because I love doing hair and it gives me a chance to interact with other wives and not only my husband... Not that I don't like inter acting with Nate all the time but I need some girl talk! But more with the spouses' group... It's pretty fun and I went to the first meeting and what not. then all of a sudden I'm the Vice President of the group lol. Not that I don't like doing itm it was just kind of sudden is all. There was some drama when this happend but I think is all over now... I really hate drama so I pretty much just kept my mouth shut and went of about business for the group. Other than that I've been putting together some fun things to do for fundraisers since we support the squadon's x-maws party. More to come later I'm sure.
Well since I joined the group I met teo wonderful ladies that invied Nate and I to go to Croatia with them and their families' which was super nice. I thank these ladies for making me feel welcomed when I got here. I don't want to mention their names because of privacy but they know who they are! As we went to Croatia with them we went to Pula and saw a coliseun and had some lunch in the town. Then we went and found a beach and I got bit by some kind of bug and left a welt on my leg for about a week. Then we had an adventuer of someone. I can't remember who, wanted to go and find a nudist colony that was in Croatia. Haha, well we found it but we didn't go in to check it out. It was pretty funny day. We didn't get back until about 2am which was funny cause we had to get up at 6:30am to be at a wine tour at 8am, haha not a good night sleep, but it was fun!
Wine tour! Well it's called here Cantina Aperte. This happens once a year and the local winerys open up to the public to do free wine tasting and you can buy a crap ton of wine! This was one of the spouses' group events, which was pretty fun. I don't think I ever saw that many vinyars before! By the 7th winery we went to I think thats when I started to feel the headach coming on, but I stuck it out! After the wine tour a buch of us decided to go to dinner at this chicken place called BeFed. Oh they have amazing chicken but I had to have Nate take me back another day to actually eat it. I felt sooo sick by the time we got there that I wanted to vomit... So we left dinner early because I didn't want to ruin the night for anyone else. I pretty much passed out when I got home. I think I got sick because of the mixter of drinking wine, the heat, and not drinking enough water.
Hmmm... I'm trying to think of what else has heppend since we got here. Oh we took some super cute but crazy expensive vintage photos... I think if they would drop thier price a lot more people would of gotten thier pictuers done. But we paid the money (which we did not get our monies worth) for the pictuers because they were different and we did like them but not the pice we had to pay.
Oh and we finally got out of town by ourselves by getting lost fining Ikea lol.
So other than what I tried to rack my brain to remember I think that's all that has happened so far :)
♥/ Jaynon
Well since I got here I joined the spouses' group for the squadron that Nate works in and I have met some wonderful ladies! I also was able to do a little word of mouth about me doing hair and it seems to be getting out with them, which I'm happy about because I love doing hair and it gives me a chance to interact with other wives and not only my husband... Not that I don't like inter acting with Nate all the time but I need some girl talk! But more with the spouses' group... It's pretty fun and I went to the first meeting and what not. then all of a sudden I'm the Vice President of the group lol. Not that I don't like doing itm it was just kind of sudden is all. There was some drama when this happend but I think is all over now... I really hate drama so I pretty much just kept my mouth shut and went of about business for the group. Other than that I've been putting together some fun things to do for fundraisers since we support the squadon's x-maws party. More to come later I'm sure.
Well since I joined the group I met teo wonderful ladies that invied Nate and I to go to Croatia with them and their families' which was super nice. I thank these ladies for making me feel welcomed when I got here. I don't want to mention their names because of privacy but they know who they are! As we went to Croatia with them we went to Pula and saw a coliseun and had some lunch in the town. Then we went and found a beach and I got bit by some kind of bug and left a welt on my leg for about a week. Then we had an adventuer of someone. I can't remember who, wanted to go and find a nudist colony that was in Croatia. Haha, well we found it but we didn't go in to check it out. It was pretty funny day. We didn't get back until about 2am which was funny cause we had to get up at 6:30am to be at a wine tour at 8am, haha not a good night sleep, but it was fun!
Pula, Croatia
Wine tour! Well it's called here Cantina Aperte. This happens once a year and the local winerys open up to the public to do free wine tasting and you can buy a crap ton of wine! This was one of the spouses' group events, which was pretty fun. I don't think I ever saw that many vinyars before! By the 7th winery we went to I think thats when I started to feel the headach coming on, but I stuck it out! After the wine tour a buch of us decided to go to dinner at this chicken place called BeFed. Oh they have amazing chicken but I had to have Nate take me back another day to actually eat it. I felt sooo sick by the time we got there that I wanted to vomit... So we left dinner early because I didn't want to ruin the night for anyone else. I pretty much passed out when I got home. I think I got sick because of the mixter of drinking wine, the heat, and not drinking enough water.
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| Spouses' Group and a few husbands |
Hmmm... I'm trying to think of what else has heppend since we got here. Oh we took some super cute but crazy expensive vintage photos... I think if they would drop thier price a lot more people would of gotten thier pictuers done. But we paid the money (which we did not get our monies worth) for the pictuers because they were different and we did like them but not the pice we had to pay.
Oh and we finally got out of town by ourselves by getting lost fining Ikea lol.
So other than what I tried to rack my brain to remember I think that's all that has happened so far :)
♥/ Jaynon
Day 21
A photo of something that makes you happy.
I have been sunch a slacker with my blog! I kinda feel bad cause I've thought about hurrying and just getting the 30 day thing done already lol but the n I get lazy... So now I'm just gonna try to get on here and just get er done! Haha.
A photo of something that makes me happy.... hmmmm.... I kinda have to think about this because a lot of things make me happy. Right now it's my love, Nate, hehe. Oh okay I think I have it now! Lol, it's when Nate suprises me with flowers! Yep, he always gets me such beautiful flowers for just anything really. It doesn't even have to be my birthday, or our anniversary. He just get's them from me and tells me I love you just because.
I have been sunch a slacker with my blog! I kinda feel bad cause I've thought about hurrying and just getting the 30 day thing done already lol but the n I get lazy... So now I'm just gonna try to get on here and just get er done! Haha.
A photo of something that makes me happy.... hmmmm.... I kinda have to think about this because a lot of things make me happy. Right now it's my love, Nate, hehe. Oh okay I think I have it now! Lol, it's when Nate suprises me with flowers! Yep, he always gets me such beautiful flowers for just anything really. It doesn't even have to be my birthday, or our anniversary. He just get's them from me and tells me I love you just because.
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| This isn't the last one he got me, but the one before. I forgot to take a pictuer of the last ones he got me :/ |
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