Healthy Wolverine

I first of all have to say that I have been very unhappy, and to be honest a little bit depressed about how my body looks, and I don't remember a time when I was ever confident in the way I looked. I have always been very self-conscious and felt like I was a bit overweight or a bit chubby. I am starting to change that attitude I have about myself. I figure that sitting on my butt and thinking about it and getting down on myself isn't going to make the weight go away. Last summer I started doing something about it and I lost like 30 pounds! Then I was happy for awhile and slowly...some of the weight has come back. The last few months I have started excercising regularly and eating a lot better and guess what? I FEEL GREAT! Yeah sure I am still a bit dissatisfied with the way my body looks but it's looking better every day ;) I am noticing a difference! Today I started a program that I heard about from my boss, it is called "The Couch-to 5k Running Program" and combined with my Turbo Jams (my absolute favorite workout dvd) I am excited for the resluts I am seeing and will see! Seriously though...Turbo Jams kicks my butt...there are many days when I feel like staying in bed, or I feel like I am going to die because I am so freaking sore but I love it! I don't own a scale and I have no set weight I want to lose or set inches to shed, I am going to keep doing this hopefully for the rest of my life. Why? because it's good for me! It's never too late to start good habits!

Now I don't want this post to seem like a "poor Heather" or a pity party for me because I know that there are many people (probably the majority of people) who aren't happy with the way they look, but guess what? YOU CAN CHANGE THAT! I'm getting to where I want to be, and that makes me happy. I'm not doing this in hopes that I can get the attention of males...although that would be nice haha...I'm doing this for myself because it makes me feel good!

If any of you want to see what the program is like, here is the link: http://www.coolrunning.com/engine/2/2_3/181.shtml

Be a Healthy Wolverine! (don't mind sweaty ol' me after a nice workout!)

*peace out girl scout*

*CAUTION: AWKWARD CONTENT*

Ok, so on Friday in my Human Sexuality class we had a guest speaker. I was pretty excited, not gonna lie. The guest speaker was a cross-dresser. In this class we are starting to get into all of the icky stuff like sexual addictions and all the sad/weird stuff like that. This guest speaker doesn't know he/she is a part of this curriculum, in his/her (whatever) eyes, this is a normal educational lecture. Ok, back to the story....I was really excited...until he walked in, dressed in drag basically. I was immediately weirded out! It was one of the most bizarre things I have ever experienced. Then he started talking...not even trying to disguise his man voice. I don't think I blinked the entire class, all I could do was stare at him. He had more curves than I did. I couldn't help but stare at his cleavage...now normally, I don't go around staring at peoples cleavage but I figured because under all of his makeup and dress, he was actually a man, it wouldn't be too wrong of me to stare. I kept thinking to myself, how in the world does he get cleavage like that?! He is a man. Later we found out that he wears a super tight girdle and a pushup bra with little chicken cutlets(they are actually called silicone pieces, but I call them chicken cutlets because that is what they look like). The whole thing was amazing to me...and not in a good way. This man, woman, person...whatever you want to call it is married, with 4 children. He says that when he is a man, he is comfortable being a man, and he is comfortable with his man parts. He compares his crossdressing with men who play golf. He does it occasionally for fun. Whatever...it was just plain weird. *peace out girl scout*

My ducks

These happy little guys sit in my windowsill. My friend Chrissy gave them to me, and I love them. They go along with everything else that is covered in airplanes in my room...I have a slight obsession I think.

St. Patrick's Day Festivities

Yesterday was St. Patty's Day and I have spent the entire last week trying to plan our little "Relief Society Birthday/St. Patrick's Day Party". It's been quite the task actually, especially when nobody from the entire committee did really anything. I made delicious sugar cookies though, they are to die for. Just this morning I had 3 for breakfast! Shhhh don't tell anyone!!(guess I will have to incorporate more crunches into my work-out today).

I had originally planned on making them shamrock shaped but I could not, for the life of me, find a cookie cutter in the shape of a shamrock! So I made round cookies and cut a little stencil out of paper and laid it on top of the cookie and sprinkled the green sugar on it! Up close it just looks like a blob of green sprinkles in the middle but amazingly, you can actually tell they are shamrocks in this picture!!

I'm really quite upset about the whole party thing, it was last night and only 4 girls came, FOUR! For crying out loud I put a lot of work into this activity! There was a chocolate fountain, come on girls, CHOCOLATE! and all sorts of things to drown in chocolate such as: cinnamon bears, marshmallows, bananas, strawberries, and pretzels. I even had green kool-aid! Anyway...enough venting, I have a lot of extra cookies and I'm going to have to take some into work so that I don't end up eating them all myself.

This picture makes me happy, I also had all this stuff for us to paint our nails green at the party. Aren't these colors just fun? I thought they were. My nails are a pretty shocking green color now :)

So as I was cutting up strawberries for the party, these two huge berries were in the bottom of the container, I should rephrase that, these two MONSTER berries were at the bottom. Look at how huge they are!!! I could not believe that they actually grew that big! And boy were they delish!!! I've been on a strawberry kick lately, I eat them all the time, it's wonderful, it makes me happy :)

*peace out girl scout*

What I've been up to...

Well, for starters, I have been sewing like a crazy woman. My school work has been seriously neglected. I finally finished my Sailboat quilt which I think is presh! (that's for you Kira) It was a LOT of work but I learned something new and it was fun. I made a small baby quilt for a display at work and it turned out super cute as well.

I feel like people who read my blog are expecting a fabulous story about a recent flight I've had or something like that, but the truth is, I haven't flown for over a month, and it makes me sad. It's not because I can't, or haven't wanted to, but because right now I am gearing up to finish my instrument rating, which makes for A LOT of ground work and studying. My next phase of flying will contain mostly cross-country flights which I am super excited about!! ...but my instructor has a job interview with SkyWest this week, which means he may be leaving...and I will have to find another flight instructor...again! It makes me mad. Those of you who know the story about my previous instructor, and how bad he was, you know how excited and happy I have been with my current instructor. Hopefully he will be able to stay with me until I finish!

At the end of February, I went to Reno to the Women in Aviation International Conference and OH MY GOODNESS was it amazing! I was so inspired and uplifted with all of the women that were around me, there were flight attendants, human resource people, mechanics and pilots. And all of them were WOMEN!!! It was an incredible experience, seriously, I'm already planning on going to next year's conference in Dallas. I was able to take my resume around to different airlines and have them critique it and let me know what I can do to improve it. Delta took my resume actually, and hopefully they consider me for an internship. As of now, I'm working on applying for several internships. My ideal airline for an internship would probably be either JetBlue or Alaska Airlines....I'm not gonna lie, it's mainly because they are paid and they have nice flight benefits ;)

As for now, I'm just busy all the time with online classes, work, church callings, sewing, trying to keep my room clean (that is quite the task) and keeping the rest of the apartment clean.

One last sneak peek on my current sewing project that is almost complete....

*peace out girl scout*

Topless and Hotdogs

This week, on that one really warm day we had I saw people driving around in a convertible with the top down and windows rolled up. I don't know why, but that absolutely BUGS the crap out of me! Yeah the weather was nice, probably nice enough to put the top down and cruise around Provo but seriously....roll your windows down! I understand that with the windows up it probably cuts down on the wind blowing through your hair, but isn't that why you bought a convertible in the first place, to feel the wind blowing through your hair? If you don't want your hair to get messed up then 1) put the top up or 2) don't buy a convertible, buy a regular car that has a roof, I'm pretty sure they are a bit cheaper anyway. Enough venting....convertible drivers beware.
Today I had the weirdest and most intense craving for a hotdog. If anyone reading this knows me, you know that I HATE hotdogs. I eat on average 0-1 hotdogs a year, and I like to keep it that way. But tonight, something weird occured and the craving hit, so at almost 8pm, I was driving around to find a hotdog. I went to JDawgs because I've heard great things about it. I went in, got a Polish dawg with saurkraut (spelling?), banana peppers, and the "special sauce" which was sweet but kinda spicy at the same time. That dawg was DELISH!! It definately satisfied my craving and I think it changed my views towards hotdogs. I can see myself eating them more in the future. So, a big shout-out to JDawgs, you made my night!!

*peace out girl scout*

Boot Camp

This is me and one of the newest Marines! Looking sharp Jonny! My handsome cousin Private Spendlove graduated from boot camp on Friday, January 28th, 2011. I went on a roadtrip with my grandparents down to San Diego for a couple of days, and I was able to visit with my dad while I was there. We went to MCRD to watch the graduation on Friday morning, and it was a really cool experience. Afterwards, we went and got the starving Marine some food, and boy could that guy eat!! Two foot long sandwiches later, he was practically ready to eat again. We were all able to sit down with him and listen to all his many stories from his past 3 months of hell he endured. He said it was the most difficult thing he has ever done, but he is very proud of himself. My whole family is proud of him, this is quite the accomplishment. I am grateful for all of our service men and women and the hard job they have of protecting us and our country. I am grateful of anyone who is willing to give up their life so that my life is safer, and I live in a better place. I am grateful to my cousin for the sacrifice he has made and the sacrifices he will continually make. I feel blessed to live in this country where we can be free.

*peace out girl scout*