sickkk :(

I hope you all don't get what I have!
Flu AND bronchitis = not fun.
But I'll be back to work tomorrow, already.
I had a fever for a few days, and kept it at 100 degrees with the help of tylenol for two days...the 3rd day (yesterday) I woke up with a 103.7 degree fever..so I dragged my butt to my car and took myself to urgent care. I hate not having Jon here :(
But I took care of myself. I had 3 doc/nurses coming in and checking on me and doing things. They were worried about my fever because after tylenol it still wasnt going down. So they gave me motrin, and water. Took all my vitals of course. And took a swab of my NOSE. I can handle throat ones, but I have never had my nose swabbed. I could feel that thing back in my sinus cavity, it sucked. Anyways, they took that and I definitely had the flu. Then gave me a breathing treatment thing to help clear out my lungs. But my bronchitis is badddd.
Then prescribed stuff and I was on my way.
Took my prescriptions to work and had my co-workers fill them HAHA. and I obviously called off :(

Because I've been sick I've missed a few days of my workout, and I've been sleeping a TON, and laying in bed a lot...which is understandable and expected, but I hate it. I feel like a bum.
I'm the type of person that if I'm not doing stuff with my days, I feel blah and feel like a waste.
So even though I don't want to go back to work tomorrow, I'm also glad I am that I will be doing something..especially Jon will be unreachable tomorrow.

I guess thats about it. I'm gonna go have a bowl of ice cream (1/2 the sugar, fat & calories!), and lay in bed with my homework, magazines, and tv shows. adios lovelies.

My life as I know it

Link up ladies for the Blizzard Bloghop! ***


Welcome to my new-ish blog, which also means new addiction :P
My name is Katie, I'm 20 years young, 5'9, and in Nursing School full-time. I also work about 30 hours a week as a Pharmacy Technician. I love keeping busy because my other half is currently deployed to Iraq and will be there till close to the end of this year.

This is Jon & I :)
Jon is in the U.S. Army and is a Chaplain's Assistant. He is 21, a ginger, and a goof! :) But a great guy.
We met 3 years ago and started dating just days later. I honestly could not be happier :)  We have such a great relationship. We both love to goof off and have fun. You're only young once!

(Jon and I reuniting after AIT)

Next I will show you a picture of me and my cat, his name is Tattoo, and he definitely helps occupy my time as well. Such a trouble maker at times!  He's unique, he has extra toes/paws :P

And yes, I have my tongue pierced. I'm a rebel in a way.  I don't live the "typical college life" of partying and drinking etc.  But I love tattoos and piercings. I have 2 tattoos, my tongue pierced, two belly button piercings, & ears pierced 4 in each.

Things I enjoy: any day I'm with Jon, we always have fun. I love summer days/nights. I love sitting by a warm fire with hot chocolate. I'm newly addicted to tea. I love to read. I love four-wheeling, shooting, dirtbikes. I love bonfires & roasted marshmellows. I like monster energy anything. I love shopping. I like to sew and do crafts (although it's been ages since I've had the time!). I like to cook and bake. I like to workout, but my weakness is icecream :D

Hopefully you all stick around to follow me on my adventures and we can learn more about eachother!

rant, update, progress.

Update! Yayyyy!
Once again, I'm a failure at keeping up with writing posts...but honestly theres not much to talk about it seems. Although I'm sure I'll come up with lots!

School...is going.  That's all I really wanna say about that. I'm so not into it and I feel like I'm wasting my time, but I'll save that for another post, and Hopefully I will be over this feeling soon.  I have zero motivation to study, I HATE it. ahwell.
Another thing I don't like, is fake girls. I'm not even bothering with discussing, but let's just say that I'm done with the fake friends, I'm done being nice and trying. I'll just keep my mouth shut and stop being the good guy and getting takin advantage of. Friendship should be a two way street!


On a happier note, Jon is celebrating his big 21st birthday on the 25th! I sent him a birthday package and he received it, but I had a funny gift and card wrapped up, so he hasn't opened that yet. I'm very excited, and you all will DIE LAUGHING when I tell what I got him :D  (next post!)
but here's a hint:

AND, tomorrow my momma is coming up and bringing my little sister, we are gonna go out to lunch just us girls and I'm very excited. It will definitely be the highlight of my day! <3

My "goals" I listed previously have been going fairly well. The one I've really kept up with is my goal to start and do Jillian Michaels 30 day shred. I've done 7 straight days already, ONE week down!

And I started level 2 today on day 7 instead of waiting till day 10.  With level 1, there were a few parts that I was like Ughh can I stop?, but for the most part I found it not so difficult as what I thought it should be...probly because over the past 4 months off and on I had been doing a p90x ab workout (just the ab one).  So level 2 today...KICKED MY BUTT. I hate any exercises that you are in the "plank" form....which happens to be almost all of them in level 2! AH. But, I did it, and I was downing water afterwards for sure.

So far I have noticed toning ALREADY, and it really excites me, because that's what I've been wanting for years, is to be thin and toned. I got the thin part done, and now I'm working on toned.

I didn't take pics starting at the beginning of the 30day shred..I never thought of it. But I do have pics from yesterday (my day 6). I wanted to post them, but I didn't want to piss off fellow workout-ers because I know it'd piss me off back 6 months ago when I was tryin to lose some weight and then seeing some pic of a tiny chick. BUT I did manage to find one pic of back then when I was beginning to lose weight so you can KINDA see my before. and my present day..maybe that will help motivate fellow workout-ers instead of make them angry!

BEFORE: (Taken last summer?) (I tried covering my love handles)

CURRENT: (taken 1/22/11)

(And one of me "flexing" my "abs")

Note: All I want is some more definition/toning. Eating healthy only gets you so far, now is where I have to work hard (ab workouts) to get those abs! If I can do it, so can anyone!

Gettin' back on track!

Well, I'm kinda bummed with myself...to say the least.

I've totally slacked off in just about every department in my life (I blame deployment :P ).

Before Jon left, I was always so motivated and enjoyed doing things that I now hate to do.

At the end of the day I feel like my day was a total waste. I sit around watching t.v. and movies on my laptop on my days off work/school...actually I do it whenever I'm home.

I procrastinate on homework, my room isn't as clean as I'd like it to be, I don't eat too much on most days, I don't do my ab workouts anymore, I just don't do the things I'd like to get back to doing..

Sooooo,

with that being said, I've made some new goals::

1. Start doing Jillian Michael's 30 day shred.

(exercise actually keeps me motivated and not tired)

2. Lay off the low-cal Monster Energy drinks and any other carbonated stuff

(gonna switch to water, and tea for the caffeine)

(oh and 8 glasses of water a day)

3. DO HOMEWORK in any free time possible.

4. Don't watch another episode of tv on laptop, because then I just lay in bed

and become even less motivated/willing to do stuff.

5. Download more music. When I play music in my room, I get motivated to get stuff done

(weird? probly so, oh well :) )

6. Eat more, but healthier, and nothing late at nights.

(this late at night snacking thing has GOT to go...gonna be hard for me.)

7. Write Jon more.

8. Read more.

this includes books, school books, and The Bible.

I seriously have gotten lost from my relationship with God.

9. Save more. Save allllll extra money in a separate place.

(I'd like a new car somedayy)

Now, hopefully I can accomplish these. I'm actually pretty dang excited to start the Jillian Michaels 30 day shred...maybe I can influence my roomies (or at least one) to do it with me.

Okay so my weekend was pretty good I suppose.

Yesterday I went to my momma's. And let me tell you what, my little sister never fails to keep a smile on my face. She's the coolest little kid and sibling ever. Yes thats horrible of me to say, but my other brothers and sisters are pre-teens, at their annoyance stage. hahaha.

So here's a few pics of her cuteness:

isn't she the cutest?

she's so dang smart it's not even funny.

and she loves her "choc-o-late"

idk how many times I heard "c'mon sissy!"

and she cried when i left. "come wif?" she asked.

mom said no, and she was like "see u soon?..lob you!"

I love sharing my bday with this girl. (2 days apart)

SO speaking of birthday::

Remember when I told you about my amazing flowers Jon sent me for 

my birthday/ our THREE year?

Well they bloomed and are freakin gorgeous! Such a good future hubby!

Btw, he made me cry at work on our 3 year. I had to work 11 straight hours that day,

and he had tried calling and calling and finally sent a message to my phone saying 

that he loved so much and all this sweet stuff us ladies love to hear from our men.

And so I checked my phone just in time to tell him to call me, so I ran to the bathroom 

and talked to him for about 3 minutes and I was so teary-eyed that I had to get it together

for 5 mins before I went back to work. He is so sweet, and I'm just so happy and thankful to 

have such a great man, especially being so young. :)

Happy Birthdayyy!!!!!

TO ME!!!


WOOOOOO...


kinda. Not too exciting honestly. Today was my official birthday...big 20..woofreakinhoo. LOL.  Obviously I had celebrated last weekend since my bday falls on a lousy humpday. But today wasn't too bad. Got to talk to Jon a good bit this morning (like 15 mins), but he will be m.i.a. for a few days.
Here's me at the age of 20: (no I don't think I look any older :P hahaha)

At around 1100 I got a knock on my door and I went bolting down the stairs (I was waiting for my surprise from Jon). I opened the door and on the ground was a green/black box :)

As you can see, those are clearly FLOWERS.

woop woop, from Jon I got a huge bouquet of fresh flowers (they aren't bloomed yet, I'll post a pic up when they are!), and there was a nice big glass vase with them, and one short but super sweet note that read as this:

"Love you more than you know. Happy birthday and three years!

Love, Jon"

Yes, today was my birthday, and Friday = our 3 years. hehehe. I love that boy more than HE knows!

I was pretty much a bum all day. Watched tv, ate some chocolate cake (which one of my roomies made for me), drank Monster...then I went to one of my two classes today...I'm proud of myself on that one.

Came home, ate, watched more of my shows...then my other roomie came home and brought me jerky and more monster (they know me well!)..and here I am.

Of course I got 19837494327 happy birthdays and quite a few phone calls..but nothing too special [besides those lovely flowers :D ].  All-in-all, today was good, and hopefully my 20's will be some of the greatest times of my life!

piercings? oh yes.

This weekend has been AWESOME. 

Although after the high I've had all weekend (a fun-high not drug high lol), I now feel pretty dang depressed and sad. But enough of that...I'll discuss my weekend :)

Friday night I went out to eat with Jon's BFF Brad, and his gf Sami...its always been us four, so it was us 3 without Jon, but it was great. Had Amazingg food, then went and got blizzards hehe. Walked around walmart for a bit, played in the snow (as in donuts in our cars, etc etc). Then went home.

Saturday morning my dad took me out to brunch at Cracker Barrell and it was delicious, had pancakes and eggs and turkey sausage...yumm. Then shortly after, my friend Miranda showed up to pick me up and take me to my surprise she had planned. And one hell of a friend she is! OMG. We pulled up to this day spa and she had full body massages planned for us. I've never had a massage in my life. And now I would love if I could have them all the time. haha

Then we went home and relaxed and took a nap after that amazing massage. Then we got up and were debating on whether we wanted to go get piercings or not and if so what if....and Jon called! He was like "go get a quarter and flip it. best 2 out of 3. heads you do it, tails you dont". Soooo, we flipped the coin and it said to go get piercings! Jon had told Miranda before that he'd love if I got my lip or nose pierced...however I know I can't have a lip piercing at work..and idk if I can have my nose pierced or not, so I didnt want to get that if I'm just gonna have to take it out in a few days when I go to work. So he said to surprise him and he didnt care what I got lol

Miranda got her belly button pierced, it was exciting to watch...I had already had mine pierced.

And I got my lower belly button pierced!!!! It looks pretty cool. It's actually a "surface piercing" and hurt 15x worse than a normal belly button piercing. I would of rather gotten another foot tattoo lol. But oh well, I'm just hoping my body doesn't reject the piercing, because I guess the success rate for surface piercings isnt the best. But so far so good...and here's a pic of our piercings :D

(btw, my new piercing I'm gonna get a smaller ball for the bottom one, that way it doesnt look like two of the same piercing. but it's deff different :)  )

So we got our piercings and then went to my fav Mexican place to eat, and all the boys came, so we had fun and didn't stop laughing once! Also had a margarita..mmm.

Then we went to walmart, rented a movie, bought some winecoolers and headed back to my dads house to watch the movie and just all chillout. (these are the lovely fun birthdays you get to have when your bday is in the winter and it snows a ton!) But it was awesome.

I got upset at the end, a long story, but it's all good now.

OH YEAH, and I did my nails all cute and zebra like. It cost me about 5 dollars and about 10 minutes of my time. yess. yay for cheapness

Miranda stayed the night last night, we slept innnn, and then we went to Jon's parents for lunch.

Yummy stuffed shells, salad, and texas toast.

Then we met Brad and Sami at walmart to get a few xbox games for Jon, and we went 

to Dairy Queen and got blizzards (yes the second time in two days) hahaha.

Then Miranda and I came back to my house, slept again, then she left..and here I am.

Wooo.

Yay for an eventful weekend

But I miss my catt. Pretty pathetic right? lol

I feel pathetic. I miss my boy. I dont want to do anything except sleep and lay in my bed.

I don't know what's gotten into me and why I'm so depressed tonight. I've been like this all weekend, but just sucked it up and made myself have some fun..even though I can't get it out of my head.

And today when we were in Dairy Queen, a guy walked in that was dressed in full ACU's. It pissed me off, I was so upset. And the night everyone was at my house for the movie and I said I had gotten upset? yeah, Brad stood there holding me as I balled my eyes out. I have been doing SO well, and now I know I shouldn't make many trips home when he's not here. Cuz every dang thing in this town reminds me of him...all our memories are here. GAY.

Okay so yeah, I gots to go do some homework, hopefully my blog was somewhat entertaining.

I'm trying to be completely open and honest and not-caring of what I say..cos' it is my blog ya know?

I've already lost two followers :P But I don't care, if you don't like what I say, feel free to leave....I did start this thing for me, I never thought I'd have more than a couple followers.hehe.

So yeahhh. woo. Hopefully this week starts lookin up!

<3

bummer.

First off, I've been so busy that I haven't had time to blog :( I've kept on peoples' posts, but can't find the time to sit down and write my own...it probably doesnt help that I have nothing new to write about hahaha, life is the same as usual, so sorry if I've been boring :P

Heres what is going on: work, school, homework, pharmacy training, work, sleep, food, cleaning.
Howeverrr, this weekend I'm going home to my dads! YES.
Finally a few days off, which I am taking to celebrate my birthdayyy.

I turn 20, no longer considered a "teenager"....woo...
I'm so not excited for my birthday honestly...I'm just excited to get all my friends together and have some funnn with them!

Turning 20 doesnt seem like much to me...probably because I'm currently the 19 year old that acts like a 35 year old. I'm not your typical partying college girl. My friday nights (that I'm not working) normally consist of me sitting at home with school books, the tv on, and my cat on my lap. Sometimes I'll have a drink or two..but thats it.

BUT, I have a friend that has the SAME birthday as me, although she turns 21 this year, so I'm more excited for her than me.  We MIGHT be going together on saturday to get something pierced....I have my belly button pierced, tongue pierced, and my ears done a ton...but I can't get any facial piercings because of my  job..so if we do go get piercings, I'll get an industrial just for the heck of it LOL. Theres a deal for buy one, get one free piercing at the place I've gotten all my tattoos/piercings..so thats why we might go together for our bdays...I'll put pics up if I get it done!

Also, my friend Miranda has some surprise for me on Saturday. she said they close at 1, so we are going at 12ish..and I have no idea what it is, so I'm excited for that.

I'm so thankful for friends that are doing so much for me and keeping me happy on my birthday while Jon's away <3