243: Overview

• Oy. Sorry about that. Things have been hectic; going back to full time, working out three times a week. People who want to see me. 
• Saw Keriann on Thursday. Played with makeup, she put makeup on me, had dinner, watched makeup videos and talked about the application to Korea. Can't believe my application is due in a little over two weeks. WHOA!!!
• Friday, I went to the gym with my Mom. I always fall asleep after coming home with the gym. 
• Saturday, brought abbey to the shiba meet up in Coronado. Didn't see any shiba meet up but saw two shibas. Abbey ignored every single one of them. She sat in the sand and was afraid of the water. Luckily for herself, everyone thought she was a cute dog sitting by her lonesome. Dragged her in a couple of times and she was not happy for the experience. :P After that, I went to the gym with Rahmaan and Cassandra at 24hr on a free 3-day pass where we stayed for over two hours making me use machines and barbells. Also went to the Yogurt Mill as a Thank You for driving. 

Don't be fooled. She hates the water

• Was domestic on Sunday: cooked eggs for breakfast, washed my car, put away my laundry, made salmon for dinner and cooked rice. Didn't get to go to the gym with rahmaan and see regina. :( But I was pretty damn domestic.
• Work was slow yesterday. But I got a chance to look into my online classes that started. They relatively have the same content but different aims: one is for overall health and wellness. The other incorporates the lesson of overall health and wellness and incorporates it into understanding of health laws in the state of california. 
• All-day Date with Jon today. :) We haven't seen in each other since Wednesday and haven't had a lot of time to talk since I pass out after I go to the gym...and that's when he calls. >_<

233: the oddities continue

• My CSET scores came in. 210/220 - 220 is passing. Missed it by 10 points. :(
• Ran into someone I used to date while doing deliveries at the bookstore for work. It turns out he works there and we work for the same company...just different departments. Now I'm not anticipating the next Christmas party. =/
• Interrupted a job interview during another set of deliveries. While it doesn't sound so bad, in my head I was obnoxious and asking where the boxes that needed to be picked up were.
• Bolton created this since my co-workers were bitching about deliveries again.

• Fitness: Went to the gym with my Mom again, we've decided to make it a Monday/Friday thing. Ran into someone from high school who's going into the Navy. Did a lot more on the bicycle this time as well as the machine room for the first time in awhile. 
• Weight loss update 5lbs!!! it's a slow process but I'm proud of each one that I find disappeared. :)

197

Thea's Despedida

• The tagging continues. I barely woke up to several e-mails discussing my tagging on Facebook. Oy. 
• K-Pop - I haven't really been into it for two years and I've been listening to the same music I've originally downloaded. Finding a pattern amongst Korean media like Music and Television sucks a lot of the fun out of enjoying it. Auto tune, sex appeal, and wannabe rapping... it's just so...monotonous. Also I found out that one of the music groups that I actually like had a member that I liked leave. The group is called After School and last year Becca (one of the rappers)  left and recently the leader, Kahi and other rapper left. I think they only have two of the originals left in the group, but since those two were my favorites I just became over it. Also the new 2NE1 song had potential to capture me with the previews, but when I heard the entire song...I was just over it. Plus, there's something about them always changing their hair colors that just bother me. Dara has purple and red with that drab head shave thing that Cassie started. 

• I haven't been doing much working out lately. Considering a gym membership elsewhere and closer to my house since 20 minute drives overcompensate a $19 membership. I'd join the 24 Hour Fitness no more than 10 minutes from my house but at an up front fee of $53 and $25/month...I might as well switch over. Or maybe I should invest in some exercise equipments.

192:

Song of the Day: Peter Pan Complex - 자꾸만 눈이 마주쳐

• Yeah, yeah it's in Korean. Yeah, I don't have a clue as to what in the world he's saying. But if there's one truth about music. It's universal and if you like how it makes you groove, feel, or what not why not enjoy it. When I first heard this song back in February, I was immediately reminded on The New Pornographer's "Sing Me Spanish Techno", maybe it's the electronic beats. But this is probably the first indie Korean song that I really liked. 

No makeup

versus with makeup

• No makeup today. Makeup fanatics may cringe at that idea, but for me sometimes being without makeup can be a liberating kind feeling. 30minutes of more free time. Just pop on my moisturizer - just because I said no makeup doesn't mean I can skip on the skin care aspect. There was one thing I wanted to do when I got back into makeup three years ago, and that was not to feel as if I had to be one with the makeup I was wearing. Not to feel that I was disgusting and ugly without these products on. I remember being a teenager during one of my many attempts to get into makeup, foundation and all and when I saw how I looked without my makeup, I cringed inside. There was this assumed pale sickly shade that I associated with my real skin tone. I wanted the bottle to be my real skin tone. But that really shouldn't be it when it comes to makeup. So I step out into society and say, hey here are my flaws. Got a problem with them?

• I made a fitness board on pinterest and I found this magazine article that was very interesting. I think this is from an Australian magazine since some of the ingredients from those recipes are only available in Australia.

FITNESS DIARY

•  Got to the Gym around 4:50pm. I decided to walk to the gym from my car in PS1 across campus. Just so I could add an additional 13minute walk to and from the gym totaling 26 minutes of strides. Did elliptical for 35 minutes. Since friends was on, it was actually pretty helpful to have it on so the 30 minutes went by quickly. I found an ab machine and a torso toner. I tried to do 100 crunches on that machine and I think I need to up the weights on that machine. I consoled Livestrong.com which I'm starting to find has the answer to everything like, "change exercises every 2-3 weeks and with regular exercise a deficit of 500 calories/day can lead to losing 1 lbs a week. (http://www.livestrong.com/article/523201-how-many-crunches-a-day-to-get-in-shape/ )I think I need to up the challenge on those work outs. Total Body Challenge tomorrow at 1pm. EE! I think I'll try to go to Rohr Park tomorrow morning to go running and then head over to the gym early for some work outs and then the class.

Late 189: Priorities/Fitness Diary

**I was typing this last night but I was so tired from that day's workout, I just knocked out. 

• For everything I'm saving up for, I really need to prioritize what's important. Paying for my new found bills I've been put up to pay for now and Korea/Grad School. A camera and a new purse amongst other things will have to be put on an indefinite hold. I'll have to see how July really goes to see if I can truly go to LA to visit Regine. Trips to LA will be $40 but double that for the trip back, alone to trip will cost $80 through Amtrak and probably $30 through Greyhound. It's hard to feel appreciative of my first world privileges when I have limitations that are making first world living stressful. Cray. Cray. 
• Super sore from yesterday's Total  Body Fitness class. Mostly in my thighs and my back where I feel it the most. I didn't want to get too lazy so I tried to fit in at least 30 minutes of fitness today after I made a lot of note cards for my CSET. I got 30 minutes on the elliptical since Jon was free after 5pm. Afterwards we went to this awesome place with fresh smoothies and Mediterranean Food. I felt lively after my Green Tea Fruit smoothie with Fat Burner. Tried some hip hop cardio moves from HowCast afterwards since I'm having trouble with the Kick, Cross, Rock, Step but I am liking that 
• My Mom is getting to me right now since she asked me what was the relevance in KAMP for me. All in all. Basically asking me to stop going. "Why are you spending so many hours there? Is there other people who are there so you can stop going?" Is what she basically said. With as much as it took not to go Katie Kaboom on her, I told her that what I was doing with the Summer Enrichment Program I was developing with Lily, I was creating Lesson Plans and I'm planning on going to Grad School for Educational Leadership. It was really disappointing to hear.

188: Total Body Fitness > 7 Hour Nap

• I have only a matter of minutes before the clock hits midnight which will then mean that  I've missed over three days of blogging.
• The last several days have been busy. No really, busy. Well...except for today where I went to work, hit the gym, took my first Group Fitness class in Total Body Fitness. Since I was slow and out of beat (embarrassing), I was having trouble 15 minutes into the class. Hopefully I can go again on Tuesday without fail. 
• Headed home afterwards, and after a cup of my left over Boysenberry yogurt from Yogurtmill from yesterday, I cuddled with Abbey which turned into sleeping for seven hours. Yes, that means I woke up only an hour ago and had dinner. Now my legs and my bum feel like they're melting off and I only hope I can do more intensity training so I can get out of the red zone for Diabetes and High Blood Pressure.

187: Eyes, Oil, and Mini Golf...oh my?

• No work. 
• Went to my Eye Doctor Appointment and found that I need new glasses.
• Chilled at home until Rahmaan gave me the green light to come over to his house. 
• Abbey's getting in the habit of knocking over the trash. Luckily, we have a lock on it now :)

underneath all of that, is rahmaan trying to locate my oil filter

• Went over to Rahmaan's so he could teach me how to change my oil. We went to Autozone to get a $25 deal for a new filter, plug, oil pan, and oil amongst other things for my car. Unlike Autoport that charges $40 and the place around the corner that charges $25 and you wait for three hours. Since my car was foreign and Rahmaan had to get look for the oil filter and plug in my car, instead of teaching me it turned into helping him locate things. The only thing I did was put the oil in. No manual labor for me yet. I'm probably going to have to purchase bricks or a ramp for my car in the near future as well as a socket wrench so I can truly do it on my own and maan's supervision later. 
• bought maan sandwiches from Subway as a Thank You. 

cassandra

rahmaan

• Maan and I hung out with Cassandra and went to  Boomers in El Cajon, Target, and Yogurt Mill. When we arrived in Boomers, I realized that I had been there before with my friend Denise when we were 9 years old. It's not as put together as the one in Clairemont, but the bathrooms were kind of rank and falling apart. 

186:

• work.
• went up to Mira Mesa to meet with Lily at her new place she's sharing with Rhona, Brandon, and Trish. We continued talking about the lesson plans we're developing for the Cultural Enrichment Program at KCS in a couple of weeks. Jon came over in his lunch break to bring us Orange Chicken. :) After several hours, we finished 2 LPs with Veronica Mars and Daria playing in the background or when we hit a brick wall in planning. 
• when we were done Trish and Jon came over after work and we assembled several tables. Productive day to say the least.