Saturday Workout

I ran 2 miles in under 23 minutes today! So I was super excited about that! I just ran today. No lifting or anything. I am going to try to run 2 miles again tomorrow. Hopefully in about a few weeks. I can run 3 miles in under 33 minutes.  I stepped on the scale again and it said that I have lost 10 pounds!!!!!!!!!!!!! As you can see I am excited. I just got 15 more pounds to go for my goal for homecoming AND I am 32 pounds away from my overall goal! Continue to keep me in your prayers and pray that I continue to stay motivated and that I continue to workout like a ninja. I am just so elated right now!!!! All this hard work, will pay off in the end! Bye for now! Until next time people!

me? on a reality show

So I was chatting when a young lady who just recently inked a deal with bravo and she wants to air the lives of single women in STL and since I am new to the city they believed that I would be perfect for the show because I am new and I have no hidden agenda. Now that sounds nice and everything, and I am super doper flatter that I was even offered an opportunity like that but I will have to pass. It is funny because I have been in the city for only 8 days and I have been asked to be on a TV show. lol. Its crazy. But I always analyze and analyze again when it comes to situations like this. It is really cool that I was asked but I really don't want to be on TV. Most importantly I really do not want my life aired on TV where millions can see. We all have skeletons in our closets. But most importantly I look at it like this. What if the network, portrays me in a negative light. There goes my jobs in the future. I am really interested in helping others. I am not really into airing my business for the world to see. Although I have a blog and I blog about what happens in my life. When it comes to relationships I am super doper private. That is between me and my signinfant other. That would include dates, fights, etc... I have always been this way and I always will. So being on a show talking about being single....That is ust not me, I am not your girl. But its still cool to talk about. If the show becomes a big hit, at least I can say I was offered a role/part on the show. lol. Thanks for reading!

Shoutowt to my chapter for being on a promo video

I love my chapter! No other chapter is gr8er than Lambda Eta! OO~OOP!!!! Below shows a little cameo of my linesisters, one of my ADPs,and big sisters for a Greek picnic promo!!!  Yep, We are kind of a big deal ;)

DAY 4 at work/fitness update

Day 4 at the jOB...
So today at the job I went over policy and procedures. It was as exciting as reading any policy and procedure book would be.lol. But something exciting that I did today was play wii with the elderly at a nursing home! I really enjoyed watching them play and I had a good time! So that was a gr8 feeling, mainly because I really enjoy interacting with the elderly population.  Oh, and good news, I got a raised. well all the VISTAS at my job got one. It actually equals up to $30.48 more. Every little bit counts and is very much needed and appreciated. So I am very excited about that!

Fitness Update:
I am really proud of myself today. I ate really healthy and I worked out for over 1 hour today. I ran one mile in 10:20 mins so that was exciting. My goal is by the end of 8 weeks to be able to run 3 miles in under 30 mins.I then did circuit training for the remaining 50-55 minutes. I focused mainly on my bottom half today. I did squats while I lifted a bar as I came up. I did step ups and lifts with two 10 pound weights. I also did lunges, leg extensions, and abductor and the other dictors, chest press,lol. I also did the thingy where you are pushing up with your legs I believe its called a seated leg press. I did about 3 sets of 10-15 of each. I also did a front plank, and side plank on each side.I did pretty good on the front and side planks. I was able to hold on for 43 seconds. My goal for next week is to up it to 60 seconds and in 2 weeks to be able to whole it for 2 minutes, and by the end of 6 weeks to hold it for 5 minutes and by week 8 to be able to hold it for 7 or 8 minutes. I did 80 front crunches. 80 bicycle crunches, and 50 side crunches on each side. I am really proud of myself. Tomorrow I will work on my abs and top half. I am also going to run for another mile and hopefully make it to a group class. If I am unable to do a class. I still want to be able to workout for one hour. I weighed myself on the scale tonight and it said that I am 158... Thats awesome I am now currently down 9 pounds. I can't really see a difference in my clothes or anything. However, I know that will come with time. Last week when I did my final weigh in with my Y-change coach I had lost 7.2 pounds and lost 2 1/2 inches. My goal is to double the amount that I lost with him and and to also double the inches that I lost as well. So far I am doing well becuase I have already lost 2 pounds this week. If I keep at it I will lose  my ideal 25 pounds by Homecoming! Wish me luck and continue to encorage me! Be blessd and as always thank you for reading.

SN. I am saying a special prayer for those in the east coast. Be safe and also place all of your heavy items that could fall and hurt you on the floor! And lastly all of those that are starting school in the fall I wish you a successful school year! Continue to pray for me and my family and that God will bless us and help us financially.

New Book New book

So the other day I bought a new book. Its called Butterfly Rising. It is by Tanya Wright. The author told me that they are actually turning her book into a movie. and it should be coming out next year. So that is cool.  I ma going to stat reading this book. Probably Friday or Saturday. I hope its a good book. It cost me $15.00. I'm just saying.lol. It came with a autograph picture too. The book is only 257 pages. If the book is really interesting. I might be able to finish it in a couple of days. But I will do a mini review on the book and tell you guys what I thought. I think everyone should purchased it anyway mainly because I am a true believer of supporting black businesses. That's all for now. Take care and good night. Below I have attached a picture of the book cover.

Marvin's Room...

I love this song. I know its old, but at first, I always turned this song when it came on the radio. But one day last week, I really listened to the song and I really liked. Below I have the original plus two of my favorite remixed. Enjoy and thank you for stopping by and reading my blog!

Day 3... I am getting better

So today was day 3 at the job. So far so good and a lot of stuff is starting to make sense. I was excited about to doing some direct service today and I REALLY enjoyed that. I also did my first rider registration by myself. So that was pretty cool. The client was really nice and I really enjoyed myself.  I went over the policy and procedure booklet with my boss. Tomorrow I will oversee my clients play wii. So I am excited about that. Also today I finally got to workout. I went to a body and sculpt class and boy oh boy was it intense. my ears were sweating and I am not joking. I also ran about .60 miles today. Tomorrow I am going to run 1 mile on the treadmill and 1 mile on the elliptical tomorrow. I am so going to try the cycling class. My goal is to go the gym at 5am tomorrow. I was not successful this morning. Mainly because I went to bed late last night. So I will try again tomorrow. And maybe later on in the evening if I am up to it. I will go again after work to lift and and do some circuit training. I am going to try to do circuit training everyday. I am so serious about losing 25 pounds by Oct. 15. 2011 and lose 35 poubds by Feb 1, 2012. So far I am down 8 pounds.  I am going to weigh myself again this Friday. Pray that I am down another pound or two. But thanks for reading. I will chat with you all later! Be blessed and good night!

2nd day of work/ new siting

Hello all,
So my second day at work went well. I sometimes felt a bit overwhelmed, but I know that is natural. Mainly because it is my 2nd day at work. I found the gym for me so I am excited about that. I decided on a gym called club fitness so I will be going to that tomorrow morning at 5am! I am a early riser! Also today I attended my first staff meeting and one of my cowrkers showed me how to registar riders so I was super pumped about that becuase I really like direct service. I really enjoy interacting with people. I am a social gal! Ohhh, I am also featured in the newsletter at my job. How awesome is that...VERY. It came with a picture of me and a brief bio of what I do, where I am from, and my interests. So that excited me! Also today one of my roommates showed me around the city! I really enjoyed that. A Soror from the almanaue chapter that I joined down here offered me a free ticket to the greek step show that will be going on down here in a few weeks! What a blessings. I am thinking of possibly being the chapter historian but I am not sure yet. Also I went to walmart and got a pretty nice binder for 75 cents. Thats really not important and I am sure you dont care but I was really pumped. lol. Itr was 75 CENTS!!Also today Virginia had a pretty bad earthquake. Luckly no one I knew was injured or harmed. Well, it is getting late, I just wanted to give you guys a update on how my day went. Have a blessed and productive night and thank you for reading!

1st day of work/Fitness Update

OK, today was my first day at work! I was so excited I actually woke up at like 4am. They say we can choose our own schedule and I  really want to work 7:30am-3:30pm or 8am-4pm. Simply because I get up early and I can get off work early. My first day of work was really good. I met my supervisor and I got a quick introduction about the job and what I will be doing along with what my coworkers will do. I got a tour of the building and the VISTA that formerly had my position came by and gave me suggestions and showed me how to do some stuff. I had a fun!

Fitness Update...
Oh yeah I went to the YMCA today, it is in Downtown St.Louis. I was not a big fan of it. Everything was kindof behind the time for me. I guess living in Virginia spoiled me. A lot of the stuff that my YMCA in Roanoke,.VA and Norfolk,Va  has this YMCA in St.Louis does not have. I was asking the man that gave me the tour all of these questions and he kept saying we don't have that, or we don't do that. It cost more money than the one I went to. They didn't have a lot of group classes. And the facility was OLD. Looks like I will be looking for another gym. My goal is: I am thinking about going to the gym at the 5am-7am. Take a shower, eat my breakfast, and arrive at work. Pray that I find a gym that meets my needs and helps me reach my fitness goal.

I FINALLY MADE IT TO STL (ST.LOUIS,MO)

Its update time!  So I left Norfolk, VA on Friday at 3:30am! i took a break at 6am and filled up and also to take a 45 min nap. I filled up again in WVa, Ky, and finally in Saint Louis, Mo. I did awesome on snacks. I are fruits and veggies and a grilled chicken sandwiches.... I finally got there at 7:05pm!!! (CENTRAL TIME) so it was 805 in Virginia. Special thank you goes to my linesisters, friends, and family who called and talked to me the whole way there. It made the time go by fast. Also specail shoutout to the radio stations for playing good songs so when I was not on the phone I was able to jam out. Also praise Jesus for giving me traveling mercy and allowing me to get to Saint Louis safely and in one piece!

 It's crazy! As soon as I arrived in the city I met my roommates they literally greeted me at the door and helped me move everything in my room. My room was a decent size and everyone was so nice. My roommates also helped me arrange my room as well. Then I took a quick shower and changed and I went to my first social event ever in STL. It was fun! I met some really nice people.

The next morning I got up and volunteered with the black expo. This year it was geared toward health and fitness in the black community. It was great, I really networked with a lot different agencies and organization. I got my blood pressure check, my cholesterol was checked and some other stuff. I met some really interesting people there. I also met this woman, Toya Carter. I am not a big fan of hers. But I know a lot of people are so I figured I would tell yall.lol

The next day I came back and volunteered and I met Yolanda Adams AND Johnny Gill.

me and yolanda adams

i got an autograph from her

Johnny wanted to sing to me.lol

It was gospel day and I watched some prasise dances and heard a gr8 sermon. I also am going to start lookomng for a good church while I am here! Pray that I found one that not only preaches the lords word, but also breaks its down so that I can understand it. I like churches that gives me real life situtions and apply GOD to it. My god has done some awesome things in my life and I want to continue to praise and worship hime! Hopefully I can get involved in a Bible study or something. But we will see onlky time will tell. I know I gotta slow down. But I get really excited and want to try everything.lol

I also met a comedian

When I was volunteering, I met some cool and down to earth women.  I wasn't even in STL for 48 hours and met 3 celebs,found some organizations to possible volunteer with, and had a good time as well. How cool is that.... VERY! What a great way to say welcome to the city. Also my roommates gave me a 7 day pass to the gym so I'm so pumped. I think I am going to start doing morning runs and workouts. OHHH I almost forgot, I joined BLACK GIRLS RUN! ST.LOUIS. So I found people to run with me.lol. I know you are probably reading this and wondering how does she find out about this stuff. I cannot help it I am social and I meet people and they tell me stuff, plus I look up stuff as well.  My goal is try something new each week and learn as much about the city as I can in one year! I am excited!

My 2nd goal while I am is here is to lose 25 pounds by Oct. 15, 2011 and to lose 35 pounds by Jan 1, 2012. I stepped on the scale and I am down 8 pounds so I got 17 pounds to go in 9 weeks. I think that's a realistic goal. Also I got to run a 5K before the year is up. That's a goal that I made to myself to do this year. So I gotta do it!.Butttttt its getting late... I will update you all about the job either tomorrow or later on this week!Night and thanks for reading!

COUNTDOWN...

I gotta finish up some last min. items and then I am good to go...

This isnt goodbye, just Ill see you l8r

I leave in 2 days and I am so excited. This past weekend has a been a weekend to remember. You never know how much you are loved or appreciated until timings like this! I got a chance to hang out with my two good friends since I have been in Norfolk. We had a movie night and watch some movies. The first movie was really fun, however that last movie(i actually picked it out.lol) was not. It was the WORST. lol. But I really just enjoyed being in their company. So that made me happy. We shared laughs and it felt like old times. Its always gr8 to be surrounded by gr8 and genuine people....

Many Blessings and LOTS of FAVOR

Boy oh boy do I have a story to tell.
This weekend has been crazy...what started out gr8 almost ended fatal...I have been moving out of my place for the past couple of weeks. My LSs and friends have been helping me and for that I THANK YOU! Saturday afternoon we finally finish unpacking and I take a shower and get dress to hang to out with some girlfriends to eat! We all eat at smokey bones. Then we head to movie.Then right before the movie starts my heads begins to hurt...I thought nothing of. It at worst, and began to watch the movie. Next thing I know I am thinking girl do you have epicbelpic...so I go what if I do, then I go let's just close my eyes, bc I'm not trying to find out and start having a ceshar right here at the movies...so I just listened to the movie with my eye close.(What. Fun.lol) then one of my girlfriends go are you sleeping in a joking matter, and I go no my eye hurt...so another girlfriend(who always has something handy in her purse.lol) gave me a eye drop...so I'm thinking maybe my contact is a little dry...nope didn't help...the movie ends I don't know if the cowboys or the aliens won the battle.lol. Heck the indians probably came in and defeated both of them.lol. My eye was beginning to blur, my friends had to director me as to which way to go!!! It was crazy...one of girlfriends told me I think you have a migraine, I get thoughs all the time and that action pack movie was not helping...I never had a migraine, sratch that I have never been sick(knock on my wood, your wood, and everyone else too) so she gave me some medicine to take and told me to lay down when I got home...take the medicine was a chore within itself for me...

Countdown....

BEFORE I MOVE TO SAINT LOUIS MISSOURI!!!!



Ive been gone for a min, now Im back with the Jumpoff lol

Hello all, corny title I know but I thought it was catchy, dont judge me.lol. I have not been blogging for a while now. Stay tune, I will update everyone on whats been going on with me tomorrow. but right now I am going to a Janet Jackson concert!!!! # winning!