I Heart Peanut Butter

Hope to find a really good vegan place to eat that also will make my dear meat eating friend happy…lol

Pics and post to come…..

Today is a rough day as this yummy limited release beer was my drink of choice last night, at 13% abv

He’Brew Jewbelation

on Tap at The Dive

As I keep my weight loss portion of this blog under password protection, only because my friend Jen who is my “trainer-motivator” etc., lives 3000 miles away and that is where we create dialog. But when I moved into my apartment I was 25 lbs heavier than I am today. Was it because I was lazy, not so much

I struggled the last couple years between working and school full time I had very little time for me, very little time to do anything but sit on my ass and work or study all day long almost everyday. I sat at a desk on average 12 hours a day, had 2 hours of commute in a car. So life got ahead of me. I was also not happy in life, imagine that. I tended to eat my unhappiness away, amazing I take all things that made me unhappy out of my life and I am a new woman. I love working out, I love that my butt, thighs, stomach are getting smaller. I love getting sweaty and out of breath by pushing  myself. I do hate that my asthma and the plantar fasciitis issues I have tend to creep back up just as I am getting my fitness on.

I have never been lazy, ever, my energy was just focused on trying to stay above a 3.5 GPA and not me physically. Also going fully vegan is helpful, it is very hard to eat bad on a vegan diet. Giving up cheese, sour cream and ice cream makes for a very healthy diet. I do not crave things, sweets are few and far between, if I have something sweet it is a coconut bar made with brown rice syrup.

I feel great, I can start to look at myself in the mirror and not be repulsed, I have goals that I am working on each day. 25 pounds gone that I am never allowing to come back. I still have a ways to go but I am off to a great start.

I look over at my super secret blog about when I was meeting with my therapist and my biggest worry was eating away my worries, now that isn’t even a worry. I am happy with my life, optimistic about my future and for once in a long time really love being me. I am in a good place.

“YOU KNOW THEY CALL THEM “KILLER” WHALES?!
BUT YOU SEEM SURPRISED WHEN IT PINNED YOU DOWN
TO THE BOTTOM OF THE TANK
WHERE YOU CAN’T TURN AROUND
IT TOOK HALF YOUR LEG AND BOTH YOUR LUNGS
“WHEN I CRAVED I ATE HEARTS OF SHARKS, I KNOW YOU KNOW IT”

~Neko Case

That is my thoughts when it comes to the Sea World trainer who was killed by by a 12k lbs Orca.

So it is Thursday, I started my internship yesterday and I am very excited with the amount of knowledge both my supervisor and people within the organization. I get to learn from the ground up how the EMR is created, developed, quality checked and how constant updates are made to make sure that the EMR stays within State and Federal regulations and laws..

I am excited and a bit sad I can not work there more than once a week for the the next couple months.

Tonight is the Worcester Comics Creators event at the Printer’s Building and then Trivia. Tomorrow work then get together for Carol at Samba in Framingham. Saturday early morning adventure to NYC with Rich. Wondering who will have more pics us or Big Boy ;D

Come on weekend..

The Davis Art Gallery in The Printer’s Building presents:

MEANWHILE . . . A Group Show of Worcester Comic Creators

Featuring the work of:

Evan Scola
Karl Cole
Robb Sandagata
Doug Chapel (http://www.dsquared.org/)
Pete Beaudoin
Jamie Buckmaster (http://www.jamiebuckmaster.com/)
Andy Fish (http://www.hebsandfish.com)
Veronica Hebard (http://www.hebsandfish.com)
Alison Cowell
Derek Ring (http://www.abnormalbrain.com)
Bret Herholz: (http://herbertzohl.webs.com/)

Wine & Hors d’oeuvres will be served.

Street parking or public library lot is available.

Opening Night: Thursday, February 25, 2010
Time: 5:00pm – 7:00pm
Location: The Davis Art Gallery in The Printers Building
Street: 44 Portland Street, 3rd Floor
City/Town: Worcester, MA

For more information, contact kcole@davisart.com, or call 800.533.2847.

Link to Facebook event invitation.

1. “When I saw you, I was afraid to meet you… When I met you, I was afraid to kiss you… When I kissed you, I was afraid to love you… Now that I love you, I’m afraid to lose you.”

2. “If I never met you, I wouldn’t like you. If I didn’t like you, I wouldn’t love you. If I didn’t love you, I wouldn’t miss you. But I did, I do, and I will.”

3. “Life is the art of drawing without an eraser” John W Gardner

4. “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.” Dr Seuss

5. I would rather be a could-be if I can not be an Are, cause a could-be is a maybe that is reaching for a star, I would rather be a has-been then a might-have-been, because a might-have-been has never been while a has was once an are. Milton B. (this is my favorite quote of all time, well since I was 16)

6. “Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” Dr Seuss

7.“Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.”

8. “A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.”

9. “Whatever you are, be a good one”

10.”Happiness is a journey, it’s not a destination”

11. “Watch your thoughts; they become your words. Watch your words; they become your actions. Watch your actions; they become your habits. Watch your habits; they become your character. Watch your character for it will become your destiny.”

12. The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be” Marcel Pagnol

13.”Dreams come true, without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them” John Updike

14. The Minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. Maureen D.

15. Happiness is good health and bad memory

16.If you don’t know where you are going, very road will be the wrong way. ~Henry Kissinger

Yikes….

I have been looking on Realtor.com once more as I am committed to finding a ridiculously cheap condo/house. Ever since that condo that was 38k that I did not go and make an offer on in time, I am going to find a place that I could have paid off in like 5-6 years.

I found one today in Framingham that is 2 bedroom and looks like decent condition for 47k dollars….

I now know more about condos, associations, legal issues and short sales than any 30 year old gal that does not work in real estate needs to know. So I am certain any decision I make in the next year or so will be a wise, very researched decision.

I am excited the room is booked at the Hudson- New York a Morgan Hotel. It was designed by Philippe Starck, so the modern feel and clean lines will be nice to see. I am exited.

Hudson-New York

Reviews on Expedia

Hotels by the City Write up

I love modern, pretty hotels like this. Ok I just love hotels…

Hudson Hotel

356 W 58th St
New York, NY 10019

NPR will be talking about the new book “Why we love dogs. Eat Pigs and Wear Cows” which I am interested in listening too. This was a huge part of my ethics class in which I enjoyed debating. I do understand it is cultural because some countries do eat dogs but not pigs. But how do individuals separate one animal from another? I can’t do it, I love all animals and creatures. I have a spider relocation program and I enjoy the somewhat dirty pigeons outside my alley way windows in my apartment.

Here and Now

She discuss carnism, stating that vegetarians are always explaining their beliefs but those who eat animals also have a “belief” system. The system that teaches us not to feel or turn away from the truth. I have personally never been able to separate a pet from an animal on a farm, even the year I did eat meat I had to pretend to not think about what I was eating.

So now that I am losing weight and inches, I am enjoying wearing cute clothes again. Now I want to shop but really I should wait til Spring and lose a bit more weight and have even more fun shopping. Pretty dresses and shoes will be my wardrobe for the spring/summer.

Start to a very busy week and also seems like a week of snow and gloomy weather.  Yesterday went for coffee and movie with Julie, we went and seen Shutter Island and I am glad that I had no idea the end of the movie, made it much more suspensefu, like most of Leonardo DiCaprio’s movies I liked it a great deal. I do think he is one of the most versatile and a true “character” actor. I can’t think of a movie that he was in that I didn’t love, and his ability to make me love or hate his character makes it even better. I remember seeing Revolutionary Road with Julie and just hating his character.

Then went bumming around with Rich, then dinner at Evo. I have to say I am not a fan of a fully “vegan” burger. The cheeze does not melt right and their black been burgers are not all that great.

Planning a weekend in NYC this coming weekend, been like 5 years since I have been to NY, why…why….why….. So I guess if anyone thinks of anything that is a much see, let me know.But maybe we are going to take a show in and make a trip to the Statue of Liberty ( the only chance in my life to go was when I was like 8 and it was closed for work) and then I just never did the tourist thing. Booking a room in Manhattan as I have only ever stayed in Brooklyn so should be fun.

Other than that, long week as I start my internship this Wednesday. Excited and Nervous at the same time.

So yesterday Beth and I took Cassidy (her daughter) and Keyarra (my niece) to Boston for fishy and seal fun. They had a great time but it was SO busy there being the last weekend before school vacation is over. We also went and caught the “Ultimate Wave- Tahiti 3D” at the Imax which I had no issues watching Kelly Slater for 45 minutes..YUM

Then followed by a later lunch and we were all tired….

“True Happiness is… to enjoy the present , without anxious dependence upon the future”

~Seneca

Thankfully it is Friday. I have had a super busy week- enjoyable but busy non the less, not much sleep and ready for the weekend. Been to the Greyhound three times this week as it seems to be the place with events, but after last nights Trivia night I realized I need to up my knowledge of useless information. Yesterday was my day off so on Wednesday I headed to Brighton for the night. Rich suggested a vegan (yes suggested) Asian restaurant for dinner. I enjoyed some yummy veggie tempura and Sweet and Sour tofu.

Was a pretty low key night, followed by me actually sleeping until 7:30  and then breakfast at The Breakfast Club, a diner in Brighton. It was super cute, 80′s music loud but other than our orange waitress it was fantastic. Being from Worcester where Diners are plentiful it was still pretty good

Last night I had a hair appointment at Scizzors in Shrewsbury and  cut all my hair off again, been awhile since I have had the pixie-esc cut. Feels nice to get rid of the asymmetrical cut I have had for the last year or so. But since one side of my hair was so short, there was limited cuts I could do right now, the plan is to let this grow to become a bit “softer” but I had to start somewhere.

(This was after it was styled by the stylist and not me, a bit different today, not so fluffy)

Looking forward to the weekend. Tomorrow Beth and I are bringing her daughter and my niece to The New England Aquarium and then out for Alicia’s bachelorette cocktails and celebrations. Hope to get to the movies this weekend to see Shutter Island and need to get my binder together for next weeks internship starting. Maybe if I am lucky I will see Rich, but he has a friend in from out of town, so who knows…