Rude People

Okay so I have to share something with my fellow bloggers to maybe make some kind of impact on the "consumer" world. As some of you may know, during the day, I am at an elementary school trying to better our children. At night, I work at the same place I've worked at for 7 years. I won't display the name but I will tell you, it's a bank. I don't know if my irritability comes from working for the same place for so long or if I am in fact accurate in my annoyances. This is what happens more often than not. I call a customer to my line and welcome them, introduce myself, and ask them what I can do for them. This is what I get in return. Silence! Yes, no "hold on a minute" or "I want to make a deposit" or "I need some money" It's complete silence. Sometimes it's a blank stare. So I stand there and for the sake of keeping my job just smile and stare until they hand me a check. Then I look at the check or the check card or whatever they hand me and yes, sometimes, there's still no response. So then I have to either A) read their mind or B) ask them again, "What can I do for you?" And then there's the people who don't smile, don't say thank you and just walk off as if I'm not a real live person. I can't tell you how many times I've said "Thank you, have a great day" and there's nothing in return. This has really begun to annoy me because it's as if we are treated like robots. We're not real people. Sometimes I've seen customers of mine outside of work and they look at me like "what are you doing here? You mean, you have a life outside the bank?" I think the positive I can take from all of this is the attitude I have towards others when I am the customer. I also have to remember Jesus endured alot more rude people than I ever will. So I keep a smile on my face (some day's it's bigger than others) and keep going because I know that "This world is not my home" And lucky for me, I get to go to school and be around a bunch of sweet smiling kids all day. So I guess like everyone else, I have to take the good with the bad. I hope everyone has a great weekend!

posting everyday is impossible!

Okay so I just have to come to terms that I will not be able to post everyday. It's just impossible. I have been so busy with everything that is going on in my life. I started back to school this week. Only three seminars everyday for three days. Actually it was pretty boring. We did alot of paper work ie: filling out graduation applications, making sure we have all our classes in place.... We talked about expectations for this semester (which was so overwhelming by the way), and we talked about graduation. That part I loved talking about. But honestly I'm ready to go back to the kids (ask me that gain in a few weeks and i might have a change of heart). So needless to say the whole " biggest loser contest" has been put on the back burner. I did weigh this week and I stayed the same. But at least I didn't gain any back. I also weighed in the afternoon which is not your true weight. So I don't know how accurate that was. So I will continue my efforts. Starting next week I'll be eating lunch with the other teachers everyday and they are all obsessed with eating right and losing weight. So that should help me out too. So I hope everyone has been staying on track with their personal goals. I think my next posts will be more fun with a few pictures.

Day 3,4,5,6

Well, I haven't been great on keeping up but I haven't done so bad with the biggest loser contest. I didn't do so good over the weekend b/c we went out to eat 3 times. It's so hard to eat out and eat good. So we weighed in on Monday. It had only been 5 days. And guess what... I lost 2.5 pounds. My goal is to lose 2 pounds a week. So yeah! I hope I can keep it up.

Day Two

Well, today I was very sore. I guess it was from the butt/thigh workout last night. So I got up this morning, did the 10 minutes wk out and went to wk. I ate a granola bar for breakfast. I ate yogurt for my snack. I ate left over rotisserie chicken for lunch with some salad. I didn't have another snack. I got off earlier than usual so I was able to make dinner at a decent time. It's kinda funny. I wasn't sure what everyone wanted so I made three different kinds of chicken. Grilled some, sauteed some, and baked some with some rice. So i had a little of each with some green beans. I will admit that my mom was eating some m&m's and I took exactly 6 from her. I figure that can't hurt much right. The bad news is, I didn't do the wk out video tonight. Today was a little hectic and I was just ready to get into bed. So here's to day two. Only 3 more days until we weight. I hope I've at least lost a couple of pounds by then!

The Biggest Loser

Okay well, I have really wanted to lose some weight for a while now. Actually right after we got engaged (almost 2 years ago), I thought I would lose weight. But I just never got motivated enough. So we decided at work to do our own Biggest Loser Contest. There's 5 of us who are "enlisted" as we call it. We will each pitch in $20. By the end of March, whoever loses the most weight will win all of it. So now, I'm motivated. So how am I going to do it. I could run, like my good friend Kerrie does every morning. But I'm not much of a runner. I could join the gym .... but it's too expensive (not to mention crowded this time of year). So I'm just gonna do the good ole, cutting calories, smaller portions, and exercising. One way I thought would motivate me is to keep a journal. So you all are going to get the first hand experience of my attempt at "The biggest loser contest". So here I go with Day One....

Day One:
Woke up at 8. Did a 10 minutes high impact workout video. I ate one granola bar with 1 cup of raspberries and blackberries. At 1030 I ate 1 piece of celery (which shouldn't count since it taste like water) and 1/2 cup of raspberries. At 2 I ate a cup of stew with some raw carrots. At around, 5, I ate some more carrots and a few cherries. ( I do work in a grocery store so I have easy access to all these scrumptious, yet expensive berries). By the time I got home around 8, I was starving. I had 4 oz of rotisserie chicken, 2 pieces of pickled okra, and a salad (with the new Light Asian Roasted dressing my mother in law introduced me to). Then at 9 I did two more 10 minutes workout videos. That's my day in a nutshell. If I can keep this up for 11 more weeks, I'll be $100 richer! Wish me luck!!!

I hate flying!!!

So Jared and I recently flew to Nashville. His cousin got married so of course we wanted to be apart of the joyous occasion. The only problem was everyone was leaving the day after Christmas. We couldn't get off work that long so my brilliant idea was to fly there and drive back. I guess when I was thinking about it, I wasn't thinking about how much I hate to fly. But we really wanted to be there so we bought the one way ticket leaving at 6:55 the day of the wedding. So we woke up at 4:30. Left at 5. Got to the airport around 5:40. So we have plenty of time to get to our terminal right? Wrong! The line wasn't that long but it's just such a hassle going through security. It had been a while since we've flown so we forgot to keep our ticket out after the lady at the front already checked it. We put it in our bags and it went through the little machine. When we tried to go through, they asked for our tickets. Whoops. So the airport security guy took it upon himself to call us stupid and stupider! Is that allowed? I was too tired and it was too early to argue. Besides, it is up to him to let us in the airport so I decided to keep my mouth shut. So I am putting my shoes back on, sighing a huge sigh of relief , when a lady comes over to my bag. She opens it up and takes out my plastic bag with all my bathroom stuff. She takes out my hair gel. She said it was too much so I would have to throw it away or check the bag. Okay, no problem... I'll just throw it away. Everything is still okay. Then she looks at my proactive. And she asked the same question. I looked at Jared and looked at her and said "There's no way I'm throwing that away" Do you know how much that stuff cost. I know it's my own fault. I should've looked at the requirements. But how ridiculous is it that it's gotten to the point where they have to make those stupid rules? I mean, what am i going to do with a bottle of proactive?So I was escorted back to the "outside" and had to check my bag. By the time i did that, the line to get through security had tripled. So I'm starting to panic a little. I called Jared, who was waiting for me inside. He tried to calm me down telling me we still had plenty of time. So I finally get through security again. We make it to the plain just in time to board and leave. So by this time, I'm a little flustered. I don't like flying to begin with. So we take off. I had time to listen to maybe 5 songs and the pilot was telling us we were ready to land. I hate landing.... My stomach gets queasie, my head feels like it's going to explode, I feel like I can't breathe, and I start thinking of how a plane really stays in the air. I know, it's stupid but i just can't help it. So we land. Jared thinks I'm ridiculous for being such a baby but I can't help it. And then I spent the rest of the day trying to pop my ears. So needless to say, I wasn't too disappointed when we drove home 12 hours. That was my flying experience and that is why I hate flying!!!