2015 Recap

I have been terrible about blogging for the past year. 2015 was a tumultuous year for me. It had a ton of ups and downs and life changing events.

Here is a non-extensive list of good and bad things that happened this year. I’ve omitted some bad things that I don’t want to talk about, but I caught most of the good things, I think!

 

January

-I saw Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness with Insiya.

-My arm touched Andrew’s. It was wonderful.

-I went to paint and sip for the first time.

-I had one wild, eventful evening out.

 

February

-I had 3 job interviews in one week and one of them offered me a job! But it was too far of a commute…

-Parks and Recreation ended so Mallory, Ryan and I ate waffles and watched. It was sad.

 

March

-I saw Taking Back Sunday with Tara.

-Saint Patrick’s Day was quite the event.

 

April

-I went to Bayside’s 15 year anniversary tour with Meghan!!

-I went to Boston alone.

-I went to the aquarium.

-I started dating Randy.

 

May

-I hated my job.

-I finally got to attend Tulip Fest!

-I went to the Schenectady Library book sale with Mallory and bought lots of books!

-I walked in the Freihofer walk.

 

June

-I despised my job and cried myself to sleep almost every night.

-I screwed up my voice, almost permanently. Luckily it seems to have made a full recovery.

-I went to Montreal one evening for dinner.

 

July

-I saw Motion City Soundtrack and The Spill Canvas.

-I taught high school special education for the first time. It was a huge step up from teaching in May and June but high school is HARD. 

-I watched a lot of animals and people (cat/dog/kid-sat for 14/31 days!)

 

August

-I saw Brand New play live at Ommegang Brewery!

-I visited Charleston, South Carolina.

 

September

-I started my new job in a completely different field than what I went to school for.

-I saw Bayside with my brother in Rochester and got to spend the weekend with him and his friends at school!

-I saw Breaking Benjamin with Tara!

-I saw Zac Brown Band with Kerri and Schuyler, after spending the day at the track!

 

October

-I turned 27 years old. My 10 year high school reunion is being planned. I am old.

-I moved to a new apartment by myself. I am enjoying it greatly.

-I went apple picking and to the pumpkin patch.

-I got to go through a corn maze.

-I attended Kerri and Schuyler’s wedding. I am so happy for them!

-My grandfather got diagnosed with lung cancer. Luckily it was stage one and they managed to catch it very early and remove everything.

 

November

-I went to see Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness alone! What a concert!

 

December

-Randy turned 26!

-I took a state test.

-I saw Bayside for the third time this year with Randy in NYC! We went for the day and got to see our friend Frank that moved there this year.

-Our first book club was held!

-I started getting serious about going to the gym again, and I started running!

 

 

Looking back, this year was incredibly eventful.

Here’s to 2016!

Life is too short to go to crappy exercise classes.

Back again. No news on the howler (I have barely been home), but last night I do go to a zumba class. No, it’s not on the list, but my mother wanted to try it and we just joined a new gym so we figured we’d check it out.

I have now officially been to a zumba class. For 5 minutes. Then we looked at each other, and then we ran away. Never again.

But now we know, etc, etc. Next up, spinning classes.

Step Aerobics

Hello again! Long time, no post. I attempted for awhile to eat an apple a day and kept failing so we shall try again soon. That’s probably a lost cause though..

I started a new job as a building substitute teacher and got a kidney stone, and got a parking ticket and read a whole bunch of books. Other than that, nothing new.

Except today, when I woke up at 7:30 to go to step aerobics. Class started at 9:00, and went until 9:50, and let me tell you, I am exhausted. My body hurts and every time that I sat down today, I wanted to take a nap and never get up. I did take a short nap today, thankfully. Step aerobics, you kicked my ass.

Pilates

Yesterday morning, I finally made it to a pilates class. I’ve been meaning to go nearly every Sunday since the beginning of March, but for various reasons, I have never made it. Usually because I’m lazy. A few times I forgot. A few times it was cancelled.

I finally went though. My conclusion? I don’t really like pilates. Although it was sort of a pilates/yoga fusion and all the other people there were at least 20 years older than me, so maybe I just didn’t like this particular class. I didn’t feel much yesterday afterward, but today when I went to the gym, my abs definitely hurt.. even on the ab machine that I have always claimed did nothing. I still don’t think it does much, but it does at least use my abs a little bit.

In other gym related news, I’ve been going 3-4 times a week for over 2 months now!!! Also, I am going to begin adding in more ab workouts and yoga/zumba classes as much as possible, because this is the one area of my body that has not been affected by my workout plan. 

Yesterday I also bought a new bathing suit to celebrate the fact that I look awesome (and because going to Target after a bad day at work can lead to “necessary” overspending.)

Exercise.

I have begun going to the Y. I’ve been a member for years, but kept resisting going because I’m incredibly lazy and don’t want to exercise. However, I decided that as part of the whole “new, improved me” that I am going for right now, I needed to get into shape. I started last week by going to yoga. Then I made an appointment the next day for an orientation with the machines. And then Saturday, I went and worked out after my dad’s toy show and before babysitting. And it felt good. Monday, I was stuck in Schenectady after my doctors appointment and before work, so I went exploring and found the Schenectady branch of the Y, and worked out again. And then I went last night to work out and go to yoga. Let me tell you, I am exhausted. It feels awesome though. I was going to go tonight, but I scheduled myself to give blood so I am going to refrain because I don’t need to be more tired than I already am. Tomorrow my arm will still ache, so I was waiting until Friday. But I am excited to continue going… Even though I could not bring myself to get out of bed at 9 on Sunday morning to go to Pilates. There’s always next week…

March.

February is over! For everybody but me, that is! Due to the unfortunate stomach bug that I had, I must continue making my bed every day and drinking 64 ounces of water every day for several days more, at least. Fortunately, I have grown to enjoy my water consumption and will continue drinking more water (though I won’t be counting ounces like crazy anymore!) Making my bed? Not so much. I do enjoy when it is made, and getting into a freshly made bed, and of course there’s the old adage “messy bed, messy head,” and lord knows that I don’t need more of a mess, but it’s just so. much. work. Anyway, I will continue these for several more days before finally crossing them off the list.

The month of March will bring new goals to work on! I liked choosing a few to work on each month, and thought it worked out pretty well in February, so I will try it again. Of course, I am able to complete any items on the list at any time. I actually did cross something else off this past Sunday, but there will be a future post on that once I take a picture that I have been putting off.

For the month of March, I will work on the following goals:

35. Learn how to use the settings on my camera

44. Take a pilates class

48. Go to the gym three times a week for 3 months

51. No fast food for a month

The past two days I decided that after years of complaining about my body, I was going to do something about it. I went to yoga Tuesday night, and went to the Y last night and got trained to use all the machines. I couldn’t go today, but tomorrow after work and before babysitting I plan on heading over there for at least a little bit of time. And then on Sunday mornings, they have a pilates class!? So that would be fantastic. To go along with these wonderful fitness goals, I decided that eating healthier would be a good set of goals to work on. Getting rid of the option for fast food will allow me to focus on cooking more for myself, and hopefully ultimately encourage me to eat healthier.

So that all my goals for the month are not fitness oriented, I also want to learn to use the settings on my camera. I need to use my camera more as well. I probably want to find the cable to it first though.