New Year - Big News!

Why is it every time I set a specific schedule for posts, I completely disappear off the face of the earth? Well I'm back with some pretty exciting news. I'm getting married!!

On Christmas Day, Derek and I headed to his mom's for food and presents. We were the first ones there and she asked us to take a couple pictures in front of the Christmas tree. After a couple of pictures, I thought we were done, but oh was I wrong. I went to walk away and he stopped me and got down on one knee and pulled out a box. He then said "Molly Elizabeth Turnbaugh, will you marry me?".

I was in such shock everything seemed to blur together at that loin I honestly don't even remember if I truly told him yes. We fumbled with figuring out which finger to put it on, and who should put it on for me. I gave him the biggest hug and he was shaking and I could hear his heart pounding. Did he honestly I would say anything but yes?

The more people I called to tell that day, the more I realized that he had told just about every single person possible. I knew this day was coming, but I had no idea just how perfectly imperfect it would be. I could nit be happier with how 2013 is ending, and so excited that I know that no matter what happens in 2014 I will have my Prince by my side.

Without further ado here are a few pictures:

Can you believe I actually had my nails painted?

Time for Me to Get in Shape... and Maybe a Theme for my Blog?

   Hey all! I'm so excited that I apologize in advance if I over-do the exclamation marks! I've been trying to get ready for a 5k that I have in May for my 21st birthday. Whooooooooah stop there, I'm going to run 3.1 miles (?)... for my 21st birthday (!?!)... and give myself a whole 6-ish months to get ready for it? Well I have never been one to run, but I have been doing it for about two weeks now, and I have to say I'm starting to really enjoy it. I even took my mile from 13:27 to 10:07 in just over two weeks! Those pesky 7 seconds really irritated me though I just wanted to get it down to 10:00.

   Anyways,the past two weeks have been sort of a trial run period. Now that I know I can do it and stick to it, I'm going to kick my butt into gear. That means that I need someone to answer to when I get lazy and don't want to go the gym. So my bright idea was "well why not the world of the interwebs"? So here we go... you get to travel through the ups and downs of me training for a 5k, trying to eat a MUCH healthier diet (I'd say paleo or clean, which is what I want to aim for, but let's be realistic I love my pizza waaaaaay too much!), and be a healthier me mentally. I think I might post before/progress/after pictures, but the after might be hard for the simple fact that I don't want this to be something I do until the race and then just quit, I want this for LIFE!

   My game plan is to try to make separate posts about my food journal/exercise, my progress, and then just how I'm feeling in general every week. That means I should have three posts a week on this little sucker.

   So there it is, I'm going to be a "fitness blogger" HA! How about just a blog about a girl's attempt to get healthy while juggling a full course load at school, three jobs, and an almost non-existant social life.

Things I am not Above

 As is usual in my oh-so interesting life, I was perusing through blogs that are linked on the sides of other blogs (sorry no clue what that would be called) and found this little piece of heaven Borrowed Heaven. The first blog she had posted was "Things I am not Above" and I just couldn't resist jumping on that little bandwagon (does it have a bandwagon yet?).
Things I am not Above:

• Having Derek in my phone as "Hubby": If you would have asked me a year ago what I thought of people who did this my answer would have been plain and simple "pukefest who the eff does that ish". Now I can answer that question- me! I don't really know why I did it, I guess it could be sort of an inside joke as we always call each other hubby and wifey. Except that it's not really a joke because it's not funny at all. I also kind of really hate the word hubby, and honestly still can't manage to get myself to say it out loud. Nevertheless, Derek will forever and always be named "Hubby" in my phone and I'll be damned if it ever gets changed. At least I didn't add that little <3 thing that I will never in a million years believe looks anything like a heart, in my personal opinion it looks more like an ice cream cone- your welcome.

 

• Never Growing Up: Now by a show of hands how many people actually think that they will ever outgrow Disney movies. I personally am not seeing any hands so I'm assuming nobody put theirs up. I certainly DID NOT! How I do a pick-me-up after a long day. Get home and throw everything onto the couch, even though I am well aware that my roommates will later ask me to put it in my room, and let out a growl, moan, whatever you call it that if you put it in text form equals "ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh". Start a pot of hot water for some tea/locate the biggest wine glass that we have clean. Go to my room and kick anything that could possibly be laying in my floor, and lezbehonest there is always plenty to choose from. Pull the blinds shut because even though they were open with the oh so good intentions of letting in the sun that morning to show me it was going to be a wondrous day, well it just wasn't and all I did was lie to myself. Turn on each fan in my room and turn them on HIGH as to completely freeze my ta's off. Find every possible blanket I have. This usual means moving the junk around in my floor to find my sheet which after 20 years of life I have given up on trying to figure out how, even though it always on the very bottom of all of my blankets, it is always the only blanket that ever ends up on the floor. Turn off all of the lights in my room so that it is just cold and dark. Jump under the covers because by now I am borderline hypothermic. Switch on the ol' Mac and find Netflix. Pick first Disney movie I find on Netflix. Get that warm fuzzy feeling and take a nap. Long story short- none of the warm fuzzies after a particularly ish-tastic day would be possible if it was not for Disney.

• Not liking Taco Bell: Sorry Meg, but I just can't. I don't know if it is for the fact that I really only like Mexican food from Mexican restaurants, or that I ate entirely way too much Taco Bell one day and got miserably sick, but honestly I just can't. There is no other way to describe it. I will on very rare occasions go in if Derek really is craving some and get me a cheese quesadilla which I load down with hot sauce, but if I had the choice? No, just no.

• Cyber-Stalking: I hereby charge myself with Cyber-Stalking of the 5th degree. When I find a blog I like love it isn't uncommon for me to just scroll and scroll and scroll. Once I even found myself scrolling for so long that I ended up at their very first post- almost a full year and a half before I started. At this point I obviously have to drag myself away from scrolling long enough to hit that follow or join button that every has these days. Sometimes I'll even take a bathroom break which more times than not I decide I should probably take a break and chose to stalk the ladies on the sidebar, because obviously if she follows them they have to be great. Usually I'll scroll through a couple days/weeks of these blogs before going right back to where I left off with the blog that started it all.

• Being Clueless When it Comes to Blogs: Hopefully one day this will not be so, but I really have no idea what I'm doing here. Really I just get on, read my news-feed, and then write some nonsense blog about whatever is on my mind. How do other bloggers make their layout, or is it called a template, so darn pretty. And what about those title things at the very top? I can't figure out for the life of me how to do those to-die-for description things that everyone has under their names. How do people go about having a blog post literally every day? Seriously I'm lucky if I can figure out something worth talking about once a week! Come on guys really, somebody please help a sister out. Lord knows I need it!

While I honestly could probably top this list off with quite a few more "Things I am not Above"s I think I should give your eyes a bit of a rest. That's it for now.