Liz is my favorite

MY new car!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Honestly I love the Hills and I just saw the trailor for season 3!

I love it. It is full of drama, and backstabbing and friendships being tested. I realize that I love this show because the drama is fun to watch. Now if you know me well enough you know my life really does not consist of drama. None. The most dramatic thing of my life this year was buying a new car and as you know that is stressful for anyone but still it was not real drama. I watch the hills for my drama fix and also because they challenge me to be fashion savy. It is like the sex and the city of LA except the girls are my age and there is no red head.

Speaking of red heads, I think I am going to go back dark. I love this blonde hair but I love love love my hair dark. I think it gives me more of an exotic look.

I have done it.

I have successfully kept off 8lbs since my first weigh in! That is amazing! We started this biggest loser thing at work. I am totally going to kick ass. (I know that I said I was going to stop cussing and flipping people off in a way to become more lady like but I will kick ass) and win $100!!! That I will totally put towards new jeans!

Also I have come up with a new mission statement.

“My goal is to lose 25 pounds by September 29th.

I will accomplish this by eating 1700 calories a day, by eating only foods that provide fuel for my body and exercising an hour 4 days a week. I will also walk 5 miles a day (10,000 steps) and I WILL KEEP A FOOD JOURNAL.

I am doing this for myself, I will no longer make excuses for my body and the way it losses weight. There is no reason for me to be at this weight and I have no one to blame but myself so I CAN DO THIS. I will stay on track and now have the incentive and the will power. I will look better and have more energy to compete in my triathlons and races.”

Please leave me an encouraging note! I love those!

Updates on major things… ok so I taught my first water aerobics class on Monday night. It was cute. The women and man were enthusiastic and were willing to take a leap with me (literally and figuratively since I make them do these leap/pull exercises). I had a blast and really enjoy teaching as well as doing water aerobics.

I have lost 5 lbs. I know this is not a blog about weight loss but as a girl who has always been a little more then most it is always an accomplishment to lose a bit.

I have stepped up my training for the triathlon. Yesterday I started the interval training where I bike five miles, ran a mile and a half and then swam the 500 meter distance. This is approximately half of what the tri will be. It was pretty easy. Now I know that it will be harder in the morning but hopefully the adrenaline with kick in and I can really achieve a good time.

Now I know I am going to slow. I am definitely not an amazing athlete but this year is really fulfilling a lot of my dreams as a minor athlete.

My work is doing the biggest loser thing. We all put 10 dollars in and in 12 weeks the winner gets to keep the cash. I am still not sure if I am going to do it

Dearest blog friends,

My Roxy has let me down.

That is right Roxy the Rio left me stranded on the turnpike. Monday night was filled with Jermaine and me trying everything possible to get it fixed.

It was a blessing because my roommate’s family was in from Lawton so they helped me yesterday by getting the car to the shop and meeting the tow truck guy.

But I really want to give some shout outs!

First to Jermaine for always being the boy I call in an emergency. Oh what a good friend.

Next to the Wiginton’s for helping me out yesterday and being so kind.

Also to the cute tow truck driver, Cody, for not charging me the extra miles for the tow. What a nice guy!

To the guys at Metric Motors for being so kind and great. Even though I am not going to use them they were really nice guys.

To ST, You are the best roommate’s boyfriend ever who, is letting borrow the car this week. What a great guy. But first i must say he is more than a roommate’s boyfriend. He has been my friend, also.

To Allen my coworker who picks me up for work! What a blessing. Seriously what would I do without him.

To John H. who told me the quote I got was Bull S#%* and now he is looking for a better quote for me and called me to make sure I was okay.

To Raina my roommate who has been a great support in this process.

To Megan and Tiffany who offered to help. Thanks girls!

What a great cloud of witness! Thank you!

I have had 2 days off this week. I work at a great company so I have lots of time off that lose if i don’t us it! So i took off two days.

Yesterday was really pleasant, i woke up and had coffee with Raina and enjoyed being around home and not having to go anywhere. Then I went to another Water Aerobics class to see how other instructors teach their class. Then I spent the afternoon with my mom. It was a great time. She made me eat at this disgusting Mexican food. But i figured it was all for the best since I needed to save calories I just did not eat it.

But I have to tell you about today. Now it is only 9 am but this little break has not kept me from waking up early even though i don’t have to work. Today thanks to Maddox, who stays on a schedule day and night expects me to put him out by 7:30 every morning, by that point i am awake. This morning I got on my bike and rode it to my favorite local coffee shop. It is so nice to have mornings full of biking, Roybus organic tea and blogging.

Oh yes the best part of this morning was when I put maddox in his doggy backpack and took him on a ride around the block. Now you know he is a 7lb chihuahua and not a big ol’fluffy thing. But it looked kind of like this.

So I have another title to add to my list…

Liz , daughter, sister, aunt, niece, friend, best friend, ex-barista, college graduate, marathon runner, believer, AT&T customer, Maddox’s mom, Marketing Events Coordinator and NOW….. Water aerobics instructor.

Well soon to be! My water aerobics instructor asked me yesterday if I would take over the class for her. Now here is a thing to know about me, I have expectations for myself. (now I know this is an issue and we can address this another time) but when I was going into my junior year of college I wrote out a list of things I wanted to accomplish. One was to wear a size small (achieved, no any more but I am getting closer), get straight A’s one semester in School (achieved), become a water aerobics instructor (no joke). This was such a fun thing to me and I wanted it so bad and as a life guard I had some necessary training already for it but now I can say I am (almost) a water aerobics instructor. I am getting certified soon because I need to take over the class in like a week. But I know I can do it!

Okay another side note… 7 days no Diet Coke or bad soda of any kind. I feel great!

Side note number 2… I am competing in a triathlon (blog to come).

Okay so I am on day three now.

I feel really great. I have had more energy and I have not had any headaches. I feel like my workouts and my attitude have increased in pleasurably.

Okay now for a real blog. I have a friend who only wants to do one thing. Let’s go to dinner and a movie. That is all she ever asks me to do. But she wants to do the most cliché things. Let’s go to dinner at Chili’s then go see the most boring chick flick and then go out to Starbucks for Frappacinos. Now I know sometimes that is the only thing to do but tonight I have invited her to a fun, recycle clothing fashion show. It would be cheaper than dinner and a movie plus it would be so much more fun. I have to say I love this girl but I want to do something new, fun with her.

I am just wondering about people’s personalities, and this might be a dumb question but are there two types of people in this world; the people who are stuck in a rut and the people who hate ruts?

Do you remember that Teen movie where I guy tries to go some allotted amount of time without sex? I am going to try a new spin on things. The Liz version but before you get scared and worried about what the next sentence of this blog will contain, this is the G- rated version.

I am going to see how many days I can go without Diet Coke. Now I never saw that teen movie so I am not sure how addicted him was to his “vice” but I am not that addicted to Diet Coke.

But I will confess that last week I think I drank maybe one gallon of water for the whole week which is not enough but in replacement to not drinking water I was drinking Diet Coke. (I think I drank about 4 a day last week… that is really intense) and that was the hardest week at work.

I just enjoy Diet Coke but this week I have had one each day and I have begun to realize that my work day goes much faster. I have more energy and I can focus more. Now I know that you can’t blame D.C. for those things but I am going to conduct a little experiment. See how my body reacts to no D. C.

A little Disclaimer: In college, I did not drink soda at all for an entire year. I was in the best shape of my life. I ran marathons and worked out at least 8 times a week (twice a day two of those days and one day off). Now my life consist of 30 lbs more fat on my body and only working out 2 days a week and no marathons in the near future.

So in a way of trying to see if D.C. really makes you gain weight I am getting off of it and replacing it will my addiction to water. Now this is an addiction that has stemmed from my days in college when I was frantically trying to loss weight and be a size 0. I realize that is not a dream of mine anymore but I do still have this love affair with water, I drink about 100 oz a day at least. (I pee a lot).

So anyway this is day one.

So I have this job. I love it. I work for a publishing company and music group as the events coordinator. Now I know what that makes me sound like… I have the absolutely most fabulous job (I use the word fabulous because girls who would want a job like this use the word fabulous… thus I use the word fabulous)

But I have a pretty stress full job, I handle over 400 events A MONTH!! You do not know how ridiculous, snotty and presumptuous a first time author/ artist can be… get me this, get me in here, sell all of my books for me, so I thought I would comprise a great list of questions I am ask by authors and/or artist and/or bookstores….

5. What are YOU doing to market the book? (I in return ask them the same question)

4. Can you get me on K LOVE (this one sicks me out bc I hate Klove)

3. Are Barnes and Noble going to have at least 50 books on hand for this signing (the truth is most authors only sell about 50 books ever)

2. My Marketing Rep (another person in the mark. Dept.) does not know what I talking about explain it to them…

1. When can I get on Oprah? I know she would love my book. (Oprah does not love Jesus, I am sorry she is not about to do a book about Christ in the Revolution, when she does not event believe in Him!)

So I have arrived.

That’s it. I am done. I have no more growing to do in life. I have arrived or at least I have an intern. An intern of my very own.

She is a sophomore at OU and is at my disposal all day, every day! Literally when I say jump she doesn’t just ask how high… she jumps and gets me a latte while she it at it.

Ok so let me actually clarify. The marketing department at work has a new intern. She is really nice. I was the first one to show her how Tate works… She is actually not mine I share her. Also if I asked her to jump she would look at me like a crazy person!

It is so fun! Please help come up with task for her to do since I have to fill a whole Monday with stuff to do…