NYE Prep

I am so happy. The pressure is completely off this year for NYE. It always seems like every year there's a bit to do with tons of planning or traveling or coordinating. This year, we are going to our friends house, in our pajamas, with EASY drinks made, and sitting around chatting. I am stoked! Its a drink sampler so a couple of other people are coming and bringing a drink they made to share. My fiancee is bringing hot chocolate and mint Baileys... mmmm... I had a harder time deciding, only because I sometimes feel the need to be impressive when it comes to cooking/baking/food in general. I don't know why, honestly. I found an EASY recipe for a blood orange-pomegranate cocktail that requires hardly any thought at all. It sounds impressive and delicious, but it only has few ingredients that will take me less than 3 minutes to put together! Perfect! I suppose I should bring some sort of appetizer... damn. Still, this is way less pressure than previous years. Oh, and since I should probably mention something about the 12 week challenge (since this blog is specifically for IT), I will mention that I am going to the gym to sign up TODAY! I haven't been to the gym in almost 2 weeks when I am normally a regular, and the longer I stay away, the more I am ashamed to go. So no more of that! I will GO and I will SIGN UP, and it will be grand!

Pre-Vacationing

Yes, there is such a thing. It basically means "I'm not even going to bother dieting right now, because in a week I'll be on vacation and will gain back whatever I just worked so hard to loose." I realize this is terrible reasoning. I'm giving in. I'm still being somewhat careful, but quite frankly, I'm going to have myself some Gobstoppers thank you very much! Anyway, I still haven't told the finance that I am even going to do this 12 week challenge yet. I should probably get on that tonight. Eh... eventually...

Since there is not much else to say other than I am totally not dieting... which is boring... I had a fun night last night!

One of my best friends is in town and we went with a bunch of other friends last night to Trivia at a local bar and grill. We ate, drank, laughed and  answered terribly hard questions. Most of which I just claimed I'm only there to look pretty and not actually contribute any brain power whatsoever. (I don't think I could if I even tried... I don't know shit about the Alamony...) How did we do? When the trivia guy came around to collect our answers, he casually asked how we did. My friend, quick as a whip, answers casually back... "Dog shit." And she was right! There was really no other way to explain...(by the way, you'd had to have been there but this was the funniest thing ever). I think we tied for last place and we had by far the largest team. L-A-M-E. The bright side is that we had a great time,  and I got to eat a lot and visit with one of my favorite gals for the evening... I think that's pretty awesome.

Intro

This is about the 5th time I've restarted this post because they were all BORING! Nobody wants to read the boring bits about someone elses life! So! Nutshell version: I'm getting married this summer (SQUEEE!!!), I wanna look f*cking hot, gym offers 12 week challenge to loose weight/look great, I'm blogging about it because I know I'll need to bitch to someone and I feel bad making my friends listen to me whine about the cookie I had and how I am a failure...blah blah blah. What do you have to look forward to? My unbridled emotions through this whole ordeal. Hooray!

Ive already lost around 80 lbs over the last couple of years, and I am where I never thought I'd be again. However, I decided I wanted to push it a little further especially with the wedding only 7 months away (today!). The challenge doesn't even start until January 16th (REMEMBER THIS!) but there is alot of mental preparation involved in doing something like this. I figured I'd start early :). I have a vacation to New Hampshire next week to visit the fiance's folks and I know already I'll gain at least 5 lbs by the time I come back. His mom is a phenomenal cook and baker and I am giving in now before I even put up a fight. That just sets myself up for failure. Anyway, while the 12 week challenge doesn't start for a couple of weeks... let the bat-shit craziness shine through now...