new favorite

Thanks to Courtney I'm hooked on TLC 7 Grain crackers and Peter Pan Honey Roasted peanut butter. Its an incredible combination. You'll have to try it. :)

I just watched the Incredibles and its a good movie. Definately worth watching. Two thumbs up.

Well its the night before the 30 days start. I hope you all are psyched. I know i am. So starting tomorrow I'll be letting my fingernails grow.

Something else has been on my mind. I've been working out for four months 5 days a week. I've also been eating more vegetables and healthier protein. So I'm sorta feeling discouraged that I haven't lost any weight. Now I know you're thinking "duh jenni, muscle weighs more than fat". And thats true. I have been inceasing muscle. I can feel the strength in my arms and legs. However I'm not getting lean. My body mass is still high in fat. My waist is exactly the same measurements as it was 2 months ago. So that's my story. I'm feeling a little discouraged, but not ready to give up. Its more like what am i doing wrong. So since i'm not ready to give up, my next idea is to spend 30 days closely monitoring my food. Yep thats right I will measue the stuff i'm eating and keep a journal. My calorie intake will be around 1500 a day.

Wish me luck. It could be a long 3o days or a short 30 days. :)

mom's can't do that...can they?

Tonight I didn't have any plans so I decided to do some cooking. The agenda 2 kinds of soup. Cheese & Corn Chowder (yum) and Barley Lentel Stew. The stew recipe calls for 1 quarts of tomatos. Well the canned tomatoes I have don't come in quart cans and I have no idea how much that is. So after looking through a couple cookbooks and finding no answers, I decide to call my mom. She would know.

Guess what her response was. "You should know that". She then proceeded to quiz me on how many cups in a pint and how many pints in a quart. I failed. She laugh and told me 4 cups.

So are mom's allowed to make fun of their children's ignorance?

death cab

I just watched last weeks OC episode and boy was I excited to see a live performance from death cab for cutie! They rock!

the 30 day challenge

I had a brainstorm the other night. I'm not sure that I can claim credit, since its probably influenced by lent and the new tv show 30 days. So it goes something like this:

We all have things in our lives that we want to be different. A behavior that we want to start or stop. This can seem overwhelming if we start out thinking its forever, but if its only for 30 days maybe it will be easier. Some ideas i've had for myself are taking vitamins and not biting my nails. When I ran the idea past my small group, they had even more ideas:

• going to bed at a decent time
  
• no tv
• no soda
• going home from work at a certain time
• eating vegetarian
• exercise
• scrapbooking
  

There are many more ideas and I'd love to know what comes to your mind. That will give me ideas for later. I'm thinking of starting something new each month. This is somewhat inspired by my experience of giving up coffee for lent. It took about two weeks to get over the caffeine withdrawal, but after that it wasn't too hard. The interesting part is that now, I don't really like the taste of coffee. It just doesn't seem to taste right. So I'm sticking with tea.

I also thought it would be easier if more people tried it. So let me know if you're interested. My small group has signed up, but they haven't figured out what the challenge will be.

You can do it! May is challenge month!

blue betty's back home

Tuesday I picked up my honda (aka Blue Betty) and brought her home. The mechanic showed me the part and it really was scary.

Tonight was Megan's bachelorette party. We had fun eating and teasing Megan. It was especially fun to embarass her with "naughty" gifts. :)

crazy as me

Once again I'm struggling with being crazy busy. It seems to be a common theme for me. I know y'all are probably tired of hearing about it. I know I'm tired of wrestling with it. Fortunately I think I've worked out most of my issues. I think it comes down to making sure I limit my activities during the week if the weekend is packed and vice versa.

Lately I've been craving new clothes. But I can't find anything that works. It seems like all the clothes are frumpy or too revealing. Its like there's nothing in between. Why does trendy have to be scandalous.

Well its getting late and i'm too tired to figure stuff out. Maybe tomorrow, its another day.

my poor sick honda :(

Its official my car is ailing. The wonderful people at Precision looked at it and determined that a joint in the steering column is almost broken. "It's scary". So I take that to mean, it could have broken at any time and I would've died. Not only that, I probably would have killed other people in the process. So the people at harrisonburg honda didn't care and wanted me to die. I'm never going back there again.

The bad news is that it's gonna be expensive around $500. No digital camera for jenni. Along with that it will take awhile to get the part. So i'll be driving big red for a little longer.

On a different note. I borrowed Mike & Sarah's digital camera so soon there will be photos of all my new stuff and maybe even other random stuff. :)

autobahn music

It was a busy couple of days. I felt like there wasn't much time for breathing. On top of craziness at work, things to do in the evening, my Honda started having problems. I'm not sure about the technical stuff, but the steering seems loose like there is too much play. So amongst the busyness, I made an appointment with Harrisonburg Honda. My sweet parents dropped it off while I was at bible study and they lent me one of their cars. They had it all day friday, but I never heard from them. I called around three and they said it would be done at four. So Greg (my coworker) drove me out to pick it up and they said there was nothing wrong with it. I agrued a little, but they said they checked everything and they didn't charge me for anything besides the inspection and oil change. I drove out and of course there is still something wrong with it. By the time I get back to EMU I am livid. So I make Greg and Jeremy drive it to prove to myself something is wrong. They both agree. I complained to dad and he made an appointment with another repair place. Did you know that parents rock! God really knew what he was doing. :)

So until Tuesday, I'm driving a red van, just calle me soccer mom.