Why must the real world suck so much? I feel like every summer I’m just hit with a whole new rash of bills. The main one is my college loans. I’ve had to start repayment, and that’s no fun. It’s not a huge monthly bill, but just enough to put a dent in everything else, and with the price of gas these days, every cent matters. I suppose I should just be glad that I don’t have to worry about stuff like mortgage lenders or car payments.

I also haven’t been feeling so great the last couple of days. As I said yesterday, every time I move, I feel like a bowl of Rice Krispies because something either snaps, crackles or pops. So not cool. I don’t feel as bad today. I think I mostly slept it off, whatever it was. I’m not nearly as tired and achy today, which is a relief. But I guess if I’m going to get sick, now would be the best time since I have the family vacation coming up, and I wouldn’t want to be sick during that.

So, I’ve lost eleven pounds since I started back on Weight Watchers. I have to admit, I’m pretty proud of myself. I think if I had more time or motivation to actually exercise, I’d be able to lose more.

I envy people with home gyms. They just have to go into the next room to do their workout. I’m such a homebody. I just don’t like leaving the house, especially to go excercise among a bunch of people who are probably thin and fit.
But even without exercising regularly, just changing how much I eat has helped a lot. I’ve gone to diet pop, which I’ll admit has been a bit of an adjustment. I miss Dr. Pepper. A lot. I think I was addicted, and no matter what people say Diet Dr. Pepper does not taste the same to me.

I really just want the weight to keep coming off. I know the goal in my head is so big that I’m just taking baby steps for now. If I could lose forty more pounds, I’d be happy. Anything over that, would just be that much better. But I can’t let myself think about it that way because if I do, it just seems like my goal is too far away and too far out of reach.

I’ve been so sick this week. I’m not even kidding. There were a few day where I just found it exhausting to get out of bed. Needless to say, I don’t feel like I accomplished much this week. Luckily, though, I don’t think I got too far behind either, so, hopefully, over the weekend, I can play catch up on stuff and sort of break even as far as my workload goes.

After this semester is over and I get through graduation, I feel like I need a vacation just to celebrate my survival. It’s been pretty stressful and hectic. Of course, I’m sure part of it’s just dreading the end of the semester presentations I have to make. I doubt my mom and Bart will be planning anymore vacations to any Branson resorts since their last experience involved a lot of rain. Although, I think the decision was finally made that it’s one of them that causes the vacation to go awry. But maybe they’ll plan another trip to Holiday World or something fun like that. Of course, I’ll have to lose some weight before I venture into the water park again. I feel so gross these days, which is why I’m back on Weight Watchers. So far, so good, all things considered.

I keep getting junk mail about individual health insurance, and it’s so annoying. It wouldn’t be bad if it were something useful because, God knows, I could use some affordable health insurance. That one visit to the dentist for two teeth about put me in the poor house. People can’t afford unexpected bills like that. There’s just no way to survive when you have stuff like that popping up. Guh, I hate being an adult.

It’s been a few days since I’ve blogged. Oops! I went shopping with my mom yesterday. We went to Kohls, Fashion Bug, Goody’s, the mall and then finally Wal-Mart. I bought a few things while we were shopping. I got a new pair of shoes, a couple of shirts, and then some stuff from Bath and Body Works. I also bought Twilight, New Moon and Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer, but I ordered them from Overstock.com.

I had an appointment to get my eyes checked at Wal-Mart, and I picked out some new frames. I’m so anxious to get them. I hate the ones I have now. I went back to wire frames, and I upgraded to the option where my lens are even thinner than they are now. I had to pay $30 of that, but I figured it was worth it.

My mom also by Trivial Pursuit - 80s, 90s and Pop Culture, and after picking up Trey and going to eat at Steak -n- Shake, we came here and Bart met us and we all played the game. Allyson even came out after she got off of work and played the game too. Her and Trey were a team and they wound up winning. It was a lot of fun. It was nice to hang out with the family and do something together.

I forgot to look while I was at Wal-Mart. I wanted to pick up some new notebooks and pens. I got a new idea for a story, and I need a new notebook to use for keep notes. And I need new pens because they seem to disappear around here, and I’m picky about the kind of pen I’ll use. It’s weird, but it’s just one of my many quirks. I need to order some promotional pens with my name or something like that on them so that people will quit stealing them from me! Makes me angry. Oh well. I’ll live.