12 weeks

Starting today I am beginning a 12 week program to get more muscle and slim down my fat. Me and Janelle are doing it together and I'm not gonna lie I'm pretty nervous about it. This 12 week program is from Jamie Evans a bodybuilder and spokesmodel for Bodybuilding.com. The first phase (which is one month) I will be strictly only doing weight training with no cardio. 4 to 5 days a week and then some rest. I'm eating a lot of egg whites and a lot of veggies and no processed food. I will need constant prayers to continue this workout and to not want to go binge at Pluckers with fried twinkies. I'm on a multivitamin (which I blend up with my smoothie), protein powder, fish oil, and amino acids (which is in my protein powder). I'm hoping to have this be a life changing transition so that I'm healthier, looking better and have a longer life. I'll keep you all updated about how it's going and if I notice changes I'll let you know with pictures. I've taken my before picture and hopefully in 3 months there will be a good change :)

Also I've found a new church that I really like called Christ Community Church. I took Taylor yesterday and hopefully she continues to come with me and my new friend Joanna. I'm also looking into volunteering for the children's church there too :)

I miss all of my family so much and look forward to sometime coming home. I'll need to in order to give Ginny her drawing, which I should be finished with in a few days. Once it's done I'll post a picture. I love all of you, and God bless each and every one.

Reunited Weekend

Last weekend I got to spend it with Janelle. :) After her shenanigans in Italy and on a cruise it was about time I haul her butt down here to spend a little best friend time. I've finally realized who my true friends are. Which actually I've found out I have about 3. Janelle is truly my best friend and sister in Christ and I can't ever be thankful enough that we made it through 8 years of friendship and we're still strong. I constantly thank the Lord that I have a strong christian sister next to me in life and we have already promised to stay that way for the rest of our lives. <3

FINALLY

I have FINALLY gotten a new job :) As of yesterday I am officially a UPS employee and my last day of the devil's burger place is on Aug. 11th. I'm so so grateful to the Lord for answering this prayer that I've been praying for months and months. Thankfully I've been able to start UPS while I'm still employed by Ruben. He only gave me 3 hours this week (out of spite) and so that leaves me open to train over at UPS at the same time. I really like all the people there and my boss is super nice. Also this past weekend I have moved into my new little apartment!! I absolutely love it :)

Here's the kitchen with the backsplash that is so adorable.

The living room is my FAVORITE! it was already painted orange, my favorite color!! you can see Poncho enjoying his new home :) and the artwork is courtesy of jake!

my bedroom,

and my MONSTER closet. I've fit my dresser in here along with ALL my clothes. That means this closet is pretty darn impressive.

So I cooked my little dinner for 1 last night and it turned out delicious.

spaghetti noodles with chicken, squash, mushrooms, asparagus, and savory seasoning :) it was a veggie party and the chicken was invited!  I'm sure I will cook it again.

Well I love all of your faces and remember that i miss you!!

Loaded Veggie Omelette

I've been trying to eat a lot healthier and following by an eating plan on womenshealthmagazine.com. This is what I had for breakfast! It was delicious. It's got mushrooms, bell peppers, and tomatoes in it. Also I improvised and put some avocado out there to eat with every bite and that was a very wise decision. Well unfortunately this is a very short post because I have to be at work in 13 minutes. i love you all my sweet sweet family :)

Happy Creating

With my new class I've actually produced two pieces I'm extremely happy about and hopefully will be able to use in my final Exit Review coming in December. One is an editorial we had to do about some pictures of people we didn't know. We had to make up a story and create a 2 page intro to an editorial spread.

The next one was a book cover. Now, just to let you know, even though I absolutely love books, I am HORRIBLE at book covers. Idk what it is, but the last two that I've done I've absolutely hated and want to burn. So when we had to do another one I was pretty intimidated. I chose a book of poems called Hotel Insomnia by Charles Simic. They are very dark, and surreal. But here is the book cover I did for it.

:) I did all the stuff myself. Burnt the paper, burnt the match, and photographed the match. I'm really proud of the way it turned out and it will hopefully make it's way into my final portfolio.

On the work end I applied yesterday at UPS and they said they had a girl they had been talking to but that she hadn't shown up yesterday when she was supposed to. I'm praying that God will place me there because I really like the guy that owns it and I feel like I would fit in there and do a good job.  SO keep the prayers coming that I will be able to find another job and quit my current one. I love you my sweet family :)

Summer School

So I've been frustrated with Ashley because she wasn't posting...but then again I haven't either! So here's an update.

I'm currently looking for a new job because I'm fed up with everything Ruben has been doing against me. I don't want to list it all here but I'm sure most of you have heard bits and pieces. There is a receptionist job at a vet that pays 13.50 an hour so I'm applying there and also subway.

I took poster design in Summer 1 and got three pretty good projects done. Here they are!

We had to make a poster for a do it yourself project using a QR code. If you scan the code with your iphone on my poster it will take you to a website for the project :)

This was a book cover that had to fold out to a poster. so it folds out to be an over with a cupcake tin in it. it's for the book Henry's Sisters. I don't like it that much

this was a poster that popped out. It was for lego architecture series. I chose the seattle space needle. so when you fold it out the space needle pops up :)

Also I'm working on a little something for myself

:) I'm going to put color in it but this is the outline. little princess as an illustration :)

Soon I move into my new apartment and I'm really excited. I'm gonna go to Ikea and get some new stuff and that's ALWAYS fun!!

Designing Outside of School

While having some time off I got a little antsy and wanted to start designing again. I'm taking my next web design class in the fall and I've started to design a website on my own. I want to be able to fully make it work and everything in the future but right now I just have what I want it to look like. So far I only have the home page and what everything would look like when you roll over all the buttons. Here they are...

The first is what the website would look like when you opened it. The second is after you rollover each button or the picture. Hopefully I'll learn how to make a different picture come up each time you refresh the page, but as of right now I don't. Ultimately though that's what I want to happen when you open up my website each time. I also worked on another little project for Adah, but she came a tad earlier than I anticipated and therefore I didn't finish it. But this is what it was going to look like ish.

A little birth announcement! Maybe I'll have more time for whichever baby decides to bless us next and I can actually finish one :) Well I have to go to summer school (booooo). Have a glorious day!