October 31, 2007
Writing about my weight loss journey made me start thinking about some of the current goals I have. I briefly mentioned a few (weight loss, marathon, leaving Chile) but I want to document them here to help keep myself accountable. Feel free to ask me about any of them at any given time.
1. Save up $40,000 by November, 2009.
2. Leave Chile for our trip around the world no later than November, 2009.
3. Pay off $5,000 a year on my student loans.
4. Run a marathon before we leave Chile. The marathon doesn’t have to necessarily be in Chile, I’m not even sure if they have a big one here. I know there is one on Isla de Pascua (Easter Island) but it’s really expensive to get there. Easter Island is to Chile what Hawaiai is to the U.S. And the biggest factor is that they only accept 40 people each year. I don’t really fancy coming in 39th of out of 40th in my first (and possibly only) marathon.
5. Weigh 56 kilos by December 16th. I currently weigh 60.6 kilos. If you don’t know how much that is in pounds use the Google converter, it’s the coolest. Just type in Google, convert 56 kilos to pounds and the answer will come up. You can also use it as a calculator. I guess most of you probably knew that by now but I only learned about that insanely useful feature a few months ago. Anyways, this goal is a joint goal I’m doing with Raquelin from Three Day Blog.
6. And last but not least, I really want to start a diet/fitness/health/celebrity weight related topics blog. Why haven’t I already done this, you ask? It’s because I can not, for the life of me think of a name!!!! I’ve been pondering for like a month and can’t come up with anything. Suggestions are welcome.
So those are the things I’m going to achieve in the upcoming years.
October 29, 2007
The last couple of weeks have been filled with stories from the distant past. Ok, not so distant, my crazy Chilean wedding was only a couple of months ago and the whole losing 50 pounds thing was about 3 years ago. Time to bring us back to the future. Or today.
S. still has not finished at his current job. He can’t leave until the construction he’s working on is finished and it’s behind schedule. What does this mean? We will not be leaving Santiago. Those of you who have been reading my blog will know that I was sooooooooooo excited to get out of here. So we now have to come up with a new plan for keeping me sane and out of the clutches of my mother in law. Seriously, I love her, but I just need my space. So we may go back to the original plan, which was moving to the upstairs apartment of our house and fixing it up.
Or, we may get an apartment, either by ourselves or with a friend who also wants to move out of his house. The thing is, both the friend and my husband will be working for the next four months right near where they live, so it doesn’t make sense for us to up and move way far away and give them both longer commutes. So S. and I may fix up the upstairs apartment, move up there for 4-5 months until he’s done with his next construction site and then go from there. At that point we’ll either move to an apartment with or without our friend…or the company will relocate us outside of Santiago. The company has said that the probabilities of us moving outside Santiago after Feb. are almost 100% but then again, the probabilities of us moving outside Santiago now were 2 in 3 and look where that got us.
My celeb gossip blog job is going excellent! My boss has a computer with a bad battery and it died the other day, so right now I’m trying to handle things on my own. It’s a little nervewracking writing for some 90,000 people a day! If I make a typo, someone is bound to notice! So I have definitely been keeping busy…but all in all, everything is really good.
And now, to spice things up a bit, I thought we’d do a little contest. I’m pretty sure I have never mentioned on here where the url of this blog came from. Can anybody figure out where I got the name? Leave an answer in the comments section and if you are the first person to answer correctly you can email me 2 or 3 of your favorite photos and I will retouch them, or spice up the colors, give them borders, take out background people or objects that shouldn’t be in the picture…anything you want. I’ll Photoshop the heck out of your pictures if you get the answer right 
Hint, the answer comes from U.S. pop culture, not Chilean, even though the URL is in Spanish.
October 28, 2007
Continuing with the self portrait update, here are a few more days.
Day 49:
I’ll be the first to admit I have really short, stubby, dinosaur arms. This makes taking my own self portrait incredibly hard! I can’t reach out far enough away to get much of my face in the picture…and focusing, let’s not even go there. Which is why, as you can see, I focused on my forehead for this shot snapped after a run.
Day 50:
Flashes make everybody look ghostly white. Don’t hate.
Day 51:
Again, short arms are a serious impediment. Here I am at a park in Santiago. Parque de las Esculturas in case you want to visit next time you’re in the area. I really wanted to do an SP with the pretty purple flowers in the background but it didn’t turn out quite as I wanted. And I look like I have Tom Cruise style bangs but that’s just the wind. I’d rather have Katie’s haircut if I were to be imitating a celeb hair-do anytime soon.
Tomorrow I’ll update with pictures from today and yesterday, and then I’m caught up! Woohoo, and I vow never to get that behind on uploading my pics again.
October 27, 2007
I’m so far behind on uploading my self portraits! I don’t know how I’m going to make through the whole 365 days…I’m already sick of my own face! And I have got to start uploading these as I take them instead of leaving them all on my camera for days. I’m about a week behind, but I’m just going to put up a few for today and I’ll put up the rest tomorrow after I’ve had a chance to run them through Photoshop
Day 45:
Look hard, the reflection of my hands and camera is in there. That is my reflection in the window of the train while the scenery blurs by. The picture was taken last Friday, on my way back home from Talca after spending a day with the lovely Raybelles, my only girlfriend in Chile! We had such a wonderful afternoon together and I also kind of fell in love with the trains here in Chile. Even though the organization that runs them is one of the most corrupt in the whole country, I loved being able to travel comfortably and enjoy the scenery the whole way there-pure trash and poverty on the way through any cities we passed and then beautiful rolling green hills everywhere else. I actually meant to do a whole post on the day but never seemed to find the time.
Day 46:
This is me after a run. I know the photo is severely overexposed but I really just wanted to get my self portrait of the day out of the way, take a shower and climb in bed. I didn’t have time to manually adjust the settings on my camera to make sure everything came out properly
Day 47:
I asked S. to take a few pictures of me out on our patio at night for these shots. The lighting is from a flourscent overhead bulb hanging right over me. I liked the way these came out because they’re a bit different from all the typical boring shots of me in our room that I always take.
Day 48:
I could not get this damn orange started! Even with a knife, that thing’s peel was like an armored shell that repelled my every effort to get in. I thought for sure that it was going to be the best, most delicious, juiciest orange in the world. Why else would Mother Nature have gone to such great lengths to protect it? But, alas, I bit in, and it sucked. After all the effort it wasn’t even good, it had a bitter taste. Stupid orange.
October 26, 2007
Ask and ye shall receive. You wanted before pictures, here is the best I can do. I didn’t bring my boxes upon boxes of pictures with me to Chile so I had to steal this from a friend’s Facebook. It’s not a full body shot, but I think even just in the face it’s pretty easy to see that I looked a lot different before. The picture was taken after I had already lost 10-15 pounds. If I ever come across better befores I will post them.
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- @dregonzrob, hahaha, eating wall paper, that's a new one. Dog whisperer dato coming your way :)
- @lanapuckett, when we get back I'll have to introduce you to @gabrielrodriguez, @sebamilla and @sebastiankaulen!
- @dregonzrob, you need the dog whisperer!!!
- Brian McBride is announcing his retirement from the game today. He will go down in history for me as my favorite U.S. player ever. LOVE him.
- Caroline and Tommy should probably stop being this hot or somebody's going to catch on fire. http://tinyurl.com/2feozcy
- Writing w/ @imnotobsessed tomorrow early! Love catching people up on their daily dose of gossip and I <3 @inosherry, my online co-worker :)
