Fall

I love fall, despite the fact that after fall comes my least favorite season, winter. The changing leaves, the smells, the cooler weather, hearing football games in the stadium behind our house. But then old man winter comes and ruins it all. I hate the cold, sure the first snowfall is pretty but after that I'm basically over it. Here are some of the fall things we've done this week.

We went to the Circleville Pumpkin show (after sitting in about an hour or more of traffic), they have HUGE pumpkins there, as you can see. Its basically a street fair with lots of pumpkin flavored stuff including tacos, ice cream, burgers and funnel cakes.

We also carved our pumpkins this week, this one is mine of course because I'm not very creative with pumpkin carving. Last year we went and picked pumpkins, but it didn't seem like we had time this year. Every weekend we've had something planned.

Andrew's pumpkin always seems to look really angry. Last year it was a cyclops and I swear it had the same mouth....

This weekend we're hosing a birthday party for my dad and Sunday is the Halloween party with Andrew's family. What fun fall things have you done?

What's been going on

Its been crazy around here yet again!

This past weekend we threw our first "birthday party" at the house for Andrew's sister-in-law. His family has a little party for everyone's birthday and I thought it would be fun to host one at our house since not everyone had seen it yet. The party was a success, I made 3 pizzas from scratch with whole wheat crust and we had a nice salad and lemon marange pie. Sunday we headed to my parents house to watch the Steelers vs. Browns game and feasted on lots of game day snacks. My dad made his amazing chicken wings and we went home feeling tired from all the food.

Yes, we are those people that have an inflatable Steelers man that we put up in the yard!

This week I've been busy working on my portfolio for my internship which I'm about half way done with. I have to evaluate where I've been working, my supervisor, write a paper about the experience and put together a portfolio of all the work I did while I was there. I've got about 3-4 weeks to get it all finished up.

I also started applying for jobs yesterday and there are already two that I would love to get!

I'm going to try to get better about my blogging again come the end of next month when I'm finished with school!

5 weeks

Five weeks ago fall quarter at school had just started.

Now, five weeks later, I'm halfway through this quarter and about to take my midterm.

And five weeks after that I'll finally be done with college.

It may have taken me 7 years to get here, but I don't care. The road has been hard and painful at times, but I also met some of my best friends here and those good memories will never fade away. The loves and the losses, the late nights and pizza boxes on the floor, early morning classes after a night of dancing, the projects, tests and weekends going home. I'll never forget this place.

I haven't decided if I'll come back in June and walk at my graduation or not. Its not like I'll know anyone in my class anyways. All I care about is finally holding that diploma in my hands and feeling like those student loans were finally worth something.

Fallen off the wagon

I haven't posted about my weight loss much because it's currently the "elephant in the room." We haven't been super strict about following our diet, I haven't been working out because every ounce of my free time is spent doing homework, meeting with my tutor and for a few hours each night I get to spend time with Andrew. I haven't been cooking horrible things at home and I've been trying to cut back on our carbs, but when we aren't at home we both tend to cheat. Andrew goes out for meals with people at work and we went out of town this weekend meaning that we snacked a lot and ate out a lot.

I really want to loose this weight, but sometimes it seems that I talk myself out of it. Its not that I want to weight this much or not fit into those size 10 or even 8 jeans again, I just feel like I'll never get there. I spend more time crying about it than I do actually doing something about it. When I see a picture of myself I get sick and become tempted to un-tag it on facebook or delete it all together.

I'm not sure what is wrong with me, why I'm so unmotivated is a total mystery. Sometimes I don't feel like Andrew is very supportive. Instead of being encouraging, he makes little comments that to me sound like insults and I get annoyed and shut him out. When I get depressed I want to eat and I don't know how to break myself out of that cycle. I've always been the "skinny girl" but not anymore. I just need to figure out how to get myself back to that place.

I'm not happy with how I look and I literally feel like I've fallen off the wagon which was on the road to weight loss. I know that might sound corny or dumb but it's true. Anyone have suggestions? Maybe I just need a push in the right direction or a little encouragement from my blog friends :)

Indiana Weekend

Our trip this weekend was great! The weather was beautiful with highs in the mid 70's, lots of sunshine and lows in the mid 50's. We arrived late on Friday night and had some drinks, chatted and rested up for the next day. Saturday morning the boys went out to Loon Lake hoping to catch a Muskie, but didn't get anything. Then we all headed out to explore the other lakes, get bait and much to everyone dismay look at boats (Andrew really wants to get a bigger boat when I get a job).

Saturday night we went out on the boat with the spotlight and saw some fish, lots of muskrats, raccoons and turtles. We had a bonfire and cooked some brats and it was a really fun night.

Sunday we went to a channel of about 3-4 lakes that was beautiful. You could see all the way to the bottom of the lake and there were swans everywhere. I have always thought they were beautiful despite how mean they can be. We left around 4 and got back to our house around 8:30. Today I'm getting caught up on homework, cleaning and laundry. We're having a birthday party here this weekend for Andrew's sister in law so I've got a lot to accomplish!

Photos from the weekend
View from the backyard of the cabin, this little channel leads up to Big Lake

Lilly pads

We all hoped to catch a big fish, but no one did.

Bridge we went under to Little Barbee lake, where we had lunch.

Tunnel to my favorite part of the lake.

I don't even think I need to explain why this was my favorite spot :)