Not a cakewalk!
So I have started working on this aria for "Master Class", the show I am going to be in come March, and it is the scariest thing I have ever worked on. It's nuanced, it's fast paced, there are rhythms that I can barely comprehend. I just really have to focus on getting it right, and I've barely learned two pages of music. Verdi ain't no cakewalk! I can't imagine ever carrying an opera, that would terrify me. My next goal is to teach myself some piano and more music theory. On the bright side, my R's are rolling beautifully...thanks Italy!
And speaking of goals, my weight loss is going really splendidly!! I've lost 11 lbs in 5 weeks, which is impressive for someone who wasn't that overweight to begin with (if at all). I feel really confident and I've got a little farther to go to reach my goal, but it's coming into sight. And I don't deprive myself (I had popcorn tonight...yummy!)...not being in college is really beneficial to my mental and physical health.
So Valentine's Day is coming much too soon, and I couldn't be more frustrated with the two men in my life. I don't know if this is from a result of me bettering myself or not but recently, I've just become really annoyed with the overeating and the unnecessary overindulging in food. I mean, it's like I'm dating the Hoover vacuum man. I understand that men get hungry all the time and can put away a lot of food, but someone who devours THREE Weight Watchers little chocolate cakes AFTER a dinner of hush puppies, salad, chicken pasta, and orange custard dessert is disgusting to me. And don't even get me started on what he puts in his burrito. It would be one thing if kept his weight down, but he hasn't for a while. And frankly, it bothers me. It's one thing to let it creep up on you or be ignorant about what you're eating but he's not. It's gross. And he couldn't even comfortably run a mile with me...so yeah. And of course all that food leads to farting and other disgusting bodily function information that I won't share. It's like being with a bridge troll sometimes. A sweet, cuddly bridge troll, but a bridge troll all the same.
I'm reading this book called "Your Big Fat Boyfriend", which isn't really about having a big fat boyfriend, but how to maintain a healthy diet when you are dating someone who doesn't give a damn and who lives off pizza and chinese takeout and mozzerella sticks and won't touch a veggie unless forced in front of him. Ladies and gentlemen, meet my fiance *laughs*
And don't even get me started on my father. The man can down a whole bag of cherries (healthy) and half a big bag of tortilla chips and salsa (not so healthy...) without even blinking an eye. Or leaving his recliner. Here's a man who complains to me that I leave my TV shows on the DVR too...well if you ever left the chair or took your gaze off the big screen TV, I might have a chance of catching one of my shows sometime other than 4 in the morning. Oh and the other night he was complaining that the treadmill was too loud while he was watching TV. TOO BAD. It's become my zen time, and some of the only me time I get. And it all becomes so silly because he's constantly asking me to keep living with them and not move out. So it's like tolerate me, already! I don't ask for a lot...I'm not here often considering I'm at work all the time.
Happy Early Valentine's Day...I just need to start loving the men in my life, don't I? XD
Bradley Cooper is hosting SNL tonight. I had no idea who he was until I watched the Wedding Crashers tonight on TBS (he played Rachel McAdams preppy boyfriend). I'm still not entirely sure who he is.
And speaking of goals, my weight loss is going really splendidly!! I've lost 11 lbs in 5 weeks, which is impressive for someone who wasn't that overweight to begin with (if at all). I feel really confident and I've got a little farther to go to reach my goal, but it's coming into sight. And I don't deprive myself (I had popcorn tonight...yummy!)...not being in college is really beneficial to my mental and physical health.
So Valentine's Day is coming much too soon, and I couldn't be more frustrated with the two men in my life. I don't know if this is from a result of me bettering myself or not but recently, I've just become really annoyed with the overeating and the unnecessary overindulging in food. I mean, it's like I'm dating the Hoover vacuum man. I understand that men get hungry all the time and can put away a lot of food, but someone who devours THREE Weight Watchers little chocolate cakes AFTER a dinner of hush puppies, salad, chicken pasta, and orange custard dessert is disgusting to me. And don't even get me started on what he puts in his burrito. It would be one thing if kept his weight down, but he hasn't for a while. And frankly, it bothers me. It's one thing to let it creep up on you or be ignorant about what you're eating but he's not. It's gross. And he couldn't even comfortably run a mile with me...so yeah. And of course all that food leads to farting and other disgusting bodily function information that I won't share. It's like being with a bridge troll sometimes. A sweet, cuddly bridge troll, but a bridge troll all the same.
I'm reading this book called "Your Big Fat Boyfriend", which isn't really about having a big fat boyfriend, but how to maintain a healthy diet when you are dating someone who doesn't give a damn and who lives off pizza and chinese takeout and mozzerella sticks and won't touch a veggie unless forced in front of him. Ladies and gentlemen, meet my fiance *laughs*
And don't even get me started on my father. The man can down a whole bag of cherries (healthy) and half a big bag of tortilla chips and salsa (not so healthy...) without even blinking an eye. Or leaving his recliner. Here's a man who complains to me that I leave my TV shows on the DVR too...well if you ever left the chair or took your gaze off the big screen TV, I might have a chance of catching one of my shows sometime other than 4 in the morning. Oh and the other night he was complaining that the treadmill was too loud while he was watching TV. TOO BAD. It's become my zen time, and some of the only me time I get. And it all becomes so silly because he's constantly asking me to keep living with them and not move out. So it's like tolerate me, already! I don't ask for a lot...I'm not here often considering I'm at work all the time.
Happy Early Valentine's Day...I just need to start loving the men in my life, don't I? XD
Bradley Cooper is hosting SNL tonight. I had no idea who he was until I watched the Wedding Crashers tonight on TBS (he played Rachel McAdams preppy boyfriend). I'm still not entirely sure who he is.