So blogging is REALLY hard to keep up with!!! I'm really not sure how people take time out of the day to blog about their lives. Honestly, I don't have enough going on in my life to write something every day. Wake up at 6am, 45 minutes to work, work from 7:30am - 5:00pm, drive 45 minutes home, workout, make dinner, bed...EVERYDAY! Jonathan and I have also been swamped on the weekends as well...but sometimes, on a Saturday, we'll sit around all day and watch movies. I l-o-v-e those lazy Saturdays.
So I decided I will be participating in two 5k's this year, one with Naomi, (our, hopefully, traditional 5k) the Glo Run and the Dirty Girl Mud Run, which I am SO excited about!! I have been running everyday after work for awhile and am hoping these will be both fun and easy for me to compete in. One of my best friends, Kristi, will be running with me along with her daughter and my mom!! Super excited!! Maybe running will be "my thing." We shall see. =)
I'd like some suggestions from anyone and everyone who happens to read this blog. I enjoy my job, for the most part. Don't get me wrong, working with people everyday is great, but it's also extremely stressful. Working in Human Resources I deal with a lot of the shit in a company. Negativity all day long, and it doesn't seem to be slowing down at all. I'm interested in something less stressful but still with a large workload because I need to constantly be doing something or else I get bored annnnnnnd write on my blog. I'm open to suggestions of new career fields...anything and everything. Thanks.
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Friday, September 7, 2012
Bacon Wrapped Chicken
So I decided that I would put my Bacon Wrapped Chicken Recipe online for all of my friends and family. I don't personally eat meat but Jonathan tells me that he absolutely loves when I make this for him and that it tastes like it can be from a restaurant.
Ok so you're going to need:
- Chicken Breast halves (obviously as many as you need)
- Bacon
- Phillipehias Onion and Chive Cream Cheese
- Salt
First preheat your oven to 400 degrees. Then spread the chicken out in between two sheets of parchment paper. You'll need to pound the chicken down until they're easier to roll. Once that is done, spread two teaspoons of the cream cheese on the chicken (the side facing up). Also, you can use as much cream cheese as you'd like but don't use too much because it will come out of the side on the chicken when you roll it. After you spread the cream cheese on all of the chicken halves add a pinch of salt. Then begin to roll the chicken (like...a fruit rollup).
Once this step is complete you're going to wrap the bacon around the chicken. Since Jonathan LOVES bacon I usually use three pieces but two definitely works. Keep the bacon into place with tooth picks, line your baking pan and place in the oven. You will bake the chicken approximately between 35 - 40 minutes. Then turn on the broiler and put the tray back into the oven for 5 minutes so that the bacon gets crispy.
Your chicken will be moist, your bacon will be crispy and you won't need to add anything for flavor afterwards!! =)
This meal is about $15 total to make 5 chicken breasts. It cost me around $9.50 for the breasts and $1.99 for the cream cheese. ( I bought 2 tubs of the cream cheese).
I usually serve this with cheesy mashed potatoes(recipe to come) and asparagus (or broccoli).
ENJOY!! =)
Ok so you're going to need:
- Chicken Breast halves (obviously as many as you need)
- Bacon
- Phillipehias Onion and Chive Cream Cheese
- Salt
First preheat your oven to 400 degrees. Then spread the chicken out in between two sheets of parchment paper. You'll need to pound the chicken down until they're easier to roll. Once that is done, spread two teaspoons of the cream cheese on the chicken (the side facing up). Also, you can use as much cream cheese as you'd like but don't use too much because it will come out of the side on the chicken when you roll it. After you spread the cream cheese on all of the chicken halves add a pinch of salt. Then begin to roll the chicken (like...a fruit rollup).
Once this step is complete you're going to wrap the bacon around the chicken. Since Jonathan LOVES bacon I usually use three pieces but two definitely works. Keep the bacon into place with tooth picks, line your baking pan and place in the oven. You will bake the chicken approximately between 35 - 40 minutes. Then turn on the broiler and put the tray back into the oven for 5 minutes so that the bacon gets crispy.
Your chicken will be moist, your bacon will be crispy and you won't need to add anything for flavor afterwards!! =)
This meal is about $15 total to make 5 chicken breasts. It cost me around $9.50 for the breasts and $1.99 for the cream cheese. ( I bought 2 tubs of the cream cheese).
I usually serve this with cheesy mashed potatoes(recipe to come) and asparagus (or broccoli).
ENJOY!! =)
The Color Run
I would seriously suggest that everyone do the Color Run at some point. It was by far one of the best 5k's I have even done. We had such a great time and Naomi cannot wait to do another one. What happens is that once you get there and sign in they give you a white t-shirt, white head band, a number and a color packet. You have to hold onto your color packet until the end of the race. Throughout the race there are checkpoints where you just get completely covered in a color which is in a powder form. First was yellow, then blue, purple, orange, green and then pink. Naomi ran for the majority of the race, which personally I was extremely impressed and other runners were cheering her on throughout the entire race. You're having so much fun during the race that you don't even realize you're running a little over 3 miles. Half way through the race we lost Jonathan and I was convinced that he had cheated and cut through to the finish. We ended up seeing him at the finish line and he did say that he ran the entire race but he wasn't nearly as colorful as Naomi and I were...Hmmm =)
At the end of the race you go to a large stage and everyone stands together and gets out their color packet. Then they do a count down starting from 10 - 9 - 8 - 7...everyone rips open their color packets and throws the color in the air so when it comes back down you are completely covered from head to toe in multiple colors. It was such a great way to stat off our weekend and an amazing experience for Naomi and I to share. We have decided that this will be "our thing"...5k's/races. So we might sign up for the glow race, which is a night time race where you wear a bunch of glow sticks, but, we'll see.
Here are a couple pictures from the race =)
At the end of the race you go to a large stage and everyone stands together and gets out their color packet. Then they do a count down starting from 10 - 9 - 8 - 7...everyone rips open their color packets and throws the color in the air so when it comes back down you are completely covered from head to toe in multiple colors. It was such a great way to stat off our weekend and an amazing experience for Naomi and I to share. We have decided that this will be "our thing"...5k's/races. So we might sign up for the glow race, which is a night time race where you wear a bunch of glow sticks, but, we'll see.
Here are a couple pictures from the race =)
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
40 Days & 40 Nights
40 days of Insanity, 40 nights of an achy body!!! Although I will say that the exercises have seemed to get easier and I can definitely stretch a lot further. Jonathan and I are running our first 5k together on Friday for the Color Run. I am entirely too excited for it and I know half way through the race I will be very upset with myself for not training a bit for this event. If I do like this 5k though I WILL be signing up for as many of the other 5k's that I can, like the Dirty Girl run. I'm just ready for my body and strength to be back at what it was 3 years ago when I had first met Jonathan. ( By the way, I can't believe we've been together for that long!!) (Also! I can't believe we've been married for almost a year!!!) What an insanely fast year.
In other news, I have a doctor's appointment in about 2 weeks for more blood work and to see if my medication works or if I need a stronger dosage...Soooo hoping the medication works so I don't have to go back for blood tests every month. I seriously HATE them...Yuck =( I hope everything goes well and everything gets back on track.
Also, I have a few things to look forward to coming up in the next couple of weeks. I'm taking a pottery class with my mom, I'm signing up for a cake decorating class AND Jonathan and I have a wedding to go to September 8th! So excited for Brandon and Jaime B-T-Dubbs! Back to the artsy classes, I'm super pumped because I'm actually a very artsy person and really enoy DIY projects so I'm really looking forward to these classes. Plus, then I'll have a nice bowl/vase or something and I'll know how to make professional looking cakes. Awesome! =)
Such a random post, but so much to look forward to =) Hurry up September!
In other news, I have a doctor's appointment in about 2 weeks for more blood work and to see if my medication works or if I need a stronger dosage...Soooo hoping the medication works so I don't have to go back for blood tests every month. I seriously HATE them...Yuck =( I hope everything goes well and everything gets back on track.
Also, I have a few things to look forward to coming up in the next couple of weeks. I'm taking a pottery class with my mom, I'm signing up for a cake decorating class AND Jonathan and I have a wedding to go to September 8th! So excited for Brandon and Jaime B-T-Dubbs! Back to the artsy classes, I'm super pumped because I'm actually a very artsy person and really enoy DIY projects so I'm really looking forward to these classes. Plus, then I'll have a nice bowl/vase or something and I'll know how to make professional looking cakes. Awesome! =)
Such a random post, but so much to look forward to =) Hurry up September!
Friday, August 3, 2012
Diagnosis
I know it's been a week or so since I last wrote on my blog, but I have been seriously busy with overtime hours at work and doctor's appointments. Within the last week I have been poked with a needle 7 times!! Ouch!! I've really only had blood work done twice but the nurse who took my blood the 1st time (which, by the way, was the first time I EVER had blood taken before) could not find a vein so she poked me twice in each arm. Then another nurse came in to see what was taking so long and decided to help out. She poked me in my left arm for the third time, popping one of my veins. Then she acted like it wasn't a big deal. Now I'm not a baby and I can handle pain pretty well, but man, I was NOT expecting that. Finally they were able to draw blood from my right arm with a butterfly needle, which I was told is what they use on babies, because they told me I had baby veins...
The next day I was so bruised on both arms I looked like a heroin addict!! But, I did get my results back in about a day and a half. They found out that I have hypothyroidism...Thanks Mom. Just kidding but I was told it runs in my family and after talking to my mom, found out that every woman on my mom's side of the family has hypothyroidism. My case isn't as severe as others so it really only causes me the have irregular periods, weight gain and to constantly be exhausted. So the whole weight gain issue after the wedding...not my fault, my thyroid is just a little messed up.
I went to an Endocrinologist, which is a doctor who specializes in thyroids and diabetes. He told me that I definitely have a more mild case of hypothyroidism and that i will only have to be on medication when Jonathan and I want to have kids. After that it's my choice whether or not I want to take a pill every day. The only reason he wants me on them now is to see which dosage works best for me. He did tell me that hypothyroidism does NOT cause infertility but I am more at risk for miscarriages. All that means is that when I do get pregnant I will have to make monthly visits to see him as well so he can monitor my hypothyriodism and up my medication so that I have a healthy pregnancy...no biggie. AND it's extremely common so women who want to have children/are pregnant go through it all of the time and have healthy babies. =)
So I'm not freaked out anymore and I feel pretty good about everything I've learned so far. Does it suck...yes, but pregnancy is possible and honestly, that's all that really matters....oh and of course my health DUH. Ok, back to the grind...someone has to run the asylum. =)
The next day I was so bruised on both arms I looked like a heroin addict!! But, I did get my results back in about a day and a half. They found out that I have hypothyroidism...Thanks Mom. Just kidding but I was told it runs in my family and after talking to my mom, found out that every woman on my mom's side of the family has hypothyroidism. My case isn't as severe as others so it really only causes me the have irregular periods, weight gain and to constantly be exhausted. So the whole weight gain issue after the wedding...not my fault, my thyroid is just a little messed up.
I went to an Endocrinologist, which is a doctor who specializes in thyroids and diabetes. He told me that I definitely have a more mild case of hypothyroidism and that i will only have to be on medication when Jonathan and I want to have kids. After that it's my choice whether or not I want to take a pill every day. The only reason he wants me on them now is to see which dosage works best for me. He did tell me that hypothyroidism does NOT cause infertility but I am more at risk for miscarriages. All that means is that when I do get pregnant I will have to make monthly visits to see him as well so he can monitor my hypothyriodism and up my medication so that I have a healthy pregnancy...no biggie. AND it's extremely common so women who want to have children/are pregnant go through it all of the time and have healthy babies. =)
So I'm not freaked out anymore and I feel pretty good about everything I've learned so far. Does it suck...yes, but pregnancy is possible and honestly, that's all that really matters....oh and of course my health DUH. Ok, back to the grind...someone has to run the asylum. =)
Friday, July 13, 2012
Complications
I think it's finally time to be open about some health issues of mine. This is a warning to any guys that read my posts, I'm going to be talking about feminine issues... For the past year I have had a severly irregular period. It started in June 2011, pretty much out of no where I started to only get my period once every 2 months. I obviously thought something was wrong with me but my doctor reassured me that everything was ok and that although it was 2 months apart, it was still somewhat regular so I had nothing to worry about. In January 2012 things started to change and I had gotten my period for 2 weeks straight. Again my doctor said that everything was normal and maybe I should be put on birth control to regulate my periods. I did not choose that path and started to do some research of my own the rest of that month on irregular periods and what the possibility of that happening could be. I can honestly say I took at least 5 pregnancy tests since January to see if that could be what was behind my problems. Unfortunately, I was not pregnant. In June 2012, about a month ago, I went to the doctor once more because since January I had started to get a regular period, once every month, but I would only get it for one day each month. Again, my doctor said that's perfectly normal but let's put you on birth control.
I'm definitely NOT interested in birth control. Jonathan and I have plans of our own and I'm not about to push them off so that my doctor is satisfied with me getting regualr periods. So I had enough nonsense from this doctor without receiving any feedback on what could be going on with my body. I decided to go somewhere else...somewhere I thought would probably be better because my friend has just had a baby at this other hospital and had nothing but good things to say about the staff. Plus she's a nurse herself and I feel like if an awesome nurse goes to a certain doctor then they must be a good doctor...right??
Anyways, I haven't gotten my period since May so I made an appointment with the new doctos. So, I'm there last night, sitting in the room by myself patiently waiting for the doctor after the nurse had asked me all the the history of my family information they need for my records. She comes in the door with a couple of pamplets, sits down across from me, and starts talking about infertility...umm, what!? It was such a cruve ball, I felt like someone had punched me right in my stomach. I honestly felt like I was in a daze while she was going over all of the information. I was extremely upset that Jonathan couldn't be there with me for support but we had no idea I would be having this conversation with the doctor. Now it's not a for sure thing, I have some testing I have to go through and it's not like Jonathan and I have been "trying" to get pregnant so I'm not too worried about it yet. But, now it's in the back of my mind and it kind of freaks me out.
Now, what happens is I am on medication which will force me to have my period. On day three of my period I have to do blood work to find out what the reason is...it could be one of four things: 1. A lack of PCOS which means I will be put on fertility medicine and have a higher chance of multiples. 2. Early Menopause. 3. Thyroid issues, she didn't give me a lot of information about this but it shouldn't be a big deal. Or 4. Some long medical term which means brain tumor BUT not a serious one!! Just one that gives off the hormone you use when breast feeding, which can be fixed by medicine as well. If it isn't any of those THEN I have to start worrying about infertility. After The blood work is done I will be having an ultrasound...
It's a bit overwhelming but hopefully it's nothing and I'm just freaking myself out. Here's to positive feedback!
I'm definitely NOT interested in birth control. Jonathan and I have plans of our own and I'm not about to push them off so that my doctor is satisfied with me getting regualr periods. So I had enough nonsense from this doctor without receiving any feedback on what could be going on with my body. I decided to go somewhere else...somewhere I thought would probably be better because my friend has just had a baby at this other hospital and had nothing but good things to say about the staff. Plus she's a nurse herself and I feel like if an awesome nurse goes to a certain doctor then they must be a good doctor...right??
Anyways, I haven't gotten my period since May so I made an appointment with the new doctos. So, I'm there last night, sitting in the room by myself patiently waiting for the doctor after the nurse had asked me all the the history of my family information they need for my records. She comes in the door with a couple of pamplets, sits down across from me, and starts talking about infertility...umm, what!? It was such a cruve ball, I felt like someone had punched me right in my stomach. I honestly felt like I was in a daze while she was going over all of the information. I was extremely upset that Jonathan couldn't be there with me for support but we had no idea I would be having this conversation with the doctor. Now it's not a for sure thing, I have some testing I have to go through and it's not like Jonathan and I have been "trying" to get pregnant so I'm not too worried about it yet. But, now it's in the back of my mind and it kind of freaks me out.
Now, what happens is I am on medication which will force me to have my period. On day three of my period I have to do blood work to find out what the reason is...it could be one of four things: 1. A lack of PCOS which means I will be put on fertility medicine and have a higher chance of multiples. 2. Early Menopause. 3. Thyroid issues, she didn't give me a lot of information about this but it shouldn't be a big deal. Or 4. Some long medical term which means brain tumor BUT not a serious one!! Just one that gives off the hormone you use when breast feeding, which can be fixed by medicine as well. If it isn't any of those THEN I have to start worrying about infertility. After The blood work is done I will be having an ultrasound...
It's a bit overwhelming but hopefully it's nothing and I'm just freaking myself out. Here's to positive feedback!
Monday, July 9, 2012
Good Times
In other news, I'm going to be starting my 60 day work out program today. I know I should have started this morning but I just could not wake up...I should have really pushed myself to get up because this afternoon will be killer in this heat. Oh well, I'll just have to push through it. Now I should have been working out all along but the reason I decided that I HAVE to start today is because one of my best friends, Kristi Jopek, who is also Parker's mom, has recently gotten engaged and has asked me to stand up in her wedding. I am very excited for her and Tyler's camo themed wedding but I definitely am not going to stand up there looking blimpy!! Hopefully after these 60 days I'll be back at my ideal weight, but I have a lot of work to do...and no more pop =( I'm hoping things go well with this work out plan because I can't wait to wear tight clothes again! =P
So there's one thing that I am abit worried about that is coming up here but I don't want to make too big of a deal out of it. I'm going to the doctor on thursday because my body just SUCKS. For the past year things just haven't felt...right and the doctor I had been seeing kept saying everything was normal. Trust me, with my situation it is NOT normal. I did enough research online to figure that out. So I have recently changed doctors and am hoping for good news and good results. I will keep everyone posted but that's all I am going to say on this issue right now.
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