Haha... so not to toot my own horn, but our apartment is pretty organized. We may not keep it spic and span all the time but the nice thing about being poor college students is we don't have that much stuff yet, and just about everything has a place. But my point is, I didn't have enough stuff to do for 5x5. We're not allowed to paint the walls or even poke too many holes in them. I guess I could have talked about the shelf thing we bought at Target but, while useful, it's not very cool.
My alternative blog project is something I like to call [read the title of the post]. Really I couldn't think of a better name. Nathan pointed out that 5x5 is inaccurate, since I'm not doing five things every day, so I made something up.
I'm getting sidetracked. What I'm going to do is post every weekday next week about something Nathan and/or I are doing to improve our general health. This will include ways we are trying to be more physically active, nutritional changes we are working towards, and whatever else I can think of at 11:30 PM when I realize I haven't blogged yet! Ohhhhh just kidding. I'll try to put more thought into this than I did to many of my BEDA posts.
No pressure to join in on the fun, but I thought I would give some notice in case anyone felt like sharing some ideas or tips next week! If you don't want to blog, please try to read and comment on my posts :)
Watch for my first post on Monday!
May 27, 2011
Cleaning!
Okay. Our bathroom isn't repulsive or anything, but I have been meaning to deep clean it for a while now. The arrival of house guests this evening have forced my hand... it's time to get down to business. Luckily I got off work a couple hours early today so that's a couple hours that I'm making myself work on cleaning.
Of course, I'm already procrastinating by writing this blog post, but I've organized a lot of stuff and now I just have to wipe things down, basically.
My music of choice at the moment? Enya. Sped up. It's probably hard to imagine but it's a lot more upbeat and fun this way haha. It's kind of hard to hear over the washing machine, but that's almost done anyway.
BACK TO WORK!
P.S. I love my new laptop :D
Of course, I'm already procrastinating by writing this blog post, but I've organized a lot of stuff and now I just have to wipe things down, basically.
My music of choice at the moment? Enya. Sped up. It's probably hard to imagine but it's a lot more upbeat and fun this way haha. It's kind of hard to hear over the washing machine, but that's almost done anyway.
BACK TO WORK!
P.S. I love my new laptop :D
May 8, 2011
Accutane.
Oh hey! I'm blogging and it's not April! How exciting!
I started taking Accutane a couple weeks ago. If you're unfamiliar with it, it's this drug that you take for five or six months and once you finish, you don't have to deal with bad acne again. If I just got a pimple here and there I wouldn't bother but I have what they call "nodular acne" which is disgusting and painful and causes scarring. I wish I would have done this in high school but it never happened.
The problem with Accutane is it has CRAZY side effects. For one thing, it causes terrible birth defects so I had to sign a contract saying that I wouldn't get pregnant while taking it. It's really now or never, since Nathan and I are going to start trying for kids in a year or so and this is kiiind of my last chance.
Another crappy side effect is dry skin. Dry everything, really. There aren't many drugs that permanently change your body, and Accutane is one of them. It reduces the amount of oil your body produces, and makes your oil glands smaller, etc. Ergo, dry skin. And not just dry skin. My lips are chapped SO bad, they've even cracked and bled a few times. The inside of my nose is so dry that I've been getting nosebleeds, which I've never had before. The outside of my nose and my chin are all scaly and gross. But the worst part, ladies and gentlemen, are the dry EYES. Oh yes, my eyes (the right one more than the left) are like the Sahara desert. On Thursday afternoon it was so bad that I had to come home from work early because I just could not see and the simple act of blinking was killing me.
Sigh. I've found ways to improve my problems. My dermatologist recommended Refresh Plus eye drops, and they are working really well. I'm slathering Vaseline on my lips and even applying it to the inside of my nose with a Q-tip. Good lotion for the rest of my face. But holy crap. I hope it doesn't stay this bad or get worse :(
I really shouldn't complain, modern medicine is awesome. I trust my doctor so if something goes seriously wrong he'll know what to do. I just wanted to vent a bit. If you see me around and my eyes are all red, I haven't been crying, I just have shriveled up eyeballs.
On the plus side, my laptop is in Salt Lake City! FedEx estimates that it will arrive on Wednesday, but is it too much to hope that it might be here by Tuesday? I"m excited!
I started taking Accutane a couple weeks ago. If you're unfamiliar with it, it's this drug that you take for five or six months and once you finish, you don't have to deal with bad acne again. If I just got a pimple here and there I wouldn't bother but I have what they call "nodular acne" which is disgusting and painful and causes scarring. I wish I would have done this in high school but it never happened.
The problem with Accutane is it has CRAZY side effects. For one thing, it causes terrible birth defects so I had to sign a contract saying that I wouldn't get pregnant while taking it. It's really now or never, since Nathan and I are going to start trying for kids in a year or so and this is kiiind of my last chance.
Another crappy side effect is dry skin. Dry everything, really. There aren't many drugs that permanently change your body, and Accutane is one of them. It reduces the amount of oil your body produces, and makes your oil glands smaller, etc. Ergo, dry skin. And not just dry skin. My lips are chapped SO bad, they've even cracked and bled a few times. The inside of my nose is so dry that I've been getting nosebleeds, which I've never had before. The outside of my nose and my chin are all scaly and gross. But the worst part, ladies and gentlemen, are the dry EYES. Oh yes, my eyes (the right one more than the left) are like the Sahara desert. On Thursday afternoon it was so bad that I had to come home from work early because I just could not see and the simple act of blinking was killing me.
Sigh. I've found ways to improve my problems. My dermatologist recommended Refresh Plus eye drops, and they are working really well. I'm slathering Vaseline on my lips and even applying it to the inside of my nose with a Q-tip. Good lotion for the rest of my face. But holy crap. I hope it doesn't stay this bad or get worse :(
I really shouldn't complain, modern medicine is awesome. I trust my doctor so if something goes seriously wrong he'll know what to do. I just wanted to vent a bit. If you see me around and my eyes are all red, I haven't been crying, I just have shriveled up eyeballs.
On the plus side, my laptop is in Salt Lake City! FedEx estimates that it will arrive on Wednesday, but is it too much to hope that it might be here by Tuesday? I"m excited!
Apr 30, 2011
BEDA #30
LAST DAY OF APRIL!
Today was pretty chill. We basically did nothing today (which was fine, I needed a break from being productive). There was a luau party at the church tonight, and they had an entire roasted pig! It was awesome. Now we're in the middle of watching The Blind Side.
I wish I had something more exciting to blog about on my last day of BEDA, but I guess I can say that life is good, and that is pretty awesome.
Today was pretty chill. We basically did nothing today (which was fine, I needed a break from being productive). There was a luau party at the church tonight, and they had an entire roasted pig! It was awesome. Now we're in the middle of watching The Blind Side.
I wish I had something more exciting to blog about on my last day of BEDA, but I guess I can say that life is good, and that is pretty awesome.
Apr 29, 2011
BEDA #29
Sorry for the cliffhanger last night. I should probably share some details now :) My laptop has been really crappy lately... I mean, it's always been crappy but it's been a lot worse the last couple weeks. The fan goes into overdrive within 30 seconds of turning it on, it freezes up all the time, and then there's the everlasting issue where it has a battery life of about 20 minutes on a good day. It's just a piece of junk.
Yesterday Nathan and I looked at the laptops they were selling at the bookstore here, but none were really what I was looking for. I wanted a 14 inch screen (I'm over big heavy laptops), and that eliminated the issue of whether or not to get a 10 key pad. In the last couple of years, when the 10 key pad first started becoming popular on laptops, I totally wanted one, but now I couldn't care less. I don't need to use the calculator often enough to necessitate a few extra inches.
I also wanted a webcam so I can Skype with my friends without taking over Nathan's computer. I wanted an optical drive, which is surprisingly NOT a standard feature anymore. I wanted a decent hard drive, but the minimum nowadays is 320GB so that definitely exceeds "decent" for me. Didn't care much about the processor or the RAM, as long as it was better than my current computer. Oh wait, everything is better than my current computer.
I spent a couple hours Googling yesterday and between reading reviews on CNET and checking Amazon for a good deal, I started messing around on Dell.com and HP.com, customizing a laptop. Dell wasn't really working for me, but on HP I came up with one that either met or exceeded all of my requirements, and at a really good price, too. Nathan and I went over the details and managed to knock another $100-ish off (because really, who needs an optical drive with LightScribe? it's this huge gimmick; I can label my CDs with a sharpie like everyone else), THEN we got the price down even more by finding a coupon code for $30 online! We had decided a budget of $700 would probably get me everything I needed in a computer from a manufacturer that I trust, but I didn't even get close to that :D So we both agreed that it was a really good system for a great price, so we placed the order!
I'm expecting this laptop to last me a while. I'm pretty kind to my electronics and I'm not one to keep around useless things, whether they be in the physical world or digital so I can't see myself ever needing to upgrade my 500GB hard drive. Also I don't feel the need to upgrade everything just because something new comes out. In my ideal world, the next computer Nathan and I buy will be a really nice desktop computer, which will be the family computer. I think we'll probably build it ourselves.
Buying a computer off of a shelf, it's just not a very good deal. You either pay too much for features you won't use, or you pay too much for a whole system when you only want ONE specific feature.
Anyway, that's about it! Can't wait to blog about my new computer when I get it :)
Other than that, today was pretty good! I worked for a while, then we came home and killed some time. Then I went to the grocery store with my friend Joanna and bought some tomatoes and cilantro so I could teach her to make my famous salsa! After we made it, we took it to our friends' (Breia and Mike) apartment for their housewarming party! We had a lot of fun :)
That was pretty much my day! Tomorrow is the last day of BEDA, and while my life is nowhere near exciting enough to necessitate blogging every day, this has been a good exercise and I hope to continue blogging more frequently from now on.
Yesterday Nathan and I looked at the laptops they were selling at the bookstore here, but none were really what I was looking for. I wanted a 14 inch screen (I'm over big heavy laptops), and that eliminated the issue of whether or not to get a 10 key pad. In the last couple of years, when the 10 key pad first started becoming popular on laptops, I totally wanted one, but now I couldn't care less. I don't need to use the calculator often enough to necessitate a few extra inches.
I also wanted a webcam so I can Skype with my friends without taking over Nathan's computer. I wanted an optical drive, which is surprisingly NOT a standard feature anymore. I wanted a decent hard drive, but the minimum nowadays is 320GB so that definitely exceeds "decent" for me. Didn't care much about the processor or the RAM, as long as it was better than my current computer. Oh wait, everything is better than my current computer.
I spent a couple hours Googling yesterday and between reading reviews on CNET and checking Amazon for a good deal, I started messing around on Dell.com and HP.com, customizing a laptop. Dell wasn't really working for me, but on HP I came up with one that either met or exceeded all of my requirements, and at a really good price, too. Nathan and I went over the details and managed to knock another $100-ish off (because really, who needs an optical drive with LightScribe? it's this huge gimmick; I can label my CDs with a sharpie like everyone else), THEN we got the price down even more by finding a coupon code for $30 online! We had decided a budget of $700 would probably get me everything I needed in a computer from a manufacturer that I trust, but I didn't even get close to that :D So we both agreed that it was a really good system for a great price, so we placed the order!
I'm expecting this laptop to last me a while. I'm pretty kind to my electronics and I'm not one to keep around useless things, whether they be in the physical world or digital so I can't see myself ever needing to upgrade my 500GB hard drive. Also I don't feel the need to upgrade everything just because something new comes out. In my ideal world, the next computer Nathan and I buy will be a really nice desktop computer, which will be the family computer. I think we'll probably build it ourselves.
Buying a computer off of a shelf, it's just not a very good deal. You either pay too much for features you won't use, or you pay too much for a whole system when you only want ONE specific feature.
Anyway, that's about it! Can't wait to blog about my new computer when I get it :)
Other than that, today was pretty good! I worked for a while, then we came home and killed some time. Then I went to the grocery store with my friend Joanna and bought some tomatoes and cilantro so I could teach her to make my famous salsa! After we made it, we took it to our friends' (Breia and Mike) apartment for their housewarming party! We had a lot of fun :)
That was pretty much my day! Tomorrow is the last day of BEDA, and while my life is nowhere near exciting enough to necessitate blogging every day, this has been a good exercise and I hope to continue blogging more frequently from now on.
Apr 28, 2011
Apr 27, 2011
BEDA #27
HEY! So now I'm going to talk about Easter!
These are our baskets! Notice the copies of Portal 2 hahaha. I don't really like peeps but they were pink and blue! We had lots of good candy AND some bubbles :)
Church was very good, and for dinner, our friends Clark and Joanna came over for taco salad! It was pretty awesome, and Joanna made LAVA CAKE! We also watched Ratatouille and then we all went over to our other friends Mike and Breia's new apartment to play with their cute dog and play a game! It was a pretty great day!
This week has been kind of blah though. I feel like I'm living for the weekends haha. Look at the Easter eggs I dyed! Sorry the picture is sideways.
Church was very good, and for dinner, our friends Clark and Joanna came over for taco salad! It was pretty awesome, and Joanna made LAVA CAKE! We also watched Ratatouille and then we all went over to our other friends Mike and Breia's new apartment to play with their cute dog and play a game! It was a pretty great day!
This week has been kind of blah though. I feel like I'm living for the weekends haha. Look at the Easter eggs I dyed! Sorry the picture is sideways.
Apr 25, 2011
BEDA #25
Jeez, I'm sorry, I've just been really busy and exhausted but Easter was great so I'll definitely update on that (hopefully tomorrow, but no promises). I'm definitely getting a little worn out with blogging every day but I am trying to stay sane :( Good thoughts my way please?
Apr 24, 2011
BEDA #24
PLACEHOLDER! I'll fix it later but hey at least I blogged on the correct day, right? Happy Easter :)
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