I’m a Fraud

March 19, 2012 by · Leave a Comment

Yep. I’m going to admit it. I’m 100% a fraud. I’ve been against reality t.v. shows for years. YEARS… Only partaking in the shows like the HGTV shows… Food Networks shows and random History channel stuff.

Enter 5 weeks ago. RJ subscribed to the Netflix streaming service. It’s difficult for me to think of things off the top of my head to watch, plus Netflix streaming is sorta kinda crappy in their selection. After watching Arrested Development (the entire series) at least 3 times and several random movies… I turned on Keeping Up with the Kardashians. Problem is now I can’t turn it off. I’ve gone through KUWTK and all the Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami episodes.

Now, I’m slightly obsessed with Khloe and Lamar. I actually really enjoy their relationship. I hope that they last.

Soooo, yes… I’m a fraud. I’m now addicted to some trashy but fun reality t.v.

Bad Kerri… Bad Kerri.

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Busy

March 12, 2012 by · 1 Comment

It’s been a crazy couple months. Between my day job ramping up big time, photography work, school and personal commitments it’s been hard to find a good balance. I’ve always found it hard to balance life. I never want to disappoint anyone. But, more and more I find the need to hole up at home and enjoy the 6 minutes I have free a week.

As far as weight loss goes, I’m down almost 20 pounds. Last week was the first week where I didn’t lose any weight. Though there was no weight gain either. I tweaked my knee at some point last week; so my daily exercise had to take a back seat so my knee could get to feeling better.

RJ and I are currently trying to plan a fun summer vacation. Have no clue where, but we think we’ll be road tripping… :)

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Documenting Life and Love – Photography

January 30, 2012 by · 2 Comments

As a photographer, I absolutely believe in documenting life and relationships. I’m not one to love getting in front of the camera. I prefer to stay behind it. That might change when I reach my weight loss goals. But, my extremely talented friend, Esther took the following photos a few weeks ago of me and my love.

I LOVE this photo… :D

Filed Under: Marriage, Personal

Internalizing

January 24, 2012 by · Leave a Comment

I’ve spent the better part of the last 2 weeks thinking. Is adoption really the path we are meant to take? Can I take the potential of having numerous failed matches before finally bringing a child home? Our failed IVF and the information we learned from that was difficult enough. Learning that we might ever have a child of our own due to my faulty genetic makeup and we might have missed our window of opportunity, I’m not exactly sure it is something that I’ll ever get over.

But now…. right now brings us to a different state of mind. We’ve been reviewing funds, budgets and trying to mentally prepare for the cost of what an adoption might run us. I have no clue how we would come up with that money in a reasonable amount of time. We exhausted our credit with loans and credit cards during our IVF since I needed about 3 times the amount of meds since I’m apparently a resistant “Super Infertile”. And we’re finally almost done paying that back 3 years later. Almost… As in May. May 2012 we’ll finally be done paying off our last bit of IVF money.

It sounds selfish. It probably makes me a bad person to some. However, I’ve not ever been the same since our IVF failed. I’ve not been the same since our RE told us that my eggs were so bad he didn’t recommend another IVF. So we’re back to square 1 (or 1,256,754, whatever) This decision… it’s massive. I just don’t know. I’m usually incredibly impulsive… But right  now… I can’t even seem to take another step.

Bleh.

 

Filed Under: Adoption, Infertility

Weight Watchers and the Gym

January 14, 2012 by · 3 Comments

RJ and I joined a gym not far from our house towards the end of last year, as first chronicled here. Something to get us into better shape and get us out of the house now that both of us are working from home. We’ve been trying to find a balance. After work just doesn’t seem to cut it. It’s hard to balance making sure we eat a decent early dinner and being tired from the work day. We toyed with going in the morning, but someone *coughRJcough* couldn’t bare the thought of getting up earlier than our grandparents to go work out and then come and work for the rest of the day.

So fine… We decided to try out going during lunch. Lunch is a rather perfect time to go. It’s not packed, I can easily get a machine and we RJ can easily sleep in the morning and we I can easily relax at night. It’s fitting rather nicely into our routine. Although I hate getting treadmill hangover. I am attributing this to dehydration. So I made sure to drink some extra water while working out last time, and by golly… didn’t feel nearly as migraine-ish as normal. So that makes me a happy girl. I also have the Zumba game for Wii that I’m hoping to pop open soon, just need to locate enough space to keep the dogs from dancing with me… I’m fairly certain it would end up looking like a bad seizure keeping them off and away in the current living area. Totally defeating the point. Ha!

As for my diet, I’m really trying to stick closely to Weight Watchers. I haven’t read up on all the changes with the new PointsPlus 2012 system. But, it so easy to follow.I’m pleased to report I’m down close to 8 pounds in 3 weeks. Great start in my opinion. :D

Looking for some yummy weight watchers or healthier recipes? Check out my Foodie Pinterest board. Note: not everything on the board is WW or ‘healthy’ per se, but you can tell by the description what they are.

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