Monday, December 17, 2012
I Graduated!
I graduated!! After completing my second, and last internship with Kohl's, and my final semester at UW-Stout...
I GRADUATED!
December 15th, 2012 I finally graduated with a Bachelors degree. It feels SO good to be done with college. Though, everytime the thought about the mass about of student debt I have makes me queeezy and I want to throw up. I defs regret not making smarter choices when it comes to taking out student loans, but, I didn't really know!
With that said, I'm moving to Milwaukee, WI (well actually a suburb of mke, Pewaukee) It's about 20 minutes from Downtown Milwaukee. I start work February 4th for Kohl's Department stores, where I'll do 12 weeks of training, then I'll be placed at a different store as an Assistant Store Manager. Pretty anxious about it, it has it's positives and negatives about the job. But I'll be living with Andrea, a friend since Kindergarden. She's lived here for over a year and a half now and works at Kohls Headquarters.
I'll be posting more on Milwaukee later :)
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Studio Shoot
For an Advertising Photography class Jamie and I went to the studio to mess around a little bit and take some shots. They turned out really well, Jamie is a phenom model, and I hope she decides to pursue it more cause I think she'd do really well. :) Here are some of the photos!!
(The reason most of them are cut off at the at the head is because that's what I was going for for one of my Ad's)
(The reason most of them are cut off at the at the head is because that's what I was going for for one of my Ad's)
Veggie Patties!
I have always been one of the person who when they hear the word "veggie pattie" I just vom in my mouth a little. Never have wanted to eat them. BUT the other day I was at the ol' Walmart and a nice lady was handing out samples (if you know me personally, you'll know I cant pass up ANY sample). but I actually didn't know they were "veggie" patties at first until after I ate it- I was like meh these are pretty good actually. $1.00 off coupon? surreee I'll take it. So I picked up a bag.
So this is what I came up with for a nice healthy Dinner!
So this is what I came up with for a nice healthy Dinner!
Light Life Backyard Burgers (190 cals)
Kraft American Cheese, 2% (45 cals)
Sara Lee Thin Style Buns-100% Whole-Grain (100 cals)
Then I added a Veggie salad with cauli flower, broccoli, carrot pieces, cucumber, spinach & iceberg lettuce
And of course, Ice water =)
All together Everything added up to 435 calories which is great for a 1,200+ calorie diet.
Monday, March 26, 2012
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Coral & Mint
Christian Dior red nail polish
$23 - nordstrom.com
I think my favorite colors this spring are Coral and Mint. Both colors look great on Blondes or Brunettes are are subtle but still eye catching. Love!
$23 - nordstrom.com
I think my favorite colors this spring are Coral and Mint. Both colors look great on Blondes or Brunettes are are subtle but still eye catching. Love!
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Ulyana Sergeenko
Ulyana Sergeenko is a Russian fashion designer that I discovered as of recent. Her Spring 2012 collection is absolutely stunning and I'm just smitten with this collection. Her pieces remind me of watching a beautiful movie from back in war days. Ulyana is not only an extremely talented designer, but also a fashion photographer, fashion editor, and a fashionista herself. Lets just say she is certainly is a designer I want to start following, shes a gem.
Friday, March 23, 2012
The Little Things
I' stumbled across this piece of writing, I'm not sure where it came from so I cant give credit, but I love it and had to share. It really makes you think and kind of gives you the chills.
The head of a company survived 9/11 because
His son started kindergarten.
Another fellow was alive because it was
His turn to bring donuts.
One woman was late because her
Alarm clock didn’t go off in time.
One was late because of being stuck on the NJ Turnpike
Because of an auto accident.
One of them
Missed his bus.
One spilled food on her clothes and had to take
Time to change.
One’s
Car wouldn’t start.
One couldn’t
Get a taxi.
The one that struck me was the man
Who put on a new pair of shoes that morning,
Took the various means to get to work but before.
He got there, he developed a blister on his foot.
He stopped at a drugstore to buy a Band-Aid.
That is why he is alive today..
Now when I am
Stuck in traffic,
Miss an elevator,
Turn back to answer a ringing telephone…
All the little things that annoy me,
I think to myself,
This is exactly where
I’m meant to be
At this very moment
His son started kindergarten.
Another fellow was alive because it was
His turn to bring donuts.
One woman was late because her
Alarm clock didn’t go off in time.
One was late because of being stuck on the NJ Turnpike
Because of an auto accident.
One of them
Missed his bus.
One spilled food on her clothes and had to take
Time to change.
One’s
Car wouldn’t start.
One couldn’t
Get a taxi.
The one that struck me was the man
Who put on a new pair of shoes that morning,
Took the various means to get to work but before.
He got there, he developed a blister on his foot.
He stopped at a drugstore to buy a Band-Aid.
That is why he is alive today..
Now when I am
Stuck in traffic,
Miss an elevator,
Turn back to answer a ringing telephone…
All the little things that annoy me,
I think to myself,
This is exactly where
I’m meant to be
At this very moment
Monday, March 5, 2012
Forty Eight Hours
I will literally be in VEGAS in less than 48 hours.
I've gone back and forth a couple different times contemplating if I should back out of Spring Break in Las Vegas. There's been nothing a lot going on in this little life of mine. So I've considered staying back and taking the week off to take care of some things and relax and get some things back in order in my life as they are kind of all over the place right now. But yah know what? Fuck Screw it. I'm going. And I'm gonna make the most of every minute of it, with friends, by the pool, going to clubs, dressing up, walking the strip, just living like I should be at 23. I'm too young to have so many worry's and to be so unhappy, these are the days I will miss years to come from now, I don't want to look back regretting good times lost.
Not gonna let "life" get the best of me, just yet.
Vegas, I shall see you in less than 48 hours.
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Life of a Calorie Counter
This is gonna be a long one;
I haven't talked much about this whole weight loss crap-ola lately. I have officially lost 15 pounds sense, well about December time. It's been hard, very hard. I've pretty much isolated myself from anything fun, social, or anything that would set me up to fail. I haven't been going to the friends house, the bars (to this day I have not drank in 20 days.) It's not how I wanted to do it, but it will change after spring break when I'm not feeling so much pressure to shrink down having to wear spring clothes, bikini's, and party dresses all week. After that I wont be as concerned about it, and not in a hurry to shrink down, so I wont isolate myself, and I'll be more welcoming of the idea of getting menomonie white girl wasted sometimes ;-) Is it bad that I've thought about what I want to eat when I return to Minnesota? yeah probably, (hashtag)DietGirlProblems
Basically I have been counting my calories on a daily basis, and trying to count everything that I eat, even if its a Hershey's kiss I stole from my bosses dish on her desk. Ohh the life of a calorie counter, I must say, sucks.
some people say well, why do you do it? It keeps me on track, more often than not people, (myself) eat things throughout the day that they don't really acknowledge or "count" and they add up, really fast. I challenge someone to count calories for a week, its eye opening. So it just keeps me in check, and disciplined I guess.
This is what my app is on my iphone; its through myfitnesspal.com --> its simply amazing. I've been using it on and off for a couple years now, thru my yo-yo diet phases. It has a "scan' feature, where you use the app, say "add food" and click the bar code button and you can scan any bar code of the food your eating and it automatically adds it to your data base right away, so it takes very little time, unless you are eating something that doesn't have a bar code.
Aside from the app, this is also, what my days look like
I haven't talked much about this whole weight loss crap-ola lately. I have officially lost 15 pounds sense, well about December time. It's been hard, very hard. I've pretty much isolated myself from anything fun, social, or anything that would set me up to fail. I haven't been going to the friends house, the bars (to this day I have not drank in 20 days.) It's not how I wanted to do it, but it will change after spring break when I'm not feeling so much pressure to shrink down having to wear spring clothes, bikini's, and party dresses all week. After that I wont be as concerned about it, and not in a hurry to shrink down, so I wont isolate myself, and I'll be more welcoming of the idea of getting menomonie white girl wasted sometimes ;-) Is it bad that I've thought about what I want to eat when I return to Minnesota? yeah probably, (hashtag)DietGirlProblems
Basically I have been counting my calories on a daily basis, and trying to count everything that I eat, even if its a Hershey's kiss I stole from my bosses dish on her desk. Ohh the life of a calorie counter, I must say, sucks.
some people say well, why do you do it? It keeps me on track, more often than not people, (myself) eat things throughout the day that they don't really acknowledge or "count" and they add up, really fast. I challenge someone to count calories for a week, its eye opening. So it just keeps me in check, and disciplined I guess.
Aside from the app, this is also, what my days look like
Lovely, right? Being a calorie counter, you count, and measure everything. so that means eating out of measure cups, and going through so many dishes a week of tablespoons, 1/2 cups..etc. It's pretty annoying, but I guess just one of those things you gotta do if you want to change your habits. I feel like I'll be counting for quite a while, (probs not as much in Vegas though) but then hopefully I can ween myself off it it once I get in the habit of knowing my portions, knowing what most things will add up to, etc.
But for now, I shall count.
My main things I've been eating or just loving on, is grapefruit and granny smith apples. Okay, apples are good, and its taken a while to find the perfect apple that you like, and I like them a little crunch, and a littttle sweet, aka granny smith green apples. Next, Grapefruit!!! I slice them up in perfect little bites, but a little bit of sweet n' low/splenda on it and eat them up like candy. Okay, so I typically am a night eater, after a long day of work and class and gym or whatever, I sit on the couch and veg like a starving betch. That's kinda my thing, and my way of "winding down" "relaxing" and "destressing" hence, why I blew up to the weight I was unhappy at in the first place. But I've been trying to steer myself away from that all together, but if I'm gonna do it I at least try and make it healthy food. SO, that leads me to grapefruit. I"m one of those people also, who are more 'satisfied' with what I eat when it takes longer to eat, I feel like I'm getting more. So a quick granola bar never cuts it. Grapefruit is so yummy and takes a bit to eat. Therefore, grapefruit has been my go to food, binge, snack, whatever. I once ate 3 in a sitting, pretty much for dinner. So good.
Lastly, there's having it on you mind... all.the.time. Today I just realized that I've turned into one of those really annoying people who talk about it a lot, or if someones eating something I'll sometimes share the calorie count of it, or today in class we came to the student center to do so student observing of stuff and a girl says " their muffins are so good' my response was "yah but they are like 400+calories" Okay, stop right there Shannon your being fucking annoying. Nobody cares as much as you right now, and they think your annoying so shut up! I even wondered off and asked if the grill place had a nutritional menu I could look at. So that's what I do for fun now? skip bars, isolate myself, read nutritional menus' for fun and tell people what their eating #thissucks -- really sucks. But I have been needing to make these changes for years now, and I feel like I"m finally getting to where I want to be. I just hope after Vegas I can stick with it, less aggressively and annoying, though. I guess it's just a part of my daily life now, its getting to be routine, and THATS when you know your reaching goals, when it becomes less of a "diet" and more of a lifestyle. They also say, don't go on a diet, change your lifestyle and habits, well, I'm trying, okay? So, I apologize to my friends who have been facing my diet lifestyle change, and had to deal with my shit. Annoying, I know..trust me I know.
Anyway, that's about enough for now, I could go on for more about a day in a life of a calorie counter, but as I've said before, that just gets annoying. But, I'll leave with a few things that I keep in my fridge on a weekly basis that are mmm near a daily part of my diet.
'Deli Fresh' Turkey slices-- 6 slices; 45; 50 calories.
American Cheese Slices 2%-- 1 Slice, 45 calories
Sara Lee 100% whole grain Bread-- 2 slices; 90 Calories
Special Kay Strawberry Cereal- 1 cup; 110 calories
Pure Almond Milk-- 1 cup; 35 calories
Tyson Skinless Boneless chicken breast -- 3oz, 100/110 calories
Ruby Red Grapefruits
Granny Smith Apples
Great Value Turkey Sausage Patties-- 1 patty; 90 calories
Village Hearth Light English Muffins -- 1 muffin ; 90 calories
Emerald Cocoa Roast Almonds -- 100 calories per pack
Orville Redenbacher Popcorn, 94% Fat Free Butter; 1 bag 100 calories
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
H&M
"Print Panache, slick metalics, and worn-in denim. Mini everything, sleeveless anything, and a jump suit to boot. It's SPRING FASHION"Here are some highlights from the spring trends.
Mix Master: "The key to mixing contrasting elements like metalics, florals and brights is to find a harmonious color scheme"
Sweater: $34.95
Pants: $14.95
Pumps: $24.95
Earings: $2.95
Necklace: $12.95
Cuff: $9.95
Cozy Boudoir: "Channel the old school glamour of Rita Hayworth with a sweet halterneck negligee, but keep it comfy with socks"
Babydoll: $24.95
Socks: (H&M vintage)
Moto Mode: "A sleeveless biker jacket is surprisingly versatile thrown over crisp white layers, the result is striking"
Leather vest: $199.00
Leather skirt: $99.00
Bracelets: $17.95
All in all I think they certainly went the right direction with this magazine, and its not a catalog either.Feature Fashion week, photographers, models, etc. SO if you have yet to pick this up, I recommend it!
For the heck of it, here are some quick facts about H&M
- Today H&M operates around 2,500 stores, in 43 different countries, and has 94,000 employees
- H&M was established in 1947 in Sweden, by Erling Persson
- Between all H&M collections there are about 140 in house designers together with buyers and pattern makers
- Online shopping is not available in the US just yet, but available in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria and the UK.
- Their growth target is to increase the number of stores by 10-15% per year
- H&M buys products from around 700 independent suppliers in Asia and Europe
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Blog Slacking-Brief Life Update!
Well I created the blog because I love to write (type), share things, be open, etc. But LIFE is happening and I haven't blogged a third as much as I'd like to be! I have been having such short long days lately, that when I have a moment of spare time I'm usually just resting and not wanting to do anything.
This semester has been flying past me! Between work, school, meeting with groups, working out, sleeping, doing homework etc I've been running like 14 hour days back to back and getting little sleep. Haven't been seeing my friends much because I've been so busy and every day I'm just too exhausted. I've been thinking about quitting my job at the office on campus. I would just hate to do that, because I've always been one to need to work or I just feel bad or worthless, but I do think it would be good for me to have some extra time during the days/week. It would deff bring my mental health back to parr as I've been a little bat shit crazy lately with everything going on. I don't know, it's something I would have to see if I can work out. I need more time to focus on school and my health, that's what important to me right now, and if I cant go out every weekend cause I'm broke, then so be it, besides, if I'm striving to focus on my health anyway, going out every weekend isn't really the recipe for success.
I mean, I've lost about 13ish lb's so far. After Vegas I want to focus on more being healthy then stressing about numbers though, the numbers game was more about shrinking before Vegas, after that, the pressure will decrease greatly. (the pressure I put on myself) It's been annoying though because I've been so distant from everything, I haven't drank in 15 days, I haven't gone over to the girls house or anything last couple weeks, I guess I've been pretty focused on losing this stupid pounds and haven't wanted to get wrapped up into anything that would compromise that. We all know when it comes to comfort food & vodka I lake control haha.
School has been crazy, technically I have 18 credits, some online, some weekend only, some from a previous semester I'm trying to complete. Some hard classes, some tedious, that's usually how it goes anyway, but for some reason I just seem to be way in over my head either way. I just want to graduate. When I say that out loud to someone who has graduated they are quick to correct me, and say enjoy it while it lasts, you'll miss it, real world sucks, etc. But that doesn't make me want to graduate any less. I'd like to be done, working, and starting a life beyond college and settle down. By settle down I don't mean go find a hub, have kids la dah dah, just being able to settle down in where I live, a job I'll stay at for a few years, consistency, etc.
This song has been on repeat lately, as it sums up that part of the ol' life-ski.
Just a little bit of Sunday morning ramblings..
This semester has been flying past me! Between work, school, meeting with groups, working out, sleeping, doing homework etc I've been running like 14 hour days back to back and getting little sleep. Haven't been seeing my friends much because I've been so busy and every day I'm just too exhausted. I've been thinking about quitting my job at the office on campus. I would just hate to do that, because I've always been one to need to work or I just feel bad or worthless, but I do think it would be good for me to have some extra time during the days/week. It would deff bring my mental health back to parr as I've been a little bat shit crazy lately with everything going on. I don't know, it's something I would have to see if I can work out. I need more time to focus on school and my health, that's what important to me right now, and if I cant go out every weekend cause I'm broke, then so be it, besides, if I'm striving to focus on my health anyway, going out every weekend isn't really the recipe for success.
I mean, I've lost about 13ish lb's so far. After Vegas I want to focus on more being healthy then stressing about numbers though, the numbers game was more about shrinking before Vegas, after that, the pressure will decrease greatly. (the pressure I put on myself) It's been annoying though because I've been so distant from everything, I haven't drank in 15 days, I haven't gone over to the girls house or anything last couple weeks, I guess I've been pretty focused on losing this stupid pounds and haven't wanted to get wrapped up into anything that would compromise that. We all know when it comes to comfort food & vodka I lake control haha.
School has been crazy, technically I have 18 credits, some online, some weekend only, some from a previous semester I'm trying to complete. Some hard classes, some tedious, that's usually how it goes anyway, but for some reason I just seem to be way in over my head either way. I just want to graduate. When I say that out loud to someone who has graduated they are quick to correct me, and say enjoy it while it lasts, you'll miss it, real world sucks, etc. But that doesn't make me want to graduate any less. I'd like to be done, working, and starting a life beyond college and settle down. By settle down I don't mean go find a hub, have kids la dah dah, just being able to settle down in where I live, a job I'll stay at for a few years, consistency, etc.
This song has been on repeat lately, as it sums up that part of the ol' life-ski.
Just a little bit of Sunday morning ramblings..
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