A PICTURE SHARE!

The funny thing about this sign is the braile on it... Like some blind person is going to be walking near this wall and feel out this sign before they fall off.

A PICTURE SHARE!

This was a stupid sculpture at the empire state plaza. They have a lot of stupid art there...

Do you think when they market a piece of furniture and they say that it holds 176 DVDs or whatever, that someone sits there & counts?

A Picture Share!

Friday. 451pm. Why am I still here?

MOTIVATION... GONE. :(

My motivation for being a good girl about what I eat and how I exercise is just totally gone.

This always happens when I've got any time when I let myself just have "whatever"... like any type of celebration. The last time this happened it was St Patrick's Day, and I figured, "what's the point of trying to control what I eat when I'm going to want to drink until I'm -faced?" This time it was the combination of Carrie and John's wedding and my 25th Birthday. I figured, "what's the point of trying to control what I eat when I'm going to want to drink until I'm -faced?".

Damn alcohol.

Actually, the drink isn't the problem. I got way fat before I liked to way drink. It's just a complete lack of natural control. I'll have something and then instead of thinking, "wow, that was awesome. I'm so content now." I think, "Wow, that was awesome! I want another one... and another one... and another one..." It's just a bad scene. Like, at the wedding last Friday, I had like freaking 5 chocolate covered strawberries. They were huge and just so damn good that I couldn't stop myself... and then on my birthday last Saturday, I didn't want to deny myself anything because you're supposed to be a princess and get whatever you want on your birthday. So it's pretty horrifying, the amount I ate.

I figured that the madness would stop by Monday... but it didn't. And my motivation to be good was not fueled by the fact that I only gained 0.4 lbs at Weight Watchers when I weighed in on Tuesday. It was like I was being rewarded for being so bad.

I need to get back on track. I need to set a goal. I can never be motivated unless I have something to work towards... and that something better be something soon because I can't ever work the motivation thing unless my deadline is almost upon me.

So... I guess my new goal will be to weigh under 150lbs by Eric and Sarah's wedding, on August 21st. I should definitely be able to do that... I mean, that's less than 5 lbs in about a month's time. Then after that, my goal will be 145 by Disney World, which should also be doable (though probably a little harder as that's only 2 weeks after the first goal...).

I can do this!! I'll toughen my resolve and refocus on my goals and get this done!! I'll go cold-turkey on the over-indulging and get back to the gym!!

...Starting Sunday... ;)

Instant Gratification?

Just sort of testing this theory... I'd like to use this page as a wireless blog for text messages and photos taken with my SprintPCS camera phone - a Samsung VM-A680... it's hella cool... can take 15 second video clips too, but I haven't figured out a good way to get them to post on here directly from the phone yet.

There's a great little site - www.buzznet.com - that I'd been starting to use as a photo blog, but it looks like they'll become a pay site soon(ish) and I'm not willing to pay for the photo blog. So, while buzznet has an advantage in providing a little thumbnail gallery on the side of all the images that I upload, I think that blogspot might work better... I mean, the photos that I take from my phone are all "throwaways"... little bits of instant gratification. So I don't think it'll matter that much to me if the ones from, say, a month ago aren't that easy to find. And also, I can use this blog to post little wireless posts too, and not just pictures.

So we'll give it a go here. Enjoy my "little bits of instant gratification"!

I've decided to change the thrust of this blog... Originally it was going to be just for my trip to Europe last summer, but since I wasn't all that successful in making that complete and I wanted to keep the blog, I decided to make this a blog that I can post to during any of my travels. Since I'm still having this hosted on blogspot and not on my own server (where blogger has to FTP in and won't automatically publish when I email in posts), I should be able to update this blog using my cellphone - which is hella conducive to traveling.

Anyway. So this blog won't really be updated all that often... just while I'm on trips.

My next mini-break will be next weekend, actually. A quick trip to Pottsville, Pennsylvania for a family reunion. Should be a good time :) After that, there'll be another mini-break, this time to Fairfield, Connecticut for a friend's wedding. And then... drumroll... Disney in September for a whole week!!! I can't wait!!

Anyway, so yeah. Mission Statement: just a blog to post from when I'm travelling. Enjoy! :)

wireless blog fun

So my phone died the other day and I got a new one and it's hella cool... It's a Samsung VM-A60. It has a camera and camcorder in it. Rock!

So I decided that I had to have a place to put my little instant gratification pics to... I started with a site at buzznet.com: aliwolly.buzznet.com. I could post pics there directly from my phone, which is awesome... but then I saw in the FAQs that the site was eventually going to become a pay site and limit the free features that it offers. So I decided that the site wasn't for me.

I started another blog on blogspot that I'll use as my wireless blog. Blogspot works very well with SprintPCS because blogger allows you to post by sending an email and it'll show the picture while it's hosted on the Sprint server. Since I'm having the hosted on blogspot instead of my own server, it doesn't have to login to my FTP and will publish automatically when I send an email post to it.

So check out my wireless blog: instant gratification.

It's been a while...

So really, I've been sucking with the updating lately.

July has been really busy.

We went up to the Adirondacks over the forth of July, and the week after that there was furniture shopping and HOTD over the weekend... Last week was full of wedding preparations and then my birthday celebrations. And now, I finally have time to catch my breath.

Ahhh...

The furniture got delivered and it's awesome! I'll have to take some pictures of the new and improved living room and post them. The sofa is just so comfortable... The living room is really the only place I want to be now when I come in the apartment. Now if we could just keep the cats off of the sofa, we'd be all set...

The wedding was wonderful! The celebrations began with the rehearsal and the rehearsal dinner on Thursday night, followed by a full day of preparations on Friday and the ceremony and reception Friday evening. Everything went off well, with no major disasters and everyone had a great time! Carrie looked absolutely beautiful, and John was dashing in his kilt. The Scottish people were lots of fun. They did a couple of traditional dances that looked like a good time, though very complex! Alex and I did take some pictures with my digicam, but we were both imbibing, and so the pictures aren't really that great... Meredith and her husband also took pictures, and there's came out very well. Take a look at them here.

I had an awesome birthday as well. I was a little depressed about becoming so old... I'm 25 now! That's not early 20's anymore. I'm on that slippery slope to 30, and then it's all over from there... ;) But yeah, the day was really nice. Alex took me out for brunch at Quintessence and then we went up to Clifton Park where we stopped at the Country Drive-In for ice cream before we went to Carrie's house for her post-wedding BBQ. After the BBQ we headed up to my parents' house where we did the birthday thing with the fam. We stopped by Alex's house to get his TV to bring up to the apartment (I had some trouble helping to carry it... and I've got tons of big nasty bruises to show for it) and then went home to get ready to go out to dinner. Alex had made reservations for us at Jack's Oyster House for dinner, which I was really excited about. I hadn't been to Jack's since my college graduation, and it's just such a cool restaurant. We had a fabulous dinner - he had the roast rack of lamb and I had the pan-carmalized sea scallops, which I thought were fabulous, but Alex thought the scallops that I'd made last month were better (aw...). For dessert I had their homemade cotton candy which came out in a oversized martini glass and was a lot of fun to eat! Our waiter took a picture of us, which I'll post here when I get home today (yes, I'm being a bad girl posting from work again...). The birthday continued through Sunday with a lunch with Beck and Dodi at Uno's (where I had the incredible Peanut Butter Cup dessert they have there... mmm...), followed by watching a couple of Sex and the City episodes back at the apartment on the comfy couch. All in all, it was a very nice birthday weekend. :)

And so now it's back to real life... sigh... Lots of stuff to be done around the apartment: cleaning, replacing light bulbs (that have been burnt out for weeks now), grocery shopping... Lots of everyday tasks to incorporate back into my routine (like not eating like every day is a celebration and getting back to the gym in the mornings). It's surprising how quickly your good habits leave you and the bad habits take their place.

But there are still plenty of fun things to look forward to! Eric and Sarah's wedding is in about a month, so Alex and I will be taking a mini-trip to Connecticut for that. After that is our trip to Disney, which is now only 46 days away!!! There's still so much planning that has to happen before we go! And then there's IrishFest to look forward to after that... and then the holidays will come rolling in before we're ready for it.

But for now, I'm going to try and sit back and relax and enjoy the summer... :)