Fleas and Trees

So now that's it's Monday Tuesday (how did monday come and go so quickly?) let's do a little weekend recap! #longpostwarning

So I don't know if everyone has heard of these things called Flea Markets, but I'm in love infatuated obsessed attached fond of them. The thing I love about them is also the thing I hate about them.. You have to be willing to look at and dig through a ton of junk that people took from the farthest corner of their basement just to find one thing worthwhile.

Flea Markets are not for everyone. Most of the time you have to be willing to look at something and see it more for what it could be and not what it currently is. So I spent my Friday night at a Flea Market. I know, I know, things are getting wild and crazy up in here. I ended up coming home with about $30 worth of stuff. Which is good, since I came home with several bags of junk treasures! #bargainshopper I'm not going to actually show you what I bought, because when I re-do them, spruce them up, paint them, etc. I want that to be a surprise. But here are some gems that I did find and did not come home with..

I turned the corner to find these staring at me.. you'd be surprised (or not) to know how dang many of these there were..

The Hoosier in me fell in love with this lamp, just not the price tag..

a ton of those "in memory" stone benches and plaques.. sort of creepy.

 

For those who read Young House Love's blog, remember the ceramic head they had above their bed? These mini heads reminded me of that. Spray paint them white and they're be exactly the same!

This guy really almost came home with me. A good coat of white spray paint and he would have been identical to the owl jars that are out on the market right now! But for $30, I couldn't pull the trigger.

Try to tell me this doll isn't creepy..

Let's get a little closer..

I think I might have had nightmares about her.

On Saturday, after working all morning on some painting projects at my grandparents house, my grandpa insisted that we needed to attempt to get a broken limb out of one of his trees. In his defense, it's a large limb that has broken off and gotten stuck on another limb. One strong wind is gonna knock it out and potentially onto his house. So I just want to go on record saying that I totally understand where he is coming from. However, I don't know how he thought we were going to get that limb down. Here's some pics to show you how hilarious this whole thing was..

The arrow is pointing towards the broken limb.. big sucker

the first contraption we worked up to get it down.

my grandpa supervising my dad trying to throw a rope onto the tree limb

got it!

the arrow is showing the broken limb and the circle is showing the pieces of limb that have already fallen

Well kids, let's just say that the limb is still up in the tree. Total epic fail on our part. And my dad hurt his hand trying to protect his face from a flying wrench.

Then my grandma made us this for lunch.

Carbs on carbs on carbs! Ugh. So that pretty much started the downfall of my weekend as far as weight loss goes. Back in the saddle today though!

I hope everyone else had a good weekend! Good luck this week everyone on whatever it is you need luck for! Who else likes Flea Markets? How about carbs? Who likes carbs? #firstonetoraisemyhand

Pits and Peaks!

I've been seeing this today on a couple of new blogs I'm stalking reading, so I decided to link up!

The link up today is The Pits and The Peaks hosted by Allie and Brin (and total side note, who doesn't love the name Brin? freaking precious)! To quickly summarize this, basically I just write my pits (the low points) and peaks (the high points) of my week.

PITS

• I discovered I am not very good at tracking my calories in my head. Thank goodness for MyFitnessPal. 
• I'm still not finished with 2 of my big DIY/refinishing projects, so I've forced myself to not do my little DIY projects until those are done.
• I'm not going to meet my goal minutes of exercise this week. And I don't have a good reason why. (insert pouty face here) 

PEAKS

• Since I joined started using MFP, I've been A TON better about my calorie intake. To the point that I was giddy last night thinking about how well I'm going to do today. I'm weird.
• I will be finished with my 2 big DIY/refinishing projects this weekend!! 
• I got my hair cut yesterday and I'm in love with it! 

 Honestly, I shouldn't complain too much. I've had a pretty good week and towards the end of this week I've made a lot of changes that should make next week a better one. You win some, you lose some.

My Fitness Pal

So about oh, I don't know.. 2 months ago I downloaded an app called "MyFitnessPal". Of course after I downloaded it, I never did a thing with it. So today I randomly decided to give it a try and just make today my "test" day before I committed to it.

Okay guys, I really believed I knew in my head how many calories I ate a day. I really, really thought I was very conscious of it. Well, apparently not.

I'm going to have to work out for 3 hours tonight just so I can eat dinner! I am truly shocked. I had no idea. But you better believe that I'm going to be a dedicated MyFitnessPal user from here on out.

So if anyone else uses MyFitnessPal, then feel free to add me as a friend or whatever it's called.. kaystoll129

And just because I'm an over-sharer, I want ya'll (yes i broke out that southern ya'll) to know that I not only got a ton accomplished at work today, and watched last night's episode of NCIS online, and organized my About Kay page, AND decided what my next DIY project is going to be, but I also wrote a pretend plot twist for a pretend book that I could pretend to write one day. Woo! Laziness? Ain't nobody got time for that!

And tonight, Step 8,954 7 on my current DIY project. (not to mention that 3 hour work out so i can have dinner)

Falling off the Horse..

Well.. I wrote last week about how well I had been doing and how excited I was about that.. and then..

Oops. I didn't do 1 single day of Jillian Michaels all weekend. Now it's Tuesday and guess what, I still haven't done it. I also won't be doing it tonight because I work a 19 hour day today (shouldn't that be illegal? #2jobsprobs)

I had started to type out all of the reasons I haven't worked out since Thursday, but they all just sounded like excuses. That's when I realized.. They are excuses and I'm done with excuses. I will always be able to find excuses for why I "can't" work out, but I need to start finding reasons for why I can. Period. Exclamation Point.

Marilyn showing me how it's done

So one of my dgrm girls (who will now be called by nicknames The Dirty, BS, and Aquamarine) has this boyfriend, who loves to work out. Like seriously, he's in love. He's in love with The Wor(C)k. All of the pictures he puts on Instagram, he tags with #wor(c)k. So it started as The Dirty and I making fun of him, constantly tweeting or texting each other "#wor(c)k" and saying it constantly. Well now it's kind of become a dgrm thing. And we sort of say it a lot. It's my little motivation.

If you scroll to my very first post you'll the dgrm. In case you're lazy (like me), I'll post a refresher..

Skinny. My best friends are skinny. None of them weight more than a buck twenty. And then there's me.

This isn't to put myself down, this is my motivation. I have hot friends, I know this. I'll get there one day. They support me like no other. We are constantly snapchatting each other pictures of our food or workouts with the caption "wor(c)k".

So from here on out no more excuses. Just wor(c)k.

And here are so happy things from my week to round out this random ass post.