Random Music

Okay so I haven't posted in a while and I have been thinking about music A LOT today so I thought I would share some of my current favorite bands and songs of the moment:

-Vampire Weekend--LOVE LOVE LOVE them! Some of my favs off their last album Contra are "Giving up the Gun", "Holiday" (you've probably heard it in the Honda or Ralph Lauren commercial, "Cousins" and "White Sky." They also recently released itunes sessions and they covered the Honeycombs' "Have I the Right" its PHENOM!!! Also this Holiday version is a little darker :)

-Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Gold Lion"

-YACHT "Psychic City"

-A Coal Miner's Daughter: A Tribute to Loretta Lynn, specifically the duets which were always my fav loved Loretta with Conway. "After the Fire is Gone" Steve Earle and Allison Moorer and "Rated X" The White Stripes.

-Ting Tings :)

-Sleigh Bells my favorite is "Rill Rill" but their whole album is awesome

-Shiny Toy Guns my all time fav is "Ricochet!"

-Phoenix my favs are "Lisztomania" and "Lasso" but again their album is great

-***Mumford & Sons**** "Little Lion Man" and "The Cave" are my favs

-MGMT "Time to Pretend" and "Electric Feel" are a few of my favs. PS they are freakin AMAZING live :)

-Matt & Kim "Daylight" and "Good Ol Fashion Nightmare"

-Broken Bells "The High Road"

-Black Keys "Tighten Up" This song is bitchin'

-The Dead Weather "Hang you from the Heavens" "60 feet tall"

-Cold War Kids "Audience" "Something is not right with me"

-Neon Trees "Animal"

-The Decemberists "Down by the Water" "Don't Carry it all"

-Wavves "Post Acid"

-Best Coast "Boyfriend"

-Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros "Home"

-Adele "Rolling in the Deep"

We are gonna be HOME OWNERS!!!

Let's face it there is no way in hell I will be posting tomorrow not with all the meetings for work and then not to mention we'll be CLOSING ON THE HOUSE!!! So I figured I would introduce you to our little house now :)

She was built in the 60s but the sellers completely remodeled the place. You can't tell from this picture but it is three levels. I love love love the brick! :) And the shutters are green!!!!! :)

I'll have more pics to post as we begin painting in Feb in prepartion for the BIG MOVE!! :) Lots of exciting things to come! :)

Operation Lockdown Update

Let me start off by saying I drink a TON of water now! A TON! No Dews = WATER! I drink a little coffee first thing in the morning to get my caffeine fix for the day and help me to not be a complete grouch. So lots of water means lots of peeing which means I lose water weight....SWEEET!!! So week one of operation lock down was a success. Matt fixed good food, I monitored my snacking. And I worked out like it was my job! :) Every freakin' day...except I took the weekend off because I deserved it. I also deserved those 3 cupcakes (2 red velvet, 1 oreo) that Sister had waiting for me when I visited this weekend. When I was loosing weight for the wedding I only weighed myself once or twice a week because I get pissed when I dont lose. So I weighed in Monday...not good. I gained mucho weight since my last time on the wii :( booo! I hit that bad number :( Goal weight lose is now officially 20 pounds...maybe 25 but def 20. Weighed in on Wednesday and I lost 3 pounds--Holla! Weighed in on Friday and I had lost another 3! Six total for the week!!!! :) Hence my treat of 3 cupcakes! :) I've been rotating between Just Dance's sweat program and a customized wii fit program (I can burn 250-350 calories at a time on this baby) and a gold's gym thing that I can cardio box! Needless to say my husband is amazing and hooked me up! :) I went hard on the wii today...I was super scared for my weigh in, but guess what?!? I've lost 2 more pounds!! So I have to thank my wonderful husband for being the best support system and drill Sargent a wife could ask for :)

DEBT FREE!!!

Well until Jan. 19th when we close on the house and we start paying off a mortgage! But as of today my student loan has been paid off! :) Both our cars are paid off and the credit cards are clear! :) Life is good being debt free! :)

Operation Lock Down!

Last week (last week of 2010) Matt informed me that as of Monday (Jan 3rd) we would be going on LOCK DOWN!! Better eating every night for supper (Matt cooks!), healthy snack foods (bye bye junk food so sad!) and exercising everyday. OMG!!! So of course I took full advantage of 2010 still being around and ate all my Christmas candy and hoarded tons of food. Growing up I always had a super fast metabolism (Thank God for spellcheck because Matt say the reason I am a bad speller is I spell the way I pronounce and I def pronounce it MA-TAB-A-LISM!) and I was always super active. Well in the past three years it has def slowed down due to the amount of time I spend a day just sitting at my stupid desk. My sister and I both have always had AMAZING eating habits...for example we can eat an entire box of brownies, an entire sheet of raw cookie dough, an entire can of condensed milk, an entire bag of oreos...this is all in one sitting mind you! :) So you see the problem I have...I can't stop. People are like snack healthy that is all well and good until the ENTIRE bag of carrots is gone. Unacceptable! So I've moved to snacking in moderation. I have to make Matt be my drill Sargent and make sure I don't over eat. So I am on day #5 of lock down and I have only been mean once that I can recall...mind you I have cut out Mountain Dew (my life blood) and all sweets. MIZ central!!!! On day #2 of lock down my tooth started hurting some kind of bad so I tell Matt.
Matt: I'm sorry. What's the matter with it?
Me: It's hurting because I haven't had sweets in two days! It's my sweet tooth!
And that would be my brat moment because I turn into a four year old when I don't get my sweets!
In other news I have been exercising everyday and I'm sore as hell. I refuse to weight in yet. Let's just say Monday when I weighed in I was knocking way to close to a number I never want to see again!
I am sure Operation Lock Down will bring many more fabulous updates in the future!

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As many of you may know I am a HUGE nerd and reading is my most favorite thing in the whole wide world...I used to want to be a librarian (sp? see why I didnt go into that field!). Anyway books are some of my most prized possessions. Thanks to a friend's sweet blog updates (you are awesome JMJ!) I borrowed the idea to post a virtual bookshelf! :) I am super excited that not only do I have somewhere to keep track of my reading...but I figured out how to put it on the blog! wooo hooo!! :) :)

I am in love!

This is a Panda Cow! What could be more perfect! :)