Procrastination at its finest.

The only reason I am blogging today isnt because I dont have anything better to do, or that I have had so many experiences that I needed to share before I forget them. Its because I seemed to have caught the procrastination flu once again. I have a tiny mountain of things needed done by tomorrow so naturally I am doing everything but what I actually should be doing, including blogging. But who doesnt appreciate a little insight to kaylee's life once inawhile? exactly what I was thinking. Its kind of like graffiti on a train. Beautiful work of art but not necessarily a good thing to put on a train. A blog from mua is a beautiful work of art but not necessarily a good thing to do instead of homework. haha I brought up the train idea because I just heard a train and I really want to spray paint a trademark of my own on one of those carts one day. gahhhhhh I cant even focus on the point of this blog. Actually, this blog has no point to it HAHAHAAHAHA -my dad just said "da heck." I find it funny cuz I usually say it alot and I guess it is rubbing off onto my family. I never realized how much my speach impacted my family. I remember the first time I heard my dad say "frick" and I thought that was pretty hilarious too. I think you know by now that this blog is going to be one of those times where I just write about what ever comes to my mind which makes no sense of why I would think that and all these ideas have no relation or flow whatsoever. The only thing they have in common is they are all ideas, memories and flat out nonsense just floating up in kaylee's frontal lobe region of her brain.
I cant tell you all the crazy things that I have been doing since the last time I have blogged because I do actually have to start on my homework sometime tonight. Lets start with the most exciting though! On September 15th I became an Aunt. As exciting as that is, I didnt honor this role I was suddenly given as most people do. Up to the day she was born, I thought that it would be nothing but a burden on my already sad and pathetic life to have a baby come and live with my family. To my surprise, it has been nothing but a special gift. I would even say this when she is crying too. Its amazing how much love you have for someone that you thought would ruin everything. This doesnt make me sound like the best sister or prize aunt of the year but I am ashamed to admit that I really did not want this baby. I thought her crying would interfere with my beauty sleep and ultimately put a decline in my school grades (not that procrastination is helping with that...).  I thought that the last thing this family needed was to raise another baby. I thought these things right up until I saw my neice for the first time and became overwhelmed with love and compassion when I finally got to hold her. Now, I try to look at things in a positive light. She is so cute and tiny and its strange how when I have a bad day I  just hold lil charly for a bit and I feel a lot better and motivated to try harder in my own life. I even enjoy changing her diaper. I know this is all good practice for me when I eventually have children so I am eager to learn everything I can so I wont be terrified for when those days of child bearing come for me. Here is some pics of me hanging out with charlytard:
My and an unhappy charzard. haha This is me trying to soothe a crying baby. Sticking a camera in her face doesnt help just so ya'll know.I let her throw up on me and then I took pride into changing her. She doesnt look to happy here either.
 There! all done!
Obviously after throwing up on me she needed to burp so I helped her do that.
Sometimes I let her be a bro with me.
Time for our close up.

Just walking the floor with charly

Sometimes I let her help me with my homework (pfft like I actually do my hw) or socialize on facebook (yep thats more like it).

The only thing that really annoys me about this whole new baby situation is the people of society who say the oddest things that either makes me really angry and hate my life even more. The one that particularly bugs me the most is when people say "oh Kara, a baby looks good on you?"  Where do I begin with this sentence?  I get Kara is married and therefore a baby is usually the next step and this comment is given by other members of the church to encourage her to have a baby. It bothers me because first of all, Do I look especially haggard with a baby, just because I am not married? Does a baby not look good on non married people?  Next issue with this statement that I have is basically summed up to that Kara is no ready to have children then myself. Sure, she is married but no one is 100% ready to raise a child. Even when you are financially stable, done school, or planned to have children. I am of course speaking for myself, who has never raised any children but I know its not easy peasy! What Im trying to say is, Im sure that if I had a baby without being married, I'd still be a good mother and its not like I wouldnt have any assistance. I know  I probably blew this statement out of proportion but it seriously bugged me to no end to hear everyone say this and my blog is a perfect place to vent. On to saying number two, " So Kara is married, Tasha had a baby, what is the other one up to?" Oh my cherry cheese pie! Am I nothing because I havent reached these major life milestones yet? Where does finishing up my last year of school and getting a degree rank on the scale of life's accomplishments? Im sure its not a 0 but Thanks for making me feel like one though. Can you see how these sayins can send mixed messages into a poor brain like mine? Your nothing if you are not married or have a baby but if you have a baby when your not married then it looks ugly on you. I cannot win.

Next exciting thing. I started my last year of school on september 10th and so far I am really liking it alot. At first I was really nervous to start practicum but since I have gotten feedback that I am doing really well I feel a whole lot better about it. Im not sure if I am allowed to post where I am doing my practicum for confidentiality reasons but I can say that its a bit out of my comfort zone and I am really enjoying learning and participating in the activities and counseling sessions. I am still scared to actually be done school and out in the social work field all by myself but I guess I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.

I know I have written a ton of blogs on my many failed attempts at exercise and dieting but I have actually been doing really good with running everyday. I am not sure why I started running but I remember it was a tuesday (which is weird cuz I never start anything on a tuesday. Everything has to be started on a monday even if I mess up on a monday, we start next monday). Anyway, I decided to go on a run and at first I almost killed myself and had to stop numerous of times to catch my breath, get rid of a cramp, cry, whatever and I finally completed the 5k in almost an hour. When I arrived home I was even more pathetic rolling around on my front lawn begging for water haha dont judge. Instead of thinking that I should be good for a month, returning to my usual routine of television and food, I tried running again. This time I only allowed myself to walk for 5 min. The next day I limited to only walking one street which took 2min, and by friday I had ran the total 5.3 km. Now I run the same route everyday and I find that I can keep going so its my goal to be able to run 10k by the end of this month. yay me! Surprisingly, I actually like running and its one of the most important things I absolutely have to do everyday for my own personal self care. Running in the rain is especially fun, and actually kind of relaxing...well as relaxing as a run can be anyway. Its actually almost time for me to run so gotta run, to run haha
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back now and it only took me 35 min to run 5.3 km which was 3 min faster then yesterday. go me!. Because I was so bored today I wrote a test that consisted 23 questions about me, to see how well my family knew me. Turns out my family doesnt really know me at all haha and they arent even that hard of questions. I will write them down on this blog and you can test yourself if you wish in the comments below to see if you know me as well as you think you do.
1. What is my favorite color?
2. what is my favorite animal?
3. what is one of the next places I would like to travel to?
4. what is my least favorite body part on myself?
5. who is my fav. country singer?
6. what is my fav. food?
7. what food have I been craving lately?
8. what is one of my favorite things to do? (list anything)
9. what is my fav brand of clothing?
10. If i could buy any vehicle what would I get?
11. if i could play any sport what would I play?
12. how many kids do i want?
13. what breed of dog do i want?
14. what do i want to be when i grow up?
15. what is one of my favorite tv shows?
16. what do i fear most?
17. what is my least favorite food?
18. what is my fav. chocolate bar?
19. who in my family am i most closest to? (charly doesnt count haha)
20. what is something that annoys me? (pet peeve)
21. what is something i regret?
22. who is my best friend?
23. what do you like most about me? ;)

So there you have it. I am trying to think of anything else that is new or exciting but by the looks of this test, well ...let alone blog, there is obviously not anything exciting happening at the heidinger homestead. Anyway Its about time I started on my homework so Im not cramming last min. Its approximately 8:19 pm and its due tomorrow so anyone who knows me will be proud that Im starting it before midnight. Hope this blog redeems me from not writing one in such a very long time. season greetings to you all. good day.

Kaylee doing the normal Kaylee things she does

Holy crap. If you all knew how long it actually took me to get to the computer to even write a blog you would all be giving me a stand up round of applause right now. First, I had to get motivated enough to write one. a couple weeks after that haha I got up and turned on the computer. Then it wouldn't connect to the internet so I was fooling around with that. I am on my brother's mac so I had to figure out how to find the internet and everything. After what seemed like17 hours the internet decided to work and I finally got to the blog home page. I suck at remembering passwords and of course I couldn't remember my password to get in and write this blog. This always happens to me. I come up with the coolest passwords and then I can't even remember them all to save my life. Then once I do, I have to answer security questions...my own, that I set myself. should be easy, and for most people it is but not this girl. I have online banking but everytime I go online to check the funds, I pass the password part but I fail my own security questions  which puts a freeze on my account. c'mon! How am I supposed to remember what my favourite subject in school was! um graduation? Anyway I got a new password that I will most likely forget when I need to log in the next time, an eternity down the road. Ok, the important thing is, is that I finally made it to my profile and I have almost written half my blog. Except now I can't even remember what I really was going to blog about...

k so a couple weeks ago I had the most hilarious idea for a blog, I thought of this while I was at work and it took all day to complete it. My idea was to write about a day with kaylee. I don't think anyone really cares what I do all day but incase there is people out there that ponder this I am going to show and tell you. Keep in mind that a normal day with kaylee is not really that normal at all. Anyone that really knows me knows that I am really random and has done some pretty crazy things. Also, I don't do this everyday but it is a couple of ideas that I have done and that are normal for kaylee to do.

First of all, I wake up. obvs

Then I attempt to make chocolate chip waffles.

Ate them anyway...

I make eating look so attractive, I knowWash my face with OXY to avoid acne

Then I brush my teeth

now its time to get dressed. Figuring out what to wear everyday is one of the hardest decisions. If you saw how much clothes I have you would know what I am talking about. I change at least 5 times a day. at least.

Possibly the coolest outfit I own but unfortunately the weather did not permit me to wear this beauty. :(

Its important not to over think things or you may come out looking like this.

Yes! finally a decent outfit.

Then once you figure out to what to wear, you have to deal with the rat nest on top of your head. Since I was blessed with hair that has a mind of its own, I spend the rest of the morning trying to make it look decent enough to pass as normal, so I can carry on with the rest of my day. I hadnt tried the head band look in awhile and now I know why...

Not even if I try it a different way.

pigtails. another look I hadnt done in awhile. another look I cant pull off.

what about a side braid? this is a look I have tried like never.

might as well try out the duck face too while your embarrassing yourself with these lovely hairdos. haha

woah! maybe go back to the headband

when all else fails just leave it down Then I usually check my facebook and find cool stuff on pinterest. no i do not eat milkbones, they just happened to be in the picture.Then its LUNCHTIME! thank goodness I didnt make waffles this time.

then I like to play dress up with my catGangstas!

mustnt forget about the turtle

Its almost bikini season, you knowSometimes I like to play a little singstarI may or may not of got a little carried away.....

after jamin out, I like to cuddle up with a good book and do a little bit of light reading

Once in awhile I will go for a run

Carrots are a huge part of my life now. Since I am trying to be healthy I have been eating carrots non-stop.

they are quite boring

but I can get creative. once I am all showered up and ready for the day again I like to sit out on the swing and enjoy all my beautiful surroundings. Notice how many times I have changed throughout this day.

sometimes I intrude on my parents date night. especially if they are going for chinese.

I go on a couple drives myself. Pause for a sec. Are those not the coolest shades you have ever seen? They are my fav.

I also like to go visit with one of my coolest cousins ever! I love going over to visit and sometimes we make some pretty tasty things. After those "ice cream sandwhiches" we tried to make, we thought we would make something more simple: a smoothie or milkshake. I cant remember.

So as you can see, I had a pretty eventful day that day. Now that everyone thinks I am the weirdest person ever I am going to quit while I am ahead and leave you to wonder what will kaylee do the next day.  

Challenges

I hate starting blogs. In my opinion, it is the hardest step in writing a blog besides coming up with what to write about and ending it. On average it takes me about 3-4 hours to write a blog and about 3 hours and 45 minutes of thats times is spent on coming up with the first couple sentences. I really hope it doesnt take me that long to come up with a decent intro because I would like to go to bed sometime tonight as I do have to work tomorrow morning. Lets start with the topic of work. Since I am done school for the summer it is back to the hellish factory for me to earn some mula for school. This year is a little more exciting than the other 4 that I have worked because Frito Lay started this "why weight challenge" and since I dont enjoy being 140 pounds I signed myself up. A little background info about the is challenge includes:
 1) there are no rules
2) its 10 weeks long
3) winner gets 500 bucks
I really didnt think it would be as hard as it is. I have already started the journey to become healthier last week by cutting down my portion sizes, eating healthier, and  I have been working out at the gym with my brothers so I thought this would be an easy way to make 500 bucks. I only forgot one thing...I work at a chip factory. You would think that working there for 5 years would make you not want to look at chips ever again let alone eat them but anyone who knows me and my passion for food would also know that I have probably found my dream job haha. Honestly, I never really eat the chips when I am packing unless I forgot to eat breakfast but now that I have started this challenge its like these chips taunt me in a way, screaming out to me to eat them and 9 times out of 10 I do. To start this challenge I had to get weighed and everything, and this nifty little scale also told me what my daily calorie intake was. Im not sure if I want this info casually thrown out into one of my blogs for anyone to read but it's kind of impressive so Im going to do it anyway. According to this scale my daily calorie intake was averaging to about 2500 calories. fvldskhlbsvbjlsdjfhal\cvnldifhiesf!!!!! DA HECK AM I EATING??? Once upon hearing this I was in denial and thought this scale was broken or the lady misread the numbers, but after pondering things over for awhile I came to the conclusion that this was actually quite close to being true. I eat fast food all the time (or at least I did), sometimes more then once a day. I eat massive portions for every meal and always have room for dessert. My next reaction was embarrassment. For a girl my size, I should be sticking close to only 1200 calories a day and I more than double that. Once I wallowed in my misery about that for a couple hours I snapped out of it. My last reaction was a state of amazement. I could eat that much and not be the size of the factory building to me, was some sort of an accomplishment, talent if you will. 
Exercising has become a big part of my life recently. Before the only exercise I got was walking to the fridge and back but now I have to do something active everyday. I mentioned that I have been working out with my brothers, also , I have been going to lane swim in the evenings. Me saying my body is sore is an understatement. When I am not running to the bathroom every five seconds (from all the water that I'm drinking) I somehow find time to do all this:
7-3 work (which does get me sweating, I call frito lay my new gym)
3:30-4:30 work out at the stirling school gym
8:45-9:30 lane swim
and between all those fun activities I am usually found stuffing as many carrots I can find in my face or pretending Im not hungry so I dont indulge in the first calorie infested meal I see. Thankfully, I am not the only person doing this challenge. Kara has started and even my dad is giving it a try. He actually had me laughing pretty good yesterday as he woke up early to chop some celery and radishes for his lunch. Im certainly not one to talk by any means, but this man has about 4 pepsi's a day while at work, not to mention the chocolate bars and the daily mcdonalds lunches. During one coffee break he was talking about how he was going to become so rich from eating healthy because he wouldnt be spending all his money on junk. He was like I dont know what pepsi and mcdonalds are going to do without me but between the two they are really going to feel a pinch. haha It was pretty funny and probably true. Enough of this healthy talk...

Another challenge I started and completed was one that I made up with my brothers. I dont know if anyone else has noticed this or not but because of technology people, mostly the people in my generation, dont know how to start or carry on a simple conversation with out the use of a cell phone, or computer, ipad, whatever. I find it absolutely annoying when I am hanging out with someone and they are glued to their phone. I am guilty of texting too, the majority of the population is, but at least I am able to recognize that there is a time and place to use your cell phone unlimited and when it is not appropriate. I became more and more frustrated after hanging with some friends that I proposed this challenge to my brothers and shockingly they agreed to comply to the new rules for the week. The rules included:
1) no cellphone, computer, ipod etc
2) only allowed to do homework on the comp
3) one hour of tv a day
4) only allowed to accept calls while away from home and when or if an occurance of an emergency

At first, I thought to myself, "kaylee why would you do this to yourself, your already bored most of the time anyway, how will you survive a week without technology?" and I said to myself "self, if the pioneers did it before you, and survived, how is that you cannot even try to go for a week?" challenge accepted. It actually turned out to be a pretty fun, relaxing, interesting week. I mostly hung out with my brothers, shooting hoops, driving around stirling or going on pointless trips with them to raymond or lethbridge. The winner of this challenge (which was me of course) was supposed to get money but my brother's never "shook on it" so there was no winner.

Being done school for the summer has its cons too. With all these challenges going on you may think its hard to find time for just myself let alone be bored! Boredom seeps in every once in awhile and there is absolutely nothing to do. Its kind of a sucky period to go through because I just got done school so I want to celebrate but I have no money and I live in stirling where I have no friends that live here anymore, and I cant afford to drive anywhere really at the moment and  I dont like watching tv, the weather outside sucks so the only thing I can do is basically...read a book. I used to like reading when I was in highschool and I could probably safely call myself the book worm of the family but now while I am 23 years old I dont really have the patience to read especially since I just got done school. I read all my text books and now you want me to read for fun??? is there such a thing? I think the last series I read was twilight and lets be honest, that turned out to be a disappointment. Before that was Harry Potter, which I absolutly loved! I think I took that literature a little to literaly though...as a child when I read these books I was always waiting for me to sprout some sort of magic when I was angry or scared but it never happened. I remember this one particular time that I needed some sort of object for the task I was doing and instead of going to get it, I accidently yelled "accio (an then the object which I needed)" this is a spell from the wizarding world, and instead of laughing at my mistake I was sort of upset when the object I needed didnt come floating to my reach. It was then realized I wasnt a wizard afterall but a stupid muggle. Whatever, I am still waiting for my owl to bring me my acceptance letter to Hogwarts school of witch craft and wizardry.
Today, trying to get rid of my boredom, I came across some old pics and I thought these treasures should be shared.
Love this pic! Kara looks like a monkey. I was showing this pic to my dad explaining this was one of my favorite pics and that kara looked like a monkey and he was like "be nice kara doesn't look like a monkey, you look like a monkey." so i showed him the photo and then he laughed haha
Good thing mine and Kara's hair grew through the years because we look like little boys here
My pa the convict (no not really, but he looks like one here)
Matchie Matchie
Where do I start with this photo? perhaps my braids haha
Da fam jamin at Kara's baptism

The Cutest sisters you ever did see

 

Yes I am wearing the exact same Hoodie as my dog. See what happens when Im bored?

Cant forget about Shawnie haha. We have mr. potato head's gear on us for this photoshoot. for some reason shawn doesnt look as happy as me. Cant figure out why...

Anyway thats enought for today. Hope this Blog didnt bore everyone too much.