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.
