Happy Birthday!

Tomorrow I'm turning 27! Very exciting I know... This weekend I went to Arkansas so that Corey and I could celebrate my birthday (along with a birthday dinner on Saturday night with my family).

He took me out to Tazikis, which is a greek restaurant in Little Rock. They eventually got so popular that they now have two, one in west Little Rock and the other in its original spot which is not in North Little Rock (because that's its own city) but in north Little Rock (not to be confusing or anything) on Cantrel. Its amazingly good and they give you a ton of food. We always get the hummus, and then the a greek feast, which is whatever kind of meat you want, with rice or potatoes and a salad. I always get the pork even though I'm not a big pork eater, because it comes with asparagus, and the dipping sauce for the pork is wonderful.

Normally, we would go to the one in west LR, because its closer to the more theatre that we like to go to, but Corey just drove on past it to the original. I asked him why over and over and all he did was get this funny look on his face like he was keeping a secret from me and just wanted to laugh. So we got done there, and he pulls up his phone and I know he is looking at the GPS, and we start to head toward downtown, not to the other side of town with the theatre. By this point (and I had sort of guessed it when we drove past the other Tasikis) I knew he was taking me to Loblolly to get ice cream.

I had tried it last weekend when I came up to visit. Mom and I went there for lunch and then I took Corey to get some of it and it is hands down the best ice cream I have ever had. My favorite, and I've tried a lot of their flavors, all of them good, is by far the salted caramel. It is a mix of sweet, but not salty, it just brings out the flavor. I've tried the avocado (amazing!!), butter milk, strawberry, strawberry lemonade, chocolate and double vanilla. Nothing is bad there. It is wonderful. We actually went back on Saturday to get pints of it so my family could try it at our birthday party.

It's actually in the Green Corner Store, which is this cute little store that sells a lot of arkansas made goods, as well as random things made by artists. It smells good, and is this cute little, as Corey called it "hipster place." While I was there I saw the most awesome shirt with a picture of Arkansas on it and the words "there's no place like home" printed in the middle of it. I had to get it! It was a birthday present to myself. I got the largest size they had, which was an XL, and sometimes I never know how things will fit me. Sometimes XLs are super big, sometimes they are small. This one looked like it should have fit, but when I got home and put it on... big disappointment there! Now I cant even wear it.

So this leads me to say, as you can tell with my ice cream consumption, that I havent exactly been watching what I eat. Most days I feel like I'm doing good just to get out of bed, and its even harder trying to manage my food and working out. Some nights last week I only got 3-4 hours of sleep. Talk about not wanting to do ANYTHING beyond just existing on those days. But I have the majority of the hard stuff out of the way, my two papers are done, I only have one project left, one quiz, one test and a project for my graduate seminar class. Everything else I just have to show up to. Thats it! Sounds like a lot for two weeks, but I promise it isnt.

Because I only have two weeks until class is done, I want to set a goal for myself to lose 4 pounds in the next two weeks. I figure when I start eating right, and drinking my water, that I'm going to lose 3-4 pounds in water weight. Which isnt going to do me any good. When I last checked my weight was at 256 (eek!) so I'm sure it has gone up lately. I want to lose 4 pounds from that so in two weeks I'll be at 252. Thats my goal. Really though, my new goal is to fit into my new shirt! But I think at this point all I can do is take this a day at a time. Two weeks 4 pounds. I can do this. I just have to be careful on the weekends, those are my worst things every. Mostly because I get bored and snack, so maybe next weekend, I just need to have the whole thing planned out.

 

Talk about embarrassing!