(We Used to Be) Fat Friday: Favorite “Healthy Lifestyle” Staples

Posted on May 6, 2011 by jenn

Welcome back to the second edition of (We Used to Be) Fat Friday! Today we’re both going to talk about a couple of the MUST HAVE things in our diets/lives that have helped us be successful in losing 100+ pounds, each. For the record, I will be writing in this super fancy “Verdana” font, and Casey will be writing “normally” (he finally gets to be normal!) so that you can tell us apart!
The first staple in my version of healthy living lifestyle? Good old-fashioned, straight from the filtered tap, WATER! I drink AT LEAST 3 liters of water a day, (that’s 96 oz). Are there days when I don’t get that much in? Yup! But more often than not, I am chugging water. Up until I started losing weight, I did not drink water (although my mother had been trying to get me to drink more water FOREVER). I didn’t like it, I felt like I would throw it back up. So I started slow, and began to love it. Now, I crave it, and besides a glass of milk with dinner, and a cup of tea in the morning -it’s all I drink. Yup. No soda. No coffee. No juice. Water. It quenches the thirst, keeps my hydrated, and as a bonus? It’s good for my kidneys – which is a plus, because I also have Stage 2 Chronic Kidney Disease, so this is a key point for me.

To up my protein levels, I eat hard boiled egg WHITES. Due to the high level of cholesterol in the yolk, I throw them away, and just eat the egg whites. Now, there’s nothing saying you have to throw away the yolks – but if you have any cholestrol issues, I would. I don’t have these issues anymore, but when I was super overweight – my cholesterol wasn’t great. So I do what I can to make sure that I’m keeping it in check.

While I also drink a lot of water, I’m going to talk about two staples in our healthy dinners.  When I lived alone, I used to eat a lot of hamburgers.  Why?  Well, because they’re good, but the reason for eating hamburgers probably 4 to 5 nights a week is simple convenience.  It’s easy to come home after a long day and just throw one on the grill.  I had no desire to cook a big elaborate meal for just me and this was a quick and easy solution.  Now that I am married to Jenn, I still don’t want to take the time to cook a big meal every night (and neither does she), because our time together is too valuable to worry about fixing something complicated after work.  But eating hamburgers every night will pack on the pounds and clog your arteries; how can you eat healthy and fit it into your busy schedule?

The solution is turkey burgers, one of the foods we eat most, specifically the Jenny-O pre-pressed, frozen, ready-to-cook kind.  In fact, we currently eat them about every night for supper.  They have the same convenience as their beef cousins, but without the excess calories and fat.  And they have a lot of lean protein.  I typically get home before Jenn and can throw them on when she leaves her last appoinment and they’ll be ready to serve when she walks in the door.  Can’t beat that! And of course we don’t bother with having rolls; they’re just extra carbs.  A little seasoning is nice, but we are sure to measure a serving size first, so we don’t take in too much sodium!

Hopefully that didn’t sound too much like a Jenny-O commercial, but it’s true.  Something I have trouble eating is vegetables.  As a general rule, I tend to dislike most of them.  But there are a handful of them that I like to eat, and one of them is baby spinach, which also happens to be quick and convenient.  We eat it raw, thrown on the plate with our turkey burgers, add a few sprays of the salad spritzer-style dressing and a few croutons and we’re good to go!

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Wordless Wednesday

Posted on May 4, 2011 by jenn

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Marriage Monday: Gratitude

Posted on May 2, 2011 by jenn

Hello readers! Are you excited yet? This is the debut of our Monday feature- blabbing about marriage. Having been married less than 2 years, we are FAR from being experts on the subject of marriage. However, I do believe that we have a very strong and blessed marriage, considering we have already gone through some very tough times, including a stroke, a miscarriage, and an unexpected $5,000 tax bill. So, we want to document for each other, and for others some of the things that we love and value in our marriage – through good, bad, ugly, and indifferent.

Today, I’ve picked the topic – because we were unsure of where to start. But, this morning, I sat in the office of my husband’s neurologist and I realized where I wanted to start. Gratitude. Because a little over 6 months ago, I was following an ambulance to the hospital after Casey had collapsed having suffered what we now know was a stroke. In those moments in my car, I was absolutely terrified. No less than 30 minutes before we had dinner with Stacey, and then had changed into our workout gear to get our daily work out in. Nothing unusual. Everything can change in an instant.

This is not to say that I wasn’t grateful before Casey had his stroke. Not a day goes by (sappy as it may be), that I don’t thank my lucky stars that I get to spend the rest of my life with a man who cares about me, cherishes me, makes me laugh, and that I can be my whole self with. But moments like these, when everything is taken out from underneath you – reaffirm that life is so brief, and each moment matters.

Since that evening, I have done my very best – as I always did – to let Casey know how much he means to me. That hasn’t changed. But the little reminders….when he has to take his medication (he never took medication before), or these follow up visits…they bring the memories crashing back to me, tears into my eyes, and a wave of gratitude into my heart. It could have been so much worse, and from every experience we must take what we can from it and move on. So we do. Casey can walk (mostly) okay now, without a cane. His slur only comes now when he’s tired. His face droops mostly only at night. He continues to improve his hand grasp.

He’s different now. We both are. But as a couple, we’re stronger. And for that, I have immense gratitude.

To add to what Jenn has said about the stroke, I can say that I am grateful that it wasn’t worse and I’m mostly better now, without a lot of permanent damage (hopefully none).   But I am also grateful that I had Jenn to be with me and hold my hand through it all.  If it had happened four years ago, I wouldn’t have had anybody chasing the ambulance, no one there with me in the ER, no one to hold my hand, and no one to call at 3 in the morning from the hospital when I couldn’t sleep because it’s impossible to sleep in those beds.
Jenn was without a doubt the most helpful person during my stroke and I don’t know what I’d have done without her.  She wasn’t alone; she had Stacey and her Mom helping her out, but she bore the lion’s share and I know I wouldn’t have made it through as well as I did without her being there for me.  I only hope I do half as good a job being there for her during tough times (like the aforementioned tax bill and miscarriage) as she has done for me.
And I agree, it’s made us stronger.  All of our hardships have, and I don’t think there are any that we can’t overcome.
The stroke and current problems aside, I have a lot of gratitude towards her and our marriage in general, and I do my best to make sure I don’t fall into that nitch of being “comfortable” as a couple.  Four years ago I was living alone in a big empty house.  If you’ve never lived alone, let me tell you that it sucks a lot of the time.  I was very depressed and lonely, to the point where I could probably write a whole entry about that sometime.  I was lucky to find Jenn (well lucky that she found me) and I make sure I tell her how lucky I feel to have her.  The little things like breakfast in bed, snuggling in front of the TV, holding hands, a kiss good morning, playing videogames together, going to a movie, doing housework together; every one of those things makes me feel blessed that I have her, every one of those things was something I would have killed to have four years ago, and I never forget that every one of those things is special and not to be taken for granted! 
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Saturday Morning Scene

Posted on April 30, 2011 by jenn

Skeeter tired out after a walk!
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(We Used To Be) Fat Friday

Posted on April 29, 2011 by jenn
Welcome to our first Friday Feature. We’re hoping to keep up with this, and talk about our weight loss journey. They were separate for a long time, as we both had lost 100lbs by the time we met. . . but the journey continues as we work to stay in shape and healthy in our marriage. If anyone has questions/ideas/topics for this, we’d love to try and answer them. For the first feature, we’re going to talk about . . . THE MOMENT. . . the one in which we realized it was time to change.

I was unhappy a lot of the time. Not about my life, or the people who were in it. But about myself. I had a constant negative voice in my head telling me I would never be attractive, I could never lose weight. I justified what I ate all day long, every day. The people around me were so supportive. They did not push me, they tried to gently suggest weight loss and different things to try. But me? I wanted an easy fix. I wanted diet pills that I could take and magically lose weight. I wanted to those commericals that claim you can take this pill and change nothing else, and be beautiful. In short, I was lazy. But I was also overwhelmed. It’s like walking into a room that is completely trashed. I didn’t know where to begin, and I was to embarrassed to ask for help. I have always been overweight – well, since elementary school on. But I didn’t gain the majority of my extra weight until I moved out, and was living on my own. Part of it was that we could only afford crap food (don’t get me started on the cost of healthy food and the connection of obesity and poverty). But part of it was also I didn’t have my Mom’s influence – who cooked balanced meals and who I at least walked 20 minutes with every night after dinner. Part of it was just pure laziness, and I wanted to be like every other (in my eyes) college student who lived on pizza and macaroni and cheese. I went to the school gym once or twice (oh, how I wish I had valued that gym then like I would now), but I was never committed. In fact, I didn’t commit to weight loss until I had completed my degree and weighed in at (at least) 257 pounds. I may have weighed more than that at some point, I avoided scales like the plague. The one clear moment I remember was walking at the Race for the Cure, and a little kid pointing to me and asking his Mom why I was so fat. Kids have no filter. Just unbridled truth. Everyone knows, that you can’t commit to losing weight because other people want you to, or even because you know you should. Something has to switch in your brain. I am thankful every day, for the moments in that year that finally switched on my brain. I am even more thankful to Stacey who learned how to cook healthy meals and went to the gym with me for hours. And my Mom, who supported me and shared her advice on weight loss, and gave me a food scale and a good understanding of how to begin looking at portion control. As soon as I was ready, they were right there to support me. Without that support, I don’t know where I’d be. People take weight loss on as their own personal journey – and it is personal – but I believe my success comes from having the support of people around me. For once, I didn’t feel alone. I didn’t have to avoid talking about my weight, or try and draw attention away from it. I could ask questions, and hear the answers (even if I didn’t like them). But also? I could celebrate with them on each milestone along the way!
My story has many similarities to Jenn’s, but a lot of differences, too.  I was always fat.  As far back as I can remember, I was the fat kid in the group.  I used to play outside some as a little kid, but as I grew older, I quickly moved to indoor sedentary activities.  In fact, a few years ago I got a copy of my medical file and my doctor actually noted when I was about 9 or 10 that “all I wanted to do was play Atari”.  I also discovered that when I was in 12 and in seventh grade, I weighed 40 pounds more than I do now at almost 33.

Another reason for my excessive weight was the fact that I come from a very food focused family.  I am closely related to a lot of good cooks who like to center occassions around eating.  One difference between me and Jenn was that I wasn’t really that ashamed of myself; I reveled in how much crap I could eat.  I once ate a chocolate cupcake without my hands, in one bite.  I ate a chocolate mousse desert that fell on the floor (like a whole big cake-sized dessert meant for like 6 or 8 people).

It kind of hit me sometime after college that I seemed to be excessively huge.  By then I was probably 300+ (I also avoided scales).  I had to be selective on which shirts I wore…only a couple of XXXL ones covered up my gigantic gut.  The Spongebob shirt I am wearing in the photo was one of the better shirts for covering myself up, and as you can see, it still didn’t quite do the job (I believe it was only XXL).
Throughout my twenties, I kept finding signs that the shameless crisco party that I had been engaged in all my life was going to have to stop.  I would occassionally think about losing weight, but it always seemed like a dream that would never be real and just wasn’t meant for me.  When I was 24 or so, I found that the shoulder bar that came down over me on a county fair ride was so tight that it hurt.  I actually felt my shoulders for like a week after that.  The next year, I got on a Merry-Go-Round with some friends and the operator made me get off my horse and onto that one bench that those rides always have.  I can think of other situations, but you get the idea.
The worst one was the hang glider ride at the Cumberland Fair in 2006.  I was 28, and had finally gotten a job at a good company with very nice insurance benefits, so that summer I went back to my doctor for the first time since the early 90s and got weighed in at 337, my maximum recorded weight (although it also could have gotten a little higher because I avoided scales).  I thought at the time that maybe it was time to do something since I was almost 30, but the thought evaporated pretty quickly.
So now here I was at the fair getting onto the hang glider ride a few months later.  On this particular ride, you lay on your stomach in groups of three and a safety bar comes down over your back and locks to hold you in.  The ride then takes you around in a circle while your “hand glider” moves up and down.  It was my favorite ride, and every year I thought fearfully to myself “THIS will be the year that I’m too big to fit”.  Well 2006 was the year.  The operator couldn’t get it down over my massive back fat and I had to get off while the two 12 year olds I was with got to see how embarrassed I was at how fat and pathetic I had become.
I began doing exercises secretly at home…well, I’d walk up and down the stiars for 2 or three minutes at a time and do armcurls with 5 lb dumbbells while sitting in an easy chair reading comics.  Luckily, our office has a wellness program (and comittee) and I work closely with one of it’s members.  She gave me a few tips to get me started, and got be set up with a personal trainer (part of our awesome benefits).  And so the long journey began.
About a year later, I met Jenn and she further inspired me.  I’m so fortunate to be so close to someone who has been through the same thing and has the same drive to be healthy as me.  She helped me kick it up even further, and now I’m 160 pounds lighter and around my 5th grade weight!
There’s plenty more that can be said, but those will have to wait for future (We Used To Be) Fat Fridays! As Jenn said, feel free to ask questions, or submit ideas or topics!  Have a nice day and stay healthy!

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Where I Come From

Posted on April 28, 2011 by jenn

There are a lot of things that make us who we are. People, places, things, experiences, jobs, love, loss.

Today, I remember and honor one of the people who made me who I am today. I wore her earrings on my wedding day. In my closet still hangs her sweater she used to wear all of the time. I have a bottle of her perfume, because when she died I was terrified about not being able to remember how she smelled, and what her voice sounded like. I cannot have more time with her, but I can value and treasure the time that I did have. The sleepovers in her bed, popcorn and movies, buffalo wings from the Grand Union, gardening, going for walks, time spent in the greenhouse, watching Regis & Kathy Lee, and her willingness to be my pen pal for years. I remember you today, and every day Grammie Pat. I am proud to have known the woman you were, and I know that you are with me in my heart. I am proud that part of where I come from – is you. Happy Birthday.

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30 Day Blog Challenge: Wrapping it Up

Posted on April 27, 2011 by jenn
 
As Casey said, we are wrapping up this blog challenge, because we’re excited to move on to some more topics like “Marriage Monday” and “(We Used to Be) Fat Friday” and the apparently very popular (in blog world) “Wordless Wednesday”…. so here’s the last six days for me!
 
 
DAY TWENTY-FOUR:
Something You’ve Learned
 
Recently, I’ve learned a very important lesson. I need to make decisions in my life to benefit me and my family. I have spent 11 years working multiple jobs, going to school (twice), having crazy schedules that frequently have me working and out of my house for 13-14 hours at a time. I need to put an end to this for my mental health, and the health of my family, marriage, and heart. There is no real need for me to be working like this anymore – there was once, getting my degrees, getting my LCSW, etc… but now? Now, is a time that I need to learn to take life a moment at a time instead of attacking life full force in every direction. And that’s okay. So, come the end of the summer I will be going part time in my full-time job, and that will mean that I can space out my jobs, and end up working both of them only one day a week – as opposed to 4 days a week. And you know what? My supervisors are FINE with it. I was so scared to talk about the need for me to work less, step back… but they GET IT! They are both willing to work with me however I need. It pays to ask for what you need. That is a lesson I’m learning (plus, I’m delegating work!)
 
DAY TWENTY-FIVE:
First Five Songs That Come Up When You Shuffle Your iPod
 
I couldn’t go a day without music. In my house. In my car. In my head at all times. I often fantasize about having the persons job that gets to pick out music for movie scenes. I would ROCK that job.
 
1.  “Lose Your Way” -Sophie B. Hawkins
2. “I’m Gonna Make You Love Me” -The Jayhawks
3.  “When I See You Smile” – Bad English
4.  “I Think God Can Explain” -Splender
5.  “Angel Eyes” -Jeff Healey Band
 
 
DAY TWENTY-SIX:
Your Dream Wedding
 

I got it. September 19, 2009. I still get teary when I remember it, and the complete and utter joy. Like Casey said, I have some regrets. One being that I forgot to have Justin get a picture of all of us in our aprons. And that we got hurried through our reception because people kept bolting. And that we cut our cake to “Like a Virgin” (. . .) But, all in all, I was there with Casey and we were husband and wife. And we got a beautiful day to pledge our vows. It was our dream, and it was amazing to see it come true.

 
 
DAY TWENTY-SEVEN:
Original Photo Of The City You Live In
 
Eh. Really? I could go down and take a picture of the “shopping center” (Hannaford, Radio Shack, the Post Office, and Chinese Food Place). . . but I’m thinking that’s not too exciting. The sign when you enter Standish? Well, it’s a sign. On a road. There’s nothing around it, because it’s Standish! So, I’m sorry. Maybe sometime on our walk I will remember to bring my camera and we’ll give you a tour of good ol’ Standish. Maybe.
 
DAY TWENTY-EIGHT:
Something That Stresses You Out
 
What people think about me. It’s silly. I shouldn’t care. But I do. 
 
DAY TWENTY-NINE:
3 Wishes
 
1.  Not to sound totally whiny or ungrateful here… but I really super duper wish for (at least) ONE ENTIRE YEAR in which no close family member/spouse/friend has a huge life threatening illness. I get it Universe. Really I do. And I get how lucky I am that I have survived, and my Mom, Stacey, Dad, Casey have all survived. But I am so tired of hospital beds, waiting rooms, doctors, specialists, worrying, frantic phone calls, crying, googling. . .
 
2. I would wish for our plan to move to NC to be successful. Which, mostly means selling our house because that’s the only thing “tying” us down, if you will. So SELL, you stupid vinyl anchor (our affectionate nickname for this house)
 
3. I would like to have ESP (but be able to control it).
 
DAY THIRTY:
A Picture Of Yourself This Day And 5 Good Things That Happened
 
1. I got up and exercised
2. I don’t have to work until noon
3. My husband made me breakfast in bed (he does this every day ((yes, really)) but I appreciate it every day)
4. My ipod is playing throughout the house on our wireless speakers. Nothing better than music everywhere!
5. I am about to order some new books for my Nook, because my Mom sent me a gift card. It made me cry, because it was so unexpected and thoughtful. Thanks Mom!
 
 
Ok…so here’s the end!!!!!! Thanks for reading (all six of you)!!!!
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Here’s Casey today!

Posted on April 26, 2011 by jenn

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30 Day Blog Challenge: The Grand Finale

Posted on April 26, 2011 by jenn
…For me, at least.  Since I’ve gotten behind in my blogging for the challenge and I’m itching to blog about something else at this point, I’m going to wrap up the last eight days here all at once in one entry!
DAY TWENTY-THREE:
Favorite Movie
 
“Ghostbusters”, if you haven’t been paying attention!  As we said, this is some sort of error made by whoever created this challenge, whose name has been lost to the ages, just like the creator of the Classic-Era Mayan calendar (I picked up a book on 2012 in Boston).  We’ve already covered this day in our replacement North Carolina topic, which we are very excited about, but I just wanted to find an excuse to mention the Classic- Era Mayans or something.
 
DAY TWENTY-FOUR:
Something You’ve Learned
 
I’ve learned many things over my life, but I have to say the life lessons Jenn has taught me over the past three years have been the most important.  She has taught me to be more independant, more relaxed, and less stressed!  She’s also taught me a lot about fashion and some things about health and nutrition that I didn’t know before.  I couldn’t have picked a better partner in life!
 
DAY TWENTY-FIVE:
First Five Songs That Come Up When You Shuffle Your iPod
 
I believe I’ve talked before about how essential my iPod is to my life; so essential that I had it on me when we were evacuated from our hotel in Boston!  Jenn mocked me a little for that.  Ok, let’s see what the first five out of 688 songs are:
 
1.  “Sister Christian” from the “Rock of Ages” soundtrack.  As I’ve mentioned before, try to see this show, because it’s awesome!
2.  “Starfish” by Sister Hazel, one of my top 5 or 6 favorite bands
3.  “Got A Feeling” by Flickerstick, another of my top bands.  We actually used one of their songs (“Lift”) in our wedding ceremony, when Jenn walked down the aisle (well, pre-determined path in front of Pemaquid Point Lighthouse)
4.  “Walk Away” by Athenaeum, another great band that Jenn has introduced me to.  Unfortunately, they, as well as Flickerstick, have broken up.
5.  “Mr. Bluesman” by Richie Sambora, Almighty God Of Guitars.  He’s the lead guitarist for Bon Jovi, and had a couple of solo albums in the 90’s, as well as at least one tour, I think.  His first album “Stranger In This Town” was praised by me in a previous post, and if you haven’t taken the time to listen to it since then, you should do it now.  Seriously, you’re only hurting yourself.  I believe this song is a tribute to his inspiration, Eric Clapton.
 
I’m quite surprised that nothing by Bon Jovi (all the members) came up, since I have 129 of their songs on here.  I also have multiple Daughtry and Lifehouse albums, so I thought we might hear from them, but I guess I thought wrong!
 
DAY TWENTY-SIX:
Your Dream Wedding
 
My dream wedding would be to Jenn, at Pemaquid Point Lighthouse, with a reception at Pemaquid Beach, in which Jenn would walk out during “Lift”.  We would cater our own reception with a homemade pancake breakfast, cooked by the wedding party in aprons personalized with their relation to us and/or function in the wedding party.  We’d do some Karaoke, and Jenn and I would sing a duet of “Two Less Lonely People” by Air Supply.  We’d have a specially choreographed first dance (“So This Is Love”) and last dance (“Save The Last Dance For Me”) which we would practice our butts off and excel at on the dance floor.  And of course, the day would be a gorgious and the sky a perfect September Blue (a color Jenn taught me).
 
Luckily for me, I got this dream wedding one year, 7 months, and 1 week, and three days ago.  If we were to do it again, I would also add a few things to the dream that unfortunately didn’t happen…
 
1. I would want my family to be as helpful and supportive of our ideas and wedding plans in the months leading up to our wedding as my future in-laws were.
 
2. I would want the reception to be longer and to not be rushed through the reception by my family members and others from my side leaving early.  I would also want certain family members to pay attention to our dances.
 
3. I would want Stacey to be my Best Man.  I guess I actually did get this part of the dream, if not in name.  Stacey was, of course, the Maid Of Honor, but still threw my bachelor party, was very helpful in preparing (she even made some bitchin’ comics for our wedding programs), and gave me a place to stay the night before the wedding, when my Best Man (in name only) wouldn’t stay with me unless it was on his terms, which meant adding his own special brand of drama to the night.
 
4. Julie and Justin would be our guests.  We unfortunately didn’t know them then (well Jenn and Stacey knew Julie but hadn’t been reunited yet).
 
But in the end I got the most important parts of my dream wedding, the parts that truly matter, and we had an amazing day, an awesome time, and made some great memories!  I am one lucky guy!!!
 
 

We also had our own Bobbleheads made for the cake decorations.  Our wedding pretty much ruled!

 
DAY TWENTY-SEVEN:
Original Photo Of The City You Live In
 
I’m not entirely sure what this means.  I’m guessing it doesn’t mean “original” as in “the first photo ever taken”…I guess I’m supposed to post a photo of the city I live in that is “original” in that we ourselves took it.  I unfortunately, don’t have one, and I get a laugh thinking of Standish as a “city”.
 
DAY TWENTY-EIGHT:
Something That Stresses You Out
 
Many things stress me out, hence the value of Jenn’s life lessons that I mentioned a few paragraphs back.  I would say unrealistic deadlines at my job stress me out, though not as bad as they used to (thanks to Jenn teaching me ton put things in perspective).
 
DAY TWENTY-NINE:
3 Wishes
 
This is hard…I actually think about this often, and always have for as long as I can remember.  What strated with “More Wishes” has evolved into something like this…
 
1.  I would wish to be independantly wealthy.  I have no interest in working, outside of a means to support myself and Jenn and our future family, so I would make that disappear if I could.
 
2. I would wish for a healing touch.  I would be able to heal Jenn of her kidney problems, and any thing else that crept up throughout our lives, as well as be able to help friends and family members, and have fun healing random strangers.  In a way, this one wish gives me many future wishes down the road.
 
3. I would wish to be able to fly without wings (like Superman, not like Angel).  Mainly, because it would be fun!  Probably scary at first, but fun!
 
DAY THIRTY:
A Picture Of Yourself This Day And 5 Good Things That Happened
 
1. I had a wonderful morning watching “Friends” and eating breakfast in bed with Jenn.
2. I got to draft with my headphones on for most of the day.
3. My iPod speaker batteries didn’t die in my car (I hate when that happens) 
4. I just had a wonderful dinner with Jenn, in which we discussed our days.  I love hearing about her kiddos!
5. I just held Jenn, who was holding Skeeter in the kitchen, and we had a group hug!
 
I do not have a picture of myself from today, nor do I have the ambition to take one and upload it to the blog and post it tonight!  The photos Jenn put up from our Boston trip are only a little over a week old, so that will have to do!
 
And so ends my part of the 30 Day Blog Challenge!  Hope you enjoyed it!  We’ll be posting some more “Jenn and Caseyesque” stuff pretty soon!
 
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30 Day Blog Challenge: Day 23…

Posted on April 20, 2011 by jenn

Okay, so day 23 is supposed to apparently go over my favorite movies with you… again.

As exciting as that’d be to REHASH, we’ve decided to talk about an exciting new journey that we are embarking on!

Our goal, is by August of 2012 to be moving to……………………………………….(drum roll)

NORTH CAROLINA!!!!
For no reason. For many reasons. For a change. For excitement. For cheaper living. For adventure. For warmer weather. For a change of scenery. And for the simple reason that… we can!!!!!!!!!!
Things we need to do before we move:
1) Repairs to the house in order to sell it.
2) Brush up (aka learn) how to sell your house yourself. Thanks to Google, looks like there are a lot of resources out there.
3) Visit NC and make sure we’re dedicated.
4) PURGE our crap, sell what we can, and pay off the hospital debts that Casey and I have managed to accrue.
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