Happy Saturday

It's FINALLY the weekend (for most) as I type this I'm sitting behind my work station this beautiful Saturday morning as people trickle in and out the doors bringing in the smell of the beautiful day.  My weekend starts on Tuesday but I love to work in the mornings and have the evenings off.

I have to start this blog off with reminding you that yesterday was Friday. Duh Cathryn is what you thinking I know. BUT! Yesterday was no ordinary Friday for me, yesterday was the day I finished my reading class!!! I went in finished up a few things took my exit exam and walked out with a score of 87.7 which I am more than happy with. My reading skills even improved so much so that I am now testing at a Grad School level. I am beyond proud of myself. I worked so so so hard.

Another positive for yesterday was the beginning of a journey for CJ and myself as over the last year or so a few unwanted pounds have crept up upon us. So we joined the gym and enjoyed our first work out together. One thing I love is that CJ is used all these techniques he learnt while in basic training. 

We worked out with what is called a "pyramid" technique which is basically breaking down 50 movements down into segments of 5. To get a better idea I'd do 10 crunches stop once I reached 10 he'd do his then I would start back in with 5 or 15. Just depended on what we were doing. And boy did I feel good once I left. I was proud of myself there too. 

I don't think I'm the type of person who is one to say "I won't give up" I feel that I am the type of person to say "I'll give up" but i surprised myself yesterday there was never a moment that I had to stop and take a break I kept going until my goal was met. 

I don't want to be negative here and think about how long my motivation will last because I want to think positive and that'll I'll get into the shape I want and honestly just keep to it because it felt really good just to know my body was feeling good. 

Though I have to admit my body is rather achey today which is to be expected but I felt great waking up.

In my previous post I wrote about how I was excited to spend the day at home which let me tell you was wonderful. And the best part was having CJ's amazing jumbalaya for dinner. 

I took some pictures to post at the end of this. We went to the store to get what was needed and CJ usually just buys the frozen shrimp but our local grocery store has had a huge makeover so we actually ended up with some fresh cajun style shrimp. And for someone who avoids seafood I loved it!

Till next time.

Change of Plans

SO...yet again my blogging has been lacking but don't give up faith. I'll get there. I promise.

It's so hard for me to find time to breathe but thankfully life is slowing down a little although with school almost coming to an end its going to pick up again. Today is my day to stay in my pajamas all day and do nothing but nothing. And I need it.

It's nice too because CJ is home so we can do nothing together. One of our favorite things to do is stay in with junk food and watch movies or we put on netflix pick a T.V series and go! I'm also love the fact that CJ is cooking his world famous Jumbalaya for dinner and it is deeeelcious. For someone who doesn't like shrimp or sausage I can't get enough of this.

Now I bet your wondering what the change of plan is. Right? I know you are! Well I've decided to take a change of educational plan. As an Education Major my degree will allow me to teach Kindergarten through 6th grade. And truthfully I really don't feel that I would be giving my best to the 4th graders and above as I feel thats when children are becoming more independent and starting to grow into who they are (basically I feel thats when the attitude starts). I feel that my personality and abilities would be best suited for Pre-K through 3rd grade.

So after a long discussion with a fellow classmate whose major is Pre-K-3 I will be changing my major to that. Which is really exciting for me because hopefully with this change I will be done with my Associates degree a lot sooner than with my current major. I'm really excited about this change as I truly feel that this is were I was supposed to be all along.

With my current major ( and I know theres not that much difference to the eye but when you delve deeper theres a world of difference) I was questioning wether if this is what I was truly wanting to do. But now I think I have found my belonging.

I'm also pleased to see that looking at my degree checklist with this change I'll have completed almost half of what is already required. Major plus there. I'm also considering taking a summer class, it'll be the first Wednesday in June to the last Wednesday in June. 8am-5pm. It'll be a long day so I'm still weighing it up and waiting for more information.

So come Friday I'll put my submission in for change of major and will be journeying down a new road. And I'm really excited about it!

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday to CJ's Mom Sherry. I love her to bits and pieces and wish we were there to celebrate with her!

Blog Alive

Well...It's been a week for me. I'm constantly on the go with either work or school and I basically got too caught up with it all and ignored my lovely blog.

I thought about how I should be blogging this morning while working but after a long morning in class to then dashing off to work till late then to get home to cuddle up in bed just to turn around and race back to work this morning. I am exhausted.

My weeks are generally crazy like this as life for someone who works in a hotel your never off work. With everything that goes on. Being a Front Desk Agent my job is never done. From shift changes to guests wanting this and that, fellow workers unsure of something that happened during your shift that you forgot to cover, down to the nitty-gritty bits. It's never ending. Although your not there you always have to be there your there. Make sense?

With all the craziness that has been happening within my week yesterday I had my Friday morning class which I actually really love. It's a reading class thats self paced, I previously took a math class that was self paced and loved it.

I wish there were more classes such as those. I love that in these classes you have a check list of what needs to be covered during the semester and it's your job to make sure its completed. In my reading class I absolutely love my Professor. His ex-military and is kind of loud and in your face with his lectures which is the only thing I try to avoid being a target of example. Other than that his been great with motivating us to finish the class and encouraging us throughout the way making sure we're understanding the material.

Knowing that it was self paced and we could finish up before the actual semester was over I have worked my tooshy off to get the work done. The way the class is structured is that we go in, we have a brief lecture and we're supposed to test on the material the entire 3 hours. Theres written work that is expected to be completed as homework that encourages us during class time to test.

 Anyhoo...I had actually completed the written work weeks ago I was just trying to finish up with all my testing. Which I must say I have been scoring on all tests any where between an 80-100. Go me! Well yesterday came the day were I would finish up the last few minor tests I had and I'd finally be able to take my final exam and be done. Awesome right? Well the sucky part is right as I was ready to take my exam exit class was about to come to an end. GRR! So this coming Friday I will be excited to finally be completed almost a month before the semester comes to an end.

That pretty much sums up my excitement for the week. I promise to do better with my blogging.

Eat Sleep Blog.

Hello Tuesday!

I have to start this blog off by saying that in the one day since I created my blog it has taken over my every waking thought. All I have been thinking about it I want to blog about this. Or I need to blog about that. All these thoughts of possible blogs running ramped through my brain. I am so excited. It's the little things I swear.

So I thought it would be fun to share some of my favorite photos of mine and tell you a little bit more about myself and who I am.

As I stated in my previous entry I am Australian born. Accent included. I spent the majority of my teenage years in Australia up until a month before my 17th birthday then came the big move with my Mum to California. The place everyone wants to be. Right? I was in love the moment the plane landed. Either that I was extremely jet lagged, I don't know but I was living a life everyone dreams about.

Let me just say this to move from one country to another isn't easy. It takes a lot of work and you're building yourself up from the ground all the way back to the top. And it is tough!

I loved California the weather was wonderful 95% of the time and being able to finish a days work load at school then to just go to Disneyland was even better. But I wanted something new. I wanted something fresh. I wanted the South.

So that being said and some tough times Mum and I faced we put that behind us as...to Nashville it was! Country music, country accents and country boys, what girl wouldn't be excited?! So off we set for a fresh exciting new start.

Once we found our home. And jobs. I found love. I found CJ. My first true love.  An army boy with big blue eyes and a smile that melts my heart just thinking about it. Plus what girl can resist a man in uniform? He was scrumptious!!

I remember before we went on our first date we spent days and days spending hours on the phone just like two love struck teenagers. It was perfect. Two years later we're still together and everyday is a new adventure. One thing I love about being with CJ is he always surprises me everyday with something new about himself.

Well now that I've overloaded this with all this writing I think it's time to add some photos!

Here I go...

Well this is my first blog. Ever.  And truthfully I am really excited about almost as excited as I get awaiting for Christmas morning and I finally get to open all those presents that are so magically wrapped hiding all these amazing gifts I've been watching and dying to open! I truly am a little kid at heart. I swear.

The thought of creating a blog has been in my mind for awhile now but it wasn't until recently when I decided to purchase myself a nifty MacBook something I truly have worked hard for and wanted for lord knows how long!
I liked the idea of blogging because I am Australian living in this glorious country America. And with that being so I have family and friends back in Australia that want to know what I am up to and how I am doing and truthfully it becomes rather hard to keep in contact with everyone with working, attending college and just overall life. So when blogging wandered through my mind I thought it would be the perfect way for people to follow along with me in my life journey!