Worry Free, Healthy Me

This year instead of making "resolutions" I'm going to call them goals. I'll be listing my goals for 2017 and then later go into detail on how I aim to achieve these goals: Graduate Veterinary Assistant program with Penn Foster Start working at a Veterinary Clinic Start my Veterinary Technician Associate Degree Reduce body fat percentage to 21% Be able to run 10 miles Graduate Veterinary Assistant Program Make monthly and weekly academic calendars make daily checklist for readings work before play Start working at a Veterinary Clinic Volunteer at shelter to gain experience earn externship with Penn Foster program excel at externship - pay attention, study, take notes work at clinic I did externship at Start my Veterinary Technician Associate Degree Complete associate program take two different skills assessments  enroll and choose payment plan Reduce my body fat percentage to 21% Reduce simple carbohydrate

Sorry for cutting off blogmas! Other priorities sort of took over like family, life, and school. Next year I'll do better. We had Jake's Dad visit us the weekend of the 10th. It was nice for him to visit for a while and for him and Jake to spend some time together. We went to a light show and ice skating event on post but that turned out to not be a light show and it wasn't ice skating lol. So we went off post to look at Christmas lights and look at a fire that was in the mountains on post. Thankfully no one was hurt!

Welcome to the sixth day of Christmas! Today's blog is going to be short and sweet. I'm going to list some of my favorite playlists for Christmas time. My favorite playlist and one that I listen to every day is from Zoe Sugg. Why? Because Zoe just gets Christmas: https://open.spotify.com/user/zoellasugg/playlist/0bUOtqpgwgOnvsVIJ7gkCX Another playlist is on Pandora called Christmas Radio. This is one that I listen to pretty regularly as well: http://www.pandora.com/station/play/1699253792096542310 Another playlist is by insaneboost: https://open.spotify.com/user/insaneboost/playlist/04Ghokpd1HRJDsdYVbMGea Those are my three top Christmas playlists. Enjoy!

Welcome to Blogmas Day 5! I hope everyone's week is off to a fantastic start! If you want to participate in the Christmas Fitness Challenge it starts today!  Click here to read up on the challenge .  Today I'm going to be going over some stuff I've been using recently and loving. I just recently got this hand creme as a gift and it is amazing! It smells like vanilla with peppermint and it works so well. Living in Arizona has made my hands very dry no matter how much water I drink. It has been really hard to find a hand creme or lotion to actually work where I won't have to reapply it every hour. You only have to use a very small amount of this hand creme and it lasts quite a while. It's from Beauticontrol and I think the scent "Minty Marshmallow" is only out for the holiday season. The Twisted Peppermint body spray is what I've been using all holiday season. It smells like Christmas and completely gets me in the holiday spirit ever

This past week has been great. After all it's the start of the Christmas season! What more could you ask for? :) This past week I started volunteering at the shelter. I started on Tuesday. It was a bit chilly out but after walking two miles I was warmed up. I walked a dog named Pebbles both days I was there. She's such a sweet old lady. <3 I ordered a heated cat house on Amazon for Cyber Monday and it came in the mail on Wednesday! I'm still trying to get our little stray kitty to get used to it. She (or he) is very skittish and not trusting of humans so I figured any new addition to our patio was going to take some time. She will go inside to get her food though so I've been putting her food in there right before she comes at night so she can at least eat her food and get some warmth. Lando caught me wrapping his one of his Christmas presents! Wednesday night I made myself some orange chicken and vegetable spring rolls with brown

This Fitness Challenge starts the 5th of December and lasts all month! I haven't included a shopping list with this challenge but this month I will make lists of everything I buy, use, and eat and then save that for future monthly challenges that I post. Of course if you are unable to run, do certain yoga poses, etc feel free to substitute some stuff on here or if this is too easy it is very simple to use this as a guidline and step up your game from here. Make this challenge work for you! :) Monday, 5th of December      HIIT workout  click here for today's HIIT workout      Deep Stretching Tuesday, 6th of December      Walk 4 miles Wednesday, 7th of December      Zumba class (or preferred class) Thursday, 8th of December      4-6 mile walk Friday, 9th of December      HIIT workout  click here for today's HIIT workout Saturday, 10th of December      4-6 mile walk      yoga class  click here for the yoga class I'm doing today Sunday, 11th of Decembe

Welcome to Blogmas day two! Today I'm going to be taking you on a Christmas home tour. I've seen these done as a vlog and just love them so I figured I would try to do it in a blog.  Welcome to our home! The wreath I made myself a few years ago and every season I change the decorations on it (besides the "D" for Duerrwaechter). In front of the fire is Lando's favorite spot when it's on so I made it comfy for him. Don't worry the cat bed and blanket aren't close enough to catch on fire. I bought one of the cheapest garland pieces, folded it in half, and added some lights I found in storage. Looks almost the same but less than half the price! This year we are starting a new tradition. We bought an advent candle and are lighting it every day together. Lando has been loving the lights, garland, and ornaments, especially the ones on our table. Yes, I even de