Guess who has lost 25 pounds. That is right. Me.
Oh, and guys. Just because I don't ask your opinion on things doesn't mean I don't want you to give it anyway.

Elite Eight my butt.

Boy oh boy is my biscuit burnt.
If you care absolutely nothing about basketball, you will not care about this blog post.

I have never screamed at the TV like I did tonight. And I watch The Price is Right a LOT.
We. Lost. To. West. Virginia. They're not even good. That's why it's so disappointing.
We have the best defense team in college basketball and it totally sucked tonight.
We were so intent on getting three-pointers (only one of which we made, by the way) that we completely overlooked the insiders.

We've beat every team so far in the tournament by at least 25 points, and we lose tonight, by what, nine? I don't even remember. Fuuuuuuuck.

At least Demarcus Cousins got a good shot in on De'Sean Butler's groin.

And Josh is totally convinced that he can just nuke the whole state of West Virginia and it'll totally just be fine.

IN BRIGHTER NEWS! I tried for forever to get Joshua's cat in my lap. He tried and tried to tell me that she wouldn't because she hates laying in people's laps. But she crawled up into mine, and slept with her face on my hand. Awwwe. She stayed there until Josh scared her out of the room by screaming. That he is going to nuke West Virginia.

I have now lost 22 pounds.
I am so proud of myself it's stupid!

I bought Wii Fit Plus this afternoon and I was so excited all day. I couldn't wait to get home and play it.
I was really hesitant to make my body profile, I figured it would just end up in me being fat and depressed.
But really, it made me feel tons better. My BMI is significantly lower than a month ago, and it turns out that I am four pounds lighter than my regular scale has been telling me!

My scale wants me to cry but my Wii Fit has come to my rescue.

Several months ago (5, 6?), I stepped on the scale to see my highest weight ever and it seriously put me in this deep depression. Since then, I have lost 20 pounds.I really haven't even been motivated and trying until about a month ago, though. So it really makes me confident that I can meet my goal of at least 130-120 by July or August.

Other than that... I got a new cat!
Actually, he just showed up at my house.
He is HUGE, like the size of a sort-of small dog.
He was super scared of people at first but I finally got him to come to me and learned that he is actually really tame.

Josh named him Joben.

I've gained 3 pounds. Not surprised but very unsatisfied.
I got my Coastal Scents 88 palette today and I'm really excited!
I also got tons more samples. I keep forgetting what all I ordered so it's like Christmas every time I go to the mailbox.
I'm not going to go into a bunch of political ramblings about the newly passed healthcare reform, because honestly I don't care enough to act like it's going to affect me. But if you are under your parents' health insurance in the first place, and it's easily paid for every time you need to go to the doctor, don't complain about it. It's just annoying. It's funny to see all of these "STOP BARACK OBAMA" campaigns. He's not the unabomber. He's not going to turn us over to Al Quaeda. Chill, and be grateful that Sarah Palin's biggest responsibility is her grandson with Down's Syndrome, and not the country.

That's the biggest rant I have for today.

My aunt's decided she doesn't want to do Zumba anymore so I'm going to have to take matters into my own hands. I'll just download and burn videos onto DVDs and do it on my own time. I've also wanted to buy Wii Fit for a while now but I completely forgot about it until someone else mentioned it. Now that it seems really likely that I'll get new scholarships, and will definitely get my other ones renewed, I can probably go buy it. I just need to be sure to save enough for my tat.

I think that's about all I have today, uninteresting as it may be.

I have one HUGE annoyance in my life right now and that is any English class of any kind.
I am so glad that after this one, which ends approximately May 8th, I am free of any English class. For the rest of my life.

My classes next semester I suppose should be okay.
Abnormal Psychology (about mental disorders/serial killers, I love things like that)
Biology (I had AP Bio my senior year in high school which is exactly the same thing and quite easy, I just didn't pass the AP exam so I didn't get credit for it. Woe.)
European History from Civilization to 17th Century.
Interpersonal Communications. (Not excited about that. I took it online so I wouldn't have to do public speaking and such, but I still have to talk to people via microphone. Argh.)

One wouldn't think I despised public speaking so much. I'm not exactly... the shy type. I could talk to everyone in the entire room individually with no problem but I cannot speak to them as a group. Don't know why.

Something that has really brought me down lately.
I was so excited to make my transfer to UK after this next semester.
I don't know what possessed me into thinking that they have a Vet Tech program, but they most certainly do not.
So it's Morehead for me.

I guess I don't mind so much. Josh is still going with me (I REALLY hope he doesn't change his mind).

 I feel like I've been in college forever. But after this semester, I still have five more to go. Sheeeee.

In other news, I recently purchased this little beauty. (Actually, it was free... thanks to Swagbucks. One of my favorite things in the world now.)



One of my hobbies is buying really bright eye-shadow that I'm probably never going to wear in public. I just sit around watching tons and tons of Youtube makeup tutorials and it makes me want things like this.

Another of my hobbies as of late is signing up for all the free samples I can find.
So far I've gotten women's sanitary devices, a bottle of Olay body wash, Tube of Burt's Bees toothpaste, perfume sample, Benefiber, Atkins Bars, Whitening Strips. That's RIGHT, I ordered free Benefiber. I have tons of stuff coming. I'm so excited to go to the mailbox every day.

I understand how lame I am. But the joke's on you for being my friend.

By now, I've lost ten pounds. And it is a damn good thing. Especially after seeing the Easter pictures I got taken a couple of weeks ago with Josh. I didn't realize I was so huge! I'm either in denial, or the camera really does add ten pounds. And then ten pounds more. I prefer to think it's the latter. In real life, I don't look bigger than my boyfriend. I posted them, but deleted them all over again. It's just too embarrassing. I suppose I will stop complaining about how jiggly my jiggles are but that doesn't seem likely for at least five months. If you're really curious, you can find them on my Facebook.

For now, I just really want to ask you guys something.
WHAT IS THE BIG DEAL WITH MONROE PIERCINGS?!
That is the one piercing that I think looks absolutely hideous, and apparently, I am the only one that thinks so.
It has nothing to do with surface piercings, there are some of those I like. Oddly enough, I love dimple piercings, which I suppose are way hideous to some.
Monroes just look like giant, steel, impenetrable zits to me.
Ironically, I tend to get pimples in that exact place (you wanted to know, I could feel you questioning it). On the one hand, I hope people think it's just a Monroe piercing. On the other, I really hope no one thinks that.
I don't get it.

I also want to comment on how beautiful today was. I really, really miss my daily walks.
All I do is walk around in my backyard for hours on end like I've never seen the place before.
But it's really very relaxing, and it's a great workout for me. It's a great chance for me to listen to my iPod. I never really have the opportunity otherwise. I even had a huge McDonald's burger with fries and a piece of chocolate cake (the most unhealthy I've eaten for the past month), solely because I knew I could just go outside and work it off. I suppose I'll see tomorrow whether it worked or not. Probably "or not".

Me, after an Alice in Wonderland commercial: I've had my very own Alice in Wonderland experience. I don't know if you know.
My dad: I really hope you aren't referring to "tripping" on acid.
Me: Remember that time at Nate's birthday party, I fell in his ditch and broke my foot?

It really was very similar, too. Especially because I didn't even see it coming. Nate was really supportive, too. He said to me, "Tarah, I'm really sorry about that. I wish you had fallen in my neighbor's ditch instead". I remember those words sometimes when I'm feeling blue.

I have lost nine pounds! In less than a month!
Not a huge accomplishment, considering how long I have to go but I am seriously so proud of myself.
The fact that I have the motivation to do it is worthy of a celebration... I've been trying to get the motivation to do it for a long, LONG time.

I haven't been meeting my weekly goals. I've been a week behind, actually. But who cares if it takes one more week to meet my goal? It's still going to be July or August. That is great!

What. A. Weekend.
I just want to forget that the past two days even happened. Horrible.
Two people got their feelings hurt several times and that is two people and several times too many.
I'm not going to go into detail, but I think today may've been a bit of karma.
Maybe even on my part. I guess maybe I should be a little more understanding. I don't know.
Today was totally not my fault, but I still feel like a piece of shit about it. I could just cry.

Anyway. It's spring break. So that's good, except I'm STILL going to be busy with schoolwork.

I didn't meet my weight loss goal of this week. I honestly don't know how I didn't. It's frustrating because I've been doing pretty well. I'll just be patient I guess. That reminds me, can you guys see that little Dr. Phil widget over to the side? I mean, does it tell you my weight progress so far? I hope not, because it is supposed to be for my personal use only...haha.

I'm really looking forward to the pretty weather! 60 degrees isn't that warm but it sounds really great right now.
Tomorrow should be great and will hopefully make up for this shitty weekend.

Oh, and I think I'm starting Zumba classes soon with my aunt.

The Zumba® program fuses hypnotic Latin rhythms and easy-to-follow moves to create a one-of-a-kind fitness program that will blow you away. Our goal is simple: We want you to want to work out, to love working out, to get hooked. Zumba® Fanatics achieve long-term benefits while experiencing an absolute blast in one exciting hour of calorie-burning, body-energizing, awe-inspiring movements meant to engage and captivate for life!

It should be really fun. I'm excited!

Meerkat maaania.

Thanks to my English class, I have a NEW obsession.
With meerkats.
I know the two of those totally don't go hand in hand.
I'm going to stop watching online episodes of Keeping Up With The Kardashians and start watching online episodes of Meerkat Manor. They're so cute! And they're like humans in so many ways, it's incredible.
The episode I watched for English class was the first episode, I think.
One of them, Shakespeare, got bitten by a snake and it didn't show in this episode whether or not he lives.
I am going to have to Youtube the second episode or I am going to worry to death about that poor little meerkat.

it's canceled now, but if you can catch the reruns on Animal Planet, you should. It's actually really interesting. If you like animals, anyway. If not, it'll probably bore you.



Other than developing a new obsession, nothing has happened today.
Except I also developed my period. BYE GUYS!

In my dreams, you're always the bad guy. In my dreams, I always cry.

I was doing English homework but I decided I'd rather blog about nothing instead.

I've been pretty busy lately with schoolwork and the like.

My letter to one of the Senators and the Governor about enforcing HB 169 and also making animal cruelty a felony in Kentucky will be mailed soon. Maybe it won't help, but I don't see what it could hurt.

I have a meeting with my adviser on Thursday. I have no idea what classes I'm supposed to take. My old adviser told me, but since I switched my major and got a new adviser, I'm not sure if the required classes will be the same.

I'm getting a job in May, hopefully, at a vet in Russell Springs. I have to do so in order to get into the Veterinary Technology Program at UK and I'm going to start saving up for my OWN car. Killing two birds with one stone. After this semester and two more, I am Lexington-bound.

Tomorrow is my cousin David's birthday (well, technically it's today but I haven't slept yet so it's still yesterday to me). He is going to be three, and it seems like yesterday I was at the hospital waiting for him to be born. This isn't some sappy reminiscent thing, just...whew, time flies. Saturday's his birthday party.

Sunday, Josh and I are having Easter pictures done by one of my mom's friends. She's not a "professional" photographer but people hire her and she's ultra good. We're excited. I am, at least. Josh says he is too, but he does that a lot just to please me I think. Which is fine. There are real baby animals, woooo. Things like this really excite me more than they should for a nineteen year old gal.

Friday, we're seeing Alice in Wonderland. I'm a fan of Tim Burton, but lately his films haven't really been in my taste. I prefer things like Edward Scissorhands and Big Fish. I hope it won't be a disappointment. He's already partially lost me with The Corpse Bride and Sweeney Todd. But I've been a fan of the Cheshire Cat since I was weebee, so I'm excited to see how he is shown.

Letssee. I know this is way unorganized.
And I think I'm done.