Getting In Shape!

Well, I finally thought about something to blog about: being out of shape. However, I want to try and stay positive after this little tid bit of negativity: I've gained weight living at home. My stomach is getting bigger and my arms are getting flabbier. This is not ok. At all.

I plan on getting a gym membership at the closet gym to me: at one of the local colleges. I have no motivation not to go most days because it is less than a mile from my mom's house. Plus it's only about $50/month for non-Alumni to join and since I now have a small income that's easy to manage! I honestly thought I'd have moved out by now (with a full time job, obvs) and I planned on working out in the mini-gym at whatever apartment complex I lived in. However, I'm still at home sitting on the couch day after day looking for a full time, big girl job.

Anyway! I'm looking for good workouts some of you bloggy people like to do! Since I'm new to working out, I need easier things to start out with. I'll also need really good music to load up on my iPod! I've pinned a few things I could do around the house, but I need easy-ish things that target my arms (for sure) and belly for me to do at the gym.

Source: cleaneatsfastfeets.com via Frances on Pinterest

What's your favorite thing to do at the gym?

Friday Funny: Corgi Rae Jepson

I've been avoiding the whole Carly Rae Jepson craze, but I just saw this and HAD to share. Nappy and I are obsessed (no really, he loved it)!



Let's be real, dogs (especially corgis) make everything better.

Sunday Confessions

I'm linking up with Alyx for Sunday Confessions!




1. I feel like about half of the blogs I follow have had posts about being in a rut or not feeling like blogging and I'm definitely in the same boat.

2. Getting mail is exciting. I miss my campers (and they are mine, I've had all 34 of them) so much but I love hearing from them and how awesome their aide year is going.

3. I miss my seester. A lot. I can't wait to hear from her tomorrow on her day off!

4. I'm paler than a ghost. You can't convince me otherwise. I'll definitely be laying out this week.

5. I took a 3 hour nap today (which even for a pro-napper like me is a little excessive).

6. After my 24 hours trip to Fort Worth, I'm dying to go back but it'll be July at the earliest before I can go back.

What are your Sunday Confessions?

Instagram 365 (+1): May 2012

Can you believe it's already June?! Where has this year gone? Here are some highlights from my May...

I saw my beautiful seester dance in her school dance class spring show. This is a shot of her in her choreography group project (it was the best one! amazeballs).

I helped my bestie celebrate her 24th.

I turned 24!

I went to my first Texas Rangers game (and it rained)! It was so much fun and I'm dying to go to another one!

My wonderful seester made me this delicious cake (my favorite: yellow cake with chocolate icing)!

My baby puppy boy turned 1!

I helped seester paint her trunk, get ready for camp, and got an awesome mani from Lindsay.

I celebrated Memorial Day with some awesome friend, food, and lots of sun.

I said goodbye to seester before she went to camp without me. And I sent her a package that she's gonna need a razor blade to open because there's a ridiculous amount of tape on it.

How was your May? Are you following along with my Instagram 365(+1) project? If not, I'm @fmkey88!

Memorial Day

So, I kind of failed at doing a post this week about my friend Lindsay who does all of our friends' nails. To make up for it, I'm going to post about Memorial Day and I promise promise promise I'll post about Lindsay's awesome nail art next week! I'm going to make myself write the post this weekend!!!



Monday was Memorial Day! After spending Saturday at seester's dance recital and putting a few finishing touches on her trunk and completely vedgeing (it's a word, I just don't know that it's spelled right) out Sunday, I was ready to spend Monday in the sun with my friends! I went over and finished Sarah's trunk once and for all and then headed out to my friend Amanda P's house for an afternoon in the pool and burgers for dinner! (Side note: I know a ton of Amandas. Apparently it was a popular name in the late 80's/early 90's.)

Kendall, me, Bonnie, Lindsay, and Amanda waiting on dinner

Kendall made us play Sharks and Minnows at one point. I was never the shark because I never swam across the pool. I did make a lot of splashing noise though - haha. Amanda's man-friend, Jonathan, brought his two golden retrievers over to play with Amanda's yellow lab, Fred. The three dogs were hilarious! Fred was hot and liked to sit on the top step on the pool. Willow and Luke, the goldens, weren't allowed in the pool because their hair would clog up the drains so they would get on Jon's float and Amanda's dad's float with them. It was so cute!

Naturally, I ended up sun burned. And yes, I did put on sun screen - I even reapplied (which is kind of crazy for me). My shoulders and upper arms were pretty red and I definitely had a streak down my right fore arm where the sun screen went. But thanks to my summer BFF, Aloe Vera, the red is turning very, very light brown. I'm on my way to being tan - haha.

What did you do this weekend?

7 Questions

I was just reading Michelle's blog and decided to join in on Gentrie's 7 Questions link-up!

a completely disgusting/goofy picture of me from my
senior year of college, we were splatter-beating and
I didn't want my hair to get all painty

1. If you were to start your own business, what would it be? I really want to open up a cute little Camp/Hometown shop. There's one in San Antonio that I love and I'd love to open one up here.

2. You wake up on the wrong side of the bed, do you embrace your grumpiness or try to fight it? It usually gets embraced, but not for lack of trying to turn things around.

3. What's the very first memory you have? I think it's getting ready for my third birthday party? My mom was putting me in a little red, white, and blue sailor outfit and I was looking out my window while she did my hair. Weird? Yes. But I love birthdays.

4. the world is ending, what do you do? Allow yourself to die? Fight? Hide? Etc. Probably take a nap after crying a little bit...

5. What is your favorite meal of the day? Breakfast. I love it. I love it for breakfast. I love it for lunch. I love it for dinner. I love it all day. It's by far my favorite. You can't convince me any other meal is as good.

6. How do you best learn? Visual? Listening? Hands on? I am the definition of a visual learner. To me, visual and hands-on go hand-in-hand, pun not totally intended. I can't explain things over the phone very well, unless I can follow along; for example, if my dad calls with a question about facebook (yes, he's on FB, has been for a while; he has a blog too but he rarely updates that), I have to get on FB and figure it out (unless I know it off the top of my head, which is rare with all the crazy timeline changes Zuck's been rolling out).

7. What is your favorite joke? I am so not a joke person, but here's the lamest one I can think of: Q: What is Bethoven's favorite fruit? A: Ba-na-na-na

Are you linking up with Gentrie?

The Time Has Come, the Walrus Said

Yes, I just quoted the Jabberwocky poem from Alice in Wonderland. It has extra meaning for any and all Mystic girls that might be reading or come across this at some point. At camp, there is this one absolutely insane day called CC Day. All the rules go out the window, the campers can have Coke and candy and the oldest girls "switch places" with the counselors. It's a day filled with sugar highs, insanity, sun burns, and tons of memories. It's a blast and a half. And the way everyone knows it's happening is when the girls in the office get on the PA system and sing "The time has come the walrus said!" and then one of the director's (fully-grown) sons runs around camp in a walrus head. It's amazing.

Said son in said Walrus head doing the Bernie

Well, the time has come for everyone to head to camp. Waterfront training started yesterday and horseback riding starts today. I've never gone for either of these things, but normally I'm not too upset since I'd be going Tuesday morning. But this year, I have a puppy and a part-timey/freelance-y job and I'm not going to camp. It's the second time ever since I started going there in 1998 that I won't be going, only this year is different: my sister is going. Three years ago, we both skipped to go on a disastrous family cruise (we won't get into that because it only makes me sad and my blood pressure rise). Sarah and I totally bonded over it though and how much we missed camp. We went to round up at the end of the term and saw everyone and told them how much we missed camp. It was sad not to be there, but neither was she.

This year will be her first year to go without me (she started in 2005, my last year as a camper so this is like she's come full circle or whatever). She's 18, it's her last year as a camper, she's got an AWESOME cabin (trust me, I've had ALL of them) and counselors, she totally knows what's going on, but the big sister in me is totally worried about her. And what am I going to do for a month without her?!

Sarah and me last Round Up after she received her M

On a less depressing note, the time has also come for SUMMER!!! This weekend, my friend Lindsay, a total nail pro thanks to Pinterest (seriously, I'll do a post next week on all the awesome nail designs she can do), is going to do our nails, Kendall and I are going to see a movie, and Monday is Memorial Day! I'll hopefully be spending lots of time in the sun and by the pool (I know for sure on Monday, but I'm dying to get out in the sun before then).

What are you doing to kick off summer this weekend?!