The END! And Wicked!

"Lost" is over but I'm still probably going to be talking and thinking about it a few months from now. I actually started watching Season 1 again with new eyes. With everything I know now...it's exciting!

What did everybody think of the finale? (I say "everybody" like anybody actually reads this. Buaha!) I was hoping they wouldn't settle for the "we're all dead" ending.....but they did it in a way that was just lovely in my opinion. So as I understand it.....EVERYTHING that happened on the island actually was real. The sideways reality was just some sort of purgatory they all created for themselves after the characters died on their own terms....and they needed everybody to "wake up" (as in: remember their time on the island) in order to move on. Some of them died on the island....some died back on the mainland. I could go into detail about what theories I've been thinking about late at night while coughing my lungs out (I'm still sick. Boo!) but for the anti-Lost people, I will save you your bewilderment. I will miss being addicted to the confusion that Lost brought me! But I always thought it over and came to my own conclusions......which made me not confused anymore. That's what I loved about "Lost". We weren't spoon fed anything. We Americans always want a straight answer to everything. Leaving a little mystery and room to actually think for ourselves is very refreshing when it comes to television shows. "I never understood trekkies until I became a Lostie!" Sooo true! =P

On Saturday, I finally saw "Wicked" in San Francisco. It was absolutely positively wonderful! I was a little disappointed that Eden Espinosa wasn't going to play Elphaba (I'd heard great things about her!) but I was quickly impressed with Alyssa Fox! What a beautiful voice! She really rocked "Defying Gravity". I was fist pumping during that whole scene! I am trying to save up my money to go at least one more time before the last show in September. Maybe for my birthday? =)

For some reason I can't shake this chest cold. I've been congested and coughing for almost 2 weeks. It's so annoying. I haven't been able to exercise or put my Jillian Michaels DVD to use. I'm so bummed. When (if?) I actually get better I will be back to square one. I want to lose like 10 pounds by my birthday but I don't see that happening. C'est la vie. I haven't really been super sick in awhile.....just the occasional allergies or a cold...so I guess it's just my time to feel miserable. I hope it doesn't turn into bronchitis or pneumonia! You're supposed to get a lot of sleep and drink lots of liquids.....but I don't know how I can do that with 2 little boys running around...not to mention when I drink a lot of liquids all I do is end up peeing every 5 minutes. It's annoying! I don't know how this turned into a rant post! Let's end on a happier note.....

I think I'm going to continue with Season 1 of Lost and decide which episode is my favorite. Barrett and Owen are making a mess on the floor with Cheerios......ughhhh....gotta go deal with that. Later taters!

A letter to "Lost" from a mere simpleton....

Dear Lost,

Thank you. Thank you for your twists and turns, for your lovable characters (and sometimes hateable characters but their revealed background stories always made them lovable in the end), and the moments that made me go "Ohh snap!" and "Oh no they didn't!" (Yes, sometimes I turned into a typical horror movie-goer when I watched you.) Never before has a television series made me stay up at night thinking about life, alternate realities, sideways realites, mythology, religion, physics, history, and even classic literature. Thank you for your heartfelt messages and your ever so familiar confusion. It's kind of sad that without you, everything on television is now just mindless entertainment. (Although there's nothing wrong with that. Bring it on, Desperate Housewives season 7!) I learned to accept the fact that the more questions you answered, the more questions I had. Not everything has a straight answer and not everything NEEDS to be answered. I feel very sorry for the people that gave up on you or never took the chance to get to know you. Although you ended in one of my expected theories, you did it in a way I never thought of. I love you and I'll miss you. I will honor your memory by watching Season 1 this week. (Thanks to your buddy, Netflix!)

Love,

Steeny =)

Yes, I would LOVE to banish my fat....

"Operation: Tankini" has sadly taken a backseat. =( I woke up yesterday morning with a scratchy throat and an annoying cough. I drank so much hot tea and now I'm sick of it. (And I am a tea person!) How ironic since the day before I bought a yoga mat, a scale, and Jillian Michael's "Banish Fat Boost Metabolism" DVD. All her videos are super cheap! $9 at Target! This workout used to be OnDemand in its entirety but now they only show like 20 minutes of it? What the? It's actually 40 minutes! I used to do this workout almost everyday last spring and summer. I'm really tired of my sporadic exercising. I miss being not chubby Steeny. Haha. Hopefully next week, I'll be able to start exercising again. =)

This past weekend was very eventful! Barrett and I went to Cornelius' 3rd birthday party on Saturday. Barrett spent almost the whole time sliding down the slides and running around with his Spongebob balloon. He is super obsessed with Spongebob. I don't even know how it started.....::sigh::

On Sunday, Barrett and I went to Tilden Park in Berkeley with Julie, Owen, and my mother-in-law. I had no idea it even existed! We went to the Little Farm and fed the cows! We also saw goats, sheep, a mama pig and her piglets, turkeys, chickens, and chicks! Then we rode the merry-go-round (twice! and I got super dizzy!), and had a nice picnic by Lake Anza. I can't wait to go back!

This coming Saturday, I'm finally going to see Wicked! I read the book when it first came out, and when I found out there was a musical based on it, I've wanted to see it. This is a years-long wish that's finally coming true! (I sure do dream big, don't I? Hahaha!) Even if I am still a little sick, I am NOT missing it! I guess I will be the one person I hate during theater performances. The cough attack! (I actually have many pet peeves about theater-goers....ESPECIALLY ones that attend the ballet but that's for another post!) You know when it's all quiet during an important part of a performance and then THE COUGH ATTACK decides to start??!! I know they probably can't help it. They usually keep theaters and auditoriums kinda warm so the dry air makes people cough... And I'm a hypocrite since that will probably be me on Saturday but ehhh c'est la vie!

In other random Steeny news....I made an appointment with Cheesepie (Nicci to others!) to do an updo for my cousin-in-law's wedding. I'm so excited! I rarely get to dress up. I don't even know what I'm wearing but it's not for a couple weeks so I guess I still have time. We also have another wedding to go to in July. I love weddings! I cry at all of them. I even cried at mine. Hahaha. So cheesy!

Is anybody excited about but also dreading the SERIES finale of "Lost"? I actually loved the episode where they explained how Jacob and the smoke monster came to be. A lot of people thought it was stupid....but I was hoping for some fantasy godly myth type of reason as to why they were on "the island"....so when that episode came on I was dancing in my seat! I can't wait for the finale on Sunday but I will also be in mourning.

Today is just going to be a lazy couch and nap day. Barrett and Owen have been watching Sesame Street and Nickelodeon shows all morning. I guess I'll fold some laundry and wait for naptime. Later taters!

Workout Plan

Sunday-
Walk/jog 2 miles in the morning
Strength training at night

Monday-
Walk/jog morning
Cardio night

Tuesday-
Walk/jog morning
Strength afternoon
Yoga night

Wednesday-
Walk/jog morning
Cardio

Thursday-
Walk/jog morning
Toning

Friday-
Walk jog morning
Strength

Saturday-
Walk jog morning
Toning

This is just a rough outline of what I'm planning to do to lose these blasted 8 pounds. 10 pounds would be ideal but I just want to get back to what I weighed this past summer. I might switch it up if I get bored though.

Operation: TANKINI

I took a week long hiatus from exercise and just started up again last night. I found a bunch of ONDemand videos called "Bikini Revolution". They claim that by sticking to their routines, you can be bikini ready in 21 days. I didn't believe them at first, but I tried one of the 30 minute cardio workouts last night and I was DYING at the end of it! They do 5, 10, and 15 reps of a certain exercise like burpees or mountain climbers, then in between they do 30 seconds of jump roping and 30 seconds of punching with weights. You NEVER stop moving. It's ridiculous! I made it through but now my ankles are killing me. They don't really do a proper warm up and cooldown/stretches so you have to take it upon yourself to do that.

So SUPPOSEDLY if I stick with this (they have another 30 minute cardio video, along with a toning video and a yoga one) I should be able to wear a bikini by May 30th? I really don't care if I never wear a bikini again. I will settle for a TANKINI! I have a cute green one I bought at Old Navy last summer....I've gained about 8 pounds since then. I just want to be able to fit in my skinny jeans again and look decent in a one piece swimsuit. Operation: TANKINI! Who's with me? =)

The picture is of me last summer in said green tankini. I didn't even realize how thin I was back then until I found out how much weight I gained this past winter. LOL

Onto other things, Barrett's birthday party was tons of fun. Kinder's BBQ catered, I made 7 layer dip, and my sister brought a bunch of lumpia. Yummmm-o! On Barrett's actual birthday which was the next day, we were over at Grandma Voice's house and he smacked his nose against the wooden arm of a chair. His nose didn't bleed (which surprised me considering how hard he hit it) but it was super bruised! He looked like a UFC fighter. LOL I took him to the doctor and he turned out to be fine. I was worried they'd think I did it to him. Poor abused looking baby. =(

My Mother's Day was wonderful....although all 3 of us were sick. I started feeling sick on Cindo de Mayo when Ryan and I went to the Coheed and Cambria concert. (I need to update more. I feel like when I do update there is so much crap that happened that it gets jumbled together in one big blob of blah haha). We went to the meet and greet before the show and met the band. They signed my Year of the Black Rainbow book and I got starstruck at Claudio's dreamy hair. =P Lots of people were smoking the ganja during the show and it started messing with my sinuses. I'm not sure if I had a cold or what but I called my doctor and she prescribed me some Flonase.

Barrett was a little wheezy and sniffly but he's getting better. Ryan is not feeling well now. I feel bad. =( I bought him some Odwalla drinks and have been making him tea and giving him Nyquil. Hopefully he feels better soon. Oh yeah about Mommy's Day! I guess Ryan thought it was on Saturday so I got my presents then. I got the new Kodak Easyshare digital camera in a metallic purplelish color (which I already knew I was getting), and a pink sapphire pendant necklace with dimaond accents. (Which I had NO idea I was getting.) I'm not really into fancy jewelry since I always feel like I'll either break it or lose it, but it's preally pretty! My parents had some chocolate covered strawberries delivered to my house and they were scrumptious!

I still haven't eaten breakfast yet. Well I ate a granola bar before I did my morning 2 mile walk/jog but I probably should eat something again. I will let you know how my journey goes on losing my Winter weight. Toodles for now!