2014 is almost here!

It's New Year's Eve. I have the day off so Thomas and I have been binge-watching Breaking Bad. And like so many others that have done the same, we are hooked!

Yeah...

Other than that, we are gonna have to tear ourselves from our TV screen to get ready and head down to Charlotte. I bought NYE concert tickets to see The Avett Bros , again! So, hopefully we will be in store for an awesome show. If it's anything like last year's, we are sure to have a great time!

I'm this excited!

Happy New Year!

In other news, I am so close to having everything done for my DICAS application. A few edits to my resume and personal statement and I will be set! It's such a relief. My goal is to have everything in by the end of January. So, one of my 2014 goals is to change my life by getting into an internship. I've worked so hard in 2013, I'm hoping to get some pay-off in the new year. 

Also, I was so close to meeting my 25 books goal for 2013. I may up it for 2014. I have feeling I'm gonna be reading like crazy. But take a look at what I read this year.

I'm not doing resolutions because they stress me out more than they help me better myself. I have goals and I'm fine with that for this year. 2013 held some pretty big changes and I created beautiful memories that I will never forget this year. It had it's emotional ups and downs and I've had my fair share of stress from finishing grad school, wedding planning to job searching. But I am thankful for my new family, my job, my education, and my husband who is always there for me no matter what is going on. 

I may not be where I want to be, but I am getting there.

Happy New Year everyone!

Oh, and Luna says Hi!

Productive Day!

Things haven't exactly been busy lately, it's just that I haven't felt like doing anything for about a month now. Thanksgiving came and the feeling of Christmas has hit me and I feel like I'm on vacation. (But when you are in the midst of DICAS applications you are never on vacation). 
This has been me lately:

Like seriously.

Of course I'm working but Thomas has been sick all week so I pretty go home to catch up on Scandal and in between is Game Of Thrones books and Christmas music. Sad.

However, today has been a real catch up day of everything I've wanted to do this week.
I cleaned the kitchen, made these, worked on my personal statement for DI applications and have entered some more information in to DICAS. Yay! It's amazing what I can accomplish when I don't have to work on the weekends. 

Honestly, these applications should be my first priority since it's the only way I can get a better job than I have now. I have just been so tired of feeling like I'm not getting anywhere. I have a feeling that once 2014 gets here, my motivation will be on full blast to get everything done for these apps. I feel bad for even contacting references right now because I know Christmas is a week away so my plan is to ask my other two references after Christmas closer to new years. I have put off my personal statement for months and have finally sat down and written most of it today. Before this process I felt like I had no experience but after writing it all down, I feel like I have so much that it's hard to pick and choose what to write about in my statement. You never know what's going to win over the directors and I'm already close to the word limit and I have two more paragraphs to write. EEK!
Luckily I have an english teacher for a husband so he's going to read over it and let me know if there is any "fluff" I can get rid of.

BTW Christmas is almost here! Exciting! Yet, I still haven't finished my shopping and can't until I get paid next. So that is a bit nerve wracking but it will be done and it helps that I have the Friday and Monday before Christmas off. 
Here's our tree!

It's our little island of misfit toys tree but we love it!

Hopefully I'll have more to blog before Christmas but if not Merry Christmas!

Goals for November!

I know we are a week into November (time is flying by!), but now that I have some extra time outside of work I want to get some things going in November.

1) Get a head start on my DI applications. I am in the process of getting in touch with some professors and having them go over my resume and eventually my personal statement. Which reminds me I have to start my personal statement too! I think once I have secured 3 references and written and edited my personal statement the hard part will be over until February. Which is why I'm starting the process in November instead of January. I try not to procrastinate in serious situations as these. When I turn in my applications in February, the hard and nerve wracking part will be hoping I get an interview and if I get an interview preparing for said interview. Then the countdown to April will begin! In the meantime, I am trying to prepare for my phone conference next week with one of the directors of the internships I'm considering. I'm excited and anxious to get the ball rolling!

2) Keep my house clean. This past weekend my mother so graciously came over and helped Thomas and I cleaned our entire house. In 3 hours no less! It's fantastically clean now but I fear we will let it slip again. So my goal is to keep this way for as long as possible. The kitchen is the hardest part since that is where food is made and it tends to get messy. 

3) Exercise for the month: Yoga! I've been doing it this week and I feel like it's exactly what I need. My job has been a bit stressful this week, probably because the patient count has been steadily increasing. But I feel that this helps my posture from sitting in a chair for most of my shift. Another goal is to stand more at work too. What I need is a stability ball to use at a chair but I don't think my supervisors would care for that or my coworkers. I aspire to be more flexible, strong, and toned and I feel the more I practice yoga the better these things will be. 

4) Meet my reading goals . I need to read 4 more books before December 31. However I am choosing long books so I don't know if I'll make it to 25 books this year. Hopefully. I'm currently reading The Twelve by Justin Cronin . Seriously it's so good. 

5) This may be a silly goal but in anticipation of the 50th Anniversary Doctor Who special "The Day of the Doctor" I plan to re-watch the David Tennant Doctor Who episodes. He is by far my favorite Doctor and it's been a while since I watched those episodes so I am looking forward to seeing them again. Thanks Netflix!

Nothing is going to be better than seeing these two on screen together. 

Happy Halloween!

Hope everyone stays safe tonight! 
My plans?
Work then handing out candy when I get home. Luna will be dressed as Richard Parker (the lion from Life of Pi). Hopefully we will get to watch "It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown" tonight too!

I Passed!!

Today I feel fantastic since I took the DTR exam this morning and passed it!!! Woo Hoo!!

I went into the exam this morning calm, cool, and collected. I was halfway drowsy from the early morning and I didn't have any coffee, which is dangerous territory for me. I was a little afraid it would upset my stomach so I decided against it. I have to say that the only thing that made me nervous was actually finding the place, and then my gas light came on which was a bit nerve wracking when your going to a place you've never been before. Once I got there I went inside and sat down waiting for my turn to get checked in. It is crazy the things that go through your head while you're waiting. "OMG was I supposed to bring two I.D.s or one?" "People are bringing their own calculators, was I supposed to bring one??"  Everything worked out though. 
110 questions later and I was done. I think it took me about an hour and a half. 

Oh man, when I had to wait for the proctor to find my results page that was when the nerves really kicked in. Then she just turned to me and said "Congratulations!!" and I was so relieved!
 I am so happy that all the studying I did the past 2 months was finally worth it. I now  have this certification which will hopefully aid in my getting accepted into a DI.

Now that its over, here are some of my thoughts on the exam:
1) When researching on the internet (linkedIn, and blogs mostly) everyone emphasizes the importance of food service equations. So I studied the heck out of some food cost percentages, minutes/meal, and FTEs. I was so worried that this would be the worst part about the exam. I maybe had 3 or 4 food service math equation questions and thats it. So out of 110 questions that was not main focus of my exam but for others it may have been.

2) I focused on nutrition care a lot. Maybe because that is what interests me the most out of nutrition but I really didn't have a lot of questions on this either. That may change if I get to take the RD exam in the future.

3) The majority of my questions for exam were focused on management. This was to be expected but I feel like in my studying I had a hard time finding questions that I could really practice my application of management skills too. Plus I have no management experience so its kind of hard to really know what to do in management situations. If I had to go back and take the exam I would focus more on this. 

4) The LinkedIn DTR group was right about the test being mainly about management and food service. This group helped me out so much and I was able to get a good idea of what to expect for today's exam. The exam is never the same for everybody depending on how well you answer questions of a certain domain so maybe I knew my equations really well and thats why I didn't have many? I don't know.

For anyone planning to take this exam, it is still important to study everything because there will be random questions that pop up!

So what's next?
For right now, I am relaxing and catching up on some tv (Revenge, Teen mom (don't judge)). And I'm going to start reading 

I can have a life now!

DTR Exam in 2 more days!

My DTR exam is in 2 days and I am feeling so rushed and anxious to look at every note and do every exam at least once more. Part of me feels like I know this stuff but part of me wants to make sure I do understand the Diabetic exchange lists, management practices and food service equations backwards and forwards.

I know, Doctor. I know.

I have the day off so that was my plan was to just go over everything I can get my hands on because I work tomorrow and good quality studying cannot be achieved there so today is pretty much it. 
My mom wants me to go have lunch with her but I feel obligated to stay home. AHH but I want to see my mom. I have felt like a bum for 2 months and have barely seen anyone lately.

All. the. time.

Guess I'll go have lunch and rush back to more studying fun. 

I wish.

6 months later....

Time to update my blog. It's been a while, I know. I have been a very busy bee lately. Or at least the last 6 months. Things are not getting any less busy but I want to attempt (for the 100th time) to blog during it because I would like some sort of documentation of the things that have and will be going on in this next year. 

So my last post was in April and I was posting love songs up until my wedding day. Well that didn't work out but I did get married in June. It was amazing! I was stressed, excited, and so happy in June. 

First things first though. In May I GRADUATED!!

 I have my Master's now in Nutrition! All my hard work paid off and I graduated with a 3.7 GPA. I am still so happy that I went ahead and got my Master's because now the only thing standing in my way from a) becoming a RD and b) being done with school completely is my dietetic internship. 

Once the graduation festivities were over I was heading to Washington DC for Share Our Strength's Conference of Leaders in early June, where one day was committed to Cooking Matters and two days were dedicated to the No Kid Hungry campaign. It was so interesting and I was so lucky and appreciative for the opportunity to go. 

Jefferson Memorial

Made it to a Baltimore Orioles game while I was there too!

Once I returned from DC it was wedding preparation full force! But honestly it wasn't too bad. I had gotten so much done beforehand (thanks year and a half engagement) I didn't have too much to prepare for. I just wanted it to be here! Needless to say it was a perfect day. Well the night before was pretty great too. Lots of tears, laughs, and smiles both days. 
I am now Mrs. Baker! :)

One of the best days of my life. *sigh* Plus, it was such a relief to finally enjoy the day that you spent a year and a half planning for. My wedding day and experience was perfect I wouldn't change a thing.
Then came the other fun part of the wedding experience... THE HONEYMOON!
We went to Asheville and it was fantastic. We had great weather and toured downtown and Biltmore. 

One day we randomly decided to drive on the Blue Ridge Parkway and see where it would take us... that might have been the best thing we did.

Amazing trip but way too short. We only stayed for 3 days and I was not ready to come back to real life and start looking for a job /post-wedding life.

Once the wedding was over, I was in full job search mode.  And I have to admit it was a little bit of a daunting task. I actually scored an interview with a food bank similar to the one I was volunteering at in Raleigh. That, however, did not work out but it was great experience as far as interviewing goes. After that, I was in a desperate search to find something that would give me an opportunity to use the nutritional knowledge I have gained after 7 years of schooling. Unfortunately, WIC jobs were hard to find and the only things I could find were things like "nutrition ambassadors" "patient nutrition representative" which are just fancy job names for diet clerks or hosting in a hospital. 
Honestly, at first I was feeling  a little selfish and thinking since I have a master's degree I shouldn't have to settle for working at these entry level positions. Eventually I stopped thinking this way because first off I remember a girl (I won't use names) but this girl who used to work at Barnes & Noble with me, once refused to take out the trash in the cafe because she had a master's degree in music performance and "she shouldn't have to". I remember thinking of how awful that made everyone feel because she thought she was better than us just because she had a master's degree. Needless to say she didn't work there very long after that (she was fired) and I can't help but think about that and how that made me feel when she said that. Just for the record I am not afraid to take out trash, wash dishes by hand, or handle nasty gunk because of my barista job. Thanks Barnes & Noble!

So I decided to apply for any position I thought could give me some good experience. One position was called a "nutrition clerk" and it was a full time position at a local hospital only 5 minutes down the road from our townhouse. It sounded very promising. As it turned out they were the only ones to call me in for an interview. Guess it was meant to be!
I started my new job as "Nutrition Clerk" or "Diet Clerk" as it's really called at the end of August. It's going well so far. As a dietetic hopeful, I was very concerned where I was going to get my clinical experience and now everyday I am learning about specific diets, tube feeding formulas, diabetic exchanges, plus just the experience of working with the dietitians and nurses is great! I see patients every now and again, as well. I am so grateful for this job even if some days I feel overwhelmed by the busyness of the hospital. Even though some people ask me why I am there, I tell them that this is a stepping stone to bigger and better things for me. However, for the time being I am fine working and learning all that I can.

Also, I am currently studying for the DTR exam. I'm scheduled to take it in 4 days. DTR stands for Dietetic Technician, Registered. There are not a lot of DTR positions left in North Carolina but I was advised by one of my professors from Meredith to take it to increase my competitiveness for the upcoming DI application process.  The reason being that the DTR exam is similar to the RD exam so if I could pass this exam, it shows directors that I have potential to pass the RD exam. 

It's crazy to think of how far I have come from changing my major to nutrition in 2008 and now having two degrees in nutrition, and how I am currently working as a diet clerk until I can finally finish my goal of being a RD once I get into an internship. There's really no other option for me. I want and need to be a RD. There's nothing else I want or would rather be. I am so close to my goal and only have a couple more months to find out where the future will take me. 
I can do this.

87 to 77

87. Yellow - Coldplay

Look at the starsLook how they shine for you

86. Now and Always - David Gray

You're in my mind baby, now and always

85. Thank You - Led Zeppelin

And so today, my world it smiles

Your hand in mine, we walk the miles

Thanks to you it will be done

For you to me are the only one

84. Open Arms - Journey

So now I come to you with open arms

Nothing to hide, believe what I say

83. Stellar - Incubus

How do you do it?

You make me feel like I do

How do you do it?

It's better than I ever knew

82. Sonnet 29 - Rufus Wainwright

Haply I think on thee,--and then my state 

(Like to the lark at break of day arising 

From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven's gate;

 81. Your Song - Elton John

Anyway the thing is what I really mean

Yours are the sweetest eyes I've ever seen

 80. Where are you going?- Dave Matthews Band

But I do know one thing

Where you are is where I belong

I do know, where you go, is where I wanna be

79. A Lover Like You - The Avett Brothers

I haven't eyes for anyone else

I'm thinking of you and nobody else

I haven't eyes for anyone else but you

 

78. There is a Light that never goes out - The Smiths

To die by your side is such a heavenly way to die

 77. 18th Floor Balcony - Blue October

I can't believe this is happening to me and,

I raised my hand as if to show you that I was yours

That I was so yours for the taking

I'm so yours for the taking and

That's when I felt the wind pick up

I grabbed the rail while choking up

These words to say and then you kissed me

 

91-88

#91 God Only Knows- The Beach Boys

God only knows what I'd be without you

#90 Love Song- Adele (311 cover)

However far away I will always love you

However long I stay I will always love you

#89 Dream a Little Dream - Dean Martin

Stars fading but I linger on dear

Still craving your kiss

I'm longing to linger til dawn dear

#88 Love they say- Tegan & Sara

First time you held my hand I knew I was meant for you
First time you kissed my lips I knew I was meant for you.
 

92 and Bridal luncheon

#92 Here, There, and Everywhere - The Beatles

To lead a better life

I need my love to be here

This past weekend my grandmother and her lifelong best friend threw me a bridal luncheon at Old Salem where I'm getting married. It was so nice. Everyone was there except a few people but I had a great time with those who were able to make it. The food was amazing. It was from Salem Tavern. We had tomato bisque, a warm pear salad and then gingerbread with lemon ice cream for dessert. YUM.
Just the beginning of things to come before the big day!
Just a few pics with my lovely ladies

Holding my recipes that I got from everyone.

The one picture where my eyes aren't squinty.

Bridesmaids (minus 2)

Bridesmaids plus 2 :)

I've got to improve my squinty eyes before portraits!

Almost 3 months!! Love songs marathon!

Without realizing it the other day, we have hit the less than 100 days mark for the wedding! I'm so excited! Double digits! And in two days, the 22nd, it will be 3 months. 
So sensing the big days arrival I have been on love song overload. I am feeling the love lately and I have been noticing songs so much more. Especially the romantic ones that make me think of Thomas. So I think from now on until the big day I am going to post videos of songs that I love and are about just that LOVE. My personal favorites.
I have some catching up to do because today is # 93.

#100 Bend and Not Break - Dashboard Confessional

For you I rise, for you I fall

#99 Living of Love - The Avett Brothers

Say love, say for me love

#98 Home- Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

Laugh until we think we'll die

Barefoot on a summer night

Never could be sweeter than with you

#97 Cosmic Love- Florence and the Machine

A falling star fell from your heart and landed in my eyes

#96 One and Only - Adele

You've been on my mind,

I grow fonder every day,

Lose myself in time,

Just thinking of your face

#95 Incredible Love - Ingrid Michaelson

Incredible love--you fill me

#94 Northern Sky - Nick Drake

But now you're here

 Brighten my northern sky

 #93 I was made for you- She & Him

When I saw you smile

I saw a dream come true

Crazy how some things turn out

I have been dealing with a lot the past two weeks. Not only is school getting extremely busy with position papers being due, meeting with partners to write those papers, but also finishing my lesson, starting my classes up, and trying to schedule another class for my practicum. I have family drama to deal with.

I have a hard time getting in touch with people when I'm stressed out, have so many responsibilities to school, and am driving at least 2 hours a day. It's exhausting. The thing that gets lost in my mind is the thought to call family members and this isn't right but I have no idea how to change this at this present time. 
What stresses me out even more is when people get upset because I haven't called them or haven't kept in touch but I have seen one friend on one separate occasion. A friend who I have probably hung out with once in the last 2 months, since Christmas. I thought things were fine. At this moment in time I need understanding and support because my schedule and project is keeping me very busy and I have a hard time getting motivated to do it most of the time. I have great support from the people I am working with and they have set me up with some great opportunities. For example, I found out that I have the opportunity to go to DC for a couple of days, all expenses paid just for volunteering at the Food Shuttle. I'm very excited. Thomas is happy for me and I thank God everyday I have him because without him, I'd be alone in this whole process and doubt I would be this far without his love and support. 

What gets me is that some people in my family want to bring me down. Make me feel guilty for the time and effort I'm putting into my project and into school. Also, for things that happened years ago. I've been in school for almost 7 years and now is the time they bring up issues, 2 months before I'm done and 4 months before I get married. They want to make me feel guilty for wanting help with showers and things that I feel really shouldn't be planned by myself since it's for me and Thomas. Doesn't make sense to me. But still I should feel guilty for a party that people want to throw me. If you don't want to do it then say so. I don't want to exclude anyone that is supposed to be in my wedding, but I can't have negativity and people that I don't feel really even care if it all works out. I feel like it would be very fake to have them standing up there with me and I am not going to deal just so I won't regret it later. I'll regret living that lie. 
As far as no contact goes, a tweet is not a reach out. It is not a form of communication that has no meaning when it comes to being interested in someone's life especially if there are negative connotations to that tweet. I have a phone and you have a phone and it's a two way street as far as communication and calling someone goes. I may not have called you but you didn't call me either.
With the combination of the guilt I feel for not being around my family (yes I have been feeling this way and I don't need to feel worse), stress from school, projects, volunteering, teaching, planning, driving all the time, wedding planning, picking out things that I know won't please everyone, getting others to do their part in this wedding process, as well as keep my place clean and all the other goals I've made for myself this year, I"M EXHAUSTED.
I'm at my breaking point. I need a break and won't receive one until this semester is through. 
Somehow I'm supposed to get work done today but I see very little getting done because I'm so bothered by someone's attack of my character. 

I haven't blogged in a while but the way I'm feeling today has made me feel like I just need to write it out. I hate writing about drama in such a public way but since everything I have online would just start a war, this is my option.

Look who's growing up

It has been an interesting week, that is for sure. One thing I am not going to go into a lot of details about because I do not want to jinx myself. However, I will say that if it goes through, I will be one happy girl. I am lucky to be where I am now.
I'm also being initiated into the Honor society at my college, so I'm pretty stoked about that. 

School has finally taken that turn to craziness, along with the above, I am still hard at work on my practicum, my class is getting demanding with a lot of reading and now a paper to research for (it's due in 2.5 weeks), I've signed up to be a tutor for the metabolism class this semester, I'm trying to keep my house clean, and at the same time trying to be on top of wedding things as well. My grandmother is hosting with her best friend a bridal tea and needs a guest list and I haven't even began to work on it. I feel quite overwhelmed. I have scheduled my bridal portraits with the photographer in April so I'm excited about that.


This past weekend, I went to Myrtle Beach with my best friend and it was an eye opening experience to say the least. The goal was to get my friend's mind off her ex-boyfriend and I think she succeeded but at the same time, I just feel like I was put in an uncomfortable position. As a single girl, she pretty much wanted to meet guys and I mean that's always the goal when you are single. I understand but as I am getting married in 4 months to the best guy, I feel like my place is not in the club scene. I went as her support system but all it did was make me feel uncomfortable and it was hard to have fun especially when I was really missing Thomas the whole night. Guys that go to clubs like that are never good news and it made me feel very lucky for what I have with my guy. So, the night didn't end very well for me and I think I'm going to stay away from that scene permanently. I've really outgrown it. 
Especially since my focus 99% of the time is my family and my schooling. 

The best part of my weekend? Buying my first Coach purse.

Very excited!

I rarely want to spend over 100 dollars for a purse but I figured its time to get over it just this once. ;)

We tried running on the beach this weekend and that didn't end well either. I felt like my lungs were on fire and I could barely feel my toes afterwards. Kudos to runners who run in all weather conditions, jeez.

Workout schedule for this week (even though it is chaotic):

Monday: gym (elliptical workout) + abs

Tuesday: Home workout + arms

Wednesday: One hour yoga

Thursday: treadmill + legs

Friday: HIIT  cardio

Saturday:OFF

Sunday: OFF

Favorite Songs right now:

Peanut Butter Hiatus

Random....
This is pretty random and trust me highly unintentional and I can't believe I'm talking about this today but I honestly have been avoiding peanut butter the past year. I do not understand this because I used to be one that would just sit around and eat spoonfuls of peanut butter at a time. I think this began even before my journey through Paleoland. But in the past couple of weeks my craving for peanut butter has been pretty ridiculous. I bought a fresh container of it and plan to eat it with some apples later. Man it's strange but I am looking so forward to it. I might try my hand at mixing it with my Justin's almond butter and see if that's good.
 I need to get a life. Seriously.

Wedding update....
I finally have my dress. It is in my possession (well it's residing at my Memaw's so Thomas won't see it) but technically because it is not at the store, IT IS MINE!! I'm very excited. I had to go to the store 2 times before because of fitting issues, which really didn't help my self esteem any, but it's fixed, I can breathe. All is right as of now. 
I had worn what I was going to workout in to the store so it was pretty funny to see my sports bra poking out of my dress. Everyone thought it was real classy. 
This weekend Thomas and I planned to get our registry done. It's about time because I've been thinking about it ever since we got engaged. Other things we still need to do is (for real) finalize that stupid guest list. It's really not the funnest part of the wedding process. Also, I want to go look at suits for him and the guys. I'm not sure what I want yet, something gray for sure.

Cryfest 2013...
So if you are looking for some good tears, I suggest reading A Fault in Our Stars by John Green. It got me for a good 5 chapters straight. Just me lying on the couch bawling my eyes out as I read. What is up with me and books/movies that make me cry? Les Miserables almost had me leave the theater because I didn't want the stranger beside me and all the rest in the theater to hear me sob for Fantine. 

It might snow....
3-6 inches or something? 
The only reason why I want it to snow is
a) I might get an extra day with my fiance.
b)We could play in it with Luna. Super fun!
c) Possible excuse to take Winter engagement pictures (or just winter pictures, whatever)
d) HOT CHOCOLATE!! When I'm feeling extra bold I add a little Whipped Cream flavored vodka. Yum!

Thinking about the future...
I find that searching for a job online is addicting. I swear I just search any kind of term and check out what's available even if it's not something I'm technically qualified for. Right now I am trying to just see what is out there. Honestly I don't have time for a full-time job right now. Now come April, I'll be begging for someone to take me. I spent a lot of time yesterday tweaking and updating my LinkedIn profile because it was pretty puny and sad. I added all the experience I had and I'm sad to say I feel like I don't have enough. (One of the primary reasons I'm not applying for the DI right away). I need to spruce up my resume. Not that what I have done is sub par. It is good but there is just not enough good experience on there for me to be happy. 
I am still at the Food Shuttle because of my practicum. I have signed on to be a tutor for the Metabolism class at Meredith College. So that should be good experience, plus a good reminder of that subject. 
For some reason I feel like I need a certification of some sort. I have always thought about getting a personal training certification, cpr wouldn't hurt and I probably need to retake the ServSafe exam because my certification ran out from when I took it at UNCG. If only I spoke another language. I honestly don't have the passion for that or the money for Rosetta Stone. 
I am not aware of what you have to do to get a personal training license, I need to look it up. 
I recently renewed my AND membership and so I was looking up district dietetic associations to become apart of. I am stuck however, because I have been a member of the RDDA but I feel like I need to be apart of the Greensboro District Dietetic Association because that is where I'm going to attempt to work. I don't want to spend money to be apart of both and I don't want to join in the middle of their membership year so I may hold back on that until the summer.
I also feel like a bit of slacker when it comes to keeping up with the nutrition community. I haven't been keeping up with current research since my seminar class last fall and you can get really behind on that stuff pretty quickly. I'm planning on reading my AND emails just to see what's been going on and to try and find a topic for a paper in my Public Policy class.

Workout Week...
Planning out my workouts for the week has been somewhat helpful, especially on days where I'm not running around like crazy. Class days I am dead tired and just want to sleep. However, I did sneak in a 20 minute yoga sesh yesterday before class. 

Today, I feel so tired because I incorporated some HIIT in my workout. With the help of http://www.fitnessblender.com/  Seriously you guys I know I'm going to be sore after doing this video. It has reignited the infernal hatred I have for mountain climbers.

I know that HIIT burns calories. Like I didn't even have the strength to do arms like I said I was going to because I already felt like I had done an arm workout. I like workouts that give you that feeling like you've worked out every part of your body.

Schedule:
Friday: Gym (if no snow), Cardio (at home, if snow),+ arms
Saturday: Yoga
Sunday: Off
Monday: Gym (walking workout), + abs
Tuesday: At home +legs/bootie
Wednesday: At home + arms
Thursday: HIIT cardio

Off to eat some PB and motivate myself to get an hour in on my project!