Cristine's Once Upon a Time

I’ve got this interview and I am so excited for it.  I was so unprepared for my last interview, but I am going to blow this principal’s socks off this time, for sure! 

I want this job.  I wasn’t sure before and I spent so much time in self-doubt mode.  Can I do this, would I be good at it, did I go to school for the right thing?  Now I know I made the right decision and yes I will be good at this.  I have never been more excited for a job interview before, I don’t think.

Wish me luck and I’ll keep you posted!

I want to count calories for a bit to get an idea of how I’m doing…  The only problem is that half of what I eat is juiced (ground and pressed, raw, organic fruits and veggies). 

How do I find these nutritional values?!?!

Is hard for me to roll out of bed, but now I’ve already juiced, ate oatmeal, called Mom and done a couple other things around the house and it’s only 9:45! I do like this.

I’m so positive about this interview Friday. It’ll be crazy to set up with school already started! I love my future students already.

I’m excited to go work out tonight. It makes me feel so good. I love it!

Also I’ve been thinking- I want a book about nutrition while working out or just in general. Also a book about the nutritional facts on all fruits and veggies and stuff. A book about exercise and the effects on the body. Essentially I want to have the knowledge that comes with a nutritionist degree and a personal training degree without paying tuition. I can teach myself, thanks. Any book ideas??

Friday for a 4th grade position!!  So excited.  I want this one, bad!!  Right??  ya.  I do.

What am I going to do with myself?

Don’t sit at home thinking and thinking and thinking.  GTFO!  Do something…

I’ll be ok with life if I don’t get this teaching job.

But I’m a bit disturbed because I look at my employment options and I don’t like what I see.  Manicurist.  Substitute Teacher.  Tutor.  Teacher.  Online Teacher.

I don’t like any of these options and that really bothers me.  I mean maybe if I had a teaching job I would like it.  Maybe if I subbed I would like it, but from where I sit I don’t like thinking about subbing.  I don’t like doing mani/pedis anymore. 

I paid to do this and if I can’t get a job doing something I like then what the heck?  Not trying to be negative, but I don’t feel like I got the teaching job.  I think I would have heard something by now.

Really not ok with this situation right now.

To see if I’ll be teaching K/1 in less than a week.  Shew-ee!  I don’t know what gives me the butterflies more, the thought of teaching in a week, the thought of it being my first class ever, or the thought of it being a primary grade, which I’m more experienced in intermediate.

Fitness related:

Today is a rest day.  We went to the gym last night and worked out for an hour.  I did about 25 minutes on the treadmill, really slow because it was on the fat burning setting and I don’t know how to use that treadmill very well.  Then just a bunch of random resistance training, so about 40 minutes of a full body work out.

I’m loving this working out thing and feeling so wonderful.  I can tell the hubs is feeling wonderful as well.  We plan on going tomorrow again.  It’s awesome having him as my gym partner because he wants to go as much as I do so we can make it happen pretty regularly.

Non fitness again:

Not working today.  I could/should go in and make money, but…  I’m waiting for this email.  I want to teach.  Either way, I’m done with Manis/Pedis.  Time to move on.  So I’ll clean a bit, buy a couple new outfits at Value Village or maybe Old Navy’s clearance rack.  :)  School clothes, ya’ll. 

Have a great day!

So I posted about going to the gym (YAY!) and it didn’t post. 

Sunday the hubs and I did 30 minutes cardio and about 30 minutes of resistance training. 

Then I had to go to the gym yesterday to cancel my membership and the guy who worked there was SO rude!  Made me feel like poo and not wanting to go to the gym anymore.

HAHA, still gonna go, jerk face super ripped guy at the gym. 

In other news:

1. I’ve been eating really well and juicing quite a bit more.
2. I had an interview today!  I should find out in a day or two if I got the teaching job.

I was supposed to go to Boot Camp class last night after my first consultation with what I thought was going to be my personal trainer.  I ended up talking to the manager of the club who talked about the importance of goals and how we would reach my goals.  Everything sounded great and I was so bought into the whole idea of having a personal trainer and logging calories because in a year I would be at my goals.  I decided to sign up for the year membership and personal training, but wasn’t being realistic about how much it would cost.

Yes health is the most important thing.  No it shouldn’t matter how much it costs.  But I do have to pay my bills.  I just can’t commit to a year long membership.

When this hit me I felt so dashed.  “I will be fat forever” kept running though my head.  Yes I can track calories on my own, but the man I was talking to was talking about the importance of resistance training in weight loss because it speeds up your metabolism and he was also talking about having a fitness prescription- a workout that is perfect for me individually.  How the hell do I accomplish these goals without a gym membership/personal trainer?

I’m trying not to feel so discouraged.  I’m trying to keep hope that I can do this on my own.  I just don’t know how I can do the resistance training that is “right for me”. 

Any advice?

To sign up for the boot camp.  I’ve never done anything like this, but I think it will work out well.  I’m so excited for it already! 

I’ll try to keep you guys updated!

I’m considering buying a fitness boot camp for $59. It’s a 4 week ordeal with a personal trainer who gives you advice at the beginning then boot camp classes. It also comes with an unlimited access pass to all the other classes.

I think it sounds great, but what if I don’t go and I waste the money? If I do go it will only make me healthier. I’m just worried about making time to go.

Advice?