Its been to long

I know its been awhile since i've posted something so here is  recap. I just got back to school today from our easter break and this week i have two days of exams and then i'm going home for summer. i'm really going ot miss james over summer because we will be 3 hours away but we do plan on seeing each other over long weekends and i'm going to the lake with his family. we just spent easter break with his family and went and had an amazing dinner with a good friend. my allergies have been kicking my butt since yesterday i'm extremely congested and nothing seems to really help. i'm very ready for this pollen to go away. Random Fact i want to stay in the state of virginia when i graduate, i'm not sure where in virginia yet but that probably all depends on things after school but i do know i dont want to stay near my parents and i want to be out on my ow

Hi I'm Rachel and I'm a Slacker

so not much exciting here doing homework and trying to make my computer faster. friday was relay for life and yesterday me james and another couple went to the local humane society and played with the puppies and walked dogs. there was one puppy in particular that both me and james wish we could have taken with us, to bad we cant have dogs on campus. blue is the cutest puppy and he is only 18 weeks old and is gunna be a huge boy. as you can tell from the picture in comparison to james, it was sad for both of us when we had to leave. at relay for life i got this luminare in memory of my grandmother angela who had lung cancer that spread all over her body and my aunt linda who died at the age of 11 from what i think was bone cancer that spread. my dad once told me that if his sister had gotten cancer today that she not only would not of had her legs amputated but she also would have beat the cancer. it is reasuring to know how much cancer treatments have improved in 50 years.  when i posted this picture on facebook my mom told me that her mother also had Lymphatic cancer 5 years before she died. writing this post is making me tear up a little because with my grandma jean i was young and she was mostly bed bound with multiple health problems and my grandma angela we didnt get to see much since she lived fartehr away but i wish i had spent more time with them and had kept more things to remind me of them. and my aunt linda died when my father was only 6 so i never got the chance to meet her. i think i'm going to donate to relay for life every year now in their memories. Random Fact  I support relay for life for my grandmothers and aunt and buddy walk for my little sister

13 to much

So I did something today that I'm actualy pretty against which is weighing myself on a scale. I know i've been getting bigger but i wanted to know how much i weighed and i know most women dont share their weight but i'm gunna do it anyways. i'm 173 which is the heaviest i've ever been and i guess that isnt too bad with the fact that i'm 5'11 but i was 155 in the begining of high school and about 165 when i graduate. i knew it was a bad idea to step on the scale because i've always been big on the while idea of "i dont care how much i weigh as long as i look good." but this number is really kicking me in the butt to get serious about working out and eating better. so today at the gym i ran 1.15 miles in about 14 minutes then did some abs and rode the bike for about 6 minutes before i got bored and decided i was done. i just got to make sure i keep up with working out everyday. i've also deicded on ABSOLUTELY NO fast food, soda, or candy which menas even if james goes to get fast food i will get nothing or i just wont go with him and i need to buy more healthy food when we go grocery shopping but it sucks not having an oven or even a toaster oven because there is only so much you can make in a microwave. so the teddy bear in the picture i bought myself last year in janurary and i sleep with it when i dont sleep with james. i'm excited for this weekend and 3 weeks left of school. i have a good amount of stuff i have to do next week for things should be exciting and busy for me hopefully i still have time to work out as much as i need to. Random fact when i was little i wanted to be a giraffe when i grew up because i was told i could be whatever i wanted to be i wanted to be that.

I HATE COMING UP WITH TITLES

i really need to get down with working out because other pair of jeans doesnt fit over my butt which leaves me down to only two pairs of jeans. And since today was the last day of volleyball i need to kick my butt into gear and go to the fitness center. ther fact that it has been cold and rainy doesnt help me not wanting to go work out. beside working out i realize i'm also slacking on this blog too. i know not to badly but not evereyday like i had planned. 3 weeks left of school which is exciting i'm ready for summer and to start working. i'm eating ramen which probably isnt the best for me but i have a glass of milk too so that should make it better. Random Fact i've never really liked how i look. i've always had issues with my height, weight, body shape and face. people say i look good but i only see it sometimes.

Im so ready for summer

I have been kind of productive today minus my 3 hour nap. I got the note cards and works cited done for my power point on gambia now i ust need to do the actual power point. I'm getting there slowly. I decided earlier that I'm going to try and take an online class over the summer just to make sure I dont fall behind on credits because I have heard of many people from ferrum having to come back for an extra semester because of just 2 or three classes and I want to be done with school as soon as possible. I wish i had taken more AP classes in high school so i would have to take less here. i'm trying to shove in as many credits as i can so my senior year is easy plus i think that my whole last semester is stupid teaching so i have to have ALL my classes done before then. This week is gonna be busy so I will probably be slacking on my work out which will be okay if i keep eating small amounts. I think i have to run the mile for time on thursday for volleyball which i'm not excited for at all o well might as well get it done. when I'm working on stuff for class i listen to Pandora radio on my phone through the App i have it on a Dixie chicks station but you can also customize it by saying you like or dislike certain songs. Random fact On my wirst i always have 2 silly bands one is a yellow heart and the other is a pink elephant, i also have a dark blue band that says "spread the word to end the word" which is about using the word retarded in dderogatory ways and also i  have one or two hair bands on my wrist depending if my hair is up or down and when my hair is in braids i dont have any.

Now back to my power point. YAY

RachelAS

Past 3 days

sorry I've been slacking on posting the past 3 days. I've ment to and thought about it but it just hasnt happened so lets recap since friday:
FRIDAYYYYY

Friday was a pretty normal day. I cant think of anything exciting that happened. I thought i was looking pretty good friday. You can kind see the redish in my hair but I still want it to be a little redder but i think i will just grow out my natural brown instead. who knows what i will end up doing. one of the things i like about dying my hair is that i can tell how much it has grown by how far my roots have grown. i think friday was a rest day for workout. i know im bad at getting up and working out but i'm working on it. right after this post i'm going to change and go to the gym to run and probably do some ab stuff. Random Fact when i'm not sleeping at night with james i sleep with a toy bear that i bought myself last january.
SATURDAY

 
Yesterday was more eventfull. Woke up early and went to the spring fever 5k but i only walked a mile which still burns calories but i just wasnt feeling like running in the freezing cold yesterday since the cold makes my asthma that much worse. i got a cool green shirt from it too. i was out in the cold for about 2 hours for this. i then came back to my room to wait for james to get done with football stuff so we could go to roanoke to watch his sister play in a tournament up there.

James makes every picture of me better. if he's in it then its a good picture. I like spending time with his family too, his mom and dad were there and also we saw his uncle and his girlfriend for a little bit. going to watch his sister play made me miss playing travel ball. I like playing many games a day, sleeping in hotels, hanging out with the team, and going out to eat. last year our team did lots of interesting things, we went to a zoo where you could feed giraffes, went to a ripley's believe it or not, and a few of us went to a children's museum with coach and it was actually really fun. Back to James' family i just feel like i fit in so well when I'm with them I'm comfortable when i'm at his house and i love being there. i might also like it so much because i get to be with james without having to worry about school. i cant wait till we are done with school.
this next picture makes me laugh because it shows the difference in our foot size. he is only 3 inches taller then me but his foot is at least twice the size of mine. he wear a mens 14 or 13EEEE and i wear a womens 9.5. i love that he makes me feel small and safe when i'm around him and when your 5'11 as a female its hard to find a guy who makes your feel small. maybe the best part of yesterday is that we got taco bell after we left the tournament which was amazing since the closest taco bell to school is about 30 minutes away.
Random Fact I have a barney and sesame street pillow on my bed
SUNDAY

Today have been uneventful so far. my roommate is about to go get pizza which means i'll just run after i eat pizza. james is playing dodgeball tonight so i'm gunna go watch him do that later. i need to work on some homework today but lets see if that happens i need to do a powerpoint about Gambia what fun that will be. i'm glad my hair is growing out cause i miss my long hair. i straightened it yesterday so i could tell how long it actualy is getting because when its still a little wavy it seems a lot shorter. Random Fact i try not to drink soda or eat candy and sometimes that works out better then others.

Tody's picture a little earlier then the rest of the post cause I thought I looked good. The lighting is making my face look white but you can kinda see the colors in my hair

Almost the Weekend =]

I've decided that I will add a random fact everyday. who knows what it will be about but probably mostly about me =].Todays random fact about me is that i have 9 piercings all in my ears and a tattoo. my tattoo is a down syndrome ribbon with my youngest sisters birthday because she has changed me for the better. I think if your going to get a tatto then it needs to have a meaning because you are going to have it for the rest of your life. It also is nlot as big as it looks in the pictures but the angle makes it look bigger. It has faded since some since that picture, which was taken right after i got it, but I love the way that it looks.

Also in today's picture my hair looks darker because it is still wet from the shower. I still hate how round and fat my face looks but i feel the rest of my getting smaller so hopefully the face will be thinning out too. Also the two main backgrounds in my daily pictures are either my room or james' room. The one from today with the shelves in the background is my room and with no shelves it is his room. Since we are in college we do live in the same building but he lives a floor above me. It is nice that he can still sleep with me but we do have to sqeeze in a twin sized bed but I'm okay with that.

Today I had volleyball which we ran hills for about 10 minutes and did a lot of hitting and serving drills. I'm glad I'm not as sore as I was before which means I'm in better shape. Only one week left of spring season but I can only make it to one out of the two practices next week which means I need to start doing more on my own. Our coach has been giving us workouts we can do on our own and I've also looked up some online. One of my biggest goals is to be able to do 10 pushups in a row the right way. My pushups before were very ugly and i couldnt do many but, i did three today and that was kind of a struggle so i need to get into it. My problem with the push ups is going down to 90 degrees and then pushing myself up. I feel like this is long enough for right now. Maybe I'll add more later.

Rachel AS

I'm horrible at titles

I realized that I used to take pictures of myself all the time but since I've gained some weight I can see it the most in my face so now I'm not a big fan at how round my face looks. I know I was supposed to go jogging today but my legs still hurt really badly so I'll just wait till volleyball tomorrow. We only have one more week of spring season but next week me and on of my teammates(kellee) are supposed to start lifting again. Besides being kind of unproductive today I did get some stuff done. I emailed my advisor and set up a time to get my classes for next year and I also came up with a list of classes that i should take next semester. Right now it is rainy and icky outside. I heard a little bit of thunder earlier but I havent heard it in a while so hopefully it has calmed down outside. HMMMM so far today I really don't have much to say so I guess if anything exciting happens I'll add on later.
RachelAS

I Have Decided

I'm going to post a picture of mysefl with a post everyday I'm not sure if there is exact reason but I want to and its my blog so i can. Together we can tell my weight loss from how fat my face looks and I guess any other physical traits you cna tell from pictures like if i change something with my hair.
I used to wear my hair up in braids all the time but since I've cut it its been harder to braid but these past two days its been up in braids. I braid it before I go to bed and just leave it all day and thats why its looks frizzy. You cant tell in the picture but I have blue eyes and my hair is natuarly dark brown but right now its a dark auburn but I want it to be more redish so I'm thinking about adding more but I dont have much money so I dont know what I'm gunna do.

I'm taking tuesdays off from working out first because its my long day with classes but also because I'm extremely sore from volleyball today. Not sore enough to not make my man a sandwich after my night class though but thats the kind of little thing I do for him. *I signed up for my first ever 5k today. I wasnt going to but my friend convinced me too so even though its this saturday and thats pretty soon I guess i'm gunna walk/jog it. Notice that the walk comes first, thats because i will probably walk most of it. Its gunna be something new for me and hopefully i can get up to the point were i can run a full 5k and moybe move up to longer runs. We will see what happens in the future.*
RachelAS

Sore Again.

I thought running everyday would help stop me from being sore from volleyball, well I was wrong. With just an hour and 15 minutes of conditioning I'm sore and it probably didnt help that there was only one other girl besides me there so we really didnt get much of a rest.

Today is one of those days were I just want to sleep.  I just feel like laying in bed, watching tv, and going to bed early. DANG its on 720. I need to get better sleeping habits.

My dad says i'll make the perfect house wife one day

I made this blanket for james for christmas 2010 which was our first of hopefully many to come. I was very proud of this blanket. I originaly wanted it to be gold and redskins fleece but the store was out of the redskins fleece so its just red and gold. the blanket it held together by the ties all the way around. it was 6x8.5 before all the cuts and ties but i dont know how big it is now.

I knit a little and have two scarves but right now i dont have pictures of them so those will have to come later.

I know how to sew by hand and with a sewing machine. My poor sewing machine right now is packed up in her box in the attic while I'm at school. I enjoy making things and I sew up A LOT of holes in James' clothes.

I'm told I'm a good cook and my family like when i cook when I'm home. They also ask me to make a lot of homemade bread which everyone who has tried loves. I think the hardest part of being away at college is not being able to cook real food.

I clean when I'm bored and I dont like a dirty kitchen. I clean a lot when i'm home alone too so I'm being productive and I'm really not much of a fan of sitting around doing nothing. The only thing i dont really like cleaning is my room. The rest of the house may be clean but not my room. I'm even okay with doing laundry and at school I do James' laundry too.

Being number being number 2 out of the 6 younger kids has given me a lot of experience with children. Even though I am not having children anytime soon at least i know how to take care of them. Though i did make my mom promise that when i have my first baby that she would come stay with me and help me or else i would be calling her every 30 minutes asking her questions.

Work out

So I decided Yesterday that I want to get into beter shape. I have never really cared about how much I weight as long as i look good but, as i have grown ny naturaly ability to stay tiny has worn off. I no longer like how I look anymore so time to really start working out. I realized if I include my daily workout in my blog then I'm more likely to keep working out and maybe I'll even help someone else lose weight.

So far today I ran a little. As of now I don't run very far or fast but it is adding up. Also I'm not sure of the distance but it was about a 10 minutes run/walk. During a spring season practice our coach had us doing the UNC basketball ab workout so i'm gunna start doing that twice or three times a week and I'm going to try and force James to do it with me today. I also plan on looking up other workouts to do.
RachelAS

P.s. just found this site that I like http://www.buzzle.com/articles/lower-ab-exercises-for-women-at-home.html i found the sire through google and so far through this page it looks good.

Ever have a day were you just want run, scream, and punch something?

Well that is kind of how i'm feeling right now. I'm not sure why but i do. But I'm sore from volleyball so I can't run and then the boyfriend is not here to make me feel better so who knows what I'm going to do. I guess I'll just blog about it.


I've never really been one of those girls who thinks she is pretty or looks good. I've never be very confident in myself. That might have to do with the fact that i'm 5'11" and have always been taller then all the guys, but when i think about it there are many things that i dont like about myself. I know most girls arent happy with their bodies but some days it bothers me more then others. Like today when I'm alone and sore from volleyball and have nothing to really do but think of all my flaws. I was not feeling this down this morning. After volleyball i ate with the team then took a nap, when i woke up i was just was not in a good mood. It probably does not help that my boyfriend could make me feel better but went to Roanoke with some of the guys and they are having a "guys night" which i dont understand why they didnt do that while i was gone at a volleyball sleep over last night but whatever. He said he would make me feel better when he gets back well they are seeing a movie at 7 or 9 so I guess I'll just be alone all day. I kinda feel like i want to cry but I don't know why. I'm not looking forward to the rest of this day. i kinda want to just sleep till tomorrow.
RachelAS

For Starters

This isn't my first blog but lets see if i actualy keep up with this one. My name is Rachel Ann .I'm 18 and in my 2nd semester of college and play volleyball at my school. I finally think I found Mr. Perfect after many Mr. Wrong and its nice to have a man that treats me the way i should be after my last relationship that almost ruined my life. While being away at school I've grown up so much and I know my life will be so much better now that I'm away from all the crap I got into in high school. In this blog I don't even know all the topics I will cover, knowing the randomness of my mind it could vary drasticly from a day to day basis, so this should be interesting. I guess I'll say more about different aspects of my life all in seperate post which means I might be posting many tonight. I know I'm probably the only one reading what I post but o well I look to look back at this one day and see how much I've grown since freshman year of college.
RachelAS