What a Year!

So it's been approximately 1 year since I posted last and what a year its been! Here's what has happened...

Our dream of becoming a family has been fulfilled.  On January 29, 2013, we found out that we were pregnant! 37 weeks later, Emma Rose Perry made her appearance.  To say that her delivery was scary was an understatement and it still brings tears to my eyes when I think about how horrifying it was--and yet I would go through it all again in a heartbeat.  She may be small and tiny, but the best things come in the smallest of packages.  I've also seen my husband in a new light and it was a light that I didn't think I would ever see.  He's much more gentle now, not as rushed to do things.  He wasn't always rushed with things, but there was a certain "get up and go" to him that used to get under my skin at times.  Now, he's much more calm and relaxed when it comes to doing stuff.

I graduated from college in March 2013 with my Bachelor's in Psychology.  I haven't done anything with it yet, but I plan on going onto graduate school for my master's in Industrial/Organizational Psychology.  I love psychology and trying to figure out what makes people tick, but I'm not one to sit there and listen to everyone's problems on a daily basis.  Besides, being a counselor doesn't pay worth a damn and has a high burn out rate.  As an I/O psychologist, I would do a lot of consulting work and work with human resources to help employers find the right employee for the job as well as do job training--this I can do. I already have experience in training my department peeps with things...anything after that should be a breeze.

As I look back at my previous posts, I realize that I'm using my blog as form of sweet release from everyday life...a means of venting those things that I'm too hesitant to vent to others about.  This won't change in the coming year, although I'll try to post more often.

One of my goals for this year is to become healthier and skinnier.  I only gained 9 pounds my whole pregnancy (its what being on a strict carb diet will do to ya), but I feel bigger than I ever have before.  I'm actually below my pre-pregnancy weight, but I feel like a cow.  I know it sounds cliche and all, but I want to be around for my daughter.  I'm not going to be all organic/vitamin supplementing/workout crazy healthy because to me, that isn't healthy.  Most of the organic foods are too expensive to buy and really have no additional nutritional benefits than your GMO treated produce.  A banana is a banana, get over it! Most vitamin supplements are more additives than actual vitamins, so its pointless to waste money on it (your basic vitamins are ok, but to take off-the wall named stuff that most people haven't heard of is crazy...like taking pineapple oil to help a sprain.  I know some co-workers who have personally kept the supplement industry afloat with all the crap they buy because it's "healthy").  As far as the working out goes...I honestly hate the sweat.  I hate how I feel when I sweat and I hate how I smell afterwards.  I understand that exercise is one of the key components to losing weight, but I don't think that I need to be a sweaty pig to lose a few pounds.  There's plenty of ways to lose weight without being a pig about it.  People who spend 40hours each week in the gym make me sick.  Your body doesn't look natural when you're done and people weren't meant to have 32-inch biceps.  Is your life that lonely that you have to spend that much time at the gym? I've thought about running (yes, I know, that involves sweat), but I'm not planning on running the Boston Marathon or the Iron Man.  I have a plan in mind for losing my weight, I just need to pull it off.  The first thing  I need to do is get my food and beverage consumption under control.  Once I do that, I'll start incorporating some exercise.