My sister and I have been living together since October, and it has been great. Since we live together we obviously do more stuff together like grocery shop. Growing up our parents never kept junk food in the house, only on special occasions would we have chips or soda. That has more or less carried into how my sister and I live now. We will occasionally have chips for salsa or hummus. However for a few months now my sister has been on a real health kick, which that is great, but I'm kind of tired of the steamed veggies and eating like rabbits. We go grocery shopping and our cart will be full, but I will still feel like we haven't gotten anything to eat because it is full of side dishes, "Carrots, apples and crackers aren't a real meal!" My cries go unheard!
Last week was my sister's boyfriend's birthday! We are big on birthdays, so it was a time to celebrate! My sister bought cheesecake for the special occasion! The three of us all celebrated and enjoyed a piece, and then the rest of the cheesecake was put in the fridge to be enjoyed later...or so we thought! Her boyfriend went back to college and we continued our week as usual.
Wednesday I was at home all day, except for an hour around noon. That evening my sister and I were talking and I jogged her memory about the cheesecake. She ran into the kitchen eager to get a piece, but then announces that it is not in the fridge. She isn't always the best looker, so I went in there to get it for her, but it was gone! She questions me, and I tell her that I didn't eat it, ironically I had been doing a cleanse that day so I had just been drinking water and eating fruit. I had told her earlier everything I had eaten that day too (such a girl thing to do haha) but I was in the clear.
We looked in the back fridge and in the little fridge upstairs, but it was nowhere. By this time my sister is in hysterics because the cheesecake is missing and she had her heart set on having a piece! She was yelling and stomping around. She had had a long week, so the cheesecake was kind of a highlight, she really doesn't usually get that emotional about food...actually, I take that back. She has been known to get worked up about food. When she has her heart set on something and then it gets taken away, she will get really offended and can't comprehend why somebody would do that to her. Like if she picked out the most frosted wheatie and was saving it to eat last, and then "somebody" picked it up and ate it! You would think somebody just slapped her across the face, or that you were about to get slapped across the face! All hypothetical of course...though I can think of a half a dozen other instances that this has happened with various foods!
So considering the knowledge of how my sister reacts when food it taken from her, I was determined to help her discover what happened to the cheesecake! Plus I always love a mystery. We came up with two options, my parents stopped by and took it in the hour that I was gone, or somebody walked in our house and stole it! The next day we questioned our parents, but they had no knowledge of the cheesecake and were confused as to why we thought they would come and take it. That left one option! SOMEBODY STOLE IT! It was the only logical answer. We went back over all the details, "I didn't eat it, our parents didn't take it, her bf wasn't seen leaving with it, and she had a piece the night before it turned up missing." It only made since that somebody came into our house and took it!
Being the detective that I am, I posted all the events on my facebook, maybe somebody would know something, or just feel sorry for us because of the heinous crime that was done to us! One of my friends did say she took it, but I knew she was innocent, but I did tell her I needed her law enforcement friends to come out and take finger prints! As the suspense kept building about who came into our house and stole the cheesecake, the truth was finally revealed!
As it turns out my sister had told her boyfriend to take the cheesecake or the next time he came there wouldn't be any left! But instead of taking it he decided to hide it from us in the veggie draw in the back fridge! It was the perfect place because we never put our veggies in the back fridge so we would never look there! Needless to say we were relieved that somebody didn't actually break in and steal our cheesecake, but that it was actually just hidden from us. WHO KNEW!
The moral of this story is don't live on veggies!
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Monday, March 4, 2013
I Better Keep Going...
This year I took up running more. I'm pretty sure every year I take up running, but this year I have actually been consistently running. I will not at all say I am runner though. I started running during the school year because it was a break from studying, good alone time, and most importantly it helped relieve stress, which I seemed to have had a double portion of my senior year! Once I got home I just kept on running, I actually started liking running and the runner's high.
I don't call myself a runner though, because I'm a bit of, shall we say, a high maintenance runner. Real runners can run anytime and in any way. Real runners can talk, run up hills, run without music, run with people or without people. I however can only run at night, I have to have music, and I don't really like to run with people. It's hard enough to keep the oxygen flow going without talking, so I definitely don't like to talk on the few occasions that I do run with people. As far as hills go...well I'm working on it. If any of these conditions change my run just isn't that good and I usually stop and walk more. One thing is for certain though, I have to have my music, it keeps me motivated to keep going.
Earlier this summer I borrowed my sisters ipod for my run. I looked through her playlists and found one named "running music" considering that I was going to run, I figured that would be the best playlist. Boy was I right! That playlists definitely kept me running. The first song was "Wavin Flag" by K-naan. That happens to be one of my favorite songs, I can't help but move when it starts playing, and it reminds me of my time in Germany and the World Cup! Good first song to get my running started. Then the second song, Hips Don't Lie, by Shakira, at that moment I caught a glimps of my shadow, and it is true, my hips don't lie! Better keep running! The next song to come on was "Bust Your Windows" by...ahm...Glee Cast (this is my sister's okay, don't judge!) it is a good song to run to though, about a young girl getting her aggression out about a boy liking somebody else. It's easy to run to if you imagine you are running away from her!
Next song "Get Busy" Sean Paul. Which part of the lyrics are about "shaking that thing" I already had Shakira talking about my hips, and it's no lie that as I run everything feels like it is shaking. It's not the "I just ran a marathon and my legs feel like jello shaking." It's more like I just ran a mile, and the lack of caring what I eat is shaking around...yes, I better keep going! I then skip over a few songs and land on "Single Ladies" by Beyonce. Now I don't care who you are or where you are, that song comes on and you can't help but start moving! It's just the kind of song that you get all your girl friends together and no man better come near, because we are on the mountain top about what we deserve honey, and no man has any say in that circle (snap your fingers in a Z, turn around and walk away...or run up the hill that I was now approaching, cuz baby you didn't bring me down and neither is this hill!) As I talk to the imaginary man in my head who never put the ring on my finger, but I feel ya Beyonce!
Next song, Taio Cruz "Dynamite" Great song to dance to, but as I am now quite a ways into my run, as Taio is singing about how "It goes on and on and on" and "I throw my hands up in the air, saying Hey O!" I'm going yes, "this run does go on and on, and I'm about to throw my hands in the air and say HECK NO!" A few more songs go by that keep me moving, Chris Brown "Forever" Kanye West "Gold Digger" a song by Eminem. Eminem always has a lot of aggression, which aggression is good emotion to have while running, "I'm so mad I'm going to run so fast on this ground and show it who's boss! I don't care if there is a enough oxygen flowing through my lungs I'm so angry I'll show oxygen who's boss too! There's a leaf, I'm going to stomp on it!" Eminem passes by and on comes Rihanna, if anybody needs to run it's Rihanna...away from Chris Brown! Few more songs go by, finally Diddy "Coming Home" YESSS, final stretch! I'm coming home! I had quite the run, working out all my emotions about the World Cup, being out of shape, the boy liking somebody else, being on the mountain top of singleness, pushed through and made it through my aggression against the ground, oxygen, and leafs, and ran my benefit race to free Rihanna! Now I was going home, feeling at this point more like E.T. if only I could fly away on a bike! Once I returned home, my parents seemed a bit confused when they asked about my run, and I responded with "emotional!" I told you I was a high maintenance runner.
(I wrote this entry this summer and never posted it. I haven't ran more than a mile since the beginning of winter.)
I don't call myself a runner though, because I'm a bit of, shall we say, a high maintenance runner. Real runners can run anytime and in any way. Real runners can talk, run up hills, run without music, run with people or without people. I however can only run at night, I have to have music, and I don't really like to run with people. It's hard enough to keep the oxygen flow going without talking, so I definitely don't like to talk on the few occasions that I do run with people. As far as hills go...well I'm working on it. If any of these conditions change my run just isn't that good and I usually stop and walk more. One thing is for certain though, I have to have my music, it keeps me motivated to keep going.
Earlier this summer I borrowed my sisters ipod for my run. I looked through her playlists and found one named "running music" considering that I was going to run, I figured that would be the best playlist. Boy was I right! That playlists definitely kept me running. The first song was "Wavin Flag" by K-naan. That happens to be one of my favorite songs, I can't help but move when it starts playing, and it reminds me of my time in Germany and the World Cup! Good first song to get my running started. Then the second song, Hips Don't Lie, by Shakira, at that moment I caught a glimps of my shadow, and it is true, my hips don't lie! Better keep running! The next song to come on was "Bust Your Windows" by...ahm...Glee Cast (this is my sister's okay, don't judge!) it is a good song to run to though, about a young girl getting her aggression out about a boy liking somebody else. It's easy to run to if you imagine you are running away from her!
Next song "Get Busy" Sean Paul. Which part of the lyrics are about "shaking that thing" I already had Shakira talking about my hips, and it's no lie that as I run everything feels like it is shaking. It's not the "I just ran a marathon and my legs feel like jello shaking." It's more like I just ran a mile, and the lack of caring what I eat is shaking around...yes, I better keep going! I then skip over a few songs and land on "Single Ladies" by Beyonce. Now I don't care who you are or where you are, that song comes on and you can't help but start moving! It's just the kind of song that you get all your girl friends together and no man better come near, because we are on the mountain top about what we deserve honey, and no man has any say in that circle (snap your fingers in a Z, turn around and walk away...or run up the hill that I was now approaching, cuz baby you didn't bring me down and neither is this hill!) As I talk to the imaginary man in my head who never put the ring on my finger, but I feel ya Beyonce!
Next song, Taio Cruz "Dynamite" Great song to dance to, but as I am now quite a ways into my run, as Taio is singing about how "It goes on and on and on" and "I throw my hands up in the air, saying Hey O!" I'm going yes, "this run does go on and on, and I'm about to throw my hands in the air and say HECK NO!" A few more songs go by that keep me moving, Chris Brown "Forever" Kanye West "Gold Digger" a song by Eminem. Eminem always has a lot of aggression, which aggression is good emotion to have while running, "I'm so mad I'm going to run so fast on this ground and show it who's boss! I don't care if there is a enough oxygen flowing through my lungs I'm so angry I'll show oxygen who's boss too! There's a leaf, I'm going to stomp on it!" Eminem passes by and on comes Rihanna, if anybody needs to run it's Rihanna...away from Chris Brown! Few more songs go by, finally Diddy "Coming Home" YESSS, final stretch! I'm coming home! I had quite the run, working out all my emotions about the World Cup, being out of shape, the boy liking somebody else, being on the mountain top of singleness, pushed through and made it through my aggression against the ground, oxygen, and leafs, and ran my benefit race to free Rihanna! Now I was going home, feeling at this point more like E.T. if only I could fly away on a bike! Once I returned home, my parents seemed a bit confused when they asked about my run, and I responded with "emotional!" I told you I was a high maintenance runner.
(I wrote this entry this summer and never posted it. I haven't ran more than a mile since the beginning of winter.)
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