So I am celebrating my birthday back at my parent’s place. I’m turning 21! yay! I was thinking about going to Cheesecake Factory–never been there before.

Also got a bad wake up call. When coming back my mom says “I guess you haven’t had any time to exercise.” God sooo soooo true! I gained about 5 pounds. I haven’t been exercising lately because of working so much. I try and I don’t want to exercise too late. It’s funny how before the big deal was that I was too skinny–and I’ll admit I kind of wanted to gain weight. Now i have it and I would like to work it back because I do feel out of shape. I guess walking to class and work and everywhere i go back and forth isn’t enough exercise. Before I use to be really active–but that was when I lived in my parent’s house like I would wake up doing sit-ups and stretches first thing but now it’s not like that anymore because I share a bunk. My head hits the top when I stretch and there’s no room on the floor. Maybe lately that’s why my limbs have been hurting. I’m trying to find a way to do my morning stretches when sharing a room with 2 other girls in some closet like space.

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Maybe i should really get to the gym no matter how tired I feel. I’ll really make this work. But ugh…but how??? Ok…well since Tuesday is my birthday, I’m not gonna work out then. And…then you have Wednesday when I have a split shift at work–I have 2 hours in the morning, class, and then 2 hours in the afternoon for work. I decided maybe I should work out during my two-hour break before instead of catching up some sleep after breakfast. To tell you the truth I don’t know. I’ll try to figure this new coming routine out. I would like to tone my body again. Maybe I’ll do the minimum 30 minutes because I really don’t have the time. But ugh…that’s so frustrating like i said, I thought walking myself everywhere was considered exercise because I do walk more than the average person and I have been cutting on the bus. Maybe I should work out on my back and my stomach because that’s where most of the gain is coming.

Also cut down on the drinking–well this summer I’ve been drinking a lot. Not like shot after shot more like I drink with my neighbors every weekend and I know you get fat from drinking. Attempted to make a point when I was drinking with my friends that I didn’t want to drink anymore because I didn’t want to gain empty calories and my friends were like “what?” as if they were offended. Honestly, how am I the bad person for telling the truth and knowing what I want? Even though I am knowned as the girl who is able to hold alcohol well and has never been drunk or trashed, sorry I don’t want empty calories so please don’t push how many drinks does it take for me to get drunk. So I’m not really looking into drinking on my real birthday–I’m hoping that DR will take me to Howl at the Moon so I’ll save my drinking trip for that.

Anyways time to shape up!