More Work, More Money

I spent the better part of the day today at orientation for this host job I have for tomorrow and the day after. Basically, I'm working at a music festival and I just lead a band around until they leave, and then lead another band around and then another... Kind of boring, but I'll be busy. Plus the building has 5 floors so I'm constantly going to be walking up and down them. Hopefully I'll be too busy for lunch. But it's a pretty quick/easy way for me to make $200. At this point every penny counts. I've got to pay the rent for my apartment on May 1st (even though I'm not there) and I need to buy new clothes for my new job. It's business office dress so I need at least a new pair of dress pants, a blazer, a few blouses/shirts and a pair of shoes or two. Kind of a great excuse for new clothes. I definitely don't mind paying money for them, I just hate not having money. But I suppose in this case I'm spending money to make money.

Haven't eaten too much today, I'm actually doing pretty well so far. I had:
oatmeal - 150 calories
small piece of cantaloupe - 30 calories
cup of black coffee x3 - just about 0 cal
homemade rice noodle soup - 180 calories
steamed brocolli - 60 calories
salmon - 130 calories
total: 550 calories
So far I'm doing well. I'm probably going to eat an apple in a bit and maybe some carrots if I'm really really hungry. It's definitely going to be under 800 calories today (my goal for everyday this week)!

Good luck everyone!
Callie

40 Pounds Later

Right before writing this I was editing my stats to input my current weight, and I realized exactly a year ago I was 40 pounds of fat heavier. It kind of came as a shock. I lost most of the weight in the past four months but it was such a slow process and so much hard work. I have 32lbs more to lose, but I've been so dedicated lately that I feel almost unstoppable. I just keep repeating I can do this, I can do this over and over again in my head. I will get there. I have to get there.

And I apologize for not posting for over three weeks. I was swamped with term papers and then exams and I just didn't want to get distracted from studying. My exams went pretty well. My first four went amazingly well. I'm expecting good marks in all of those classes, but my exam this morning was terrible. Its a hard course but I spent days studying for it to the point where I had textbook answers memorized. I couldn't have been more prepared. But once I started the exam I felt like I had studied for the wrong course. The prof for this course is actually really reasonable. She (usually) writes super fair exams that are really clear and I do really well on them. But this exam felt like a stranger had written the exam. For the entire first hour I wrote almost nothing. I would do a question, erase it, do the question again, erase it, move on to the next question, repeat. Then after about an hour I started to feel really nauseous. I thought I was going to throw up in the exam room so I asked for the key to the bathroom (because they have these super strict bathroom rules during exams). I didn't realize my prof had to wait by the exam room door to let me back in because after I had spent 15 minutes trying to pull myself together and trying not to throw up, I went back into the exam room and got asked so many questions by my prof. First she thought I had somehow talked to someone in the hall and then she started telling me I looked like I was going to faint. It was so embarrassing. I just told her I thought I had the flu, but really I made myself sick from freaking out about the exam. How crazy is that? I was literally so nervous I made myself physically sick. Anyway, I eventually calmed down and finished the exam.

So after potentially failing that exam, I had to pack up ALL of my stuff so I could move out. I spent four hours packing and then an hour of packing the car with my mom. It was so tedious, but I got a lot of exercise. Then I had to move all my stuff from the car to my room at home and I'm still unpacking. I hate moving. Like absolutely despise it. I didn't even want to move, I miss res so much already. Plus I've got about a million long-distance friendships to keep up on now. Not that it's a bad thing, its just that most of my friends live far away from me so I miss them a lot during the summers. Oh well, I'll get over it. It's only four months.

Other than exams and moving back home, the only other new news is that I got the government job I was talking about in my last post. They interviewed 16 people for one position and I got it! I could not be more ecstatic!

That's all for now, I'm so exhausted. I hope things are going well for everyone!
Callie
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New Clothes

I'd just like to take a moment to thank all of the people who have recently began following me. Thank you so much! It means a lot to me and it's such a motivation boost! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!

I've been looking around for a new blog template and I haven't quite found one that fits. This one is okay for now, but I'm still on the hunt for something springy/not too busy. I seem to find either really emo ones or really busy pink ones with a million hearts and stars. Anyway, I can't figure out how to remove the date from the template (since I title my blogs as the date) so I just changed the title of each post. Kind of tedious but I couldn't stand having some posts be dates and others titles.

I went shopping today for interview clothes for Wednesday. It was kind of fun really. I was trying on blouses for a bit and then my mom brought over a pair of dress pants because dress pants were on sale. I looked at the tag and saw it was a size 12, my old size at about 180lbs. I tried them on and they were super baggy. To prove my point, I opened the change room door and showed my mom. She got super happy and then went and grabbed a size 10, which to her delight, still were too baggy. She did this happy dance thing and went and grabbed a size 8 which fit well but were a tad lose. I tried the 6 on but it was slightly tight and I decided to go with the 8. I cannot believe that I am almost a size 6! Hopefully by the end of this month I can make the size 6 pants fit like the 8. I'll be a normal size again! Also, I bought a blouse that was a size medium instead of large or extra-large. It was such an achievement! I mentioned this before, but my mom is a tiny little woman. She's 105lbs and 5"2. And she always has to comment on my weight. For once, it felt so good for her to be proud of my weight. She's still going on about how I'm almost a size 6 again. It's fantastic. I couldn't be happier, although I still have a lot to go. It's really hard having a mom whose so small when I'm so big. Before my mom had me she only weighed 95lbs. So not only do I have to deal with being super fat, I get blamed for my mom being 10lbs heavier than she was before she has me. Which is ridiculous because a) she was 25 when she had me, and she definitely isn't anymore and b) it's her fault she gained the weight, not me. I had absolutely nothing to do with it. It's not like I asked to be born.

So I have new dress pants, a beautiful dark blue blouse and a cute dark grey blazer. It'll be perfect for my interview. And the best part? My mom paid for everything because I lost weight. Could there be a better motivation than a happy mom and new clothes? I doubt it.

That's about it. I'm not back to school yet because I have the interview on Wednesday. I'm such skipper. I'm missing three days of classes.

Take care everyone and good luck!
Callie

Interview

I have a job interview on Wednesday for a government job. I've been trying to check out hourly rates of pay for student government jobs and it appears to be between $12 and $15 an hour. My last job paid $12.50 an hour, so there is a chance I'd be making less an hour than I was last year, but my job last year was only for July and August. It was awful May and June when I was just bumming around getting a few hours here and there from my mom's work, dad's work and my friend's brother's painting business. I made three times as much in July and August as I did in May and June. I don't really want to go through that again, and $12.00 an hour means $7200 for the summer which is fantastic. The only thing is I have these beautiful dress pants I want to wear to the job interview but they're just that little bit too small where you can kind of notice that they're a little tight. I figure if I don't eat much from now to Wednesday I can get to the point where they're a little uncomfortable to wear, but don't appear too tight. That's the goal anyway. I'm not sure how that's going to work out with Easter dinner tomorrow afternoon. Plus Easter chocolate. Last year I just slowly dropped eggs from my basket to my brother's basket, but that requires quite a bit of self control. My parents usually give me a chocolate bunny. And so do my grandparents. Maybe I'll just leave them in my floor's lounge with an "eat me" sign. My floor eats anything. It's dangerous to even leave food in the floor fridge. They're the worst influences ever. My friend had a birthday party with cake last december right before we all went home and she forgot her cake in the lounge fridge. When everyone came back in January (almost 4 weeks later) people actually ate the cake. It was disgusting.



Anyway, that's about it. I want this government job soo bad. My fingers are crossed!
Best of luck tomorrow, everyone. Easter's up there with Thanksgiving and Christmas on my list of 'danger days'. We can make it through!
Callie
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