I think it is every girls dream to get married and have babies…at least the majority seem to have that dream and I am definitely part of the majority. However, I have started to question when that will actually happen. I have asked my boyfriend of four years when he thinks he’ll want to get married and I get the same ‘ol answer of “I don’t know” every time I ask. I could love to start planning a wedding, sending out wedding shower invitations and buying wedding magazines; it’s just something I look forward too. Hopefully, it’ll happen sometime soon!

On June 30th, I flew to South Carolina to visit my family. I won’t return to Kansas until July 12th. So far, I have enjoyed my stay and have been busy with swimming and spending time with my little cousins. My grandfather has been busy working and my grandmother had been busy planning the birthday party for my great-grandmother who turned 90 on July 1st. The other day my grandfather was upset because his hose reel had broke; I told him to get a metal hose and he wouldn’t have to worry about it. Today has been pretty uneventful but I plan on going to the beach tomorrow.

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I don’t take pre workout supplements because I heard that they make you bulk up versus tone up. With that being said, I need some workout motivation whether it be through songs or reading. I usually do pretty well during my work outs but during cardio, about half way through, I start to feel worn out and feel like quitting. I try to get in a mind frame of “I can do this, I can finish this” but it doesn’t always work out that way! What ways do you get motivated during working out?

I am new to working out and new to supplements. I was told by the personal trainer at the gym that I definitely need to make sure that I am taking a multi-vitamin daily. However, I have been wondering if I need to take more than a multi-vitamin to help aid in my weight lose like hgh supplements or something. Does anyone have any advice?!

You know what I hate about pay days…is the fact that you have to pay bills and then you are broke again. It’s like, you wait two weeks for that amazing pay check and then BAM, you’re broke the next day because of all the bills. That’s how I feel – I got paid on Friday and now I’m completely broke thanks to a surprise $200 vet bill because Bella wants to pee every where and we had to make sure she didn’t have a UTI (she didn’t). I feel like I need to take out payday loans just to get by. Part of the reason I cant wait until school starts is because I’ll have some financial aid to help me live on. The cost of living is so high right now and it keeps getting worse the crazier the economy gets. How do you get by?

A few weeks ago, Alan and I joined a gym in an effort to get fit and healthy. For the first week and a half, I did really well and went 4x a week but this past week I didn’t hardly go at all. I was having a hard and exhausting week at work and just didn’t feel up to the gym, but this week I plan to turn that around and get with it! I have been looking up different exercises I can do while at the gym that deal with free weights and how to make cardio fun. One of the things I am glad I haven’t done is buy into the sensa scams and use diet pills or the like to try and lose weight. Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure that there are some pills out there that truly do aid in diets but most of them I believe aren’t helpful at all! What do you do to keep fit and healthy?