what's been going on you ask?

I found this awesome hoodie in a bag of laundry from a high school, don't worry I washed it and made sure it was returned, but not before I played with it! The hoodie has two zippers one of which zipped up my head! It was really fun pretending to be a zombie and scare the kids. But I got a lot of "you look like a kkk member" So I took it off, I need to be PC you know. When this picture was taken, I was making a "scary" face, then I realized it wouldn't matter if I made a face or not. *picture by Natalie-gorgeous cake maker*

I walked by my flower-bed garden  from last year and noticed 2 onion plants growing! I thought they died last year so I didn't bother taking out the bulbs, they look really healthy and I plan on leaving them, I felt like a new mom. It made my day! I can't wait to get dirty again.

I went for a second meeting with a personal trainer at the gym, he stopped me on tuesday and asked if I had been trained la la la. I said no and told him of the awful experience I had in October with the jerk who told me I would die. ANYHOO, he was really nice and preceded to help me learn some new strength exercises and kicked my butt. Today was legs and I am mildly concerned about tomorrow, I may not be able to walk properly. But I am thinking this will help me prepare for Mexico and be fit for the job I need to do. We had a mini consultation about weight loss and he looked at me like I was crazy when I told him I wanted to be strong, not a model. I said I liked my curves and thought I was beautiful, but wouldn't mind being smaller but I wouldn't obsess about it. The most important thing to me is to be strong and have endurance, if weight loss is a side effect... awesome! My logic is " I refuse to lose weight so that boys will like me, my beauty will not last forever but my personality and soul will. If a man marries me because I have a nice body he will be shocked when we have babies and I get some-lots of baby fat. I want to be loved for who I am, for Laura, not for my smokin' bod."  But I do like to be healthy! I won't let myself go by any means but I also will never be a stick, I am accepting myself for who I am, and that may be chubby, but I will be strong.

I am having some massive knee pain. 10 years ago I tore a ton of ligaments jumping off a cliff onto rocks trying to avoid my head being crushed by a bolder. I healed wonky so occasionally I have knee pain, since I have started working out a ton more than usual I have some sleepless nights due to the dull knocking in my knee. Tonight I will start sleeping with an ace bandage and bengay....yuck.

With all the earthquakes happening and all the other crap I am uneasy about the future, I don't want to be alone when the world ends. 

*For Amy's girls*

Trixie is alive and kicking/stealing! She found some candy I had bought for a package and took off like a "rat" out of...well you know.

Om nom nom nom nom

 

I love how it is all over her face.

School is going great!

Philosophy: I had to write a 4 page paper on Aristotle, it was an important paper and I was worried I had bombed it because I really just didn't prepare enough. I wrote what I called the "trash" paper and handed it in.

I got an A      :)

Biology is going well! I love it but currently hate chromosomes.

Health is common knowledge and very easy, I just wrote a paper on freebirthing which I am interested in. Freebirthing is when you have your babies at home. So me right?

It snowed today, I love spring snow it doesn't stick to the roads/sidewalks and makes the tree bark black, the contrast is incredible.

I am working on a couple of painting "ideas" one of which includes wheat. I love the plant, it's symbolic and gorgeous to boot. The other painting will be black and white night scene, it should be a challenge I'm excited to get started.

That's pretty much it I think....