Weekend talkin'

First I want to say oops on last week for the lack of posts. I started working finally. I was so exhausted when I got home every night. Getting your body back into standing for 8-9 hours a day is intense for a little while. 

This weekend started out like any other weekend. I had to drive back to work because I accidentally brought something home that I wasn't supposed too. Then me and the hubs went grocery shopping to get stuff for the chili we were making for the Superbowl. We went to the gas station and then we started heading home--I guess this is where you're going to get why I'm making a post about it-- when we were getting onto the interstate we heard a thunk and then the music stopped playing. At first we were like 'uhhh?' then I realized what it was. Anyone want to take a guess? Go ahead. Guess. 

Ready to find out if you were right? Well when the guy was loading the groceries into the car we were talking about Hawaii and I put my phone on the top of the car while I was listening to him. So then I got in the car and we drove to the gas station. Yup. It made it to the gas station. My husband pumped gas, and unbeknownst to us my phone is just sitting on the top of the car probably screaming "HELLOOOOOO.. aren't you going to notice me sitting up here?!"   Looking back, why didn't he notice it sitting up there?! (Sitting here today, I can still blame everyone else but me for it happening. haha) 

It was funny though because the music kind of kept cutting out, and I wanted to change the song but decided to just deal with it. If I had gone to change the song then I would of noticed something wasn't quite right. Anyways, enough of thinking of the what ifs. Point is I'm an idiot and left the phone on the car. 

So we were getting on the interstate and we heard it fly off, the music stopped and my heart sunk immediately as I looked in the side mirror and saw it flipping in the air.  I wanted to cry, how could I of been so stupid?! I begged my husband to go back for it because well it's my phone! I didn't want someone getting ahold of it if it had survived the road--it didn't but the point is still there-- So we did. We went back for it. I got out of the car and ran into the middle of the road to pick it up. If some of you reading are screaming at me telling me I'm stupid and I should of just left it--nope. couldn't leave it. Plus it wasn't exactly super busy so no cars were around. 

 Oh it was in pieces, it had definitely be ran over a few times, but I felt instantly better once I had it back in my possession. Of course I lost it when I called my mom to tell her I had no phone. It was just crazy. I couldn't believe it--still can't believe it. Later on that day we go to the Verizon store to buy me a new phone. We had bought the insurance! So a mere 5 dollars a month plus the 99 dollar deposit I got a new phone! Oh the relief when he told us that we had insurance. It was like a light bulb went off in our heads "Oh yeahhh!! I remember it now" We bought it originally for my husband when he goes out on the boat in case he drops it or loses it or something but nope. It was me! I was the one who needed it. 

OH and shoutout to Asurion and Verizon because we put the claim in on Saturday and I got my phone today! 

Now onto Sunday. 

Superbowl Sunday

With my Seahawks

and they beat the crap out of those broncos. 

We had a good sized get together with some friends--lots of alcohol and watched the game. My house had to of been the loudest on the block. We are huge Hawk fans. From that first snap, we knew. 

My husband and I are from Washington and have always been fans, even in 2006 when they went against the Steelers--but we don't talk about that game. We're just happy that after a great season that we just had, they were able to bring that trophy home. 

GO SEAHAWKS

Superbowl 48 Champions. 

Puzzling

Today I want to talk about puzzles. That's right puzzles. First lets talk about how when the word is italicized it looks like the word shouldn't exist. Second, how come people don't do these more often? I saw a post on Facebook this morning, about a brand that makes puzzles with no edges and 5 extra pieces--it had a caption of "Satan, is that you?"or something along those lines-- and that made me want to get a puzzle. So I headed on down to my local Kmart this morning--it's like 3 minutes from my house-- and it took me 10 minutes to decide on a puzzle, there was a lot of choices. It was 8.99, and I feel like I got my 8.99 out of it just today. At the point in the picture I had worked on it about 4 hours. Not very much work done is there? That's because you gotta separate all the edge pieces from the non-edge pieces, then I separated by color scheme and that takes a long time. It's a 1000 piece puzzle, but it takes a long time to get through all those pieces, plus I missed some of the edge pieces during the first sort and so I had to sort through them again gosh darnit. All in all I spent about 6 hours on the puzzle today, and it only looks a tad bit different than in the picture above.

I'm not going to lie, trying to find the pieces that go together gets overwhelming after a while; but it's a little exciting each time I find one that matches. I was listening to music, the whole time so I wasn't just sitting there in silence--that would be boring. The main goal of it was to get off the couch and away from the TV. I haven't started work yet and each day besides my daily workout, cleaning the house, and going outside to play with the dogs, I basically just sit on the couch and watch TV. It's annoying, really. I wish that my neighborhood would be more walk friendly. There is basically no sidewalks, and a million cars parked on both sides of the road. So your basically walking in the road if a car were to choose to be going down the road and I don't like the idea of driving somewhere to take a walk.

I got off on a little tangent there. Back to the puzzle. It was really entertaining, I feel like it could be something I could do with my husband if he wanted. I'm exited to finish it--pray there are no missing pieces-- glue it together and then hang it on the wall. The image is just beautiful and I love when I've seen puzzles as art in other places it's nifty. Besides, I get art for 8.99. Who can beat that? I guess I could if I got a cheaper puzzle--were you thinking that too? 

So anyway, puzzles. Do them. :D


When was the last time you did a puzzle? Do you enjoy them? or think they're boring?

Friday workout and a Thursday story;

Today I did part 2 of the Jillian Michaels extreme shed and shred DVD. Just like the first time it was insanely hard for me. I'll be honest with you, I haven't worked out in the last 3 days. I've been worried about getting the job and having to drive out there everyday at about noon so that I can do all the requirements. Then when I got home I just rested. I'm going to go on a little tangent here. If you aren't interested in my crazy day I had yesterday go ahead and skip the next long paragraph. :) 

Yesterday in itself was a day that I had planned on working out, BUT it ended up being an emotion filled few hours that turned my whole day. On my way to sign all the official paperwork and get the drug test paperwork, a rock came up and hit my windshield, cracking it. It's not too bad it's about a quarter size in the middle of the windshield. When I say middle, I mean middle. Smack dab in the middle of it. Perfectly in center. My car is less than a year old and it's already been in an accident( I was not involved in that accident ) and now I cracked the damn windshield. I handled myself pretty well I think, I didn't let it upset me too much since there was nothing that I could do about it except now I have to get it fixed. So I get to where I need to go, sign all the paperwork, and leave. In the parking lot, I decide to call my insurance to see if they'll cover it getting fixed. I find out that maybe it'll be covered--he didn't even give me a real answer-- but since we moved states our insurance is going to go up. Basically it's going to double, and I mean double, not nearly double, and not almost double.  I wanted to scream. I was thinking to myself, thank god that I just got a job or we would NOT be able to afford that. So I get over that heartbreak, shed about two tears and get back on the road to go home for a few to figure everything out before I have to go find the place for the drug test. On my way home, I run over a piece of someone else's car. It was a little metal rod and of course I didn't even see it, all I do is hear it hit the car. My heart drops, I start cursing to myself and gosh darn it, now I'm dragging it down on the road. So, of course I pull over, look around my car and find it punctured the plastic under my car, right in the front. It's lodged in there pretty good and it took quite a bit of effort to get it out. I finally get it out, get back into my car and I'm just done, completely wiped out, I break down right there in the car on the side of the road. I start thinking to myself, don't do this. Everything is okay. Everything will be okay. The car is okay ( even though I was worried something would start leaking, it didn't. ) It's just a car--I personify my car so hard, hate leaving her places, love my car, it's my baby so saying that didn't help-- and I finally get myself home. Thankfully the rest of the day was pretty much uneventful, as I couldn't even handle anything else. It may not seem like much, but all of this happened within an hour on the first day of my husbands short underway. 

Okay, so onto my workout. 

I felt like I let myself down a little with the workout, I feel like I didn't push myself hard enough during the workout. I kept telling myself "you can do this, work harder, don't give up" and I got through it but it was really hard. Part two has a lot of squats and my knees were not liking it, I've had knee problems before so I always watch it. I wasn't going to let it get in the way of my workout though so I pushed myself but I made sure that they weren't hurting, they were just uncomfortable. The first time I did part two I burned 548 calories in the same amount of time--around 52 minutes-- so I'm taking that as I didn't push myself as hard as I did the first time. You know what? I shouldn't think about it like that, I got up there and did almost an hour and I pushed myself damn hard, I wanted to give up after 17 minutes, my head said just do 20 then you can stop. Obviously I didn't listen. I worked through it, and it hurt. I did a great job for my recent struggle and I won't think about it again like that. Every workout is a good one. 

I am happy to say that I finally felt something when I did the russian twists, which mean that I've been doing them wrong every single time I've ever done them. I had a feeling I was doing them wrong because I didn't feel it, but I couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong. Now I know, and now I will do them correctly and finally reap the benefits from them. 

I feel good. When I was in the shower after the workout, I was shaving my legs and man it was hard to stand there and lift a leg and lean down to shave. Everything has been hard to do, my legs hurt. 

Oh, and this may be a TMI for some people, but I looked at my butt this morning and at all the little dibbits there and then after the workout, I looked at it again. It looked a lot better. Of course it's not going to be an immediate thing and if I look at it now, I'm sure it'll look like it did this morning. But I have noticed that if I do this workout or any workout that has a lot of leg action or on leg day I can see the change in my butt rather fast, but it won't last if I stop doing it, does that make sense? For example, the last day I worked out my butt was more round than it was today. So I think that that in itself is motivation for me to keep working it, cause it looked nice. hah. I'm loving it. 

I hope you enjoyed this quite random, but still got to the point workout post. Did you workout today? Do you have a story you would like to tell? 

I landed an interview and then landed a job.

 

I have probably applied to at least 100 places since I moved to Cali a month and a half ago. I have heard back from 4 by email saying something along the lines of "we appreciate you taking the time out to apply, but unfortunately you suck and you won't be getting the job" I'm just kidding, companies would never say that; but it's kind of how it feels to be rejected by email, youknow? I mean, I appreciate it completely because then I know not to hold my breath about that job, but it still kind of sucks. I also applied for companies that I have worked for before and they were the ones to call for an interview--of course-- and hell yeah because I know how to do that job and that's easier for me. I interviewed at one and the shift wouldn't work for me, but they really wanted me to apply for the part-time position, I'm not looking for part-time. The second person called me on Friday, had an interview yesterday, and they told me today that I got the job! I go in tomorrow for all the paperwork and stuff, but I am now feeling a little bit better about myself. 

I really needed a pick me up. Honestly, I really did. 

I'm not one to let my husband handle all the bills and right now we are drowning in them, this blog will not suffer because I have discovered Bloglovin'--details on that in another post-- and now that I don't have to write about only one thing I feel more into it and I love writing. I'm getting positive feedback on my blog and even though it's small, I still love it. I'm feeling like I can go places with it and connect with people. Anyway, I digress. I have a job now and I'm really happy about it. I don't know when I start yet, BUT I can still be happy about it! :) and besides getting out of this house for a few hours a day would be a breath of fresh air.

Things my new supervisors said about me that told them they needed me:

-High energy

-Great attitude

-Positive attitude

-I talked highly about my strengths, but did not hide my weaknesses

-I love to talk, straight up love to talk.

Tuesday Workout!

For the past week, I've been using my Jillian Michaels Extreme Shed and Shred DVD. Man is it a good workout. I do part one, on one day and then part two the next day. Today I did part one, and I was dying. I've been very discouraged and haven't been wanting to workout; but I keep telling myself 'just give it a half hour' and I did. I'm happy and sore and everything but I feel very good. I've done part two before so I mentally have to get myself ready for that because part two is just so much harder for me. Every workout for me has been really difficult lately, and I find that that is a good thing. I'm getting up and I'm doing it. I'm not listening to my brain that's telling me not to do anything, to just relax and work on it tomorrow. 

I feel like I'm starting over. It's not necessarily a bad thing.  I know that I need to work on bettering my diet even more than I already have. I decided to only drink water on the weekdays and drink other things on the weekends. That's my goal right now and it's working out so far even though it's only Monday. Anyway enough with that. I may or may not make a whole post about my recent struggle but we'll see. 


Stats:
Fat Burn(minutes): 5:07
Fitness(minutes): 34:52
Total Time(minutes): 39:59
Average Heart Rate(beats per minute):164
Maximum Heart Rate(beats per minute):190
Calories burned:438 

This DVD is a great workout as long as you put a lot of work into it. It's easy to skimp out when I workout with a DVD, but I'm doing it to better me, and not just half ass it. 

A look back on 2013; blogging, moving, and deployment

Okay, so 2013 has come and gone in a blur. Over the course of these 365 days a lot has gone on in my life, I've moved 3 times, driven across the country twice, gone through a deployment and much more. I figure what's a better place to look back on my year than here? I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I did living it. 

Blogging: 

2013 was an extremely horrible year for me with my blog. It got a new name from 'The Journey of my Adventure' to 'Alaina Kayy', which is almost the only positive thing that has happened. I gained about 10 followers this entire year which is just terrible. But I had to discover the time and the passion for it again and moving around and dealing with everything just came first. This blog also started as a makeup only blog when it started and it has since moved to a fitness and lifestyle blog as well because Makeup isn't my only passion. 2014 is going to be a better year for this blog, it can't get any worse than this year with all the broken promises and false come backs. 

A Very Merry Christmas!

Guess who's home?! My two doggies are now home with their momma! They came in yesterday so Merry Christmas to me! I'm happy to have them home with us finally. My in-laws were absolutely amazing and took care of them for the past few months while my husband was in school. We knew that we weren't going to be in Virginia long so we decided to make it easy, find a little apartment without having to worry about the dogs. I was not sure when I would be able to see them again, and I'm very lucky that it wasn't even a month of being in California.

Both me and my husband are from Washington state so his parents drove his car from Washington to California. It's around a 22 hour drive, sounds easy right? Well, my husband car has been having issues that they had thought they had sorted out. 8 hours down the road the problems began. My husband's father is a certified mechanic so he drove 20 out of the 25 hours that they were on the road in case any problems would happen. They of course made it here, but it took longer and was really stressful for them, blasting the heat the entire time. It ended up being a blown head gasket. So they didn't push it, took it slow and now we were together for Christmas!

Adjusting to having the dogs back is weird. Going from a home that is completely quiet to all the sudden full of energy is just nuts. Rogue(pictured above) is seven so she is a lot more calm and content laying around and just chilling and Le'a is nearly three so she is FULL of energy jumping around constantly testing us. Le'a is a hound mix and Rogue is a lab mix.

I'm very happy, it'll be a few more days before the posting regains. I decided to skip Motivational Wednesday this week because it was Christmas and I am enjoying my family time.


I hope everyone's Christmas and Holiday season is truly blessed!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday's everyone!

December 17th;

Source

I finally got internet hooked up in my new place! I'm super excited about it because now I can use my desktop again and I just love this thing. Today my workout was from POPSUGAR Fitness from my workout binder. I had never done this workout before and I'm glad that I chose to do this one after not working out and being very active for the last few weeks.

Birch Aquarium- San Diego, CA

Hey guys! Since I just moved here, I wanted to explore the area and see some of the must see's of San Diego. Of course the famous ones are the San Diego Zoo and Sea world; but the admission prices (Zoo-$44 each and Sea World-$88 each) are just out of our price range right now with all the moving expenses so I found this Aquarium online and decided hey! it's kind of like a zoo right?--no? okay then...-- Admission was a much better $17 a person and on a Tuesday morning (we went at 10am) it was pretty much empty.

The Aquarium portion of the place in itself was pretty small. It was a long u shaped hallway; but it had a lot of tanks inside with a lot of different fish/coral/organisms. Then there was another portion of the Aquarium which was a learning portion, it had a tide pool where you could touch the sea life that you could reach, also lots of interactive displays where you had to physically do something to see how it worked--ex. spinning a wheel to get two different type of light bulbs to light up. Overall it was nice. It took us about an hour to get through the entire thing.

I'm going to do another blog posts on just the Jellyfish portion because it was pretty cool. I'll link to that one here. 

I had a lot of fun there seeing all the different types of fish and even got to see some small sharks and stingrays which were pretty cool--the pictures didn't turn out so well-- so I enjoyed myself!

I hope you enjoyed this post even though it's nowhere near fitness, or beauty. but hey, it's my life right now. Hope y'all enjoy!

Motivation Wednesday #3

Hey! I'm happily settled into the hotel now and I saw this on tumblr, and this is my motivation for this Wednesday! I like this one because it's not just motivation for working out or staying fit. It's motivation for life in general. The last one is incredibly important and that's the one that means the most. In fact, that's the reason for it being my MW--motivation Wednesday-- because it's that important. Just try your best and believe me, your best is good enough. 


Your best will get better in time. Just keep trying your best and you will achieve your goal.




Sorry this is so late! I've been stressing out trying to find a house and such here. :) Follow me on Twitter and Instagram to keep up on my daily life!

I'm moving!

Hey guys!! I'm moving! Right now as you read this, I'm somewhere in the country without any internet access. We're going to be tackling about 3000 miles in just a few days. Then we'll be settled in a hotel and I'll start posting again from there! Exciting part is new home interior posts. I'm a huge interior design buff. Are you excited? I'm excited.

Follow my instagram--linked on top. For pictures of my journey. Also they will be uploaded to my Twitter as well-- also linked on top. 

See you soon guys!! 

Picture used in this post is the view from my apartment. Lovely fall view. 

Missing my babies

Have you ever run a busy household and then suddenly it all stop? That's how I feel right now,  and have been feeling for the passed few months. I saw the original post on instagram--which was a repost-- and all the sudden it hit me. I miss my babies. I have three pets. Have any of you lived with three pets? I bet some of you have. I have two large dogs---Rogue, a seven year old black lab mix and Le'a, a 2 year old hound mix-- and a cat-- Ratchet, she's two--. I was living where something is always going on.

Okay. Let me throw a disclaimer in here, I don't have kids, but yea I understand that it would be more difficult with kids. But right now, these are my kids.

I've been without them since July 16th, when we drove to Virginia. We left them with family so they are being taking care of, but I miss them. Missing that greeting at the front door, or --I never thought I'd say this-- but the rushing home after work to make sure the dogs go out to do their business.  I miss not being able to do whatever I wanted because I got dogs at home who wouldn't last 9+ hours without me. I just miss them. Their energy and being an everlasting animal lover, its super hard to live without animals.

And, they're super cute.

Ever feel like that?

Jillian Michaels: Extreme Shed and Shred.

Since my last post; I have driven across the country to Virginia and am now staying in a hotel. Let me just say that the stress of moving is the worst. My headaches were related to a Sinus infection but I feel like if I wasn't so stressed it wouldn't of affected me like that. We got to Virginia yesterday and we have already applied for an apartment. Lucky that a lot of places around here are open on Sunday's. In Washington most places like that aren't open on Sunday's. 

I was so busy moving that I didn't run or workout for weeks. I did two of my 4.5 mile hikes but that wasn't enough. Also I've been eating a whole bunch of junk food on the road so my body has just hated me. I was halfway to clean eating and then I just threw all that to the wind. I have gained about 10 pounds and since I knew that I would be having a lot of time on my hands enter a new workout dvd.

Airplane Headaches;

Some back story first; my husband is in the military and with that means moving a lot. The past few weeks have been very stressful because of moving: making sure that the dogs are well enough to fly, making sure someone is there to pick them up, shipping both cars, getting all of our stuff packed. After everything was packed then I had to clean the house and make sure it passed inspection. SO we finally get to the airport and get on the plane. I had my CSI: NY on watched about 6 episodes--side note, the battery life on this MacBook is just amazing. It had 42% left after watching 6 episodes!-- I started getting this dull headache, thought nothing of it--headaches happen I actually thought that it was my headphones because I had never worn them that long before. Well when we started to descend it felt like my head was about to explode, so much pressure had built up all I could do was just cry. Couldn't stop myself, the tears were just rolling down my face, my head was piercing pain with random shots of more pain. The pain was almost unbearable and it's not like you can just ask the pilot to slow down with the descent--ha...

FOTD: 6/30

Today's a new day!  Even though we have had the worst experience moving,  lots of stress and one bad thing after another. I still am thinking positive! That hasn't been the easiest thing to do, BUT I'm trying and that's all that is important.  I am posting this on my phone because I have no internet access so I hope this comes out okay! Anyways! Here's my face of this lovely Sunday!

Eyes:
ELF eyelid primer
Urban Decay naked pallette: Smog on the lid and hustle in the crease
Revlon Colorstay liquid eyeliner in 02 black
They're real! Mascara
Maybelline Define-a-line in brownish black on the waterline.

Face:
Rimmels stay matte powder in 005 silky beige
Lorac blush in plum

Lips:
ELF conditioning lip balm in nicely nude I believe. The label is worn off on it. Its the nude shade lip conditioner.
Revlon Just bitten kissable lip stain in Rendezvous

Internet is down.

So... the internet is down at my place and I have to use my phone to do posts; which is how I'm doing it now. So may not be posting for awhile. Sorry guys!

Get to know me 2!

 How have you guys been? Have you been enjoying the blog? This is another get to know me post! I figure you might want to get to know me? I may be wrong, but hey, who knows! Hope you like it! 

1. How tall/short are you?

5'10'' :) 

2. If you were to dye your hair, what colour would it be?

A tad bit lighter than it is now. 

3. What are you wearing right now? even if you're not wearing anything, just say it ;)

Tank for forever 21, yoga pants from victoria's secret, and slippers I got from Walmart. 

4. Best present you ever received?

I love all of the presents I receive. 

5. Are you religious?

No. 

6. Cheapest makeup product you own?

Least expensive? E.l.f

7. Last thing you ate?

Chicken and mashed potatoes.

8. How are you sitting/standing right now? 

One leg is on an ottoman, the other is on the prong of the chair.

9. Who else is in the room as you are answering this?

Rogue and Le'a, my dogs. :) 

10. Who are you closer to, mum or dad?

Mom for sure!

11. What do you think is the coolest accent?

Uhm, I don't really have a 'coolest' accent persay. So I'm not sure. Sorry!

This one was really short. 

Why don't you go ahead and do it too!

A Homecoming to remember.

Hey guys you may have noticed my absense. My husband came back from deployment the other day! I've been very happy and excited getting ready for the big day and here's a few photo's from that day!

This was the big day everyone! I don't even care if it looks all off and doesn't fit the blog layout. I'm extremely happy.

Hope you all have had a wonderful few weeks, I'll be back to my regular blogging schedule shortly.


xoxoAlaina

Get to know me: The Beauty Blogger Tag!

I was just checking my blogger feed and saw Emily Noel had posted this tag. I thought it seemed fun enough, so I thought I'd give it a go! 

Get to know me!

Hey adventurers! Today's get to know me is 22 questions! I've been gone for quite awhile and I thought what's better to get me back in the swing of blogging, then a get to know me? So here it is!