Tales of an Herbivore

Last Thursday, I had my wisdom teeth yanked out, so it was hard to eat for a few days. After that few days had gone by I realized "Hey, I haven't eaten meat in like 3 days!" I figured that the next four days or so of vegetarianism would be easy-peezy. It was not always easy, however, especially when Kristen had Japanese food at her house...sushi and teriyaki...it would have been delicious. And all the cravings for In-n-out and Albertaco's NEVER faded. Rough times. I did, however, discover some yummy ways to stay vegetarian thanks to my veggie friend at work! At the end of the day, however, I think I'll just stay a carnivore. YUM :)

Accomplished: 69. Go vegetarian for a week.

<3, Jilj

It's Beginning to Look a lot Like Christmas!

This past weekend, I got to accomplish another thing on my 101 list...my dad and I did our Christmas lights. Of course, the meaning of "do my Christmas lights" is a little different now that I live in a tiny apartment...but still, we have lights up and they look cute :) . I will try to upload pictures later but for now, all I can say is:

Accomplished: 93. Do my Christmas lights.

I Miss Food.

This morning I stepped on the scale and discovered that I have finally reached my weight goal of 130 lbs! And I look terrible. Every rib is showing and my hip bones are poking out awkwardly. Turns out my goal was a little low...which would explain why it took oral surgery and the subsequent days full of nothing but liquids for me to reach the goal. Now please excuse me while I pray for the day that I can inhale an In-n-Out Burger and get back up to a nice, healthy 135.

The point of this goal was more like: Lose the freshman 15. I gained 15 pounds in ONE SEMESTER last year, and now it is all gone, even at 135, thanks to exercise and slightly healthier eating habits. So mission accomplished!

Accomplished: 4. Get to 130 lbs.

<3,

Jilj

I don't know why...

all of my accomplishments are food-related lately, but whatever.

Yesterday I made Kelsy take very random right and left turns until we ended up in Long Beach at this Hawaiian restaurant that I later found out was actually a chain, and not a hole-in-the-wall. Oh well. I was determined to accomplish something while there, so I tried a new food! Actually it didn't feel that new because it tasted exactly like something I've had before, but I'm pretty sure it was new.

Baked manapua!



I think I feel like I've tried this before because I used to eat Sloppy Joes on Hawaiian rolls and it was very very similar. I thought the meat inside was a little dry, but otherwise it was very tasty. Nom nom.

Now I've had five new foods out of ten!

Progress: 17: Try 10 new foods.

<3,
J-I-L-J-I...it's aliiiive!

Chinese Food is Delicious.

Yesterday, my father and Vincent and I ventured over to the center that California Fish Grill and Sweetie Thai is in to try a little hole-in-the-wall restaurant called Dragon 21. I was a little afraid when I saw that the restaurant was completely empty, but it actually ended up being really really delicious. It was a bit pricey, but the portions were gigantic and everything was quite tasty. We ordered two lemon chicken dishes, orange chicken, and a side of chow mein. And it came with a big dish of rice, as well. I think they specialize more in take-out, because their phone was ringing off the hook even though there weren't any customers inside besides us.

This is restaurant 4/10 for number 77: Go to 10 hole-in-the-wall restaurants.

<3,
Jillian

Hairy Situations...(Accomplished: 91)

In a random burst of inspiration, I made the terrible decision to dye my hair (temporarily) on a whim. Haha...it wasn't that terrible of a decision, but my hair is now orange. The best part? I feel like a Weasley!!!! :)






Accomplished:

91. Do temporary hair dye

<3,
Jillian

Progress: 19

On Friday, I woke up at 5:15 am to get ready to make my way over to Santa Ana to participate in a Target Volunteer event: Extreme Library Makeover. They spent a week at an elementary school over there repainting and refurnishing the library, and on the last day of the week they had dozens of Target team members come in to volunteer to finish up the rest and participate in a celebration of the library's completion. We took pictures of the kids and put them in little "All About Me" booklets for them, gave them a bunch of free Target gear, donated 7 books to each child, and donated 500+ books to their library. The celebration was my favorite part--a man in a bullseye Target dog costume came and the kids loved him! Plus an entertainer came that the kids got really into. It was super hot, so during the celebration I spent a good portion of my leftover energy running around and "fanning" the kids...it didn't really help to cool them down, but they thought it was so funny that I was running all over the place and they kept yelling "ME NEXT! ME NEXT!" and being super dramatic about how "cool" they felt while I fanned them haha :) So cute, so cute.

This is progress on number 19: Volunteer 50 hours.

5 hours completed out of 50 goal hours.