Today I took the first steps in living a healthier lifestyle!

Step 1 was creating a healthier diet.

I am not very good at eating healthy because to be honest, I have no idea what to make that’s healthy… and because I have a strong affection for unhealthy greasy foods and chocolate :D

But today I took some small steps in creating a better diet!

For breakfast I am going to start having muffins or a yummy grain cereal with fruit in it along with juice. Maybe some eggs and bacon every now and then. Bacon is always good. Mmm bacon.

For lunch I am going to start packing my own lunch for school every day (goodbye fast food!). My lunch shall contain a sandwich, juice, and a mixture of fruit (:

And for dinner, oh geez, this is the big one. I am going to start having a salad every day with dinner (GASP), and I am also going to try to include some type of protein with my dinner (DOUBLE GASP). Since I am 85% vegetarian and rarely ever eat meat, I lack protein intake. So I am going to try to have some sort of meat with my dinner from now on, as well as make sure I eat a balanced dinner! As in, more than just chicken and pasta. I would like to try to have three things with dinner from now on (aside the salad!), such as: chicken, pasta, and rice. Or chicken, rice, and vegetables. etc.

And in general I am going to start drinking a lot more water and taking daily vitamins!

Hopefully this helps me feel better :D

Right now my problems are: lots of headaches, feeling like death, no energy, and always tired.

I shall try this out for a few weeks and see if I notice any changes. Hoping it helps c:

I say this a lot, but hopefully this time I’ll follow through with it and not just give up after a week. But in all seriousness, I am going to try to start eating healthy.

For the past few months, and I’m sure a lot longer than that, I’ve been feeling extra terrible. I am always tired, I have absolutely no energy, I feel nauseous a lot, I get bad headaches, etc. Overall, I feel like crap. And I know all of this can be blamed on a poor diet (which is definitely what I have!).

Currently my diet consists of:

• Pasta
• Chocolate
• Sweets 
• More sweets
• Even more sweets
• Pasta pasta pasta
• And even more more sweets

Pretty much to summarize: my diet is nothing but carbs and sugars. Yay for major unhealthiness :D

I eat absolutely no fruits and vegetables, and almost no meat. I don’t have a weight problem, thanks to my amazing metabolism, but I am pretty sure I am malnourished on several levels. And I’m guessing that is why my body acts like it hates me all the time. I am sorry body D: I shall take better care of you! :c

For now, this is my promise to myself and my body to eat healthier and treat it better. I am not sure when I’ll begin this healthy eating extravaganza (I need to go to the store first and think of a meal plan) but hopefully soon!

I just had to make a quick post about how excited I am about all the Nintendo announcements this morning!

• A new Mario & Luigi game, which is bound to be awesome.
• A new Legend of Zelda game that takes place in the same world as A Link to the Past, which is one of my favorite zelda games. GONNA BE AWESOME.
• Not to mention they’re adding LoZ: Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons onto the virtual console. Which are also some of my favorite zelda games! YES PLEASE!
• A new Yoshi’s Island game which I LOOOVE playing! Even if Baby Mario cries all the time.
• Another Professor Layton game announced. Which are my FAVORITE games. Omg. I love puzzles. SO EXCITED.
• And plus Animal Crossing: New Leaf is coming out super soon!! I have been waiting FOREVER for it. CANNOT WAIT.

This year for Nintendo is definitely a nostalgia fest! Remakes and sequels of so many classic games. I might explode from my excitement. I have absolutely no money to afford any of these games either, BUT IT DOES NOT MATTER! I will go broke to buy them all. It. Is. Worth it.

There are a lot of things I want to change about myself. And I don’t mean myself as in looks. I mean as in the person I am. My lifestyle. My being. I have a lot of goals I would like to reach and new habits I would like to start. And when better to start them then now?

I helps me a lot to write down my goals and keep track of my progress. It helps keep me motivated and clear on what I still need to accomplish. Here is my list as of now to what I would like to start getting into the habit of doing:

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I didn’t know of this until now, but apparently there is a week long celebration during the week of Valentine’s Day! And every day is a new celebration/event.

February 7 - Rose Day
February 8 - Propose Day
February 9 - Chocolate Day
February 10 - Teddy Bear Day
February 11 - Promise Day
February 12 - Kiss Day
February 13 - Hug Day
February 14 - Happy Valentine’s Day

I actually think this is a really neat idea! Turning it into a week long celebration rather than just one day. It allows for the guy (and/or girl) to buy their special someone gifts throughout the week instead of having to give them everything all at once on the day of. It’s like each day of the week brings a new surprise, until you finally reach the actual Valentine’s Day when it all comes together.

I hope one day I can find a guy who will celebrate Valentine’s Week with me! (:

Umm…

I’ve been really slacking on my working out… and cleaning and decorating of my bedroom… and being more active and awesomeful…

Yeah. I’m lame :c

Changing your career is really hard… it’s not a simple decision you can just make over night. A career is something you are going to pursue the next few years and live your entire life doing. You need to choose something you can see yourself doing for years and something you can see yourself being happy with.

I want a job where I am excited to go to work. A job I love. I want to be happy with my life, not bored and unfulfilled.

I think I have an idea of what I want to change my career choice to, but I still have a lot of research to do on it, as well as meet up with my adviser to discuss it. I need to make sure I fully know what this career I am looking into entails and how to go about getting that job. I don’t know if this is going to push me back years or if I need to go to graduate school for it. I don’t know really anything about it, so I still have a lot I need to research and find out.

However, one thing I do know is I can see myself being really happy with this new career, and actually enjoying my job (: Which is what’s important.

I am just afraid of what people will think if I change my career. I know it shouldn’t bother me how others feel about it, but it does :/ I don’t want people thinking I couldn’t handle the pharmacy program so I quit, or I wasn’t smart enough to finish the pharmacy program, because that’s not the case at all. It was just a matter of me seeing that I wouldn’t be happy as a pharmacist. And I don’t want my parents to be disappointed in me because I am switching my career to a lower paying career, and they’ve been counting on me this whole time to be a pharmacist. My parents have had such high expectations of me these past couple of years and they’ve put so much pressure on me, I’m scared how they will react when I tell them this news. We shall see.

I will do more snooping around to see what kind of information I can dig up on this and even schedule a meeting with my adviser to find out how I go about changing from a pharmacist to this new career. And if it’s honestly not that big of a switch, and if it won’t push me back any years, then I think I will change my career choice (:

But for now, it is still pharmacy until further notice. Once I have made my final decision, I will make an announcement! I am actually pretty excited for this n_n

As the title of the post states, I recently have been thinking about perhaps changing my career choice. It’s a lot to think about, so I won’t be making any final decisions for a while, but at least this gives me time to think about things.

I’ve just been thinking about my life a lot, and envisioning how I’d like my future to be, and I just feel like if I go into Pharmacy… I won’t be happy :/ I don’t enjoy science at all. In fact, I find it very boring. Which is probably why I haven’t been doing well in some of my science classes, because I just can’t focus on it due to it not being interesting to me. It’s really hard for me to get into something I don’t enjoy learning about, and I think that’s holding me back.

I don’t want to stand behind a counter all day writing up prescriptions for patients and filling up bottles. I don’t want to work from 9 am to 9 pm at night and never see my family. I don’t care if a pharmacist makes a lot of money, it’s not worth it if I’m going to be unhappy for the rest of my life. I really want to do something I love.

It’s too late for me to change my career entirely, for I have taken so many science classes already. So I was thinking of maybe just using my degree for something else. I’m still not sure yet, I have a couple ideas in mind. But this is a big deal and should not be taken lightly.

All I know is, I want to be happy. And in order to be happy I should be pursuing a career I enjoy and have interest in. I want to be excited to go to school and to my classes. I want to be excited to learn, not bored out of my mind. I just want to be happy with my life, and I want to have a secure and enjoyable future.

I wish I had realized this sooner. I think a part of me deep down had always known this, but never wanted to change my career due to my parents. They keep pushing me into pharmacy and I don’t want to let them down. I’m afraid what they’ll say if I change my career choice. But I have to do this for myself. Because it’s my life.

We shall see.