The One Where Christian Has a Birthday

This post is going to be Legend... wait for it...


Happy Birthday, Christian!
(He's 27 years old today)

Happy birthday, Christian. I love you, if you're reading this...
I'm sorry that I'm not home to celebrate with you, so have a drink for me. I'll see you next month, big brother.

So, in honor of Christian's birthday, I've decided to list 27 things that I love about Christian, or why I'm glad I'm glad that he's my brother.
I have no idea how I'm going to write 27 things, wish me luck...

• One. Like my parents, he loves me unconditionally


• Two. On our first family trip to Florida, I fell into the swimming pool and he jumped in and saved me.
  I'm alive because of him.


• Three. In primary, my friend and I 'beat up' a girl in our class - aka - we pushed her in a snow bank because she had a rainbow scrunchie and we were jealous. Christian took the blame so that I wouldn't get in trouble. I still got caught and paid the price, but his effort was noble.


• Four. A boy in my class threw an ice/snow ball at my head and Christian went after the kid to defend me.


• Five. He (illegally) helped to teach me how to drive (sorry mom, we were safe).


• Six. He took me on countless adventures.


• Seven. After watching Home Alone, we were sure that burglars were going to try and break into our house. We set up booby-traps every night for a month.


• Eight. He sat with me and let me cry myself to sleep before I moved away for University.


• Nine. He is the main reason that I have such a dirty/perverted mind.


• Ten. He introduced me to great music that I grew to love.


• Eleven. We would sing 'everything' at dinner in order to piss off papa.
  'Christian, can you please pass the salt?' (it would be sung vs. asking).


• Twelve. He never judges me. If I come to him with a situation, he might laugh about it, but he always has my back.


• Thirteen. He is, and always will be, one of my best friends.


• Fourteen. Most of my 'best memories' involve him.


• Fifteen. He taught me that GI Joes are better than Barbie.


• Sixteen. He took me to get my first tattoo.


• Seventeen. His sense of humor is amazing. He can always make me laugh.


• Eighteen. We, obviously, were raised the exact same way, so we often think the same way.


• Nineteen. He taught me how to chug like a champ and win every chugging competition
  (sorry again, mom).


• Twenty. We grew up dreaming of opening a restaurant together at some point in our lives.


• Twenty-One. He's currently following his dreams and doing something that he loves, and I couldn't be more proud of him.


• Twenty-Two. He can invent the most amazing food concoctions. My inner and outer fat-girl loves this so much.


• Twenty-Three. I know, without a doubt, that he will be the best uncle to my kids... if I have kids.


• Twenty-Four. He's the reason for my appreciate of nice cars.


• Twenty-Five. He is in a relationship with an amazing girl who I'm proud to call one of my best friends.


• Twenty-Six. He's the reason that I love GhostBusters, Superman, and any action movie.


• Twenty-Seven. I know that he probably won't read this, so at least he's not going to think I'm crazy.

Faith: I love you, man.
Christian: I love you, too, bud.
Faith: I love you, Bro Montana.
Christian: I love you, holmes.
Faith: I love you, Broseph Goebbels.
Christian: I love you, muchacha.
Faith: I love you, Tycho Brohe.

Christian, something that I learned from doing this post is that we need to take new pictures together. I have so many old ones, and they're terrible. Lets fix this when I'm home in July, okay? Okay. Happy Birthday once more.

dary... this post was Legendary.

back that azz up, cause - you say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not

Hallelujah, praise the lord, it's FRIDAY!
I can tell you that I'm not sad in the slightest to say goodbye to this week. It was a struggle from start to finish and I'm over it. Au revoir.

Obviously I'm going to link-up with Whitney today (DUH - it's #backthatazzup Friday), but we'll get to that later. I have some important things to discuss first. And by important I mean slightly important. And by slightly important, I mean not at all. But come on, it's Friday... I'm done using my brain so this is all you get:

Eleven Movie Quotes That I'll Always Remember
I just typed eleven because it sounded like a good number, I don't know if I'll even have 11 movie quotes but I guess we'll see...

• One. "You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not" - Dinner For Schmucks
I don't even know why this sticks out to me, but every so often I'll think about this scene and laugh. Steve Carrell is just too funny in that movie.


• Two. "Don't estomp your little 'last season' Prada shoes at me, honey" - Legally Blonde
Amanda, my roommate, and I have been saying this for years. Ever since we saw this movie, this one line has stuck and we say it to each other, randomly, all.the.time.




• Three. "I love lamp " - Anchorman
Yes, this movie was funny... but I never 'loved' it like everyone else (but I'm excited for the second one this summer). However, I completely loved Steve Carrell in this movie and this line in the movie KILLED ME. I still love saying it.


• Four. "Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?" - Ferris Bueller's Day Off
I use this quote/reference all of the time in every day life. If I don't get a response, I instantly say 'Bueller?' I silently judge people who don't get this reference.




• Five. "I feel like I'm taking crazy pills! " - Zoolander
Okay, so I could actually pick eleventy-billion quotes from this one movie. Zoolander is a classic 'stupid funny' movie to me. It never gets old. Some honorable mentions (in my mind): "How are you supposed to teach the children how to read if they can't even fit inside the building?", "What is this? A center for ANTS?", "I can derelicte my OWN balls", " 'I was bulemic' ... 'you can read minds?' ". Yep, whole movie is quoted in my head.


• Six. "This one time, at band camp... " - American Pie
I won't finish this quote, because it's REALLY unnecessary. For some reason, sometimes when I'm telling someone a story, I will start by saying 'this one time... at band camp...'




• Seven. "He was a ruh-tard " - The Hangover
Just to clarify, I do NOT like the word 'retard' but when this line came up in the first movie I actually died laughing. This is another movie that is full of hilarious quotes, and there are just too many good ones to name in my mind.


• Eight. " I mean, suck it up, be a man and rub some dirt on it "- She's The Man
Oh, Amanda Bynes. Seriously guys, I still thoroughly enjoy this movie - I just laugh the entire time. I'm pretty sure I could quote this entire movie. Also, I'm pretty sure that Ashley and I used to say 'Rub some dirt in it' whenever somebody would be a baby about something.




• Nine. "That is so fetch!" - Mean Girls
I couldn't not post a Mean Girls quote. I could quote this movie every day and still love it. I still remember my friend Shannon quoting 'Faith wore army pants and flip-flops, so I wore army pants and flip-flops' one day, while I was wearing... army pants and flip-flops. This movie is still so funny to me for some reason.


• Ten. "You think I'm gorgeous, you want to kiss me... you want to hug me... you want to love me..." - Miss Congeniality
One time I was home sick, and this movie was on REPEAT all day long on the channel I was watching. I watched it FIVE times back-to-back, I wish I was kidding. Because of this, I know this entire movie word for word. But every time I watch it, I always have to do this little 'sing song' with Sandra Bullock.


• Eleven. "Nobody puts baby in the corner" - Dirty Dancing
I'm not one of those girls who adored this movie. It was okay, I enjoyed it, but I wasn't in love with it. For some reason, even though I've only seen it twice in my entire life, this saying has stuck in my head.

I'm not going to lie to you guys, after writing about Ferris Beuller's Day Off, I immediately started singing 'Twist and Shout' in my head. I then went on YouTube and watched that scene from the movie, and then proceeded to twist and shout my butt off. So, I'm sorry Whitney, but I'm not going to be sharing a song for you to #backthatazzup to today. BUUUUUUUT I'll post a song that makes you #twistthatazzup. Yeah, I went there.. haha.


Somebody please #twistthatazzup for me today and show Whitney that I'm not a complete freak.

Also, if you read my post on Wednesday... I BEAT MY CHALLENGE.
I completed 1,000 squats in four days and you can bet your bottom dollar that I will be having pizza tonight.
Oh baby, oh baby, oh baby. Yes, I just got excited about that - haha.

Stay tuned for part ii at some point, I have other movie quotes that I like. Some features may or may not include Grease, Bridesmaids, Elf, The Breakfast Club, Pitch Perfect, The Little Mermaid + every Disney movie from my childhood.

Sometimes Hump Days Are Awkward

Yesterday was a randomly random day.

You know those days where sometimes you just can't get anything right? Yeah, that was my hump day. Don't worry, I'm not the type of person who likes to complain about silly little things... so this isn't a post full of complaints.
Just some random things that happened yesterday that I felt like sharing.

Yesterday morning I went to the cafe that I used to go to every day, and have avoided for the past three weeks so that I don't eat or drink anything bad. When I walked in, the two guys who worked there greeted me be screaming 'OMG Faith's Hereeeeeeee' (I kid you not). After some witty banter back and forth with my two favorite cafe-guys, the owner decided to tell me that I have the most amazing nose he's ever seen. I'm sorry, what? I laughed and told him that I'd been told that I have beautiful eyes, or even nice lips... but never an amazing nose. He basically told me to never get a nose job. Good to know that I don't have to waste money on a new nose at some point in my life.


Obviously this is what a perfect nose looks like, 
I like to think that I'm pretty good with computers. I don't usually make stupid mistakes, or have huge issues when 'operating' computers. Any kind of computer, any operating system... I can usually figure it out. So imagine my surprise when I messed up big time at work yesterday. I was going about my day, as normal, when I got an e-mail from a colleague in a different office. She was asking if the file was for our department. It didn't look like ours, so I contacted a colleague in another office and asked if this file was hers - she asked what was in the attachment... so I opened it. Nothing happened. So... I opened it again. Still nothing.
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This is when something clicked in my brain... this wasn't right. I called one of the guys in our IT department and he looked at my computer just as the fun little Virus Alert popped up and told me that I had TWO viruses. Good times. IT came downstairs and took my computer away and left me with a temporary replacement until they get my computer wiped clean and re-build it from scratch. I can't even tell you how much of an idiot I felt like. Ooooops.
The really annoying part was that I had a ton of work to do, and couldn't even do a lot of it because I didn't have access from my temporary computer.


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I ended this fabulously random day by uploading a new profile picture to Facebook. For some reason, I decided to tag myself... but instead of tagging myself I accidentally tagged an estranged family member (who until my grandmother passed away a year ago, I hadn't seen since I was 5 years old). Awkwaaaaaard. I immediately deleted the picture all together and then uploaded it again. Smooth, Faith. Really smooth.


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I'm pretty sure that this is an accurate GIF of my reaction to tagging said family member. Oh well, life goes on. Someone else please tell me that they have these kinds of days. This is a daily weekly occurance for me.

If I'm Walking Funny, Blame It On The Pizza

HAPPY HUMP DAY, FRIENDS
Whoa, sorry I yelled at you. I was excited.


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The title says it all. Honestly, it does. It wasn't a typo or anything.

If I'm walking funny, blame it on the pizza.

Now I'm sure you're wondering What the eff does this mean? Well, well, well... let me enlighten you.

As some of you may or may not remember, I made a decision a little while ago to lose weight. I put myself out there and shared my Vulnerable Truth with the world.

I can assure you all that I have been staying true to my promise/vow that I would lose weight. I workout 4-5x per week and I'm feeling much better. I'm feeling stronger, a bit more confident in my body and my abilities to do things. I'm doing my best to eat as 'Clean' as possible. I have cut out alcohol completely (since May 1st), I've cut out bread/bagels (except for the two times I had Subway), and my daily snacks consist of: fruit, veggies, or nuts.

However, as good as I want to be, I still relapse or have really ridiculous cravings. This particular craving, for pizza, started about 2-3 weeks. It was just a thought that popped in my head on day,'mmmm pizza sounds good right now', and it hasn't left my head since. Normally if I get a craving, or have some kind of urge to eat something really bad, I will just go ahead and push it out of my head, have a small bite, or just chug some H2O and pray that my brain will start craving veggies (maybe one of these days). But nope. Not this time. My brain will not shut off the 'I want pizza, I want pizza, I WANT PIZZA' thoughts. It's rude, actually.

On Monday night, I finally had enough. During my workout, I managed to do 200 squats.. so I did 50 more, hoping to get rid of the pizza thoughts. 50 squats later, I'm craving pizza even more than before. So after grumbling about it for five minutes, I decide to give myself a challenge/goal/deal/bet/whatever the heck you want to call it.
If I do 1,000 squats by Friday - I can have pizza.
Boom. And just like that, challenge accepted.


Chicken, and green peppers, and goat cheese - oh my!

I know what you're thinking - squats will NOT compensate for the calories in the pizza that I will consume. You're totally right, and I know that. However, squats are good for you, and if I'm going to cave and have pizza anyway - I might as well do something slightly beneficial to my health in the process. Right? Am I crazy for thinking this way? Probably...
So far, I'm more than halfway to my goal - 550/1,000 squats completed. I'm not walking funny.. yet, and I'm actually feeling great, so far. In case you were wondering, I am determined to do this. Also, when the heck did I become this person? haha I don't even know who I am anymore. Whatever, come hell or high water (or 1,000 squats) I WILL have pizza on Friday night. Yes, yes I will.

Is it Friday yet? Dang it.

p.s. who in the world actually writes an entire post about pizza... and squats?

Go Home Roscoe, You're Drunk

Holy crap, it's June.
How the heck did this happen? I feel like we were just ringing in the New Year like last week. Anyone else feel like this? Anyone at all? Bueller?

In true lifestyle blogging form, I'm going to share some photographs from my lovely weekend with all of you. My weekend was pretty low-key, but it was also pretty fabulous. As usual, I'm linking up with Ms. Shenanigans for Weekend Shenanigans.



Friday Shenanigans:


Friday was fantastic.
My Aunt, who you may remember, was able to get a layover in Vancouver for one night. I picked her up fro the airport and we immediately headed to the ocean. We sat on the beach for an hour, catching up and taking in all of Vancouver's beauty. We decided to grab a few pictures together and these were the results. We struggled, a lot.

Saturday & Sunday Shenanigans:


There are a lot of shameless selfies from the weekend. Oops. One. Go home Roscoe, you're drunk.
Two. It was a gorgeous weekend.
Three. We struggle SO much. Now I look drunk.
Four. Selfie.
Five. Hangover III.
Six. Roscoe doesn't like to leave my side.
Seven. Brunch outfit.
Eight. Meal prep for the week. Efficiency at its finest.
Nine. In case you weren't sick of me yet.

Monday Shenanigans:


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