I'll expound on this tomorrow, as I am really really tired right now, but it's been a long weekend. My grandmother had a minor heart attack on Saturday and has been in the hospital since. There's also been a lot of shows/season finale's to talk about. But I'll do that tomorrow. Exhausted right now.

It's been a while since I've written, but I haven't been doing nothing.

Sunday was Mother's Day, so after church my whole family went out for lunch, then my mother and I spent two hours at Walmart buying groceries, since none had been bought in two weeks. We were all starving.

Monday I spent most of the day with my grandfather, making a box to house the litter box that lives in my room. The inspiration came from this site. My cat has an automatic cat little box, but instead of using the handy little carpet ramp to get the litter off her paws, she jumps right out of the box, leaving cat little ALL OVER the carpet. So to fix that problem, we've built a box. I didn't have time to take picture of the project, but I will post a few pictures of the finished product when it's finished. All it lacks is a shelf and a door, and then it'll be finished.

I would have written yesterday as well, but my mom left me a huge list of chores to do, and then my brother had a baseball game and we didn't get home until 9PM. That was just in time to was Glee (best show ever), and go to sleep.

Today was more cat box fun, though we haven't made any more progress than the other day. We just moved it into the house and put the litter box inside so the cat can get used to it. She seems not to mind it at all, so I'm glad. We'll just have to see what happens when we put the door on it.

And of course there's been walking and treadmilling, and I'm reading Jane Eyre still, but it's taking a while. I don't get a lot of time to just sit and read, and the words are in really tiny print.

Okay, quick side note about the neoprene waist trimmer thing. Lots o' sweat. My middle was dripping with grossness. But my posture was fantastic!

Okay, on to Doctor Who. I'm a real big fan of copperbadge, both his fic and his life in general, and if I remember correctly, he's part of the reason I started watching Torchwood and Doctor Who in the first place. I always read his Three Things about the episodes, and I love them. I'm not going to copy him or anything like that, but I am going to give my reaction to the episode.

( Cut for Spoilers )

I couldn't decide which icon to use for this post, the cooking or the movie one, but since I want to talk about the food I made tonight more than the movie I watched, I'll use the cooking one.

I'm a big fan of just finding random ingredients and throwing them together into something delicious. The last time I did it, there was pasta, tomatoes, roast beef, Parmesan cheese, Italian dressing, peppers, and zucchini involved, and it was basically like eating heaven.

Today I had something equally delicious. I wish I had taken pictures of it, since it looked REALLY good too, but that just means that I get to make it again later! Anyway, I have a bag of frozen grilled chicken strips, so I drizzled some olive oil in a skillet, put some strips in there to heat up. Along with that, I threw in a little bit of parsley, oregano, and thyme (my go-to herbs), and then I sliced up a bit of zucchini REALLY thin, and tossed it into the pan along with some roasted almonds. The result was AMAZING, and I can't wait to make/eat it again.

On a second point, I watched Iron Man again today with my father, in preparation for going to see the second movie. I loved it just as much this time as I did the first time I watched it. Robert Downey Jr. is quite delicious. I mean seriously, look at this:

( Yummy yum yums )

I meant to finish this post earlier today, but now it's 11:15 and I'm really tired. So I'll write it tomorrow, but it's about how I walk 3 miles a day and Dr. Oz's show, which I'm rapidly becoming addicted to.

So here goes. Going to try the blog thing YET again. Hopefully this time I'll keep it up, which I definitely need to do. I have a bad habit of not finishing what I start, especially when it comes to blogging. But I think that if I keep up with this new idea I got and get some followers, maybe I'll come up with a few interesting things to say.

First off, introductions. My name is Claire. I'm 21 and in college to be a Biology Teacher, which is getting more exhausting every day.

So, how am I going to keep up this blog when others have fallen by the wayside? Well, I was "Stumbling" around the Internet and came across this article. Since I have been struggling with my weight for a few years, never being able to control myself enough to keep it where I want, I thought this would be a really cool idea. So I called my grandfather when I got home for the summer from school, and yesterday he came over and cut a board for my own treadmill computer desk. (Pictures under the cut.) In addition, I'm going to walk to pic my little brother up from school for the rest of May until he's done for the year. We only live about 1.5 miles from the school, so it's really not a big deal to walk, and it feels really good by the time I get back. I just hope this works, because it's certainly tiring me out.

( Treadmill Desk )

And now for the meat of this first entry. I want this blog to be about random things I see during the day. And while I was writing this entry, I've also been watching Gossip Girl online, because every girl is allowed to have a few guilty pleasures. Anyway, it was on one of those commercial breaks, and the commercial was about Cervical Cancer. I've been seeing a lot of these commercials on various online sites like Hulu and Fancast, and they're all deceptively cheery. "What if I meet someone? What if he likes me too? What if he gives me HPV?" Dun dun DUN! That, along with all the bright colors. . . it's creepy. I mean, I know HPV and Cervical Cancer are huge things. I got the Guardasil shots, and I learned all about HPV and cancer in my Cell Biology class this past semester. I just get weirded out by the happy-turn-sad commercials.

It reminds me of all the tampon commercials and how much I love the ones that make fun of the happy ones. It's a topic of conversation around my dorm apartment. Four girls living together for nine months out of the year? Tampon conversations are bound to come up.

Sorry if it's kind of a gross topic to start out a blog, but it's what I saw, so it's what I wrote.