in a nutshell

so like I said in my last post, I went home this past weekend for Easter. It was a weird weekend for sure. I thought a lot about different things in my life and stuff and honestly, I'm scared of what will happen in the future if I'm totally in control. I know that if God isn't in control of my life, I don't know where I will end up. I didn't really pursue the Lord at all this weekend minus the talk that I had with him on Friday night, which was good. I didn't feel any motivation to do it, which is scary.

On Saturday I went to this AMAZING crawfish boil with my sister Linda and her husband Cole. It was at one of their friends house. It was sooooo good, probably the best crawfish that I ever had. It looked a lot like this. The potatoes and corn were great as well. The Tony Chacherie's went great with both. They ended up having a lot of dead crawfish so they ended up taking a lot of it back hoping to get more. When they returned, instead of crawfish, they were giving a couple of pounds of jumbo shrimp which were amazing. It was a great day filled with crawfish, family, friends, beer and laughter. I got to hang out with my brother Andrew as well as my nephew Brendon. It was a great day! A long day of drinking and crawfish can definitely make one very tired. I came home that night and tried to go straight to bed (but we both know that didn't happen).

Sunday morning I went to Mass with my family and that was great. When we got home, I wanted to take a quick nap because I knew that I had to drive later on. I got to Ramon's (my cousin where we had Easter at) house around 2 and a lot of my family was there. I ate some pretty good bbq and all the fixin's and watched Texas beat Miami. Towards the end of the day, most of the fam was getting tired of just talking to each other so we decided that we were going to play a few games. First, we played the traditional Egg Toss. I played with my older cousin Crystal and ended up getting second. It was a lot of fun. Of course, the egg cracked when I caught it. After that, we had a wheel barrel race and I was teamed up with Ramon. We won. Yes. Success. Honestly, it was so great to see so much joy in my family. We were all outside just hanging out on this great day. I was so excited for that, it was very heartwarming to see.

So over the break I decided that (in list form) I will either do/not do these following things:
1. Go to the gym more
1a. Start lifting weights - talk to roommates who know about this because honestly, I've never lifted weights on a consistent basis to know what exactly to do.

2. Run more often. The huge block around where I live is perfect to run so I would like to start running that more often.

3. Don't eat fast food. For anyone who knows me, I'm obsessed with fast food; particularly Wendy's and Whataburger. I can get down on these places so I decided that if I want to lose weight, I will have to stop eating fast food.

4. Don't drink Dr. Pepper. Okay so, this is going to be tough. Dr. Pepper is definitely a huge part of my life. There is one sitting next to my Bible right now. I would consider myself in a very deep, serious relationship with Dr. Pepper, we're that close.

5. Start eating healthy. I will try my hardest to watch what I eat from now on.

So hopefully, I will be able to lose a few (a lot) of pounds by doing these five, simple things. I will be updating you and letting you know how everything does. Until then, love you.