Lindsey

As we have all seen, I won my own biggest loser contest. I did it mostly by eating less crap food, because i got sick halfway through and didn’t work out the last few weeks.
It has been hard to keep it off because we have had both guests and Easter.
We had Stuart and Jenni Stone up first, and they are always a good time. I think Bryce may have mentioned this, but Jenni is pregnant so it was a little less crazy than our past get-togethers, but we put more hours on the Wii in the one night than we had in the last month. And since we played a game that required alot of movement, it was also my first exercise in a while. I hurt so bad the next few days! Outside of hang out, we took them on an abbreviated Philadelphia tour. Cheesesteaks! they also had brought up the XBOX and Rockband, so the was fun.
The next weekend we had Sam and his wife Kathleen up. Sam was one of my classmates out here - he was here one semester then went back home to Arkansas for med. school. We went to the zoo and ate CHEESESTEAKS! They left on Easter morning, just in time for fun for me.
Because we had guests, I didn’t do any of the preparation for hosting Easter ahead of time. So as soon as they left around ten, I had about ten and a half shitloads of stuff to do. I had to make my appetizers - deviled eggs and asparagus rolls, get the ham ready and in the oven, and cut up almost ten pounds of potatoes, some garlic, and a bit of onion. We still had to “reclean”, get the dishes on the table for later, clean out the fridge so things would fit, get ready myself, and other odds and ends. It was a busy morning/afternoon, and i think was ready about 15 minutes before people got here at 2:30.
Easter was pretty fun, played some more wii and watched some basketball games. Busted out GH3 for the wii since we hadn’t played it a whole lot, and beat it on medium. Bryce and I are about 1/3 of the way through hard now also. My dinner was good - we had spiral cut ham, mashed potatoes, gravy, and corn because we had sooo many appetizers. We had oreo cheesecake from the Cheesecake Factory, and can’t refuse that!
On the school front, I have been slogging through this mess of an internship, and have even “testified” as to my findings twice. I feel more confident about wanting to DNA analysis, but nobody wants me yet. I’ve got lots of applications out there, but they don’t work on my schedule.
Another thing I’ve been doing is “Flat Stanley”, which for those who didn’t do it themselves, you get a flattened picture of a 4th grader and take it around with you and take photographs. My sister Gina is a 4th grader, and since I live in a pretty cool place as compared to anyone else in my family, I’ve been doing that. You send the photos and the doll back like pen pals. She really wants me to take it to the beach, but its a little cold for that. It has been down to Philly (the rocky steps, Liberty bell, etc), eating cheesesteaks, working with me at lab, trivia, and with my cats. Hopefully I’m the best Flat Stanley person in her class.