FLYING PANDAS

 Very Blurry FAT CAT!

The Elliptical that I use, in its spot in the garage. I's missing the power cord but its okay it works just fine still.

 Eve (FatCat) is the hardest to get a good picture! However she is sleeping quite nice and snugly.

AND YES HOOKER LLAMA? I really have no idea but that's what it looks like. Also if you happen to know where this originally came from I would LOVE to Know!!!



-Zethan

How's it going?

So I started core exercises which  I feel the most,  I swear I can do the cardio for hours and feel nothing the next day but WHOLLY COW I was sore from the cores :) I started Wednesday June 27th I skimped a bit last night but did them in the morning and will do today's before bed. I got too say nothing like a Toro "helping" as your planking and he starts attacking your head >.< *sigh* I can't even do the full version yet and he has to hang off my head. I will start doing cardio hopefully by the end of next week but I'm not sure where. I have an elliptical in my garage that has no power and its awkward to use hence the garage banning there is also a bench press that I'm hoping my Hubby sets up soon as I only have 5 pound weights right now I ended up leaving my set of  weights at my sister Red's (yes yes I used to work out, remember the before pictures).  So I know that the first few weeks you don't see much of a change and because I swear I  just eat my weight in unfrosted cupcakes this weekend (not really but still)  >.< next week will be better.  Good thing I have two broken teeth because they keep me from eating the little candys that I do eat. (not really on the teeth >.< ) Sorry for the blurry pic but he just gets way too excited when it comes to pictures.

 This is my wonderful drawings of some of the core exercises I do.

Goals

I am going to do this! I am setting goals for my self  I really want to lose weight.

          

 So this is my BEFORE pictures I was maybe a size 12 in these two pictures. I have a hard time with pictures because I was over weight before and then I lost the weight was down to 130 pounds  my heaviest was 165 but I still looked good.

  I was just turning 21 I was  happy but lonely : /

I Found my Husband and got Married  I was no longer lonely and very happy but I atet all the wrong foods and being the sweet guy he is Always made sure I was never hungry, EVER! The only problem is was that it was a lot of fast food that I wasn't used to eating. So I got fat, the moment I really knew I had lost track of my weight was when I realized that my arms had gotten fat. I mean my lower arms! it was upsetting. I got depressed for a while. My Heavyest now is 238 pounds and I think it's WAY passed time I did something about it. I want this birthday to be one I remember fondly, not one I cry about at a later time. My Goal is small but very big at the same time. I don't care about pounds anymore. I really want to be a smaller size my goal is to no longer be a size 18-20 I want to be a size 14 I have 6 months to do this, NO I HAVE 6 MONTHS TO ACHIEVE THIS!

I am Blogging this to keep me on track and responsible. Also I will never run I hate running, but I will do a lot of other things instead.


 I will post about my progress as much as I remember. I really need something to report to so this will be it!


I will continue to post about other things cats, food, crafts, everything.


Here I GO!!

I Found "It"

 So I found my connection cord for my phone ^.^
This young man -----> is Mr. PK (PurrKittens) he is the son of Midnight the last one in the litter when he was born. He lives with my Sister (we shall call her Red because I have a lot of them ^.^) he is kinda the slow one but super cute  with he's gray suit and white accents.

  <---- This one is Mr.Killua named after Hunter X Hunter, we were really big into it at that time. He was one of the three white babies that lived. (the mom had one that died at birth, it was hard I cried   while on the phone with the vet.) I wish I still had a pic of all the boys on a chair waiting to go to a good home. He ended up with my sister Red as well. He is also from the same litter and Midnight was the dad. I don't think I have posted pictures of the mom here, her name was Eclipse.  I no longer have her or Mid. they are in a better place I hope.

 THIS IS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO AWESOME!!!!! I found the pattern here PEARS!!! OMG I love pears soooooooooo much so I had to make it. She has other patterns that are cute too def. check out her blog!!!!! DO IT!! (she didn't ask me to talk about her). I JUST REALLY LOVE PEARS!!!!!!!

Last but not lest at recent picture of The Fat Cat or (Princess Fat Tail) as I so have named her lately. I just love my Evening she will come to anything I call her ^.^ 

Remember When ...

So remember how I said I would update when I bought and sold on Tophatter and Yardsellr well so far here it goes

Tophatter : I finally sold on  and  they ask for 10% of sale unless it comes to under a dollar. $1.00 is the lest amount you can pay  once your item has sold. Which is not bad because there is no member fee, no listing fee (I haven't gotten to buying quite yet I keep getting out bid ) it would be fine because they allow you to link your shop so people can but directly from you but some of the deals people put up are just too hard to pass up and so you bid war with others hoping to get it. Also if your item doesn't sell the first time relist its free and chances are the next group someone will buy it. I have also found that the lower the starting bid the higher the bidders will go. Take listing something for 1.00 and 2.00 shipped has the potential to go really high verses starting at 15.00 and 5.00 shipped. People like to feel they got a deal whether they did or not. So just a heads up if you are wondering about using this site. So once I shipped my item  I went in and changed the statues to shipped and added tracking number, super easy and simple but just a little confusing to get to that page on their site. Other then that its a fun site to try out.

Yardsellr : Not must to say yet I haven't sold anything on here and while I am given the option to change the price of my listed items I don't know that making them cheaper will make people buy it more.

               Though like I said before everyone loves a deal. However there is a line between handmade and made in a sweatshop. As my Husband put it they want handmade for sweat shop prices and it doesn't get crafters anywhere when they are paying to to take their items they worked hard to make. Like I could list a Queen size hand crochet blanket on my shop but to even make it worth my time I would have to list it for $250+ not including the ungodly shipping I would have to add to that 25+ if I'm lucky. So yeah

OH also if you have been thinking about selling on Amazon.com give it a try I have sold a ton of books on there, its always been a good experiment and if your worried about taxes they have included a (1090?) tax form that you can use during tax time.

Over and Out
-Zethan

Have you tried?

So I have been debating about using these sites for a while now. Yardsellr hooks up with your facebook account and will also pull from your etsy account for new Items you just have to put a code in your etsy description. From what I have concluded you put something up for sale, buyer buys it and once you ship and put tracking code in on your end you get paid for it. Looks legit but I haven't sold anything yet, I posted an Owl for the test run to see how it goes from there. As a Buyer you pay the listed price plus the shipping and a dollar to yardsellr, which is okay seeing how they allow you to win "money" by buying items and other such things. I am not sure how reliable it is yet seeing how I purchased my items late last night on a saturday, but I will defiantly post more about how it works in case someone would like to know.

Tophatter auction seems like a super fun way to sell and buy, you get to interact with both the buyers and seller of every item unless the seller is away at work or some other important thing. I would say its like the forums Etsy used to have where we played a game One seller would start off the forum and who ever bought got to promote their shop for a whole minute giving lots of detailed information about their shop and what they sell. Now if the buyer didn't own a shop they could then pick someone else or if two or more people bought from the store before then the 2nd buyer (if having a shop) would go. This would go on all day and lots of different shops you post. However here you post lots to come up to sell and then when it is your turn you promote the item and people bid like in a normal auction, its nice and clean and the background changes every so often which is nice if you end up spending a long time in the auction. I have to say that I haven't bought from this site so not sure how its going to go and I just put up a test Owl to see how the auction thing works for me. I was able to pick a time to sell my item after making the lot for it, now I am just waiting for the day to come so that I can promote/sell my lot. I have to say the not being able to put my lot for sale right away makes me sad but everyone gets turn so I will be a big girl and deal with it :P Will update with more information as it goes!

-Zethan