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  • Where I’ve Been

    Hello hello! I’m baaaaack! Sorry for the impromptu hiatus. The past month or so, I just feel like I haven’t had much to post about and I haven’t felt as motivated to create content for you all so I just didn’t post. So here’s a bit on where I’ve been and what I’ve been up to since we all last talked. 🥰

    The past month or so I’ve been doing a lot of prepping for dental school. That includes getting a new MacBook and iPad, filling out a bunch of forms, and just making sure I have all the various, fun things I need!

    I’ve been working out a lot and enjoying all of that too. Recently enough, I attempted a bench press PR of 105 pounds and it wasn’t too bad. I just need to work on my depth at that weight and I’ll more confidently say that I can bench 105. Proud of the progress I’ve made there though!!

    I’m nannying until school starts and that has been a blast. Kids are a lot of fun, in my opinion. 😊 And while I haven’t done much traveling since my Florida trip earlier this year, I am looking forward to a weekend in Colorado Springs coming up! I’ll share more after that fun little getaway.

    So that’s a bit on where I’ve been! Again, sorry for disappearing for a bit, but a break every once in a while is important. As far as what my schedule for posting will be like for the future, let’s get back to the weekly Sunday posts. I think we can start that up again. I hope everyone has a wonderful week and I’ll see you next weekend! ❤️

    Where I've Been

  • A Bit Busy at the Moment!

    Hi everyone, I’m sorry for the extremely short post, but I’m a bit busy for the next week but I’m definitely going to have an exciting post or series of posts for you in the next few weeks.

    If you wanna follow along with where I’m at, feel free to check out my Instagram (with my username being anahorvathh)! Just thought to let you all know that I’m definitely still here, but I’ve got some stuff to go do and see and then I’ll tell you all about it. 🥰

    See you all when I’m back! Have a wonderful week! Be on the lookout for a post on Sunday, May 22nd!

  • Going Gluten and Dairy-Free

    So, it’s May now! That’s pretty crazy. As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, I’ve had some health-related issues recently and in response to everything, I decided to look to a functional health doctor for some guidance and help. From our first appointment, she determined that I need to go gluten and dairy-free for a bit.

    Now this isn’t something that will solve everyone’s problems, but we’ve determined that cutting out all gluten and dairy may be a way to resolve some of my problems. I’m going to see how things go this way, and then adjust if needed in a couple of months. I’ve really only been doing this gluten and dairy-free thing for a week or two now so I don’t have much to report, but things do seem a little better which I like to see!

    When I first started this, it was reallllly shocking to see just how much gluten and dairy there is in the food we eat! Milk wasn’t a huge loss for me because I cut milk from my diet back in high school. Pasta has been out of the picture for a while now too because I’ve been sensitive to it for some time now. Instead of regular pasta, I’ve substituted for chickpea pasta and found that I like that just about the same. But looking at something like mac’ and cheese now, there’s so much to consider! No butter, no cheese, and no pasta. But if I substitute, I can maybe make it work! I think I just need to do some research and I’ll figure things out.

    Becoming more aware of how I fuel my body has been very eye-opening. I’m learning to look more into what is actually in the foods I eat and I have actually really enjoyed the process! It’s cool to be able to figure out how I can feed myself so that I feel the best I possibly can. Sometimes, it has been a bit frustrating or hard though. When the rest of my family is enjoying a dessert that I would’ve loved to eat a month or two ago, now I’m sitting out on that. But that’s ok! I honestly feel grateful to even be having a problem like this.

    I just hope that with these adjustments to my diet, I am able to start feeling better internally and that this will ultimately help me feel better about myself overall! If any of you out there are gluten and/or dairy-free and have any suggestions or tips for me, I would gladly appreciate your insight. Have a wonderful week and enjoy the beginning of your May!!

  • Easter 2022

    easter 2022

    Well Happy Easter everyone! I hope you all have had a good day. I don’t have too much to say for today, just thought to share how my Easter has been.

    We started our Easter traditions last night by dyeing some eggs which is always fun. I feel like dyeing Easter eggs is fun, no matter how old you get. We didn’t buy our egg dye until yesterday and I was so surprised that there was any left so close to Easter!! We got really lucky at Target. Target is my hero. 

    Now getting to today, my dad, sister, and I started off our Easter Sunday with some tennis which is always nice. We came home and had a yummy brunch and then a late lunch and also a later dinner! Nothing too special on the menu, but there was good food at every meal. More than anything, I was just happy to enjoy a relaxing, chill day with family. 

    Again, Happy Easter to you all and I hope you have a wonderful week. See you at the end of April! 

  • A Minor Change to the Blog

    By now, I’m assuming many of you have noticed that I post less frequently now. I haven’t been great about staying on top of my posting schedule lately. Some weekends, it’s really hard to put something together! Because of that, I’ve decided that I will be making a minor change to the blog.

    Instead of posting something new every Sunday, I plan to post every other Sunday. Hopefully this will give me some more time to put something good together for you all to read! That being said, it’s still possible that I will post some stuff here and there in between if something really good comes up. But for the most part, I think it’s safe to say that you can expect regular content every other Sunday starting with this Sunday of course. 😊

    While I still enjoy blogging, I find it increasingly more difficult to put together pieces that I’m happy with and that I find fun to read. So like I said, I hope that switching up the post schedule will make things better for all of us. I hope you all have had a good weekend. I’ll see you on April 17th!

  • 5 Pounds Away

    It feels so good to move, doesn’t it?! Well, I really think it feels good. And yesterday, I found myself 5 pounds away from my goal of bench pressing 100 pounds! I think that’s pretty cool.

    After whatever it was that happened earlier this month, I find myself more and more grateful to have a body that is healthy for the most part that can do so much for me. Exercise makes me feel so good. I don’t know what I would do if I didn’t feel strong. I think being strong is empowering and beautiful. I feel like I can handle myself and I feel capable of a lot too.

    I came into my fitness journey with the idea that my upper body strength was pretty decent from all the tennis that I play. Boy was I wrong about that!! My upper body strength was garbage, to put it nicely. I couldn’t do a pushup. I could barely bench press a 45 lb bar. Looking back on things, I have come such a long way. My pushups are pretty subpar, but they exist now. I’m on the brink of bench pressing 100 lbs. I’m working on getting pull ups now too!

    I think working out is so rewarding. You set a goal and you work toward it. You meet that goal and then you set another one. There is always room for improvement. I’m very excited to keep pushing myself and see what else I can do! Now let’s go get this next 5 pounds and I’ll see you all next week!

  • A Little Health Scare

    So it’s been an interesting past couple of days for me… On Thursday, I had a bit of a health scare that made the end of my week pretty exciting. Here’s what’s going on…

    Currently, I’m doing a bit of work as a nanny and while I was nannying on Thursday I had the most excruciating and awful pain in my pelvis come on. It felt like I had been stabbed or hit by a bus or something. Regardless of how I describe it, I was in a lot of pain. From that moment on, it was pretty tough to do much. Obviously I had to be there for the kid, but my mood dropped and I felt like I couldn’t move much. I didn’t want to eat and the only thing that made me feel good was hugging my knees to my chest. I also noticed that I was pretty bloated too. And when I say I was bloated, it felt like I was maybe 4-5 months pregnant (not that I’ve been pregnant, but it looked like it for sure)…

    I managed to make it through the rest of my nannying day somehow. Then, when I got home, I decided I needed to sleep. The pain I was feeling had traveled up into my abdomen as well but it was also starting to feel the worst on the right side of my pelvis. It was pretty tough to sleep being in that much pain, but at least lying down felt good. I had chills and a fever too to add on to everything now. Going through my head I wondered what could be going on. I hadn’t eaten anything out of the ordinary so I wasn’t sure that it was a food poisoning problem. Plus the only thing I had eaten on Thursday was my usual protein shake in the morning! Thinking about the fever, I wasn’t sure that I had some virus or other bug because I wasn’t showing any other symptoms.

    Thursday night was horrible. I was still in a lot of pain but my fever dropped off pretty quick so that wasn’t a big concern. Bloating was still horrible though and I didn’t have much of an appetite. I did force myself to eat dinner though. Sleeping was an absolute joke though. Any time I tried to turn, I was incredibly uncomfortable. Not a fun night. Yes, I was still in a lot of pain but I decided I didn’t need to go to an ER right away because my fever had gone away and I was feeling ok enough to eat dinner Thursday night. My mom and I decided that regardless of how I was doing Friday, I needed to see a doctor in the morning.

    And so that’s what I did. I went to an urgent care office Friday morning. My pain was still pretty bad (slightly better than the day before though!) and the bloating was still bad. Thank goodness I didn’t have another fever or the chills though. My biggest concern throughout all of this was that my appendix may have burst. Fever is typically a sign of infection, so if something was wrong with my appendix, this could be a sign. The pain was in the right part of my lower abdomen which could be my appendix. Bloating is also commonly seen with appendicitis or a ruptured appendix. At the doctor’s office, I was very happy to find out that whatever was going on was not appendicitis. Unfortunately, though the answer I was given still wasn’t definitive. That being said, the doctor was pretty sure that an ovarian cyst had ruptured. The symptoms of a cyst rupture are pretty similar to that of appendicitis and the location of the pain can also be very similar. With his conclusion, I was told to take Aleve as needed and take it easy the rest of the weekend. I asked if there’s anything that can be done in the future if this happens again, and I was pretty discouraged to learn that there really isn’t much I can do beside take pain meds. If anyone with a medical background could provide some more insight, I would greatly appreciate it.

    Looking back on my little health scare now, I’m incredibly thankful that I’m okay and feeling better now. I’m still in some pain and there’s still some bloating, but it is much much better than it was. Thursday night, I was fully preparing myself to need surgery the next day for a ruptured appendix or something like that. I am feeling so blessed that wasn’t the case. I really hope this isn’t something that I ever experience again and I wouldn’t wish this on anyone else ever. Worst. Feeling. EVER.

    Make sure to take care of yourselves and have a wonderful rest of your weekend. See you all next Sunday. ❤️

  • My Mom’s Birthday

    So today just so happens to be my mom’s birthday and I find that pretty exciting. Happy Birthday, Mom!!

    She doesn’t usually read my blogs but from time to time she does, so I really hope she gets a chance to look through my more recent posts and see this one. 😊

    More than anything, I think it’s always really important to show my mom how much I love and appreciate her on her birthday. I try to show all that every day, but on my mom’s birthday, there’s even more to go around. Like today my sister, dad, and I surprised my mom with some roses when we got back from playing tennis first thing in the morning. After breakfast, my sister, mom and I went to Starbucks so she could get a free drink and stopped by Nothing Bundt Cakes so she could get a free bundtlet (I have no idea if I spelled that right but she got a free little cake… that’s gonna have to be the best way to describe that)! We went to a restaurant of her choosing for dinner and then enjoyed cake after. Overall, I would say we had a nice and chill day. Nothing too fancy or over-the-top. It felt just right. Birthdays are always so fun and I think it’s always great to get to celebrate someone you love!

    Mom, I hope you had a wonderful day and here’s to another wonderful year. Thank you for all you do. You’re the absolute best mom I could ever ask for and I wish you nothing but the best. Love you, love you!!

    Have a great week everyone. See you next Sunday. ❤️

  • Stop Making Excuses

    Stop making excuses

    I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately and I’ve come to realize that people who complain and then do nothing about what bothers them really bothers me. In other words, making excuses has become a big pet peeve of mine. That being said, stop making excuses. Just stop.

    Now, I can understand when a person has a genuine reason to miss out on working toward their goal or completing some task. If you’re sick or injured, that makes sense. But when you’re feeling lazy or tired or sore, and that’s your reason for choosing to not go to the gym or study a little more or do whatever it is you’re going to do, I’m sorry, but come on!! I get that we all have days where we feel tired, sore, lazy, or just not quite right. That being said, it’s important to push past those feelings and get done what needs to get done!! You’re not going to get to where you want to by lying in bed watching Netflix all day feeling bad for yourself! The only person that can make you change is you!

    I’m not saying I’m perfect or that I don’t have bad body image days because I most definitely still have days like that! But, I used to be the type of person to complain about how I looked and I did nothing about it. Part of why I did nothing was because I didn’t know what to do with myself and I let that excuse be enough. Looking back, I wasn’t happy that way. I wanted more for myself!

    I found that when I stopped making excuses and worked toward what I wanted, it came. My results may not have come as fast as I may have liked, but I keep working and I have come to appreciate the process and develop my discipline. And that doesn’t just apply to working out and developing a more sustainable, healthy lifestyle! That can apply to anything! If you’re wanting to make improvements in any aspect of your life, you’re not going to get there by complaining or feeling sorry for yourself. Your excuses will get you nowhere. Step outside your comfort zone, make sure you have a good support system, and go for what you want!

    I know you all are so capable of many things. So, stop making excuses and go take care of business. If you need someone to cheer you on, I’m right here for you. 🥰 Have a great week everyone. I’ll see you next weekend.

  • Meow Wolf Denver

    Meow Wolf Denver

    Meow Wolf review time! I actually visited around a month ago so this is long over due but that’s ok. Better late than never. 

    While my aunt and uncle were in town around the time of graduation, we decided to make a family trip to Denver to see Meow Wolf. If you plan to go, you do have to book tickets in advance, so plan ahead! We also found that we had to book our tickets like a month in advance also, because the place is popular!! 

    I’m not exactly sure how many locations there are but I know for a fact that beside the Denver location, there is also one in Santa Fe. I believe the two locations also have different themes. All I know is that Denver’s theme is convergence station. The idea is that there’s this main hub for different alien societies to join together. 

    Anyway, time for the review now. I think Meow Wolf is a cool idea. An interactive and fully immersive art museum sounds like a really good idea. I found that it was too much for me though. There were a lot of people and a lot of colors and sounds and it was just a lot to take in. I found some of the stuff to be really weird and kinda creepy in some places and in others, I found some genuinely pretty things to look at and walk through. 

    In this huge area that was like an underground city, my sister and I found some stairs that led down to a little pizza shop and I think that was by far the CREEPIEST room of the entire place. In the center of the shop, this massive one-eyed pizza creature stood before my sister and I. There was this panel you could press and he would say a variety of things. As we walked through the pizza shop a little more, I looked down into what I thought was a sealed-off ball pit. It was exactly what I thought it was AND MORE. There was this creepy little figure that appeared to be crawling through the pit. All of my fears of ball pits and foam pits as a child came back to me in that moment. Demented pizza place? Check! 

    Moving on from the horror at the pizza shop now, my favorite areas within Meow Wolf were probably the ice palace room and the big forest room. There were definitely still some strange looking creatures and figures within each of these two rooms, but overall, I liked these areas a lot. 

    Meow Wolf Denver

    In general I would say I wasn’t the biggest fan of Meow Wolf. It was just SO overstimulating. So much noise, color, and movement. It was just a lot to deal with. I’m pretty sure we were there for close to two hours but I’ve had friends say they think they could stay for 5-8 hours!! I feel like two hours was pushing it for me honestly though. We did miss out on buying these pass things (I think they were called Q passes?) that would make the whole museum more interactive and engaging. If we bought those I think you have the ability to learn more about the stories behind each area and uncover some sort of mystery. I was okay going through Meow Wolf without doing that but if you’re the type of person that likes that kind of stuff and can deal with all the busyness that is Meow Wolf, then go for it! I think certain people can have a lot of fun there and I’m just not one of those people.

    If you’re in Denver and you’re interested in Meow Wolf, be sure to make a stop at it! From my experience, I can say I definitely ventured outside my comfort zone with my visit and if that’s something you wanna give a try, then go for it. Maybe you’ll react like I did or maybe enjoy it! If you go, let me know what you think! Have a good week everyone!