New Year, New Things

Hi, my name is Chynna. I'm a junior at Truman State University in the small town of Kirksville, MO. I have a dad, a mom, and two sisters. Now I'm sounding like Eliza Thornberry from the Wild Thornberries. Oops! 

That's actually why I'm writing this blog. My good friend and fellow blogger, Louise, told me that I should dish out my insane knowledge of celebs, TV shows, movies, and music history out to others by writing a blog. I thought she was crazy, but then I thought, "What the heck?" So here is my first attempt. I have to warn you ahead of time: I am not funny. In fact, I am incredibly corny. The things that make me laugh usually have others looking at me like "Why did she say that? I don't know, but let's smile anyway so she doesn't feel bad." 

Anyway, as you saw the title of this entry is "New Year, New Things." This semester, I am doing two new things that will hopefully lead to exciting results. I have started the new 90 Day Diet http://the90daydiet.com/ which is strange but interesting and an ab workout program that I found on the Google Play Store for Android. Anyone who knows me knows that I'm not really overweight or anything. In fact, I'm very curvy and, as some men like to say, I'm thick. However, I want to always have a nice, toned stomach so that, no matter how curvy I am, I never look overweight, hence the ab workout. My mother has done pretty much every diet known to man from fasting, Atkins, Michael Thurman, Beyonce's Cayenne Pepper diet, and so many more. I've seen the good and the bad of these diets. Still, I was intrigued by the 90 Day Diet because it wasn't really a diet saying cut out fat, carbs, calories, starches, sweets. Rather, it asks you to eat them only on certain days because apparently some foods don't digest well with others and this causes those horrible stomachaches we get after the holidays. So today, I'm on meat and fish day. That means I can eat any kind of meat, eggs, veggies, whatever. The only thing I can't have are certain types of breads. Otherwise, not too restricting, right? 

Besides my meal plan, I'm focused on a new research project for school and my future education. I am studying what happened to the African peoples taken from their homelands and put to work in the Americas. Growing up, I only really heard about slavery in America. Since I've been in college, I've learned that the United States only received a small number of slaves compared with Latin America. That's what I'm trying to find out more about. What happened to these people? How are they living now? So I'll be working on that today while I'm at work. My new on-campus job is as a library worker and all I have to do is remove print outs from the printer so that when students come, they can easily get their papers. Pretty easy, huh? I know, I thought so too. 

But I'm going to say hasta luego to you all and get started with my day (I have no Friday classes this semester!). 

:)