Well hello there, and welcome to Narrow Allies! Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Alison. I have been referred to as Ali, or Alison 1 by those that know Allison and me. I was born on an incredibly cold day in January 1982 in the small town of Heber City, UT. Heber is where I grew up, and Heber is where I call home yet again, after venturing out for a while. I guess you could say that my heart never left Heber. So there I remain. Even though I despise snow.
When I was 21, I went on a mission for the LDS church to Milwaukee, WI. It was there that I met the love of my life, Scott, who was also serving a mission there. Was it love at first sight? Hardly. I don't think two people argued over ridiculous things more than Scott and I did as missionaries. However, two years later, he came home and we started spending time together, after realizing that neither of us were really that bad. 5 months later we were married.
We have now been married for 5 1/2 years, and have loved every minute of it! Scott is an amazing human being, and every day I feel so lucky to be with him. He and I have both struggled with our weight since we got married (both of us gained close to 100 lbs since 2006, when we got married). We've lost and then gained and then lost again, and then gained. Most recently, we took part in a local Biggest Loser competition put on by the Fit Stop in Heber. It was a 10 week program where we had teams, personal trainers, and weekly weigh ins. At the end of the 10 weeks, Scott had lost 70 lbs (and won 3rd place overall) and I had lost 30. Since then, I've stayed at about a 35 lb weight loss. I have gone up and down between 5 lbs, and I am really struggling with getting the rest of this weight off.
Scott and I have been trying to have children since the day we got married. I was 24 when we got married, and I didn't want to wait, because I had a feeling it would take us a while to have a baby, due to my own physiological issues. 5 years later, we are still trying, and for the past year we have been exploring different fertility treatments. I know if that if could drop 100 lbs my chances would raise, and it would make a pregnancy far less risky for me (since it will be high risk anyway). It breaks my heart that I haven't been able to make Scott into the wonderful father I know he will be. I have to get this weight off. I just do.
I currently work as a CPS Caseworker for DCFS in Provo and I LOVE my job! I am also finishing my master's degree in Counseling. Near the end of the School Counseling program (where I met my BFF Allison), I decided school counseling wasn't for me, and that Mental Health Counseling is where I belong. My dream is to build and run an inpatient center for substance abuse with an added homeless wing. This has been my dream since I was 12 years old and designed the center on the back of the program at church. The design has changed since then, of course, but the dream is the same, nevertheless. I will graduate in May 2013 and I hope to shortly build my center after that. Scott works as a CNA for Dale Lawrence, the high school senior that broke his neck and became paralyzed during a wrestling practice. He is great at his job.
Here are a few of my likes and dislikes, just for good measure.
LIKES (in no particular order):
Cheeseburgers. Favorite food ever.
Mustangs. If you know me, you know this well.
Movies. Any genre except anything older than 1980. I don't know why.
Silver. Anything silver makes me happy, mostly because it's pretty and shiny.
Family. My family means the world to me and I'd do anything for them.
Organization. Call me OCD, call me what you will, but don't you ever call me disorganized!
Food Storage. Thanks, Red Dawn, for instilling me a fear of the impending doom that is to come.
Feeling beautiful. Something I get to do every day, thanks to my sweet husband.
DISLIKES (also in no particular order):
Revolving doors. Yikes.
Shower drains. I cannot step on a shower drain without freaking out a little.
Bees. There's a bee, too!
Obnoxious know-it-alls. You know you dislike them, too.
Child Abusers. It is incredibly painful to see someone hurt something they have, when what they have is the one thing you want more than anything.
Bread Bowls. I got food poisoning once after eating soup in a bread bowl. I was 12. Haven't had one since.
Onions. They remind me of tapeworms.
Coconut. Reminds me of fingernail/toenail clippings.
Messes made by others. Is it really that hard to clean up after yourself?
