1oo1 things

learn to knit
learn to say i love you in 5 languages
finish Gigi's room
have a halloween party
make smores outside
go to karoke and sing
streak through a football field
take dance classes
become a better daughter (!!!!!)
fly a kite
build a snow man (include the hat, carrot nose and scarf...)
go out to eat and a movie all by myself (ohhhh....scary!!)
learn to cook "southern food"
finish 3 sets of tea towles (you started them years ago!!)
write letters to everyone i love and have them ready (just in case I get run over by a John Deer tractor!)
get a tatoo
find 3 new "yummy" restaurants
have the family try out for "Family Amazing Race"
try 1 recipe a month from a "cook book"
visit another country
visit all 50 states
work for a politial campaign
make a list of 100 things that make me happy (scrap them!)
start a random list of reasons i love for reggie (scrap at least 101 reason)
plant a flower garden
have a family reunion
make 5 crochet "items" and give at least 3 of them away!
go back to school
visit New York and shop!
get my VISA (to travel)
bake!! (decorating cakes and cupcakes falls into this!)
take a picture of 10 people i love and journal about each one
get healthy
do a Mother/Daughter weekend with the girls
dance in the aisles at a store (have not done this in a looooong time).
dance in the rain (naked....hmmmmmmm)
organize my pictures
create a "bucket list" and see the movie!
start to research my families history and Reggies
start playing the "stocks" (which means getting educated on the stock market)
start my very own savings
can some foods (pickles, chile's)
start a portrait porfolio
do not go to bed angry
make a time capsule
start a "random thoughts" album (childhood, early marraige, teeneager, family...)
plan 4-6 "events" and follow through with them
to purge my house of "unwanted and unused" stuff!!!
become active in the "internet" world
take a hot air balloon ride
watch all the movies Elvis starred in
purchase a laptop of my very own
redo living room (including furniture)
new bedroom!!!
read 100 books and keep a list
exercise regularly for 6 mnths
more acts of kindness (1 per month???)
communicate more (letters, emails, visits, phone)
take a photography class
purchase my "wide" lense

ok...i know i do NOT want to do this but i have some errands i need to run and i know this is my one day off so...yucko!!!! I am sick and i think i should rest...but life calls!!! i mean do bills care if you are coughing up phlegm and have a dry scratchy throat? Does it matter if i feel so worn out and gross when it comes to buying groceries and doing laundry? NO!!! Life goes on.... and yes, errands must be done...and in some cases today!!! yucko!!! i guess i am trying to "type" myself into bypassing my bed (or the couch) and heading towards the car... i wonder if this will work?? Think about it...if I get the things on my list done I can come home and feel good about myself as well as accomplish things...but i will be exhausted and maybe i will set myself back??? hmmmm??? Maybe I need to go to bed, read until i fall asleep and then take a nap....sounds good. So good!!! But...yucko!!! What to do??? And...i just thought about it...it is a holiday...so...kids are home which means they are out with their parents...which means more people are out and it will be busy and i don't want to deal with busy....hmmmmm...

Yucko!!!! what a way to end my work week and start my weekend!! Sick!!! Yucko!! My throat hurts, my head aches and I feel so tired!! It is horrible!! I should have know I was going to get sick when I went to work one night and half my team was ill!!! After I came home from work I "vegged" for a minute and then called my Mom (something weird about wanting to talk to Mom when you are sick...) and then i went out!! I slept all day and had some weird dreams!!! (ok...i digress) I was able to drag myself in the tub for a warm bath and now I have a little energy (it will leave me within the next 30 minutes). I have to laugh because right now I am taking so much over the counter stuff; my house is starting to look like a pharmacy!! Nothing like good drugs!!! teeehehehehe! I am soooo hoping I feel better tomorrow! I hate being sick (who doesn't???). I will say this...when I feel good there are times when I will stop and enjoy being healthy! It helps me to appreciate being able to feel good and alive!!! *sighy* I think I am going to go and watch a movie and snuggle under a warm blanket and rest...

today was day of multiple errands (and you know how much I HATE errands...yucko!!!). I started early and ended late. I had to do some Valentine's shopping (so many gifts to buy!!), do some grocery shopping, go to the scrapbook store (I found 2 cute mini books...too cute!!!), excersise, mail a Valentine to my secret sister, take Boo to get her hair cut (aaarrrggghhhh) and take my family out to eat! Talk about busy!! I then finished up my mom and grandmothers Valentine's gifts (and one for me...teeehehehehe). AND to top off the day I had some of my QVC packages waiting for me (Wahoo!!!). There was some real fun and cute stuff and I cannot wait to start in on them.
this week plans to be a real busy week! I have to drop off Valentine gifts, make goody bags for my team and celebrate Valentine's Day with my family. Good Times!

I did it!!! I did it!! I went to have my hair cut and AAAAAAUUUUUUGGGGGHHHHHH!!! I HATE IT!!!!!!! I went in and asked for it to be shoulder length and AAAAAAAAUUUUUGGGGHHHHHH!!!!! She cute it chin length!!!!!! I am sooooooo upset. My family likes it (but you know family...they love you and well...they love you!!). *sighy* I am about change and I am wanting change and I am trying to be proactive but WOW!!! Change is not suppose to be bad is it???? I am worried it will not grow back as fast as I want, but I guess the one good thing about this is it will grow back!!! *sighy* The funny thing about this is tonight I spent time going through magazines and when I was shopping I was looking at hair! and guess what???!!!??? Everyone has long hair!!! Everyone except me!!!! (tears!!) Well...I will give myself permission to be depressed for a few days and then I will get on with life...


Regrets.....hmmmmmmm ask me in a few weeks!!! teeeehehehe


As for today...I went shopping (both online and at my local store!). I had lots of fun and QVC had a great TSV and lots of fun new stuff!!! I know I splurged but I kept it to a minimum and I will not be purchasing anything else until May from QVC, by then I will have paid off my purchases from today (see I am thinking before I spend...change...teeehehehehe).

WEIGHT CHANGES UPDATE...
well...i am pretty ok with my status so far this week on my plans to "change" my weight. I have been able to stay within 2 cokes a day (wahoo!!!!!) and limited my sweets (notice i did not say eliminate! teeehehehe). I have also excersiced 3 times this week (my starter goal!). G00d times!!

I am back to my regular schedule...graveyards. Last night was my first night and I must confess today I am dragging. As I look back I realize that I did like working days and being off at night was great! I am going to have to access my scheduled and see if I want to continue on my current shift during the next shift bid. The good thing about being back on my "regular" schedule is that I am back to cooking! The good old days of coming home around five and dinner being ready are gone (*sighy*). Yesterday I cooked a new recipe (I will post it later)! I want to bake something this month and only have 2 days (I hope I can do it!!). Another thing that has changed is blogging. I have not been able to blog as much as I would like but I am hoping that will change.

good times...today was a wonderful day. it was full of family, God and church. good times. we started the day spending time in church. it was a wonderful time of worship. the Lords presence was felt and welcomed. The message was very good and important to the spirit. Making sure you see God in you at all times as a Christian is very important. Having joy and love in the life of a Christian is so vital and necessary. The message made me think(which is always important when listening to a message) about where I am and where I want/need to be. It about CHANGING!!!! Lot's of meat and I love Sunday morning meat!!! teeeehehehehehe
We also went to our favorite Chinese restaurant (yummy). Later on we went to a youth group fundraiser. It was a great time. They did a great job with the spaghetti dinner and the short play they did was a blessing! The LORD was so wonderful and blessed the group with $1,000.00!! He is truley incredible and AWESOME!!

Thinking Warm Thoughts

1. What is your favorite hot beverage? Hot Chocolate
2. Describe your favorite hot food? I love Mexican food and if it is done right it is nice and "hot" (both spicy hot and fresh off the stove top hot). I also love our famous Chile with cornbread on a cold snowy day (it's warm and makes me feel warm inside...teeehehehehe)
3. What piece of clothing makes you feel warm and snugly the moment you put it on?My flannel long pajama's I received one Christmas years ago.
4. Do you warm up your car on cold days? Do you run the heat all the time or just enough to defrost the windows? I use to warm it up but than i read it can be bad on the car to warm up to much so i no longer warm up the car!!
5. What is your ideal warm-weather vacation spot? Cancun or Hawaii!!!

FRIDAY FILL-IN

1. My family makes me happy.

2. I would like to loose 150 lbs, please.

3. Crab legs in hot melted mbutter tastes SO good!

4. Sunday is my favorite day of the week because it is a day for family and relaxation.

5. My eyes are my best feature.

6. We could learn so much from Jesus.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to relaxing, tomorrow my plans include Senior pictures for my youngest and Sunday, I want to go to church and eat Chines food!

FINALS ARE DONE! TRAINING IS DONE!! wahoo...our training is done and we are back to our regular schedules next week. gone is the 8-5 Monday - Friday schedule *sighy*. i will miss it... and at the same time i am glad it is finally over. it has been 3 very intense weeks and now that i have passed i can say WAHOO!! it is over. i am also excited because this is the first month of the year and i was able to work on one of my changes...learning new stuff for my job (work related). So...i now have a 3 day weekend and i am planning on chilling tonight and then doing some stuff around the house this weekend and on Monday running errands (which i sooooo hate!!). i would also like to do some "baking" and maybe, just maybe some scrapbooking and some DVR catching up!! On top of that my daughter has pictures and i have to take my other baby girl to buy school books! Wow...it looks like i am going to have a busy weekend....teeehehehehehe. wish me luck!

mid week and wishing it was Friday night!! this week is turning out to be another one of those weeks...it is going fast, nothing is getting done (except shopping for a new silver purse and some cool jewelry), and stress all around. yucko!!! we have a test tomorrow and the final on Friday. it has been so crazy at home, and with this training schedule (this is the last week!) that dinner had been fast food (wendy's, taco bell...). i must confess i think i will be glad when my normal schedule resumes.
teeeehehehe...we just watched AI (we DVR it) and there were a few singers we really liked tonight (they were from San Diego). The girls who was disqualified in season 5 is awesome! and there were 2 guys (the single dad and the 16 year old). time will tell if any of them stay!!! I am so glad AI is back!!!! Love...love...love this show!!!!!!

10 things that were better back when...

1/ i could laugh and giggle whenever i wanted...i use to love it when i was able to laugh our loud and giggle all day long. i also was able to giggle at silly things and it was ok because i was young and did not care when others thought.

2/ i could sleep all day and night....my mom use to hate this but ohhhh....those were the best days. i loved to sleep and there was nothing waiting for me so i could sleeeeeeeeep!!!

3/ BattleStar Galactica...Sunday nights were awesome because me and my dad would watch this show and loved it!!!!

4/ traffic...i miss the days when i could drive on the highways and did have to worry about stop and go traffic.

5/ nightly news...the news back when was so much "happier". i don't remember seeing so much crime and ugliness when i use to watch the news. it is so bad lately that i hate to watch the news at night (and the day!!).

6/ 30 minutes tv shows...ohhhhh i use to love watching Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, MASH, Mork and Mindy, Welcome Back Kotter. Those were some awesome shows and I loved them!!!

7/ my hair...it was so think and black and i loved it. i would spend hours on it and *sighy* again, i loved it!!!

8/ trust...there seemed to be more trust way back when. you did not go around watching your back all the time, fearing what your neighbor may do to you. people seemed to trust eachother more back when...

9/ COKE...i know it sounds wierd but i promise COKE seemed to be better way back when. it really did.

10/ Dance Places...there was a time when we were able to go to a few dance places (Thirsty's) and we could dance and dance and dance (we were under 21 so it was so fun to be able to have a place to hang out...).

RANDOM THOUGHTS


* what will this week hold for me? will it be better than last week? i sure hope so.
* if i don't get up and do the laundry who will? I have my clothes i want to wear tomorrow in there and they need to be put in the dryer.
* i am so wanting some butter pecan ice cream...i am soooo going to have some tonight!
* i need to get my Christmas Tree's down (i know...i know...it's the 21st of January and they are still up!!).
* i am so glad i put gas is Boo's car after work...it is cold and snowy and she will not have to worry about that on her first day of a new semester.
* wow! Boo is a Junior in college! Where has the time gone!
* Go Pats!! I am so glad they won but man...they play a boring game so i am hoping with the Giants winning it will be a great and exciting game!
* I found some exciting projects online for beading but wow!! that hobby is not cheap. why do i pick the hobbies that are expensive!
* i need to get with my mom and aunt Virgie to see who has birthdays coming up.
* i am hoping i can have our parents over this weekend but i am not sure...time will tell!
* i am sure glad i was able to work with Dave. I will miss him as my boss.
* learning hsi stuff is sooooo mind boggling! i sure hope i can get it by our final on Friday!
* before leaving for work today i happened to see something on the news. January 21st is the most depressing day of the year. It was not a great way to start my day! I am so glad i did not let that statement own me and my day was a good day! teeeeehehehe!

I saw this Meme and thought it looked fun....

UNCONSCIOUS MUTTERINGS

1/ PRESIDENT......NEW ONE IN NOVEMBER
2/ STARE...EYE TO EYE, STARE DOWN
3/ EMBRACE...LOVE AND HUGS
4/ MOVIE...JUNO (WE JUST SAW IT YESTERDAY!)
5/ EVERYTHING...IMPOSSIBLE TO OWN!!!
6/PROFILE...BLOGGING PROFILE
7/ SATIRE....BLACK COMEDY
8/ ERRATIC...ME BEFORE A MAJOR EVENT
9/ COSTUME...DANCE...DANCE...DANCE!!!!
10/ SECRETARY....HORSE

wahoooo!!!

go pats!!!!!