Well it’s the final week of 2009. My how the year has gone so quickly. It seems like just the other day it was freezing outside and I was stressed out about getting to La Grande for Christmas because of all the ice. Only, that was a year ago!
So, since it’s a new year several people have asked me what my New Years Resolutions are. Honestly… I haven’t put too much thought into this because I can’t remember ever having one that I’ve kept/fulfilled. I mean I always have the basics… pray more… read my Bible more… and lose weight. But this time I’ve decided I’m going to put more thought into it and make realistic goals.
Rather than “lose weight” I’m asking myself to lose the last 35 lbs by the end of summer. This means I have to lose approximately 0.8 lbs a week. Not much, but completely realistic.
I want to start an exercise program. Something I can afford, and will enjoy, but not something I can get bored at easily. So, I was debating a wii fit, but changed my mind. I am going with the floor mat, hand weights and good ol DVD’s. AAAAHHH you say, DVD’s get boring… well, not when you have Netflix and there is a huge array of exercise DVD’s I can have at my house and keep for an unlimited amount of time. I will more than likely increase my usage from 3 at a time, to 4 at a time just so I don’t mess with the amount we use at home.
I want to be less organized and anal. Yes I said that. Sometimes I think I’m too organized … and that causes grief for me because there is little flexibility for other things. We’ll see how this works…because I don’t have any clue how to implement it. I think it’s my nature and just the way I was born!
We’ll see how these all work out as I try to implement them. Just pray I can follow through and not be such a lazy girl.
Monday, December 28, 2009
Friday, December 4, 2009
Christmas is just around the corner!
Christmas is just around the corner and I’m sooo excited this year! The funny thing is, I’m not even sure exactly why! Maybe it’s because we’re done shopping and I can just sit back and enjoy everything!
Today John and I got off work about four hours early so we could get a few things done in the day-light, like get the Christmas lights up!!! But get this, we’re not done. No it’s not because we have a bazillion lights like Clark Griswald. It’s because Christmas light stink now-a-days! Seriously! Why is it that every year I have to buy new lights? They are always the specialty lights too! Last year, new icicle lights. The year before? New icicle lights. It’s these ones the most that drive me nuts. You can’t replace the bulbs because nine times out of ten you can’t figure out which one is broken! So you think well I’ll just go get one new set, they’re only seven or eight bucks. Then you go to the store. You buy the set you think looks like yours. Get home…. Nope. They’re too short. Or too long. Aren’t the same color of white. Don’t twinkle the same. Either way, they don’t match, and you’re stuck… because alas you cannot locate a set that is exactly like yours. Why you ask? Probably because the dumb light-makers know this and do it intentionally so you have to buy a whole flippin butt-load again!!! Errr. So this year? The icicle lights are coming off and we have regular lights up!!! Yay!!! But we only got the strip along the house done, the window, and our snow-flakes up, because it got too dark because of too much time at the stores!!
Onto other Christmas things… we got our first Christmas card today! Yay!!! Amy & Dave Bertolini were the winners! Usually I already have mine out… I honestly try to mail them out the first couple days of the month. I’ve been a slacker so far and haven’t even addressed the envelopes or purchased stamps (bad me!)! But I love getting Christmas cards. It’s one of the few times in life where it’s fun checking the mail! Not to mention I use them to decorate up my closet door in the living room. It’s so fun to see how full it gets! Every year I take a picture and compare it. This year I want to try something new with our Christmas cards. I read about it in a magazine once. After you take down your cards… you keep them and don’t throw them away. Every night for the next however long it takes, you pull one card from the stack and throw it away. But not before you first pray over the family or company that sent you the card. What an awesome idea!!
Speaking of new things I’m doing this Christmas season… I’m baking a ton of cookies! Or, well, maybe a ton! I was talking with a couple ladies at work today and we decided to do a Christmas cookie exchange. We sent a slip around the office to see if anyone else wanted to participate! FUN! If you don’t know what one of these is, it’s where each person in the group bakes a dozen cookies for all the others in the group. So, if there are five people participating…you bake five dozen cookies. But you bake all the same kind. And they must be homemade. Then, you each end up with five dozen different cookies when you’re all done! We’re doing it slightly different as in once it reaches six participants we’re doing a half dozen for each person. If we get more than a dozen I think we’re doing four cookies per person. In an office of 34 people… I am not risking making 34 dozen cookies! The beauty of this is if someone doesn’t do it, it doesn’t hurt too much!
So as you can see…I’m really starting to get in the Christmas spirit. I love this time of year…and I love being able to have friends and family over…celebrating the birth of our Lord Jesus!
His Blessings!
Today John and I got off work about four hours early so we could get a few things done in the day-light, like get the Christmas lights up!!! But get this, we’re not done. No it’s not because we have a bazillion lights like Clark Griswald. It’s because Christmas light stink now-a-days! Seriously! Why is it that every year I have to buy new lights? They are always the specialty lights too! Last year, new icicle lights. The year before? New icicle lights. It’s these ones the most that drive me nuts. You can’t replace the bulbs because nine times out of ten you can’t figure out which one is broken! So you think well I’ll just go get one new set, they’re only seven or eight bucks. Then you go to the store. You buy the set you think looks like yours. Get home…. Nope. They’re too short. Or too long. Aren’t the same color of white. Don’t twinkle the same. Either way, they don’t match, and you’re stuck… because alas you cannot locate a set that is exactly like yours. Why you ask? Probably because the dumb light-makers know this and do it intentionally so you have to buy a whole flippin butt-load again!!! Errr. So this year? The icicle lights are coming off and we have regular lights up!!! Yay!!! But we only got the strip along the house done, the window, and our snow-flakes up, because it got too dark because of too much time at the stores!!
Onto other Christmas things… we got our first Christmas card today! Yay!!! Amy & Dave Bertolini were the winners! Usually I already have mine out… I honestly try to mail them out the first couple days of the month. I’ve been a slacker so far and haven’t even addressed the envelopes or purchased stamps (bad me!)! But I love getting Christmas cards. It’s one of the few times in life where it’s fun checking the mail! Not to mention I use them to decorate up my closet door in the living room. It’s so fun to see how full it gets! Every year I take a picture and compare it. This year I want to try something new with our Christmas cards. I read about it in a magazine once. After you take down your cards… you keep them and don’t throw them away. Every night for the next however long it takes, you pull one card from the stack and throw it away. But not before you first pray over the family or company that sent you the card. What an awesome idea!!
Speaking of new things I’m doing this Christmas season… I’m baking a ton of cookies! Or, well, maybe a ton! I was talking with a couple ladies at work today and we decided to do a Christmas cookie exchange. We sent a slip around the office to see if anyone else wanted to participate! FUN! If you don’t know what one of these is, it’s where each person in the group bakes a dozen cookies for all the others in the group. So, if there are five people participating…you bake five dozen cookies. But you bake all the same kind. And they must be homemade. Then, you each end up with five dozen different cookies when you’re all done! We’re doing it slightly different as in once it reaches six participants we’re doing a half dozen for each person. If we get more than a dozen I think we’re doing four cookies per person. In an office of 34 people… I am not risking making 34 dozen cookies! The beauty of this is if someone doesn’t do it, it doesn’t hurt too much!
So as you can see…I’m really starting to get in the Christmas spirit. I love this time of year…and I love being able to have friends and family over…celebrating the birth of our Lord Jesus!
His Blessings!
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