It's been a day!

My goals today I thought were very easy; read, catch up on some of my t.v. shows, and wait for the dryer repair man. Instead I had a crazy day of getting everything ready for the homeless shelter (I think that I donated the most!), cleaning the house/all the new stuff I got from Amazon, and waiting for the dryer man. Speaking of Amazon did anyone get the amazing Living Social deal yesterday? I mean come on pay $10 for $20 on Amazon! That is amazing.


The best part of the day I feel was when Jrod started to go through his 3 giant boxes of papers to shred and finally found the receipt we were looking for. I had to call and cancel the dryer man then call Lowes and spend like 20 mins on the phone, now the dryer will be fixes on Monday. The people coming to fix it have very low ratings when you goggle them, but the people I had coming today has all 5 star reviews. Here is a question to you, is it worth not having to pay and getting bad service or paying and getting done right the first time? 


The next part of the day was stopping at an awesome art store for Jrod's school supplies, then battling traffic to go to furniture stores looking for a new coffee table and end tables. I found the perfect one, it just wasn't in our color we were looking for. It's so had to shop because I want a beachy or vintage look while Jrod is very modern. I can't really say anything because he buys it all, but if it is really bad I do speak up. Now don't get me wrong I love everything that he has picked out in the house, it's amazing. I already am starting to plan out our next house's kitchen/dining room, and I think that I am going to keep the bedroom the same color and all. The greatest part of my day was that for the first time in my life I got to try a 'HOT' Krispy Kreme donut! Did you know that they give you a free donut sample when you come in and the sign says 'Hot' it was AMAZING!!! One of the few times that my stomach hasn't hurt after eating on in a ever long time. 

Goals in my relationship

Yesterday while doing the mad dash cleaning of every square inch in the house looking for the dryer info I came across a very interesting piece of paper. When Jrod and I first started dating I made a list of everything I wanted to do with him/learn from him. This started in 2008, let's see how far we have gotten.


- Watch all the Bond movies (close but no)
-Watch Meet the Fockers (Jrod had never seen it before)
-Learn to drive stick ( I tried but I need to see the gear numbers and Jrod doesn't have that on his gear stick)
-Learn to swim (no go) 
-Lean to snorkel (what do you think?)
-More pictures together (I am going to say yes, but slacked huge in 2010)
-Eat Tofu and drink soy milk (done!)
-Sushi (no!)
-Running ( I feel a half marathon counts, yes?)
-Hiking (Many times over but not as much as I would like)
-Washington DC (Jrod went but I couldn't go because of my job)
-Video games (Check! Not as much as Jrod would like though)
-Board games (That was many fun nights with my parents!)
- Go to both Oceans (No for either, at least not together)
-Disney World (got it down, also hit up Universal too!)
-Get a picture of us standing up to show the height difference (oh yeah!)


Have you ever come across an old goals list or To do list? I really enjoy looking at them and seeing what kind of person I was at the moment in my life. Hope you all had an amazing day! The dryer is getting fixed tomorrow afternoon and I will be spending the morning redoing the pantry trying to stay warm. I am so excited to be off on an amazing cold day, pj's until Noon with a dash of baking going on.

Goals 2011

(I wish I had this as a poster I could look at while at my desk at work) 

I have been working on my Goals for 2011, it takes a long time and next year I think I will start in December. I found a great worksheet at Lululemon's Blog yesterday and I am going to print off and fill out. It's a great idea, and I love seeing what other's have as goals over the next 5-10 years. Here goes a quick list of what I would like to happen this coming year! 


1) Yoga- at least once a day, I feel so much better in the morning when I do it.
2) Working Out- again I feel so much better.
3) Life Plan- This I can't start until we find out what Jrod's orders are going to be.
4) Try one new thing a month- January: I made homemade chicken and rice soup from scratch with Kale in it. That's two things! 
5) Blog- need to do this more often
6) Go home to Erie! - This is a MUST it's been I think 5 yrs or more
7) Go to Disney 4 times- One down, three more to go!
8) Volunteer- I will get this done with work, I am hoping for the food bank again 
9) One of each = Baseball game and Hockey game- Hockey will be seen 1/28/11
10) Get a new pair of glasses- I am really bad at this
11) Set goals each month- Jan checked!
12) Finish four craft projects- I am thinking one a quarter, still working on my mountain bag.
13) Go on one vacation not to visit family
14) Run 4 5k's, and one half marathon- I think I am going to sign up for Austin's The Statesman 10K in March. 
15) Be able to touch my foot to my head while standing on the other foot- this will help with my yoga everyday goal. At the moment I can't even touch my toes.
16) Go back to school (see #3) or at least have a major picked out and set.- I have a couple ideas for this one, but I really want to talk with a dietitian first. I would love to help overweight kids/teenagers eat healthier. 
17) Garden- my front yard still looks great, back yard will be some work.
18) Make the third bedroom into a Woman cave! (see #3)
19) Organize the house- I have made HUGE steps towards that in the past week. I have 3 garage bags of clothes/sheets/etc for the homeless shelter and then 3 boxes for goodwill.
20) Eat dinner at the dining table 2 times a week at least. - This will be very hard with Jrod's school schedule. Lots of dinner's by myself it is looking like. 


I know it's a lot but telling everyone will help me push myself (in a good way) to make sure it's all done! What are your top 5 goals for 2011? 

What a day!

Last night as I was finishing up my post and getting ready for bed I had put my second load of wash in the dryer. I was tried, upset, and just wanted to crawl into bed. Well, it turns out that I didn't put the lint filter back in after I cleaned it. This morning when I went to try it on and make sure all my clothes were dry (my work clothes don't dry well) I couldn't get it to work. I open it up and notice that I am missing the filter. *oh crap!* was the first thought in my head. I got my kick butt lint stick and was able to fish out 3 socks and a pair of underwear. It still didn't work, so I thought I would wait and see if it fixed it's self while I was at work, it was a no go. So I had to tell Jrod when we got home, and he was not happy. We spent the next 3 hours looking for the warranty with no luck finding it. I am calling the repair service tomorrow, but what an adventure it was today. Please let my Electrolux be okay.


I think that best part was that I got to clean everything and I have been needing/wanting to clean/organize and shredded all of my papers. The bad part was that I came home early from work because my stomach and I are not friends at this moment. Dinner was killer tonight trying to get down homemade chicken soup from Monday. It keeps cramping up, really different parts of my abs do it at different times. I am really thinking it is from stress, because I was 150% stressed out most of Monday then didn't sleep do to it on Mon/Tues night and then crazy stressed out again on Tuesday. 


I have a dr's appointment on Monday the 31st and I am going to talk to her about a dietitian to talk to about everything going on in my food life. Has anyone ever been to one? 

My day so far!

I am very excited to say that this was waiting for me when I got home today! We have been looking for a fruit basket to go into the kitchen for almost a year now, so happy. I am going to put all my amazing pink lady apples in it tonight! 

I am also happy to say that today went much better than I thought it would. I cleaned my computer desk, watched two NCIS    shows and packed an awesome lunch! At worked I cleaned from 9am until 5:30 pm that  is when I gave up, but I am almost done like another 2 hours tomorrow and that should knock it out of the park. I have 3 loads of wash to do tonight due to having no towels for the shower and no clothes for work tomorrow. I am also going to knock out the dishes before getting into normal clothes. It's Jrod's first day of school and we are hoping he gets out early so we can run to the store and pick up a couple of things. If not then pj time it is for me!! I am trying to push myself to get everything I need to get done during the week so on Friday I can just workout, play kinect, and read my newest book from Susan Elizabeth Phillips. Sounds like an amazing day right :) Yeah, I think so too! 

Awake

It is now 4:30 am and I have been up for a little over an hour. I know what you are thinking, do you have a plane to catch, are you driving somewhere for vacation. The answer I am sad to say is no. I am just stressed out and overwhelmed to the max. I can't sleep, I can't eat because it just makes me sick, and no matter how hard I try to climb out of this sand-trap that I find myself sinking into so fast I can't. 


I at home I have a plan and if I had time and a little help I could get it done, but I am just laying in bed thinking of everything that needs to be done and how I should just get up and do them now. I already feel like crap why just toss and turn all night and bother Jrod. So up I am and one of my cleaning/organizing projects is finished, or at least as done as it can be without making noise. I can't sleep knowing that what needs to be done is just below me downstairs while I lay in bed.


At work I am just stuck, my list keeps building; which I in no way mind but I need some help. When I try and divide up what needs to be done to my staff they say they do it but don't so my half my day is spent doing what they should have done on my day off. A good amount of the time I wander if I should even take days off. Why bother, it's just more work for me what I come back. I have a plate full already and I can't just get a giant project thrown on me that could be done over time and instead must be done in a day. All of my other work just gets pushed to the wayside and I have to pick something that is not going to get done by it's due date. I already know what it is going to be, and I will be getting yelled at for it but my other projects are more important, even if they don't see/understand it. I do have to say that at this time of the year I always get overwhelmed this year it is just much, much harder/more and almost double of what I normally get thrown to me. 


I LOVE my job, I have a Passion for my job, really how many people can say that. I just want to be able to do my job and work with amazing good people. I am a joke to most people to whom I work with and they have little or no respect at all for my job. It kind of beats you down after a while, then I interact with amazing people and realize that because of my job they are having a blast. This interaction always gets me through for a while until I just get overwhelmed again. 


I am mentally fried, I need like five days off where I am just home. I can get everything done I have to do, then I can do fun things too. 

Thanks for listening whoever you are.  Off to go and watch my panic attack movie and hopefully I can get 30-40 more minutes of sleep before Jrod gets up for work. This is going to be a very long day.

Books!

One of my favorite blogs that I found in 2010 was Then Heather Said! A couple of days ago she did a post called Whatcha Reading? I was very excited and as people started to post what they were reading or goals for the year of what to read I realized that they were all very deep books. They at least were for me :) I am a fluff kind of girl, for those who know me this is 100% true. Though in the past year I did read a record amount of non fluff, but I always come back to the fluff. Now fluff for me is funny romance or funny murder mysteries, odd I know but it makes me happy. I asked on twitter if I should post and add some fluff, well Heather answered back! I was very excited, and so I thought I would share some of the ones that I posted on her site. 


Jennifer Crusie- no lie you can't go wrong with a single one of her books


Meg Cabot- Her size 12 series= super fun! 































Susan Elizabeth Phillips-I really enjoy her books along with Crusie's books because they bring main characters back as smaller characters in other books. I enjoy how they connect characters you have already fall in love with together with new ones. I wouldn't read Honey Moon or  Hot Shot the rest are amazing.


















Beth Ciotta- this book is out of print but you can find it in used bookstores really easy or at least in my town you can. This series is a laugh a minute and has you cheering Evie on the whole time.
























Elaine Viets- has two series the dead end job one and the mystery shopper one. I have to say that I really enjoy both and that they come out at good times of the year. 























Susan Donovan- I found this book because it won an award for best romance ( I think) in 2006. I can't tell you how many times I have read this one, it will bring out what of whatever slump you are in. 




















Kristan Higgins- I love every book she has written and can't wait for her next one! I cry my heart out at each one, but they all have happy endings.






















Nancy Martin- The blackbird sisters mystery's, a very interesting bunch of characters. The series is worth it! 


























I have more, but I think this will be good for now. What are your favorites that still sit on your bookshelf no matter how many times you clean it out to make room for more?