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Fun! Fun! Fun!

Whew! Today has been a pretty good day!!

My sweetie and I went out to Goodwill and I picked up 3 books! We headed over for lunch, and had fun being silly and giggly all through lunch! We then went to St. Vincent de Pauls, then spent a couple of fun hours over at Border’s. After returning home, I went and took a nap and woke up just in time to have my sis, Alex, and the kiddos come over for dinner, a couple of games of Uno, and then off to swim and play in the pool, volleyball anyone???

Having fun all day can be tiresome!! Can I confide in you? I am waaay to young to be feeling this old!!! I have got to get back into shape – yes, I am in shape, if you counted ROUND as a shape!! This is so important to me. I have so many people who count on me being around, not mention I count on me to be around – for as long as possible! I don’t want to become a sad statistic!! Ok, that is enough of my sad-song!!!

As for my to-do list from today:

  • Blog – Done!
  • Track food – I can do this on the go, on my Blackberry – Nope
  • Drink at least 2 liters of water – Done!
  • Read for at least 1/2 an hour – Done!
  • Sort bills – Done!
  • Dinner & Swimming with Alex & the kiddos!!! – Done!
  • and last, but not least, GO HAVE SOME FUN!!!! – Done

I spent the past half an hour watching some cool tutorial videos on fashion and beauty. It made me curious about how to create a video of my own. Hmmm…maybe I will have to research that!! Like maybe a video journal of my 60 day life makeover!!! Could be cool!!

While I think on how to do that…

Have a FABULOUS evening!

Sleepin’ in & Feelin’ Groovy!!

Good morning!!

Today is the start of day 7 of my vacation, and I was FINALLY able to SLEEP IN TODAY!!! YEAH!!! I can’t believe it -I woke up at 9:30 today!!! WHOO! HOO!! I am up showered, dressed, ready to get my day started!!!

Ok, just so I don’t lose my momentum, I do have a small to-do list for today that I will get to that in a minute…but right now, there is a lesson that I have recently learned that I want to put into practice for today! I have been reading a book called, “Live for a Thousand Years”, it is by Giovanni Livera. One of the lessons that it teaches is that you have to make time for playing.

WHAT A NOVEL CONCEPT!!!

This is one of my MOST DIFFICULT things to remember! I am such a to-do list girl, that spontaneity seems to be really difficult for me – always has been!! Today, seeing that it is the 7th day of our vacation – and my husband and I are starting to go a little stir-crazy, me trying to be PROACTIVE 24/7, and him having to live with me while I am on COMBAT MISSION mode!!! 😉

So, I have decided today, besides the few things that I MUST get done, my Sweetie & I are going to head out and go have some spontaneous fun!!! I am not sure what that is going to look like yet, but I will give you an update this evening!!!

As for my to-do list?? Well, I am going to try to keep this short and sweet:

  • Blog
  • Track food – I can do this on the go, on my Blackberry
  • Drink at least 2 liters of water
  • Read for at least 1/2 an hour
  • Sort bills
  • Dinner & Swimming with Alex & the kiddos!!!
  • and last, but not least, GO HAVE SOME FUN!!!!

With that…

Have a FABULOUS day!!!

Started Out Strong & Peter’ed Out!!!

When I woke up this morning, I had every intention of doing EVERY SINGLE THING ON MY TO-DO LIST TODAY!!! I started out strong, motivated, driven, and I even did the scariest things from my to-do list first!!!

After I had accomplished about 4 or 5 things, my energy level absolutely plummeted!!! What’s up with that??? Plus, during my walk today, within the last block of the 3-miles, in the freezing rain, I turned my ankle!

“OUCH, it’s ok, it’s ok, I am just going to walk it off!”

Well, after about two hours after getting home and doing some more chores, I realized that not only did I hurt my ankle, I tweaked by lower back and pulled a muscle in my leg! Doesn’t that just figure???? LOL! It’s all good! as of tonight, only my leg is a little ach-ey, so I am sure by morning I will be back to 100%

Jason and I starting to struggle a little bit right now on vacation! We are starting to get a little antsy and bored! I can hear my mom saying,

“Get outside, and go find out something to do!!”

So, starting tomorrow, we are going to have to get creative in what our activity options for the rest of this week are!!! I need to pretend we are hanging out of the beach house (oh, how we miss thee!), and do the same kind of things that we would do if we were there!!

An update on my To-Do List from today is:

  • Blog – Done
  • Walking plan – 3 miles – DONE!!! YEAH!!!
  • Track Food – Done
  • Drink 2 Liters of water – Working on it!
  • File my stack of creative paperwork – Started
  • Read for at least 1/2 an hour – Done
  • Write letter to my sponsor child – Done
  • Mail it – No
  • Organize bills – Started
  • Update electronic monthly bill tracker – Started
  • Finish Laundry – Done (Thank you, Honey!!!)
  • Eyebrow wax appointment – Rescheduled to next week
  • Bathe Faye – Done
  • Bathe Sophie – Done
  • Sort all magazines (HUGE project!!) – Started
  • Create a journal bookmark for my planner – No
  • Go swimming with Jason – make time for play!!! – No
  • Go to bed by 11 – That is still the goal!

I am getting ready to go upstairs and get some more filing done!!

In the meantime…

Have a FABULOUS evening!! 😉

Good Morning!

I am up! I am dressed! and I am raring to go!!!

I have a lot of actions that I need to take if I am going to accomplish my 60 Day Life Makeover goals:

  1. Lose 20 pounds
  2. Sock away an extra $1000 into savings
  3. Find a church home
  4. Clean, organize, and purge our entire home of unloved and/or unused belongings from top to bottom
  5. Purchase and refinish one piece of furniture to sell to get the ball rolling on getting paid to do what I love

My To-Do List for today is:

  • Blog
  • Walking plan – 3 miles
  • Track Food
  • Drink 2 Liters of water
  • File my stack of creative paperwork
  • Read for at least 1/2 an hour
  • Write letter to my sponsor child
  • Mail it
  • Organize bills
  • Update electronic monthly bill tracker
  • Finish Laundry
  • Eyebrow wax appointment
  • Bathe Faye
  • Bathe Sophie
  • Sort all magazines (HUGE project!!)
  • Create a journal bookmark for my planner
  • Go swimming with Jason – make time for play!!!
  • Go to bed by 11

Whew!! Let’s see how much of that I can get done today!!! I have already gotten dressed and ready for my 3-mile walk!!! WHOO-HOO!!! My goal today is to find the fun in any task or situation, and to honor the child inside of me by consciously making time to play as I get these actions done!

I will let you know how it goes this evening!!

Have a FABULOUS day!! 😉

An Eye-Opening Dream!

I just awoke from a late-in-the-day nap, and had the most AMAZING dream! This is really HUGE news to me, because I am an uber-creative person and I have somehow lost the ability to dream, which is REALLY FRUSTRATING!!!

Anyway, I dreamed I was spending the day hanging out with the most zany, eccentric, and FABULOUSLY CREATIVE artists. There was a textile artist, an architect, an interior designer, a multi-media artist, and a party planner. My role in this dream was as investigative reporter; I was able to ask them as many questions as I could think of: how did they get started? what inspires them? what advice would you give to a newbie artist? etc. etc.

Wouldn’t that JUST BE THE BEST JOB EVER!!! To be able to spend the day with people that intrigue you, asking them all sorts of questions and just soaking up their answers!?!??! To someone who LOVES to collect information, that would be PHENOMENAL!!! I think I may have just found my life’s calling!! I would love to hear your thoughts!!!

As for my to-do list from today:

  • Blog – Done (twice!)
  • Walking plan – 3 miles – took a nap instead! (SAD, I KNOW!!)
  • Track food – Done
  • Drink 2 Liters of water – Done
  • Spend at least an hour filing paperwork – Done (Actually spent about 6 hours doing this)
  • Read for at least 1/2 an hour – Done first thing this morning!
  • Write letter to sponsor child – Sadly, not done yet!
  • Schedule teeth cleaning appointment – Done
  • Schedule yearly exam – Done
  • Schedule mammogram – will do at yearly exam
  • Order credit reports – will do tomorrow
  • Organize this month’s bills – Will do in the morning
  • Create/update electronic monthly bill tracker – Started
  • Catalog paper books – I am going to save this one for a time when my sister can come over and help me do this!
  • Laundry – Started
  • Sort Magazines for donation/Recycling – Have not started yet!

Whew!!! I am glad I snuck that nap in, I REALLY needed that!!! For tomorrow, I have to make walking, and the letter to my sponsor child my number one and two priorities!!

I also want to make sure I update my read list for 2011, which means I will have to remove my read list of 2010 from my sidebar. So, I don’t lose this, I thought I would post this, one last time, here:

1. City of Bones
2. The Lightning Thief
3. Pride & Prejudice
4. City of Ashes
5. City of Glass
6. Burned
7. Queen of Your Own Life
8. Eat Your Way to Health
9. Artemis Fowl
10. The Sea of Monsters
11. The Titan’s Curse
12. Battle of the Labyrinth
13. The Last Olympian
14. Suddenly Supernatural School Spirit
15. The Tapestry
16. The Red Pyramid
17. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
18. The Name of This Book Is Secret
19. Curly Girl
20. To Love a Rogue
21. Success Principles
22. The French Woman’s Guide to Style
23. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
24. Clockwork Angel
25. The Lost Heroes
26. Give It Up! My Year of Learning to Live Better with Less

I had so much fun reading these. This is not my all-time-high, 26, but I think this was a good compromise!!! This, for me, averages to about reading 1/2 an hour most days. The most books I have ever read in one year was 49, and I felt like I was basically doing nothing but reading all year!!! Let see what books I read this year!!

I also want to add a list of links to my favorite blogs on my side-bar! I am going to have to get knowledgeable on how more of these link-y things work, so wish me luck!!!

On a side note: I wanted to give a shout out to my little sister, Jennifer – I am currently savoring one of the crystal candies you gave me at Christmas – honey, you KNOW that those are my favorite!!! THEY MAKE ME SOOOO HAPPY!!! I love you!

Until tomorrow…

Have a FABULOUS evening!! 😉

All Business!

OMG – I woke up this morning, and I am all business! I have a whole laundry list of things that have to get done today, and there is no time like the present to get it all done!! If this 60 day plan of mine is going to work, I am going to seriously have to get crackin’ on getting my action items done!!

Wish me luck! 😉

So here is today’s to do list!!

  • Blog
  • Walking plan – 3 miles
  • Track food
  • Drink 2 Liters of water
  • Spend at least an hour filing paperwork
  • Read for at least 1/2 an hour
  • Write letter to sponsor child
  • Schedule teeth cleaning appointment
  • Schedule yearly exam
  • Schedule mammogram
  • Order credit reports
  • Organize this month’s bills
  • Create/update electronic monthly bill tracker
  • Catalog paper books
  • Laundry
  • Sort Magazines for donation/Recycling

Have a FABULOUS day!! 😉

Happy New Year Y’All!!!

Happy New Year!!! I have spent the evening with my sweetie, my sis, Alex, and our niece, V. Alex has never heard of or seen the television series called Ruby, so we have watched 4 or 5 episodes this evening. I LOVE RUBY!!!! She is such an inspiration!!!! It makes me excited to lose my first 20 pounds, but that is NOT why I decided to post one last time in 2010. I wanted to take one last moment to say…

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Whatever comes, bring it on 2011 – I am ready!!!!

Love,
Christina 😉

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New Year’s Eve!!!

Good afternoon!

Here is the day! The last day to get whatever it was you wanted to get done during the year 2010 – if you haven’t gotten it done by now, you’ve got some work to do. As for me, I am getting ready to close the door on 2010, and start over – YEAH!!!!

This past year has been a year of ups and downs, successes and failures, laughter and tears, but all-in-all, I am so thankful to have made it to eagerly anticipate 2011. I have made my New Year’s resolutions – or more specifically my 60 Day Life Makeover goals:

  1. Lose 20 pounds
  2. Sock away an extra $1000 into savings
  3. Find a church home
  4. Clean, organize, and purge our entire home of unloved and/or unused belongings from top to bottom
  5. Purchase and refinish one piece of furniture to sell to get the ball rolling on getting paid to do what I love

These are my actual written goals for the next 60 days, but if I had the ability to wish for one thing, I would wish for happiness – whatever that looks like! So, my goal for the next year is to live my life seeking out true, authentic happiness. I want to laugh more, love more, dance more, hug more, smile more, and just BE HAPPY!!!

Do you have any New Year’s resolutions? I would LOVE to hear about them – please feel free to post them in the comments sections above. 😉

As for this evening, we have a small group of friends coming over for a casual and impromptu get together, dinner of lasagna (one of my favorites), games, drinks, and maybe a movie, but hopefully lots of fun, and memories!!! We are going to have fun ringin’ in the New Year!!!

To all of you, I wish you an extremely HAPPY and SAFE New Years!!!

Have a FABULOUS day!!! 😉

60 Day Life Makeover – Part 2

Good morning!

I have been giving a lot of thought to the idea of a 60 day life makeover!

Goals, to be successfully achieved have to be measurable, have a target deadline, and have to be believable!

A timed life makeover challenge could be a GREAT push to get me going in the direction that will get me in to where I want to be, but I also can’t try to shoot for so many thing at once, lest I overwhelm myself and give up!!!

My top 5 60-day goals are:

  1. Lose 20 pounds. This body will only carry me for so long, and being at the weight I am is truly starting to become a hindrance, and an anchor to where and what I want to be doing.
  2. Find a church home. I NEED a church home.
  3. Clean, organize, purge my house from top to bottom, so everything in it has a home.
  4. Purchase, refinish, and sell one piece of furniture to slowly but surely get my business off the ground.
  5. Put $1000 extra away to help build my wealth.

There, that wasn’t so hard. WHEW!!! 😉

So, I will start on January 1, 2011, and I will have 60 days to accomplish these goals. In a day or so, I will come back with these larger goals broken down into weekly smaller actions that will help me attain these goals – Tony Robbins calls this “chunking”, to make larger goals more manageable by chunking them down into smaller bits!!

I will be back, in the meantime…

Have a FABULOUS day!! 😉

60 Day Life Makeover???

Do you think it is possible to completely change the direction of your life in 60 days???? This idea has been running through my mind all day! I know that it is possible to change your life in an instant, but is that decision something that if maintained for a full 60 days, can it really make you a different person than who you are today??? Not that I don’t love who I am, I just know that I want to be the BEST ME THAT I CAN BE!!!

Gosh, the only way I know to figure this conundrum out is to test it!! but, if you’ve followed my blog, you would know that I don’t do so hot at actually following through to completion any of these self-imposed challenges. Anyone else have the same problem????

If I were to completely change my life in 60 days, what would I have to do????

  1. I would have to change how I spend my free time
  2. I would have to change how I spend my money
  3. I would have to change how I see the world

OH, is that all???? I will have to get right on that!!! LOL! 😉

No seriously, New Years is coming in just a few days, and I was thinking about what new resolutions I was going to make this year, and wouldn’t it be cool if I could start it by doing something cool with myself??? I think that would be pretty phenomenal!!

I will have to give this some serious thought, but I think that if I am going to do this, I am going to first have to decide, where do I want to be in 60 days??? 60 days older? 60 days wiser? thinner? richer? more organized? What? What do I want???

Let me give this some serious thought, and I will get back to you!!

Have a FABULOUS evening! 😉