2014 preview.

Happy New Year!

Hello to you, 2014! Be good to all of us, please. 

In 2014...this year...

A habit I'm going to break is...getting angry at little things. 

A new skill I'd like to learn...is to play 18 holes of golf. 

A person I hope to be more like...is Karen and my Mom. Both have such sweet hearts and think of others way more than themselves. 

A deed I'm going to do...is smile at homeless people more. Not ignore them. 

A place I'd like to visit...is Chicago...with Alex...biggest Bears fan. 

A book I'd like to read is...more mystery books and less chick-flick-ish ones. 

A letter I'm going to write...will be to my future niece or nephew when I find out about him/her.

A new food I'd like to try is...is more healthy paleo foods. 

I'm going to do better at...blogging and taking time for myself.  

Back to the grind.

Well here it is. School has started up again for me and thousands of others. I've enjoyed my 5 weeks off. I know, I got lucky. I have so many friends that were lucky to get 2.5 weeks off and had to go back late last week in order to make it back in time.

I'm proud that I accomplished all my goals for the break. I ran 3 and sometimes 4 times a week, more than 5k. I finished Friday Night Lights! Cried like a baby. I gave to charity. I rested.

I had a wonderful few weeks spending time with family and friends. Loved staying up till 2am and getting up a 11am. Loved taking my time to get ready to go out. Loved enjoying one to many beers.

But...

School's back. Boo.

I had a good 1st semester of university. I learned a whole lot. Not just about my field but I learned so much about myself. How I learn. What works and what doesn't. I learned not to be caught up in other peoples issues about organization. I learned that it's okay to take a night off work to catch up on readings and its fine to tell your boss you aren't coming back to Thursday's evening. School comes first. I learned that God will understand if I miss worship on Sunday mornings to write an essay, isn't that why we have Sunday evening worship? I kid.

This semester is a bit different as I have placement in a daycare Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 8am-4pm. With a lunch break and two 15 minute breaks! So excited to take a walk during lunch and maybe do some homework too. Meaning classes all day mondays and thursday. Thankfully I only have a tourial on Friday's from 1-2pm.

Enough about my class schedule.

I hope to keep running. After all, running is helping me lose weight. I've already mapped out when I will have the time to excercise. Sadly, I can't do it in my two hour break on Thursdays. I smell really bad after I run.

Is it sad that I'm already counting down the days weeks till I'm done?

Grateful

I finally jumped on bandwagon and  bought One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp that many bloggers have and are reading. I honestly don't know why I just got the book now. This book is hands down the best book I've read in a long time. Words can not express how good it is.

In the book, Ann talks about how she wrote down 1000 blessings or things she was grateful for. Things ranging from the EMS (911) call when her son was badly to fresh laundry.

She wanted to find Amazing Grace wherever and whenever she could. Things to be happy about, things to praise God about. That's what I am longing for.

For me, it's so easy to find things to complain about. And since I have twitter, with a click (or a tap on the iphone) I can send out a negative message about how the kitchen is a mess and yet the kitchen cleaner-uppers are watching tv.

And that's a pet peeve of mine, sending out negative messages because our negative attitudes affect others. It's a horrible cycle.

Do I still get ticked at stuff? Heck to the yes. But I want to look for the good in this world.
I was reading one Sunday afternoon and it dawned on me to start doing the same as Ann. To keep a journal of things I am thankful for and blessings God passes down. I decided right there and then that every night before bed I would write down at least one thing I was thankful for during that day. So for the next year, the next 366 days I will find one thing to be thankful and happy about. It could range from silly stuff to serious stuff, so get ready.

And because I love blogging and y'all, I thought every Monday I would share my list from the past week.
Here we go.

Sunday Jan 1: Seeing a young teen being Baptized at church.
Monday Jan 2: Strong legs to carry me when I run
Tuesday Jan 3: parents who encourage me
Wednesday Jan 4: my job, bathing suits that are much looser on me
Thursday Jan 5: cat snuggles
Friday Jan 6: warm days for good runs
Saturday Jan 7: finding out that a blog who I "unfollowed" is pregnant after years of infidelity and a failed adoption. God is good.
Sunday Jan 8: being 0.6 away from losing 10% of my weight!

Dreams and goals

Pinterest has taken over my life. Not really. But I LOVE logging on (not on my phone because the app seems to not want to work when I want it to) and "pin" away.

Can we talk about the awesome blog, perfect bucket list and how amazing it is?!

 Maybe because it's almost the end of 2011 (where does time go?!) but here are the top things I want to do before I die.  There are little things I want to do, like be given a puppy on Christmas or be kissed while it's snowing and move out on my own but that's a given.

I'm seriously thinking about doing this

Doing this May 2013 with Karen :)



I love this and it will happen



On of my dreams is go on a mission trip...somewhere far

 

And I love this one.

:)

What do you want to do before you die?

Friday Randoms

Many things to catch y'all up on.

~I'm going to a wedding tomorrow! The sweetest couple from church are getting hitched and I was invited :)

can't wait to see you all the gift I gave them.

~School is going good. I've hit mid-terms so if I'm not around it's because my face is in a book. Different from facebook.

~I finally made friends! I had one friend named Joanne who I met back in august for orientation and we manged to get classes together. She made friends in her friday class with a few other sweet girls and we all started talking on day after class. I was going to go home right after class but I stayed and had lunch with them and that my friends is how I finally made friends!

~I switched from meetings to doing on-line weight watchers a few weeks back. I used to go every saturday morning at 10:30, now that I'm in school  I can't afford to miss 2.5 hours of my saturday morning for weight watchers. I need that time for homework. So I still follow the program and my "offical" weigh- in is saturdays. It's working!

~Not very news worthy but yesterday I hit over 1000 views to this blog!

~ My brother's wedding is 7 months away and I have decied I want to look smoking hot nice! I'll share my new numbers soon.

~ Heck, I'll share now.

Right now I am 147.8, down 11 pounds since I started ww, many moons ago.
I want to be at 135 by Ryan's wedding! okay, so there are my numbers!

I'm ready to change!

~I want to run another 5km soon. Just need to find on in my area.

Well, I'm off to study!

have a wonderful day, friends!

2011 goals

So I know I'm a little late but when 2010 turned into 2011 I didn't have a blog.

I've never been big on news years resolutions but for some reason this year I had tonnssss!

here are my goals for 2011.

1) start blog!- done

2) run (two) 5 k's and (one) ten k!-this week I'm getting back into running, I promise!

3) become better at giving cards-In process!

4)Get into university!

5) go to uni!!!!! -accepted into ryerson!

6) grow in my faith!-daily...on going!

7)attend two hot yoga classes a month

8)volunteer at camp omagh bible camp this july!

9)donate blood 3x this year.

How are your goals going for 2011 now that we're a month in!?