FOCUS

That is definitely the ONE LITTLE WORD I have settled on. Here are a few things I want to focus on this year.

1)Using my time more wisely, not watching as much tv, scrapping and creating more, participating in scrappy challenges.

2) Eating healthy and exercising on a regular basis, eating clean 6 days a week and getting to the gym 4-5 times a week.

3) Meal planning and cooking better.

4) Improving myself spiritually, spending time daily in the scriptures, praying with more focus and sincerity, and listening for inspiration and insight.

5) Learning to use photoshop and digital scrapping better, and on a more regular basis so that these techniques and concepts become easier and more natural.

6) Spending more family time, with my parents, being more connected with my daughter.

7) Getting outside and enjoying nature, taking advantage of living within 45 minutes of Zion National Park and go hiking more.

8) Keeping the housework caught up and kept up so that it's not such a time sucker on my Saturday.

9) Serve more, in my church, my community and with my family. Give of my time and efforts to help someone else.



Well, those are just a few things I want to focus on this year, I've never participated in Ali Edwards OLW class, but kept hearing about it and liked the idea of choosing a word to concentrate on during the year. I hope this will help...I have procrastination issues and can get really lazy at times, I'm tired of it and know that I can accomplish so much more if I quit wasting time on unimportant things. Now, wasting time doing something that I enjoy or can learn from or get some great ideas from ex: blog hopping, etc well...I don't consider that a waste of time!!! ;)

Yep, I've got it.........

a case of flatassititus, this comes from sitting...pretty much consistently for 9 hours a day, 5 days a week. Symptoms include; lopsided buttocks, numbing, feeling of pins and needles, the uncontrollable urge to jump out of chair, grouchiness, restlessness, and the need to strangle the next person who walks in the office.

To reduce side affects, it is recommended to get up, stretch, walk around the building, climb stairs, or go on a diet coke run.

Diet coke run is #1 on the list!!!

I'm outta here!! ;)

These are a few of my Favorite things!!

These are delightful, wonderful, little candy coated chocolate pieces of HEAVEN....heaven I tell ya, and they are only here once a year. I stock up, my friends stock up for me, I have people keeping an eye out for these until every last bag is gone. These my friends, take me to my happy place! This picture was emailed to me last night....(Thanks Steph) and, (happy sigh) I went to bed with a big smile on my face! Yep, I know Im a dork....I embraced that part of myself a long time ago. :D



My next favorite thing........diet cherry sprite from Sonic!! Holy Cow....YUMMY, if you haven't had one....GO.NOW. get one! I am a die hard diet coke addict, but for a change up every now and then, this is awesome and refreshing, plus it has yummy crushed ice to munch on when your drink is gone.

The Dead Zone. I never did watch this from beginning to end when it was on tv, I only really caught an episode here and there, but..........thanks to another favorite thing (NETFLIX) I am now watching them episode after episode. I LOVE IT!!! I'm only through season 1 and about 5 episodes of season 2. Man, that Anthony Michael Hall sure did grow up good!! :D


Eureka...it's on SciFi and is kinda goofy but I'm hooked. Plus, Sherrif Carter isn't bad to look at! ;)

Scentsy.......I've pretty much given up my candles and replaced them with these cute warmers that you put scented wax in. They really smell up the room and have TONS of wonderful frangrances to choose from. They have warmers to match pretty much any decor and any room, plus they have plug in ones that double as a night light!! I love the plug in, it's the one I use at work to help cover the nasty smell my co-worker sometimes leaves behind... (see previous post)!

Anyway, those are just a few things that made it to my favorites list....what's on your list? I'm always looking for more fun, cool things to add to mine!!

The Wrong Side of the Bed.......

that's how I woke up this morning. Why? Um, because my 14 year old daughter didn't want to sleep in her room last night. So, she pulled in all of her blankets, pillows, etc and made herself a little nest on the side of my bed with only about 2.5 feet of space for her to sleep in. Why, you might ask, don't I just let her sleep in my bed with me....well because I have a hard time sleeping to begin with and she moves around TOO much. The last time I had to sleep with her, I got an elbow in the face. So, she's on the floor. Is it weird that a 14 year old still gets a little scared and wants to sleep in her mommy's room? So needless to say, whenever she sleeps in my room.....I don't sleep so well, (nothing new..I have sleep issues to begin with), but everytime she moves she ends up banging into something and I have to lean over the side of the bed to make sure she hasn't knocked herself out! I'm only halfway kidding!! She is very well protected from concussions in the middle of the night by the tons of pillows and blankets she brings in to sleep with, I'm not that mean of a mom! ;)


Let me just say in her defense, that we live in an older apartments complex and there are always noises and sounds that kinda freak her out. She sleeps with a fan, which helps drowned out other noises, people talking in their apartments, cupboards slamming, etc, but that's not good enough, because she still feels alone and scared. To remedy that, I've let her get into the very bad habit of sleeping with the tv on. Well, a couple days ago, her dvd player took a dump....it's done & completely dead. She felt that as long as she could fall asleep to a video, (usually Cake Boss) then she didn't feel like she was alone. I know.....a little strange, but it seemed to work for her and she would fall asleep fairly fast. Now the dvd/tv combo is done for and she has nothing but the fan to keep her company at night. I'm not sure when I will be able to replace her tv, and at this point I'm not sure I want to....that is unless she starts nesting on my floor everynight!!

Anyone else have this happen??? Anyone else do this themselves when they were children?
It's not often, so I'm not too worried about it....unless it becomes a nightly battle..then I might be on the hunt for a new tv/dvd player!