Week of Love: Day One

Tuesday February 7th, one week until Valentines day, and for me that means the start of the week of love. Love is a wonderful thing, and though some say Valentines is just a way to make money, I feel that we should recognize how amazing of a thing love is. Now I'm not talking strictly about romance, though that is an amazing type of love there are many types of love!

Today I would like to talk about my love of: Travel. Traveling is an amazing event, seeing other places other things, it is truly breathtaking. To look at all of Gods creations, seeing different things... no where is exactly the same. Even driving just 50 miles so much of the scenery can change, and I especially love traveling to the ocean. The ocean is something of such power, it controls so much and we can't control it. It can be so devastating and yet it is a lifeline for us. It is something to see that is unlike anything else! Water is so beautiful, and the ocean is so unpredictable and astonishing. So I love travel and hope to do it a LOT more in my lifetime.

Keep love in your hearts and acknowledge all of the amazing things and people whom have changed your life with love!

February.

February has come, January has gone, and at least for the time being the weather in South Eastern Idaho has been very nice. For the most part I LOVE this, but it also kind of scares me because I don't want it to start being Winter and have Winter run late.

This weekend I have my good friend Annie and her son Chris in town, so we took advantage of the weather and decided to go out slack lining.

I'm very excited for it to be the month of love, okay well I like to call it that because of Valentines day. A lot of people say that Valentines day is a waste of money and silly... I however think that any reason to celebrate is a good reason to celebrate and be happy. Why not enjoy the little things that you can?

As most of us know, besides the month of love it is also Black History Month. Sometimes I forget how recent it was that schools were separated and that black people were so mistreated. I recently watch The Help and that was set in the past 100 years, it is insane to me! Treating people differently because of the color of their skin... and it is still happening, people are still facing hate crimes and other obstacles. So, during the month of February make sure not only to spread the love but to remember how many amazing accomplishments have been brought about by the Blacks in our history.

New Workout

Well, as are many people I am on the seemingly never ending quest to get in shape. Over this weekend I wasn't home much, I was watching my brothers puppies and staying at his house... this however encouraged some cheating on my eating. So, this week I have some catch up to do and I figured what better time to start a new workout.

So, I began a Pilates workout program designed by Jillian Michaels and the first phase is called "couch potato" and well... lets be honest I couldn't finish it. I am less than a couch potato... I think this means I have some serious work to do!!!! It's supposed to be 8 weeks, but it seems it might take me a little longer. But I swear on all that I WILL finish this workout and be able to do it all. No matter how long it takes I will be able to do this!

I figure doing most of a workout is better than doing nothing and I will slowly but surely work my way up to doing it all!

"Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says: 'I will try again tomorrow'"

So, everyone keep working on what your doing!!!!!

Friday the 13th

Wow, it is Friday January 13th. I've never been superstitious about this day, I've had some amazing Friday the 13th's... though I do somewhat hope I didn't just jinx myself.

Well, I haven't blogged in about 2 months now, which is a really long time for that, I decided I would blog more in 2012, which I still hope to do... but to be honest it has been rather boring so far!

Life has settled down from the holidays, getting back to what I suppose is "normal" for TysoIn and I. He goes to work, I clean and then go to work. We don't go anywere because we don't want to spend money going somewhere and it's too cold to be outside... which oddly enough is where I want to be.

I've never really been much of an outdoorsy girl but now as I'm growing older there are so many things I'd like to do. I want to go out and try Tyson's Christmas gift... he got a slackline and I'm excited to try to get good at it. I For some reason also would really like to go on a bike ride. This summer I'm also hoping to do a few hikes and perhaps even go camping... yes camping would be awesome right now. Ah yes, how it's the weird things about people that change. I got a tablet for Christmas, which is a part of the reason I haven't blogged in a while. I'm still trying to figure this thing out. For some things I LOVE LOVE LOVE it! It is fabulous for playing games, and it makes some things much faster. Also it plays Netflix which for some reason my laptop can't handle. So, for a lot of reasons it is wonderful. But anything that requires typing is still a bit iffy. Typing on the tablet itself is slow, I do have a keyboard but it takes a while to hookup so unless I plan on typing a lot it isn't worth it. I have it hooked up now, but it is still a tiny bit odd! Sometimes things like my enter won't work, and keys like to stick. If I shift often times four letters after I Shift are capitols or the letter "r" especially likes to stick and I will type one and get twelve. So, the tablet and I are still learning. It is a very love hate relationship between me and it right now. Most of the time I love it but when it does make me mad it is very annoying! I tend to have that type of relationship with most electronics. When they work they are wonderful wonderful things, but when they aren't working (which for me seems to be a lot) then they are extremely annoying! I've been working on my new years goals, yes the infamous new years goals... but I think I'm really going to do well this year. One of those goals is to not drink any soda, and so far I'm on track with that. I was drinking way too much of it last year so I figure it would be best just to cut it out for a while. Plus it is number 48 on my list of things to do before I die. It is also helping out with one of my other goals for the year. The most cliche thing I could put on, to lose weight. This seems to be so many people's goals a lot, but I'm very serious about it this time. I really need to be healthier to help ensure that I prevent any preventable heath problems. I may not be able to control all things that may occur, and one day I might get very sick anyway but so many illnesses these days are brought on by things we do to ourselves. So, a healthier diet with less suger and more veggies are in place and a workout routine is coming in to play as well. Last night for dinner was a low-calorie pizza with a tortilla for a crust, and it was totally veggies. It was really filling, and honestly tasted better than I had expected. Another one of my favorite meals this year has been Spaghetti Squash Lasagna, where you pretty much make lasagna but instead of noodles, you use spaghetti squash and oh my it is very good! Well, I have to get ready for work now, so I suppose that is all for today but I am planning on blogging more this year so if you're interested keep your eye out and if you find my life a bit boring then that is okay too!! Haha, much loves!!!

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National Writing Month

Well, it is November, which is indeed National writing month. So, since I've always wanted to be a writer and so I figured this month was a good day to try to write a bit more than I have been the past little bit. So, of course so far this month random things like locking myself out of the house or being called into work at different times have really interfered with my writing... but today that will all change!

Today I writing day, and I can do anything as long as it involves writing! So, I can blog, journal, write fiction, or write non-fiction and I intend on doing all of thee above. I'm pretty excited! Who knows maybe if it goes well I will start having a writing day once a month!

So, everyone wish me luck and I do encourage you to do a little writing of your own this month! It doesn't matter what you write, just do it!

Impatient

I have never been known to be good at waiting for things. This has never been one of my better qualities but I will indeed admit it. One of the hardest things for me to wait for has always been books. You spend hours reading them and grow to love the characters so much that once you finish a book with a cliffhanger (which they pretty much all seem to have), the wait until the next book comes out is terrible. I went through it with Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, and many many other books I love and it is once again happening to me. I just finished a great book called Divergent by Veronica Roth and I am extremely stoked to read the next book... the down side is that it doesn't come out till MAY. I have to wait till may. That is like sixish months (which I suppose is a lot less time than waiting for Harry Potter 7, Hunger Games, or anything written by Christopher Paolini... but still six months seems like forever to me at the moment. Mind you I have PLENTY to read seeing as I bought a TON of books as the bookstore was going out of business so I won't be book less but I would really love to continue following my characters. Wish me luck as I try to learn this thing that I never really learned to be and wait for May to arrive.

Flying

I titled this blog flying because that is what time is doing! We are already in mid-October and that is crazy to me! This month has gone by so incredibly fast!!

I have kept myself busy working on my 60 in 16. I kind of love it because having a goal list like that means that you are never bored! There is ALWAYS something I can be doing! Keeping yourself busy should always be good!

I haven't finished any of the goals 100% but I am making good progress on many of them and within the next month I will start marking them off.

Tonight Tyson and I did a Halloween project. We built a haunted house out of foam, it came from a kit that I got at my favorite craft store. It turned out so cute, it just makes me happy every time I look at it. It came with little sticky foam decorations to put on it like cobwebs and little ghosts. It makes me smile. I do love doing little craft projects.

Soon I hope to start working on my hair accessories. I've already started getting some of the supplies that I need but I have a few left to get and I am very much so looking forward to that.

I just felt like a little update because I haven't given any in a while... so if anyone actually reads this then thank you for your time and I will write again sooner than I did this time!