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10 Things I Love Thursday…

Written on June 24, 2010

I was having some difficulty coming up with something to write about today. I think I have writers block because I haven’t had any time to “be quiet” this week and really reflect on things. I think it sort of started yesterday with my weight loss post.

So I decided to do a combo of things today — on the suggestion of my friendly tweeple on twitter.

It’s time for 10 Thoughts with Random’s Rambling… and Things I love Thursday with Diaper Diaries. Which makes it…

10 Things I Love Thursday

10. I went out and bought Addison Road’s new CD yesterday — definitely a good investment worth making. I haven’t stopped listening to it yet.

9. Social media and anything technology related. I think the addiction to twitter speaks for itself.

8. Despite the fact that I didn’t do super-great in high school or college… I love learning new things. It’s fun to find out something that you didn’t know.

7. Strange fun fact about me… I love watching weather. My dad still wonders why I didn’t go to school to become a meteorologist. I think it’s fun to predict where things are going to be headed… but I don’t like the distruction once the storms land somewhere. (I should also mention that I have an insane fear of tornados.)

6. I love sleeping… and because of the storms (and my own lack of discipline about going to bed on time) I am missing out on quite a bit of it. I’ve decided that’s what Saturday and Sunday are for.

5. I love traveling. Hitting the open road… going somewhere new… finding something unexpected. (However unlike my parents, give me the highways and by-ways… not by taking the backroads, I’m not that patient.) Speaking of which… I think it’s about time for a 6 state road trip. Think I can do that in one weekend??

4. I love things that are healthy… or I should say — I’ve now fallen in love with things that are healthy for me. Not that I don’t still like (errr… love) chocolate, but I have found a new interest in eating things like veggies and granola.

3. While I have to discontinue my membership to save some $$… I really looooove my health club. I feel like I am known there among the staff members as well as have made friends with lots of the members. I also REALLY love my Group Kick class — and if I could buy a punchcard (or something like it) for that class in the meantime, I *so* would.

2. Every morning I have a diet coke. It’s like my coffee. (And yes, I am very well aware of the aspertame “issues” with it… not that it stops me.) I love this Diet Coke. And now I’m not entirely sure how I am going to give it up for a month for the 101 in 1001 list.

1. As you can see evidenced on this blog most days… and hopefully in other forms in the near future — I love writing. I love being creative and developing the story. I love dreaming up characters that I wish I could be… or wish I could be friends with. I have a couple ideas in (deep) development and am hoping that I can have someone read them and get some really good {and critical} feedback, so I can develop as a writer.

Those are ten things I love this Thursday… what do you think? What about random things you love?

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Weight Loss Wednesday: What I watch…

Written on June 23, 2010

I had a passing thought the other day about the shows I watch on television. How much do they affect *MY* life? How much do they affect the choices I make? Am I *THAT* influenced by them?

The reason I started thinking about this was after a conversation I had with a friend last week about the shows her kids were watching. Typically her kids are *NOT* allowed to watch “Sponge Bob”… but because she in the hospital her husband allowed their son to watch the show. It’s just a cartoon… right? Well, shortly after being able to watch the show, their son began imitating the characters and the things they do — and they had to put a stop to him watching it — and IMMEDIATELY began correcting the new behaviors learned.

We all know that kids are sponges for all types of information.If you ever wonder that… just watch the stories that surface on Facebook and Twitter. They always make me chuckle. Especially when the parent does something (like accidentally swear in front of the child) and the kid picks up that behavior. They don’t necessarily know that it’s bad… it’s just what mom or dad is doing.

But we as adults are sponges too… for all sorts of things.

I’m beginning to think that all of this Food Network watching may be reflected in my eating habits. In fact I really believe it is. I’m watching shows like “Ultimate Cake Off”… “Cake Boss”… and well, anything to do with cakes or cake decorating. Not that I’m eating cake as a result of all of this, but I can’t say that I’m enhancing my palette or my eating habits to include things that are better for me.

I need to work on that.

After giving up TV for Lent last year, I realized how much I don’t need television. I’m not sure I want to give up on television as a whole, but I think I really need to stop watching these cake decorating type shows. It’s not helping me in the weight loss effort by any means. Yes, they are entertaining… and something I can “watch” while tweeting with friends and writing out my blog posts.

So now I’m going to try to cut back not only on television time… but on some internet time as well. (WHAT!?!?)

I eat mindlessly when I do both things and need to stop this behavior. And I really want to be back at my goal weight by my birthday. Or even better than that… be at my PERSONAL weight goal by my birthday! Not to mention that I have a few things I want to read, write and do for my 101 in 1001 days list. Hopefully in time this will also allow me to save up a lot of money for the travelling that I really want to do for the list as well.

What about you? Do you have the same problem of eating mindlessly in front of the television or internet??

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Post It Note Tuesday: The addictions edition…

Written on June 22, 2010

It’s an addictions style #PINT with @SupahMommy!!!

Help send Megan to Relevant 10!!! Go to Half-Pint House Handmade

*pictures found in this post were used with permission from Megan at Half-Pint House Homemade.

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Putting the puzzle together…

Written on June 21, 2010

This weekend I worked on my puzzle. Yes, the 1000 piece Thomas Kinkade puzzle that by the time I am able to cross it off the 101 in 1001 list… will have driven me nuts and sent me to the local hospitals psych ward.

The reason is because missing puzzle pieces bug me. Every time I walk past the puzzle all I see is this “hole”. Something that is making me stop in my tracks and concentrate on the many pieces that have not been place in the puzzle yet.

And it occurred to me this is how I’ve been treating life recently.

I’ve felt out of sync because I haven’t been eating right… therefore not feeling good about these choices and then continuing to make bad choices because I haven’t felt good about myself. Then there’s the issue of me not balancing my checkbook (even though it’s in an easy to use computer program). I’ve felt out of control with my money… without any grasp on what is happening and where I stood financially.

I’m not married, but after the last month of feeling so out of control with this – and without a plan – I can definitely see why finances are one of the leading reasons that leads couples to divorce. It is STRESSFUL.

Another thing that I’ve been “off course” with in my life recently have how I’ve been spending my time… or really not been spending it. Recently my devotional/quiet time with God has been non-existant. It’s not that I don’t want to do it, I just always seem to run out of time… or get up too late in the morning to do anything (darn snooze button!) I’ve also not been spending time developing my writing. This is something that I know is *very* important if my dream of becoming published (and seeing my work on a magazine or book shelf) is going to come true.

I think though with the productivity from last weekend as well as really clearing my head this weekend (and some retail therapy), I am now on a much more stable path to being back to succeeding in many ways.

I have a vision to what I want my life to be about. I can see now what I’ve been doing wrong on many levels and have already begun working on correcting that. I have also come to realize this weeknd that it is (and has been) futile for me to focus what I’ve been doing wrong. I have to start focusing on what I’m doing right… and keep going with it.

After all, that is how success happens.

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