Today has been an inspiring day so far! I have read some awesome blogs, gotten some awesome tips, and been inspired!! Although, just as I was typing that, our stupid air conditioner tripped the breaker!!! GEEZ!!! I thought it was blown though because for a minute, it wouldn't do anything...so I went to the bedroom and the fan was turned off, I forgot that the breaker that runs the ac runs my bedroom too!!! GRRR!!! Back to the breaker and it finally turned back on, thank goodness. It is supposed to get super hot the next few days and it's already really hot outside. So...now that ordeal is over, I can go back to being inspired! LOL!!! I'm really glad that I didn't have to call the hubby and tell him that the ac quit again!!! He's been replacing part after part trying to get the darn thing to work. Perhaps I should take him up on the installation of central heat and air. The only thing that holds me back is that I don't know if the wiring in our house can take it. I don't know that we have a big enough load...if that makes any sense. Our house isn't that old but it wasn't designed very well. It has maybe one plug in every room and only 4 breakers for the whole house. Granted, we don't have a huge house, we're close to 1200 sq feet, but 4 breakers?!?!? Really?!?!? I don't know, I'm kind of surprised that we even have 220. I'll bet that this house is not even close to up to code, I don't know. Luckily, we have several electricians in the family so if we were to need major work, we wouldn't be out as much as the average person would and for that I am extremely grateful!!! (This heat is inspiring me to move back to the mountains though! LOL)
I have to say that even though I gripe...a lot...I lead an amazingly blessed life. I have great friends and family and a superb husband. I am extremely grateful for him. I couldn't get by without him, I don't think and I don't like to think about that anyway. I shouldn't gripe so much, really! I am going to try to be more positive. Having a positive attitude can make an amazing change in your day, your brain is so much more powerful than you give it credit for!!! So, count your blessings today folks, I am off to study!!! Have a safe and blessed weekend!!!
Friday, June 4, 2010
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Pizazz
My blog needs a little pizazz. I have all the basic stuff but have no idea how to dress it up like some of the really cool blogs I see out there. I finally got to do post-it-note Tuesday with Supah and that's pretty cool. Granted, I did that yesterday instead of Tuesday but I did it!!! I just want the cool backgrounds, buttons, all of that stuff because my blog seems very plain. So, if someone out there in the blogworld would tell me how to do this, I would be ever so grateful.
On that note, this is going to be a super short blog because I have a lot to do today, namely studying for my test Monday but there's always laundry and cleanup to do too!!! Have a great Thursday!!!
On that note, this is going to be a super short blog because I have a lot to do today, namely studying for my test Monday but there's always laundry and cleanup to do too!!! Have a great Thursday!!!
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Sunday getting to know you
1. Have you ever snooped around someone else's house?
Most definitely, I usually start in the bathroom with their cabinets, I am super stealth and can open doors with no one hearing me! :)
2. Can guys and girls be friends?
Yes, I am married and have guy friends...why wouldn't they be able to? ;)
3. Can you curl your tongue?
As a matter of fact, I can, it's a dominant trait. :)
4. Have you ever stolen anything?
Besides my hubby's heart, nope :D
5. Would you rather talk on the phone or text?
It depends on the situation, I like to do both.
6. Memorial Day plans?
Hanging here at my sister's house in Katy, nothing special I don't think, in fact, we may be driving home tomorrow.
7. What do you do to relax?
Read a book, read blogs, play video games, watch tv with the hubs...lots of stuff :)
8. Do you do anything to honor those that have died fighting for our freedom?
I usually post a thank you on my facebook and twitter but no specific ritual or anything.
Most definitely, I usually start in the bathroom with their cabinets, I am super stealth and can open doors with no one hearing me! :)
2. Can guys and girls be friends?
Yes, I am married and have guy friends...why wouldn't they be able to? ;)
3. Can you curl your tongue?
As a matter of fact, I can, it's a dominant trait. :)
4. Have you ever stolen anything?
Besides my hubby's heart, nope :D
5. Would you rather talk on the phone or text?
It depends on the situation, I like to do both.
6. Memorial Day plans?
Hanging here at my sister's house in Katy, nothing special I don't think, in fact, we may be driving home tomorrow.
7. What do you do to relax?
Read a book, read blogs, play video games, watch tv with the hubs...lots of stuff :)
8. Do you do anything to honor those that have died fighting for our freedom?
I usually post a thank you on my facebook and twitter but no specific ritual or anything.
Today is a new day!!!
Ok...sorry about such a short post yesterday. I had to catch up on my blogroll and it took several hours because I think it was at least a week's worth that I hadn't read. I'm trying to be good and read for my class so I've tried to stay off the computer as much as I can make myself, sometimes I'm successful, sometimes not. However, I am on vacation so I felt like I should catch up. I got a lot of good reading in and added a couple more blogs to my blogroll. I have to be careful because I tend to get completely sucked into the blogsphere to the point that I neglect what's going on around me. I'm getting better though. I try to get on every few days but that puts me really behind on my blogroll and I try to read them all! :)
Anyway, things are good here in Katy, Miss Deborah is growing by the second and is already very opinionated about her world at 2 weeks old. She is a very good baby though and doesn't really fuss unless she's hungry or wet. She is extremely active though and she and I have had several talks about her letting herself be a baby and stop trying to sit up!!! She's also very picky about the position of her head! I was trying to burp her this morning and she kept picking her head up and turning it to the side so I gave up and just held her head. I don't want to have to leave her but I know that I will have to. I will see her again in July for Joseph's first birthday so that will be fun, but she'll be a whole new baby since they change so much!!!
I am not ready to go back to school...I am enjoying this break. However, I love my class and have learned so much about myself and the people around me, it's amazing. I have also learned to have more compassion towards people with mental illnesses and not to assume that it's something that they can just fix. They can be helped though, and the best way to help them is to teach them to help themselves whether that be through medicine, therapy or a combination. Learned behaviors can be unlearned but it may take a lifetime. Sometimes, the anxiety that underlies the behavior cannot be changed and the person is going to forever have those feelings, but they can learn to control them and how to live with them. People with mental illnesses who have a good support system tend to do better than those who don't. It's very sad to me that some people don't have a good support system although I can see how it would be frustrating to deal with someone with a mental illness on a daily basis, especially when they're in crisis.
On a more positive note, it rained and stormed last night, which I love!!! I love thunder and lightning, they're my favorite weather, just not all the time or I would live in Washington or Oregon. I have to have a little sunshine. That's why I like the mountains, they have the perfect balance for me. It's cool, but sunny with some storms.
I think we're gonna go to Galveston here in a little bit so I'm going to go get ready!!! Have a great Memorial weekend everyone!!! I hope yours is blessed and safe!!!
Anyway, things are good here in Katy, Miss Deborah is growing by the second and is already very opinionated about her world at 2 weeks old. She is a very good baby though and doesn't really fuss unless she's hungry or wet. She is extremely active though and she and I have had several talks about her letting herself be a baby and stop trying to sit up!!! She's also very picky about the position of her head! I was trying to burp her this morning and she kept picking her head up and turning it to the side so I gave up and just held her head. I don't want to have to leave her but I know that I will have to. I will see her again in July for Joseph's first birthday so that will be fun, but she'll be a whole new baby since they change so much!!!
I am not ready to go back to school...I am enjoying this break. However, I love my class and have learned so much about myself and the people around me, it's amazing. I have also learned to have more compassion towards people with mental illnesses and not to assume that it's something that they can just fix. They can be helped though, and the best way to help them is to teach them to help themselves whether that be through medicine, therapy or a combination. Learned behaviors can be unlearned but it may take a lifetime. Sometimes, the anxiety that underlies the behavior cannot be changed and the person is going to forever have those feelings, but they can learn to control them and how to live with them. People with mental illnesses who have a good support system tend to do better than those who don't. It's very sad to me that some people don't have a good support system although I can see how it would be frustrating to deal with someone with a mental illness on a daily basis, especially when they're in crisis.
On a more positive note, it rained and stormed last night, which I love!!! I love thunder and lightning, they're my favorite weather, just not all the time or I would live in Washington or Oregon. I have to have a little sunshine. That's why I like the mountains, they have the perfect balance for me. It's cool, but sunny with some storms.
I think we're gonna go to Galveston here in a little bit so I'm going to go get ready!!! Have a great Memorial weekend everyone!!! I hope yours is blessed and safe!!!
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Whew!
Holy smokes!!! I had a heck of a blog roll to get caught up on. I think I haven't been on here since last week. I've been busy, as usual, with school. I am sitting here at 11:38pm in Houston visiting my middle sister who had her baby 2 weeks ago. Let me just say that Miss Deborah is the cutest baby girl around (and I am in no way biased)! Anyway, I really enjoyed all the blog reading, I read some amazing stories. They inspire me. However, it's nearly midnight and I'm tired so this is going to be a short post. I will try to post again tomorrow so that I can set all these thoughts in my head free. Right now, I just can't, my fingers aren't really working...g'nite!
Friday, May 21, 2010
DUH!!!!!
http://purseblogger.blogspot.com/2010/05/prayers-for-daffy-mission-monkey-day.html
Today is Mission Monkey Day! Please see the above link for information on this sweet baby girl! Link up, donate or do whatever your heart tells you. This family needs support and prayers!!!
On a lighter note, I think my computer is trying to drive me crazy. I admit that some of this is due to operator error but some of it is just the idiosyncrasies of a computer. To start with, I was trying to leave a comment on Michelle's (Monkey's mom) blog so I decided to create a new email strictly for the blogsphere and...I thought my computer was freezing on the create screen. I tried 4 or 5 times before I saw that it wanted my WHOLE birthday, year included!!! I thought the year was optional, apparently, I was wrong. I even tried to "sneak" around that page and come from a different one to create my new account before I realized that was the problem!!! Wow!!! I thought this was going to be a simple process, sit down, read the blogs, then write my blog. Nope, nothing's ever simple for me! LOL...I do it to myself but still, it perpetuates without my consent!!! I sat down to start this blog about 7:45ish this morning and it is now 9:55am. What happened???? Well, between the hell that is Windows Vista and my incompetence, time got away from me. I've noticed this is a recurrent theme in my life. Part of it is, I have no sense of time whatsoever!!! I tend to think I have FAR more time than I actually do so when I actually get around to looking at the clock, I panic!!! This is perpetual, I have been this way my entire life so you'd think it would be an easy fix...but that's just not the case!!! I have attempted to fix it by getting up earlier or giving myself longer to get ready than is necessary and yet somehow, I still end up rushing. I happen to think that I have adult ADHD but as I've never been officially diagnosed...it's just my opinion. I am in my mental health class for nursing right now and I did stay at a Holiday Inn last night so obviously, it's ADHD. I don't need a doctor to tell me that! ;) I actually think that I just have ADD because I don't have the hyperactivity part...that would be helpful, either that or a little bipolar mania. (Disclaimer: Bipolar is a real disease and I don't take it lightly) I just need a little motivation and that energy that they have would help me, but it could be a hinderance since I can't seem to concentrate on just one thing...it's a vicious cycle. It's one that I'm working on but there are days that I think I would just like to be on Adderall so that I don't have to think about it!!! I debate that in my mind a lot. (As you read this I'm sure that you see why I think I have ADD, I can't stay on one subject!) Anyway, I have said all of this to say that I wasted 2 hours trying to figure out something very simple. I did do some studying while I was trying to set up my new email though so the time wasn't wasted...I just wish that so much of it hadn't passed. Oh well, on with the day!!! Have a great Friday and a super weekend!!!
Today is Mission Monkey Day! Please see the above link for information on this sweet baby girl! Link up, donate or do whatever your heart tells you. This family needs support and prayers!!!
On a lighter note, I think my computer is trying to drive me crazy. I admit that some of this is due to operator error but some of it is just the idiosyncrasies of a computer. To start with, I was trying to leave a comment on Michelle's (Monkey's mom) blog so I decided to create a new email strictly for the blogsphere and...I thought my computer was freezing on the create screen. I tried 4 or 5 times before I saw that it wanted my WHOLE birthday, year included!!! I thought the year was optional, apparently, I was wrong. I even tried to "sneak" around that page and come from a different one to create my new account before I realized that was the problem!!! Wow!!! I thought this was going to be a simple process, sit down, read the blogs, then write my blog. Nope, nothing's ever simple for me! LOL...I do it to myself but still, it perpetuates without my consent!!! I sat down to start this blog about 7:45ish this morning and it is now 9:55am. What happened???? Well, between the hell that is Windows Vista and my incompetence, time got away from me. I've noticed this is a recurrent theme in my life. Part of it is, I have no sense of time whatsoever!!! I tend to think I have FAR more time than I actually do so when I actually get around to looking at the clock, I panic!!! This is perpetual, I have been this way my entire life so you'd think it would be an easy fix...but that's just not the case!!! I have attempted to fix it by getting up earlier or giving myself longer to get ready than is necessary and yet somehow, I still end up rushing. I happen to think that I have adult ADHD but as I've never been officially diagnosed...it's just my opinion. I am in my mental health class for nursing right now and I did stay at a Holiday Inn last night so obviously, it's ADHD. I don't need a doctor to tell me that! ;) I actually think that I just have ADD because I don't have the hyperactivity part...that would be helpful, either that or a little bipolar mania. (Disclaimer: Bipolar is a real disease and I don't take it lightly) I just need a little motivation and that energy that they have would help me, but it could be a hinderance since I can't seem to concentrate on just one thing...it's a vicious cycle. It's one that I'm working on but there are days that I think I would just like to be on Adderall so that I don't have to think about it!!! I debate that in my mind a lot. (As you read this I'm sure that you see why I think I have ADD, I can't stay on one subject!) Anyway, I have said all of this to say that I wasted 2 hours trying to figure out something very simple. I did do some studying while I was trying to set up my new email though so the time wasn't wasted...I just wish that so much of it hadn't passed. Oh well, on with the day!!! Have a great Friday and a super weekend!!!
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