Update - Yes, I'm a TERRIBLE Blogger!

Let's see how many things I can cram into one post:

• Tuesday was my birthday. Woo hoo for being 32! Not sure when and how that happened. I'm pretty sure I still feel 24.
• I didn't post a list of things I'm planning this week over at Girls World, but here goes:

1. Having fun on my birthday (check, done!) which included Starbucks, and extra long massage, and dinner with the hubby
   
2. Getting everything made/tagged/ready-to-go for the craft fair at work tomorrow
3. Playing with the Wii I got for my birthday
4. Mailing a b-day gift to the-best-little-girl-who-shares-my-bday! (Sass from Girls World)
5. Cleaning my bathroom

• My weight this week for the challenge over at the Sisterhood (now weighing on the Wii Fit instead of the scale at work) is 136.2 pounds which is down 0.7 from 5 days ago when I got the Wii and down 1.5 pounds from the start of this challenge (but did I mention the different scale?). And I should know what I walked this week, but I keep forgetting to wear my pedometer. 2.36 miles Thursday last week for sure, walked the dog Friday and Monday for 1.1 miles each, yesterday I logged 3.43 miles for a total of 7.99 miles (that I kept track of).

• And, finally, it's Thursday, so it's time to be Thankful with LissaJoy. This week I am thankful for all the friends and family I have that love me. I forget sometimes, but I had so many gifts and happy day wishes on my birthday that I was overwhelmed. Thank you all for your wonderful place in my life!
  

Thank Goodness

So my friend Melissa started Thank Goodness! Thursdays. What a great idea. Today I am thankful for my home. I often forget how lucky I am. I often wish our house was nicer or cleaner or in a different neighborhood or sometimes smaller (crazy, I know, but you try cleaning 2750 square feet!). But truly I love how cozy it is. How much love there is in here. And how much it reflects me and my husband. It's a wonderful safe haven, and everyone needs one of those.

Weigh in Wednesday (a little late)

Um, I forgot to weigh in yesterday for Weigh in Wednesday over at the Sisterhood. But I did start logging my miles for the new challenge. I know I walked at least 1 mile Monday, 'cause we took the dogs for our usual mile-long morning walk. The batteries in my pedometer were dead, however, so I didn't start keeping track with that til yesterday. (Actually, if I wasn't half brain-dead I would have checked the batter drawer and noticed that there were plenty of batteries in there.) Anyway, I set the stride length (I hope it's accurate), and it says I did 3.11 miles yesterday. Woo hoo! On my way...

I'm Planning

This week I'm planning to:

1. Make more granola tonight.
2. Be on time for work all 3 days!
3. NOT get sick...
4. NOT lose my mind.
5. Practice my karate skills.
6. Go to a Scentsy party with my friends.
7. Have my b-day dinner Sunday night with the in-laws and grandmas.
8. Sew some more dog collars and make some more jewelry for upcoming craft fairs.
9. Read my book club book.
10. Do some yardwork.

What are you planning? To see more, check out Kirsten's list!

Feeling Philosphical

So, ever since my dear friend Kirsten was posting deep thoughts last week, I've been feeling very philosophical for some reason. I keep thinking of great deep thoughts to post, and then I get sidetracked.

The night before last, however, I couldn't sleep. I decided to give in to being awake and get out of bed. As I was sitting there with my thoughts, I was contemplating how very different my life is from what I imagined it would be. I always saw myself going straight to college after high school, finishing in 4 years, getting married right away, and having kids a couple of years later. I saw myself living in California or Colorado (depending on when this fantasy occurred) in a modest-but-nice house with several children, a decent car, a job I enjoyed, a loving husband, etc., etc.

Now, I'm not saying that my life isn't great. Parts of it have turned out better than I could have ever expected. For instance, I love, love, LOVE our house. I love my job. My husband is amazing (yet I often forget how wonderful he is!). But I certainly didn't do things in order. I took a year off from school after high school. I took 3 years off from college in the middle somewhere to get married and move across the country. I finished school after I got married. School took MUCH longer than expected. I now live in Idaho, which I never would have seen in my future. And kids? Well, don't even get me started again on all the fertility issues.

The problem is, also, that I get bogged down in the stuff I'm not happy with or the stuff that isn't ideal instead of remembering how great things are. Why do I do that? And what fun would it have been to know exactly how my life would turn out? Where is the excitement in that? Yet why do I still feel that I would have preferred to have a crystal ball? Does anyone else feel like this?

*FYI: If none of this makes sense I'm sorry. I'm feeling very dizzy today, and my brain is a little fuzzy. Good news, though. I'm NOT getting sick. I think I'm just having Effexor withdrawals. Lucky me!

Okay, I'm stealing this quote from Daphne, but how appropriate it is!

"Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist." - George Carlin

Okay, so it's time for the next challenge over at the Sisterhood. Actually it started last week. I weighed in and everything. I'm just a lazy blogger these days. My starting weight was 137.7 which made me happy, because it was down almost a pound from the last time I weighed. Then this week it was 138.3. Stupid, STUPID Halloween candy! Be gone! I was doing so well with exercise and diet for a couple weeks. Then the holiday hit, and well, you know how it goes. Back on the wagon I go!!!