Dream Home

I told Joseph yesterday that I have an idea of what I would like our next house to be. I'd like an old farm house with a good bit of land (not a working farm or anything crazy like that) and a barn that we could convert into a studio for our photography. If we landscaped well, we would have a great location for outdoor photos. We would have our own barn, so we wouldn't have to drive down road after road looking at barn after barn wishing we had access to use them for photos. Inside the barn, in addition to the studio, we could create a playroom so our kids could be right there during photo shoots. I think it could work. Now to save up the money and find the perfect house ... :O)

3 Projects

I have three projects on my to do list that I would like to finish over the course of the next couple of weeks. 1) I'd like to clean out our laundry closet so that only laundry supplies are left, along with empty shelves that I can use to store stockpile groceries and toiletries as I find good deals on them. 2) Our linen closet is a little out of control, partly because we have so many towels (there are 3 stacks of towels in the guest room). I'd like to put some of the towels in storage and straighten up everything on the shelves. 3) I'd like to make the guest room a place where guests feel comfortable and welcome. At one point, we had the guest room cleaned out enough that someone could sleep in it. Then we started using it as a dumping ground for anything that didn't have a permanent home. The following pictures show you the chaos. :O)

Officially the Start of a New Week

I certainly had no intentions of being awake as Saturday melted into Sunday. Alas, I am. Whilst I wind down and prepare for bed, I will blog a little.

I decided to set a few goals for the week. One goal would have been smart, but I'm not that kind of gal. I ended up with seven goals. I know, I know ... I'm probably setting myself for failure. OR ... I could be setting myself up for seven times the success that I would have had with only one goal.

For the sake of at least a smidge of accountability, I'm going to share those seven goals with you. I hope I can remember them without walking to the bathroom to read the Post-it Note on the mirror ...

1) Have at least 5 times of devotion
2) Go to the gym at least 5 out of 7 days
3) Up by 6am Sunday through Friday (I'm cutting myself a break on Saturday!)
4) Bed by 10pm Sunday through Thursday (I decided bed by 10 on Saturday just wasn't an achievable goal this week considering it was after 10 when I was compiling my goals.)
5) Lose 1 pound
6) Read at least 3 chapters of Boundaries
7) Read at least 2 chapters of The Shack

I'll report back and let you know how I do. There isn't anything spectacular about my goals. In fact, most of my goals are things normal people do all of the time. I'm a little slow in some areas. God is good. He loves me anyway, and He has given me the Holy Spirit to help me grow. What more could a gal want? :O)

Oh! I remembered my goals without looking at the Post-it Note! That means I'm off to a good start!

Last night, I was in my bathroom, and I heard my neighbor singing. I found it quite amusing, and I tried to figure out what she was singing. Could you imagine if I had started singing along so she could hear me? haha, that thought has amused me all day. :O)

I'm still making progress on my goals I've set for this year. I have not fallen into the temptation to eat fast food, and I have now exercised 7 days in a row! That's pretty good for me!

OK, I guess I should be more accurate and say I'm making progress on that goal ... I still need to work on my other ones. :O)

I think I may go to this http://www.philandamyfitness.com/90_Day_Challenge.html on Saturday. If you're in the area and would like to go with me, let me know!

I had a thought earlier ... good grief ... what was it? ....

Oh, well ... I sat here and thought for a while, and I couldn't remember it. Maybe I'll think of it later ...

Dreams Part Dos

So, after I went back to bed last night, my dreams got WAY worse!! I had a dream that my brother Joel died, and I was preparing to give his eulogy. It was TERRIBLE! You know how sometimes you have an awesome dream, and then you try really hard to fall asleep again and get back to the awesome dream? Typically it doesn't work, right? Well, last night, every time I woke up sad because Joel died, I fell asleep and was right back in that same dream!!! I woke up SO sad!! So, since my dream life wasn't exactly pleasant last night (with a few minor exceptions), I decided I would blog about some real life dreams I have. They will be in no particular order, and some of them WILL seem silly to you. But that's OK, because they're MY dreams!

• be in a Sonic commercial
• be in a shampoo commercial
• be on Broadway
• be a really good photographer

• marry Mr. Special Someone :O)
• go to Mexico
• go to Africa
• go to Scotland
• go back to Ireland
• stay in an English cottage
• travel to all 50 states ... in a Winnebago (sp?!)
• write a novel
• be in a movie
• drive from the top of South America to the bottom of South America ... with Mr. Special Someone
• maybe live in Canada for a while
• have a job where I get to travel, which might aid in the accomplishment of some of the aforementioned dreams
• marry Mr. Someone Special under some oak trees on a plantation while people are playing guitar
• have an ice cream flavor named after me
• own enough chapstick (that I like) so that I have one in every purse, every travel bag, in my car (because someone will have invented chapstick that doesn't melt), in my desk, and in every room of my apartment (or maybe house by the time this dream can be realized)
• compile a book of knock knock jokes
• be in the same room as Kevin James ... that's all that can happen, because he's married
• write a children's book
• look good in a bikini (a modest one of course)
• write beautiful poetry
• not only to marry Mr. Special Someone but to have the kind of marriage my grandparents have
• have a wrap around porch with rocking chairs and swings ... hmmm, which country would I like to be living in when I get the wrap around porch?
• be a talk show hostess
• be a talk show co-hostess with my cousin Johnnie Ann
• live closer to all of my family

OK, that's probably enough for now. Thanks for enduring all this dreaming! :O)