Somtimes I Feel Like Talking in French.

Parfois je me sens comme parler en français. C'est une si belle langue. Il est une autre manière de s'exprimer. Ainsi, ici je m'exprime en mon Français de niveau de lycée.  Veuillez excuser les erreurs.

I'm Now on Pinterest.

After much convincing by my pals, Mandy and Anita, I'm now on Pinterest.  So far it's been quite the time suck, but in a good way.  :)

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Happy New Year!

Wow 2011 has been a year.  Some good, some bad, but that's the way life works, right?  Right.  I feel like I have accomplished a lot this year.  I got my apartment organized (now if I could just get it to stay that way), I got all that paperwork that needs to be kept, but not necessarily needed to be viewed daily organized, and I spent lots of quality time with my family.  I also met a whole group of like minded woman over at Scary Mommy. 

This year my goals are:
*Continue to lose weight.  I've been doing really good and I want to keep it up.
*Keep everything organized.  Everything has a place.
*Continue to love on my family.  They mean the world to me and there's nothing I wouldn't do for them.
*Get a job.  While I love being a SAHM, it's time to get back into the work force.
*Keep on being a great friend.  I love my friends and they love me right back.  :)
*Keep an open mind.  You never know what life's gonna throw at ya.

What are you goals?  How did 2011 treat you?

Checking In

What have you been up to lately?  As the Holiday's approach it's time to wrap up some projects and check some items off my to do list. 

Since I last posted I've:
*Cleaned the burners on my stove
*Addressed and mailed my Christmas cards
*Saw Breaking Dawn in the theater wOOt wOOt
*Set up my bill binder for next year
*Scheduled an oil change for this week
*Determined that at this time there is nothing I can sell on craigslist
*Maintained my clean house
*Shopped sales at the grocery store so I won't have to buy anything but perishables for a long time

To do yet:
*Deep clean the carpets especially in the living room
*Back-up the digital photo's to my external hard drive
*Put the cover on the sandbox
*Find pics to put in some of the cute picture frames I got at Kohl's
*File my taxes (BAD Chibiko!!)
*Apply for a job should the right type of job come along...not in any hurry here 'cause it's a pain in the butt to find daycare that will transport DD3 to preschool, but it's definitely on the back burner

It's Dead

My beloved vacuum died.  It went out in a blaze of glory with sparks, smoke and everything.  I said a few choice words as I dumped the thing into the dumpster.

Now, here comes the fun part...which new vacuum do I get to replace it...  I like bagless uprights.  My dream vacuum is a Dyson, but that ain't gonna happen.  So, what vacuum do you use?  I vacuum about every other day.  Do you use it that frequently? In the mean time I'm borrowing a vacuum from my Mom until I can get a new one.  Since time isn't an issue I have time to save up a bit for a new one.  Any advice on the vacuum front or really any other front is welcome.

On a side note I don't think I've ever typed the word vacuum so many times at one sit down before. :)

Still Going Strong

Today I:

*Eliminated 31 shirts from my side of the closet
*Handed out my kiddo's school pics
*Got caught up on laundry

I also ran a bunch of errands that took up most of my morning.  DD3 is sick so I took her to the Doctors this afternoon.  Turns out she has the croup and her 2nd ever ear infection.  Poor little chickadee. 

Let's see how I'm fairing on the to do list.

To do yet:
*Deep clean the carpets especially in the living room
*Back-up the digital photo's to my external hard drive
*Find more stuff to list on craigslist
*Put the cover on the sandbox
*Christmas cards (It's never to early to address those suckers)
*Get my oil changed (I have like 500 miles till it's due)
*Get my next years bill binder set up and ready for action
*Find pics to put in some of the cute picture frames I got at Kohl's
*File my taxes (BAD Chibiko!!)
*See Breaking Dawn in the theater...living the high life there :)
*Apply for a job should the right type of job come along...not in any hurry here 'cause it's a pain in the butt to find daycare that will transport DD3 to preschool, but it's definitely on the back burner
*Stop making insanely long to do lists and take time to enjoy life

Not bad, but there's still a lot of work to do.  How are your projects coming along?  I'd love to hear about them.

Follow Me and I'll Follow You Back

We all work hard on our blogs and we all love readers.  It's hard to get a blog going and get a steady base of readers.  So, I thought that we could follow each other.  :)  Follow me and I'll follow you back.  Easy peasy lemon squeezy.

I can't wait to see what you've been working on!