That song is in my head right now. Not sure why. Haha!
Week 4 of 52, Day 2 of 6
Days to next Tea TBA, Days to next dinner 5!!! YIKES!!! Crunch time!
Frazzle Free Christmas Week 2 of 8, Day 2 of 6
This morning I had a few moments so I actually have already started on the Frazzle Free stuff. Today was to begin making some of the appointments that from the list that was started yesterday. I have accomplished that with one Dr. appt. and I called my hair salon (Supercuts) and found out they don't do appointments. Stink! So I don't know how I am going to make sure I get Shari again without just calling and finding out when she works?
I also found a few more gift ideas from a magazine I was looking at (I'M NOT SAYING WHICH ONE MUAH HAHAHAHA).
Today we are also supposed to start our Christmas card list and that is all for today.
My 15 minute project tonight is to finish...FINALLY...the pictures. I only have two more spots. A couple in the bathroom and my bedroom. So hopefully this will be done and I won't have to dedicate anymore time to this. I'M SICK OF HAMMERS NAILS AND TAPE MEASURES!!! I'm a big of a freak when it comes to hanging things. I have graph paper, math, tape measures, nails and a hammer. And they still look crooked to me and annoy me!
Anyway, enjoy!
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Monday, October 26, 2009
Its About Time!
Week 4 of 52, Day 1 of 6
Days to next Tea TBA, Days to next dinner 6
Frazzle Free Christmas Week 2 of 8, Day 1 of 6
My dining room table is tucked into a corner between two large windows. Currently the wind is howling around my house. I wonder at the wisdom of my location, what if a tree trunk comes hurling through my window? Just wondering.
I am ready to begin a new week, fresh and excited to see more progress. I have had some discouraging days but there is something about starting Monday ready to see what the week will bring. So here we go!
Tonight is my bedroom, obvious this schedule is not going to change. Mondays will always be bedroom, tuesdays living room etc. etc. So I will quit posting it and focus only on the current 15 minute project. My 15 minute project tonight is going to be to finish the final wall that I just can't make a decision on. I would leave it and come back to it but I have been doing that since I moved in. That was the first wall I wanted to decorate and the last one I can ever decide on. So tonight in go the nails and who cares what hangs on them, but for cornbread's sake put something up there. Cornbread, why? Because its better than Pete...who is Pete anyway?
Frazzle free we are on week 2!!! Exciting!!!
Today's plan called for 2 things I would have never thought of. 1. Write down a list of appointments you will need to make for Thanksgiving/Christmas like hair appointments, doctors appointments, etc. This was really helpful as I would have forgotten and last minute thought, I NEED MY HAIR DONE!!! As I always do before the Christmas program. I am, hopefully correctly, assuming that later in the week I will be told to make the appointments. 2. If you take pictures for Christmas cards and need new outfits start buying now. If you don't need new outfits for the cards then don't worry about this yet. I thought that was a great idea. I don't do picture cards but it is something that I would have done last minute as a mom "WHAT ARE WE GOING TO WEAR???!!!" Notice how my panic times are all in caps. Its because I panic at the last possible moment because that is when I remember.
Ok, here I go, hanging pics!!! Yikes!
FINALLY finished that wall. I will post a pic another night but its after 11 p.m. now. Goodnight.
Days to next Tea TBA, Days to next dinner 6
Frazzle Free Christmas Week 2 of 8, Day 1 of 6
My dining room table is tucked into a corner between two large windows. Currently the wind is howling around my house. I wonder at the wisdom of my location, what if a tree trunk comes hurling through my window? Just wondering.
I am ready to begin a new week, fresh and excited to see more progress. I have had some discouraging days but there is something about starting Monday ready to see what the week will bring. So here we go!
Tonight is my bedroom, obvious this schedule is not going to change. Mondays will always be bedroom, tuesdays living room etc. etc. So I will quit posting it and focus only on the current 15 minute project. My 15 minute project tonight is going to be to finish the final wall that I just can't make a decision on. I would leave it and come back to it but I have been doing that since I moved in. That was the first wall I wanted to decorate and the last one I can ever decide on. So tonight in go the nails and who cares what hangs on them, but for cornbread's sake put something up there. Cornbread, why? Because its better than Pete...who is Pete anyway?
Frazzle free we are on week 2!!! Exciting!!!
Today's plan called for 2 things I would have never thought of. 1. Write down a list of appointments you will need to make for Thanksgiving/Christmas like hair appointments, doctors appointments, etc. This was really helpful as I would have forgotten and last minute thought, I NEED MY HAIR DONE!!! As I always do before the Christmas program. I am, hopefully correctly, assuming that later in the week I will be told to make the appointments. 2. If you take pictures for Christmas cards and need new outfits start buying now. If you don't need new outfits for the cards then don't worry about this yet. I thought that was a great idea. I don't do picture cards but it is something that I would have done last minute as a mom "WHAT ARE WE GOING TO WEAR???!!!" Notice how my panic times are all in caps. Its because I panic at the last possible moment because that is when I remember.
Ok, here I go, hanging pics!!! Yikes!
FINALLY finished that wall. I will post a pic another night but its after 11 p.m. now. Goodnight.
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Bleeding Organization
The nice part about getting more and more organized is that it begins to spill over into other areas of your life. My previous habits for my finances were this,
Keep a running total of what is in the bank in my head.
Possibly balance my checkbook monthly but more like quarterly.
Attempt a budget but give up when its too discouraging.
Granted I do not have debt other than my car payment, meaning I do have a credit card but I pay it off every month. But my methods did get me into some scrapes a couple times where I had less money that I remembered in my head or forgot a check I had written or something.
However, my organization in my house and with Christmas planning have begun to bleed into other areas of my life. Now, I currently run through my finances about every 2 weeks when I get paid. At the most once a month. Then after that I have a more accurate view of where I am. Plus I am doing very well with spending lately. I was doing horrible and struggling not to end up in a hole. I don't mean end up in the hole as in owing money on my card, I mean a hole as in digging myself deeper. Well I just had a shovel and the hole was only a foot deep. So I stepped out and am now filling it back in.
It is a huge relief to have a handle on my finances again. I was very good when I was younger but the more I started working on the church finances the less I wanted to when I got home. But I think I am finding a happy balance of torture and responsibility. Because financial stuff really is torture.
So all I have left to say is, "BLEEDING ORGANIZATION BATMAN!!!" I'm sorry, I couldn't help myself.
Keep a running total of what is in the bank in my head.
Possibly balance my checkbook monthly but more like quarterly.
Attempt a budget but give up when its too discouraging.
Granted I do not have debt other than my car payment, meaning I do have a credit card but I pay it off every month. But my methods did get me into some scrapes a couple times where I had less money that I remembered in my head or forgot a check I had written or something.
However, my organization in my house and with Christmas planning have begun to bleed into other areas of my life. Now, I currently run through my finances about every 2 weeks when I get paid. At the most once a month. Then after that I have a more accurate view of where I am. Plus I am doing very well with spending lately. I was doing horrible and struggling not to end up in a hole. I don't mean end up in the hole as in owing money on my card, I mean a hole as in digging myself deeper. Well I just had a shovel and the hole was only a foot deep. So I stepped out and am now filling it back in.
It is a huge relief to have a handle on my finances again. I was very good when I was younger but the more I started working on the church finances the less I wanted to when I got home. But I think I am finding a happy balance of torture and responsibility. Because financial stuff really is torture.
So all I have left to say is, "BLEEDING ORGANIZATION BATMAN!!!" I'm sorry, I couldn't help myself.
Argness!
Week 3 of 52, Day 6 of 6
Days to next Tea TBA, Days to next dinner 8
Frazzle Free Christmas Week 1 of 8, Day 6 of 6
Tonight I am exhausted. Its a busy weekend and I don't know quite how I can keep it up but here I go. Kitchen, Laundry, 15 minutes on hanging things, and then I'm done.
Frazzle Free is wrapping up, setting a budget and looking at next week to make sure I have it all I need.
So here we go on the kitchen...I already did Frazzle Free!!!
Kitchen is cleaned...but the picture hanging isn't finished. I have one wall left and I just can't decide what I want there!!! ARG!
Days to next Tea TBA, Days to next dinner 8
Frazzle Free Christmas Week 1 of 8, Day 6 of 6
Tonight I am exhausted. Its a busy weekend and I don't know quite how I can keep it up but here I go. Kitchen, Laundry, 15 minutes on hanging things, and then I'm done.
Frazzle Free is wrapping up, setting a budget and looking at next week to make sure I have it all I need.
So here we go on the kitchen...I already did Frazzle Free!!!
Kitchen is cleaned...but the picture hanging isn't finished. I have one wall left and I just can't decide what I want there!!! ARG!
Friday, October 23, 2009
Work Day
Week 3 of 52, Day 5 of 6
Days to next Tea 22?, Days to next dinner 9
Frazzle Free Christmas Week 1 of 8, Day 5 of 6
Chicken Florentine Crepes must taste fabulous because they sound so posh! As a matter of fact they do taste fabulous. Even when you ask for no cheese and have your hollandaise sauce on the side. Why is it that fancy sounding foods make us think that they are more gourmet? Why do we feel that Meatloaf compared to French Pate sounds like comparing old sneakers to polished dress shoes?
Projects for the day include cleaning the bathroom, I really need to clean my shower but I really really really don't want to. ugh. I hate doing that most of all. Perhaps next week??? Ok I said that last week. Maybe I should put it on my project 10 list and do it as a 15 minute thing...It shouldn't take too long right?
Secondly my project 10 for the day will be hanging things. Its high time I get this done. I was planning on doing this before the dinner anyway so here we go!!! If I get only the willow tree things hung then tomorrow I will work on more pictures. But SOMETHING WILL GET HUNG TODAY!!!
I am currently drying my darks from last night's washing and I will put those away as soon as they are finished. And today I have my weekly maintenance to do. All this in 2 hours before I need to go pick up Brittany. After that I will probably head to the church to get a little more caught up there. So not much time today.
Well I cannot hang the shelves because I need screws to do it and a screwdriver. But I started the process of hanging other stuff. So I got a couple things up, pulled out the rest of my pics and decided what I want up. It will take me about one more day to get them up and finish deciding where I want them.
So there we go!
On my weekly stuff I skipped vacuuming this week. I should but I just can't bring myself to care. I worked hard today though! Oh! I did clean my shower. See, I worked hard!
Days to next Tea 22?, Days to next dinner 9
Frazzle Free Christmas Week 1 of 8, Day 5 of 6
Chicken Florentine Crepes must taste fabulous because they sound so posh! As a matter of fact they do taste fabulous. Even when you ask for no cheese and have your hollandaise sauce on the side. Why is it that fancy sounding foods make us think that they are more gourmet? Why do we feel that Meatloaf compared to French Pate sounds like comparing old sneakers to polished dress shoes?
Projects for the day include cleaning the bathroom, I really need to clean my shower but I really really really don't want to. ugh. I hate doing that most of all. Perhaps next week??? Ok I said that last week. Maybe I should put it on my project 10 list and do it as a 15 minute thing...It shouldn't take too long right?
Secondly my project 10 for the day will be hanging things. Its high time I get this done. I was planning on doing this before the dinner anyway so here we go!!! If I get only the willow tree things hung then tomorrow I will work on more pictures. But SOMETHING WILL GET HUNG TODAY!!!
I am currently drying my darks from last night's washing and I will put those away as soon as they are finished. And today I have my weekly maintenance to do. All this in 2 hours before I need to go pick up Brittany. After that I will probably head to the church to get a little more caught up there. So not much time today.
Well I cannot hang the shelves because I need screws to do it and a screwdriver. But I started the process of hanging other stuff. So I got a couple things up, pulled out the rest of my pics and decided what I want up. It will take me about one more day to get them up and finish deciding where I want them.
So there we go!
On my weekly stuff I skipped vacuuming this week. I should but I just can't bring myself to care. I worked hard today though! Oh! I did clean my shower. See, I worked hard!
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Roller Coasters
Week 3 of 52, Day 4 of 6
Days to next Tea TBA, Days to next dinner 10
Frazzle Free Christmas Week 1 of 8, Day 4 of 6
Yesterday, or was it the day before? I was so excited at the progress I have been making. Which, granted is true, but today I feel like there is SO much to get done. I look around and think, "where did this mess come from if I am cleaning every day?" I must keep plugging away. After all I have a dinner here in 10 days!!! Yikes, what is a girl to do?
Tonight is the dining room to be cleaned and then 15 minutes on my living room bookshelf. I figured thats a good project next as my company will be seeing that.
Frazzle free is simple today...continue continue continue...so I am already done. I went over my calendar with my parents tonight. Tomorrow I will call my grandparents and invite them over for dinner the day after thanksgiving. Nothing fancy or all out but just a simple dinner. I think tomorrow I will send out Sara's tea invite. I keep forgetting and I need to get that done.
So here it goes.
Ok so my bookshelf still has too many knick-knacks...I will work on that a little more another day. I will have to decide what to keep and what to get rid of. But in the meantime, I have a neater looking bookshelf. I think I would like to try to get my willow tree shelves my dad gave me up before the dinner at my house. That will clear some of the clutter on that shelf and display my willow tree nicely!
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Worship
Week 3 of 52, Day 3 of 6
Days to next Tea TBA, Days to next dinner 11
Frazzle Free Christmas Week 1 of 8, Day 3 of 6
Even in the midst of the storm, even when we don't feel like it, we are to do what we are called to do. Watched an awesome video of one of the Hillsong worship leaders who had gone through a major tragedy days before singing Desert Song for an album. She said that even though she didn't fell like it she knew she needed to do what God had called her to do, worship.
Verse 1:
This is my prayer in the desert
And all that's within me feels dry
This is my prayer in the hunger in me
My God is a God who provides
Verse 2:
And this is my prayer in the fire
In weakness or trial or pain
There is a faith proved
Of more worth than gold
So refine me Lord through the flames
Chorus:
And I will bring praise
I will bring praise
No weapon forged against me shall remain
I will rejoice
I will declare
God is my victory and He is here
Verse 3:
And this is my prayer in the battle
And triumph is still on it's way
I am a conqueror and co-heir with Christ
So firm on His promise I'll stand
Bridge:
All of my life
In every season
You are still God
I have a reason to sing
I have a reason to worship
Verse 4:
This is my prayer in the harvest
When favor and providence flow
I know I'm filled to be emptied again
The seed I've received I will sow
So tonight I clean the Laundry room, I'm taking the night off for my 15 minute project because it is 11:30!!!, and continue everything from yesterday in frazzle free plus start my "to buy" list which is all the non grocery holiday items that you need...like tape and wrapping paper.
Days to next Tea TBA, Days to next dinner 11
Frazzle Free Christmas Week 1 of 8, Day 3 of 6
Even in the midst of the storm, even when we don't feel like it, we are to do what we are called to do. Watched an awesome video of one of the Hillsong worship leaders who had gone through a major tragedy days before singing Desert Song for an album. She said that even though she didn't fell like it she knew she needed to do what God had called her to do, worship.
Verse 1:
This is my prayer in the desert
And all that's within me feels dry
This is my prayer in the hunger in me
My God is a God who provides
Verse 2:
And this is my prayer in the fire
In weakness or trial or pain
There is a faith proved
Of more worth than gold
So refine me Lord through the flames
Chorus:
And I will bring praise
I will bring praise
No weapon forged against me shall remain
I will rejoice
I will declare
God is my victory and He is here
Verse 3:
And this is my prayer in the battle
And triumph is still on it's way
I am a conqueror and co-heir with Christ
So firm on His promise I'll stand
Bridge:
All of my life
In every season
You are still God
I have a reason to sing
I have a reason to worship
Verse 4:
This is my prayer in the harvest
When favor and providence flow
I know I'm filled to be emptied again
The seed I've received I will sow
So tonight I clean the Laundry room, I'm taking the night off for my 15 minute project because it is 11:30!!!, and continue everything from yesterday in frazzle free plus start my "to buy" list which is all the non grocery holiday items that you need...like tape and wrapping paper.
