Resolution?

Maybe.

I have had quite a few thoughts rumbling around in my brain for the past month or two concerning the New Year Resolutions that I feel I should make or would like to make.  That being said, how many do I really believe I can accomplish and how many are me blowing smoke out of my mouth?  Whoops, it can't be smoke, I quite that over 4 years ago, yea me!!!

Anyways, here is my list.

1. Get the knee fixed. Scheduled for the 7th so this one is easy.  It's pretty much done.
2. Get back on track working out.  Now see, I have slacked quite a bit in the past 6 months and I am not sure why.  Other than it might have something to do with my knee having a torn cartilage or it could be that I am bored with my workouts.  Let's hope I can figure this one out, I don't want to gain anymore weight this New Year.  That is definitely not on my list.
3. Quite drinking diet soda or soda of any kind.  I just love my Diet Coke or Diet Dr. Pepper, but I think it is holding me back when it comes to being as healthy as I want to be.  You know, that elusive goal that we all have in the back of our minds?  Yeah, that one!  I'm sure it's on this list somewhere.
4. Take a class on photography and understand the whole photography process better.  I got this one in the bag along with getting the knee fixed.  I have signed up for a photography class, just a short community class, which is for four 1 1/2 hours class sessions.  I guess it's a good start on learning all that I want to learn.  Good basics.  I will still need to feel more comfortable with the tech stuff but I guess the class is a good start.
5. Lose 30 pounds.  Now this one I have struggled with the past year.  I lost 55 pounds over the course of one year and managed to keep it off for another year but over this last year, more like the past 6 months, I have gain back about 7 pounds.  Do you think it has anything to do with the knee?  I hope that's what it is, otherwise I am in trouble.  Boredom has set in and I need to struggle out of it.
6. Talk to my Heavenly Father more.  I need to put my Heavenly Father at the top of my list, but as you can see I have not.  So this one will become priority #1 for me.  I promise to you all, and to myself, that if I do nothing else this New Year but have a closer relationship with my Heavenly Father, then it will have been a most successful year.
7. Run a half marathon.  midMan can not figure out why I would want to do this, but those of you who run or jog, which is what I do, will know.  In the process of training I hope to be able to increase my time and still be able to breathe.  Breathing seems to be my issue, if I want to breathe and not gasp for breath, I need to train.
8. Get my family on a better diet, even if it means doing it on the sly.  I really need to figure this one out.  Maybe if I give them no choice when it comes to food, fresh or nothing, they will get it.  But they just might hold a revolt and kick me out of the kitchen for good if I do that.  Hmmmm, maybe not such a bad idea.  (Have you all noticed that everything is about being healthier?  Is this good or am I missing out on some unhealthy fun?)
9. Live a little more frugally so that we can pay off some more bills.  Let's hope midMan and tailEnd understand.

I am sure that there are plenty more that I have forgotten, but tell me, what do you guys think?  Are resolutions good things or are we just setting ourselves up for failure?  Do each of you have a list?  Do you feel you can accomplish all that is on your list?  Do you list items on your list knowing that you probably won't succeed with just that one?  Or do you set yourself up to accomplish all of them?  Are resolutions good or bad?

I personally feel I have set myself up to succeed.  They are all not easy and most are not too hard, but I think with some hard work on my part I can accomplish each one of these and feel better about myself in the process.  Maybe that is what resolutions are all about; feeling better about ourselves.

I wish you all a Happy and Prosperous New Year with many Happy Returns.

Love to All,

midRae

One Word Wednesday.....

Amazing!!

Love to All,

midRae

  

Here we go again.  Yeah!!  And now it's time for that weekly fun carnival that we all love, 'not me Monday!'  Let's all join in and see what we got.  I'm sure we have a lot of those 'not me's' just stored up from Christmas.

Let's gooooooo..........

It was definitely not me who was really excited that my brother-in-law and his wife left Christmas early with her family and stopped by my house for a couple of hours on Christmas day.  Nope I would never cheer at the fact that they were mad at each other and decided to go home early.  Nope, I am not so selfish that I would then tell them that I was really glad that they came to visit me and my family.  Argument has since been forgotten and all is grand in their world.  But I sure was NOT excited, seriously, I was NOT excited, at all, to see them.

And it was for sure not me who had my tree undecorated, bare as the day it was born, out of the tree stand, out my front door, on the back of midMan's truck, out to the local landfill and back home by 10:15am Saturday morning.  And we were so not the first one's at our local landfill with a tree this year, and the landfill guy did not ask us in surprise, "Just your Christmas tree?' 
(He looked like Santa, too.  White beard and rosy cheeks.  Ask me if I wanted to die)  Nope, it was definitely not me who crouched down in the passenger seat hoping no one in the neighborhood would notice how fast my Christmas decorations came down. 

And it sure was not me who let out her breath in a great big whoosh, clapped my hands with joy, and proceeded to kick back and remember the wonderful Christmas that was just had by all.  Nope I would never ever enjoy Christmas and thank my Heavenly Father for all of the blessing that I and my family have received over the past year.  Nope, never, not me.

Love to All,

midRae 

MERRY CHRISTMAS

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Love to all,

midRae

One Word Wednesday.....

So, as you can see there is no photo.  Let me give you a description of the photo that didn't get taken.


It snowed last night.  WoooHoooo, a White Christmas.  Out I went into the cold this morning to shovel the driveway and walk, along with the neighbors driveway and walk.  Here I am, 40-something years old, bundled up in my favorite work coat and Dayton's, my middle child and kindred spirit's,  gloves (I don't own any of my own).  Picture this........


Under all of the warm stuff, the coat and the gloves, I am dressed in my LEI light pajama bottoms, you know the kind you get at Wal-Mart that are thin, so that when you have night sweats you don't just melt and die, but warm enough that after the night sweats, when you start freezing, they will keep you from shivering right out of bed.  Then on my cute little toes I am wearing some knock off Uggs, bought at Payless Shoes, quite a few years ago.  My sister gave them to me when her daughter told her they were ugly.  I was thankful for them and snatched them right off of her feet.  I really shouldn't wear them anymore, but I love them and they are so comfy, just not too fashionable.  Then on the upper half I am wearing a cute, at least in my eyes, flannel pajama top I got at Wal-Mart.  Its red, goes down to just above my knees, so yes it was hanging out real pretty under my coat, and I have searched for a year for just this pajama top.  And on the cute morning head there is no beanie, but there is my stringy, yucky, night hair pulled back into a pony tail.


And the label for this wonderful word photo is............

'Winter Workout'

Luckily I decided not to get tailEnd out of bed to take the photo.  At least lucky for you.  This is not something you would like to see just before Christmas.  I am sure it would have ruined the whole season for you.  And good thing midMan was at work, he wouldn't have let me out of the house.

Love to All,

midRae