05/15

today…

Day 15, Wednesday: A Day in the life

Wake-up around 6:45
Make a cup of coffee and catch up on blog reading while trying to wake up
7:20am – Play cabbie driving the middle schooler to school & rewarding myself with a latte while I’m doing it

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9:30am – Take dog to the groomers

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10am – 12pm More computer time with laundry & dishes mixed in
Thoughts of needing to get dressed and go exercise
Phone calls that lead to someone coming to our house at noon (guess the gym is out now!)
1pm – lunch

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2pm – back in the car to pick up the dog from the groomers (^^aww, she’s so purty)
3:30pm – Afternoon school pick up.  More driving…yay!  :o/
5:30pm – Head to yoga for some much needed stretching and relaxation
8pm – pick up dinner on my way home from yoga

relax

9pm – shower
10pm – on couch, snuggled with the hubs, watching some tv and surfing on the iPad

The End  🙂



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05/14

Happiness is…

Day 14, Tuesday: Ten things that make you really happy

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05/04

There are only two mistakes…

Day 4, Favorite Quote

“There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting. ~Buddha”

This particular quote stands out to me because it’s the story of my life.  I either don’t start something because I don’t know how or because I’m afraid to fail…or I don’t finish it.  I really want to be better at going after what I want and seeing it through to the end!



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05/03

things that make me squirm…

Day 3 in the bloggity blog challenge…What makes me uncomfortable

Not the usual stuff like talking about myself (I’m pretty much an open book and will tell you more than you want to know) or having boudoir photos taken, standing in my skivies for my dermatologist or even going to the gynecologist.  Geez, it kinda sounds like I’m full of myself, but that’s really far from the truth.  Those particular things just don’t bother me, but there are plenty of others that definitely make me squirm…

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  • Bodily functions
  • Awkward silence
  • Confrontation :: I will do just about anything to avoid confrontation, even though that sometimes means I get walked all over.  I have this irrational need to be liked by everyone, regardless of whether I like them or not.  Not to mention that just because you speak up for yourself doesn’t mean they won’t like you.
  • Meeting new people :: this one is a biggie for me.  I am so bad with meeting new people.  I want to meet new people and I like to be around them, but if I’m in a group setting, my mind will go blank and I can’t make conversation to save my life.  If I’m one on one, most of the time I end up with verbal diarrhea and say whatever crosses my mind.  People usually have a misconception of who I really am.  In school I would gradually start talking to people and after they got to know me they’d say, “I used to think you were so stuck up”.  In reality, I was just shy and introverted. Once I get to know you though, I am fairly normal (I think, lol).
  • Being put on the spot :: undoubtably I ALWAYS freeze up.  My mind goes blank and then everyone thinks I’m lame.
  • Vain things like having a huge zit or when my pits sweat and my shirt is visibly wet under my arm.  I seriously have a pit sweating problem.  I’ve tried all kinds of deodorants (antiperspirant & deodorant), but nothing works.  If I didn’t hate needles so much I’d botox those buggers!


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05/02

My life :: in a nutshell

So, there’s this blog challenge that I learned about today on Saturated Canary.  It’s a blog everyday in May challenge that Jenni, from Story of My Life is leading us in.  I’m one day behind already, but I’m not letting that deter me.  I don’t plan on blogging every day, but maybe I’ll blog more than usual and maybe you’ll learn a little more (maybe too much?) about me.  😉  Click that little pic below to see the challenge and join in!


Day 1, Wednesday Thursday: The story of your life in 250 words or less

Here goes…

I’m a Floridian born and raised. When I got married we had brief stints in Savannah, GA and Raleigh, NC, but once I got pregnant, we came back to FL to be around family.

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I’m from a family of 4 siblings (youngest brother wasn’t born yet in above pic) and was the baby of the family for 8.5 yrs…then my brother came along and ruined my fun.  Haha..j/k.  I loved having a baby brother to play mommy to.  *fun fact…My sister is 9yrs older than I am and I am 9 yrs older than my brother.  Then my other brother is thrown in the middle of my sister and I.  He had fun torturing us as the middle child.

I’m the only one of my siblings that did not play a musical instrument in school.  The piano was the only instrument I was interested in, but we couldn’t afford to buy one for the house, thus…nothing to practice on.

We moved to a neighboring city the summer before my senior year of HS.  Since we moved to a different county, I had to change schools.  I cried several days during the first few weeks of school and I’m pretty sure I made my mom feel terrible (being a mom, I imagine she must have spent some time feeling sad for me and maybe cried a few times herself).  I’m not very outgoing, so making friends was (is) difficult.  Thankfully I found a crazy New Yorker to befriend (another new girl) who was very outgoing so I piggybacked of her socialization.  Her name was Katie too.  Most people would ask Katie ____ or other Katie.  I was “other Katie” every single time.  Hey, I’m not going to complain.  Without her, I would have been “who’s Katie?”.  Plus, because of her and who she knew, I met my husband in HS.  We wouldn’t meet up again and fall in love until 1.5 yrs later, but that was where we first met.

My twenties are a blur…Got married at 20, had babies at 22 and 25.  Spent most of the decade learning how to be a wife and mother.

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Now, I spend my time…being a wife & mom (toting kids to and from school/events, helping with homework, making ordering dinner, trying to be a good wife), addicted to social media (FB, twitter, pinterest, instagram), blogging about anything that’s on my mind, shopping (making up for lost years of not shopping because I didn’t like the way anything looked on me), taking pretty pictures, trying to stay fit & healthy, and working on figuring out who I am and what I want to do when I grow up.

Whoops…I didn’t count, but I’m pretty sure I went over 250.  :oP

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