Spring To-Do List :)

Generally, I am an organized person. I have everything I need to get done listed in some to-do list just waiting to be crossed off. After Christmas though, and certainly after my wedding, I started to get to-do-itis and no longer care about getting things accomplished. I was burned out!!! I’ve been on vacation since then, and it’s definitely made things worse. However, the sun’s out again. The snow is gone. My clothes aren’t fitting well and my place is a mess.

It’s spring cleaning time! I have a five day break and I’m going to clean the tubs & showers and bathroom floors, the refrigerator/freezer and the kitchen floor & scrub the rest of the apartment (and our laundry) clean. Oh, I can’t wait to turn off the heat and open all the windows!!! I swear things are going to get accomplished.

The most important thing is to finish all my homework for this semester, including finalizing my qualitative research report so that I can apply for speaking opportunities. I also want to follow up with my practicum/internship site to set up a lunch with my supervisor to calm my nerves about counseling people – for real!

I also need to GO THROUGH MY MAIL. I need to see what events I missed that I didn’t RSVP for, and apologize to friends for lacking in the friend department. Also, now is the time for me to get back on a working out schedule and start pre-planning my meals (groceries shopping) so that I can finally lose the 13 pounds that have been plaguing my ass!!! I also am still itching to do something creative - like knitting, drawing, or photography. Hopefully I can get it accomplished over the summer when I have time.

Other things that I want to get accomplish file our taxes so that I can apply for financial aid, get my external hard drive to On Track Data Recovery to see if I can get my data back, get my husband’s website up, and I want to get together all my clutter items to sell on Craigslist & eBay. Also, I want to send my wedding invitation & fall leaves to my photographer because I forgot to have pictures taken for my wedding album. On that topic, I also have to file the paperwork to legally change my name.

Wow, no wonder I’ve been avoiding to-do lists! I’m already stressed out again. Oh well, give me a glass of wine and some fruit, I’ll get it all accomplished somehow.

Thanks for your support!
B

A Little Gray....

Right at this very minute I am feeling a bit overwhelmed with school, work, life, etc. However, I do want to note that it’s a gray day today, and I’m nearly 80% certain that I suffer from seasonal affective disorder! The only highlight of my day is looking through the blogs that I follow. These men/women are so creative and thought inspiring.

Today’s blog, in particular, is really a kudos to A CUP OF JO’s blog, and I thought I would share some cool things from her blog recently!

When I was planning my wedding last year, I was watching an episode of Whose Wedding Is It Anyway? and I thought this designers 8x8 flower wall was amazing. http://www.eventergonomics.com/floral.html Just recently her blog shared another designer who is selling these vertical gardens! Now I am all about helping the environment and being eco-friendly, so I wanted to share that they have a do-it-yourself kit for purchase. Check it out here

Also, I am noting another one of her post’s sharing photographer Paul Octavious collection of photographs that he take over the past 2 years of a place he calls "the hill." Each time he came to find a new story as he describes “is told to me as if the hill is my stage and the locals are the actors in this daily play.”





Finally, A CUP OF JO recommended my next summer read! It’s called Eat, Memory, and it's a collection of 26 essays that originally appeared in the New York Times Magazine, connecting to foreign places and familiar people through tastes and smells. She recommends it as something fun and yummy. :)


Thanks again to A CUP OF JO for sharing so many interesting things. I hope by the end of this summer, you’ll be looking for one of my blogs for inspirations!

Family Portrait

As I have been getting older, I have begun to appreciate my family more and more. Through an intense interest in genealogy, and constant questioning of my family as to where we have come from, I have recently begun to uncover where my family is from via Ancestory.com. Within 24 hours, looking through Census forms dating back to the 1800s, birth and death records, marriage records, articles, etc., I traced back eight generations on my father’s side and five generations on my mother’s side! I feel so enlightened already knowing the occupations of my ggg grandparents and I can almost imagine what life was like for them back then!

Honestly, I feel like I’m understanding where I come from better and I feel like hopefully that will help me understand even more about myself. And eventually when my husband and I start a family of our own, it would be awesome to be able to tell our children more about where they came from! One note of warning though…. Ancestory.com is very addicting. You could sign on first thing in the morning and stay on it for 24 hours without realizing it!

I’ll keep you updated on anything fun and new that comes from this!
Thanks to MadeByGirl for the photo!

Out of Hybernation!

Dear my few readers,

It’s been a couple weeks since I’ve posted anything and I apologize for that! Things have been overwhelming my mind – such as weather, school, life, etc. – and I’ve been hibernating as a result. Thank God the sun has finally come out though! The weather in Ohio is slowly turning to spring, and as a result I feel so much better. I’m starting to get outside more, and walk, and eventually will try to be eating right again :) For those of you following my detox – the only thing I’ve stuck with is free of coffee! Hey, it’s something, right?

Also, I have had some time to look through blogs that I am a fan of and I thought I would share some of the images from them that inspired me and made me feel even better. A BIG thanks to the following blogs for sharing these pictures: MadeByGirl, ACUPOFJO, All Things Lovely, a Friend to knit, A blonde walks into a blog…, and anyone else I may have forgotten!! You don’t know how much better I felt when looking through your blogs.

Have a great day!