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Gloomy, Beautiful Saturday!

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It’s Saturday today, and strangely it actually FEELS like a Saturday. We woke up early (thanks to Ella) and I’ve been doing laundry ever since my feet hit the floor. I’m sure the flylady would love that.

The weather outside is gloomy. Not raining, just a little overcast and peaceful. I love that. It makes me feel like I can have an inside, accomplishing day and not feel guilty about it.

We’re all feeling better and the house has been sanitized, so hopefully this icky bug is out of our lives for good!

Our Halloween was awesome. I’ll be uploading pics & video a little later today. If I start working on pictures it’ll take over my day. I have goals for today and so far I think I’m going to accomplish them.

1) Filing – I want it ALL DONE TODAY!!! I’m doing quite well on this goal.

2) Laundry – This I also want all done today, but let’s get real here ~ probably not going to happen. However, I’ve already done 4 loads and am not planning on stopping until tonight. My laundry is out of control, and that in turn makes my life out of control. So, if I don’t accomplish it all, then at least I can make a nice dent!

and those are my goals for this gloomy, wonderful Saturday! I think it’s so wonderful because it’s the first day in a really long time (besides our sick days) that I don’t HAVE to leave the house. Jayden’s done with soccer (pictures and video to come on this as well) and Gino works, so it’s kinda like a my day in a weird way.

Also ~ it’s Digital Scrapbooking Day so, if you’re in to Digital Scrapbooking I’d be high tailing it over to Ikea Godess (CLICK HERE), because there’s a TON of freebies going on. That’ll be my fun evening downloading as much as I can.

Week’s Goals

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Well, the Flylady is in the Master Bedroom this week. Thinking I might need to jump on in and get to working on my Master Bedroom/Office.

I have goals for this week! Here they are:

1) Do a total of 10 loads of laundry (I let it get a little out of control ~ surprise surprise)

2) Get tenant files moved into the new plastic tote filing thingys I bought ~ this way Ella can’t get them.

3) Financial reports done by Friday – I HAVE TO DO THIS!

4) I’m trying to work on my evening routine. It’s important for me to have my living room picked up and my kitchen clean for me to wake up to. My goal for this week is practice doing this EVERY SINGLE NIGHT! I have a much better morning when I do this.

Goals for Jayden:

1) Make sure he practices EVERY SINGLE NIGHT this week on his piano
2) Get his karate notebook put together and work with him on his code of ethics
3) Practice Reading every night

No goals for Ella

Goals for Marriage:

1) Stay positive and don’t nag

and that’s it on Goals for Marriage 🙂 that’s a REALLY hard goal!

Okay ~ so these are the things I’m working on this week – I’ll regroup on Friday and see how I did.

Today my friend Jenise is up from Sacramento visiting. We’re going to the pumpkin patch today and **whispers** we might have some video of it to upload if I get my Flip video camera like I wanted YAY!!!!

Some more goals…

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I’m getting extra doses of my husband this week. He’s had Sunday, Monday & Tuesday off. Then he also has Saturday, Sunday, Monday & Tuesday off. That’s a lot of time together. It’s been nice though. I’m getting work done, and he’s hanging out with Ella. If he knew I was really up here writing on my blog I don’t think he’d be too thrilled 🙂

I accomplished the majority of all of my goals last week. I did my 2 loads/day, my work items were done, the only thing I really messed up on was a home cooked meal every night.

Here are my goals for this week – now until Friday….

1) 2 loads/day

2) Read scriptures EVERY MORNING & NIGHT (I started my day out w/reading w/Gino and I feel great!)

3) 15 minutes of filing/day

4) Do as the flylady tells me…. I seriously need to get back on track with that!

They’re all leaving….

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Remember when we moved to Oregon and it was just us. There was no stresses, we were just peaceful and happy. Well, we’re moving in that direction once again. Mitch is moving out tomorrow. He found a room to rent!!!!! Very happy about this. My Grandma is leaving today, and I’m hoping that after the winter she moves back here so we can set up the office at her house. Norm should be leaving w/in the next couple of weeks.

I AM GOING TO BE FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It’s only Tuesday, and I wanted to voice a couple of my goals for the week.

2 Loads of laundry/day – includes folding & putting away
A/P filed in my new cute hot pink & blue filing totes (I have a sick obsession w/office supplies)
Norm’s bills paid
All deposits in the mail
Brochure completed
Home cooked meal EVERY SINGLE NIGHT!

Those are very easy goals for me for the week.

We’re Back!!

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The trip to Reno was AWESOME! Not so much being in Reno, but driving to Reno and home. We listened to Twilight on CD and Gino was finally brutally forced to understand what I’ve been talking about all this time. He likes it too. We’re only half way through the book, so I anticipate either him reading the rest (don’t see that happening) or us listening to the CD’s in the house.

The seminar was actually a lot of fun. I learned a lot and my tenants are going to hate me, because by law there are certain things that have to be in the rental agreements that aren’t. So, they’ll all be having to resign rental agreements when they just did that 2 months ago. Sorry tenants

Gino and the kids just hung out in the room while I was in my seminar and watched movies. After I got out we went swimming in their gorgeous swimming pool. Then we ate a yummy buffet and went to see Ksee and the kids.

It was such a quick trip, but it was such a nice break to get out of here.

Today is going to be spent doing all the things I don’t want to do…. I’m going to do laundry, organize the office so it’s ready for some major work accomplishing on Monday, avoid the Harvest Festival going on outside (I know, terrible, terrible mom – but come on!), get grocery shopping done.

I finally opened it

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August 2nd I was at the store buying the much anticipated Breaking Dawn. Then I got scared. I had flashbacks of the first 3 books completely overtaking my life. I couldn’t put them down. I fell in love with another man (Edward Cullen in the book). Then I got scared about it ending. I’m scared to finish this book and not have another one (Until Midnight Sun comes out) to read. Tonight I sucked it all up and opened up the book.

I read the first 2 chapters and actually was able to put it down. Not because it’s not good, but because I’m so exhausted from this day that I really need to go to bed.

I bought my Wii Fit tonight. I didn’t try it out, but Gino did and it seems REALLY cool! It’s definitely going to be fun to do.

Notice none of my goals from today are checked off? Yeah, I went to go and lay down w/Ella to get her to sleep and ended up falling asleep with her. There went my afternoon. Better luck tomorrow.

Not a Sac Girl Anymore

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I know, there’s still no pictures. It’s not as easy with this new camera, because I have to resize them for the web…. I promise it will be soon.

I however needed to come on and elaborate on a few things going through my mind. First of all, I really think I don’t like Sacramento at all. I promise it has gotten so much more ghetto than it was before. I couldn’t stand looking at all the ghetto. Besides the fact that I have a very dysfunctional father that lives here, I’m really happy we made the decision to move here. I will never live back in Sacramento if I can help it. I will always be a Cali girl at heart, but it’s so not the place to raise your children.

I believe my brother just might have a job. Done in 1 day and w/out the help of any of my family here. I’m sad, because he really did want to have the plumbing experience from my dad, but the job I believe he got (they already drug tested him and he passed it!) is a great one. They’ll even give him a bus pass, which means I DON’T HAVE TO TAKE HIM TO AND FROM WORK! Very pleased with this one…. please cross your fingers and pray with me that he indeed got the job.

Here’s my goals of the day: If I come back and cross them off that means I accomplished them ~ I wouldn’t expect too many cross offs, but you never know!!!

  1. Print Checks and mail off for work
  2. Prepare deposits and mail off for work
  3. Statements sent out
  4. 3 loads of laundry folded & put away
  5. The toilet fixed ~ maybe I’ll just pour Draino down the drain and leave it up to Gino
  6. Room cleaned up ~ it’s a mess since coming back from this trip.

Okay I’m off to go and try to get the work side of things and 1 load of laundry started.

One more thing!!!! Today is day 5 with no coffee. I am passed the migraine part (YAY!) and my anxiety is better and I’m replacing coffee with breakfast and vitamins. Huge accomplishment for me. I wasn’t just making my coffee at home, either ~ I was spending $5.00/day having it made for me. So, with the amount of money I’m going to save this month I’m buying myself Wii Fit.

Freak out panic – goals will help!

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Sometimes life just seems to fly by so fast and I feel like it’s slipping through my fingers. I’ve finally been given the perfect opportunity to be able to work at home and raise my kids and I can’t even begin to describe how thankful I am to be in a position like that. Yet, I still feel like the world is moving so fast.

Ella will be 1, Jayden will 7, I’m turning 26 and my husband just turned 27. Wow. I remember my mom being 26. Sadly, it seems like it was just yesterday and that scares the crap out of me. There’s so many things that I need to do and want to do and instead right now I’d like to put my face in a pillow and scream.

I was on a great track, with a great schedule. Things were getting done and all was happy!!! I feel a little unbalanced right now, and I need to get myself and my children back on a healthy schedule. I need to have a home cooked meal on my table for my family at least 5 days/week. I need Ella to be on a set napping/eating schedule and I need to have a set working schedule. It’s hard with Ella, but there’s no reason that anything should feel out of control ~ and honestly it really isn’t.

Lately Ella hasn’t wanted me to do anything but sit on the floor and stare at her. She’s a total Leo! She wants all the attention and the world needs to be centered on her ~ sometimes it’s hard. However, now I finally get to see what my mom got to deal with. Yes, I too am a Leo.

I’ve taken time to get organized, and I’m not 110% there yet, but I will be. I think that once things are perfectly filed and organized & my spreadsheets are updated and accounts reconciled things will be okay with me. My job honestly does not take up that much time, but it does if things aren’t organized the way they’re supposed to be.

I’m giving myself 2 weeks to be caught up on everything in my life. I need my schedules back, I need my family to feel like a family again and I need to have SET working hours.

I think I need to start off by setting myself some daily goals. Things I MUST accomplish in my home, my family, my work & myself. Sadly, sometimes there’s not enough hours in the day, but I need to start allocating my time better. I owe it to my family & myself. Tomorrow is a new day….. Here are tomorrows goals:

Work:
1) Spend 30 minutes on filing (this will probably accomplish it all)
2) Send off deposits
3) Pay all bills

In regards to my work – there’s a lot to do right now, and there’s a lot of ideas that I’m working on to make the business better. I’m going to work on a master list and I think this is going to help out so much!

Household:

1) Do 3 loads of laundry – 1 of which is bedding
2) Babyproof my room/office
3) Clean kitchen (since I’m too tired to do it tonight)

With Jayden:

1) In the morning work on reading workbook & 1 math sheet
2) Play board game w/him during the evening

I feel better. Getting things out in a list always makes me feel better. Tomorrow is going to be a busy day!

I actually tackled some things this week!

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I’m a little late here ~ had a busy day, but wanted to chime in on Tackle It Tuesday

I didn’t take a picture of my new office, but I mentioned a couple of weeks ago how my kitchen table was overtaken by my office. I had papers and files and it was a little chaotic. Thanks to Brittney, my sister I’m just getting to know, my office area is now in my room and it ROCKS!!! It’s such a cute little area and I will get a picture of it up soon ~ maybe tomorrow. Things are filed, organized and I’m feeling on top of the world in that department.

I’ve also organized my spice/medicine cupboard. It was a little out of control, and I threw away old medicines that weren’t needed anymore and empty spices. Feels good!!!!

CABINET BEFORE

CABINET AFTER


Some goals that I’m going to work on tackling for next Tackle It Tuesday is:

  1. Get laundry caught up
  2. Picture frames that are lying around w/out pictures up on the wall

Simple little goals, but must be done 😉

To see what other’s have tackled you could always go over to 5minutesformom.com and get some great ideas on what you should be tackling.

What I did and what I need to do!

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In my last post I talked about how it just dawned on me that it’s Tuesday. Not good. So, I’m a little late here, but it’s Tackle It Tuesday.

1. My main tackle of the week was keeping up with my laundry that I finally accomplished.

2. I went through all of Ella’s clothes and bagged up anything that didn’t fit her anymore and took it to my cousin for her to use on her baby.

It was such a busy week that’s the only major accomplishments I did.

I’m going to write out some goals that I hope to have done for next week:

1. Organize spice/medicine cupboard

2. File away all of my work that has consumed my kitchen table

3. Go through my closet and bag up clothes to take to goodwill

Those are simple and very easily be accomplished. I will have before and after pictures next Tuesday 🙂 ~ In the meantime have a very happy week!!