Outta my head, onto paper...

I've always got thoughts and ideas swimming around in my head, and always think, "I want to write this down, so I stop thinking and worrying about it in my head." But something always stops me. I want to break that cycle.

I have a lovely journal, and I should and will start using it. I don't need to keep torturing myself with thoughts and ideas when I can see them all written out to help me make sense of things and hopefully to better motivate me to make the things flying about in my head happen.

One of the things I need to work on is the story I've had floating about in my head. I bought a lovely journal book to record all the plot ideas, I just need to put pen to paper.

Another is this:

Things I want to Change

• Procrastinating so much

• Leaving homework till the last minute

• Make it a habit of eating breakfast and dressing before I go anywhere near my computer.

• Keep the house cleaning up, so it doesn't all go to hell and then become a huge deal to clean up.

• Spend less time online and go outside

• Exercise/do yoga on a daily basis

• Paint my nails more often (I have loads of polishes)

• Eat healthier

• Again, less time online, more time in the bathroom taking time to pamper myself.

• Make the damn bed. EVERYDAY.

• Clean the litterbox. EVERYDAY.

Things I'm Proud of/Thankful for

• Taking on a third class to speed up my time taking general-ed

• Thankful for the roof over my head and even though finances suck, I'm not going without

• Finding, attending, and becoming a member of a loving, caring church community

• My wonderful, loving Parents, Sister and Grandmother

• My funny, loving Husband

• My Amazing, loving friends and extended family

• Books

• My kitty cats

• Health insurance

• My life

It's important to know and acknowledge what you're thankful for, to remind you in rough times just how good you have it. And I have it good. And it's also good to know what in your life needs improvement and to work everyday to make better habits for yourself and learn what makes you tick.

Number one on my list to change is the procrastination and it's a very important one and pretty much rules my life. I can't let it do that anymore. So I'm going to start right now with working on homework. And off I go...

Happy President's Day!

Woke up early this morning for a long put off blood test and popped into one of my favorite furniture stores in Downtown Upland to see if they still have the bed frame I love. And they do! And I was pleasantly surprised to find out they have a lay-away program, so seeing that bed in our room might not be that far off!

Hopefully after we get through the nasty taxes this year we'll be able to finally order it and have it as our own. I'll wait until we have it to post pics of the beautiful, dark wood frame.

Today's not going to be too busy of a day. After G leaves for his physical therapy I'm gonna have some lunch, get cleaned up and dressed, do a few things around the apartment and head over to my Mom's for some much needed hair coloring. Can't afford to visit my favorite salon right now, so my Mom's been coloring her hair for years and is much better than me at it, so I'm going to have her help me.

Thinking of tackling my homework while at her place since it'll be easier to find a quiet spot over there.

Have a Happy and relaxing President's Day!!!

Clare Maguire "This is Not the End"

I came upon this artist on one of the gossip blog sites I frequent and instantly fell in love.

Clare's voice is strong, beautiful and haunting. As is the video. The location, the way they put it together and seeing the musicians playing in the background... it's perfection.

I love a good, sad, haunting song and this hit the mark. On my iPod it went.

Her new album is coming out on February 28th, and it's one not to miss.

Hope you enjoy!

Rain, rain go away...

I know very well that CA needs all the rain it can get, but I've had enough of the rainy chill. I'm aching for summer to get here! And it will be wonderful as we have our pool and our eco-friendly Coolerado air conditioning system.

I'm going to do my best to post on here more often. I just get so bogged down with school, the job search, keeping the apartment clean and well... life in general.

I have a job app to fill out and take in at the mall and while visiting a cute little stationary shop in Downtown Claremont I filled out a job application there. I NEED A JOB! Me and a few million other people... but let's not go there. lol

As far as I can tell I'm keeping my grades up pretty well at school, but I am a tad frustrated as I feel like I can't focus on the "book" that I'm hoping to write, what with all the english essay stuff I have to keep up on. I need to learn to be better focused. The story I plan to write is beating around constantly in my brain and I bought a cute little journal book to write in... I just need to put pen to paper. And keep on top of my homework.

Originally this blog was to be about our decorating of our apartment and then the eventual transition into the main house and the decorating projects of that. But money is tight, and there's not much decorating one can do on a near non-existent budget. So I think this will just be a blog where I talk about everyday things, inspirational things, music I like, books that catch my fancy and eventually when money is not so hard to come by we can talk DECORATING!

Well, I'm off to more, never ending house cleaning. It's amazing how two people can constantly keep a small apartment messy, but we need to get our organizing and a daily cleaning and upkeep plan in place.
Have a wonderful, happy weekend!

Gin

Lazy Daisy

I would show you a picture of my new dining room table, but it's covered in boxes right now.

We've decided to ditch crappy AT&T as our service went to hell and one night I had 7 dropped calls in less than 20 minutes. I almost threw my iPhone at the wall.

Luckily I was done with my contract and got a Spint EVO 4G, which is exactly what I've been wanting and so far I'm REALLY happy. G's phone is basically a piece off poo too, so we decided it's time to get a home phone. We ending up getting the Ooma Telo VoIP with a handset and finally got it up and running today. G's gonne drop AT&T tomorrow. I'm sure that conversation will be as much fun as it was ditching Time Warner for our internet the other day. And as to internet, we're now using Clear 4G network and that's working out well too.

But back to the table, I found a gorgeous round clawfoot table for $100 on craigslist and snatched it right up. It has an aged, antique look and totally fits into our decor and pretty much completes the dining room. All I'm waiting for now is being able to afford a buffet type table to put under the window.

Back in school now and I really wanted to get 3 to 4 classes, but was only able to get two. But I have plenty of homework from those two, but in the summer I hope to get more classes. I want to get through my gen-ed as quick as I can so I can apply to the Rad-Tech program. Might have to apply at another local community college so I can hopefully pick up more classes there so it doesn't take 4 years to get my AA.

Other than that, not much is going on. I got laid off from Macy's, so I'm gonna start looking for a new job. I'd love to work at B&N. I'm a bookworm, so the discounts on books would be really nice!

It is VERY windy here tonight, and was eerily quiet out when I stepped out earlier. They say the strongest winds will be tomorrow morning through the afternoon. Good thing I'll be holed in doing homework.