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So What Wednesday

 So What If...


* I'm doing this at 10 pm instead of going to bed.

* I made my hubby take me to see Beauty and the Beast in 3D tonight for date night.  It's my favorite!!!

* I really just want to take the rest of the week off.  Who doesn't??

* The office/2nd bedroom bed is still in shambles.  No, really...there is no way ANYONE is sleeping on that bed anytime soon.  So it's a real good thing no one does!!  It was truly become the catch-all!!

* I wish football season wasn't almost over.  It's really the only sport I like...and right now the other option is basketball.  YUCK!!!

* I haven't worked out at all this week and have eaten like I'm not on a diet.  Everyone needs a break now and then, right?!

That's all for this week!

Hugs...

Steph

PS...my sig was giving me issues with using the new blogger posting page, so I took it down in a fit of frustration tonight.  Thinking it'll get a change up soon anyway.

Thursdays' Thru The Lense

I have to admit, aside from the street and Abbot's parking lot, we've got a pretty sweet view from the windows of our apartment: 

And, with my new camera, I can zoom enough were you really can't see most of the "eye-sores" (with the exception of a few power/light poles).

One of my favorites to watch, when conditions are right, is the marine layer coming in.  It looks like smoke drifting over the hill tops (this is rare to see it this low).  It's so cool to watch!!

Or sometimes it just looks like another hill/mountain has sprung up behind the one that's already there.  :)

Enjoy...

So What Wednesday

Here is this week's installment of:






* So What If I "forgot" about my homework last night.  Hey, I got it in before the 10pm deadline!! (And I made an 85 on the quiz!)

* So What If the bed in the office/guest room has been accumulating stuff on it since the wedding (November).  No one stays the night and it's easier to clean hide by closing the door on the RARE occasions when we have people over.

* So What If I'm dreading joint accounts with the hubs.  I make less and brought more debt into this union and the though of his money going to pay my bills drives me crazy and makes me cringe all over!

* So What If I kept avoiding the dirty dishes in the sink in hopes the hubs would have pity and do them.  It worked!!

* So What If I DESTROYED my good behavior with Weight Watchers yesterday by going to Five Guys Burger & Fries.  It was AMAZING...and a first for the hubs & I.  It was worth it.  Besides, isn't that what those extra weekly points are for?!

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Hugs...

Thursday's Thru The Lense

This will be my "Christmas Edition", but I'm not going to bore you with the details of my day or pictures of the tree and such. I am, however, going to show off my favorite gifts that didn't come from my hubby (because he has his own category and the Pandora charm was definitely the favorite from him). No, this gift came from my in-laws!

My SMIL (step-mom-in-law) and her mom took a lot of pictures at my wedding shower (that my SMIL hosted), the rehearsal, and the wedding. Honestly, I'd forgotten about all the pictures taken on those three days. Well, they showed back up Christmas afternoon!!!

A PHOTO BOOK!!!!!

With pictures from the shower...

And pictures from the rehearsal...

And, of course, pictures from the wedding...

I was STOKED!! The book was done on the website MyPublisher. I've not had a chance to delve into the site but you can create your own pages and add captions and things like that. With the exception of a few misspellings and one person given the wrong name (which SMIL told me about...I've yet to find them), it's AMAZING!!

And to top it all off, LB & LS (with the help of the in-laws) got us two ornaments celebrating our engagement (the date is off by two days, but it's ok)...

and our wedding...


Here's a pic of them all together...

I am truly a blessed gal!!!

Hugs...


*all pictures on this post were done with the iPhone camera

So What! Wednesday

This week it's So What if...

* I'm doing this at 11:04 pm. It's still Wednesday for me!

* I studied while watching The Sound of Music tonight. At least I studied/read some!

* I've only worked out twice this week. It's better than last week when I did nothing!

* The only reason I caved to taking the Christmas tree down is because it wasn't taking water anymore and was very quickly becoming dry and brittle. If I could, that baby would still be up!!

* I proved last night I can spend my husband's money better than he can on a shopping spree to a "man store". (Long story short, we went to Best Buy with some extra money we had in celebration of his new schedule - woohoo for weekends off - and I had an easier time of blowing the wad than he did!!)

* I should be in bed right now!!

And, because it's so late, that's all I've got this week. That and it's been pretty uneventful around here.

Hugs...

Resolutions

I know I've already posted about what I want to do this year...but I edited that post and decided to make them one of their own. I've really been thinking about what I want to accomplish this year and the few I listed the other day just really weren't enough.

1. Eat better, lose weight, get healthy
2. Focus on School and get at least 5 classes successfully completed off my evaluation
3. Work on getting rid of debt
4. Start saving WHILE getting out of debt ($25 a month is better than nothing a month and that's $300 more at the end of the year than when I started)
5. Get a house cleaning schedule going so I'm not scrambling to clean when we have visitors
6. Be more consistent with church attendance and maybe even get more involved
7. Work on my cooking skills (Mr S is the cook in this house...I do the easy, meal from a bag stuff...or pasta. I can cook pasta!!)
8. Better time management! Now that I'm taking a class I need to make sure I'm doing that instead of planting my butt on the couch in front of the TV after work every day.

That's all the big stuff. There are also little things on the list that I'd like to do: be more thorough on my crafts; finish what I start; hang with friends/family more, etc. I'm also thinking of joining with a Direct Sales (like Scentsy or 31 gifts) company to help supplement the income some. But I haven't fully decided which one, or two, I want to invest in. It's a fairly decent initial investment and I want to pick something that I'll have good returns on. I'm also not sure if it will fit in with my new schedule now that I've added school. It may be something I wait until the spring to do so I can see how I do with school, work, wife duties. So, the jury is still out on that one. But stay tuned, because you'll see it/them here when I do decide.

Most of what I want to accomplish this year. It doesn't seem like a lot, but it will be some changes for me. I am a procrastinator at heart...so a lot of this (cleaning, cooking, school work) will take more effort than what you would think, for me at least. Which is why time management is on the list.

Well, here's to a wonderful New Year! I'm looking forward to all this year has in store!

Hugs...