October is the Best month of the year.

Welp, August came and went, September has come and gone, and October here we are!

The last thing I wrote about was August goals.
All goals were accomplished other than getting med-tech certified, cooking 2 nights a week, and running 3 nights a week.

August and September were good to me overall.

I am 6 days away from turning 25. That makes me feel old.

I was sick yesterday. I hate being sick. I'm the worst sick person...I am not good at sitting around and doing nothing and just watching TV. Well, I'm not good at it when I'm sick. When I'm feeling fine, I can be a pro at sitting in front of the TV all day.

I've been reading more lately which is nice. I listened to the Kite Runner, audio book style, then watched the movie. I'm glad I did it in this order. I like the writing style. I also listened to Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is Illuminated which was very odd, slow at times, and hard to follow for awhile, but I think I liked it. I started reading Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events. They're pretty great. I'm also done with book 3 - will probably finish it when I'm done writing this post. Oh, and I'm also currently reading Water for Elephants. I feel like it's really different than anything I've read for quite some time.

Things I'm going to do this month...
work on cleaning the house
enjoy my birthday weekend (I'm working 12 hours on my actual birthday..yuck)
start working out again
get my med-tech certification set up, not necessarily get it yet though
go to the zoo on free zoo day!
keep making time to read
get Abby a dog house

August Goals

Never made July Goals.

To much to do.

How my June goals went:

*Thoroughly enjoy my week and a half vacation even if I just stay at home (accomplished :) )*Throw a wonderful bridal shower for Laura (accomplished!)

*Shoot another awesome wedding (accomplished)

*Keep working on my website (accomplished)

*Work on the house (accomplished)

*Plant and take care of garden (accomplished...the garden is doing amazingly well!)

*Get Abby's blood work done for her hypothyroid (got that done last week, but it is done now!)

*Get all pictures from my first wedding edited (accomplished)

*Go mountain biking at least once (sort of accomplished...went biking once while in IL)

*I'd still like to do more with my little blog here, but I don't know if it will happen. Just no time. (ya...didn't do that obviously)

I made out pretty good with the June goals! If I had written July goals they would have gone pretty well too surprisingly.

Some August goals:

*Enjoy vacation at home

*Be an awesome bridesmaid for Annie

*Complete both photo projects I'm doing right now (check out http://www.kvpusa.com/ to see one of my photos...the brown dog on the first page wearing a clear cone)

*Get some work issues figured out

*Remember to say happy birthday to Annie

*Help Andrew transition back into school...for his last year!!!

*Get Nala spayed

*Follow up with Abby's last hypothyroid appointment (she lost 26 pounds in 2 months!)

*Get med-tech certified

*Work on my website

*Get the house back in order after all our vacations

*Enjoy my new work schedule of having off Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays

*Start cooking 2 nights a week as a family

*Run 3 days a week

Lots of things I should do this month!!!

I'm off to some reading

June Goals

I'm not tired. What's new.
Looks like all I do with this blog is write my monthly goals.
But ya know, whatever.
I'm fine with that.

Here's where my May goals ended up...
Done:
*Order bridesmaid dress for Annie's wedding (I actually did this in April already :) )
*Have my MHWII interview - got my HHWII last week! :)
*Collect addresses for Laura's wedding shower invitations
*Send above mentioned invites
*Remember Mother's day...and do something about it.
*Enjoy my 2 year wedding anniversay - We saw Fiddler on the roof, with the original Tevya from the movie, it was great. Plus we just got to hang out and spend time together.
*Start this obnoxious diet I've been putting off (I'll explain more later) - didn't explain, but whatev. I'm doing the diet and only have less than a week left, thank God!
*Successfully shoot my first wedding of the season on the 29th - the pics look good

Did, but need to keep working on:

*Keep working on website and figuring it out

Not done:
*Find a time that I can get med-tech certified...but I heard that my work will soon be offering classes on campus
*Get the house completely unpacked and live-in-able. (Probably won't happen again) - Ya, pathetically still not done.
*Post more pictures on my little blahg space.

Cancelled: *Have an enjoyable trip to Grand Junction - Ended up having to work Memorial Day so couldn't make it to GJ

May goals ended up pretty good I'd say

June Goals
*Thoroughly enjoy my week and a half vacation even if I just stay at home
*Throw a wonderful bridal shower for Laura
*Shoot another awesome wedding
*Keep working on my website
*Work on the house
*Plant and take care of garden
*Get Abby's blood work done for her hypothyroid
*Get all pictures from my first wedding edited
*Go mountain biking at least once
*I'd still like to do more with my little blog here, but I don't know if it will happen. Just no time.

That's all. I will try to sleep again now.

Wet dog

Abby would not stop howling tonight.
So I let her inside.
And of course it was snowing. Because it's Colorado.
So now the whole house smells like wet dog.
Great.

And I haven't been able to sleep lately.
Last night I didn't even feel tired until 1ish.
And then laid in bed for about an hour.
Just laying.
I wasn't even tired enough to keep my eyes closed.
And it's happening again.


As far as my May goals,
I've collected addresses for Laura's shower invites
I'm sending the majority of the invites out tomorrow
I remembered Mother's Day but not in enough time to do anything other than call my mom but that still counts

That's all so far for May.
I kind of feel like I'm living in chaos right now.
I've been working a ton.
My house is pretty much still a disaster.
The kids at work are stressing me out.
My work calls me on my days off asking me to come in.
It's snowing.
I need a vacation.

It's Already May

April was a blur.
We moved.
My mom visited.
We got a dog (my dog...Abby)
I was sick for over 2 weeks

I'm ready for May flowers!
And I got them actually.
When my mom was here we went flower shopping at Lowe's (she convinced me it's better than Home Depot)
Anyway, I finally actually got them all in pots today.
I love them!

Here's where my April goals ended up...

*Keep working on website and figuring it out - still need to do this

*Find a time that I can get med-tech certified - still need to do this
*Finish my MHWII stuff - done!
*Get the new house completely unpacked and live-in-able. I know this won't happen, but I want it to. So it's my goal. - done and then mom came and now not done again b/c she brought me more stuff!
*Collect addresses for Laura's wedding shower invitations - still waiting on Laura's part of this
*Build Bookshelf - done, and it looks great!

So goals didn't go so great this month, but that's OK.
A lot of unexpected and out of the ordinary happened in April.
May will be a successful month for goals though.
Mostly b/c if they don't get done, there will be a problem.
I'm organizing Laura's wedding shower in June so I have a lot to do for this.

Here's my May goals list...
*Order bridesmaid dress for Annie's wedding (I actually did this in April already :) )

*Keep working on website and figuring it out

*Find a time that I can get med-tech certified
*Have my MHWII interview
*Get the house completely unpacked and live-in-able. (Probably won't happen again)
*Collect addresses for Laura's wedding shower invitations
*Send above mentioned invites
*Remember Mother's day...and do something about it.
*Enjoy my 2 year wedding anniversay
*Start this obnoxious diet I've been putting off (I'll explain more later)
*Successfully shoot my first wedding of the season on the 29th
*Have an enjoyable trip to Grand Junction

*Post more pictures on my little blahg space.

Those are my big goals for the month.
I like to think of my daily to-do lists as goals now.
Things I am aiming to get done, and have number one priority, but still, if they don't get done....
it.will.be.o.k.

The new place

Welcome to our new house! Here's some pictures from the day we signed the lease

Our side of the duplex

Our garage/storage shed/backyard

The main upstairs living room


Master bedroom


Upstairs bathroom. The downstairs one is identical, just a little bigger


Downstairs living room area

One of the downstairs rooms. It's not Andrew's office/storage

Our nice big laundry room!

We are thoroughly enjoying our new house. I'm so glad we got it. We have both been much happier :)

Blogger Giveaway

I follow quite a few blogs, and so many of them do giveaways. I never 'enter' them because it never seems worth it for me. I finally found one worth it! V and Co is giving away some What's Your Virtue lip glosses. I found these like 6 months ago or so and never bought any. So hopefully I win. :) But she has so many followers it's like a 1 in 1000 chance!

http://vandcogiveaways.blogspot.com/2010/04/sponsored-giveaway.html