Wet head

Harrison walked up to me with wet hands in his wet hair.

  I deduced the following:
1.  his hands and head are wet
2.  he came from the bathroom
3.  he can't reach the faucet in the bathroom

4.  he thought it was funny

Toilet water head= not funny!

Travesty

Those of you who know me, know that I love to read.  I have an ongoing HUGE list of books I want to read on my iPhone in my notes section.  My book club peeps think its hilarious.  I know I will never get through them all since I just keep adding more weekly but its nice to have there just in case I don't have something new to read (yeah, right!!)

Today, I went to put yet another book on the list that I read a review for and my list was....
GONE!!!!!
Really, its nowhere.  I still have the list of my kids heights and weights and websites of the kind of loveseat I want in my living room but the most important notes are no longer there.  How am I going to recreate this list?!!  I'm having heart palpitations just thinking of it, and how on earth did I delete it??!!  I'm blaming the baby for this one.

While I'm on depressing topics, I guess I should review my goals and how I'm doing with them.
Organization.
I've started in the kitchen and I really have cleaned all the drawers out and reorganized all of them.  This weekend I'm working on the fridge and freezer.  Its not perfect but it is sooo much better than it was.  I get easily overwhelmed about how awful the rest of the house is so I'm trying to keep it to one area at a time.  I may need to do little 15 minute "rescues" in the other rooms too.  The timer thing has stopped so I need to restart that and also start with doable lists for the days and weeks.  Also the electrician has not called back!!

Decorating
Hired a decorator and friend to help make a decision on a new rug in the kitchen, which will lead to new window treatments.  Also hoping for a new kitchen table and chairs but hubby is blocking this one.  the rug decision has taken longer than expected for various reasons, mostly because I can't MAKE A DECISION TO SAVE MY LIFE.

Chore Chart
Ideas but nothing yet.  It is on my weekly list of things to do (see how well that's going?!)

Lose 10 pounds
Ummmmm, yeah.  I've probably gained a couple.  FAIL!!!

More homemade dinners
Meal planning is non existent so far but I have gathered several recipes that I would like to try and I did make a meal in the crockpot tonight that both big kids told me was good.  It's a start!

grocery list

Here is the grocery list I keep on the fridge.  Looks pretty normal until you get down the page a little further....umm, what is that 6th item?!!

I had to ask the one who put it there, and then I found out that it said "regular chocolate".  We could do so much with that, but I'll leave you to your own jokes.  Love.her.

Girl scout cookie time

It is my first year of selling Girl Scout cookies since I was a girl scout.
It is so cute how excited she is about the prospects.  When I asked her what her goal should be she said," 100 boxes".  When I pointed out that she had sold 40 already on the first day (thanks to me taking it to work) she upped it to 200...ambitious.  She was also super mad that I wouldn't go out with her to go door to door selling because Harrison was sleeping and daddy wasn't home yet...The NERVE!  WHY COULDN'T I JUST LEAVE HARRISON...he's SLEEPING, he's not going anywhere!!!

Then the cutest thing happened, she asked me if I wanted to buy any, daddy if he wanted to buy any (names recorded on the order sheet as "mom grill" and "dad grill"), and if Coop wanted to buy any.  It was an interesting negotiation that went something like this:

Syd: would you like to buy some cookies?  We have treefoils, cinnamints (thin mints), samoans (like the people from Samoa, or the cookie type samoas, take your pick), dooseedoos (do-si-dos), tagons (tagalongs) or Savannah smilies
Coop: ummm, ok.  How much are they?
S:  They are $3.50 for one box.
C:  How much for 2?
S: I think $10
C:  Oh, that's kind of a lot, I'll take 3 for $10 and I'll go get my money right now.

As I was on the floor laughing, he went up and took $10 out of his bank.  I didn't realize he HAD $10 in his bank.  I explained the multiples of $3.50 and he decided on 2 boxes.  Syd recorded his name on the sheet and then started to write his address and phone number in, AS IF WE DON'T KNOW WHERE HE LIVES.  so. cute!

I'm baaaack, goals, and other random life things

Made it through the holidays intact.  I have read that if you write your goals down, you are more likely to achieve them.  So here goes!!
1.  Get my house organized.
I know I say this every year but this year I really mean it and I've started with the hardest area...my desk in the kitchen.  I read the book "Eat that Frog" or some such crazy title and it has really gotten me motivated to take on my hardest/most bang for your buck tasks first.  I also am a crazy organizational blog follower.  If only I could do as they do!  I am also following a blog that is issuing a 52 week organizational challenge and that is helpful.
Some things I have already incorporated in my day to help achieve this goal:
a.  I set a timer to do things (mostly 30 minutes max) and I have to stay on task for that entire time.
b.  Make of list of daily and weekly goals (before bed every night)
c.  Take one area at a time...kitchen first.  Now, if only the contractor/electrician would call me back, then I would be really happy!!

2  Get my house decorated.  This goes along with #1 but I'm frustrated going to other people's houses and seeing their nice decor.  We have lived here 5 years and the only thing redone has been carpet in one room (thanks to the cat who likes to pee there) and the powder room (which I said would be the FIRST thing that would go when we bought the place...4.5 years later, I really did get it done)

3.  Have some sort of chore chart thing for the kids...still considering this.  Should it be related to allowance (they don't get any at this point) or just as a privilege of living here.  As we like to say in this house, "This is not a democracy".

4.  Lose 10 pounds.  I have no one to blame but myself for this.  I eat like crap and don't work out.  I am still considering what my plans are for this to be achieved.  Maybe join a gym, personal training, or just stop drinking so much Pepsi (no, couldn't do that last one...).  Maybe just use that shake weight that my hubby got me for Christmas (really, not joking!)

5.  Make more meals for the family/menu plan.  This won't be too hard as I make about 2-3 meals a YEAR right now.  I'm trying to avoid last minute problems when kids have activities late and trying to eat better.  I am very thankful that Eric cooks almost every night and loves doing so but I think it may be time to suck it up and help.  Crockpot meals are the first to be researched.  If anyone actually reads this, send me a favorite (and easy) recipe of yours, crockpot or not.

I think those goals are not so different than most other peoples but I am making a plan for each one of them.  I have already been working on the top 2 and hopefully will share my achievements as I go.

I also received a wonderful gift of a macbook from the hubs.  I'm still trying to figure it out...my mail isn't being forwarded to the cloud and other little things.  I may have to break down and pay $50/hour for someone to sit down with me to help.  Again, see #1 above, its amazing what I can accomplish in 30 minutes or an hour of concentrating on just one thing.

Ready, set.....go!
Happy 2012!!

out of the dark ages

Quickly blogging away on my new Christmas present from the hubby, a MacBook air!! Now if I could only figure the thing out.  Need.serious.help.  Trying to figure out how to get my pictures on here.  It is a sloooooow learning curve.
My other gift...

wait for it...


Shake weight!!!

Jealous?!!