Random Post Monday!
Good evening! This post is for my sister Alex!! Thank you for encouraging me to get back out there and hop back on my own bandwagon!!! I love you girrrrrl!!! 😉 I know it has been a while since I have last posted anything! I …
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A Girl With Too Much Time On Her Hands!!
Good evening!! My sweetie has been work every night for the past three weeks, so needless to say someone has WAAAAAAY too much time on her hands!! This evening, I ran to our local super center, whose name shall remain unnamed!! Picked up a whole …
A Day of Movement!
Good evening!
Today has been almost a picture perfect, albeit a bit chilly Spring day here in Oregon!!!
I have been in a go-go-go-I’m-on-a-roll-crossing-off-all-sorts-of-stuff-off-my-to-do-list-kind-of-mode all day!! and even though I have a tendency to be a bit manic while I am in this mode, just ask my sweetie, it is really awesome to get to the end of the day and realize that because of all the work you did today, your life may be just a little bit better tomorrow!!
Tonight, my sweetie and I, and our three four-legged girls are hanging out, watching the tele, and just enjoying being quiet while hanging out at our little bitty home!! Ok, so truth be told, my sweetie and I are watching the tele and the girls are actually sleeping, one of them is even snoring!! Nice, right??? That is how we roll!!! 🙂
I tried something new dinner-wise tonight, and let’s just say, it didn’t turn out exactly as I had planned! It was a breakfast skillet kind of concoction that may have been a bit of a let down! I was sure that it would be fool-proof, I mean seriously??? Eggs, bacon, peppers, onion, hash browns, salsa, cheese???? There is no way that could possibly fail, right??? Yeah, well, that is what I was thinking BEFORE I tasted it!! LOL!! 😉 God bless my sweetie, he ate it like a trooper and never said a peep, but I am telling you – that recipe is not gonna be written down for posterity sake!! Matter of fact, I am sure that humanity will thank me for letting that one go out into the ether!! 😉 Oh well, no one ever said that having an Artsy Life was going to be an easy thing!!!
I am still working on my  The Right Brain Business Plan, and I have made some process, and will be happy to show you some pictures tomorrow of how that is going!! The hard part now is trying to decide where I want to start. There are so many baby steps that I can take right now, from where I stand, utilizing what I have on hand, and that it is almost paralyzing me with fear in making a decision and just taking action!!! As the lovely Melody Ross says, ” She was __________ but she did it anyway!” For me, this sentence might look like one of these:
- She was overwhelmed, but she did it anyway!
- She was scared, but she did it anyway!
- She was unsure, but she did it anyway!
- There were people out there who do it better than she does, but she did it anyway!
But, that is the clincher, ins’t it??? “She did it anyway!!!” I will be able to say the same thing about myself too – hopefully VERY soon!! 😉
What else??? Oh, gosh!! My sweetie and I have been following Dave Ramsey‘s Financial Peace University plan to take control of our finances and get out of debt. We have been actively working on this goal since September 2012, and since then we have managed to pay off about $7000 in debt so far!! YEAH!!! We have a little more than $11000 to go – WHEW!!! 😉 I know we can do it, it has just been a lot of hard work so far, and I know we have a lot more hard work to do in the near future!!! I will keep you posted on our progress!!
I realize that what I thought was going to be a short and sweet kind of post has actually just become a brain-dump of all sorts of my random thoughts as they are falling out of my brain, but that is alright with me! Sometimes us girls just need to let it all out, and then get back to the business of breathing again!! 😉
Life is good – my weeds are being dealt with – life is good!!!
(I will explain the “weeds” thing tomorrow!!!)
In the meantime…
Here is to a FABULOUSLY ARTSY evening!! 
If you want to have a different life, you have to live differently!!
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A Short and Sweet Post!
Good evening y’all! Don’t mind the newly acquired southern accent, I have been watching reruns of Paula Deen! That woman does not know it but I am sure we have to be related somehow!! Like she could be my long lost grandmama!!! I just love …
Time for An Update!
Good evening! I realize I am severely overdue on a post, and thought I should just stop procrastinating and get on that this evening!! I would love to tell you that I have been uber-productive, and that I have tons of great news, but really?? …
Friday Night Update!
Good evening!
My sweetie and I just got back from having fun exercising in the pool! I am such a lucky girl to be able to have so much fun living and playing with my best friend!! I really do love that man, in case there was any question!! 😉
Anyway, I digress!
Ok, I have a confession. This week has just been a roller coaster of emotions! My sweetie is about 2 weeks away from his bariatric surgery; matter-of-fact, he is getting ready to go on his 2-week-pre-bariatric-surgery-diet. It has really gotten here sooooo quickly, and although I am SUPER happy for him, I am feeling a little left behind. Of course, him being a man, he is losing weight soooooo much faster than I am!! With my surgery almost 2 months away, it feels like it might as well be EONS out on the calendar! I know I am being irrational, and that it doesn’t matter who goes first, or who attains their goal first – we ARE doing this together!! So, God bless my man – he is being sooooo UBER patient with me and my craziness!! 😉
OK, WHEW!!! I FEEL SO MUCH BETTER NOW!! 😉
Anyway, did I tell you that I now have a c-pap machine to help me sleep at night? Not my favorite apparatus, HOWEVER, I finally have a mask that doesn’t hurt, leak, or squeak!!! (3rd times the charm!) Apparently, I have a VERY SMALL nose – who knew??? I am in a petite face mask – PETITE!!! this is the FIRST TIME THAT has ever happened!! HA! HA!!! but, I tell you what – to be called tiny ANYWHERE on my body????
I WILL SOOOOO TAKE IT!!! 😉
What else?? I am sure there has to be more, it has been soooo long since I have last posted, but I am coming up blank right now – my sweetie just commented that is because I haven’t arted in a while, and I am sure he is right! I hate it when he is right!! (not, really love, *WINK*!)
Anyway, my official plan for this weekend, is to get some much needed errands done, try to stay cool on these hot Summer days, and to get some reading and arting done! I also want to make sure I get some new pictures to post, to share more of what is going on in our lives! In the meantime, I am going to open all the windows in the house to see if I can’t get this place cooled down so that we can get some much needed sleep!!
Here is to a FABULOUS evening!!
 If you want to have a different life, you have to live differently!
Friday Night at the Manse!
Good evening! I am spending this time this evening with my two four-legged girls this evening, as my sweetie is out having fun with the guys! So, I an spending some time at the manse this evening doing a little bit of WHATEVER I WANT!!! …
Quick as Lightning!
Good evening! This is going to be a crazy short post! I know that I have been MIA, and very sporadic in my postings for the past few weeks, but I thought I would just quickly stop in and give everyone an update on what’s …
Here I Am!
Good morning!
I know it has been a while since I have last posted, but here I am!
Things have been moving vey quickly around here, and we have been very busy!! Right now my husband and I are over on the Oregon coast. We have been here for the past 2 days. We have been visiting with our adopted grandparents before they go out of town for a couple of weeks. I the meantime, my hubby and I Are going to take their 3 dogs and babysit, while they are out of town! All 5 of us, my sweetie, the three dogs and myself are all heading back home today, as I have to be back at work tomorrow.
I said things have been moving rather quickly around here, and they really have! My hubby and I had made the decision to have Bariatric gastric bypass surgery, but we needed to wait to get everything rolling until we were able to pre-pay for the surgeries. Well, we did that earlier this month and my sweetie has had a bug-a-jillion appointments to get anything and everything scanned, measured, checked, swabbed, scoped, etc, etc, etc. The way that we have this worked out is that my sweetie will have his surgery first, July 3rd, and then I will have my surgery about a month later. So, my crazy schedule won’t start until after the 23rd of this month, which is when my initial appointment is.
Right now, we are both early excited, and I can’t speak for him, but I am also really scared. The funny thing is, is that I am not scared for the surgery, I am scared to meet the skinny me! I have no idea what she looks like, how she will feel, what she does, or if I am even going to get along with her. In all honesty, I am sooooooo excited to meet her!! I know she has been in here forever!!! I also realize that the is going to be a kind of mourning period for my old self. Crazy right? This fat suit that I have been wearing (figuratively) has really been a protective barrier that has given me all sorts of excuses why I didn’t have to do something’s, and it really has been a way for me to hide behind a lot of things in my life. Even talking about it right now, I really can’t wait to meet the new me!!!
Anyway, I have also been keeping very busy with my Brave Girls’ Club Soul Restoration I class. Matter of fact, I am just in the final week of class I, and will be starting class II next week. I am so thankful that I have stumbled across this life-changing class, and I am so excited to see what more I learn during class II.
Just to keep things interesting, we have also had a bunch of company! My sister, and her husband spent the week with us last week, which was a lot of fun, and then another one of sisters and her family are coming up for part of the weekend, tomorrow!! I can’ wait to see them!!!! Yeah!
Well, I am going to grab my camera and head out to go get some pics of the coast on this lovely spring day, here in Oregon!
Here’s too a FABULOUS day!!!
~Christina 😉
If you want to have a different life, you have to live differently!
Random Monday!
Good evening! It is so good to be back online again! I have spent the last 5 plus days being sick! Chest cold, hacking, wheezing through all sorts of yuckiness, sick!! I am still not back to my old peppy self quite yet, so I …