Random Facts

Random Facts Generated from a Slow night!

1. I love my food processor
2. I made some really really good shrimp the other day
3. And some really really good zesty orange dipping sauce to go with it.
4. We are going to the coast this weekend and I am excited.
5. I need to work out today...
6. However that is probably not going to happen because once I get home I will probably get into bed and never want to get out of it.
7. I am in a chocolate mood right now and chocolate cake sounds amazing!

8. I read a whole scrapbooking magazine tonight and when I say read I actually read every last word in the whole thing.
9. My pants that I am wearing are high-water-ish...but I wear them anyways because they are comfortable.
10. I am out of Honey Nut cheerios...and that is what I want for breakfast when I go home :(

Be Brave

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

-Rosa Parks

Embrace Change.

Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.

-George Shinn

An Amazing Force

Why is it so hard to get things done? I had a million & one things that I needed to do during my 5 day stretch off but somehow the couch had this amazing force over me. So I think that for my next stretch of days off I am going to add 'NAP' to my list so I can cross it off everyday and feel like I accomplish something!

Life isn't about finding yourself. It's about creating yourself. - George Benard

Breath of Fresh Air

I am on the end of a 7 out of 8 night stretch and it feels like a breath of fresh air right now.

And not just fresh air but the fresh air like on the top of a mountain on a perfect day of skiing, or after a perfect run or on a cool fall morning when the sun is just peaking over the horizon.

I have had a pretty great stretch of nights which followed my 'Christmas on crack' (as Em called it), which was quite surprising. It always seems as if chaos breaks loose after a vacation stretch for me but I am taking this calm as an indication of what lays ahead in 2009...and I think I like this breath of fresh air.

Chirstmas Finally Came

Christmas finally came in January when we went home. Christmas may physically be December 25th but I decided that nothing feels like Christmas until you are with family & friends!

It was great to be home and hard to leave (like always). We managed to squeeze 6 Christmas celebrations into 5.5 days, and we have learned our lesson that that is really not enough time! And this year we really got to feel like Santa...and decided that he has a tough job delivering every one's gifts in one day. Our UPS packages that we had shipped home before the holidays didn't arrive until our last day there and with a lot of scurrying we managed to deliver every last gift to everyone. By the time we were done we had 10 minutes to finish packing and head to the airport -- what would a vacation home be feeling well rested by the end right?? It is only our style to fit everything in humanly possible. We are grateful to have been able to see our family & friends...even if we only had a small amount of time with everyone.

2009 is already flying by. January 12th? Really?...I guess that means resolutions were suppose to start, however I decided to put them on hold until I am over this cold. Who wants to start something when they don't feel good, honestly?? ....Maybe I should add stop procrastinating to my list of resolutions this year?