Christmas Gifts

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I am SOOO Excited about christmas now that I have a grasp on what I want to do. I dont have alot of money so therefore I am only getting my sister my mom and my dad something.

I can't post pictures of these yet or say exactly what they are just in case my parents read my blog! You never know!!

But lets just say they are very creative and personalized :D so excited that I cant stop working on them until they are finished. I have done what I can do for now though I have to wait till I get paid of friday and go to either walmart or Joann fabrics to get some last things for them.

:D

Menu Plan Monday

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I've decided that I dont stick to the plan for each individual day so I am just doing things that I have on hand and that I can make so that I have an idea of what to cook. The biggest thing for me is having a plan so that I don't eat out or pick something up when I dont need to.


Breakfasts:

Scrambled eggs and cheese

Egg and cheese sandwiches

Granola Cereal with raisins


Lunches:
Beef manicotti
Chicken mixture with brown rice and sweet and sour sauce
hamburger and baked beans
Dinner:
Beef manicotti
Chicken mixture with brown rice and sweet and sour sauce
Grilled cheese
Scrambled eggs
Snacks:
Jello
chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting
pretzels

Say What You Want to Say Saturday...

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New Addition to family!!! My little cousin had her first baby all healthy and weighed in at 8lbs 13oz 20.5 inches long!
I cannot wait till Nov 13-15th because I am flying to Ohio to visit family and Roberto (foreign exchange student that lived with us for a year) and his mom and dad are also coming to ohio from brazil to visit.
Woohoo C'mon November :)
Today I have cleaned the cat box, swept and mopped kitchen and laundry room, cleaned off counters put some dishes in dishwasher, moved the microwave and some other things on the counters around so that I could have more room to prepare foods. I am into this whole cooking thing now.
Hope everyone is having a great weekend!

November Goals

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I got this idea from a person who I follow, feel free to visit her blog it is AWESOME! Lucy

November Goals:
Cook some homemade dinners
Have thanksgiving with my hunnie
Keep my house clean
Get rid of the big weeds on the side of the driveway
Keep up with my working out - feel free to follow here
Get most of my Christmas shopping done!
Use the weedeater to edge around my driveway and sidewalks
Don't go out to eat the entire month!

I think that is good for now I dont want to make to many goals and not be able to keep up with them.

Happy Hour Friday

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I got this idea from Wizard of Otin and Rxbambi feel free to visit their pages and check them out.

  • I am happy first and foremost because today is Friday and that means after todays festivites I can go home and relax all night!
  • Also, today is my boyfriends grandsons birthday party and I am going there after work.
  • Happy that I finally have my bills caught up.
  • I have the new verizon wireless razzle its pretty cool but doesnt have flash for the camera and you cant get video messages on it, yet you can send some but all in all im happy with it because it resembles my blackberry I have but you dont have to pay the price for the blackberry service.
  • I am happy that I have some great blogs to read while I am work :)
  • Also so happy that today has been a busy day and that the time is flying by.
  • Would be soooo happy if I got to leave early today too. Not so sure thats going to happen though.
  • Oh and one more thing Im happy that I got to wear my pj's to work today!! Im so comfy.

Happy Friday Everyone!!

Flashback Fridays

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Oh lets see....What memory do I want to write about today?

Completely random but this just came to my head.

When I was younger I used to go fishing and hunting with my dad. I would always help my parents around the yard doing yard work or helping mom clean on the inside of the house. As I grew older I started working for my Dad during the summers when I was out of school.

I was his secretary. I loved every minute of it. The time I remember the most is when I was sixteen and living with him in an apartment in Fort Wayne, IN. We would go to work together. Then grab some lunch and after work we would either go swimming, shoot hoops, play catch with the baseball, roller blade, workout or even play pool. I loved every minute of it. Being close with my dad really means alot and it kept us both really active and in great shape.

Sometimes I miss that because everytime after that summer that I worked for him, he was never that active again. I started growing apart from my dad a little bit.

I love him to pieces and cant wait to see him on Nov 13-15th.

Thankful For Thursdays

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I am thankful for my family.

My family has been there for me every time I need them. Some people grow up without their family and I am extremely thankful that my parents are who they are and that they raised me the way they raised me.

There are too many kids out there being raised completely spoiled and I don't agree with that.

I like the way I grew up because it has taught me to be independent and hard working. I have worked for everything I got in my life except my first car. I paid for school, I paid for my second car, cell phone all my bills. I made some not so smart choices and wracked up some credit card bills. As for those you can read about them on my Thoughts on Bills Tuesday post.

I can't wait till I get the house paid off and the BF and I can move to Ohio to be closer to my family. Yes, I moved away from them but it has made me a better person for it. I have gained so much work experience and life experience of living out on my own in a completely different state. With that being said the time is nearing to where I want to be close to them again. Im done with my time away :).

Eventually once we get moved to ohio and everything is settled we do plan to get married and have a kid. No rush on either of those yet.

Falling Behind - Thoughts on Bills Tuesday

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I completely forgot to write a blog this past Tuesday.

Here it goes I paid off two credit cards at the end of last month. That left me with the list that I have on the left side of my blog today.

All the bills are under control and I feel like I am definately making headway on my debt.

My plan is that by the end of the year next year I will have two more credit cards paid off!

After I have all my credit cards paid off I will be doubling my mortgage payment to get the house paid off. After the house is paid for I plan to sell it and use that money to put down on a house in Ohio, closer to my family.

Im also not getting any younger and need to start thinking about my future. I will most likely get a ROTH IRA I am not sure exactly yet but before I can start putting money away for and IRA I need to get bills paid off so that I have the money to do so!

With that said I am making positive headway on all of this and will keep you updated as time goes on.

Wordless Wednesday

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A couple pictures from where I grew up in ohio. No I was not Amish but there are plenty of them from where I grew up! :) Have a good day everyone.
























Things to Look Forward To!

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There's a couple!

1. My cousin is about to have her baby any day now! Yay for Skilyr Jaddyn!

2. Roberto was a foreign exchange student who lived with my family for a year when I was in high school. He comes back to visit every so often. My sister got a call on her cell phone the other day out of no where and it was 'beto! He proceeded to inform her that he is coming to ohio and will be at my parents house November 11th. Well then later finds out that his parents are coming with him. Noboby in my family has ever met his parents. We have only talked on the phone. So, here I am in Georgia and they are all going to be in Ohio. I was quite disappointed that I would not be able to see them.

Then I get a call from my mother last night and I asked her whats up? Shes like, you really want to know? Im like ummmm sure! She was in the process of booking me a flight to OHIO for Nov 13-15. I will be in Ohio and get to see Roberto and his parents. I am so excited!

Menu Plan Monday

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Breakfasts:
Granola Cereal with rasins
Orange Juice
Egg and Cheese Sandwich
Scrambled Eggs

Lunches:
Saerkraut (sp?) kilbause(sp?) and potatoes
chili
Chicken Stirfry

Dinners:
Saerkraut, kilbause, potatoes
chili
Chicken Stirfry
scrambled eggs and cheese

Snacks:
Yogurt
Yogurt with granola
jello and fat free whip cream
carrots and ranch dressing
Chocolate frosted brownie

My homemade Chili

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This is delicious! Just had to share!

Say What You Want To Say...Saturdays

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Well now that it is almost Sunday morning! I am getting a chance to write.

I woke up at six am this morning unable to sleep...I cleaned the kitchen,office,laundry room, living room, bathrooms and bedroom. All laundry is done except a couple loads need folded and put away and some other clothes need hung up.

Then we got my bf's grandson! So adoreable :D

This evening I had to fix my lovely sony vaio laptop AGAIN. It is back up and working.

Phew I am so pooped I am going to cut this short

Happy Hour Friday

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I got this from a blogger whom I follow Fidgeting Gidget.

Here goes some things Im happy about today:

  • It's FRIDAYYYYYYYY!
  • I get to go to the gym in less than 2 hours and get a great workout of cardio!
  • All my yardwork was done yesterday and I doubt I'll need to do any the rest of the year.
  • Tomorrow is Saturday and that means I have all day Sat. and Sun. to get cleaning done so no need to do it TONIGHT. Means going home showering and relaxing the rest of the night.
  • Tomorrow I get to get pick out my new glasses...long overdue :)
  • I only have 1 hour and 45 minutes left of work.
  • I have been extremely busy at work today which made it fly by, always nice.
  • I have finally set up both my workout blog and regular blog how I want them and am commited to writing in both every day at least once if not more!

Thats all for now! Gotta get back to work and finish this week out.

Happy Friday Everyone!!!

Flashback Fridays

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A new thing to blog about YAY!

FLASHBACK FRIDAYS are where I will be going back into my life and blogging about things I went through or did up until now. Some sad, some annoying, some happy but all real.

When I was 13...I got off the bus and went up to the house. My mom was sitting at the kitchen table looking through the mail and asked me if I would like to go to Europe. Im like WHAT?

She showed me the People to People Student Ambassador brochure with all the cool pictures on it and of course I said, "Heck YEA".

We set up an interview with the organization to see if I would get in.

Before you know it I was doing fundraisers and putting together donations and lists of people I had to get gifts for and everything. You name it I was doing it to get ready for this trip.

The trip was called the European Odyssey. It consisted of visiting Greece, Italy, France and England. For three weeks I was going to be going through Europe with a bunch of other kids and a couple teachers! How cool is that! Well not so cool once I actually got to Greece and we received faxes from our family members! I was SO homesick and crying. So much for being all big and bad. :)

I visited many places the Colesium, took a cruise to the Greek Isles, Mt. Vesouvious, Eiffel Tower, Versailles, Big Ben, Buckingham Palace. Those are only a few of the places I got to visit.

I will cut this short. All in all it was a GREAT experince and I was very thankful my parents and all the people who donated money to me made it possible for me to go! Maybe one day when I get a scanner I can scan the pictures I have from my scrapbook and post them up here.

Thankful for Thursdays

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I have set up new things to write about each day of the week to keep this blog going!

Thursdays are : Thankful for Thursdays (meaning write about what you are thankful for)

I am thankful to have the job that I have. There are so many people out there that do not have jobs. I have many friends including myself whose other half is not working or not working nearly as much as they used to. It makes it tough but we are making it alot better of than some people.

A little about what I do:

I work for a company that gives cash advances to small and medium sized business'. We purchase their future credit card receivables and then through one of our approved processors we retrieve a certain percentage out of their daily credit card sales.

Market Research and Retention is the department I work in. That is a fancy name for basically researching accounts and making sure they do not have advances with any of our competitors and are trying to screw us over. I also work with the Pre-Litigation Manager and his team of collectors to ensure that the accounts they want to quick file on have enough evidence to do so and meet the requirements for a quick file.

All in all I love my job, I would like more money but at the moment I am content with getting what I am getting because some people aren't as fortunate as I am.

I am thankful for my JOB!

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Everyone interested in losing weight or tracking their daily food intake and fitness visit SparkPeople.com. Absolutely amazing website and complete FREE!

UPDATING

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I will be updating this blog clearing out some old posts and updating the background. For now I will be updating my workout blog more often. Stay tuned for updates on this blog as well.

Follow my workout adventures on my New blog

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I have set up a new blog just for my workout adventures and progress here On this blog it will strictly be for weighing in, any changes in my workouts, and my daily eating diary.

Hoping doing this will keep me in check and keep me on track! Wish me Luck!!