Blog Name Change!!

NO NO NO! Purple is still making me so happy! However Diet Coke is not and I have given it up!!!! :{ I have had 2 in the last 4 weeks!! I am still amazed by that statistic because I used to have 2 or 3 or4... a day! I do SOOOO miss it and given the fact I can have all I want at work for free, it hasn't saved me much money. But I do feel better although I can't contribute it all to giving up Diet Coke, as I have cleaned up my diet tremendously and now eat very healthfully, the achievement has been a huge mental boost to my self-esteem - I've done something I thought I would never be able to do!

Works for Me

I'm pretty sure I have posted this before in Works for Me but I keep coming back to it when my life has gotten out of control and best of IT WORKS!! A To-do-list! I have lists for everything -

• books to read
• groceries
• other shopping to be done
• goals
• menus and recipes to try
• projects
• holiday preperations
• what goes in Jim's lunch (so I don't forget his spoon or his favorite chips to go with his cheese for snacking)
• chores to be done (by me or even better by someone else who lives in my house!)

Wow and that was just off the top of my head with no thought going into it! One of my best used lists is my daily to-do-list - what needs to get done everyday or the day goes all haywire. It keeps me on track so I am not sitting at the computer at 11:32 am still in my jammies - OH WAIT that's what is happening RIGHT now! See what happens when I don't follow what I preach! Although in my defense MOST of my list was completed earlier! Now I got to go workout and get dressed!

Maybe in this: LOL

Gratituesday!

As much as the first day of school breaks my heart every year, along about the second week of school I start really liking it - long uninterupted hours of productivity .... or not! I get to chose which! And this year with Kolby clear over at Irving and having to ride the bus home, I get one more whole hour till the first child hits the door in the afternoon. Happiness!

My Tackle it Tuesday this week was the window sill in the living room - we kept the blinds down most all of the summer so I will never admit to all the crud and gross stuff I found on the sill and in the window tracks and I lost count of all the dead creatures I encountered! Now it is so beautiful I don't want to close the blinds even in the afternoon when the 95 degree sun is pooring in!