First 30 day challenge~Day 1-4~ Playing catch up.

Day 1- A little about me:

 Okay, so I had this idea while racking my brain for 2014 resolutions, this coming from girl who has a consistent pattern of NOT keeping New Year resolutions, to complete 12 different 30-day challenges.  Other ideas floating around in my brain were: lose weight (blah), save money (again blah),  and start to recycle (a great goal except I have so many excuses as to why it will not work like not enough room, okay well that is one excuse.  Okay, okay, I’ll make a resolution to re-visit this goal later in the year).

So here is January’s 30 day Challenge.  (I chose this challenge to help me acclimate to world of blogging)  Please join me!
 ( obtained from Pinterest: see copyright on picture for original author)
Some basic facts about me:

My husband and I will be married 9 years in March.  We have two children who are growing up too fast.  I wish I could hold on them and keep them young forever.  I live in Misery Missouri and although I complain, mainly about the weather, I can’t imagine living anywhere else.

I am a Disney fanatic and have been to Disney World twice, but would love to go many more times. In addition to being a Disney fan, I am a huge Harry Potter fan.  I have read all the books, watched all the movies, and played most of the video games.  One thing that I have not done is go to Harry Potter World at Universal Studios in Orlando.  I hope to change that someday, until then I will continue to change my screensaver to a new HP World picture every few weeks.

Finally, I am an avid scrapbooker (I am hoping to share some of my creations) and crafter.  To sum things up, I am just a small town mom stuck in the middle of US dreaming of sunny Orlando, Florida while scrapbooking life one picture at a time.

Day 2:  My likes and Dislikes

Well yesterday I shared some of my loves: Disney, Harry Potter, Scrapbooking, and my wonderful FAMILY!  But today’s challenge was to list 10 “likes” and “dislikes” and being the typical pessimistic person that I am; I started to rattle off my dislikes rather quickly, but then I remembered that I am trying to change, therefore I am going to focus on my “likes” first.

10 “Likes”
1.  Scavenger Hunts
2.  Chocolate
3.  Polka Dots 
4.  Snowmen
5.  Being involved in my church and community
6.  Throwing/Organizing parties
7.  Pinterest:  check out more of my “likes” here
8.  My new Kia Soul
9.  Owls
10.  Converse “Chucks” Shoes.

Now on to my “Dislikes”
1.  Certain aspects of my job.
2.  Cold weather.
3.  Garden Gnomes (hey, they are creepy)   photo from laughterz .com
4.  Scary/Horror Movies
5.  Snakes
6.  My current financial situation
7.  My husband’s new work schedule
8.  My physical health
9.  Rude/Disrespectful people
10. Being Sick (yeah, dealing with this one right now)

Day 3: My day in great detail!

 I guess I put this post off as long as I could today.  I put if off for a couple of reasons: 1. I’m boring.  2. I have to leave several details off in order to retain my job (wink wink).  Anyways, here it goes.

At 7am my alarm went off and then I proceeded to hit snooze three times, and then I finally got up and got dressed for work (you know: shower, dress, brush teeth).

For all intensive purposes I made it to work right at 8am

8-9:15am- I typed notes, called clients, talked to co-workers, complained about the cold weather.
9:15am-12:00- I met with clients.  I can’t go into detail, let’s just say, it’s classified!!!

12:00-1pm- I ate General Tso’s chicken, cottage cheese and Pringles.  Checked Facebook, email, work email, Facebook again

1-to let’s just say 5pm- I met with more clients (Again classified, and yes I’m salary)  During this time I may or may not have stopped at Sonic for a slush.

5pm-6:30pm- did a load of laundry, cleaned my craft room, made the kids do their chores (unfortunately, I had to unplug the internet modem in order to get them to actually complete the chores, yep I’m that mom), cooked supper, checked Facebook and email, pinned some pins, and did some dishes.

6:30-9:00pm- Watched Harry Potter, Deathly Hallows pt. 1 with my daughter, also repeatedly checked Facebook as if something cool would actually happened, it didn’t!

So I as get ready to finalize this post it is 9:15pm and my daughter and I are watching part 2 of the Deathly Hallows while listening to my creepy daughter speak in parsil tongue.  I love that she is so much like me.  aka NERDY.

Well that was my day. I hope yours was just a, um, PRODUCTIVE!

Okay this is my attempt of playing catch-up.  I am trying to decided which blog forum I like better: wordpress or blogger. 

Here’s to you making 2014 GREAT!