MIC..C U Real Soon, KEY...Y becuase we like u!

Okay, so I'm trying to do much better at taking care of myself (especially when I find myself taking on too much and burning out.) This tends to happen quite frequently seeing as the word "NO" doesn't exist well in my vocabulary. So I have made the hard decision to take a bit of a hiatus from my blog. At least until the show is over. I pretty much have work and or rehearsal (or both) everyday from here on out and I'm getting on average about an hour of time to be home before 10:00pm. So I feel like at this point I'm not moving forward and not telling you anything new. Just listing the few cleaning things I might have done that day. Now this doesn't mean I'm going to stop trying to get some cleaning in, and I'm gonna keep up with my routines, and definitely try to sneak some exercise in there somewhere. I am going to do my best to keep up with what I've got so that I can be rip roarin and ready to go just as soon as the show is done. So I will try to check in or blog if something good happens. But at this point, expect silence from my end. Stick with me though guys ok? Your support has really been amazing and helped me move along in this whole process!

Ummmmm......

Okay! I made progress today. I also realized there's bit of non-progress going on in that I'm not sure I know where the book is. Which is going to make it quite difficult to really move forward in this whole endeavor. I do have to take off on a random side tangent and agree with my Auntie, who thinks that I should take my blog on the road with music and singing and prop sinks and vacuums and things. I think it could be big! Okay, back to the real world. I FOLDED THE LAUNDRY!!! This is the point where someone throws ticker tape (somewhere not in my house so I don't have to clean it up) and bands play and girls twirl batons in small skirts. Fantastic! *Sidenote: how cool would that be if that happened when you accomplished a goal?* The down side, I totally forgot about the sink. I did get on a bit of a tangent which was good. I folded that laundry and did a whole other load of laundry (that is of course sitting around waiting to be folded) I took all of the other laundry and put it in baskets to be washed. I even took you-know-who's empty baskets into the bedroom so he could put them in a proper place (i.e. NOT the middle of the living room.) I also put away a couple of storage containers, finished off my costume, loaded up all the little bags of trash into one big bag, and scooped out the cat poop. Oh ya, I also went on a banzai attack mission on the flower bed outside. It started out innocently enough with me watering my tomatoes (I'm trying to grow something on purpose here, and even something edible....WISH ME LUCK!) and while I was doing this I noticed the poor little plants that were dieing in their teeny pots that needed to go in bigger pots. Which led me to look over to where our poor rhody was being completely and utterly taken over by blackberries and some sort of vine. I got pissed and started ripping things out with abandon. Which is all fine and dandy for our rhody. Not so fine and dandy for the giant pile of weeds literally in the middle of the walk way to the front door (I didn't know what to do with them!) And really truly all of the proceeding stuff pales in comparison to my major shocking accomplishment. Dun dun duuuuuunnnnnnn!

I took an Ikea bag (you know those giant blue ones that you could probably fit, not one, but two small children in?) chock full of clothes to the thrift store to sell them. YAY! Sorta. Because even though I called them and told them that I was bringing a HUGE bag of clothes and they said I could and that they would take them. When I got there they said no. And that I had to make an appointment for a different day. But they would gladly take 15 items. BLAH! So the giant bag of clothes is out of the house! (Hallelujah! Its been sitting in the bedroom for probably a year now, slowly collecting more and more) But now it is infesting my car with clutter, but only till next Friday. I can handle that, right?

So that was my day in cleaning! My goal for tomorrow is to fold that load of laundry and find the book. May the force be with me!

Hello again!

Woo hoo! I have a new follower (bout darn time seestor of mine lol) Well, if anyone missed me last night besides Lizz, I apologize for my absence. For the first time I completely spaced out. Like out of my brain, totally forgot. I got home after being at work for 9 hours and then a "holy crap the show starts in like 2 weeks and we have scenes we've never done before" rehearsal and got home around 9 somethingish. And I thought to myself hmm, I should write my blog even though I did absolutely no cleaning, none of my work out stuff, and I think I totally forgot all my routine stuff. Then I saw that my hun was working on the computer. And it wasn't one of those doodling around looking at random stuff kinda working on the computers. It was an actual doing updates and scanning for viruses, or some such other technical type things that pretty much elude me. So I figured I would get around to it whenever he was finished. (Now here is where I confess to being really lazy, because we have 2 other completely functional and totally usable computers that I could have just as easily used as the one he was working on.) So then I crawled into bed and completely and totally spaced out the fact that I had anything else I was gonna do. So, therefor, blog absence. But you know what they say, absence makes the heart grow fonder. (Are you fonder yet?)

I do have to say that I am a little happy about the fact that I didn't write last night because it gave me something to write about today. I have to say that for the next couple weeks or so I may not have a lot to say. I will continue to work 40 hours a week and then almost every night go straight to rehearsals. And in the midst of all of that I have to finish my costumes.(You really would think that at some point along the line I would realize that I cannot handle working, being in a production, and doing costumes for said production. But I'm a glutton for punishment. Plus it gives me a great say in what I am forced to wear) So my day off was for the most part spent completing one costume. It is about 95% done and the rest should pretty much take me about 15 minutes tomorrow. This makes me happy! =) I did though stick to my sewing/cleaning rule. I threw away all the little threads I cut off, all the pins went back in their tines, and everything else is folded up and in one neat pile. Yay me! So that was my day. No cleaning involved. There's not alot of costuming I can do for tomorrow so hopefully I will get more cleaning done.

Goal for tomorrow: It's two parter. I'm gonna fold that damn laundry if it kills me. Also I am going to scrub my kitchen sink. It is NOT clean and I don't like it. I think a big part of that is the fact that I can't figure out where all the little random stuff that is in there came from. Oh well, best to probably NOT know. Chao!

I got nuthin

So I really didn't do anything today. I had some time once I finally got home but I just didn't have any oomph tonight. I did accomplish my goal in getting through today. Go me! I didn't jump rope either (refer back to the lack of oomph) but I did use this work out thing I have. It's basically the metal ring with two squishy handles opposite each other and you put it between your knees and squish it. Is it just me or does most of that sound really kinda wrong? Anywho I did 50 reps of that. Woo hoo. But that's about all I got. Now I apparently gotta figure out healthy snacks for people to share for tomorrow night, even though I will be at work until 15 minutes after rehearsal starts and I can barely buy food for myself. Awesome.

Goal for tomorrow: I can't think of one. Please place your votes for my goal and I will attempt to do my favorite one.

I only did the kinda things I orta, Sorta...

Alright my bloggy friends. I got so amped up today that I have been doing stuff almost non-stop since I got home at around 5:15ish. It is with that in mind that I have just noticed that it is 11:30. So I accomplished many amazing things this evening, and I am going to leave you all hanging and finish my post in the morning.

So, I hope you are all at home furiously pondering the amazingness that I was up to and I will see you in the morning.

P.S. Goal for tomorrow: just get through the day.


I'm back! Good morning all! Started it off with some PB & J and some Charmed, then its off to work (BOOOOO!!! it looks like its finally a nice day out and I'm gonna be stuck inside.) So my day yesterday deserves praise. Well, go on...praise me! (Are you praising me yet?) So I got home and put the groceries away (including the bag) WOo Hoo! Then I remembered my jump rope goal and got out my i-pod put on some fun music and went to it. And then quickly realized just how out of shape I am and how exhausting it is to jump rope for an extended time. What the heck?!?!?!?! Didn't jump roping used to be really easy??? So needless to say I didn't make it through the whole 15 minutes. I did though make it through 8. I'm gonna aim for that today as well. Then (after sitting for a few minutes to get my breath back) I moved on to cleaning off two different hot spots. I put the coffee table back together (my hun spilled water and took everything off and placed it all over) and got rid off the mass of dishes that seems to accumulate in like a day. (Like totally for sure.) Sorry, valley moment. Then I cleaned off the trunk that holds all my costuming stuff. It is another flat surface so of course it gathers crap. I put the costumes away (which involves alot of shoving, and closing the lid real quick and sitting on the lid on one side to get the latch done and then moving to the other side.) I then made it look pretty again. GO FREAKIN ME! Then my pleas of oncoming madness finally made it through to my hun and he took care of all of the laundry that had been taking over most of the living room. YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYA!!!!!!! Then I got all the pattern pieces cut out for one of my costumes AND put everything away. Then I went through a bunch of pictures for a project I'm working on AND put them away! YAY me!!!! So, what I think is really funny, is that in the mist of all of this cleaning madness I completely forgot about the fact that my goal was to fold laundry and so I didn't. Go figure huh?

Well, I hope by now you are all prostrating yourselves in front of my amazingness and on that note I am off to work!!!

GGGGOOOOOAAAAALLLLLLLL

Alright, well, life once again stepped in making things slightly difficult for me to accomplish anything. My hun's sister's car broke down (and since her job is delivering papers) we ended up having to make an emergency trip off island to drop off a car for her. Which of course means that once again I left the house at about 8:45am and got home at 10:00pm. I did however do 99.9% of my routine which was my goal for last night. VICTORY FOR ME! That .01% I haven't been able to figure out how to accomplish on a normal basis. It's my get all lathered up with lotion thing in the morning so I feel all smooth and luscious to start the day. *SIDENOTE-There were some really awesome words in just that one sentence: lathered, smooth and luscious...once again...AWESOME.* I seem to be able to do it sporadically, and then all the other times I get all dressed and then see the lotion and go CRAP! I didn't put lotion on. By the way, if anyone is getting all weirded out by this. I only do my arms and legs so its not really a weird creepy "puts the lotion on her skin thing" k? But after that I did everything else on the lists! YAY ME!

I also did something else that I am proud about. Now I just have to work on the follow through. Which seems to be a bit of a recurring thing in my life. But on to the good part. I bought myself a jump rope. Its blue and purple and sparkly. Now why you may be asking is this such a good thing (other than the fact that it is a sparkly jump rope which is amazing in and of itself.) So this goes back to the chapter about not running on an empty tank and doing things that make you feel good. So lately I've been a bit down and I'm not dancing 4 days a week anymore and this leads to Lissy feeling like a chubby bunny (Now shove 10 marshmallows in your mouth and say it again..well, don't really, people die that way. But at least think it.) So I figure that I love to jump rope and that maybe since its something I love to do that I will maybe be able to convinve myself to do it on a regular basis to get some excercise in. (What I would really like to do is get a pool membership at the gym but unless someone wants to sponsor me for $50 a month its not gonna happen...any takers?) So I am adding a fitness goal to my day, and I am going to try to jump rope for 15 minutes a day for now. Hopefully as I get going I'll add more time. Ok, let's get physical, physical....

So, that's about all I've got for today. I'm adding in my goal for tomorrow, which is to fold that damn laundry. It's driving me crazy. Plus I can't find any socks that match!

Hello?

I feel as though I may have lost you. Is anyone out there? It may just be my current mood but it feels like no one is out there, that I have lost my mojo. Oh well, probably just insecurities. So needless to say (since you can all clearly hear my deep sighs and see my red blotchy face) I am in a crappy mood. My life seems to be in this major downward spiral. Maybe I'm being overly dramatic, but it sure seems that way. It seems like things were going reasonably well, kinda hopping on the cleaning band wagon, things evening out at work, yada yada... and now it feels as though it is all down the pooper. Pooper. *It made me feel slightly better to think Pooper* So on the cleaning front there really hasn't been much progress. Most of my routine stuff has flown out the window, I haven't read anymore of the book, and I'm pretty sure that my sink isn't clean. CRAP MUFFINS. Now I did scrub my tub and my bathroom sink this evening but it was for purely selfish reasons. After having a major crying jag in which I couldn't seem to actually STOP crying (I figure this is where some sympathetic soul is thinking, oh how long has it been since you cried? you just need to let it all out...the answer: YESTERDAY. it's been kinda a tough couple o'days.) So I figured that I would pamper myself a little bit, which is technically from the book right? You can't accomplish anything without taking care of yourself. No running on empty, that kinda thing. I scrubbed the tub (and the sink since it was right there and the soap already had Clorox on it) grabbed a bunch of candles and read my book. It helped a bit (I stopped crying at least) but I've been having a hard time throwing off the blues. Hopefully it will get better tomorrow. Now I figure this is the part in the story where I learn the life altering lesson and we all live happily ever after....ppppppppppbbbbssssssssttttt (by the way, feel free to comment with how you would spell the sound a raspberry makes.) Anyways. I figure there is a lesson here. All this stuff is life happening, its gonna continue to happen. It is not always going to be good and smooth running. And this is where you triumph and overcome by continuing the baby steps and the routines and all the little things that keep your house clean. Ok, got the idea. Now I gotta work on the follow through.

Alright goal for tomorrow. I'm gonna keep it kinda small so that I can make it happen and have something to feel good about. I am going to do both my morning and evening routine in their entirety. If I happen to get around to folding that laundry from a couple days ago....all the better.