Distractions (a bullet list)...

• Just found my new favorite blog and feel inspired to dust off my sewing machine!

• Planning to take my new art projects in to a local store to be sold on consignment. They get 25% commission, but I don't have to pay anything to have a space in their shop. So excited!

• Almost done with book number 75 for the year. Seventy-five! I think once I reach my goal of 100, I'll stop reading altogether. Then I might have time for things like exercising and house cleaning.

• Been editing a ton of photos lately...still have a few to finish from Rachel's visit. Already looking forward to crashing at her place next summer! I love my Rachel. :)
  

Notice Anything Missing...

...from this sad, lonely parking spot in front of our apartment?

If you guessed a vehicle (or more specifically, my VAN) then you are correct! Sadly, my van decided that since we weren't planning to spend any of our tax return money on a nice gift for it, well then it would just drop it's transmission out on the highway so we'd have to get it a new one. Nice, huh? But the joke's on the van...we aren't getting it a new one, we're just having the old one rebuilt! Heh heh. That vehicle just doesn't understand the human smartness it's dealing with here.

So anyways, I'm kinda stuck at the house until we can manage to pick it up later this week. Not that I had plans to go anywhere, luckily.

How about a 2010 Goals recap:
1) BLOG at least ONCE a WEEK.
Um...still doing better than last year. I consider this a win.
2) Be in a size 8 (or a 6...hey, it could happen!) by the end of the year.
My weight seems to be staying the same, which is frustrating, but I'm still exercising 5 days a week. And I now need smaller underpants, so something must be working!
3) Edit and organize my pics from this year and last, and get them on Flickr.
Yesterday I edited our Christmas photos (better late than never, right?), plus a ton of other pics, and finally uploaded them. Whew!
4) Read 100 books.
I'm halfway through book #15...not exactly on target, but I should at least hit 50 by the end of the year!
5) Get back into my art again!
I've scrapped several pages this year using the January kit from Jen's House of Scrap...I even did this month's prompt for GutterGirlz! And here's my proof:




I've also managed to make 2 etsy sales so far this year, and my robot pinback buttons are being reviewed soon on THIS BLOG...pretty excited about that. :) Hope your Wednesday is happy!

Goals for 2010

Wow, 2010...already? Hard to believe that this is the last year I'll be teenager-less...Alex will turn 13 in 2011. My baby will also start kindergarten that year, so expect me to be a frenzied mess, buying calcium and anti-wrinkle cream in bulk. Surprisingly, the only thing that bothers me THIS year is the fact that my MOM will be SIXTY! That really makes me feel older than anything else...but don't tell her I said that. Love you, Mom!

Okay, I know I've been gone almost 2 months, and my blogging before that was sporadic, at best. I think 2009 must have been my year to take a break from my blog, from my art, from my etsy store, from the internet groups I've always been so active in before. Of course, I'm addicted to too many Facebook games to leave the internet altogether, but I think you know what I mean.

So number one on my list of goals for 2010?

1) BLOG at least ONCE a WEEK.
Since I'm posting this on the 7th day of the New Year, I'm totally within the one week mark.

2) Be in a size 8 (or a 6...hey, it could happen!) by the end of the year.
I've only got 30-35 pounds left to lose, so this is totally possible. I look forward to shopping for new clothes!

3) Edit and organize my pics from this year and last, and get them on Flickr. Also, download a manual for my camera, so I can actually figure out how to use it.
This is a tough one. I'll need prayer.

4) Read 100 books.
Since I received the Twilight series for Christmas (thanks, Rachel & Rick!!), I'm already 2.3 books on my way to meeting this goal! (Technically, I finished Twilight before the New Year started, so I'm not able to count it.) I'm considering a list here on the blog with the books I've read so far. Maybe.

5) Get back into my art again!
Art journal prompts, design team work, schtuff for my etsy store...any and all of those things I've neglected for TOO LONG!!

That's all I can think of for now. I hope you'll come by and visit me once in awhile, you know, to help keep me accountable. Sorry I was so...absent...last year! I'm still a comment junkie, so anything you'd like to say to me here will only fuel my determination to make this blog awesome again!! LOVE my internet friends, and I've MISSED you!! I'd love to hear your goals/resolutions for 2010...Happy New Year!