Monthly

So I have realized that even though I want to update at least twice a month, I am lucky to get in once a month.  Oh bother.  Well at least I am able to get in that often. 

It's been a few days over a month since I last updated.  I have found that my husband staying in the city hasn't been as easy for me as I thought it would be.  Sometimes I become emotional and really start to miss him.  Seeing him leave on Sunday's is hard, but it's all for us so I'll push through.

Life's been kind of crazy.  I have not found a set schedule since my husband left.  His grandmother also passed away a few weeks ago so I spent a week in the city with his family. 

I have been trying to read, but just keep finding other things i can do instead of reading.  I need to try to get a schedule made for each night, but it honestly probably won't happen.

Well I guess that's my little update on life right now!  I hope everyone is doing well and living life to the fullest. 

Feel free to send me your recommendations for books and movies!

Free Woman

Well my husband is staying in the city during the week in order to save gas money while he works at his internship.  I have been trying to figure out what to do.  I thought, duh what a great way to mark some things off my 25 before 25 list.

I am going to get a few more movies watched from my list and pick out a book to start on.  I am going to in my spare time work on my rice.  I donated over 500 grains of rice today in a 20 minute period.  Everyone should check out freerice.com and answer questions and help feed the hungry.  Let me know if you join freerice.com and i will add you to my challenge.

Any advice on which books i should read?  Send me a comment and tell me what you think!

Part 1 of the 5000 Question Survey

Part one
1. Who are you?

A 24 year-old woman who’s living life!
2. What are the 3 most important things everyone should know about you?

I’m only 4’ 11” and wish I could be 5’!  I love my life right now and wouldn’t trade it for a thing.  I love my family and friends more than anything!
3. When you aren't filling out 5,000 question surveys like this one what are you doing?

I am working, spending time with the husband or scrapbooking.
4. List your classes in school from the ones you like the most to the ones you like the least (or if you are out of school, think of the classes you did like and didn't like at the time).

Math, English, Science, History
5. What is your biggest goal for this year?

Live life to its fullest and figure out a little more what we are going to be doing next year!
6. Where do you want to be in 5 years?

Living an amazing life with my husband and starting a family if we think it’s time.
7. What stage of life are you in right now?

An amazing stage!  I love everything about my life!
8. Are you more child-like or childish?

Child-like
9. What is the last thing you said out loud?

That’s True!
10. What song comes closest to how you feel about your life right now?

Avril Lavines “What the Hell"
11. Have you ever taken martial arts classes?

Nope
12. Does your life tend to get better or worse or does it just stay the same?

Life just gets better!
13. Does time really heal all wounds?

Yes
14. How do you handle a rainy day?

I try to sleep through it or stay cuddled up on the couch with my husband.
15. Which is worse...losing your luggage or having to sort out tangled holiday lights?

Losing your luggage
16. How is your relationship with your parents?

I love my parents!
Will you miss them when they are gone?

I will miss them so much!
17. Do you tend to be aware of what is going on around you?

Yes I always try to pay attention to my surroundings!
18. What is the truest thing that you know?

My love for my family and husband!
19. What did you want to be when you grew up?

A Teacher
20. Have you ever been given a second chance?

Yes and I am so blessed because of it.
21. Are you more of a giver or a taker?

Giver, I’m a total giver!
22. Do you make your decisions with an open heart/mind?

Yeah most the time.
23. What is the most physically painful thing that has ever happened to you?

Getting a shot in the tip of my big toe
24. What is the most emotionally painful thing that has ever happened to you?

The death of my Grandmother
25. Who have you hugged today?

My husband
26. Who has done something today to show they care about you?

My husband and my mother
27. Do you have a lot to learn?

We always have a lot to learn in life!
28. If you could learn how to do three things just by wishing and not by working what would they be?

A How to accurately predict Powerball numbers

B How to play poker/gamble well

C A way to make lots of money.

29. Which do you remember the longest: what other people say, what other people do or how other people make you feel?

How other people make me feel
30. What are the key ingredients to having a good relationship?

Honesty, Trustworthy and Friendliness
31. What 3 things do you want to do before you die?

A Spend lots of time at the beach

B Live a life that makes my family happy!

C Go to the east coast

32. What three things would you want to die to avoid doing?

A Watching my husband die

B Watching my kids die

C Hurting my family

33. Is there a cause you believe in more than any other cause?

Not really a cause as much as love for my family.
34. What does each decade make you think of:

The 19...

20's: Flapper Dresses

30's: Great Depression

40's: World War II

50's:  “Happy Days” TV show

60's: tie dye and smiley faces

70's: “That 70’s Show” TV show

80's: decade I was born

90's: great music to dance to

2000: high school and college

2010's: First year of marriage

35. Which decade do you feel the most special connection to and why?

The 90’s that is when I was growing up
36. What is your favorite oldie/classic rock song?

“Hold On” by Wilson Phillips
37. What country do you live in and who is the leader of that country?

United States of America – Barack Obama
If you could say any sentence to the current leader of your country what would it be?

Why are we giving everyone free money and continuing to make our National Debt rise?
38. What's your favorite TV channel to watch in the middle of the night?

Nick at Nite
39. What Disney villain are you the most like and why?

Despicable Me’s Villain b/c while I try to do things I always end up loving something else and wanting to help others.
40. Have you ever been a girl scout/boy scout?

Yes
41. If you were traveling to another continent would you rather fly or take a boat?

Fly
42. Why is the sky blue during the day and black at night?

B/c of the suns reflection off something
43. What does your name mean?

Resurrection
44. Would you rather explore the deeps of the ocean or outer space?

Deeps of the Ocean
45. Word association

What is the first word that comes to mind when you see the word:

Air: Sky

Meat: Animals

Different: Strange

Pink: Victoria Secret

Deserve: Work

White: Black

Elvis: Nanny

Magic: Fake

Heart: Love

Clash: Fight

Pulp: Orange

46. If you could meet any person in the world who is dead who would you want it to be?

Lucille Ball
47. What if you could meet anyone who is alive?

Garth Brooks
48. Is there a movie that you love so much you could watch it every day?

Any of the I Love Lucy Episodes.  They’re a movie b/c they are on DVD. ; )
49. You are going to be stuck alone in an elevator for a week. What do you bring to do?

Meds for Closter phobia, a pillow, water and food
50. Have you ever saved someone's life or had your life saved?

A friend in High School and his family said I saved his life b/c he called when he said he was going to slit his wrist and I came over.
51. Make up a definition for the following silly words...

Fruitgoogle: The homosexual dating section on google.

Ambytime:  Time to take your Ambien and go to sleep.

Asscactus: Someone who has shaved their ass hair and it’s prickly as it’s growing back.

52. What was the last thing you made with your own hands?

Scrapbook Photo Albums for a babyshower
53. What was your favorite toy as a child?

My Rainbow Bright stuff doll
54. How many TV’s are in your house?

2
55. What is your favorite thing to do outside?

Hang out with friends!
56. How do you feel when you see a rainbow?

Happy
57. Have you ever dreamt a dream that came true?

Yes
58. Have you ever been to a psychic/tarot reader?

No I don’t believe in them
59. What is your idea of paradise?

Some place by water with my husband and no worries in the world
60. Do you believe in god and if so what is he/she/it like?

Yes and he is very forgiving.
61. Do you believe in Hell?

Yes
62. What one thing have you done that most people haven't?

Married a Genius & Been on the court of Cameron Indoor Stadium
63. What is the kindest thing you have ever done?

I pulled over at 1 am when I saw a kid under the age of 8 walking down the street by himself.
64. Are you a patient person?

Not really but yes at the same time
65. What holiday should exist but doesn't?

A day to celebrate helping others
66. What holiday shouldn't exist but does?

Cinco De Mayo
67. What's the best joke you ever heard?

Most pick up lines
68. Where is the most fun place you have EVER been?

Disney World in Florida
69. Is your hair natural or dyed?

Dyed
70. Do you have any deep dark secrets or are you pretty much up front?

Pretty much upfront
71. What is under your bed right now?

Dust
72. If you were in the Land of Oz would you want to live there or go home?

Go Home to my family
73. If you drive do you frequently speed?

I usually go about 5 mph over the speed limit.
74. What is the world's best song to dance to?

Anything with a good beat
75. What song was on the last time you danced with someone?

A Country song that my baby and I two-stepped to
76. Do you prefer Disney or Warner Brothers?

Disney
77. What is the first animal you would run to see if you went to the zoo?

FLAMINGOS
78. Would you consider yourself to be romantic?

A Hopeless romantic
79. If the earth stopped rotating would we all fly off?

No
80. What is the one thing that you love to do so much that you would make sacrifices to be able to do it?

Spend time with my family and my husband.
81. If you (and everyone) had to lose one right or freedom, but you could pick which one everyone had to lose, what would you pick?

none
82. If you had to choose would you live on the equator or at the North Pole?

Equator
83. Would you rather give up listening to music or watching television?

Television
84. What do you think makes someone a hero?

Doing something in order to help someone else.
85. What cartoon would you like to be a character in?

Let’s go old school and say Rainbow Bright
86. Name one thing that turns your stomach:

Child Abuse
87. What was the last thing you paid for?

Gas
88. Are you a coupon clipper?

No
89. Get anything good in the mail recently?

A Wedding Invitation
90. Which would you rather take as a gym class...dancing, sailing, karate, or bowling?

dancing
91. In Star Trek people 'beam' back and forth between different places. What this means is they stand in a little tube and their molecules are deconstructed and sent to another tube somewhere else where they are reassembled. Only problem is when the molecules are deconstructed the person is dead. When they are put back together it is only a clone that has all the dead person's memories. So...

Is the person who gets beamed the same person on both ends?

No
92. What insects are you afraid of?

Spiders
93. If you could print any phrase on a T-shirt, what would it say?

Kiss My Ass
94. What's the most eccentric thing you have ever worn?

A Lace up corset
95. If you could pick one food that you could eat all you wanted but it would have no effect on how much you weigh, what food would it be?

Chips & Dip
96. What are your parents interested in?

Not each other.
97. Have you ever caught an insect and kept it as a pet?

No
Have you ever caught and tamed a wild animal?

No
98. What is more helpful to you, wishes or plans?

plans
99. When do you feel your life energy the strongest?

When I’m with my husband
100. You are spending the night alone in the woods and may bring only 3 items with you. What do you bring?

Gun, Flashlight, Food

Busy Busy Busy

Well I should have posted this about a week ago, but things have been really busy in my life.  I'm going to count this as my second April post since it should have been up last week.

I have been working with Payne Country Youth Services and helping with the planning of their Golf Tournament Fundraiser.  I have loved all the work that I am doing so far!  The tournament is on June 18th at Stillwater Country Club!

I have been working on my Honeymoon scrapbook and it's turning out so great!  I am so excited for it to be done!  I will have to post some pictures when it is done!

Once I get a few things done around the house I am going to check out my first book!  I just can't decide which one to pick out! 


I'm glad that I am keeping up with the 25 to 25 list as it's giving me something to do outside of the normal everyday activities! 

25 by 25 update

Well today has been so much better then the last week - week and a half. 

As I said in my last post I have decided to volunteer with the Payne County Youth Services. 

I met with the lady in charge today and we figured out that I am going to be able to work with them!  I am going to be working with them on their fundraiser that is coming up in June.  They are having a golf tournament that I will be helping plan and see through.  Along with others that work closely with them of course.

Another thing on my list was to start living a more healthy lifestyle.  Well today a couple friends and I started P90x!  We thought we were going to die.  Come to find out, we did day one of week 5 today so we didn't end up doing as bad as we thought.

Well that is my little update!  I hope all of you are well!

Success..... Sort of!

So I was in touch with the lady in charge of the United Way here in Stillwater and and over the past two days of conversations she gave me 3-4 different places that I can volunteer at.  All are lovely places that I know very much value volunteers and that is how they stay running.


Sheri and I talked about Habitat Re-Store and Elite Repeat.


Elite Repeat takes gently used clothing, household items, furniture, and other items.  They clean them up, press them and then sell them at a low cost to the public.  All of the proceeds go to local charities including: Stillwater Community Health Center, Mission of Hope, Stillwater Domestic Violence Services and others.

Habitat for Humanity Re-Store needs volunteers to help process items, price items, help customers find products, etc.  All money raised at the Re-Store go to help build homes for needy families in our community.


She also mentioned Tiny Paws Kitten Rescue.  This non-profit group's mission is to save kittens and find good homes for them.  They need volunteers to help with fundraisers and public awareness events from now through April.  While this sounds like a very nice place to volunteer, it doesn't really help that I don't like cats.

I chose to help with the Payne County Youth Services.  

 
This United Way partner agency works with at risk children and youth and their families.  They provide counseling, support groups, and even a shelter for the kiddos to stay at short term.  I have left a message with the lady in charge so that I can speak with her to see what I would be able to help with, such as office work, fund raising and organizing projects.  I sure hope this works out and I am able to help them!


I hope that all of you have a wonderful weekend!  I will be working my father-in-laws booth selling soap made out of goat milk at the Medieval fair in Norman.  

Welllll......

It's been a couple of weeks since I updated last.  With Spring Break and an Academic Awards Banquet we are throwing at work life has been nuts!  The list has been kind of hard lately b/c we have been broke.  I'm super afraid that I'm not going to make the list complete b/c of money and the resistance from my husband.  He's such a party pooper when it comes to things like dates with his wife and the drive in movies.  I am going to try and get as much done as I can though.  I hope all is well in your lives!