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Thursday, April 22, 2021

No Pants April Day 22

 No Pants April Day 22: Green floral jumper in a nod to Earth Day with a white tee and striped canvas tennies.


I am IN LOVE with this set of iron gates at work!

I do love a sweet pair of canvas tennies paired with a dress. It's my 1992 fashion sense (or lack therof) coming out. 


After work, Hercules took me out for a spin in the Beast Truck...dress and all. 

Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Have we found a shared hobby at last?

 Friends, it would appear that after nearly 25 years of marriage, Dan and I have found (or re-found, as the case may be) the shared hobby of motorcycle riding together. So, I'm letting you all know in advance that there will most likely be many, MANY 'Riding with Hercules' and 'The View From Here' posts here and on FB in the future, for which I will make zero apologies. This victory is hard earned and a long time in coming. Thank you for your understanding. If these posts don't thrill you, that's okay, I don't mind. But it is filling me with a ridiculous amount of joy, which I intend to completely over-share with reckless abandon. 

#RidingWithHercules
#TheViewFromHere



Thursday, February 25, 2021

Happy Birthday, Dan!

 Happy Birthday, Dan! I love you to the moon and back. I hope your day is as awesome as can be!






Friday, February 19, 2021

Today was a sweet day. Breakfast out with Handsome Hercules at a local brunch place I love, the house got clean, I was available to pick up the adventurous youngsters when their tire blew out while off-roading, I had time to read, and hang out, and spend time with people I enjoy, plus Game Night was a blast. I even chatted with all 4 of my boys today. Can’t ask for too much more than that. Stay-Cation for the win.

Cute painting on the wall at Indulgence Cafe.

Charlie and Derek battle wits on the chess board.

Kelly and Alexis learning Dominion


Sunday, January 31, 2021

2021 Goals: End of January Update

 I'll add updates and/or cross things off so we can all track my progress this year. 


I have many goals this year after a few years of actively doing less and I'm rearing to go. I'll add this list in the coming days and then offer a once a month update post.

Spiritual Goals:     

~Read the whole Bible this year. I'm using the YouVersion app to help me do this in a timely fashion. Doing great on this
~Pray from a list Yes!
~Attend Church and Community Group either in person or virtually, as Corona allows.

~Read and work through "The Road Back to You" an Enneagram book from a Christian perspective.

Health Goals:     

~Continue to shed inches through smaller portions, more movement, more veggies and more water. My year end goal to be down to single digit pants size and a M top. 
~Make taking my supplements a daily habit. Haven't missed a day all month
~Avoid late night snacking. This was difficult, but I'm doing well.
~Be able to run up a flight of stairs at Acton without becoming winded.
~Take a long hike once a month. (A Mountain, Dripping Springs, Carlsbad Caverns, The Catwalk, Aguirre Springs, etc.)

Personal Goals:   

~Read every single day, and I'm starting with books I already own. I can't purchase any more until I've read those. *Kindle books don't count as purchases if I get them free* Even if I only manage 15 minutes a day, I'm loving reading daily again.
~Blog daily. Eep, it's shocking how quickly I feel like I ran out of things to say. LOL
~Make 25 recipes out of my new cookbooks, Cast Iron Cooking and the Tasty Cookbook.
~Participate in No Pants April 2021 and 100 Happy Days 2021
~Buy a handgun and take a safety course.
~New Ink: The MeYeR Man Crew and The Grand Crew- paid for by PattyCakes
~Get passports for the family
~Conquer FSA syndrome by clearing a Flat Surface Area every month, and maintain all other FSAs from previous months.
This month's goal was the movable island that David and Makenzie gave me. DONE! Next month's goal is the table in the office.  

Marriage and Family Goals:    

~Long weekend trip to Grand Canyon- if Corona Allows
~Celebrate 25 year anniversary in August
~Continue with weekly Pizza and Movie Nights These are so much fun!
~Visit IL at least once this year
~Dan and I Question Of The Day book daily Dan doesn't like the book and doesn't want to participate. I'll replace this with a personal journal next month.
~Date Night once a month Or, a date morning. We enjoyed a lovely breakfast at The Shed this month. 
~Game Nights weekly Yes! 

Financial Goals:     

~Refill our emergency fund 
~Spend our Tax Refund wisely on home improvements, adding to our savings, and extra principal on our mortgage Making plans is an important first step
~Save money weekly according to my printout in my planner Yes
~Do a No-Spend January BOOM, Baby! 
~Pantry Challenge in January We owned it!
~Stock Pantry with 6 months of staples We are holding off on this goal until after we purchase another large wire shelving unit and a few more 5 gallon buckets with gamma seals to hold the bounty. 

Saturday, January 30, 2021

A Well Planned Day...that didn't turn out as I expected.

 My plan for today was to get up early, get all my housekeeping tasks out of the way before noon, and then spend the afternoon hiking Dripping Springs, followed by a relaxing evening at home with Hercules and Slick.

Instead, I slept in, checked the weather and decided to hike tomorrow, skipped morning chores in favor of a delightful breakfast at The Shed with Hercules, and then I headed home while he continued to a friend’s house to help them with a project. I spent the afternoon doing chores, listening in on a Zoom conference, working on a few more chores, chatting with friends, handling a few more chores, and settling in with a late dinner of bacon-filled grilled cheese as taught to me by Dave Bechtel (Anyone heard from him in the last 20 years? I lost track of him). Somehow, I have a few chores left since I have what my friend
Laura
calls “Lifestyle-Induced ADD” which causes me to start 37 things and finish none of them. And so, I shall spend the next hour or so finishing up everything I already started, and then either read until Dan comes home, or head to bed early to catch up on some sleep I missed earlier this week.
Also, I’ll add a few pictures I took this week and haven’t shared yet.
This is exactly what cleaning is like for me. 

Beautiful Skies in NM

A little frost makes everything prettier

Happy Tummy

My Girls are laying again! 

The very last sight word is now laminated

School should be like this every day, don't you agree?






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