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What most excites you about the way you're living your life right now?

I'm setting myself up for a future of wonderful things. We work hard now so that in the future everything can be simple and clear. We have set goals and a clear vision of what we want and where we're going.

Wow. Days when Nathan doesn't take a nap are so hectic. An hour after I laid him down I went to put some laundry in my bedroom and there he was...playing with toys. I changed his diaper, he's refusing to use the potty today with all his almost three authority, and told him to go back to bed. An hour later he was still playing.

My lia sophia manager came over today to meet me. She had a party in my town this afternoon I was hoping to shadow her at but I couldn't find a sitter. She came over after the party and we discussed what I was hoping to get out of the business, how to achieve that, and so on. She's making over six figures a year and she's my age selling jewelry. I want to soak up everything from her that I can. She got me really pumped and excited all over again.

My mother in law called me to inform me that today is Missie's brithday and we were welcome to come over for dinner. Missie is their dog who was born two weeks before Nathan. I wasn't so excited about going to a dog birthday party but dinner is always nice. :) We didn't really celebrate the birthday anyways. Nathan was happy to get out of the house but by the end of the visit was showing just how tired his napless self was. He was freaking out over everything and very bossy.

We came home and now he's out. I don't really have much I have to do tonight so that's awesome to have some relaxing time to myself.

I feel like I'm 10 again.

My friend and day care provider had her nails done. They looked amazing. I asked where she got them done since I don't really have a favorite salon in town and she replied she had done them herself with press-ons. I wasn't even sure they still made those! The last ones I had used came with cut stickers...perhaps even Barbie ones. Yes, it had been a while. However, they looked just as good on her as ones that come with a $30 price tag and someone staring at you for an hour. I decided I could spend the $5 and have some fun.

Well, just like when I was 10 I ended up glueing my fingers together a few times and one is pretty crooked but besides those mishaps I like these just as well as if I had spent the hour in the nail salon. I'm pretty stoked!

It's very windy here in Minnesota today. I went to Target with Nathan who I knew was going to get bored in the house pretty fast. We got him some dinosaur figures and play-dough. So far so good. I've even been given the honor of playing with a color or two. Hopefully this will take us to nap time and we'll figure out the rest later.

I haven’t written in a few days because I’m a little overwhelmed to really know what to write about. Work, home, family, new business, church…all of it is moving at 90 miles an hour and I’m going just as fast with it to keep up. Not that I really mind all the action. I seem to do much better in a high stress environment than in a normal one, the bad part is when things calm down. This is when I find out how exhausted I am and completely fall apart. Hopefully me knowing that about myself this time will help and I can be proactive.

I can’t sleep these days. I physically am so exhausted when I get home from work I don’t want to move; everything hurts. That’s because of the weather. The fibromyalgia has been kicking my butt and being so busy I haven’t let my body catch up. This could get scary because once it does I tend to pass out a lot. It’s like having a battery installed. It needs to recharge or I just quit working. I don’t plan on doing much tomorrow besides cleaning the house and playing with Nathan. Hopefully, that will allow some relaxing time.

The lia sohia stuff is very exciting but also overwhelming. If I had thought this through I would have waited a month. See, Mike is going to boat shows and I’m still going to North Carolina for training once a month. Now I’ve added in a home business. Talk about over doing it. I should have waited but now I have no choice. Once I qualify as an advisor I’m going to take it down a notch and regroup. I'm almost tempted to stop teaching Sunday school just to get something off my plate. I like doing it though and it keeps me connected to church. It's not something I should stop. 

I sometimes forget I have limitations and I tend to really overdo things about once a year. I like being busy and on overdrive. It’s almost a high from being so overwhelmed but I cannot physically handle the stress. It just almost kills me. One day I’ll learn and it won’t be too late before I go “oh yeah, crap!”

Thanks Angie...:)

Here are the rules:

1- Each player starts with 8 random facts/habits about themselves.

2- People who are tagged, write a blog post about their own 8 random things, and post the rules.

3- At the end of your post you need to tag 8 people and include their names.

4- Don't forget to leave them a comment on their blog and tell them they've been tagged, and to come back and read your blog for the whole story.

1. I once placed 2nd in a POG Championship. I was the last girl standing against a large boy (we were maybe 10 and he looked at least 16) who looked like he would eat me if I won. I'm glad he won. It wasn't that important to me.

2. I've been in love plenty of times as I fall in love easily but I really didn't want to fall in love with my husband right away because I knew it would be the last time I'd need too.

3. My job requires me to be organized and get rid of process waste. My house does not reflect that.

4. I just started selling lia sophia jewelry. My hopes is to pay of bills, get us debt free, and then start saving for Nathan's college fund.

5. I was voted best female vocalist of my senior class. I'm still amazed that I didn't go into singing, even for fun. I miss it.

6. I've delt with being overweight my enitre life. Just to have one day of not obsessing over it would be the best day ever. 

7. I'm good at forgiving people but there is one person I will never forgive. I'm worried about going to hell for it. Hopefully before that time comes I'll learn how too. 

8. I hate [the meal ] liver so much I can't even stand being in the same room as it. 

I tag Kristin, Sheri and anyone else who hasn't done this yet.

Woot!

I had my first lia sophia party tonight. It was my starter show so though I didn't make the commission I got the free jewelry! $366.00 FREE JEWELRY! I also got 4 additional items for $60 bucks. Awesomeness. I got 5 people to book a party of this party so that's going to be where I can finally make some commission. WOOT!

I'm so happy that it went well. I have spent weeks worrying about this night and it went pretty smooth. 5 BOOKINGS! I feel like I'm high from all the energy!

I can't wait till my first party on my own. It's going to be so much fun!

Cheers! And here's to a hopefully budding side business to help with the bills!

What are your neighbors like? (The ones you live near or next to, not the ones in your Vox neighborhood!)

On our right is a woman who lives alone. She's very nice most of the time unless you let her snide remarks about how long it takes us to clean up our yards get to you. She's a gardener and it kills her that we've let the backyard fall apart. We're working on it but we're novice at this stuff.

On our left is where the trouble is. We're going to put up a privacy fence in their honor. Husband and wife live in the main house while her son and girlfriend (they're almost in their 30s) live in their backyard (which is by no means large enough to house an additional family)...in a trailer. Now that I've painted that pretty picture for you imagine them drunk and up all night most nights of the week during the Spring and Summer. I was very excited for Spring to be here...and then I remembered them. We all hibernate in the Winter but I could still hear their cat calls at 2 a.m most nights coming home from the bars. Their bottles and cans end up in our backyard. Hopefully that won't happen with a six foot wall between us.

Across the street are an adorible old man and his wife. They're sweet and very nice. He's very ill but still takes a walk every day and tries to do most of the outside work. They're the matriarchs of the block. In the winter everyone goes over and helps shovel their walk and drive way. It's really cool to see people come together like that.

We're looking at moving. Mainly becasue of the family on our left but also because behind their house is a bar. This is the bar they go to every night but also the neighborhood crack bar. You know, the ones only locals dare to go into and not even many of them because they know how bad it is? It gets worse and worse and it's just not worth having Nathan live so close too. Hopefully in a year or so we'll be able to get this house together and ready to move out. :) 

Failure is inevitable... Show us some failure.
Submitted by Connie.

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Now, after calling this man a failure I do have to admit that I own his "greatest hits" CD. Didn't he only have one hit? Oh well, it was $5 and worth throwing on at every party :) 

Have you ever experienced road rage?
Submitted by Question of the Day.

I used to live in California. For about a year or so I would commute from Riverside to San Diego. This would result in about three to five fits of rage a day from someone who either cut me off, rode my butt, or went very very slow in the fast lane.

Now I live in Small Town, Minnesota. I probably get "road rage" once a month...maybe less. It's a lot less stressful out here and honestly, I'm not sure I could handle the stress of the 91 Freeway anymore.

In such a small house you'd think it wouldn't take this much time to clean. This is why I came home early today. I wanted to finish it up. See, what I cleaned during the week is already dirty again. Of course, this is what happens. However, I wish for once it wouldn't have.

Egads!

I found framed pictures in the back closet that we had taken down with Steph (my sister) came for a visit last October. We removed them so she could have a place to put her clothes. Which she ended up just living out of her suitcase the whole time...but...whatever. I FINALLY got everything back out and realized something. My bookshelf was a shrine to my best friend and I...oops. I guess I haven't really framed anything since I moved to Minnesota besides wedding and a few baby pictures. Ha! I did some rearranging but it still sorta looks funny. Oh well, I do love my best friend after all. It did put me in a really good mood to see all my old pictures and nick nacks. It feels more like home again.

More later. Back to cleaning.