Thursday, January 26

No Single Should Be Without...

Welcome to a new series of blog postings!  "No Single Should Be Without..." is a fun suggestions for items that no single person should be without.  I discovered a fantastic grocery item, Ronzoni Pasta Portions.  Sometimes it seems silly to make pasta on a weeknight in by myself.  It can get a little tricky, most of the time I make more than I need for myself, and once the box is open it it takes a long time before I go back into the box.  Plus, I think we all have those times that the pasta box rips open and I end up wasting most of the box.  The joy of the Ronzoni Pasta Portions is that each box contains 3 small packages of boil in a bag pasta.  They are easy to prepare, only take 3 minutes to boil, and makes calorie counting simple (300 calories per pack).

Thursday, January 12

12 Goals for 2012






Welcome to 2012!  Thanks to my wonderful friend Danielle I have come up with 12 goals for 2012, and will update all of you on my status of these goals on the 12th of every month!
1.  WORKOUT REGULARY
I'm good with working out once I get a routine going.  But the last time I had a good routine was in the spring of 2010.  This year I want to get back into the routine.
2.  UNSUBSCRIBE
I try not to give out my email address too often, but yet I still seem to get tons of junk email that I don't want.  But instead of unsubscribing to them, more often then not I simply delete them.  So this year, I'm going to unsubscribe.
3.  TAKE A VACATION
I'm great at taking a long weekend here or there, but I almost never go on a real vacation.  Although I have already planned to use some of my vacation time to go to the shore with my family, I am determined to go on a trip this year for ME.
4.  SLEEP IN MY BED
Ha, ha... No I'm not a slut, I stay in my apartment every night.  But I can't remember the last time I actually slept in my bed.  I have a habit of falling asleep in my living room every night.
5.  STAY CLUTTER FREE
This goes along with number four.  Every time I get ready to go out, I end up trying on a bunch of outfits and instead of putting away the outfits I don't wear I toss them on my bed, and end up putting them away once a week. 
6.  VOLUNTEER MORE
I always wanted to do as much as I could to help others, but I've realized I am not doing everything that I can.  I have decided to volunteer with the CCFA (The Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America).  I have had crohn's since I was young so I'm well informed about the cause, and it is a cause that is close to my heart.  This is without question my single biggest goal for this year.  I've already done well starting with my volunteer work, I'll keep you updated as we go on throughout the year.
7.  DRINK MORE WATER
I'm a big caffeine addict, it starts with a coffee in the morning, a diet soda with lunch, and another at night.  The only water I ever seem to have is the ice from my iced coffee and soda.  I think cutting back on my caffeine will be tough, but if I can at least have more water I wouldn't feel quite as unhealthy.
8.  TAKE MY VITAMINS
I'm suppose to take vitamins everyday.  But over the last few months I've forgotten more often than not.
9.  LEARN FRENCH
Working for a French company, almost every email I receive for work is in French, and I don't know what any of it says.  It's even worse when I am on the phone with people from France, most of them know just enough English, and I don't know any French... it's pretty frustrating. 
10.  SELF TAN
Everyone that knows me knows I love self tanning lotion and spray tans.  But unless I have some type of event to prepare for I never keep up my faux tan.  But life should be enough of an event to be tan for.
11.  OPEN MY MAIL
Every night I come home from work, pick up my mail from my mail box, walk in the door, and toss my mail on my dining room table.  Then I go back once a week at the huge pile of mail and pick out the catalogs, toss them in the trash, pick out the bills and set them on my desk to be paid, anything else remaining stays sitting on my dining room table collecting dust.
12.  WEAR MORE SKIRTS & DRESSES
I love skirts and dresses.  So why don't I wear them more often?  It goes right along with number ten.  I am freakishly pale, so if my legs haven't been self tanned I don't feel comfortable in a skirt or a dress.