Meme Throwback

Just a throwback to an old Meme. Thought it would be fun to see my answers from 2009

Tag Your it

I was tagged by H-Mama for this tag in 2009 but instagram has since ate her blog.

A little history lesson on the meme: So here goes memememeeee, ahem: I forget what Linda said meme meant, hold on a second, o.k. I'm back it means: Memes are conduits of sameness. That is, they're thematic in nature. We're answering the same questions that have no right or wrong answers! The same! La meme! Go check out this link to see the whole explanation Viva La Meme (Linda no longer blogs )

8 things I am looking forward to...

Summer Vacation (I more look forward to Spring now cause Summer is hella hot down here!!)

The Beach (Always love the ocean)

Swimming (Definitely especially when it is too hot to do anything else)

Finishing my 30x5 having lost a few pounds so I look somewhat decent in my bathing suit for all the summer fun (I will have to look into what that was maybe I should start doing that again.)

Starting on my scrapbooks when school is over with all the art work and papers from this year--I have to start at Pre-k though so this will be a task. (I um yeah not sure I completed those. )

Family time outside grilling and swimming. (Yep still love it!)

Spending time with friends I have not gotten to see during the school year. (Since Bub is in college/virtual high school I get to do this during the week now! Woot Woot)

Did I mention Summer Vacation:) (I was in PFA/volunteered all the time so it was busy busy 24/7 so summer was my break too!)

8 things I did yesterday...

Tried to convince Bub it would be a fun day at school, to which he was not buying anything I was saying (LOL this happened all the time until he went full time virtual in high school. Now he likes school much more but still isn’t the biggest fan.)

Set up for the honor roll cookout (Honestly I miss those days. They were hard work but us PFA ladies had a good time serving the kids.)

Served honor roll lunch (See above )

Ate lunch (And you know I still do this LOL)

Helped take down honor roll cookout (See above )

Checked Bub out and took him to the Dentist (We just did that in December but no checking out we just went.)

Chick-Fil-A (dinner) and Grocery (Mmmm Chick-Fil-A..although I do have a bone to pick with them for getting rid of my chicken salad sandwich What The French Chick-Fil-A and ya’ll know I hate the money stealer!!)

Checked my blog, facebook, tried the whole twitter thing again--I don't get it?? (And I still don’t get twitter? Why do I want to answer someone's tweet and have the whole world read it??)

8 things I wish I could do...

Sing, I think that is such an awesome gift to have (Yep still wish this!)

Get a new camera so I can take better photos (Got a DSLR finally several years ago and now I want a new one. LOL)

Make Hubby's life less stressful (Yeah still working on that !)

Not be so stressed myself (And still working on this as well!)

Go on another vacay to the Caribbean (We did this several times but I am not sure if this was before or after this meme? I do still want to take Bub on a trip like this cause he did not get to go on the others)

Organize my guest bedroom closet.. Just can't find the motivation (Done…and now it needs to be organized again ughhh)

Keep my son young a little longer, He is growing up so fast. (Um that didn’t work sigh…)

Protect all the children and animals from the harsh world we live in, but I can pray for them and God will protect them for me. (Still wish this and this world has gotten much worse…why can’t people just be nice for goodness sake!!!)

8 shows I watch...

One Life To Live (cancelled )

General Hospital (Still watch it)

Jon & Kate +8 (yeah not sure why I was watching that train wreck?)

LOST (Miss this show so much)

Grey's Anatomy (Quit watching when most of my fave characters got killed off or left)

Food Network, any and all shows (Still watch it)

HGTV, any and all shows (Still watch it)

E, it is addictive, I usually only watch E News to see what crazy stuff the celebrities are getting into these days:) (Never watch this again why was I watching this train wreck??)

So that’s it. If you want to do this meme I officially tag you!!

**dog pic was originally from www.doggoneit.info can’t seem to find it there now**

Living Without Fear

“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

I have a hard time with this concept most days. I have always had a bit of anxiety but after my son was born it tripled. I was scared of everything and was worried/fearful something would happen to him. I mean let’s be honest in this bat world we live in I still am but I handle it a bit better now. I still get anxiety when we are doing something on the fly because I feel unprepared but even if it is something we planned I also get no sleep the night before worrying about everything that can go wrong but instead of just cancelling plans or saying “Ya’ll go I will stay here.” I breathe through it and go cause I don’t want to miss the moments that I know I will cherish forever.

One day in the near future my precious boy (i.e. manchild) will venture out on his own and I won’t get to see him everyday so when there is a chance to spend a day with him soaking up our surroundings and listening to his crazy funny ideas and stories I don’t care how anxious it makes me I don’t hesitate to take the journey.

So this year he wants to do more adventures in the wilderness around our state and maybe even venturing into other states and that is what we are gonna do.

So get out and get some fresh air and have some unforgettable moments!

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” ~Helen Keller

Getting Out Of The Funk

“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.”

~Norman Vincent Peale

I have been in that in between stage of everything is magical to ugh boring cold January and quite honestly it made me not want to do anything!! But I took two weeks off to just chill and I feel much better.

Instead of project 365 which I did last year I did not post everything on my blogs but I did do it I am going to do a 52 week project which seems more manageable. But of course I am already two weeks behind so this week will be my catch up week. #latetothegameperusual

I am also participating in two groups with Emma Davies A Year With My Camera. Since I got my very first camera as a little girl I am not a newbie with photography nor am I a newbie with my DSLR but I still feel like sometimes I don’t quite grasp concepts or am not fast enough figuring things out in manual mode so I am going bare bones to refresh my knowledge and doing her weekly courses which are perfect cause it’s just one lesson a week and with my awful time management skills maybe I can keep up. LOL

I still will post family, shopping, makeup etc on the blog but I am going to concentrate a lot of my blog this year on photography as well. It is the photography memes I was drawn to when I first started blogging back in 2009 I am ancient. There were so many like Best Shot from Lolli over at Life Is Sweet which is now Food Fun Family and Blogography from Beth at Manic Mother and of course Melinda’s Flashback Friday which is where I got that name for my Friday posts from Bloggin’ It From The Burbs. They either don’t blog anymore, don’t do the memes anymore or Instagram ate their blog! I must say though I miss the old blog days where it wasn’t about advertisements clogging up your page and everyone trying to make money off your blog but having fun and having a community to share things with and to be quite honest I kinda miss a good old fashioned meme don’t you…. Anywho I might also try to start doing Mama Kat’s Writers Workshops again which I used to enjoy as well. 

Okay that was a novel!!Are you still here??

I might be getting a little ahead of myself and am probably setting myself up for failure but I am gonna give it the old college try…that is the right term???

I hope you are all is there anyone even reading this having a great start to the new year! Have you made any resolutions or just any goals you want to accomplish this year?