Thursday again...

Not that it's a bad thing.


I am looking forward to tomorrow and this weekend because it is... wait for it.... wait for it...


SUPERBOWL WEEKEND! 


and seriously, if my beloved hawks were not playing, I wouldn't probably say that with such enthusiasm.  But... I have always... since I was 13 or so, always watched the game. Yes, sometimes if I have not cared about who's playing I have been known to just watch the commercials.


But this one and the last one are very big for us... the 12's... the fans... Seattle.


Scandal whirls around the other team... QB of which, I can't stand. I'm sure that perhaps he might be an okay guy but given the fact that the story is... he dumped his heavily pregnant girlfriend right when she needed him and left her for someone else, well... that's kind of the personal sort of thing that I can't forgive anyone for.( UPDATE... Research into the situation shows that they broke up before she was heavily pregnant. However. it is still unforgiveable... she was definitely pregnant when they broke up so yeah, still a jerk...)  sorta ranks him right up there on the lack of respect I have for a former Mariner who lied to us all season long and then left for a ridiculous amount of money that drove that next team into bankruptcy only to leave them and then go and do something stupid like drugs to enhance his performance and cheat on his wife and be all sorts of bad news that it was such a nice season last year without having him pop up.  One might wonder if he'll actually play again. I mean, he was suspended for a season, does anyone have to let him back on the field?


Honest? If they do... if he plays another game anywhere but especially with his current team...?  Pete Rose should be allowed to be in the hall of fame. Not as a manager... as a player. Before the betting and scandal... when he was amazing.


Back to the football... :)


Tailgate at work tomorrow, finished the taco meat... I've been taking stuff in for the last two weeks so that I wouldn't have to take it tomorrow. so now that the meat is finished I'm checking the list off as complete.


Sleep would be nice.  They've started a freeway project that ... oh joy... wait for it... is right at my exit that I can see and hear from my apartment down to the next one. They're grinding the surface and doing a huge project over the next like 5 months. So ... if they are grinding on 2 lanes of the SB freeway right now and I can hear it when I'm trying to sleep ... how loud is it going to be when they're working on the NB lanes? and oh please oh please, let it be quiet every once in a while. I won't always want to or be able to sleep on my couch where the 'normal' noises of my front rooms are at least familiar enough for me to ignore while I fall asleep. I was just happy sleeping in my bed for once.


I might become a weekend sleeper and then stay up all the time... nap after work and stay up watching my shows at night.  LOL  might be able to do it if I go to bed when treenie does... lol


finally though... tomorrow's Friday and I cannot wait for it to be over.


I do miss my new closest friend...(clarification... I love my close friends. By designating this one as new and closest, I mean newer as in we are spending more time together and closest as she is the one who lives close enough to me that we can see each other in less than half an hour.. my other besties are an hour away and 16 hours or $400 plane ticket away. :) ) they've run off to Arizona for the big game and I won't see her until next Friday probably... Crossing my fingers for a great game on Sunday... might have big stuff to blog about next week.


#notime2sleep #champsareheretokickbutt #GoHAWKS

Yup... still too excited about Football to blog properly...

SUPERBOWL BOUND BABY!   Let's do this one more time! ... in a row... :)


It's always so fun to see Seattle completely decked out in shades of blue and green to support the Seahawks. It's a rare thing to find someone that can't be happy about the attention, respect and well deserved rewards this team is getting.


They did earn this right to this game.


and to quote one of my favorite Russell Wilson American Family commercials...


DREAMS DON'T COME TRUE... DREAMS ARE MADE TRUE! GO OUT THERE AND GET YOUR DREAM...


again.


reporting from cloud 12... floating somewhere around the space needle...  :)

so... maybe I'm not meant to be a deep thought person...

Or perhaps it comes and goes and I won't truly have some amazing deep thoughts to work out in my blog all the time.


Guess I need to go for a drive.


Guess I need to take a recorder with me because all the great thoughts come while cruising down the freeway at 60 something an hour and you can't exactly type up your thoughts or write them down because you're not supposed to multi task like that on the freeway.


So I'll go with who I am.


So far, no, have not managed to blog something every day. I guess I'm not feeling moved enough to do that. I mean, come on. I waxed poetic about blueberries in an attempt to find something to say. It's sometimes difficult because I know I don't do much to put my blogs out there and the feeling that hardly anyone is reading me is almost practically confirmed.


and it's hard to blog without pictures but until I can figure out why BlogSpot won't let me upload pictures off my computer to my blog, well... it's going to have to wait.  I'm doing most excellently to remain committed to posting a blog post on Thursdays.


It's still been too easy to say: oh, it's too dark or it's raining or it's cold and I don't feel like walking.  so... I need to make sure to double up on weekends or not flake out on how long of a walk I take on those days when I do take my walks.


So far so good my weight has fluctuated within a half pound since the beginning of the year. Which means... that the soda limit has been paying off. I even managed to not drink it at work one day, didn't take it home and never got one from anywhere else so skipping them has not felt like I'm withholding something from myself.


And also, so far so good on my financial planning for the year. tough spots will come up I am sure... but I'm so determined to figure this out because there's no reason at my age... lol... that I can't manage to maintain a savings account balance.  I've decided that at the end of the year if I have managed to be successful in keeping both savings accounts intact, I will make plans to spend one of them - I'm hoping for a new couch... but will settle for a large credit card payment to SOMETHING if necessary. Then the other account will be used as a start for next year's savings so that at the end of that year, I could have enough of my own money to put into a CD. 


I'll tell you this... my new favorite snack at night is Dole's Dippers. they are frozen banana slices and strawberry halves that have been dipped into dark chocolate. the size of the snack has been satisfying and the frozen aspect means that I haven't been scarfing down ice cream because this is cold and yummy and the dark chocolate makes it totally worth it. 100 calories a package... perfect.


Let's see... wrapping up... football mania is still running rampant through Seattle. The Seahawks play for the NFC championship and the chance to go fight for another Superbowl victory this weekend. There is a pepperoni pull apart bread in my oven right now to take to work for tomorrow because it feels like bad karma to not tailgate in some way... and that means food. you have to have food.  It's also a test run, because I will make another one for Sunday's game to take with me to my friends house to share.


Crossing my fingers that means more cuddle time with her new nephew... he's the sweetest little thing I've held in a few years... (right after her daughter lol) anyway!


#GoHawks

It's Thursday... And it's Playoff time in Seattle!

Yes, yes it is.


Finally time for us to go out and take the field on Saturday and begin our post season.


sometimes it's hard to wait for a few weeks.


But it's always interesting to see how 'blue' Seattle gets. Its remarkable really. You see people day in and day out wearing their green and blue anything really that says Seahawks right now. they don't care, tis time to wear it!


I bet that some of these people do not do this all the time and yet on the other side of the room is the group that does it year round.  :)


No matter what happens, I'm proud of my team.


Such a good group of guys, on and off the field.


I'M TOO EXCITED TO DO A DEEP THOUGHT BLOG...


So we'll just say I blogged and shhh!  :)


I am also tired, I have not gotten a lot of sleep the last two nights so I am simply looking forward to surviving tomorrow.


#gohawks  #notime2sleep #russellwilsonisDANGERruss  #didisaygohawks

Well that was fun...

Nothing says fun times like spilling a good 1/2 C of a coffee drink all over yourself and your keyboard.


I think the netbook will be okay but time will tell. so far so good, does not appear to be a problem.


the futon will recover.


my pj's will be washed...


but the throw pillow might be done for.


Oh well, it was old anyway and had long been missing it's partner in pillowness.


oooh, new blue pillows coming up. hmm, light or dark... what sort should I get. :)


I'll tell you what I won't get... big down pillows like the yellow ones.


I have feathers all over the place and they are not that comfy of a pillow to cuddle with because you get stuck with the sharp points of the feathers all the time.

Just sayin...

Blueberries.


Love them so much.


I made a smoothie today about 1 1/2 cups frozen blueberries and a cup of OJ and sparkling grapefruit water.


YUMMY!


Lots of fiber, a gorgeous dark purple color...


Yeah... unfortunately I'm out of blueberries, I think. I may need to resort to buying them. LOL


Love love love blueberries.


that's all.

Learning to be a Let It Go girl...

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! 


Here it is, 2015 already and time again for us all to see the year as a blank slate and go out there and make it a great year... make some goals and be determined to stick to them and see it through... push yourself out of the box and reinvent yourself.  You know... the sort of things that start off well and last maybe 6 to 8 months if you're lucky?


That's sort of what has happened for me the last few years and I think that, as I am now 24 days into my 40's, (shudder... somehow that seems a tad bit terrifying as I don't feel 40 and I don't think I act 40 and well.. somehow I thought that I'd never be 40? Not in some strange, I saw that I died young or had some death wish sort of thing, just that if I look at things now and look back 15 years or so, I just never thought that I'd be HERE... "here" ... this particular life so to speak at 40.)


Which most likely means that I am supposed to be changing things and doing something different.  Something.  Anything... I guess I'll figure it out.


Anyway...


This year, I have decided that I need theme songs... just a couple songs at least to start off the year to remind me of what sort of things I'd like to keep in mind, do, become, strive to be... etc etc etc.  These theme songs may be discussed at length a time or two in this blog. I had been trying to think of and find a devotional book to follow this year and I'm not ruling that out. There are a few books on my kindle that could certainly fit that void. But to start with, I think that ... if I can truly remember all the things that popped in my mind to do with this blog while I was driving... this could really work out.


First theme song is: What do I know of Holy by Addison Road. ... blogger isn't liking me to add things so just go to youtube and look it up. I think there's a lyric video :) This song for the last few years has already been a place where I go when nothing makes sense. When I need the reminder that I am somewhat just a small piece of the bigger picture and I may not know much at all. :) Deep discussions will follow eventually. lol


Second theme song, goes with the title of this post and is an anticipated year long project for me... is... Let it Go. Yes, I know, I may never be an ice queen like Elsa ... but I'd be happy to be as optimistic and good natured as Olaf. Again - Youtube... look up Let it Go by Pentatonix. This version is amazing and is the one I was listening to when I got my ideas.


Future posts again... because this post is getting super long. :)  But the idea is, the past is in the past... it's hard to live up to expectations and sometimes, you just gotta let things go.  I have a hard time letting go. Not just things about other people but about myself, I can easily beat myself up for ages about things and that's just not good. So, I was thinking that the combination of my theme songs, as I work through them and go through the year, should make me a pretty good person who can find it easy to be reminded of God's goodness and holiness and that I can and should 'let it go'... if it's something I have a hard time letting go of, then absolutely, that's a reason to give it to God instead. 


2015 Resolutions:


1. Blogging.  One weekly deep thought, inspirational blog post, today's Thursdays so Thursday it is. I'm going to try to find something to blog about daily but my guarantee is Thursdays here. I do have 2 more blogs so maybe there will be run by blogging on those the rest of the time if I can.


2. Organization. Treena's visit last month started me on a good organizational path but I've been realizing that ... as I've always known... I'm a pack rat and that doesn't totally fit with the 'Let It Go' philosophy so... *wrinkles nose and bites lip*  I'm gonna try to let more stuff go this year. Wardrobe: if I don't wear it in 6 months and it is seasonally appropriate to have worn it... buh bye... Other stuff... will need to take a deep sigh and truly evaluate if I need it... can't live without it... or if it should go somewhere else. (working my way through my wardrobe should mean I'm not buying a lot of new things this year....)


3. Financial Planning.  Savings plan 1001, 2015 version: $100 a month saved. $50 into each savings account. I think part of my struggle in the savings ideas over the past 2 years is that I was trying to save everything all in one account. we're talking $25 a paycheck on each account. There's already a $25 automatic transfer on each one so I only need to transfer the other ones. And then I'm not touching them.  Vacation $$ will be budgeted for and taken out of debit account unless there is a reason to do credit card.  Credit cards: closing an account this month which will remove a payment. :)


4. Health:  I am going to be trying to lose weight. I'd like to lose 4 to 5 pounds a month. Part of the attempt to do this will be walking 3 to 5 times a week for 30 to 45 minutes each time. Also- soda is limited to 1 a day... no carry overs and no doubling up if I didn't have one the day before.


And... finally...


5. Taking and making the time for the stuff that matters.  :) 'nuff said.