January 27, 2010 - Laundry

We all have it...laundry. I have a lot of clothes and I'm lucky that I don't need to do laundry every week like some families. To be completely honest, I don't actually mind laundry. In fact, I love clean clothes! However, when it comes to putting my cleans clothes away, I tend to fall short. I have stacks of clean clothes all over my bedroom and laundry room. This might not sound like a problem, but let me tell you that it is. You might be scratching your head at that. Well, I'll explain my delimma. As I've mentioned, I have a lot of clothes and I can never find them. I'm always searching for something and 9 times out of 10 I can't find it. There has to be a better way. Maybe if I had a bigger closet...

January 26, 2010 - I've Committed!

Yes, I took my new exercise clothes and put them to good use! After work, I grabbed my bag and went directly to the gym located in our office building. I decided to set mini goals for my self. My first goal was to weigh myself and set a predetermined amount of weight I want to lose in a month; 5 pounds. Yikes! It's not that I was surprised at how much I weigh, it's just seeing proof that reality set in. My second goal was to get on the treadmill for 5 minutes and call it a night. After all, I haven't raised my heart rate through exercise since my divorce in 2004. To my delight, I skipped the treadmill and found an eliptical machine and set the time for 15 minutes. Yeah for me!! Not only that... Once I was finished, I lifted weights for a while. I'm on a roll!! Let's see how I do in a month's time.

January 25, 2010 - Yolanda and Heritage Makers

I met Yolanda last Spring at a brunch and we exchanged information, but never got in touch with one another until she called me in December to ask about Heritage Makers. Since then, she has signed up and is now creating her own storybooks. She's currently in the middle of a project and asked me to help her with some of the features in Studio. Since we work about five minutes from one another, I headed over to her office directly after work. We spent a couple of hours playing around with Studio and had a great time!

January 24, 2010 - Getting Motivated!

I wouldn't go so far as to call this my New Year's Resolution, but I'm long overdue for a change. On a recent shopping trip with my girlfriend, I picked up some new exercise clothes and have every intention of putting them to good use! Now I have two options. There's a gym where I live, but I've yet to step foot on the premises and I've lived there for four years. However, there is also a gym in the building that we just moved into at work. I checked it out with my co-worker a couple of weeks ago and it's AWESOME! I have no excuse for not getting off my lazy hiney and working up a sweat. My goal is to start slowly and work my way up to a full workout by the end of February. Wish me luck!

January 23, 2010 - Olympic Training Center

I've been counting the days until Heidi and I are heading to Vancouver for the 2010 Olympics...only 23 days left. I'm so excited so when my friend Virginia suggested we head down to Colorado Springs to tour the Olympic Training Center, I couldn't wait! We arrived at the complex just in time for the next tour. Our tour had two parts, a video and tour of the facilities. We were lucky and got to see a few gymnasts practicing their pommel horse routine. It was amazing! After the tour, Virginia and I set about the grounds and had a great time taking photos. Afterwards, we did a little shopping in the Olympic Spirit Store where I bought a long sleeved t-shirt and fleece jacket. I even bought Heidi a t-shirt. All in all, it was a great experience and I'm even more excited for my trip!

January 22, 2010 - Safeway Sushi

I LOVE sushi! I've been a fan for years and would eat it every week if given the opportunity. Now when I think of sushi, grocery stores do not come to mind. However, when Safeway opened a new store in my neighborhood a year ago there was a sushi bar inside. Being one not to turn down an opportunity, I decided to give it a try. To my surprise, I fell in love with their California Roll. Now, whenever I do any grocery shopping at this particular Safeway, I buy some and eat it for the next meal whether it's breakfast, lunch or dinner. I don't know what it is about it, since it doesn't taste like anything I'd ever get in a restaurant, but there's just something in my mind that makes it absolutely delicious!

January 21, 2010 - The Dye Job

It's happened again, I've grown tired of my hair color. I was brought into this world as a brunette, but shortly thereafter, I was a strawberry blonde and then a blonde. In fact, for most of my life, even into adulthood, I've been a blonde. Since my late 20's, I began to experiment with my hair color and every now and then I become a red head or brunette for a short period. However, after dying my hair brown in 2007, I was surprised to find that I didn't have any blonde roots. I didn't know what that meant. Was I now officially a brunette? Who knows, I may never know my real hair color again. What I can tell you is that I woke up a blonde, but after two and half hours in a salon, I'm once again a brunette.