Day 54

The days seem to go by so quick. Its been like 12 days since I have written and its like where have those days gone. Probably because I have been busy. I finally put pictures up on my living room wall around my tv. Actually the frames are there but I need some new pictures for some and some still have the store pictures in them ya know the ones that are in the frames when you buy them. So some of those people on my wall I don't even know. HA HA HA.
Today I will add more to my list. I have to get to 101 things. Its a funny thing how when your not trying to think of things you want to accomplish they don't come easy but when you sit down to write out a list it doesn't seem like theres that many things I want to do.
70) Join a gym
71) Start some easter egg plants/ start african violet plants
72) Get my home mortgage modified
73) Get taxes paid up for my business
74) Fix fence around my garden
75) Build my dining room table that seats 12
Well I am up to 75 now. I am getting there.

#37)
NAPP I have received my welcome package in the mail and am so excited. I received a NAPP member card to put in my wallet, I receieved a Photoshop CS4 100 Hot Tips mag, a discount for Layers magazine, a decal for my window but I really don't do decals so it has become a great bookmark. Also a quick start guide to log in to the website, get familiar with it and go nuts. So much info. Also as a NAPP member I get discount benefits on Kelby Media Group sites as well. That includes Training Books & DVD's ~~ KelbyTraining.com for Books, DVD's, and online training. KelbyTrainingLIVE.com for live one day seminar tours and PhotoshopWorld.com for the official convention of NAPP, ~~ also Publication Discounts and theres other resources as well such as KelbyTv.com one website, five great Podcasts all about Photoshop, Lightroom and digital photography. Also ScottKelby.com daily blog and PlanetPhotoshop.com Photoshop Effects Tutorials. Click the link below to become a member. Or just to check it out you won't be disappointed.  So many benefits and so much digital photography, photoshop, layer, lightroom and more information.You also get discounts from Apple, Adobe, Mpix and a ton more, they add new ones as well. You can't go wrong in becoming a member if you are really into Photography and Photoshop.


I have also been checking on some digital cameras and the more I look the more I think I want the Nikon D90 or the Nikon D300s. So we will see, I know its not going to be the Nikon D3000 that I have on my list I am going to upgrade. But I would not be disappointed with the Nikon D3000.
#9)
I have met a very nice man and we have so much fun when we hang out. So I will wait and see where this goes.
#7)
I have been doing this faithfully. It sure is an easy way to save money. People don't realize how quick such a small amount adds up. Also if you put it in a container or bank that its difficult to get it back out also helps to save as well.
#34)
With the books I have been reading it is becoming easier and easier to be more positive. Also with working on #72 I am staying way positive to get this modification thru. It will make it alot easier to pay. As in the past where I had lost income I got behind quickly. But I am hoping when they modify it the back payments go right in the new modified loan. I am sure they will. Thats what it said they could do on there website. Also if anyone is having trouble with there mortgages they should really try to modify it and there is a program out there called Nova Debt, my counselor is Kim Smith a wonderful woman that has been helping me go thru this. Makes it alot easier when you call your mortgage company to have your counselor on a 3 way call because questions seem to get answered quickly. Nova Debt is a free company that works for YOU not the banks or mortgage companies. They do have a website on line I will link it as soon as I can find it under all my paperwork on my desk. But stay positive and hang in there because as I have been thru a long process trying to get mine modified but in the end it will be worth if to be able to keep my home and to be able to afford it comfortably. One word of advise: don't get discouraged and stay positive. Also call Nova Debt to get hooked up with a very helpful counselor.
#70)
I have a good friend that goes to a gym regularly so I emailed her to get info about it and I made a call to the gym and talked about what they have to offer and the prices so now I go down to take a tour and sign up. Woohooo.
Well there are other items on my list that I do everyday which is stay positve, make someone smile, talk to my girls more, be thankful. I also read everyday.
So hopefully someone out there is reading this and can get some use out of it and makes them start a list of 101 things to do in 1001 days.
Til next time remember: Your challenges are "gifts" that will bring you greater understanding and a deeper happiness than you can now imagine.

Day 43

Wow it's been almost 2 weeks since I have posted anything. I did get alot accomplished, least I think I did. (#12)My office looks great. These are the before pictures of what used to be one of my daughters rooms. It wasn't her choice for the wall paper. She was away at college since we moved in to our home so we never redid the walls. 

                                   

These are the after photos. I love the colors, it brightens it up a bit. My daughter has not even seen it yet. So I am sure she will be surprised of the difference just a coat of paint makes. I hope she likes it but if she doesn't then not a problem because it is my room now. Her room is upstairs now with her sisters. All 3 in one room which is a very big room and they are not all here at the same time to stay over anyway but even if they were they would have plenty of room. So I have been spending allot of time in my new office and it kinda seems weird because where it was my daughters bedroom but I am sure I will get used to it. I love it.

 I painted my (#1) living room and my (#11)dining room. What a time I had trying to get that room cleaned out. It was my youngest daughters room and she is 19 now and living with her dad but she would stay here on some weekends. So everytime she was here I would ask her to clean it out so I could paint it and turn it into a dining room. She is very lazy as well as her girlfriend that would come stay here with her. All they knew how to do was eat, sleep, be on the computer and make a mess and leave. So after about the 3rd time of asking I took it upon myself to do it. YUK BLAAA. Kids even adult kids can be very messy. But I finally got it done after a week and a half. Now it is all painted and when the weather warms up I will build my dining room table. Woooohooo looking forward to that. It will seat 12, will be great for family dinners.

I have also taken some pictures. I love it. There is a pond on my way to work that has some cattails, well they look like cattails but I don't think they are. I have been wanting to stop and take some pictures of them and there is also which looks like a lonely small tree out in the center of the pond. It looks like a scared lonely tree. I took pictures of that also.

(#42 & 49)I have been being more aware of what I have been eating and when I go shopping I get alot of fresh veggies and fruit now. Lots of salmon and shrimp and been getting Jennie O's turkey burgers. They are delicious grilled with a slice of fresh grilled pineapple, mushrooms and a piece of swiis cheese with sweet baby rays bbq sauce on the whole grain flat round bread. YUMMMO! Anyway I have lost 2 pounds wooohoo. I have also been walking more. My daughter gave me a pedometer so I have that finally figured out. It is hell trying to set one of those things.

I also went on a day trip to Mohegan Sun and gambled alittle. I won $175.00 played $20.00 lost it so came back with winnings of $155.00 SWEEEEEEEEET! We had a great day. Spent alot of time walking around taking pictures of everything. Spent some time in Jimmy Buffets Margaritaville. Had a frozen raspberry margarita, waitress said it was a 24 oz'er but it was only 20 I measured when I got home. We got to keep the cool glass. I also collect shot glasses so I got one from Margaritaville and one that says Mohegan Sun on it and got my 2 oldest daughters each one from margaritaville. We took the bus down which cost $28 but they give us a $10 gambling voucher and a free buffet which is a $15 value. It was fun, we played bingo on the bus ride down and did another game on the ride back then watched a dvd. It was about a 15 hour day.

(#43) Since I started my list I have read, "The Four Agreements", "Inspiration your ultimate calling" and have started reading "Infinite Possibilites". They are all very good, very inspirational and all common sense stuff. Makes ya feel good about everything after reading them. As well as the book "The Secret" did. I also have that DVD and watch it over and over again.

(#57) I went to the movies on Valentines Day and saw "Valentines Day" well actually it saw me because I am not very good at going to the movies I tend to fall asleep allot. But from what I did see of it it looked pretty good. I will watch it again completely when it comes out on dvd. I also watched "The Box" with Cameron Diaz that was a good movie a bit weird. I watched "The Time Travelers Wife" very good movie. I am looking forward to watching The Blindside with Sandra Bullock, it comes out on dvd next month so I will def get that.

(#68) I believe in this~forgive and forget. But there isn't anything or anyone in my life right now that I have to forgive for anything. Life is going good and I am pretty easy to get along with and seems like I am well liked and I tend to mind my own business so I don't think I have any enemies or anybody to forgive for anything. Its nice, in the past things happened but all is forgiven and well maybe not forgotten but forgiven..Maybe you really don't forget but I can act like it never happened because it is forgiven. I can leave it in the past.

I have also became a proud member of NAPP, National Association for Photoshop Professionals. So mush to learn, so many tutorials and an abundance of information of digital photography and Photoshop. Tips and techniques tons. I will add a link soon. So many members discounts and Photoshop magazine which you can only get if your a member.

Well all for today, going to go sit in a bubble bath and read for awhile and have a tea.

So til next post get up, get motivated, get things accomplished, feel good about YOU!

Day 30

WOOOOOHOOOO #12 is complete. I love it, my office is done. It is manly because of the colors but I love it. It is corsair blue walls with golden apricot trim and red ginseng outlet covers and rug and golden and ginseng and brown striped curtains. Who makes up the names for these colors its crazy. I will be adding some before and after pictures soon. On wednesday, my day off I was moving alot of small things plus the file cabinet in my office. Wednesday night my friend Steve came over and helped me move my desk down from upstairs. What a time that was, it is a very big desk and we well he had to take it all apart to fit it in. Then we had to move the bookcase on the top of it also. But it looks great. I put pictures on the walls and bought a rug and new curtains, it looks great.  Now I am still looking to get a wall sized map of the world to put up. I spent alot of thursday afternoon in there going thru my file drawers and throwing  alot of papers out, darn I had papers from 2004. Yikes. Tossed alot. Felt good to clean it out. I also bought some storage boxes in three different sizes and am organizing my sewing stuff and candy making stuff, and other things that should be organized. Done woohooo!
Thursday night I spent time talking to my little neice, she is so cute. I miss your face she tells me..I love it. I miss her face to. We really don't see each other alot so its nice to talk even if its on facebook. I text her some today. Seems like facebook is a good way to keep in touch with family and friends if you can't hang with them in person. But I would prefer hanging in person. My youngest daughter is going to move back home with me for awhile. That will be nice spending more time with her. I like it.
Well I started #1 on list today. I painted 3 of my living room walls, now I can have my big tv brought back home and put up on my wall. Woohoooo. I am painting it the red ginseng, looks very nice. The trim is sierra biege I think or something like that. I can't get used to these strange names for the colors. My office is right off my living room so I am basicly using the same colors just switching trim to wall paint and accents. I put my pictures back up on one wall today because it was dry before I went to work. Looks very nice. I will work on getting new furniture at a later time. Now I am trying to paint everything inside before warm weather comes.

Day 26

WOW WOW WOW #12 on my list is just about complete. I got everything moved out of that room and painted the walls and trim and now in the next 2 days I will be moving my desk and file cabinet and other office stuff in it. Wooohooo. I am so siked, it came together fast. I like that. After that is all set up I am going to paint my living room so I can put my big tv back up on my living room wall. Then its on to my other daughters room to make it into a dining room. I love getting things accomplished. I am almost done taking my medicine and am feeling about 99% better. Woohoo love it. I want to get my inside house stuff done thats on my list before the nice weather comes because then I will want to be outside doing stuff on my list.
I have also been reading more on photography and I have entered a photo contest thru my local newspaper. Not sure when the winner is announced, not even sure what the winner gets. But I did have my daughter and sister get ahold of me to let me know they seen my picture on the newspapers frontpage of there website. When we had our first snow I went out on my roof in my pj's and flip flops and made a snow angel and that is one of the pictures I entered and thats the one that made the homepage of the newspaper. Pretty cool.
I also spent some time with my daughter from college. She called me because she was sick so I went over to her college and took her to the doctor. It was nice spending time with her even though it was at the doctors. Then my oldest daughter called me and she was sick as well. Its nice to know they still need me when they are sick even though they moved away. I like it when they call me. I also spent a few hours saturday night with my youngest daughter that was nice also. At 4:53a.m. this morning my phone rings and its my oldest daughter telling me she is to sick to go to work and asked if I would go in for her. I usually don't go in to work until 3 in the afternoon but its was 6:15 this morning for a 14 hour day. But I really didn't mind it because I got to see all the customers that I haven't seen in a long time. Lots of laughs at work today it was a good day. Long but good.
Well I hope everyone out there that has made a list of 101 in 1001 are getting things completed on it.
So until next post, dance like noone is watching and sing like noone is listening.

Day 22

Aloha Friends

Oh my, yesterday was such a busy day. I can't believe how much I accomplished. #12 is half done well maybe 1/3 done. I emptied my daughter Danielle's room right out. Moved all her stuff upstairs and set it all up in the guest room. The guest room looks really good to. Nice with two double beds, night stands for each bed and an Armour, stereo, TV and other things and the best part is, its such a big room that it doesn't look crowded with all the stuff in it. So now to prep the downstairs room/my office to get ready to paint. #45) My youngest daughter Deasha and her friend Autumn came over last night and hung out. They slept over and was going to help me get more stuff done but it is 9:54a.m. and they are still in bed so I am not counting on them for much help. Deasha can go through and clean out her room which I am going to make into a dining room. Which it really is a dining room. It is a good size room right off the kitchen but we made it into her room when we moved in so all my girls could have there own rooms. But now they are all moved on I am making them into rooms that I want. I am going to paint my dining room and put a dining room table in that seats 12, with a hutch and a couple plants. It will be great for when all the kids come back for Christmas and Thanksgiving and hopefully a once a month dinner.
Well two cups of coffee and breakfast is done, took my meds (I am feeling better, cough still lingering), I got my Ellen fix and now its time to get up and get motivated. So I hope someone out there has decided to do 101 things in 1001 days list. Hope to hear about it. Good Luck!
Always Do Your Best!