New Year Is Coming!

I must exercise daily, stop eating out, learn spanish, clean more, save more money, get organized, be a better employee, stay in better touch with friends and family, meet more people, and somehow learn to love Yakima. These are my post vacation goals that will also work for the New Year. So far I have been pretty successful exercising daily and not eating out. I am at about the 4 week point which is how long it takes to change behavior (if you cared). The last week hasn't been great but we only had 3 days of work - I am blaming holidays and Tylenol PM. I have saved more since I haven't been eating out and I audited my accounts and cancelled a bunch of strange charges (gotta love the internet) and I have finally - I think got my student loans corrected. Yes, they can add close to 30000 dollars to your loans and then once they take it off they don't drop the monthly amount you pay until you call and ask them too. Go figure. I am a pretty good employee. I could be more on time, but I make up for it on the lunch hour. Plus, when you get denied the car pool...what do you do?? Organized and cleaning I may just give up on, but we did clean out our extra bed room and make an exercise room. Maybe on New Years Day I will get rid of 200 things. It is harder in winter - in summer we just pile our junk up and put a FREE sign on it and away it goes. I love Yakima for that.Do you know it is almost impossible to learn Spanish in Yakima? I do not love Yakima for that. If anyone has any tips please, please, please send them my way. Surprisingly the blog does help stay in better touch with friends and family. I love checking everyone's blog. Right now I am following Nate, Sue, and Harper through Germany and loving it! Happy New Year all! I hope that it is the happiest and healthiest year yet!

Before and After

We finally painted the midnight blue accent walls that we have hated for the last 8 months. It was an all day affair. I hate painting! But it is over and we are happy with the results. It brightens up the room a lot. Now we can start the New Year with a bright living room and we will have to hang all of our pictures that have been hiding in the closet. We still aren't feng shui, but that is part of our future decluttering in the New Year.

Silent Saturday - Snowshoeing PCT

Merry Christmas -Favorite Pictures

Damon is on a Diet

Damon is doing Nutrisystem and has officially lost 12.6 pounds since we got back from Mexico. Look at him melt away. He wants to race his bike, so he has to lose 30 pounds in 3 months! He is doing awesome.

Mullets

I am getting very excited to come home for the holidays, so I started looking for pictures of the family and friends I am excited to see. In the first picture I found of Heather and Micah, Heather has a mullet. So then I just started looking for pictures of mullets. Tony was easy, since I have a whole role of his mullet. Look at Nic and Nate, their hair isn't really a mullet, but it matches. Happy Holidays everyone, I hope it is the best ever. I am so happy and grateful that I get to spend time with my family and friends!

I want to crawl back into bed!

Everything is falling apart. I didn't get accepted in the car pool. Tarn has a bald spot by his tail. Some a$#hole won on Survivor. I am late for work and have more to do than I can complete. I did work out today but not yesterday. It is snowing again and making the drive annoying.