Honest Scrap Blog Award

Jessica over at See How She Runs passed on the Honest Scrap Blog Award to me.  Thank you.

I now must share 10 honest things about myself and then pass this award onto 4 other bloggers who have shown their honesty through their blogs.  (Note: I have taken a very long time to post about this as it was given to me on Nov. 18.)

1. I have three tattoos, one of which is on my left arm almost up to my shoulder.  I would get this tattoo removed if I had the money.  It's not that I don't like it, I actually still like the actual picture (it's a yin and yang with dolphins), it's just that having a tattoo on my arm is really not me.  I never go sleeveless except in a bathing suit (not often!) so no one ever gets to see the thing anyway.  Oh well, I was young once.  I like tattoos for the most part, when they are small and coverable.

2. I don't know what I want to be when I grow up.  I currently work as an accountant in a law firm.  I have been in my job, or a variation of it, for 11 years.  I have worked in finance or some capacity of it for 16 years.  I enjoy it and I am completely loyal to my employer.  But, if I knew what I really wanted to do, and felt like spending the time and money finishing my BA degree (I have an AA), I would go for it.  Life is too short to not pursue your passions, if you know what they actually are.  Luckily, I'm happy enough in my job that if I have it until retirement, I'll be okay with it. 

3. I love reading.  I love getting caught up in a great book.  I actually feel bad for people who don't know the joy of reading and I am considering volunteering with an adult literacy program when my son gets older and I have more time.  I would also love to help children with reading.  I believe sharing my passion for reading with others would be an awesome way to "pay it forward".

4. I am afraid of going crazy.  Crazy people don't know they're crazy, right?  I am prone to depression and anxiety and I worry sometimes that I'll not snap out of it, that no amount of medication, therapy or exercise will help me.  How do people get so lost in it that they're driven to harm themselves or others?

5. I secretly wish I was a writer, but I have no skill.  I pretend to know how to form complete sentences on this blog.

6. I have an irrational fear of spiders.  I have had dreams about them.  I don't like seeing them or thinking about them.  And as much as I hate them, I can't kill them.  What if they touched me, or I heard them crunch?  Ick ick ick!  One time, when I was about 16 and visiting my mom in Seattle, a spider the size of a mouse came crawling into the room.  I stood on the chair for an hour until my mom got home to kill it for me.

7. I have an unhealthy addiction to all things Starbucks.  I love the drinks, the cups, the mugs, the bears, the logo, everything.  I have a bear collection, a city mug collection, and many, many of their other regular mugs.  If I told you how much money we spent this year at Starbucks, despite my husband being unemployed, you'd freak.  I'm freaking!

8. I am not sure if I believe in God yet or not.  I am exploring the possibilities and taking a spiritual journey.  I am enjoying what I am learning so far, but I have a lot of childhood baggage to get through.

9. I worry that my son will hate me for only having one child and that he'll grow up lonely.  My husband and I made a choice to have one child for various reasons, some of which I'll probably talk about on this blog someday.  I feel like I have enough with one child, but I still worry that I've made the wrong choice.

10. I have watched Legends of the Fall hundreds of times and I still wish for a different ending every time!

I am passing this blog award onto the following four people:

Ellen at  Fat Girl Wearing Thin (she has a really cute blog theme going on right now so go check it out!)
Stephanie at She's in There Somewhere
Katie at Finding the Thin Within
Lucy at Lucy's Journey

Great Weekend, Great Weigh In, Great Monday

Hellooooooo out there!

Today I entered a new decade, the 180s.  189.6 on the scale this morning!  I am going to try and not whine anymore about losing weight.  It is what it is, it comes off as it pleases.  Soemtimes I weigh more, some days less.  Such is the nature of the beast!  I feel incredible today.

That being said, I'm going to have to keep to my exercise this week to ward off the popcorn explosion this week.  I actually went over my points this week for the first time!  All my weekly points, gone.  All my activity points, gone.  And still in the hole over 20.  Oops.  It was the popcorn, I swear.  I took my son to see Oceans on Tuesday night and we ordered a tub of popcorn--should have stuck to the small!  I ate a lot of it, not even sure how much so I guesstimated the number of cups consumed.  Then, my husband and I went to a movie on Saturday afternoon and we again got the tub, and this time I ate even more.  I have a popcorn addiction.  I love movie popcorn, plain popcorn, popcorn loaded with butter, carmel corn, kettle corn, you name it.  Luckily I prefer theater popcorn without the added butter (or whatever that yellow stuff is), but I should have eaten a lot less.  Oh well, I'm human and it's popcorn!

I also got up this morning and went running OUTSIDE.  I'm so proud of myself.  I still didn't get to work until almost 9:00, but I got out there and ran.  It was quite chilly, but oh so sunny which was awesome!  I have a cough now which I hope goes away soon, but I can't complain about my results.  Again, I walked when I needed to, but I think I shaved some time off Friday's effort.  Unfortunately, I took a little short cut home so I don't have the exact same distance, but that is okay. 

We had a great weekend!  Friday night our son had a sleepover which was fun.  Those boys were up sooo late and then up sooo early!  To be a kid again...  Saturday he went to the grandparents while my husband and I had a "date night" to celebrate our 14 year anniversary.  We saw Robin Hood which was a pretty good movie and then ate dinner at The Olive Garden, my favorite place! I had minestrone (2 bowls) and salad with dressing on the side and no croutons.  I also had two breadsticks and two mozzerella sticks.  My husband had a huge plate of food and I was almost drooling over the fettucine alfredo which is my absolute FAVORITE.  But the soup was delicious so I cannot complain.

Yesterday morning our son called and wanted to stay another night at the grandparents which gave my husband and me a complete day to do nothing.  I did go out for a 3.1 mile walk with the dog, but other than that I just read a book all day, cover to cover.  And it was actually a pretty good book.  It was Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles.

Normally the picture on the cover of this book would have turned me off (see above), but since I bought it on Kindle it was okay--although priced higher than the paperback edition!  It was actually a young adult novel, but definitely for at least 10th grade or so.  There was drama and violence, drinking and sex, but most of all romance which I love.  The epilogue was competely corny, but the I give the book 3.75 stars anyway.  It was a great Sunday read.  Now I just found out that it's the first of a series so I must check out the others.

Today I am working on my attitude, in all aspects of my life.  Tell yourself it's so and it will be so, right?

Who Else Remembers This?

"We must, we must, we must increase our busts."

March Reading List

Not much reading in March, I'm not really sure why.  Just other things going on, I guess.  And one book I finished on 4/3 was read mostly in March, the but the credit goes to the month of completion.  Oh well, I read three books, here they are:

13. Moonlight Road (Virgin River #10) by Robyn Carr
14. The Opposite of Me by Sarah Pekkanen
15. The Sweet Gum Tree by Katherine Allred

I have decided to put the numbers next to the books which correlate to the book number for the year.  So as of 3/31/10, I have completed 15 books in 2010.  My goal is 30 for the year.

I need to figure out how to get the little "currently reading" gadget on this page.