FAIL.

Fail.  A pretty harsh word, but it describes my dieting adventure from last week.  I read a few books last week - Naturally Thin, The Ultimate Metabolism and Skinny B!tch.  I really liked Bethenny Frankel's book, Naturally Thin, and her 10 rules to getting and staying Naturally Thin, so I gave it a try.  I guess even with me working out and following her "rules", I did not "taste" everything and "eat" nothing very well because I ended up GAINING 1 pound!  How can this be?  I didn't follow a carb meal with another carb meal.  I ate what she suggested.  It must be what I ate and how much I ate...so back to the drawing board to find another weight loss book that is doable.  I don't think it helped that I watched Julie & Julia last night either, since that made me want to cook with butter and eat French Cuisine now for the rest of my life.  Ugh!  Fail.  So my next venture is to check out the Low Glucose diet, and try to follow that.  The only problem is, I find white flour, white rice and corn syrup in just about everything that I already have in the pantry, including things like salad dressing and croutons.  So here goes to another week of trying to decide what diet to be on.

It is FREEZING outside!

Just made my trip home from church and Target, and man it is FREEZING outside!  The highs today is suppose to only get to around 49 degrees!  I looked in my closet and I only have 1 pair of dressy long pants and 1 sweater.  That is it!  I have a few long sleeved casual shirts and a few pairs of jeans, but anything dressy pertaining to winter, I don't have.  Thank goodness for my leather coat!  I hope everyone is keeping warm.  We're all staying inside today to watch Chronicles of Narnia and tonight we are watching Julie & Julia.  I just picked it up from Target.  A and I saw it at the Theater and just LOVED Meryl Streep's performance in it! I already have Julia Child's cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking.  I have a vintage copy from 1969 that I picked up at our local Angels in the Attic store a couple of years ago.  Maybe I will try to attempt a recipe out of it this week!  We'll see.  ;-)

Video Friday

Drops of Jupiter.  I heard this song on the radio after coming home from lunch at Panera and searching everywhere for Duraflame logs since it is suppose to "possibly" snow tomorrow! 

Inspirational Thursday

WHAT NOT TO FORGET --
Remember His marvelous works which He has done, His wonders and the judgements of His mouth. 
--1 Chronicles 16:12

Today's devotion from Pastor Greg Laurie was on remembering.  What do you remember?  Just the other day I told my friend in Gainesville I remember her daughter's birthday was January 2, from knowing this around 30 years ago...but can I remember more important things in my life?  I tend to remember frivolous things, lyrics to silly songs on the radio, something funny someone said on TV.  But verses in the bible I have known for years sometimes slip my mind!  That is what is great about the Bible.  We can always pick it up and rely on what it says as it reminds us over and over again what we should do and what we should believe.  A great quote from Pastor Greg in my devotional said this:
 
--What you think about God has everything to do with how you will live.  Why?  Because your view of God will determine how you react to what comes your way in life.

Organizing

I WISH my office spaced looked like this!  Beautifully organized...but here is where I fail.  I'm always looking for the BEST way to organize.  How to organize, how to purge, what to purge, where to put the things I keep...it is always a HUGE task in my book!  We just moved my oldest son out of his room, moved our youngest son into oldest son's old room, and put two single beds in there so that the College Boy has somewhere to sleep when he comes home to visit.  That freed up Little Man's old bedroom, which we want to convert into a (craft room) small office space.  So here is where I am.  The bedroom is a catch-all right now and looks like a MESS.  So Wednesdays will be devoted to organization.  Here is a post from Stephanie over at Stephmodo.  She posted 5 Steps to Realistic Organizing.  I think they are a good start!

Crafty Tuesday!

This is one of my New Years resolutions - to keep up with my blog! ha! I have many things to share and document, so on Tuesdays I will devote my blog to crafty ideas! This one comes from Jennifer Juniper over at Hope Studios, which gives you a great idea of what to do with all of the beautiful Christmas Cards you received this year! Sure, there are lots of things to do with Christmas cards, but I never thought to make NOTE PADS from them. What a clever idea! And if you get started on it now, you will have some cute gifts premade throughout the year! Why stop at Christmas Cards? You can also do this with other occasion cards you may have! Check it out here!

Christmas Card Notepad

Happy New Years!

Just want to tell everyone Happy New Year, and wish you all a very healthy and prosperous new year for 2010! So funny to see 2010 now. And how do you say it? Twenty Ten? So strange! My New Years resolution is to lose some weight and get in shape. I think I say that every year, but this is the year for change. A new decade of love and health seems to be in order! And lots of crafting! We had our Blackeyed Peas and Cornbread to bring the new year in right. Now to wait until the kids go back to school.