monthly delights

last year when i purchased two calendars for my [new] home i didn't realize how much i would love them, how much i would love revealing the new month's surprise. so when decor8 did their "2011 calendar round-up" i was pretty excited.

here are my TOP 5 for the living room!

clockwise from pansies: ALICIA BOCK . SHANNON BLUE . LITTLE BROWN PEN . SIMPLY HUE . KARIN A

honorable mention:

 not the style i'm looking for, but how sassy are these girls?! - Paule t.b.

thankful: the sunshine streaming in. warming my heart and home!

it's november, i should make some goals

starting with, thankful for: feeling whole and goal filled!

 
* stick to goals, track them. be awesome. (maybe stop watching SO much how i met your mother. yeah right.)

* limit sugar. no candied sugar from eleven/five to eleven/twelve.

* be early for work. (get lunch around night before. get up at 6:20. have clothes ready.)

* make a great christmas list

* drink more water. (64oz/day. if i'm up for 10 hours a day. i should try to drink 6oz every hour...)

* cook (i feel so excited about the three four new recipes in my kitchen this week!)

* get fit. write. take pictures. per usual.

* love it and live it all fully. embrace it.

 

looking back at ocotober: 

1. go to the gym or a workout class TWICE a week! - inconsistently but i was sore more times this month than i've probably been all year. 2. write. share. - journaled for myself. facebooked, does that count as sharing? :) 3. walk once a week. - not how i planned. 4. read. finished one book, skipped around another. 5. make a new friend. - oh yeah! 6. love your old friends. for sure! 7. talk less. listen more. think before you speak. - eh. i'm not as good at this as i think i should be. but it's me. 8. sew. - hahaha. 9. be neat. - so good on this one!! 10. find the balance. - ongoing, as it should be.

...i'm finally feeling back to where i should be after the summer debacle. i'm not sure what i'm doing with my life, but at least i'm moving on from that unhealthy bit of it.

hair

starting with, thankful for: having hair that i usually don't hate.

 
1.   My last haircut was a few weeks ago and i was surprised at what a difference it made. keeping it this length and growing it out, i'll have to keep it trimmed.

2.  My most daring hair moment was chopping it boy short five years ago. i loved those cuts.

3.  A hairstyle I'd never be brave enough to try is probably nothing, maybe a mohawk, definitely words shaved it. just no. i love doing brave things with my hair.

4.  I've always dreamt of being a (blonde, brunette or red-head) more red than i am now. jealous of girls with CURLS.


5.  My go-to hair do is blow dried and down. pony tail later in the day.

6.  My biggest hair disaster was  i got one of those round brush blow dryers stuck in it... took my mum HOURS to get it out. 

7.  A hairstyle I am dying to try is a long braid to one side, the reason i'm growing my hair out.

 kudos

8.  My best hair day was today? i don't really know. really, not today but none stand out!

9.  The worst hairstyle I ever had was the mullet.


10.  My hair is allowing me to try something new, a reflection of me slightly messy but lovely.

now you:

my name is kate...

 nearly one thousand?!?!?!!!?

over FIFTY thousand?!!?!!!!

oh yeah, i think this is a problem. i've got it down to 10 things i want to post to my facebook, but i've just posted and don't want to overwhelm the stream. or things i might blog about shortly. plus i have an email full of links to save on my home computer. (have i heard something about google bookmarks?) or music to download and oatmeal cartoons i heart but i'm not sure what to do with. will the change my life? NO. but some little part of me says they will. i think this means i'm a google reader hoarder. i'm suddenly going to start blogging because of this, this inspired me SO much... yeah. 

{how do you manage your reader subscriptions?} 

vacation!

hullo from las vegas! i'm officially on VACATION for the next week! so of course i've made a little to do list! i'm seriously just OWNING that my blog is really just a place to post these. (and over use the word just) ;)

yep, gratuitous photobooth pic.

1 . take pictures everyday! (ftw!)

2 . don't watch tv first thing in the morning. (pick up a book loser!)

3 . breathe. relax. see. focus.

4 . keep journalling. (because then you can post gems like this!)

5 . moderation. (at least consider it.)

6 . sleep. (it's a vacation!)

7 . adventure! (it's a vacation!)

(ooh and eek! and thank you, thank you for the comments on my last post!)

ten goals for the tenth month

mine

One of my favorite things of a new month is revealing the newest month of my beautiful SusyJack* calendar. I love unique designs, the colors and that colors are not predictable (not orange for October! not green for March!) It's a beautiful calendar and I may leave it up well into 2011.

I have a huge amount of goals for this month. I'm officially on online dating sabattical and with that there's a lot I want to achieve for myself, my health, my heart and my head. I want to find some balance in my life and not obsess about one particular thing. "one track mind"

here we go ten goals for the tenth month:

1. go to the gym or a workout class TWICE a week!

2. write. share.

3. walk once a week. 

4. read.

5. make a new friend. 

6. love your old friends.

7. talk less. listen more. think before you speak.

8. sew.

9. be neat.

10. find the balance.

plus i'm doing this new health challenge game called health month. here are my six goals (some duplicates):

1. No fried food  2. Take a multivitamin every day  3. Drink at least 40 glasses of water per week  4. Exercise for 30 minutes at least 2 times a week  5. Get quality alone time at least 2 days a week  6. Go out and be social at least 2 days a week

 

And with that I'm out. Thanks for stopping by (my dear ghost George who I am sure is the only person actually reading this! :)

another fill in the blank

1.   True happiness is  laughter and love.

2.  The most surreal moment of my life was  i have no idea

3.  My favorite texture is  I like the chunky knit look of cozy sweaters.

4.  My signature color is   color, any and all!

5.  My signature style is   color, any and all! comfy casual cute. with a dash of pretty and dressy thrown in.

6.  If I could choose one store to spend my life savings at, it would be   modcloth.com but with a storefront in my hometown so i could try everything on and ooh and ah in person.

7.  My best thing about autumn is  the smells & the colors.