calm waters: Mantra Monday

Babytealeaves', Mantra Monday. 

When your nail breaks.  When you drop a dish.   When a red sock gets into your white laundry load.

Most of s say "Why me?  What did I do wrong in a past life to deserve such bad luck.

Well I have noticed myself reacting to these little annoyances like the world is against me.

It is not, and I have decide to make an effort to be calmer.  I would say not to sweat the small stuff, but phrase can not communicate what I mean.   It feels deeper than that.  

I feel tension and stress build up when ever I allow myself to be bothered by one of these small life happenings

I want to calm myself.  Irealizes that these little thing are just bumps on my road.  I need to ride them out and enjoy life as a whole.

My Mantra this Monday calm the stormy waters of my emotions!!!

Remembering 4th done past

Laura at Under the Sheets-shhh has pasted her holiday spirit. I agree, let's find out more about each other? Post these four questions, about your favorite Fourth of July memory and your answers on your blog, link back to Under the Sheets-shhh and comment back to her when you’re done. She will link back to your post.

The Four Questions are:
1) Do you have a favorite firework that you wait to see every Fourth of July?
2) Tell me the one Fourth of July memory, that makes you smile.
3) What food do you crave at a Fourth of July picnic?
4) And for my fashionistas, what is the perfect outfit to watch the fireworks in.

Here are my answers***

1) Do you have a favorite firework that you wait to see every Fourth of July?

I love the purple ones ( I just love purple)  

2) Tell me the one Fourth of July memory, that makes you smile.

One year my mother and I walked to Center City to watch the fireworks from the Philadelphia's Museum of art. .  It was a so nice.

3) What food do you crave at a Fourth of July Cookout?

Well done not burnt hot dogs!

4) And for my fashionistas, what is the perfect outfit to watch the fireworks in.

Cute but comfortable clothes.  I want to look nice, but I want to be able to have fun and eat without worrying about my clothes.

Award

Namine at The Clutter Box has given me a this s reward.

The rules:

This award is bestowed on to blogs that are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in self-aggrandizement (the act of making oneself more powerful, wealthy, etc.). Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated (make widely known; publicize). Please give more attention to these writers. Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award.

I gift this award to:

Christie O. at Baby Tea Leaves She inspires me to push beyond my comfort zones.

Lynette at My So Called Life is like a real older (not in age) sister to me. She reminds me there is so much to life than just breathing ( you gotta breath deep and sing out loud!!

Laural at Laural Out Loud is a dear real world friend of mine. Plus she blogs about the funniest stuff that really happens..I know I have seen some of it in person.

Mama Kat at Mama's Losin' It Inspires me to be a more fun mother to my children. Plus she got me to step out of my box with writing.

Septembermom at My Voice, My View Is just so damn nice. Her blog reminds me I am not alone in my feeling about this or that.

Jennifer at Rundpinne is funny and I really love to read her blog. She seems like that lady you see at the market and just want to stay there and talk to all day.

Michelle at Honest And Truly! is a nice lady trying to keep it all together Love her blog!

TattooedMinivanMom at The Scattered Mind of a Tattooed Minivan Mom is one cool lady. She is blunt and truthful. I love that.

Thank you all for posting such bloggy goodness! :-)

Organized Discipline: Mantra Monday

From my 100th post #36 I am trying to become self disciplined and more organized

PART ONE OF MY Mantra : get organized.

Any clear service in my home has papers, keys, receipts and anything else that I take out of my pockets when I get home.  I have been half A$$ed trying to put my home office ( and I use the therm office loosely)  in some kind of order.  

Being that I manage the home papers, bills, medical records, and accounts, I want to have a better organized system.  I want to be able to file and or access these materials quickly.  Now I spend a few minuets looking for paper that should be in some order and filed.

Another thing I want to organize is my children's days.  They need a schedule.  (and more nutritional meals)  

Last I need to organize my own days.  I want to have time to work out, cook for the family by 3pm, write or read, and have some day light for a craft or two ( knitting, painting or ever learning how to sew). Maybe even have a few moments to study the Japanese language.

PART TWO OF MY Mantra: get more self discipline.

I know they say if you want it bad enough you will push yourself. I want it. But I tend to let myself ease up to much. I need to want it more. I am so sick of people asking when is the baby due. However, that still seems not to be enough to make me work harder. 

I need a fire under my big butt.

So, I plan to learn how to push myself more

I made bread

June 27, 2009

My first try at making home made bread.  I used the egg bread recipe from Beth Hensperger's book "Bread Made Easy, a bakser's first bread book"

I didn't realize I didn't have any wax paper on hand until after the dough had risen twice.  By the time I got back form the store there was my bread rising again.  So it baked up a bit dense.  But the family liked it.  I will try a facatcha bread next.

I went to a Filipino cooking class and now I want to make Lumpia later this week.  

My 100th post

So, I have been reading that you revile 100 random facts about yourself for your 100th post. I will give you the random but not the 100. I don’t think I am all that interesting.

1. Favorite number is 3 (tie breaker)
2. I actually like doing the dishes, if I am alone with music playing.
3. I am a closet romance novel reader. They are mindless read that occupies me for a time
4. I have next to no rhythm.
5. As I child I wanted to be like Katharine. Hepburn when I grew up.
6. I don’t have a singing voice, and I still belt out the tunes in the car by my self.
7. I am a very moody Gemini
8. I have never seen “Lost, American Idol, 24, The Office, Dancing with the stars, Desperate House wives, or any of the reality housewives shows. Nothing against them, I just never got around to it or it was just not my thing.
9. I have a small tattoo on my tummy. A Gemini symbol
10. I want another tattoo. Only need to think of what to get
11. I love tea.
12.I can wiggle my ears slightly
13. I am very flexible
14.I love hand massages
15. I have only blushed once in my life. High school in front of a cute boy
16.I have a thing for colorful yarns(I need to make something with it)!!!
17. I love bags/ totes of any kind ( not designer handbags )
18.I hate being cold
19.I am not a fan of being to hot either
20. I studied ecology in Maine for a summer during high school
21.I wish I had an IPOD, but I am afraid of having to sift through all of my music at one time.
22. I like musicals
23. I love Anime (Robotech is the best ever)
24. I have a Bachelors of Science in Accounting
25. I think about opening a yarn shop here in Okinawa
26. When I was very very young I thought pepper was just dirt you could eat, same with cinnamon
27. I never tell my Husband…I think he looks so sexy in his uniforms.
28. My favorite time of day is dusk. Made it thought the day and then everything gets soft…colors and sound.
29. I wanted to paint like Georgia O'Keeffe when I was younger
30. I never lie about my age (I tend to for get but never lie)
31. I read and loved the Twilight series before it was popular.
32. I have a short fuse.
33. I am not very good a doing my own hair.
34. I tend to be a bit of a night owl.
35. I have given myself two weeks to try to bake homemade bread!(I did it this Saturday 6/27/09)
36. I am trying to become self disciplined and more organized.
37. I have stopped using the phrase “should” It is only I will or I won’t Should is no longer a word in my vocabulary.
38. I hope to pamper my self more often.
39. I don’t like going to new places by myself.
40. I would rather stay home than go out on the town. (I am trying to change that)
41.I have never gone commando
42. I can’t walk well in high heel shoes
43. I love Purple Hydrangeas
44. I love to give (even when I don’t have it)
45. I don’t keep grudges, but I do have a hard time letting things go.
46. I want to be a publish writer someday.
47. I am a very paranoid person
48. I loved unicorns as a child
49. I love all the CSI and Law and Order shows
50. I read the X-men comics
51. I love Hells kitchen
52. I want to learn how to braid my girls hair
53. My Real Name is Tira (pronounced tyra)

I can't think of anything more.

Strong: Mantra Monday

Happy Monday.  Christie O. @ Babytealeaves' Mantra Monday

She is having a challenge this week about strength. She  giving this away this week to a lucky commenter!! I it just happens to be one of her newest additions at her Etsy shop

Just leave a comment on BABYTEALEAVES telling her what you need strength for and she will randomly select the winner and announce it on Saturday. The contest closes Thursday night at 8 p.m. ET. You can earn another entry by "Following" her, and another entry if you post about the giveaway on your own blog and link to it. That's three chances! You must, however, leave a comment for each entry. Good luck! 

So I too will look to Strength as my mantra this coming week.

One of the definition of strength is  the quality or state of being strong : capacity for exertion or endurance.  

My mantra for this Monday is "to be strong".

My goal this week is to be strong enough to keep up with my  US Marine husband, with no complaints.  I want to be strong enough to keep on track.  It takes strength to keep at something that is hard to for you.   It is hard to overcome our weaknesses... It is even harder to maintain the strength to stay the course, work harder, do that one more crunch or run that one more mile.   I need strength to stick to my fitness goals.  No weekends off, No cake rewards for going to the gym like I should anyway. Here's to strength :-)