It's a Snoopy Christmas in May!

I got this for my sister, who collects Snoopy, at a yard sale this morning...so cute!

Day Zero Progress, May 29, 2013 (Day 45)

Anything with no writing beside it means I've done nothing towards that goal yet.

1 Buy a Minivan

2 Travel to Hawaii

3 Paint the boy's room

4 Make $400 in one month doing consignment sales - Sold 4 items this week.  I'll have to recalculate from this time last month and find the total.

5 Listen to the entire bible - We have heard through 1 Kings 7...several days behind schedule, though.

6 Travel to Key West

7 South Carolina Beach Vacation

8 Find a new church - Done!

9 Trip to Washington D.C

10 Make a quilt for David - bought most of the material. Have the pattern planned.

11 Make a quilt for Daniel - bought most of the material. Have the pattern planned.

12 Make a quilt for Benjamin  - bought most of the material. Have the pattern planned.

13 Make a quilt for Simon  - bought most of the material. Have the pattern planned.

14 Make a quilt for me

15 Make a Star Trek Blanket

16 Get a new best friend - I found someone who needs a friend as badly as I do. I've been helping her through rough times and we have several things in common.  I thought she might be this person for me. I realized on Memorial Day, after she cancelled our plans again, although for valid reasons, that she just doesn't have any emotional cash to spend on anyone else at this time. It's okay...we've all been in that place at one point, I think. My husband's a great best friend, I just want some girl time sometimes. It's okay...God will give me what I need instead of what I want.

17 Do a 10 day juice fast

18 Read 10 books - Read Odd Hours by Dean Koontz, working on Einstein's Theory of Relativity, Kahless, and Frankenstein.

19 Make Benjamin's baby scrapbook

20 Do some volunteer work

21 Visit the Jack Daniel’s Distillery TENNESSEE

22 Take a free online class

23 Host a board games night

24 Host my poker party

25 Host a Star Trek party

26 Learn 50 new things by clicking the random articles button on Wikipedia

1. 2010 AMJ Campbell Shorty Jenkins Classic
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_about_the_Vietnam_War

27 Start a compost bin

28 Identify 100 things that make me happy - the list is up to 67 currently (that sounds right, anyway).

29 Go horseback riding

30 Get down to a healthy weight - eating better

31 Reverse-pickpocket someone

32 Find 12 Free things to do with the kids locally

33 Get or buy storage units for the basement

34 Organize the basement - moved freezer around, moved tables, and emptied clothing bins Sunday

35 Don't speak a single word for a day

36 Create 100 Note Cards to sell - Made 8 so far

37 Become debt free - Paid off the truck last week!  Yay!

38 Become a published author

39 Go to New Orleans during Mardi Gras

40 Become a millionaire - Still buying lottery tickets...nothing to invest yet.

41 Spend Christmas in a mountain cottage

42 Learn sign language - I know the alphabet.

43 Take a painting class

44 Build Lego displays for my cabinet

45 Get the entire 1976 Star Trek card and sticker set - Have one sticker and 1/4 of the cards.

46 Go on a spa retreat weekend

47 Attend a couples retreat

48 Get a degree

49 Learn the piano

50 Donate blood again

51 Attend an opera

52 Send something to someone I love monthly

1. May - Mother's Day Cards to Grandmothers and Aunts

53 Join a church group

54 Go camping - Made a reservation to camp with the Boy Scouts

55 Make a will

56 Send flowers to my mother and sisters for no reason

57 Get the teapot to go with my dinnerware set

58 Get a big screen tv

59 Create and sell one or more comic book furniture pieces - pulled up a shelf and bought some frames and outlet covers.

60 Take the kids to the Space Museum

61 Have $3,000 in a savings account - $5

62 Complete 24 Swap-bot Swaps - 3 are now under my belt; joined another.

Joined - May the Fourth Be With Us! - Sending on May 17/18

1. Lego Photo Scavenger Hunt - April 30
2. 101 Things Progress - April 2013 - April 27
3. Lego Minifigure - May 11
4. May the 4th Be With Us! - May 27
5. 101 Things Progress - May 2013 (presently completing)

63 Read 10 classics I should have read but have never got around to

1. Reading Frankenstein

64 Have dessert before dinner at a restaurant - I had dessert AS dinner when I took my aunt to the doctor's office with mom.  We didn't get to eat lunch until 3:00 p.m. so I didn't want to eat again at 5:00, but I knew I needed something or I'd be starving at 7:00...so we got yogurt at Menchi's. Yum!

65 Perform 5 random acts of kindness  - 2 done...Bought lunch for the car behind me at the drive-thru, took homemade chicken and dumplings to a sick friend.

66 Go barefoot for a whole day - Done!

67 Learn a new word every day for a month

68 Get rid of 100 things - Send 46 items to the donation center Saturday, two weeks ago. Took two bags of items yesterday. I'm up to 89.

69 Compliment someone everyday for 10 days straight

70 Bake something new each month

1. May - Potluck Chicken Tetrazinni
2. May - Asparagus Casserole

71 Memorize the presidents in order

72 Get my handwriting analyzed

73 Complete a daily challenge every day for one year - 196 day streak!

74 Go to 5 different museums

75 Go vegetarian for a week

76 Scan and print photos to replace kids artwork in albums - Did several from a box I went through.

77 Create family recipe book with sisters

78 Organize the files on my computer

79 Print out photos and organize for scrapbooking

80 Private - Waiting

81 Decorate my house like I really want it to be

82 Finish all sewing repairs

83 Finish Final Fantasy 8

84 Start and Finish a journal - Worked on third page....moving very slowly!

85 Listen to 26 bands I’ve never heard of, each starting with a different letter of the alphabet

• A - Angelle, Lisa - Country - ***
• E - Eager - Rock - *** 1/2

86 Win a contest - Entered two...didn't win either.

87 Learn to play the Star Trek CCG Game - Got more cards!

88 Get Benjamin potty trained - starting leaving him in big boy underwear during the day. Washing a whole lot of laundry!

89 Make my wardrobe mine

90 Buy a house

91 Serve Thanksgiving dinner as a family at KARM

92 Attend the gym at least twice a week

93 Drink 4 big glasses of water daily for one month

94 Watch 10 documentary films

95 Tip a server $100

96 Buy another coffee pot with automatic off - Did this Sunday!

97 Go to the Egyptian restaurant in Knoxville

98 Open Benjamin's Savings Account...contribute to all three

99 Find ways to declutter house - Emptied two bins of clothes in the basement when we changed from winter to summer clothes in our drawers.

100 Pull all non-Lego Brand blocks out of collection

101 Grow a Big Flower Garden - Asked husband to make me a plot.

I AM SO EXCITED!!!

I just found an Estate Sale with AMAZING prices on Star Trek stuff! I can't tell my husband what I got or what I spent because he'll kick my bootie first; and then because he's getting this stuff in his presents for Father's Day and Christmas and Brovember the 2nd and any other holiday I can make up to share the love with him!

Shhhhh!  It's a secret!

I'm entering online today to win a Star Trek uniform at Costume Supercenter.com, where they currently have a great guide to Star Trek uniforms (here:)
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Wish me luck!

Kids are making me crazy today! What is wrong with our children!!???

Wish I were right here, right now:

Day Zero Progress, May 13, 2013 (Day 29)

Mother's Day was awesome! Today is my sister-in-law's birthday! Happy times!

Anything with no writing beside it means I've done nothing towards that goal yet.

1 Buy a Minivan

2 Travel to Hawaii

3 Paint the boy's room

4 Make $400 in one month doing consignment sales - Totals are in and I only reached about $250 this time. I'm going to have to keep trying.

5 Listen to the entire bible - We have heard through 1 Kings 7...several days behind schedule, though.

6 Travel to Key West

7 South Carolina Beach Vacation

8 Find a new church - The boys sat with us during the sermon during Mother's Day this weekend and they really enjoyed it. It's here if you're interested: http://foothillschurch.com/experience/sermons/ . David is going to attend base camp (with or without be, depending on child care) in the next few weeks to make sure this new church believes what we do. If that's the case, I think we've found our new home...still kind of missing the old one, as well.

9 Trip to Washington D.C

10 Make a quilt for David - bought most of the material. Have the pattern planned.

11 Make a quilt for Daniel - bought most of the material. Have the pattern planned.

12 Make a quilt for Benjamin  - bought most of the material. Have the pattern planned.

13 Make a quilt for Simon  - bought most of the material. Have the pattern planned.

14 Make a quilt for me

15 Make a Star Trek Blanket

16 Get a new best friend

17 Do a 10 day juice fast

18 Read 10 books - Read Odd Hours by Dean Koontz, working on Einstein's Theory of Relativity, Kahless, and Frankenstein.

19 Make Benjamin's baby scrapbook

20 Do some volunteer work

21 Visit the Jack Daniel’s Distillery TENNESSEE

22 Take a free online class

23 Host a board games night

24 Host my poker party

25 Host a Star Trek party

26 Learn 50 new things by clicking the random articles button on Wikipedia

1. 2010 AMJ Campbell Shorty Jenkins Classic

27 Start a compost bin

28 Identify 100 things that make me happy - the list is up to 47 currently (that sounds right, anyway).

29 Go horseback riding

30 Get down to a healthy weight - eating better

31 Reverse-pickpocket someone

32 Find 12 Free things to do with the kids locally

33 Get or buy storage units for the basement

34 Organize the basement

35 Don't speak a single word for a day

36 Create 100 Note Cards to sell - Made 8 so far

37 Become debt free - Paid off the truck last week!  Yay!

38 Become a published author

39 Go to New Orleans during Mardi Gras

40 Become a millionaire - Still buying lottery tickets...nothing to invest yet.

41 Spend Christmas in a mountain cottage

42 Learn sign language - I know the alphabet.

43 Take a painting class

44 Build Lego displays for my cabinet

45 Get the entire 1976 Star Trek card and sticker set - Have no stickers and 1/4 of the cards.

46 Go on a spa retreat weekend

47 Attend a couples retreat

48 Get a degree

49 Learn the piano

50 Donate blood again

51 Attend an opera

52 Send something to someone I love monthly

1. May - Mother's Day Cards to Grandmothers and Aunts

53 Join a church group

54 Go camping

55 Make a will

56 Send flowers to my mother and sisters for no reason

57 Get the teapot to go with my dinnerware set

58 Get a big screen tv

59 Create and sell one or more comic book furniture pieces - pulled up a shelf and bought some frames and outlet covers.

60 Take the kids to the Space Museum

61 Have $3,000 in a savings account

62 Complete 24 Swap-bot Swaps - 3 are now under my belt; joined another.

Joined - May the Fourth Be With Us! - Sending on May 17/18

1. Lego Photo Scavenger Hunt - April 30
2. 101 Things Progress - April 2013 - April 27
3. Lego Minifigure - May 11

63 Read 10 classics I should have read but have never got around to

1. Reading Frankenstein

64 Have dessert before dinner at a restaurant

65 Perform 5 random acts of kindness  - 2 done...Bought lunch for the car behind me at the drive-thru, took homemade chicken and dumplings to a sick friend.

66 Go barefoot for a whole day - Done!

67 Learn a new word every day for a month

68 Get rid of 100 things - Send 46 items to the donation center Saturday.

69 Compliment someone everyday for 10 days straight

70 Bake something new each month

1. May - Potluck Chicken Tetrazinni
2. May - Asparagus Casserole

71 Memorize the presidents in order

72 Get my handwriting analyzed

73 Complete a daily challenge every day for one year - Haven't missed a day since January 1st so far.

74 Go to 5 different museums

75 Go vegetarian for a week

76 Scan and print photos to replace kids artwork in albums

77 Create family recipe book with sisters

78 Organize the files on my computer

79 Print out photos and organize for scrapbooking

80 Private - Waiting

81 Decorate my house like I really want it to be

82 Finish all sewing repairs

83 Finish Final Fantasy 8

84 Start and Finish a journal - 1st and 2nd pages are complete.

85 Listen to 26 bands I’ve never heard of, each starting with a different letter of the alphabet

• A - Angelle, Lisa - Country - ***
• E - Eager - Rock - *** 1/2

86 Win a contest - Entered two...didn't win either.

87 Learn to play the Star Trek CCG Game

88 Get Benjamin potty trained - in progress

89 Make my wardrobe mine

90 Buy a house

91 Serve Thanksgiving dinner as a family at KARM

92 Attend the gym at least twice a week

93 Drink 4 big glasses of water daily for one month

94 Watch 10 documentary films

95 Tip a server $100

96 Buy another coffee pot with automatic off

97 Go to the Egyptian restaurant in Knoxville

98 Open Benjamin's Savings Account...contribute to all three

99 Find ways to declutter house - work in progress

100 Pull all non-Lego Brand blocks out of collection

101 Grow a Big Flower Garden - got some seeds

Since I work for a member company, I get to used this awesome logo in my signature. It's so pretty:

Day Zero Progress, May 5, 2013 (Day 21)

Anything with no writing beside it means I've done nothing towards that goal yet.

1 Buy a Minivan

2 Travel to Hawaii

3 Paint the boy's room

4 Make $400 in one month doing consignment sales - Just sold several items online and several at the adult consignment sale. I don't have a final tally yet, but I don't think I'm going to hit $400...we'll see.

5 Listen to the entire bible - We have heard through 1 Kings 7...several days behind schedule, though.

6 Travel to Key West

7 South Carolina Beach Vacation

8 Find a new church - Went to one of the final churches for the second time today. We may not even go anywhere else at this point. We really enjoyed the service, the Sunday School classes, and the congregation.

9 Trip to Washington D.C

10 Make a quilt for David - bought most of the material. Have the pattern planned.

11 Make a quilt for Daniel - bought most of the material. Have the pattern planned.

12 Make a quilt for Benjamin  - bought most of the material. Have the pattern planned.

13 Make a quilt for Simon  - bought most of the material. Have the pattern planned.

14 Make a quilt for me

15 Make a Star Trek Blanket

16 Get a new best friend

17 Do a 10 day juice fast

18 Read 10 books - Listening to one book, reading another.

19 Make Benjamin's baby scrapbook

20 Do some volunteer work

21 Visit the Jack Daniel’s Distillery TENNESSEE

22 Take a free online class

23 Host a board games night

24 Host my poker party

25 Host a Star Trek party

26 Learn 50 new things by clicking the random articles button on Wikipedia

27 Start a compost bin

28 Identify 100 things that make me happy - the list is up to 47 currently (that sounds right, anyway).

29 Go horseback riding

30 Get down to a healthy weight - eating better

31 Reverse-pickpocket someon

32 Find 12 Free things to do with the kids locally

33 Get or buy storage units for the basement

34 Organize the basement

35 Don't speak a single word for a day

36 Create 100 Note Cards to sell - Made 8 so far

37 Become debt free - Paid off the truck last week!  Yay!

38 Become a published author

39 Go to New Orleans during Mardi Gras

40 Become a millionaire - Still buying lottery tickets...nothing to invest yet.

41 Spend Christmas in a mountain cottage

42 Learn sign language - I know the alphabet.

43 Take a painting class

44 Build Lego displays for my cabinet

45 Get the entire 1976 Star Trek card and sticker set - Have no stickers and 1/4 of the cards.

46 Go on a spa retreat weekend

47 Attend a couples retreat

48 Get a degree

49 Learn the piano

50 Donate blood again

51 Attend an opera

52 Send something to someone I love monthly

53 Join a church group

54 Go camping

55 Make a will

56 Send flowers to my mother and sisters for no reason

57 Get the teapot to go with my dinnerware set

58 Get a big screen tv

59 Create and sell one or more comic book furniture pieces - pulled up a shelf and bought some frames and outlet covers.

60 Take the kids to the Space Museum

61 Have $3,000 in a savings account

62 Complete 24 Swap-bot Swaps - 2 are now under my belt.

63 Read 10 classics I should have read but have never got around to

64 Have dessert before dinner at a restaurant

65 Perform 5 random acts of kindness  - 2 done...Bought lunch for the car behind me at the drive-thru, took homemade chicken and dumplings to a sick friend.

66 Go barefoot for a whole day - Done! Did this last Thursday. It wasn't easy driving barefoot, but the rest of the day was a breeze!

67 Learn a new word every day for a month

68 Get rid of 100 things - Send 46 items to the donation center Saturday.

69 Compliment someone everyday for 10 days straight

70 Bake something new each month - Made Potluck Chicken Tetrazinni Friday...May is done.

71 Memorize the presidents in order

72 Get my handwriting analyzed

73 Complete a daily challenge every day for one year - Haven't missed a day since January 1st so far.

74 Go to 5 different museums

75 Go vegetarian for a week

76 Scan and print photos to replace kids artwork in albums

77 Create family recipe book with sisters

78 Organize the files on my computer

79 Print out photos and organize for scrapbooking

80 Private - Waiting

81 Decorate my house like I really want it to be

82 Finish all sewing repairs

83 Finish Final Fantasy 8

84 Start and Finish a journal - picked out the journal and put my name inside.

85 Listen to 26 bands I’ve never heard of, each starting with a different letter of the alphabet

86 Win a contest - Entered two...didn't win either.

87 Learn to play the Star Trek CCG Game

88 Get Benjamin potty trained - in progress

89 Make my wardrobe mine

90 Buy a house

91 Serve Thanksgiving dinner as a family at KARM

92 Attend the gym at least twice a week

93 Drink 4 big glasses of water daily for one month

94 Watch 10 documentary films

95 Tip a server $100

96 Buy another coffee pot with automatic off

97 Go to the Egyptian restaurant in Knoxville

98 Open Benjamin's Savings Account...contribute to all three

99 Find ways to declutter house - work in progress

100 Pull all non-Lego Brand blocks out of collection

101 Grow a Big Flower Garden - got some seeds