Showing posts with label water. Show all posts
Showing posts with label water. Show all posts

1.03.2012

January: The Goal

...Another year over, and a new one just begun.. 

Hello Two Thousand Twelve. 


Like everyone else, in the world, quite possibly, the beginning of the year gives me the chance, to evaluate my previous year, what I liked, what I didn't like... and set some goals I would like to tackle in the coming year. Last years goals were good, but vague... looking back on them, I can't cross them off my list, simply due to the fact, I don't know exactly what I was hoping to accomplish with them. 


Over the past 24 hours, I've spent a lot of time, contemplating what I want to do this year, what's important, and attempting prioritize things. It wasn't easy, and by the time I finished, I wound up with 65 goals. 

Its a little excessive, I'll give you that, but if I put some effort into I can accomplish them. Out of that 65, there are 12 goals, that I have committed to working on once a month. A month or so ago, a blogger/twitter friend of mine, came up with the idea to work pick 12 goals to focus on in 2012. I, loving the idea of small steps, signed up as soon as I could. To be honest, coming up with one goal per month was a bit difficult, as 


This month, my goal is to drink at least one glass of water a day. Sounds simple right? For me...Not so much. Drinking is not only about wetting my thirst, but also sating my appetite. I'm not a morning person, so the thought of breakfast at 7:00am is nauseating to me, not too mention, I never have TIME for breakfast.  So juice winds up being a quite way to tide me over until lunch time. 


Drinking water does not sate your appetite. 


However, I need it. 


So, I downloaded an app called Waterlogged to help me keep track of my water drinking... (my co-worker/nutritionist major will be soo proud). Right now, success = 1 glass of water, but as the habit develops I hope to get up to the required 64 ounces a day. 


Good Lord. 


Other goals that I will be working on over the year include: 
  • Learn to Eat Breakfast 
  • Blog @ least five times a month (or once a week) 
  • Work on Concentrating on One Task for longer periods of time .. 
  • Creating a morning routine that is productive.. 
  • Memorize a scripture a month.. 
  • 3 D.I.Y Projects a Month 
  • Read 4 Books a month 
  • More specified training sessions with my pet dogs...
Just to name a few... 

I'm looking forward to updating you all on my progress.  

How about you? What goals are you hoping to tackle this year? I wanna know. 


Erin, THe puppy less puppy walker

3.01.2011

God told Noah to build him an Arky....

But apparently forgot to give us in East TN that memo. Yesterday thunderstorms tore apart the area dumping inches of rain onto our fair town. Within hours streets were impassable, yards were flooded and people were stranded at work and school. Talk about flash flooding!! The last time I've been a town that flooded this badly, was when Katrina hit and that was only after it had been raining for DAYS!

The local news paper posted photos from around town here.


Via- Knoxville News Sentinel 
I was quite nervous about driving home, as our road floods even with just a heavy down pour, and while one of the roads did, the one I took hadn't, but boy was in for a surprise when I pulled into my driveway!
Neighbors Lake aka Yard
My front yard
My yard again
Yard part two....that water went up over my knees! 
I'd just went by Wal-Mart to purchase some rain boots, so I grabbed them and waded out into the water, Texas being my one and only water dog at the moment was right behind me and even took a turn around our new "pond". Don't worry, he got a bath later on, but it was quite funny. I don't know why I didn't realize that if he was SWIMMING that the water had gotten pretty deep, but I hadn't, and while I went to rescue a part of my dog's crate that had washed to the next street, um... I found out just how deep that water was.

Texas checking out the place 
There he goes!
Bye Texas!!
Of course this is just the beginning of the rainy season, I can only imagine what the rest of spring will look like!
erin leigh