Saturday Recap: Day 12

Saturday! I've been slacking and it's only two weeks into the year... bummer. I'm pretty sure what my real downfall is in the direction of not finishing things that I start is that once I hit one tiny snag in the over all "plan", I decide that if I can't do it perfectly then I should just quit. So I do. The only way to remedy this is to allow myself to make mistakes sometimes. I'm allowed to take a break! In my defence, I have actually written something for the blog every day, I just haven't followed up by hitting that little orange button to publish it.

Regardless of this break though, the week deserves a recap..

Things that were great about this last week:

• I read a Dr. Suess story to Phoenix for a bedtime story, beginning to end, and only made two maybe three mistakes. It's ridonkulously hard to to do that! Serious tongue twister.
• I got a new nail polish (Sand Tropez from Essie) and painted my nails.
• Lunch was ordered in at work this week not once but three times. I think that's a record.
• We had Coco Brooks for lunch yesterday as one of those three times. It's been years - sooooo good.
• Hung out with M while I assisted with the picking up of the deliciousness at Coco Brooks.
• I've watched an insane amount of How I Met Your Mother and we've only just made it to the end of Season 2.
• I found out Big Brother Canada starts next month! I'm actually dying to find out if I know any of the houseguests, because everyone from Canada knows everyone else from Canada.
• Shameless plug: I'm having a ghost-Partylite party this week, ending January 15th. If you would like to order something, it's [J.en Ke.tl.er] without the dots, for the Monday, Jan. 7th party to answer the prompts.
• I ordered replacement stickers for some of my Rubik's cubes just after Christmas and they shipped on Monday. Fingers crossed they'll get here next week so I can stop fiddling with the app on my phone.

Looking forward to next week,

- Jen

Saturday Recap: Day 5

I have decided (yes, just now) that Saturdays will be the day I look back on my week and, with a little luck, smile at the happy things. One thing I would very much like to work on, though it doesn't merit a space in the New Year's Resolution Series, is focusing more on the positive than negative; being thankful for good things when they happen instead of dwelling on the bad stuff all the time. I'm not by nature a generally negative person, but one thing that is hard to escape is being completely consumed by it when life starts to suck. I've had a generally pretty sucky last couple of years, but we won't focus on why right now! (See! I'm off to a great start already).

Image credit: Found on Pinterest; links to scribblesmudge.blogspot.ca/ - original source unknown

When I first saw this image on Facebook, the idea behind it was to write something happy or good every day of the year so that on New Year's Eve you can go through the slips and remember what a great year you had. I figure that it's hard enough keeping track of taking my vitamins and blogging every day, so adding another new daily habit at this stage has potential to sabotage the rest of my goals. Looking back on the week though? Perfect balance in my opinion.

So, without further adieu...

Things that were great about this last week:

• I ate Taco Bell for lunch yesterday/Friday. I'll try not to put this on the list every week, since it's a recurring event... I love am obsessed with Taco Bell.
• I got to go for coffee/tea with Alina and Teiza, and chit chat and catch up. We talked about nerdy girl gamer things!
• Alina gave me some loose leaf tea! It smells ah-may-zing.
• Damian and I got out for a date night/afternoon for New Year's Eve. We went snowboarding for the first time this season and I didn't even eat snow once! And no whiplash! Small victories!
• We had a white chocolate brownie (Moxies) for dessert at dinner after snowboarding. This deserves it's own bullet point.
• I built a super cool fort with Phoenix
• I used way too many exclamation points! Enthusiasm!

Overall, pretty good week if this is all the information you have! Amirite?

How about you internet?

How was your week?

Until tomorrow...

- Jen

New Year's Resolution #4: Be childish

Originally when I chose to add this to my list of resolutions, it was the first thing I thought to add. I stress over WAY too much. The last two years have been one giant stress ball of time, and it's just not healthy, but I feel like if I were more child like in my outlook then life wouldn't be so bad. I resolve to be childish.

Kids have all the fun, so I'm giving myself permission to be a kid. I will get lost in daydreams. I will have simple fun. I will play more. I will try to be more optimistic. I will take life day by day and live more in the moment. I will be silly. I will laugh at nothing. 

I will start reading this blog; she seems to have the right idea. I actually came across this woman's blog by accident while looking for a quote I heard once and wanted to use in this post (couldn't find it). It was fate. Clearly.

This last year, I tried my best to have a handmade Christmas. Anything I didn't make myself, I assembled from simple things and I'm pretty sure there wasn't a single thing I didn't find at either Dollarama or Value Village. Phoenix is at such a fun age, and he loves to create things, so I couldn't resist putting together my favorite gift I made: a DIY Fort Kit. 

I sewed together the tote bag out of white flannelette, and drew on it with some fabric markers, but left it mostly blank so he can decorate it. 

Inside the bag: 

 - 3 flat bed sheets (2 Queen Sized, 1 King Sized)

 - Rope

 - Suction cups (for attaching things to windows)

 - Clamps

 - Clothes pins

So in the spirit of child-like fun, today Phoenix and I (mostly I) made a fort in our livingroom.

This is the back of the fort, as viewed from my chair.

Best. Fort. Ever.

...it even has two "rooms". 

Sand chairs are perfect seating for forts. Even Molly (the cat) has a place inside the cube.

He was over the moon when we told him he could sleep in his fort tonight.

I foresee the fort thing becoming a regular occurrence in our house.

Your turn Internet:

Tell me about your most favorite fort you ever built. 

Do you have any fort building secrets that you use?

Am I the only one that continuously tried to build a fort around the bathroom?

Still going...
- Jen


New Year's Resolutions: A Series
1. Finishing what I start
2. Make better friends(hips)
3. Meal Plans
4. Be Childish (You are here)