Mel's 101 in 1001 Days

02/24/09 - 101 Things that make me happy

2009-02-24T20:44:00.000-06:00

1. My son
2. My hubby
3. My sister
4. Spending time with my family
5. Monday movie nights with my hubby
6. Getting mail
7. Drawing
8. Painting
9. Making chunky books
10. Reading
11. Long hot baths
12. My nephew (he was 14 when he died in Oct. 07, I miss him terribly)
13. Butterflies
14. Purple roses
15. Fresh flowers
16. Sleep
17. My wedding ring
18. My photos
19. Dancing
20. Music
21. Singing
22. Shopping
23. My son saying “I wuv you” – he just turned 2 & just learned how to say it!
24. Watching my son sleep
25. Being pregnant
26. Winning stuff in contests or giveaways
27. Finding a good deal on something I am buying
28. Sex
29. Massages from my hubby
30. Disney World
31. Vacations
32. Going to the beach
33. Going to the zoo
34. Picnics
35. Hockey
36. Coloring
37. Going out with friends
38. Halloween
39. Christmas
40. Warm summer nights
41. My bedroom
42. Nap time
43. A clean house
44. Hot chocolate
45. Cuddling with my hubby & son in bed
46. Having the whole bed to myself
47. A child’s laugh
48. Tickling my son
49. Swinging on swings at the park
50. Journaling
51. Fireworks
52. Anything purple
53. Watching my TV shows
54. The pictures my hubby draws for me
55. The poem hubby wrote for me
56. Zentangles, drawing them & looking at other peoples drawings
57. Hugs
58. Eskimo kisses from my son
59. Swimming
60. The way my son smiles at me
61. Ice cream
62. Pine scent
63. Lavender scent
64. Dates with my hubby
65. Being a stay at home mom
66. My #1 Aunt ribbon my nephew made me before he died
67. Mojitas
68. Ordering room service at a hotel
69. PJ’s
70. Fred – my bear that I slept with all growing up & until my son was born
71. Going to the movie theater
72. Going to see a play
73. Concerts
74. Living in OK
75. Free things
76. People watching
77. Disney Villains
78. Ribbon
79. Water skiing
80. Friends
81. My biological daughter let me be her ‘friend’ on myspace & facebook
82. The cute things kids say
83. Hippos
84. Art
85. Reading to my son
86. Singing to my son
87. Books from my childhood
88. My collection of Slovak crystal that my Grandma gets me every time she visits Slovakia
89. The Annual Festival of the Arts in our town
90. Painting pottery at the Festival of the Arts (this was something my nephew & I always did together, I skipped it last yr in honor of him but will resume this year with my son.)
91. The internet, webcams, & Skype so I can still see & talk to my sister who lives in OR, she’s my best friend & I miss her a lot.
92. Money
93. The Twilight Series
94. Mother’s Day
95. Christmas lights
96. Haunted Houses
97. Taking art classes
98. The Adventures Club in Orlando
99. Breakfast in bed
100. Sleeping in
101. The Jungle Book

Day 9

2008-07-29T15:00:00.001-05:00

Still not doing that well with my daily stuff.

I did orgainize all my art supplies this weekend, I thought it would take months but it only took 2 days. Now I just have to keep up with it, which is a whole other story, lol. My desk is already messy again! It will be just a quick clean up tonight. The problem is I work on my art projects & get the mail etc during K.'s nap & since we are in the same room I try not to be loud so it just stacks up everyday. Plus I am constantly clipping things from the mail & from magazines to be used in collages. I set the page on my desk & all of it together just makes giant piles on my desk. So I am going to start cleaning it off right when hubby gets home from work before dinner. I organised all my clippings into zip lock bags & put them into categories (people, words, animals, etc.) and then put them in my Rubbermaid plastic drawer things. The only thing is that they are not so convenient to get to everyday to put things away **sigh** so I have a put a big padded envelope in between my desk & the Rubbermaid thing & that is to be the holding area. Once that gets full then I will sort everything that into their proper zip lock bags. I think this will work for me, I do really like how I sorted the categories before I just didn't use the images that much because I didn't want to dig. But three times in 2 days I have gotten into my images and was able to find what I was looking for right away! :)

Daily stuff (IE. excuses, excuses, LOL!): Need to buy more juice tonight to take my pills, don't swallow them too well with just water & that is all I drink. Blood sugar! Reading to K. has been going good. I have always tried to read to him but got discouraged because he is SO active and won't sit still for anything. I have been reading to him while he is eating in his highchair, which works sometime usually he just wants the book, so I have been keeping a couple books nearby so he can have his own while I read. I bought him his favorite book, One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish. He had a bath book of it & so I bought him the full book & he makes me read that one to him about 20 times a day, lol. But I only count that as one book read a day. :) I do need to get outside more with K. he loves it out there. It is hard to get the motivation to get out there though when it has been in the 100's here, yesterday it was 104°! I need to put water back in his baby pool & put both of us in our bathing suits & sit in the water with him.

Stuff I need to complete really soon: Plan our trip to Seattle, we leave Aug. 23rd! Paint mom's ceilings, she wants them painted before grandparents visit in Sept.

Well I guess that is all for now. K. will be up from his nap shortly.

Day 4

2008-07-23T13:50:00.000-05:00

Ok so I am only on the 4th day & so far I have only been keeping up with one of my daily things. I am not going to let myself stress to much over it though, the point of this list is to try to help remind me to do these things and make a good effort at them.

This morning I had intended to test my blood sugar, since I forgot yesterday I put my blood meter on top of my pills. You would think this would make me remember, I even carried my pills AND my blood meter to the kitchen table then I went to get my OJ to take my pills. When I sat down I took my pills & then realized my blood sugar, duh! So I didn't take it because I had already drank the OJ & it wouldn't give me a true fasting reading. Tomorrow I will test my blood BEFORE I get my OJ. :) It seems weird that when I first found out I am diabetic & all during my pregnancy I remembered to test my sugar 4 times a day (every hour when I was first diagnosed!) Every since K. was born I can't remember anything anymore. Oh well it is something I need to work on esp. since we are trying to have another baby, my sugar HAS to be under control so I don't have complications & so the baby won't be so big that I will need a c-section. I will get better! :)