Wednesday Check-In

Yesterday was a busy day. I've taken over as secretary for my riding club and last night was my first official meeting. Needless to say, I'm overwhelmed but it's good to get more involved in something.
Calorie counting is actually going pretty well. I'm having a lot of fun figuring out different combinations of foods to eat and figuring out what to eat and when to keep myself from getting hungry.
And... I joined sparkpeople. It's going to be good to have some motivation and to have some people answer to when I start falling off the bandwagon.
Unfortunatley exercising has been non-existent this week. Thanks kindergarteners for giving me a sore throat and leaving my body to fight off a cold which has made me exhausted. And the husband has been sleep talking like crazy this week... He's sleeping well but I'm sure not! I'll get onto the exercising for sure on Monday after my weekend of class is over and I can get my 21 days in a row done so that I can get my routine built.
I also hi-lighted my hair today and I think I'm going to like it. It's fun to have something new! I'll get pictures up once my camera battery is done charging. But since I haven't really had a whole lot to post about that's been extremely important and I hate blogs without pictures, I'll leave you with a few of the loves of my life... My horses and dog.

Anyone else make resolutions? Keeping up with them?

There's Progress!

Once I get my mind set on something it usually gets done. And the spare room/craft room is almost there. I was lucky enough that my mom had the day off work today and volunteered her time to come help.
She picked me up this afternoon and after stopping for a quick lunch we hit Home Depot, ShopKo and back to Home Depot. A $130 in storage supplies later we were ready to rock n' roll.

This is what I got:

Martha Stewart Living 9 Cube Organizer: $44.97: Home Depot

2 of these plastic shelves that are in the closet: Special Buy: $19.95: Home Depot

I also bought 6 collapsible cubes from ShopKo to go into the cube shelves but they ended up being too big. *Fail* It looks like I'll have to go spend $2 more per cube and get the special Martha Stewart ones.

I didn't think I did too bad considering storage things are really expensive! Most shelving units are $50 to $60 and since we're still renting I couldn't get anything that attaches to the wall.

All of the shelves are set up. The 2 in the closet are full and the cubes are just waiting for their drawers.

I'll have pictures tomorrow of the finished room! I'm so excited and relieved to have this (almost) behind me and moving onto something else!

Goal #1

My most immediate goal right now is my spare room. It's been the dumping ground for the entire year we've lived here for anything that didn't have a place at that time or that I didn't want to take time to find a place for it. No place in the kitchen for the breadmaker? Put it in the spare room. Don't know what to do with wedding gifts? Put them in the spare room. You get the idea.
Needless to say it's been a weight on my shoulders for quite some time now and I want a craft room. Crafting is a way for me to escape and destress after work and it's hard to find the motivation to do it when I have to pull everything out just to put it away. And, I want to learn to sew and being able to leave my sewing machine on it's table would probably force me to use it more than when it's tucked away.
So... I have 5 more days until I go back to work and my goal is to get the room functional. And then it's on to focusing on my weight.

Just to give you an idea of how bad it is... I promise the rest of my house doesn't look like this. Don't put my name in for the tv show "Hoarders." Although... they would come help me clean the room...

Looking in from the doorway.

The desk piled with everything we don't know what to do with.

And a close-up of the big pile in the middle of the room. There is a bed in there somewhere.

What's your most immediate goal for the start of the new year?