Month: June 2014

Even though I completely failed the BE June Challenge, I’m giving it another go and partaking in the BE July Challenge.

This coming month’s daily prompts are:

1. Goals for this month
2. 3 personality traits you are proud of
3. Piercings and tattoos? If none thoughts on them…
4. Most proud moment
5. Your worst habits.
6. Something or someone you miss
7. A difficult time in your life
8. 5 favourite blogs
9. Last time you cried
10. Favourite comfort food
11. Weird quirk(s) you have
12. 5 things you lust after
13. Something you always think “what if…” about.
14. Your zodiac and if you think it fits your personality
15. What you wore today
16. Views on religion
17. Currently reading
18. Take a selfie today and post the pic!
19. One place in the world you want to visit
20. One thing you achieved today.
21. Why do you blog?
22. Tell us a bit about where you live.
23. What is your favorite fashion accessory right now?
24. Tell us about your favorite organization and why it is important to you.
25. What motivates you?
26. If you were a superhero, what would your powers be?
27. What is your favorite writing tool? Do you only use the computer, or do you still love pen and paper?
28. List five things you can do to brighten up someone’s day
29. How do you balance life, work, family, and fun?
30. What is the best book you read this month?
31. Highs and lows of this month

Let’s see if I can keep this one up…

I failed at the June blog challenge, which is really no surprise to me ‘cause I knew I couldn’t keep it up. Oh well. Besides being a big fat failure at the whole regular blogging thingy, I have been working, working, working. And when I’m not working, I’m constantly looking for work. The content sites I write for are a bit dry at the moment, and I have to keep pushing through just to try to make ends meet. Bills don’t stop just because the work isn’t there.

On the positive side, the work-is-drying-up situation as made me start to think/find other ways to make a little extra money. So, I have been trying out different homemade items that I can sell on my Etsy store. I haven’t listed any of them yet, but I plan to within the next month. While I do love my job, the uncertainty of it is leaving me a bit frazzled and stressed. Being able to fall back on something would be a nice cushion.

Besides all that stuff, nothing else is really going on. Raven came back yesterday from spending the weekend at my Dad’s in Ohio, and our plants are planted in the garden. Oh what an exciting life I lead.

1. My husband and I have been together since January 1996, but we have know each other since I was 5 and he was 6.

2. Our daughter was born 9 days after my 17th birthday.

3. Ninety-percent of the time I order a cheeseburger whenever we go out to eat.

4. I stopped drinking diet coke in January of this year because I was having shortness of breath and heart palpitations.

5. Those symptoms disappeared a few days after I stopped drinking it.

6. I have iron deficiency anemia and live on iron supplements and caffeine pills just to get me through the day.

7. I was born with it,  had to have liquid iron bottle feed to me when I was a baby and have been on medically-prescribed iron supplements since I was able to swallow a pill.

8. My body cannot absorb iron properly or hold onto it like it should.

9. I love beards.

10. My husband can grow one hell of an epic beard.

11. He can also really annoy the hell out of me and make me ever so mad, but I love him like you wouldn’t believe.

12. My daughter is an amazing artist with a good head on her shoulders.

13. I am extremely lucky to have her in my life and am so proud of the young woman she has/is becoming.

14. I have all these things/projects that I want to do.

15. But I never make time for them.

16. And that makes me sad.

17. For the first time in a very, very long time I think I am actually happy.

18. Except for my weight.

19. And my looks.

20. I’ll never be happy with those.