Jewelry Storage

Ok so I was being pushed out of my bedroom with all of my jewelry.  I priced wood jewelry armoires, but they were only way out of my price range.  So I created a storage unit from a cheap bookcase and some coffee mug hooks.  Super Cheap!

Motivation

Today, I am feeling particularly motivated. I am excited to finish my application early for TTU, I am making plans to fix up the back yard (fix sprinklers, plant and replace frozen dead stuff, spruce up swing), and start a compost bin. I want a clean and organized house. I want to save and spend money wisely and eat healthy. I can do it! I am not perfect, but I'll never stop striving.

Ireland in June!! I can hardly contain my excitement. I have got to get my happy little butt (and my husband's for that matter) down to the USPS office for passports. Thank goodness for the travel agent, he does so much of the work for me.

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Never too early for summer plans...

So, it is official. We are going to IRELAND!! June 1-13th is set aside and plane tickets are purchased. It seems like we have been saving forever; its kind of difficult to say goodbye to some of that hard saved savings. Traveling has been one of my passions discovered in college and it feels good to make plans with my husband. We have never traveled together out of the country so this will be an adventure. It has been a high priority of mine to travel to Europe as a married couple before we started having children.

I will be sending my official transcript request out tomorrow. This application process seems tedious. I have one of three recommendation requests, and I still need to write an essay. I haven't written an essay in four years. My vocabulary is half of what it was when I graduated college. This is not going to be pretty.

But in more encouraging news, my husband will be graduating with his Masters in Education Administration this spring! He is making leaps and bounds in his career and I am so proud of him. My hopes are up for this year to bring some exciting changes for the both of us.

30 is not too old to start a family, right? I don't want to be 60 and have kids in high school....I want to enjoy my retirement. I am obviously still too selfish to start a family at this psychological stage anyway. Oh well, God will provide. He has taken pretty good care of us so far.

I've never done this before....

Blogging? Sure why not. I've got goals in life, who doesn't? Might as well immortalize them in the unlimited-ness of the web.

I am currently working on my online application for my all-online FNP program at Texas Tech. I have mixed feelings about said program. It is quite a reputable program, but I have been out of academia for several years now and therefore out of practice. I feel more stupid each day out of academia. In addition I am completely unfamiliar with online classes. It's only money right?

2012 Resolutions:

Cook more (especially Healthy cooking), eat out less.

Spend less money in general

Pay down credit cards

Be more organized

Keep house clean

Go to Europe with my Love

Be a better person/friend/Catholic/wife/woman/nurse

Have the courage to do what I need to do whatever it may be on a given day

That's all you get, blogger, for my first entry. I shall not commit to an additional entry until my heart so desires.