A Day Off!

I worked 3 nights over the weekend and I worked last night, too.  I was schedule to work tonight, but a friend at work needed some extra hours so I took a PTO day and she's going to work my shift!  I have about 2 weeks of PTO so I'm totally okay with using a day!  I am so excited to have a day off! :)  I'm on call Thursday night, but as of early this morning, things were looking pretty good for me to not get called in.  I'm keeping my fingers crossed. ;)

So today has been a very lazy day for me!  I came home from work and put chicken in the crockpot for dinner, had a bowl of cereal, and then slept until 1pm.  I probably could've slept longer but I always feel like I waste a day when I do that.  I got up and showered and realized about half way through that I didn't think I plugged the crockpot in this morning....

Yep.  I win the "new wife" award! :)  So I had 4 hour old chicken sitting in the crockpot not cooking.  Awesome.  Haha!  I think David is going to pick something up on his way home from work. ;)

I've been busy going through my Cooking Light magazines for recipes for this coming week and updating recipe cards.  I've also managed to watch the BBC version of Pride and Prejudice that I got for Christmas!  If it's possible, I love Pride and Prejudice even more now! :)

And so does someone else:

She was cracking me up sitting right up next to the tv like that.  I tried to tell her that it would hurt her eyes, but she wouldn't listen. :)

I wanted to watch The King's Speech this afternoon, too.  I bought the blu-ray back in December and have just opened.  For some reason the movie won't play on our dvd player.  I'm not sure what the heck is going on there, but it's apparently a known issue.  I'm going to be really bummed if David can't get it to work because I've heard it's a great movie! (And David won't watch it with me....so I have to watch it when he's not home!)

Since I couldn't watch that, I just popped in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix...always a go to for me. :)  Harry Potter never gets old.  Hmm, I have 5 days off- I may just need a HP marathon ;)

I saw this on Pinterest and it cracked me up because it's so true!!  Who would've thought? :) 

 And just because he's so darn cute :)

I hope everyone is having a wonderful week!

New Years Resolutions

To me, new year's resolutions are just small goals you make to help yourself become a better person throughout the year.  I will try to keep my goals, but that's just what they are: goals.  If I don't get to them all this year, I can keep working towards them next year!  I'm not going to kick myself if I don't meet all of my resolutions this year!  That being said, I do have some resolutions (read: goals to work towards!) for 2012!

• I want to spend more time in God's word and with Him
• I feel like this is an area I've neglected over the years and I've recently felt him calling me back.  I have a new devotional that I'm really excited to delve into.  I'm really excited to see how this strengthens my relationship with my Father and how my life will change because of it!
• I want to find a church home.
• David and I have been in Greenville  for a while now and I think it's time to find a church home!  
• I want to be a better wife.
• I've only had practice at being a wife for a little over 3 months so I'm not stressing about this one.  I also think this is a goal that will never be attained.  It is something I will always work at because my husband is so special to me.  But it's good to remember.
• I want to run a half marathon!
• For a while after I started my new job, I was good at going to the gym and getting my work out on, but once the holiday season got here and I was working 4 nights in a row, the rest of my week was spent catching up on sleep.  I can honestly say I notice a difference in how I felt when I worked out and how I feel now that I haven't.  My cousin Scott is really into running right now so we have decided we are going to train and run a half marathon this fall!  Ready guys?  Keep me accountable! :)
• I want to catch up on my crafts.
• I love making things, being creative and decorating my home with things that have my touch.  I really want to create a wedding scrapbook, possibly a honeymoon scrapbook, and finish up some other crafts I've started and just never finished.  This is the year!

2012 is going to be a wonderful year!  I am looking forward to what it will bring and working towards my goals.  But, what I don't get done, I wont stress about, after all, if you're a Friends fan you'll understand when I say, "I've got magic beans" :)