A New Year is upon us.

Well I have gotten Christmas done. Not put away yet, but the hustle and bustle is all done. Now it's time to get down to the nitty gritty. Yup with a New Year there comes "resolutions". I don't like the word "resolution", I like the word " goals". I love the thought of setting a target and trying your hardest to reach it. Sometimes my targets/goals are totally out of reach, and totally unattainable. ( really, at my age and situation, do I really think that I will be landing on the moon anytime soon. Not likely.) So like the rest of the world, I try to set goals that are going to make me better, healthier, smarter, faster, stronger and just a well rounded individual.
I looked back at my goals last year and well, I don't' think that I accomplished a lot of the them. In fact I don't think that I finished any of them. So with a New Year comes new resolve. I'm going to get at least one of my goals done. Just one, that's all I need.
For Christmas I got a lot of calendars. I love the calendars, one was made by "Bear". All the months have art work that she had put together in school. Love it. Another is a family calendar that my dear sweet sister in law put together. I opened it up and realized just how much I miss my family. I will keep it where I will always be able to see it. Then I got another calendar to help me stay organized. It's got a lot of space so that I can write things that are important. You know get the zoo here and there, make dinner, remember to breath you know simple everyday stuff like that.
I sat down to today and got my menu figured out for the whole month. Yup you read right, a whole month. I'm sooooo looking forward to getting cooking. Plus, "gasp"! The Pioneer Woman is on Food Network. I just found out. Maybe I'm the only one that didn't know, but I'm soooo very, very excited. So to pay homage to this news, most of my menu is taken from her. So this is what I'm making this coming week in January.
Monday--Roman Style chicken (Giada De Laruentiis)
Tuesday--Wild rice and cheese skillet souffle ( cookbook from a dear friend)
Wednesday--Chickpea/beef/ veggie stew ( cookbook and slow cooker recipe)
Thursday--Meatloaf ( my own creation, which is very good, not to toot my own horn, but toot toot)
Friday--Fish Stew ( very country french)
So that is the meals for this week. I'm so very excited. I will take pictures of the all the meals and let you know if they were good or not.
That is the goal setting for right now. There are more but I need to sit and think somethings over. I need to make sure that the goals are not just good goals but better goals. And of course things that I can accomplish.

Well I have not been on here for a while. I have had a lot of things to do, and as you can see my computer is in pretty rough shape. The 'G' is not the only key missing and the space bar does not work all the time either. I was going to see how long I could write this with out using the "G" but I have not succeeded. And if I could write with out spaces it would go so much faster.
So this month has flown by. Christmas is almost upon us and I have really done nothing. A wedding is done (yay). It was beautiful and the two are very happy. School Christmas parties start this week and so does the ward party. So much to do in so little time. I think that I have gotten most of my shopping done but I really have no idea, the baking has fallen by the way side and my house with it. And to top it all off, we have no snow. I know I should be happy. But it does not really feel like Christmas with out just a tiny bit of snow. Just to get me in the mood. What I really need to do is get off my broken computer and start baking. Yup that is exactly what I'm going to do. Go bake something nice. No really I'm going to go running ( cause I have not done that in a while either), then bake something ( so I can eat it, remember I just ran), then clean my house, feed the hungry, cloth the naked and end world conflict. Now that is just the mornings activities. HAHA! really I'm going to run inside on the hamster wheel. Probably not bake anything and waste my time on Pinterest. This should be a productive day. HAHA!