The New Year Resolution

For those of you who don't know, I made a resolution to cook more this year. I'm not a big fan of new year resolutions, but it just so happens that the same time I was evaluating ways to save more money, was the same time a new year started, so it just kind of happened.

How am I doing so far? Pretty good, if I do say so myself! My original goal was to start with at least 3 meals a week, however I have done at least 4 a week every week, even stepping it up to 5 dinner meals last week plus breakfast every morning (and just so you know we aren't talking cereal, energy bar, fruit or things of that nature. Chris will only eat things like eggs, turkey bacon, potatoes, etc. for breakfast. Nothing sweet). Am I the best wife or what?!?

All that being said, why in the world during our first 5 years of marriage have I hardly ever cooked? Here are some of those reasons/excuses:

1.  We live so far out and I already have an hour commute, the last thing I wanted to do was cook for another hour when I got home.
2. I didn't know what to cook.
3. When I did cook it was usually things like chicken breast or some other meat and a vegetable and who wants that every night....boring!
3. I thought cooking other things, besides the above, would be to hard. I mean every recipe seemed to always have some out of this world ingredient I had never heard of.
4. I can't stand going to the store on my way home....I'm in heals and I've been walking in them all day. The last thing I wanted to do was walk around a grocery store looking for that strange ingredient that I had never heard of.
5. And last but not least, I didn't think that I liked it. Everytime I cooked I felt rushed, like I needed to hurry up and get dinner on the table so it wasn't enjoyable to me.

So how have I managed to overcome those reasons/excuses so far this year? I took the advice from the accountability chart at work...lol! I awknowledged reality, made a plan of action and am now follwing through on that plan...I know I'm a total cheese ball.

Pretty much all I needed to do was awknowledge yes, I do in fact have a hour commute home...who cares!!! Then I needed to sit down find some recipes I wanted to make for the week (perferably ones without strange ingredients), make a list of what was needed and go shopping all at once (not in heals). It was that simple.

But there was still one more thing to tackle on my list of why I didn't cook, the big one, I didn't think I enjoyed it. Oh well, I could live with that. As adults sometime we have to do things we don't like. However, the biggest surprise of this entire "resolution" is how much I do enjoy it!

The second meal I made I was rushing around the kitchen trying to hurry up and get dinner done. Chris asked me why I was rushing around so much, like I was in some kind of race. I paused and thought I don't know? That was really the best thing that could have happened. I had this time schedule I had made that said I have to have dinner on the table by 6 and all the dishes washed or in the washing machine by 7. Why? We didn't have to be anywhere, we have a DVR so I am not going to miss any of my "precious" shows...I really don't know why, but now that I have taken myself off the time schedule, I really do enjoy cooking!

So now I have tackled all of my, lets just fact it, excuses and am glad that I decided to make this my new year resolution!!

A couple of questions....

Do you believe in making new year resolutions??

If you do, did you make one this year?  How is it going so far??

Testing the water!

It was a lot harder than I thought to find a recent picture of Chris and me.  This picture is from my 30th birthday trip to Vegas back in July of 2011. That wasn't too long ago,  but still ridiculous that we don't have any pictures that are more recent.  Which leads me to the conclusion that we really need to take more pictures together.

I know this is my second post in one day, but I am still trying to figure out how this works.  I see these other blogs and if I can get my blog looking half as good as some of the ones I've seen, I will be a happy girl!  So this is really a test!

Who am I??

Who am I? Well that is a pretty good question. I believe that if you would have asked me this question a couple of years ago I would have told you that what I do for a living is who I am. I think that if you are in some form of sales (and maybe all lines of work) there is a point in your career where you let what you do and how good you are at it, define you. However, I have learned that is not who I am, it is only what I do. I would answer this question now by saying that I am a girl who loves God and seeks to be the best person I can be in all areas of my life. Am I always successful? No, but I have learned that perserverence is key and relying on God will get you through anything...in his time of course, which brings me to the title of my blog and one of the reasons I have named it "I'm in a hurry and don't know why".

My personality has always been to plan things. I have always had drive and ambition. I set goals and want to hurry up and reach them (I'm not always successful at following through, but that's a whole other post). I am always wanting to get to the next thing. When I was in high school I couldn't wait to get to college, in college I couldn't wait to graduate and get to the "real world". Once out in the working world, I couldn't wait to meet "the one" and get married....and so forth. My friend Andrea used to always say that the Alabama song "I'm in a Hurry to Get Things Done" described me to a T. Why was I rushin' rushin' til life was no fun??? I'm not sure why (and don't let me totally fool you, I have still managed to have some fun), but I have gotten better the older I get at trying to live in the moment and enjoy things as they come.

I decided to start this blog to share things as they happen and to help me enjoy the moment I am experiencing. I plan (there are those words again) to share my thoughts on different things I experience in my everyday life, whether that be a review of a restaurant, a book I read, a recipe I try or just a "here is what happened to me today" post. It will really be just random rantings (another idea I had to name my blog, but Chris, my husband, thought the name I chose more appropriately describes me).

So do you really care what I have to say?? Maybe, maybe not, but here it is and if you decide to follow me through this journey cool deal! I welcome you! Otherwise it just gives me a way to put some of my thoughts out there!

My disclaimer: I am not a grammar pro (my best friend however is). I pretty much just type how I talk, which may or may not be correct grammar at all times. Sometimes I make up words and spell things wrong, but I am human. I don't mind a friendly correction. Hey how are you supposed to learn if no one ever tells you the correct way of doing things??