January. A month of Selfies and other resolutions that may or may not have been successful.

January... In review.



2014 is turning out to be a good year so far.   Going through my resolutions.. I realize that I haven't failed at them completely.  I have actually been fairly successful with a couple of them.  so here goes.

 I have been away from home a lot, so household organization has been put slightly on hold.  However.. I have put up a to do list so that way I can keep track of what needs to get done when I actually do see my house...  Ultimately  I have been productive and have been living the way I want to live.  Currently  I am taking a break from doing chores on my list so I can write this, and catch my breath because Clorox is some strong smelling stuff.

January was  apparently is a month of Zen for me.  I rarely found an opportunity to show disdain in January.  So the term Bugger was rarely used... However. I did slip up a couple of times and said "Bite Me".  OLD HABITS DIE HARD!

365 days of the Selfie is going magnificently.  I am into February and have only been late on posting a selfie to Facebook a couple of times.  They got posted!!! thats what matters.. Not the fact that they were late!. but I digress.  After a month of posting pics of myself, I have realized several things about myself.
*1* I am a happy person.  (Yeah I kinda already knew that).
*2* I am a goof ball (yeah, yeah, yeah, I knew that too.)
*3* I have a very nice array of winter hats. (kinda forgot that one)
*4* I haven't posted a single pic of myself while I was wearing make up. I don't wear it so why should I put in special effort to take a pic for the sake of my own amusement.  Nah... Not worth my time.  On a side note, I am in DIRE need of getting my eyebrows done.
*5* I need to get more creative with this If I am going to continue this for 11 more months!
                 I discussed the 5th thing on this list last night with a dear friend of mine, and master of the Selfie.  I shall dub her "The Mistress of the Selfie" to protect her identity.  She had posted a selfie that was hillarious and it inspired me to do a close up selfie..  So I messaged her for advice on how to spice up a year of selfies.  She gave me some great inspiration.

The 52 week money challenge is going splendidly.  My little savings account grows.  And it shall continue to grow.  I am inspired to save more and deposit more as the balance grows.  I actually went through and recalculated the money challenge at $5 a week, and if I pinch just a little bit more.  I think it is feasible.

I think it is obviously apparent that I have not 100% fully kept up with my last resolution.  Blogging.  This is the first blog I have written in several weeks/ almost a month.  I have to do better.  But then again.. No body wants to read my thoughts on a daily basis.  I may have to go back to the drawing board  and rethink how often I actually post a blog.

And now... A month in review of my Selfies!

Have fun y'all, and hopefully you have as much fun as I am.

I don't wanna go to bed.. I DON'T WANNA!

3:00 am is gonna come mighty early for me.  It has been a good day.  I slept late.. (to my detriment).  I start my shift tomorrow at a new and busier station.  Maybe I will have a complete grasp of whats going on by the end of shift.  Should prove to be interesting.  I used buggery today, once.  Yet again there were not a lot of opportunities to exclaim displeasure.  I paid bills,  I filled up my gas tank.  I cooked for my husband.  AND I got caught up on this season of "The Big Bang Theory."  Love that show.   I also did my daily selfie.  I even contemplated posting a pic that wasn't technically a selfie as my selfie.  I have yet to completely define the rules of the 365 days of the selfie challenge.  So we will see how that goes.

Night All
Ranting Munki.

Day 3 of 2014 and I feel accomplished... Sorta

So far so good.
      I have cleared the mountain of paper work from my desk.  I still need to file some things but for the most part my desk is clear. I went to bed late last night and woke up late today.  I meandered and piddled around the house.  All in all today was a productive day.  Objective # 1 of living my life the way I want to live.  I would have to give that a stamp of achievement.
   
      I have yet to use the term "Buggery" today.  But there hasn't been opportunity to do so.  I will give this the stamp of not applicable.
   
     I have posted my 3rd Selfie.  This posed a little bit of an issue.  The first two selfies I took were with my screen camera,  which turns out grainy and and just kinda Eh.    I took my day 3 selfie with my rear facing camera.  It was a pain in the butt to get my finger to touch the right spot on the screen while attempting to smile and hold my arm out at great distance to capture my face and my shirt.  And Most of my attempts turned out all wobbly.  I am wearing one of my favorite shirts today.  It is titled Unstealthiest Ninja and can be found here.   I feel that if I am gonna be self centered and post a pic of myself everyday for an entire year, I may as well include my attire.  Yesterday I wore my Tardis - Delorian crash shirt.  It was met with much approval from my friends.
   
     I checked my bank account today.  The bank site has updated to reflect my shiny new account with my first deposit of the money challenge.  I am excited to see it grow, and gain interest.  I must admit that last night I did do some shopping on Amazon.  I am justifying my purchases to myself as books that will help me further my career.  They are all medical books in one way, shape, or form.  a couple of them, I really didn't need.  And one was a replacement of a book that I lent out and it was never returned to me, and that book is absolutely ESSENTIAL to my collection. So I am kinda beating my self up over that one.  Sure I could have waited until next week on pay day to put the order in but oh well no point griping about it now.  I guess I need to tell my money conscience to "Bugger Off".
                            ***Changing the above stamp from Not applicable to Achieved.***

     Finally as you see I am documenting the events of my day.  Yeah, it has been a boring day.  I stayed home.  It was absolutely freezing outside.  I didn't feel up to going on an adventure.. nor do I have the proper freezing weather attire that would make me resemble Randy from "A Christmas Story".  Stamp of Achievement!



Later Tater's
Ranting Munki

A Documented list of Resolutions... Lets see how this goes.

Greetings fellow munkies.

     2014 promises to be a good year.  So far, anyway.  I am still deciding what my resolutions are.  I know, I am late on the uptake with that, but not really.  I had been working on planning my resolutions for the better part of December.  I guess the ones I worked on planning are really the ones I should stick with.  I don't have typical resolutions.  Normal resolutions include things like "I'm gonna work out more and eat healthy." To resolutions like that, I say... "Meh."  When your resolution provides a way for advertising agencies to peddle their wares upon our good intentions... There is just something fundamentally wrong with that.  But that is my humble opinion.  So my resolutions are as follows...

     My first resolution.
Live my life the way I want to live it.  I am not saying that I have been living my life to make others happy, because I haven't.  I am saying that I have been entirely too lazy and it is time for me to get organized and get my butt in gear.  I gripe all the time about the disorganization of our home.  Well I will not allow my self to fall prey to my own laziness in the year 2014!  I will go through the mountain of paperwork stacked on my desk and file it or shred it!  I WILL BE PRODUCTIVE!  I will have a neat domicile.  I will clear out the clutter.  I will even get back into couponing.

     2nd resolution.
As mentioned in yesterday's post.  My phrase to convey disdain in 2013 was "Bite Me."  The phrase served me well.  I used it many a time to convey to my husband that I didn't like something or no longer wanted to discuss a certain topic. I wracked my brain for several hours on how to replace "Bite Me" from my general vocabulary.  I posted a request to all my friends on facebook and was offered several good choices as a replacement.  I discussed it with my partner at work.  She wisely said "It will come to you from out of the blue, just wait."  Low and Behold... She was right.  My new phrase of contempt is Buggery? (and all derivatives there of, i.e. bugger and bugger off.)

     Resolution # 3.
365 days of the Selfie.  The "selfie" is probably the most hated term of 2013 (except for twerk).  Selfie been added to the dictionary.  People of the internet have even claimed that by adding the term to the dictionary; culture as a whole is now in the toilet.  "NAY!"  I say.  The selfie provides opportunities to document events, places and general happenings.  It allows for all parties to be involved, including (most specifically) the photographer.  I have come to the realization that I post a lot of pics that can be considered to be from the 1st person point of view.  It is all fine and good to see things from my perspective.  I should know, I see it that way ALL THE TIME! In 2014, I want to see myself as others see me.  An outward view of introspection?  Plus, this year will mark my 35th year on the grand ole planet Earth.  Why not document it?

     4rth (and most important, to me,anyway.) Resolution.
There was a meme posted up on facebook roughly a month or so ago (I don't really remember the time frame.) The 52 week Money Challenge.  This little spread sheet meme floated around and I saw it.  It inspired me.  I have a goal in mind.  I by no means have the funding to accomplish this goal at this time.   But saving the money to accomplish this goal is definitely a huge step in the right direction.  So one of the rare days I had off from work (cus lets face it.. We all know at this point that I work ALL THE TIME!) I sat down and tweaked the money challenge spread sheet.  The original called for $1.00 the first week and $2.00 the second and so on.  Being the ambitious munki that I am, I decided that I was gonna do $3.00 the first week and then $6.00 and then $9.00 all the way up to the final week of $256.00.  Then I really got to thinking.  Towards the end of the year, it is gonna get really tough to be depositing $200+ dollars a week,  especially on a medic's salary.  So.. I decided to alternate weeks.  My hopes from this challenge are to set up a nice and fat account, and just developing the habit of depositing fat wads of cash.  Once it becomes habitual, it becomes hard to break.  So today.. I went to the bank and opened a new savings account and made the first deposit.  I would have done it yesterday, but the bank was closed.  Slackers.


     5th (and final) Resolution.
Blog.
It may seem dorky.  but hey,  Whadaya know... I'm a dork. Blogging for me is kind of like writing in a diary only without the fear of someone reading it.  When one writes a blog, they write it with the expectation of someone reading it.  My hopes for this are to vent, document and be memorable.  I intend a lot with this. Let's see if I can keep up with my own ambition.


Later Yall,
Ranting Munki.