Me and my sweetie!

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Introducing the hubby! Isn’t he handsome!

The cabinets still need to be painted.  They are just primered here.  These are the glass jars I plan on filling this week.  I am going to paint the lids red.

There is a winco in a neighboring city now.  Checked it out yesterday and I love it.  They sell food in bulk there so I am very excited.  I am planning on purchasing my own bags to take with me so I don’t have to use the disposable plastic bags.  I am looking at produce bags, flour sacks, and of course bags to carry everything home in.  Not to mention the $’s saved by buying in bulk. 

I made a pot of beans today.  Yum!  Frugal and healthy!  I made kidney beans.  I had never really tried them before.  I know I have had them in chili and stuff but I had never had just kidney beans.  I love them!  I think I like them better than pinto beans. 

I cleaned out my fridge on Friday and washed out some pickle and pepper jars to reuse in the kitchen.  I will be putting beans, rice, and oats in them for easy access.  Hopefully I will be more apt to use them this way.

Also, while shopping yesterday I skipped out on buying the diet soda.  I am a major diet soda freak.  I know they are not healthy and they are also very expensive.  So I will be doing my best to really cut these back and possibly out!

So just a couple more baby steps this weekend.  But all in all I would say that was a great step forward. 

My brain is so completely full of thoughts!  It is absolutely overwhelming!  I really need to begin condensing my huge list of thoughts and plans into something resembling actions.  Action is what is needed.  I have started making some tiny changes but I guess it just still feels all so tenative.  I don’t feel like a changed person yet.  I really want to.  I really want to feel committed to some sort of direction in my life.  I have felt torn between lifestyles for about four months now.  I had some crazy things happen in my life and it completely changed the way I want to live my life.  BUT  There is the big “but”.  My old ways are so ingrained that the new stuff is just so much work.  I feel overwhelmed with my thoughts most of the day.  The only things that feel natural and comforting are the things I want change.  Take for instance my want to eat more nutritiously.  I feel so unsatisfied by the “healthy” foods.  An apple just doesn’t cut it when you want a snickers bar.  Just so much change to put into action.  But oh how I want to.  So forward march it shall be.  Even if it is oh so confusing!

One thing that really inspires me is seeing how other people are living their life and gathering encouragement and sparking creativity in my own life.  Thus the reason I am so interested in blogging.  I love reading about others and now I hope that I might some how encourage someone else my self.  I am continuing to think on things through out the day and my making mental lists of the next step I want to take.  I feel very torn right now.  I guess that happens when trying to make changes to one’s life.  I am trying to hear the leading of Jesus, I just can’t seem to decide what He is telling me.  I need to be quiet so I can hear.  I just can’t seem to turn my thoughts off.  Perhaps that is step two. I did decide one thing for sure though.  I am planning to go through the things in our home and in our garage and have a yard sale.  However, this will be no ordinary yard sale because nothing will be for sale.  Sure we could make some extra money, but I have been so very blessed and I just feel led to give my things away.  I just want whomever wants or needs these things to just have them.  I know I could give to goodwill but I want to see the faces.  I want them to have these things for free.  I want them to know that not everyone in this world is just out to make a buck.  I have lots of warm clothes and household things that I believe many people in my community could use.  Anyway, just wanted to share.  I hope everyone has a great day tomorrow.  Bye for now!  B

Yeah!!  I used my glass cup all day today!  One small step!  I had dinner with a couple of my girlfriends tonight and shared some of the new thoughts I am having and the new things I am trying to do.  They were very supportive and even helped me think of new ways to be more environmentally responsible and simplify things.  They asked me to write down some of the things that I learn so that they can also start to make some small changes.  That really gives me motivation to learn and apply those lessons to my life.  I can’t wait to see what tomorrow holds.  I am off to work on the painting!  Good night!

I am so excited about this blog.  I couldn’t wait to get home so I could get started.  Although now that I am here I am not really sure where to start so I guess I will get started with a few goals….

1.  End the chaos in my home

2.  Simplify everything in my life(I guess that will take care of most of the chaos)

3.  Start feeding my body nutritious food instead of stuffing junk down my throat

4.  Start learning about being green and make a few small changes.  (I am making my first change tomorrow.  I work with my friend at her little pizza restaurant during lunch time.  I use a styrofoam cup everyday for drinks.  Tomorrow I start using a glass one. 

 Small? Yes!  A change?  Yes!!!!  = GOOD

5.  Start letting people see the me inside.  Not that I am a fake, just that I have some walls built out of fear!(I started this last night by painting my kitchen yellow.  Quite a statement for me.)

I will post a picture in a few days when I finish it up. Have a great day!

Becky here!  I am brand new to this blogging thing so bear with me as I figure it all out.  I started this blog to be a part of a learning and changing process in my life.  I have just kind of skated by in this life with bad habits and lack of motivation.  I have been sick for the last three months and have come to some conclusions.  Such as, I really want to live in each moment, I really want to make a difference in my world for Jesus, and I really want to be comfortable in my own skin.  I am a people pleaser which means I worry way too much about what others think of me.  I have lived my life based on what I think others are perceiving of me.  NO LONGER!!!!!  I am now committed to just being me!  I know me, and now I want everyone else to know me too.  I will no longer pick my clothes or music or anything else based on what I think others want me to pick.  This blog, I hope, will be one of my most valuable tools.  I plan to be myself here to hopefully give myself the confidence to be myself elsewhere.  It should be a wonderful outlet.  I also hope to make new friends.  Thanks for taking the time to meet me.  I hope to talk with you again soon!!!!