Mission 101

Start January 1 2010
End September 28, 2012

Italic - In progress
Strikethrough - Completed


1 Lose 100 pounds
2 Get straight A's in my classes
3 Learn to love myself more
4 Participate in NaNoWriMo
5 Run 10 miles

6 Run 5 miles
7 Run 1 mile
8 Learn to control anger
9 Get out of debt
10 Buy a home

11 Save money
12 Survive deployment # 2
13 Drive to Georgia by myself with Braden
14 Fly to Georgia by myself with Braden
15 Ween myself off caffeine

16 Attend a UGA football game
17 Become less addicted to Farmville
18 Hang out with friends more
19 Find a best friend
20 Eat Healthier

21 "Date" nights with Brendon before/after he deploys
22 Buy a Nikon DSLR camera
23 Read 100 Books(4/100)
24 Watch 100 movies(6/100)
25 Buy new furniture

26 Buy new dining room table
27 Visit another state not visited before
28 Find a church worth attending
29 Buy a new car
30 Do not WRECK

31 Spend a weekend in Denver
32 Visit Montana
33 Visit Arizona
34 Visit Utah
35 Buy new wedding ring sets for Brendon and myself

36 Grow hair past shoulders
37 Buy a treadmill
38 Stop eating out often
39 Make Jello successfully
40 Visit NWS in Denver

41 Visit the SPC(Storm Prediction Center) in Norman, OK
42 Stop watching soap operas altogether 
43 Have a lot girl nights
44 Get a small part time job
45 Try eating less red meat

46 Go skiing
47 Go snowboarding
48 Visit a ski resort
49 Eat more vegetables
50 Have a book/wine night once a week

51 Buy sexy lingurie
52 Try not to have phones thrown in the toilet
53 Clean daily, not every two days
54 Potty train Braden(day time)
55 Potty train Braden(night time)

56 Do away with diapers
57 Not go commando anymore
58 Not play xbox 360 games as much
59 Be a better mother to Braden
60 Write one entry a day on livejournal or my blogspot blog

61 Calm down and breathe during aunt flow's visit
62 Visit my grandpa's grave more often
63 Go to a tail gate party
64 Make 5 Afghans (0/5)
65 Visit Cheyenne Mountain Zoo again

66 Visit the Denver Zoo again
67 Visit The Children's Museum in Denver
68 Visit Estes Park
69 Get another tattoo(Braden's name and date in Japanese)
70 Buy a hand gun

71 Shoot a hand gun
72 Go hunting
73 Start & finish Project 365(during the deployment)
74 Start the 'Simmons Emergency Fund' with Chase
75 Start banking with Navy Federal


76 Invite friends over for a drink/dinner
77 Get Braden's 3 year old pictures done
78 Get Braden's 2 year old pictures done
79 Teach Braden to ride his tricycle
80 Try taking Yoga classes

81 Attend Mommy & Me classes
82 Meet other military wives and become good friends
83 Visit the Melting Pot once
84 Visit Pikes Peak again
85 Visit the top of Mount Evans

86 Visit Disneyland
87 Visit Las Vegas
88 Scrapbook everyday of the deployment, starting with day 1.
89 Write letters for Brendon to take with him until we get a address.
90 TTC Baby # 2

91 Complete 10 Crockpot recipes for dinner(0/10)
92 Fry a turkey for Thanksgiving
93 Get 5 massages for a mommy break day(0/5)
94 Order Braden custom name items
95 Take my parents to Mount Evans

96 Visit Mount Massive
97 Learn to knit
98 Knit a jacket
99 Attend a NCAA Bowl game in 2011
100 Visit California

101 Get at least 10 credits from Ashford.(1/10)

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Home For The Holidays

We're in Georgia for Christmas. I wish we were still in Colorado.... it'd be great to see a white Christmas for once in my life. Maybe next year, though. I don't plan to go home because the drive by myself would kill me, and flying alone with Braden would be stressful. I've gone home for the last two Christmases. Someone can see us for once. The drive through New Mexico wasn't too bad, but Texas took about 10 hours. We hit Forth Worth around dawn. We finally made it to Georgia around 1am Sunday morning, and it's been a resting period for us.

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hospital time

The last few days have been crazy. Sunday, Braden had a small fever. We gave him some motrin and he seemed ok. Around 5, he started acting weird. He wasn't blinking or moving. He wasn't responding to anything. I called 911 and while I was on the phone, Braden turned blue in the lips. I was so scared. I rode with him in the ambulance. They just told us to keep rotating motrin and tylenol. That's what we did when we got home when he started to have another seizure. This time it was full out shaking. At first he kept trying to focus on me like he was trying to fight it. He gave me a final look that seemed like "mom I can't fight it anymore" and went into the seizure. It was horrible. We called 911 again because we were told if he had another in 24 hrs to do so. They ran some labs and we stayed over night. He hasn't a fever since Monday thankfully.

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Santa!

Awe.

My baby's first picture with Santa. :) We didn't do it last year.

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Our First Major Winter Storm

This was our first major winter storm for us since we PCS'd to Colorado. We had snow in October, and the last day of summer(sept 21), nothing this measurable. We've gotten at least 8 inches, a foot in spots. Yet, the NWS never issued us a winter storm warning, or a wind chill warning. The one is Pueblo needs some new employees apparently. They did issue a wind chill warning last night, where we could have gotten 30 below zero. We only had it -27. Close enough. We will be reaching highs in the 30s over the weekend, it's a welcome change. Considering the last week and a half we have been in the teens and single digits. Lows below 0. Yes, 30 degrees will do just fine.

 

 

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Go Me!

I start school January 5th, 2010. I applied to get my bachelor's in Environmental Science with Ashford University. It makes me feel good because I'm actually going somewhere with my life. Once we have careers(Brendon has his, and I don't have one yet...) I think everything will fall into place. We can have a little bit more stability than we do now money wise. I start off with a introductory class and everything, which is good cause I haven't really done any schooling since 2006. I feel out of the student loop.

I think we're going to "officially" start potty training Braden now. He will be 23 months old on the 12th. Wow, where does the time go? He seemed ready at 20 months, but he stopped being interested, so we waited until he wanted to again, and now that has come. Hopefully we can have a good start with this.

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Snow!

The snow is pretty, but we could do without the below 0 temperatures.

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Stress

I'm stressed to the max. There is so much going on with Brendon, but he's not willing to admit anything. Like a man. I can only go so far and do so much, the rest he has to meet me halfway. There is rumors that the deployment is getting moved up by 3 or 4 months because of Obama's decision to send more. I hope this isn't true.

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