Ouch. :(

I've always fancied myself a dancer...and a good one at that.  I took classes as a kid, danced in the high school dance team & late night danced through college & my 20s. 

However this tap class is showing me some true colors. I've always thought I could conquer "dancing with the stars" if I needed to, now I'm thinking I may not have what it takes. Yet. 

Ill get better, I'm not worried about that. But my heels are in bad shape. I've had bleeding messed up heels for 2 weeks now. I can't wear shoes with backs. But I'm coming out of that & I think I'll get used to it as time goes on. But this dance stuff is rough! ;)

Finally....tap hands... ...

Better late than never!!! I was supposed to start this class in January! It's June! But im here now & that's what counts right??? Tell me yes... ;)

Just walking in I loved it. It was like being in 7th grade jazz class and a Broadway musical practice all at once. It made me want to dance right now!

Class #1: I struggled.  Badly. But I loved it. Small things started coming back to me. And I may have been in a class one level above my personal level.

Sense of an ending

Bleh. Theres my sense of the ending.

Unbroken!! Absolutely.

Best book ever, best story ever, best guy ever!

If you ever need things put in perspective, read this. if you ever feel tired, hot, cold, thirsty, hungry or beat down...read this book.  If you need a reality check to quit whining, read this book.

What Louie zamparini went through from misfit kid to college star, to Olympic athelete to military man to castaway to POW to man of God, is all too much for me to comprehend. He lived too many lifetimes already & he's still going.

I hope to be half the person this guy is.  It makes you want to test your strength. Great book!

Great gatsby...book & film.

I read the book in high school but didn't remember much about it...saw the film too...don't remember much about it

What I do remember is that I liked it. So a new movie with a great cast? Yes please! DiCaprio & Mulligan? Perfect.

I wanted to reread the book first which I did. The movie looked like what I imagined while reading the book...it was in sync and I loved both. Glamorous movie, moving plot, glitz & music & parties & emotion

Viva las birthday!

I put it on a goal list, I planned it & I did it.

2 back to back Vegas trips around my birthday!  2 totally separate opportunities came up & I grabbed them both!

Sometimes asking the universe for things does work! It wants us to be happy, so ask & you will receive!

its natural purpose....

well, go mighty posted a challenge for the month of february that has captured my attention.

20 minutes every day.

so ive decided to spend 20 minutes each day doing something towards a go mighty goal.
since de-cluttering / spring cleaning / un-hoarding is one of my goals, i used todays 20 minutes to do so.

i found my laundry basket.  ive been piling laundry on the floor lately bc my laundry basket became an emergency catch-all. 

ive thought about buying a new one to actually use for laundry but realized that the basket i already had was not serving its natural purpose.

i spent 20 minutes emptying it, tossing un-needables, and putting things back where they belonged.  i found my favorite shoes, an xbox and a book i need to return to my bff, among a bunch of other crap.  half of which i ended up throwing away.

im happy to say the basket is now empty.  and im about to fill it up with laundry.  its natural purpose.

20 minutes down..... feb 1, 2013

and today, this 1st of february, in the year of our Lord 2013...

i spent 20 minutes organizing all my paper & email clutter from my past and upcoming mystery shops

progress made! thanks to the 20 Minutes project & go mighty!!
#20minutes

ready to tap...

so, i finally did it - i registered for my tap dance class. 

as february 2013 starts tomorrow, it'll be the first week of my tap class!! 

ive got the dance pass,
ive got the tap shoes,
im ready to go.  :)

remember december...

go mighty goal #7:  to do everything im invited to in december 2012

i use facebook to keep track of what i do.  now, i also use the "year" to keep track of friends i've seen.  i give myself a deadline of dec 31 every year to see my friends at least once.  the older i get, the older my friends get, the more we tend to get busy & drift apart.

i do this every year & i get caught in december every year.  so this month tends to be the busiest.  and luckily ive been taking pictures this year of the things im doing and friends im seeing.  it is like smashing a whole year of social into one month but if thats what happens, thats what happens.

so far, ive been good about saying yes to everything AND tracking down friends i havent seen this year.  im usually the driving force behind keeping in touch with.  :) 

New year, new hobby??

This is a cool site! It's like a hobby how to....stuff I've always wanted to do! It's nicoles classes

my new years to do list...

as far as resolutions go, i make them but dont really commit to them.  just like everyone else....

but this year im going to make attainable goals, nothing life-changing, just things i want to get done this year.

and thanks to go mighty, which lets me make an overall life list, i can use my resolutions for 2013 to get other smaller things done.

1 - go to a braves game
2 - go to a falcons game this season
3 - vegas for my birthday (*this one is my favorite)
4 - go to a hawks game

* do you see a theme emerging?

5 - get a job!!! 
6 - do my charity walks this year
7 - finish my scrapbooks/organize photos
8 - see my friends before my december checkpoint

#7 - check :)

i completed my go mighty goal #7 - do everything im invited to in december 2012!

i planned 4 dinners, had lunch with 1 friend, organized an impromptu xmas pub crawl, had xmas with family from california, saw a xmas concert and made some new friends in the process.  :)

i said yes to everything, unless i had 2 things planned at the same time.  but i did it.  and im tired and poor now but it gave me the chance to complete another yearly december goal - to make sure i see all my friends in person each year.

december is my last-chance checkpoint for the year to make my social connections.  so its usually busy.  and i did good this time! 

document this!!

as i complete goals on my go mighty list, im going to scrapbook-document all of it!! 

this gives me more of a push to get things done!!

mega-fix number 6!!

so, ive made a short list on the gomighty.com site, but i think its a good start!  like 'project: un-hoarder', i need to attack a large project by cutting it up into small and manageable steps.

i have 10 goals now!  :)  and theyre goals ive had on mind for sooooooo long and now i have a place to put them and this blog to track progress with. 

today im going to talk about one of them that needs to be taken care of asap! 
my only business goal so far...

#6 - mega-organize my mystery shopping

between finding new companies, applying for shops, confiming shops, scheduling dates for locations, doing the shops, tracking payments, cleaning out emails and files, etc, this is a big job. 

i need a better system as i have more shops now than ive ever done before.  if i miss a payment here and there or forget to apply for shops one week, im out of $$$.  and being unemployed, every little dollar counts.  even if it is a $5 phone call. 

so tonight, im cleaning out some october receipts, grouping sept & oct checks, and looking at paypal and excel to figure out how to organize my month better.  the more shops i do, the harder it gets to keep track of receips and emails..  and tomorrow i need to take a certification test to get gold certified!  :)

go mighty or go home!

i totally stole an idea from a fellow tweeter.  i actually stole her "thing".  but after seeing it all on twitter and instagram, it made me want to check this out.  and the whole site seems to run parallel to this blog.

www.gomighty.com - Go Mighty

this is like pinterest meets oprahs lifeclass meets social media
its brilliant.
and it is mixed up with charity!  i couldn't love it anymore & im excited to get started with it.

it helps you put your goals in an organized manner.  exactly the same reason i started this blog. 
and so to gomighty.com goes i....

project: go mighty - goal 1:  learn to play the ukulele.
ive had a ukulele and a beginners book for about 6 years.  it will be my first goal :)