I Can Even Make Breathing Seem Exciting

It was a fabulous weekend, ya'll.

No headaches. Lots of sleep. Good food. Absolute perfection.

I slept 11 hours Friday night. I was in bed by 10 pm, which doesn't even happen on a weeknight, so that should let you know how tired I was. I slept well, and didn't wake up with a headache, which means a good morning. The whole day I felt relaxed and kept breathing really deep sighs of joy. Does anybody else do that when they are well rested? All day long, breathing in, breathing out, it was awesome. Exciting stuff, no?

I had lunch with my mom at our favorite spot and then did a little window shopping. There is a store in town that has been around forever but I had never gone in and decided Saturday was the day. It was so much fun! This place had funky, random stuff that made me smile or gasp at every turn. It inspired me to redo my room until I realized it would probably cost me about $2000 to make that a reality. So that's maybe not going to happen. But it was fun to look nonetheless. Also, it inspired me to be a little more of a do-it-yourself crafty person. I love crafty stuff, I'm just not so good at it myself. I can't sew, I'm horrible at painting. You get the picture.

So it's back to another week. I decided on Friday that I really wanted to make my resolutions (slowly waning as they are) to stick this year, and one way I'm doing that is by breaking them down into manageable weekly (and sometimes daily) goals. For instance, in order to get up earlier in the morning I'm making sure I'm in bed by 11 pm. The last two weeks I've been consistently late to work because I can't consistently get myself out of bed until the snooze alarm has been hit a half a dozen or so times. So this week earlier bedtimes and(hopefully) earlier wake up times. And a two time snooze button hit only (don't even try to break me of my snooze button habit yet, these things take time!). Then quiet time, workout, read some blogs and then get ready for work! That's my plan anyway.

And I am digging The Message so much lately that I've decided to read through the entire New Testament and Psalms in the Message this year. I can't quite give up my regular NIV for the Old Testament yet. I guess I don't feel as well versed in the Old Testament and want to keep it a little more familiar. However the New Testament is a different story. I was looking over some scriptures I compiled a couple years ago from the Message and I absolutely fell in love with the freshness of them. I think it's going to be awesome, and I hope I have lots of things to share in the days and weeks to come.

So Hello Monday! I hope to see you at 7 am. Don't make me regret typing that!