Happy 1 Year Anniversary, T!

Wow, a year has gone by since I started my blog. How do I feel? Happy! I have achieved many goals and I am happy to be part of this community.

Reflecting back I have posted 24 articles and have several post awaiting to be edited and published. I have read hundreds, if not thousands of post from various bloggers and have learned a lot and traveled to many foreign places through your post.

In my very first post, I expressed that I didn’t have a particular topic to blog about but I knew I couldn’t wait to look back and see how my thought process and writing style would evolve.

I thought I would be a loyal and gung-ho blogger but I have failed to meet my own expectations. It’s been 7 months since my last post. Which on some days I felt guilty in calling myself a “Blogger” but I can’t beat myself up over it too much because I have valid reason to be an absent blogger.

In the 7 months I have been absent, I have been chasing my dreams and making my goals a reality. I have gone back to college and my job duties picked up tremendously. Aside from my schooling and work, I have been balancing my duties as a mom and a wife. It has been a challenge trying to get my little one and husband to help around the house and getting them use to the fact that I am away at night school but they are slowly adjusting. It definitely has been a challenge for me because these changes have triggered my panic attacks. I hate panic attacks!!!!!

To my followers I hope you accept my apology for not formally letting you know that I had to bow out for a while but I lost track of time and can’t believe I have been away this long.

I do have stories to post and hope to post something once a month going forward.

So, reflecting back I am happy on the progress I have made, the post I have created, and for the wonderful followers I have. I enjoy reading when I can’t post but I hope to be more involved in the year to come.

Cheers,
T

My 10 Year Goals

It’s a New Year and time for New Year’s resolutions.

I know for many this can be exciting and for many discouraging.

I usually like to make a New Years Resolution and get excited when I finally get to check them off my list but going forward, I decided to ditch the New Years Resolution and give myself 10 years to meet some of my most important goals.

I feel confident that I can do them in 10 years or if I can’t at least I will have started working towards achieving them.

Here are a few of my 10 year goals: (in no particular order)

1. Finish my degree.
2. Travel over seas (out of the U.S.)
3. Start a new business
4. Invent something
5. Blog once a week
6. Learn a new language
7. Become a life coach
8. Learn how to write computer codes
9. Write 1 child’s book in English and Spanish
10. Produce and or direct a movie or music video

Yes, many of these goals I can complete in 2014 but many of them I wont be able too!

Now that I know what I want to work on, all I have to do is create an action plan.

In many of the books I have read, some of the advice the authors give is to remember to stay flexible and keep in mind that I may have to adjust my timeline and goals along the way.

What I really need to keep in mind is that I should not be to afraid that I get scared of completing my goals.

Fear has paralyzed me before and try’s to keep me prisoner.

Well, No More!

I am excited and confident that I will meet these goals.

I wish you all success in what you hope to achieve.

Thanks for your support!

I would like to Thank You all for supporting and helping me achieve 1 of my goals for 2013:

Starting my very own blog!

I started in July and I am still a beginner but I am growing and evolving everyday.

This year I hope to post more and give my site a make-over.

Once again, thank you all for your support and encouraging words.

It means so much to me!

Regards,
T

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Happy New Year, Everyone!

I hope you and your love ones have a wonderful and prosperous new year filled with many laughs and new adventures.

Best,
T

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Ebenezer Scrooge made an appearance!

Hello,

I hope everyone is doing well.

Well in the past several weeks I have not posted anything, Sorry!

Bad, Bad, Bad, T but I have a very good reason, I have been very busy spending my hard earned money on Christmas gifts.

I must admit I have already had my moment which I really wanted to avoid.

I had a Scrooge moment 2 days after buying gifts. It happened after I finally got a moment to sit down to calculate my receipts.

At first, I could not believe the totals, so I used 2 diffrent calculators 4 different times to ensure my calculations were right.

Verdict: My calculator stated I spent too much and was way over my budget.

After coming out of shock, I felt the Christmas spirit drain from me and the Scrooge spirit take over.

Where did my money go?
Who do I spend it on?
How did I go over my budget?
They really don’t need that.
Do they really want that for Christmas?
That many people are left?
We still haven’t gotten a tree?
Is there a generic or cheaper version of that?
Do they know how much that cost?
Did they really deserver that?

I need to take some things back!!!!

Bah Humbug!

I went over way over my initial budget. I was very upset that I let this happen. I am trying to look past this and look foward to seeing the smiles on my families faces on Christmas day.

My daughter and my husband alone are draining my account. I need a second full-time job!

Well, if you have any suggestions on how to make the following, please let me know ASAP, so I can take everything back, get my money, and my family can still get what they want.

It will be a Win Win for us all.

Gold necklace
Legos
Black leather boots
Mini Ipad case
Iphone case
Ugg house slippers

Happy Holidays!

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Happy Thanksgiving

Wishing you and your families a Happy Thanksgiving.

Hope you all have a wonderful and safe Holiday!

T is grateful for:

1. My family
2. Our health
3. My job
4. My home
5. My WordPress family.

Thanks for the advice and always being there to listen!

Regards,
T

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11-22 Daily Prompt: A Bird, A Plane, You!

You get to choose 1 super power. Pick 1 of these and explain your choice:

1. The ability to speak and understand any language.
2. The ability to travel through time.
3. The ability to make any 2 people agree with each other.

I thought that I would want to travel through time for 3 reasons:

1. I would want to see where my ancestors came from and how they connected with their spouses becauses I have been having difficutlies tracking my ancestors from both my moms and dads side. I feel horrible when my daughter has a school project on family history and I can only give her my husbands side.

2. I would want to see the events that led up to my dad leaving our family. I have many unanswered questions and I think time travel would solve this.

3. I would want to see the various historical events that have taken place but if I only had the option to view what has happened, then this power would SUCK.

I could not be able to just witness what was taking place around me without being able to do anything about it. I would feel horrible.

Well, I guess I would have to go with having the ability to speak any language. I could open my network connections even further and be able to join any conversation with anyone.

Daily Prompt: Playtime

Do you play in your daily life? What says “playtime” to you?

Just this past week I read a blog on my company’s intranet that spotlighted a woman within our company asking her various questions and one of the questions was: How do you relax from a busy day/week?

Her answer was amazing. She stated that she was on the adventurous side and spent her time with her grown children doing various things like: racing lamborghinis in the desert, zip lining in Vegas, and learning new things like fly fishing.

I thought to myself wow she has some major connections and wow she is living life. I definitely, need to starting enjoying and living my life to the fulliest.

So, how do I play in my daily life?

Lately, I have been involved in a new project that involves me to take on a very big role. So to be honest, I have not had any time during work hours to take a nice break.

After I am done with work, and after a long commute, I start my next job. Mom and wife duty. I rarely have time to stop and smell the roses. There is so much I have to take care of and not enough time.

What does playtime look like?

Playtime during work hours looks like: me taking my breaks so that I could take a walk, surf the web, read, or catch up with my peers so that I could re-energize.

Playtime after work looks like: making time to read, having family game night, blogging, and crocheting.

On the weekend, I need to come up with more adventures. I have mentioned to my husband that we need to start enjoying our youth and start really enjoying our life. We have come up with some ideas like: learning how to sail, taking a hot air balloon ride, taking a ride on a blimp, or booking a flight to some where we have never been for the weekend.

How do you play?

I would love to hear what you do. I may added it to my list.

Daily Prompt: Safety First

The most recent situation that has made me feel unsafe was when I opened the door to a stranger, in my daughters presence.

I felt so horrible, violated, and most of all I was disappointed in myself.

Why would I do such a thing. Really?

I felt so sick because I not only opened the door to a stranger but I let the stranger in my house without validating this person’s true identity.

Lucky for me and for my daughters sake this person was really the maintenance man that I had been expecting all day.

Since I had been waiting so long, I just assume that the person that knocked on the door would be my regular maintenance guy but I was caught off guard when it was not him and went into shock mode as I opened the door without checking through the peephole or asking who it was before hand.

Shame, Shame, on me.

I learned my lesson and yesterday when I got an unexpected knock at the door early in the morning, I didn’t open the door to the stranger.

You want to know about ME?

My favorite blogger Suzie81 has posted a blog asking various questions to her followers.

Since I am new, I have opted to answer her questions on my blog so that all my followers can learn a little more about me.

Enjoy!

1. Why have you chosen your blog name?

The T represents the first letter of my first name. I decided on memoirs because I want my blog to be an electronic journal on what is going on in my life.

2. When you have an hour of free-time, what do you do?

I like to crochet, knit, blog, and exercise. Lately, I have been using my lunch hour to catch up on the blogs I follow. To be honest, in the last couple of months I have had no down time.

3. If you could choose to stay a certain age forever, what would it be?

Well, I am 30 and over the last couple of months, I can see my age starting to set in with fine wrinkles and other body changes. I would want to be 22 forever.

4. If you could learn to do something, what would it be?

I would want to learn more about the American Legal System and more about human behavior. I hope to get into law enforcement in the next coming years and hope to understand why people do the things they do so that I can help them over come their hurdles. Learning about space would be nice to know too!

5. What would be the first thing you would buy if you won the lotto?

I would buy a house for my family.

6. What is the thing that makes you absolutely unique?

Hmmm. I can’t say I have a unique skill but I am a unique snowflake and I am making a mark in the world. I am doing my part to make the world a better place. Or at least I hope so!!!

7. What is your favorite blog?

Well, I answered it in my opening. I really enjoy reading from various bloggers but the questions is what is my favorite blog and it’s Suzie81’s blog.

Thanks for wanting to know more about little Ole me!!!

P. S.
I would like to learn more about you, so feel free to answer the questions above in the comments section or create your own post and ping me back.