Comfort Zone and Holiday Home Tours

I am sooooo stepping out of my comfort zone. Not sure why but I have always been kind of a shy person almost painfully shy, really some people thing I am just being stubborn but hey it has kept me out of trouble up to this point so I don't think it is all that bad.

But anyways....

A couple of weeks ago I was feeling kind of depressed, call it hormones or boredom not really sure which, but I was looking down the barrel of a long 6 months with having lots and lots of weekends to myself. (Daniel started a new work schedule and works Friday thru Monday 11 am to 9:30 pm) It was my first true weekend with nothing to do and I get bored very easily. Yeah sure I could clean house but that really doesn't sound like fun when you are the only person who is going to look at it. So after a weekend of being aggravated and discouraged cause I don't really have a lot of friends that I can call and say "Hey let's do something"

(OK pretty much I don't have any, but that is another blog that I might share some other time)

I received an email about helping out with the LifeChoices Holiday Homes Tour. My first reaction was to say no and I had lots of reasons:
1. I don't know anybody and don't want to get stuck by myself
2. Gas
3. Lazy
4. Not exactly my cup of tea.
And I am sure if I sat long enough would come up with more.

But then just as I was about to move on to the next email, the little voice in my head said "Weren't you just complaining about not having anybody to do stuff with and not really having anything to do anyways"

Sooooo next thing I knew I was hitting reply and signing up for not just one 2 hour shift but TWO 2 hours shifts. Oh I know that there will be people I know working along side of me but still it almost took both hands to get me to hit that reply button.

So stay tuned cause I will let you know how this all turns out and if you want to witness it for yourself I am selling tickets, well really the tickets are for you to tour 4 homes that will be decorated for the holidays, but still I am sure it will be well worth the price of admission to come see me out of my element, dare I say worth $20.

Yes for $20 you can get a ticket to tour 4 homes that have 4 different themes. There is "Frosty the Snowman", "It's a Wonderful Life", "A Christmas Carol" and "Miracle of 34th Street"(I will be at that one)

The tours are taking place Saturday, November 21st from 10AM-4PM and Sunday, November 22nd from 1-5PM.

Funny Frenchie Moment

My dog Frenchie is hilarious and driving me a little crazy right now, because she is trying to get out of my make-shift toybox for my nieces and nephew a talking Elmo doll. Elmo sings his ABCs when you squeeze his belly, the kids love him and even try to sing a long. But Frenchie does not like Elmo. I am not exactly positive what she is trying to do because all I hear is Elmo's voice singing from the front room, so get up and check to make sure Frenchie doesn't have Elmo pulled out and is tearing him up, which she doesn't but she is barking because he is talking to and she doesn't understand how or why and really neither do I because this is all I see:



FB Note: If you can't see the photo go to my blog at http://terracrihfield.blogspot.com/

But anyways...So either Frenchie is pulling so hard on Elmo that is crying out for help the only way that he can with the ABCs or Frenchie is jumping in the basket and then jumping out when she knows I am coming and try to look innocent, you be the judge.

Unmotivated Again!!

Ok so I started a blog at the first of the year that was going to hopefully keep track of me reading the bible in year, Welllll that didn't happen. I have to admit I think I did make it farther in the Old Testament than when I normally do on this little task but I fell short and not just by a little bit either. But I digress, I have thought long and hard why it is that I can't seem to ever get this goal accomplished and it simply is that I get distracted and unmotivated. There I said it I get distracted, actually I knew that but I thought maybe I should say it out loud. But also in my thinking I also realized I wasn't really learning anything either.

I pretty much know every bible story in the good book, may not know exactly where they are but I can pretty much tell you the stories. And I am not the type of person to read a book or even watch a movie more than once. So if I am not learning something new I get distracted and unmotivated and basically quit. This is something I obviously need to work on and I am going to try, honestly.

But if you have any good ideas as to go about doing that please let me know. I love to read and could easily do it for a living if I was given the option, but when it comes the biggest selling book of all time I just can't quite get it done. So help a girl out if ya can, thanks!!!