New Year, New You...

That seems to be the theme of every January doesn't it? I kinda like me already though. Don't get me wrong, I have lots of room to grow.

How? 

Oh it's so good of you to ask! My friend Bahar and I had a discussion about how it takes 3 weeks to break or establish a new habit. We're complaining less.

So, I'm going to blog the Haley Experiment... in which I will tell you if I complained and you will in turn agree to fine me $5.00**. I am extremely skeptical that it only requires 21 days to break a habit. I have read that it is easier to substitute one habit for another.

Example, please?

Oh gosh, you're good with the questions today, blog junkies! Suppose when you are under stress you typically eat junk food. Instead of just going "cold turkey" on junk food eating it is easier to replace it with exercise. Eventually you will train your body to associate stress with a desire to exercise instead of eat.

Today is day 1 of "Whine = no. Wine = yes" j/k... Whine = No. Wine = No. Which leads me to the following....

Do you know what this picture is of?

Now your gut reaction might be "a faucet" but if you look really closely you will notice it is a faucet without running water. Did I mention it's cold in Texas? Since I'm not whining I guess that means you know the pipes froze and burst in my apartment today, huh?

I'm just stating the facts, folks. Either way, I'm counting this as a whine-free day!


**for those who don't know Chris LeDoux actually wrote and sang a song titled Five Dollar Fine about whining. I will not pay you anything.

New Year!

I don't celebrate New Years Eve with a list of resolutions. Mostly because I know very few of us ever keep them. I recently read an encouraging article from ??? about a prayer list her family had when she was a child. Long story short they made a giant list and crossed them off one by one as God answered their prayers. I thought making a prayer list for 2011 and watching what God does with the year would be better than resolutions. Here are a few from the list:

1. That Luke and I may grow together in our relationship with God. Truly making it a chord of three strands (Eccl. 4:12)

2. That each of us (literally out there reading) would have the happiest and healthiest year of our lives thus far. 

Ok there are several more, but I don't think they are for public reading. I do sincerely hope that you all have a fantastic and blessed new year!!!

Moving on... Luke's aunt and uncle stopped by to visit this weekend. They are such wonderful people! Guess what Aunt Audrey brought to visit me? Her horse, Phantom. I love horses and Phantom is NO exception. Luke wasn't a huge fan of me kissing the horse, but we just won't tell him about how irresistible those little velvety muzzles are in the future!