Day 13: Goals

I have many of goals but for now I will just put in my main three goals here and then give you a link to my 101 in 1001 list.

1.  Lose the Weight, get down to a healthy weight for me.
2. Travel to Europe, see my moms family that lives there.
3. Get out of working in retail, find a full time job that will pay for me to go back to school.

THE LIST

Day 12: Something you don’t leave the house without

I can not live without three things:

Cell Phone - You never know when you are going to need to enter someone's cell number into your phone, if you will get in some trouble and need to call for help, look up directions or Google how to change your own tire.

Nook - While I am standing in line at the store to check out I can pull it out of my purse and read a few pages.

A bottle of Water - I am trying to cut cokes out of my daily routines so I like to carry around water to keep me from drinking cokes.

Day 11: A quote you love.

I have this goal to live by this quote by JK Rowling but sometimes it is just a little harder. but part of my going for my goals is doing this, sharing my goals and my progress towards them.

Day 10: Something you’re afraid of

I am afraid of being alone, my mom says it is going to happen (mostly because she wants grand-kids).  But all she does is make me even more afraid of being alone for the rest of my life.

I am also afraid of failing at something, I have the worst luck of making it to a goal so I have this fear of failing at any goal I set for myself to the point a lot of the time I do not even try.

Day 9: A favorite picture of your best friend

This was  really good friend of mine during the midnight showing of Eclipse.

Day 8: A place you’ve traveled to and where else you want to travel

TRAVEL my all time favorite word, I love to see the world.  Part of why I would really enjoy a job where I get to travel all the time for work (really do need to see about finding something that lets me do that).  So lets begin with the question:

Where have I traveled?

Many of places all by cruise ship so I really wish to travel another way.  But Outside of the United States my favorite location that I have been to was  Grand Caymans Islands.  That was my one time experience with Sting Rays and swimming with them was pretty fun.

Where I wish to Travel?

I have a goal to go and tour Europe, I want to see many locations in Europe so I think a full Tour would hit most if not all the places I want to see.  Though said tour may take 1 year to see it all.

Day 7: What makes you happy

I believe there are a lot of things that can make me happy, but the number 1 thing growing up that made me the happiest was fishing with my grandfather on my Mom's side of the family.  I am now not a fishing person, but those memories make me happy.  I loved spending time with my Mom's family and it was always a great time at their Lake House.  I believe that the view of a calm water to be relaxing so it will always make me happy to be out on the water even if I no longer fish.

Day 6: Pet peeves

 

Most recently my biggest Pet Peeve is that people ring the doorbell at work 5 or 6 times thinking it will open the Handicap door for them.  When there is a handicap button for the door not even 4 feet away on the side of the door so that you are not in the way of the door opening.

Day 5: What song inspires you

Normally by now I would have already have had this typed and posted by like 10am today but for some unknown reason I have found that this is very hard for me to think on, I love music, I think it is a big part of my day but choosing ONE song that inspires me is really hard.

I would pick just about anything by Taylor Swift mostly because of what she believes in, she takes a thought and turns it into a beautiful song and at this current time I love her song Eyes Open from the Hunger Games soundtrack.

So do enjoy: 

Day 4: Your parents

 My parents just celebrated their 31st wedding anniversary this past May on board the Carnival Magic.  It was a blast and one day I would like to be like them and married happily for 30+ years.

My mom Linda was working up until she had me and my younger sister and decided to stay at home and raise the both of us.  My dad currently works in Louisiana instead of near us in Houston but this has taught the both of them to use Skype over the past few months, though they don't really talk while on it just sit their and play their own computers and watch TV.  Personally I think it is a comfort thing and I congratulate them on making it this past year even though they are in different states.

My Dad Dwayne is who I am more like, my sister is more like my Mom while I am more like my Dad.  I am better on a computer than at the fishing and hunting thing.  Though he does have this annoying habit to do things he knows you really do not like just to drive you nuts.  Him and my brother have this thing of always believing they are right and the other is wrong but my brother is like that all the time.  So there we go both of my parents happily married to each other living in different states.

Day 3: Your first love

I have never been in love.  Partly I think I am living the Never Been Kissed movie but nope, I have not been asked to go back to high school undercover.  And I really do not think that I ever would.  But I am going back to college this coming semester maybe something good could always happen.  Personally I do not know, but I do hope to fall in love one day.

I know this is a very short answer about my first love, but since there is not one out there I do not have one to share anything about.  But this first love thing is hopefully something that will change in the next year or so, as I lose the weight and become more confident in who I am and who I want to be I think I will become more of a go getter in this department in my life.  I have no problem making friends, it is the next step that scares me from friends to something more.

Day 2: Nicknames

I have had many Nicknames over the last 26 years, but I am going to give you the most common ones.

Sami Jo: Started at the church youth group when one of the guys realized my name was Samantha Jo.

Amethyst: One girl called me this in jewelry since I was wearing nothing but Amethyst stones on my jewelry and my birthday is in February.

Dynasty: Not something that I answer to but a friend likes it and I was named after a character on the show.

Besides that the normal Sami and Sam is normally what I am called.

Day 1: Introduce, recent picture of yourself, 15 intersting facts

So onto the introductions: 

My name is Samantha and I am from the Houston area of Texas, I am 26 years old and fixing to go back to school something that I need to do not only for my future as well as just to prove that I am not as bad at school as I believe that I am. 

This is a picture of my brothers girlfriend and I.  I am on the one in the blue dress and why my goal over the next while is to lose a  good portion of weight.  I want to look good so that when those two do get married (because they will) I can look good in any dress I decide to where to the wedding.  

15 Interesting facts about my self is a little harder to figure out.  I mean what I can consider interesting and what others consider interesting are two very different things.  But here we go:

1.  I have never left the US but on a Cruise Ship, My mom and my sister have both driven to Mexico, my Mom flew to France and my Dad has been to Canada but both my brother and I have only traveled out of the US on a Cruise ship.  Maybe that should be a goal fly to another Country or Drive to Mexico over the next few years.

2.  The Farthest north I have traveled is Tennessee and the Farthest west is Colorado, yep another thing I wish to change.

3.  I love to read, not all that interesting but it should be said on here early on.  My favorite types of books to read are Paranormal and Romance

4.  I have been on a total of 3 cruises, which I have loved them all.

5.  I was taught to fish by my mom's dad growing up, but I am too much of a girly girl to still fish, though sometimes I wish I still did.

6.  I am teaching myself to make my own jewelry to go with my own style not just the style that the stores sell for you.  A little harder to do and it can also be more expensive.

7.  I have been to one Leaky Con in 2011, I wish to go again in 2013 along with VidCon and BEA and Comic Con.  Talk about one very expensive summer if I do go to it all but I would love to go to each of them so here goes planning and saving to see what all I can afford.

8.  My cousin's husband actually fell off a beam in our garage and fell onto the windshield of my car after Hurricane IKE.  The car was not working so they did not really have a way to move it so that is where he ended up falling, I guess it beats the concrete.

9.  My goal weight to lose is over 100 lbs, I know not all that interesting but I figure since that will most likely be a topic a couple of times on the blog I may as well as get it out there how many pounds my goal is to lose, but as I start out I am going to show it in smaller increments.

10.  I am in general a sloppy person, that is another thing I am hoping to change about myself.  Both my room and my appearance.  I want a cleaner look for myself neat and put together.

11.  Scrapbooking is fun, though I do not do it often, I keep journals on trips that are scrapbook looking. 

12.  I collected beanie babies when I was in High School with my mom and I still have them all in the top of my closet (I don't think they are worth much now).

13.  I have N'SYNC bobble heads, yep I have a Justin Timberlake bobble head along with all the other members of the group N'SYNC.

14.  My favorite thing to study is school is math, I love the order to it all, 1+1=2 all the time, that never changes, English seems to be all over the place for me.  Personally I was never any good at grammar.

15.  You would think this was easier but it is really a lot harder than it looked on the site that I found the 30 posts that needed to be done over the next month.  It took way too much thought effort to come up with 15 INTERESTING facts about myself.

30 Day Blogging Challenge

So for the fun of it so that everyone here has a chance to get to know me, I am going to participate in a 30 Day Blogging Challenge, where I answer once a day a question that has already been predetermined about myself.  This is something that makes blogging a part of my everyday life so that I can get into it again, and maybe over the next 30 days I will get into the vloging thing I also want to really get into.  In the past I tried to be a part of a group vlog but I never really got into was always too nervous about participating so my goal is to get over that little fear of mine.

But just so that you all know what the plan is, I am going to list all of the 30 questions to be answered here for your own viewing pleasure.

Day 1: Introduce, recent picture of yourself, 15 interesting facts.
Day 2: Nicknames.
Day 3: Your first love.
Day 4: Your parents.
Day 5: What song inspires you.
Day 6: Pet peeves.
Day 7: What makes you happy.
Day 8: A place you’ve traveled to and where else you want to travel.
Day 9: A favorite picture of your best friend.
Day 10: Something you’re afraid of.
Day 11: A quote you love.
Day 12: Something you don’t leave the house without.
Day 13: Goals.
Day 14: A picture of you last year – how have you changed?
Day 15: Death row meal.
Day 16: Your opinion about your body and how comfortable you are with it.
Day 17: Put your iPod on shuffle, first 10 songs.
Day 18: Something you miss.
Day 19: Things you want to say to an ex.
Day 20: Something you wonder “What if…?” about.
Day 21: Something you’re proud of.
Day 22: What do you want your future to be like?
Day 23: Favorite Movies and TV Show.
Day 24: Something you’ve learned.
Day 25: Something you are looking forward to.
Day 26: Your Dream Wedding.
Day 27: Photo of your city .
Day 28: What stresses you out?
Day 29: Who is you hero?
Day 30: A picture of yourself this day and 5 good things that happened since you started the challenge.

Starting Over/Just Beginning

So today when I logged in here, it had been over 2 years since I had last updated so I decided to give it all a fresh start.  First I took and deleted all the older posts next I am going to give this page a brand new look.  Time to find a look for new blog, I am hoping that maybe with a fresh out look this will get some good traffic.  I am also going to get back into my working out ways and hopefully going to get into losing weight again.