You can't always get what you want But if you try sometimes you might find You get what you needat you need

It is your birthday. - 1,000 points to whomever gets that reference.

It's my birthday today and well...it was exactly like every other Sunday at our house except Gary and Remy made me homemade Chinese food. Yum! It was so extremely yummy.They did such a great job!  They made a veggie stir fry, sweet and sour chicken, and rice noodles.

 Today was also Stake Conference. We got there right when it was to begin and had to sit in the very last row. One of the little girls from my class came and sat with Remy and I. We had such a nice time talking and drawing. I started to feel guilty about not paying attention to the speakers and then I came to the realization that sometimes this is just as  important. While the talks were extremely important, for right then it was more important for me to talk with this little girl, to let her feel my love for her as her primary teacher. I felt she needed to know that I was her friend and that she was important and I would take the time to talk with her. I will probably get to hear the messages again at one point in my life but the time with this little girl I probably won't get that chance again. This is such an important lesson for me to remember and learn, so although it wasn't anything the speakers said I did learn a lot today.

When she found out it was my birthday she let everyone in our row know. It was cracking me up. She would run down the row stopping at each person point to me and say "it's her birthday today!" She decorated my hands in princess stickers and drew me a picture. While she was drawing me a picture she asked if I could write down my house number. I did, and as soon as I was finished she rushed to her Mom and told her and they needed to go here *pointing at the numbers* today for my birthday party. She then rushed back and asked me to draw a picture of my house. I did and she instantly rushed back over to show her Mom what my house looked like. She told me they needed to know what my house looked like so they knew how to find it when they drove to it later. I told her I wasn't having a birthday party and she looked at me like I had two heads she then said, "When are you going to eat cake?" I told her I would probably make one for FHE on Monday and she replied, "Oh okay, we'll come over then." 

As silly as this sounds she made me feel special and it's nice to feel special on your birthday.

Also I'll let you know how I did on my birthday goals, I'll admit right now that I didn't finish them all but I'm okay with that. 

Chelsea Goals:

Church:

•                     Go to the Temple  (June 14,2011)

•                     Get sealed (June 18, 2011)

•                     Complete Book of Mormon reading (June 7,2011) (actual May 16,2011)

•                     Complete Young Women Personal Progress

•                     Spend an hour on genealogy (3/6) 

•                     Finish temple booklet

•                     Go to the temple (1/3)

•                     Get certificate for institute

Finances

•                     Keep track and stick to budget (0/3) (honestly we had way too many unusual expenses lately to make this possible but now that things are getting back to normal we can actually get back to budget)  

•                     Move money into safety deposit box

•                     Look into disability bond

•                     Research new cell phone carries and choose one

Body

•                     Learn more about running and buy correct shoes

•                     Run 10 continual minutes

•                     Run 15 continual minutes (I'm up to 13 min)

•                     Run 20 continual minutes

•                     Find better skin care regiment

◦                     Lush

•                     Cancel proactiv

Food

•                     Try 10 new recipes         

•                     Try 3 new foods

•                     Don't eat after dinner for one week! (0/7)

•                     Have one couple over for dinner or dessert once a month (7/7)

Mind

•                     Read books I have before buying any new ones

•                     Get my N (July 13,2011)

•                     Take a community class

•                     Get up before 9 (7/7)

•                     Get up Before 9 (30/30)

•                     Find out about graduation

Community

◦                     Call company for HR rep name

◦                     Format resume and cover letter

•                     Complete 3 service projects of my own (2/3)

Hobbies:

•                     Finish the top of my quilt

•                     Make a skirt 

•                     One picture a week (29/29)

•                     At least one blog post a week

•                     Write in my journal once a week (7/29)

•                     Go camping (backyard Sunday May 22,2011) (Andrea and Chris August 20,2011)

•                     Do a photostrip at the mall (Friday October 21,2011)

Home:

•                     Research and switch over one cleaning product to a more natural one. (Laundry detergent! and plans for homemade hand soap) 

So tomorrow I'll have a whole new set of goals and Remy is even getting in on them with me. I can't wait. Do you have any goals your working on? What's been your favorite birthday as an adult?

P.S. Happy Birthday to my almost birthday twin Rachel!

Do it, to it

This post isn't very exciting but I wanted to share. I mentioned in my last post that Remy and I made a list of goals we would like to do before our birthdays. Some goals were long term and some were short term. Instead of being completely overwhelmed and not doing them at all I decided that every Sunday I was going to pick a few to do that week. So this was this weeks list:
Bold is complete
Italics is in progress

• Read one chapter of the Book of Mormon a day
• Read temple booklet on Sunday
• Go to institute
• Research disability savings bond
• Cancel proactive
  
• Read Friday Night Knitting Club
• Get up before 9 everyday this week
  
• Find out about graduation
• Format resume and cover letter
• Send cover letter and resume
• One Journal Entry
• One Blog entry
• One picture
• Make VT appointments
  
• Go VT
• Return bottles
• Do face masks and nails
• Research health insurance
• Make a skirt
• Pay bills
• Get tax stuff together
• Get Mom's card in the mail
• Take out tithing
  

Tomorrow I will make a whole new list for next week. I have really enjoyed waking up every morning to a list of possible accomplishments.

Now I am not sure what most 23 year old young ladies want to have done before they are 24 but here is mine:

Church:

• Go to the Temple (June 14,2011)

• Get sealed (June 18, 2011)

• Complete Book of Mormon reading (June 7,2011)

• Complete Young Women Personal Progress

• Spend an hour on genealogy (0/6)

• Finish temple booklet

• Go to the temple (0/3)

• Get certificate for institute

Finances

• Keep track and stick to budget (0/3)

• Move money into safety deposit box

• Look into disability bond

• Research new cell phone carries and choose one

Body

• Learn more about running and buy correct shoes

• Run 10 continual minutes

• Run 15 continual minutes

• Run 20 continual minutes

• Find better skin care regiment

  • Lush

• Cancel proactiv

• Do Calenetics (0/19) per month

Food

• Try 10 new recipes

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• Try 3 new foods

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• Don't eat after dinner for one week! (0/7)

• Have one couple over for dinner or dessert once a month (0/7)

Mind

• Read books I have before buying any new ones

  • Friday Night Knitting Club (and then return)

  • Say You're One of Them

  • Juliet

  • Doll in McCallaway's Store

  • Willow Switch

  • Sunday's at Tiffany

  • The Thirteenth Tale

• Get my N

• Take a community class

• Get up before 9 (7/7)

• Get up Before 9 (0/30)

• Find out about graduation

Community

• By April 30 either a job or volunteer

  • Call company for HR rep name

  • Format resume and cover letter

• Complete 3 service projects of my own (0/3)

Hobbies:

• Finish the top of my quilt

• Make a skirt

• One picture a week (0/29)

• At least one blog post a week (0/29)

• Write in my journal once a week (0/29)

• Go camping

• Do a photostrip at the mall with Remy
  

Home:

• Research and switch over one cleaning product to a more natural one.

• Get crackin with moving details
  

I am constantly added more, it's kind of addicting. What are some of your goals for this year?