Refresh.

Sometimes I just want to push the refresh button on my day and restart what I am doing.  My last blog was a bad day (but I am not going to delete it so I can go back and read it someday and see how I have improves) and I was having self-issues, which is odd for me, but I think it had to do with my insane anxiety of meeting the principal in Arizona where we will be student teaching.  So I'm back, not so downer but ready to do something about these self-issues.  I think we all have them, and somedays they just surface more than other days. So today, I decided to not be so sad, anxious, and stressed about all these problems and come up with a solution.

Solution #1 Go to bed at 9PM and wake up at 7AM.. I need to get into the habit as a future teacher, so why not start now :) (Weekends are semi-different though)
Solution #2 Find time each day to go on a walk with my hubby, even if it's just around the block.  To just get out, relax, and enjoy all of Heavenly Fathers creations.
Solution #3 If I cook, Jake will clean right after we are done eating.  I've found the reason I haven't been cooking isn't a lack of time, but a lack of clean dishes/pots/pans etc.  I'll cook this great meal and say let's do this again but we never got around to the dishes.  So while I do the cooking, Jake does homework and while Jake cleans, I do homework. Let's see how it goes. But I did tell him we can cook/clean together when one of us isn't too busy.
Solution-ish #4 I found this website a while ago when I went on my health-kick (which totally worked until finals last semester!! and it did instill some of the smaller things in our life, like less junk food, red meat, meat in general, and way more veggies) But this semester I've gotten lazy and here is how I am getting out of it. http://www.100daysofrealfood.com/ She has a 5 week meal plan set up with recipes, grocery lists, and day to day normal ish foods.  So we are going to try and eat the meals that are planned and try new things, except fish, however, we are NOT going to go off sugar completely or eat only organic, local grown, because it's near impossible here and makes me stressed out.  We are just going to find time to balance our eating with our life.

So lets see what happens from here. Starting with Solution 1 as most doable to Solution 4 to hopefully doable. Oh and this weekend on our road trip back from AZ we both got a little bit of soda and it was gross, too sugary, too high-fructose sugar, I couldn't even drink it. YAY! exciting.

p.s. sorry for my previous downer post, but sometimes I just have to vent to the world.
And I also read http://behindtherefrigeratordoor.blogspot.com/ and she's such a great motivator of a healthy lifestyle.

p.s.s. Jake got a haircut, can you tell?!