Tooting my own horn

So please forgive me if I toot my own horn for a minute here. I just feel so happy. You see I have always been a big fan of meal planning. I spend about 2 hours twice a month planning my meals for the following two weeks. I then write out a menu (that I mostly stick to) and then comes the fun part. . . I write out a grocery list that is divided into categories according to the layout of my favorite (and the cheapest) grocery store. Beside each item on my list I estimate how much it is going to cost me and then I add up all of the items in a category and I write the total for the category beside its title. After that I add up the sum of all of the categories and I have the total of what my grocery bill will be.
Now the store that I love to shop at carries just about everything from clothes, to baby supplies and cleaning supplies to automobile parts and toys. So my grocery bill always includes just about any item I may need to buy over the two weeks including birthday presents and cleaning supplies and clothes.
Ok, so yesterday I decided to do a little experiment and divide my total by the number of days (14) that I need the groceries for and then divide that by the number of people in my household (7). (Lahni are you proud yet?) By doing this I was able to come up with the fact that it cost me $6/person per day to run my household for the next two weeks.
I am THRILLED!!! It just gives me such a feeling of accomplishment when I realize that by planning everything out I am able to save so much money. I feel great about that! I LOVE to save money and this has always been something that I have done. . . not because I knew how much money that it would save me, but because I love to feel organized and I hate to not know what I am going to be making for dinner. It always feels great to know that I don't have to go back to the grocery store for 2 weeks. . . . I mean how awesome is that????
So, thanks for letting me toot my own horn today. . . I think that I am just about all parrumphed out now!

Just like a good bra!

I have never realized how motivating good support could be. You see we all know how support is important in a bra. . . but how about in real life? I have never been the type of person to say to someone. . . hey let's try this out together. . . I usually try it myself and then either encourage or discourage others to try it out for themselves.
Well, the saying does go "No man is an island" and that is true I think. I have recently written down my New Year's Resolutions on this blog, and what surprised me was how my mom and sisters had a similar one to me. So we decided to create a group and work on our goal together. Yesterday I was feeling a bit discouraged by my goal and then I was able to read how my mom and sisters were working on their goal and it gave me the reassurance and strength that I needed to stick to it. Some of us are doing better than others, and our methods of accomplishing our goal are different because all of our circumstances are different. However, being able to read that my mom and sisters are all there working on the same thing as I am has really made me feel great!
So, here's hoping that the results are great. . . kind of like when I wear a good bra!

I haven't got much to say

Nothing terribly exciting has been happening lately. We are all doing well. Our illnesses are starting to go away and life seems to be getting back to normal. I hope that all of you are doing great too. . . . I guess I will write more at another time when something happens, or I feel I have something to say.

I know you read this

I know you read this Grandma and Grandpa so this one's for you. Ummmm. . . how were you able to leave without even saying goodbye? I know that I could have picked up the phone or stopped by, but I have been sick. I hope that I didn't get you guys sick at all. Selling the farm was okay, especially because it meant that I got to see you two for 3 days!! Next time you come home though can you please stay a little bit longer??? I sure do miss you!
I'm sorry I didn't get to talk to you before you left. I hope that you made it to the airport okay and that your flights were okay. I sure hope that you are alive and well, and I assume that you are or I really hope that I would have heard something by now!
Anyways, I love you and hopefully will talk to you soon!
Thanks for reading,
Love
Megan

A Little Under the Weather

Have you ever felt guilty for being sick? I am totally feeling like that right now. We have had this strange bug going around our house and it has now "infected" more than half of us. This isn't the flu, but it is a different sort of bug. It makes you exhausted, have severe headaches, an eye infection, sinus infection, and ear infection. You feel terrible.
Here's the thing. I seem to have caught it. Now I don't know if any of you are like me, but I just don't classify myself as being sick unless I am throwing up. I am not throwing up, but I feel terrible, and I have been for quite a few days now. However, I am feeling guilty because I am kind of wondering if I may be faking it a bit to get out of doing things. Now, I know that this is silly, however I am not throwing up so I just keep on asking myself what is wrong because I can't seem to do anything!!!
I don't know. . . maybe this is just me feeling guilty because I can't seem to get anything done and I am starting to feel overwhelmed. . . . I think that I will mull this over while I go back to my bed for another nap.

Who knew?

Well, I have about 5 minutes before my grandparents will be here for dinner, so I thought I would use them to write a little somethin' somethin! I AM EXHAUSTED!!! Who knew that the first Sunday in the year would be such a hectic day???? Maybe I haven't ever had such a large calling before, or maybe it was the fact that I was also filling in for 2 other people today (and had to turn down the opportunity to fill in for another 2 more because I just couldn't do it!), or maybe it was the fact that I stayed up so late last night! Nah! I don't believe it was that last one! I have been wondering if the Sabbath day truly is the day of rest that it is supposed to be. Who knows? Maybe it will get less hectic each Sunday. . . here's hoping!

What's yours like?

So its that time of year again when we all set goals that we may (or may not) accomplish during the year. I am huge on goal setting! I think that I got this from my mom. She always taught me to have goals, and so I have never gone a year without something to work towards. So. . . here are my goals for 2009:

1 - Lose the rest of my weight to get down to my goal weight (25 lbs down and 25 more to go!!)

2 - Create another form of savings so that my eggs aren't all in one basket! (It makes me nervous to have all of my money in one place!)

3 - Study the Doctrine and Covenants. This may sound easy, but I am in the Primary Presidency in our ward so I don't get to attend Sunday School or Relief Society, so I will have to do this all on my own. I am excited to do this because I love learning more about church history and about Joseph Smith!

4 - Spend 1 hour every day tidying up the house! I HATE to tidy and I would much rather clean, but this needs to be done more and who knows. . . maybe next year I can move onto cleaning more!!!

So there you have it! My 4 goals for 2009. We'll see how well I do, but the first step is to write them down right???
So, just curious. . . what are your goals like for this new year???