Music Mondays – 40 Greatest One- Hit Wonders of the ’90s

***Taking it back a little bit, VH1 did a special called, “VH1′s 40 Greatest One-Hit Wonders of the ’90s”, if you haven’t seen it, I recommend it – the following is the list***

40. Whoomp There It Is – Tag Team
39. I Touch Myself – Divinyls
38. How Do You Talk To An Angel – The Heights
37. Bitch – Meredith Brooks
36. Bad Boys – Inner Circle
35. Sex & Candy – Marcy Playground
34. You Gotta Be – Des’ree
33. I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) – Proclaimers
32. MyBabyDaddy – B-Rock & The Bizz
31. Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm – Crash Test Dummies
30. Bitter Sweet Symphony – The Verve
29. Lullaby – Shawn Mullins
28. Flava In Ya Ear – Craig Mack
27. Achy Breaky Heart – Billy Ray Cyrus
26. Mambo #5 (A Little Bit Of….) – Lou Bega
25. The Impression That I Get – The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
24. Feed The Tree – Belly
23. What Is Love – Haddaway
22. Walking In Memphis – Marc Cohn
21. Legend Of A Cowgirl – Imani Coppola
20. Good Vibrations – Marky Mark & the Funky Bunch
19. Steal My Sunshine – Len
18. Unbelievable – EMF
17. Informer – Snow
16. Jump – Kris Kross
15. No Rain – Blind Melon
14. Rump Shaker – Wreckx-N-Effect
13. Cotton Eye Joe – Red-Nex
12. The Humpty Dance – Digital Underground
11. You Get What You Give – New Radicals
11. One Of Us – Joan Osborne
9. Jump Around – House Of Pain
8. Barely Breathing – Duncan Sheik
7. Ice Ice Baby – Vanilla Ice
6. Closing Time – Semisonic
5. Tubthumping – Chumbawamba
4. Macarena – Los Del Rio
3. Rico Suave – Gerardo
2. I’m Too Sexy – Right Said Fred
1. Baby Got Back – Sir Mix-A-Lot

***Now tell me you didn’t just go listen to them***

A Few Of My Favorite Things – Florida Edition

A few days ago I posted a list of my favorite things about Texas and the Houston area that I am glad to be going back to. This is a list of things about Florida I am going to miss when we move (not in any particular order):

1. Publix Grocery Stores – Publix subs, Sweet tea, the deli, the bakery
2. Sebring Diner
3. Sundays on the lake
4. My family – my grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles
5. The Blue Lagoon
6. Being able to get anywhere in town in 20 minutes or less
7. Rosario’s – best veal Parmesan any. where.
8. Highlands Hammock State Park
9. My friends – Andi, Suzi, Maynard, Carri, Maggie, Nick, Kayla, Brian, Michelle
10. Becky at the Cinemark movie theater
11. Thai House
12. My gramma’s house
13. Annette at Today’s Creations
14. Florida Beaches
15. Tampa Bay Bucs games – even though I am NOT a Bucs fan
16. Running into people I know everywhere I go
17. The “Small Town” feeling
18. Taking my son to my old high school
19. Trips to Legoland
20. Yanni’s
21. The group I work with at Edward Jones

A Few Of My Favorite Things – Texas Edition

The following is a list of my favorite things about Texas and the Houston area that I am glad to be going back to, things I have missed (in no particular order):

1. HEB Grocery Stores – Honey Jalapeño Rotisserie Chicken – need I say more?
2. Chuy’s – If you have experienced it, you understand.
3. The Woodlands Waterway
4. Market Street
5. Floating the river
6. Trips to Joanie & John’s house
7. The Austin area
8. Reliant Stadium
9. The Galleria
10. The Water Wall
11. Alamo Draft House
12. Kemah Boardwalk
13. Houston Rodeo
14. iTz
15. Sushi Hana
16. Rocco’s
17. Blue bonnets
18. Blue Bell creamery
19. Chappell Hill Sausage
20. Moody Gardens
21. Fredericksburg
22. Spending time with the James family
23. Barton Springs

2013 Resolutions

Resolutions for 2013

I make resolutions every year, some I keep and some I break. I wonder sometimes if I should make them because of the pressure to complete them. My husband calls them goals, and maybe if I looked at them that way I would achieve more of them.

So my goals for 2013 are as follows:

1. Health – every year, every month, every week I say I am going to eat better, exercise more….and for a short time I do but then I fall right back into the bad eating and laziness of not exercising. It is stupid cause I feel better when I eat better and exercise but it is easier to do and be the other way. Now with having diabetes my health is really a factor. So, my first goal for 2013 is to get healthy, all of us…no excuses, no laziness.

2. Family – Spend more time with my family instead of sitting on the couch on a Saturday or Sunday, I want to take more time to get out and do things with my kids and husband. Which leads me to my next one…

3. Parks – Visit every state park in Florida this year I want to visit every state park in Florida with the kids. Some I have been to but it has been a long time.

4. Faith – this year I will incorporate faith, God and church into our life more. I don’t want to be an occasional church goer anymore, and I want to instill faith in my children.

5. Organization – I say I am going to be better organized and stay less cluttered and 2013 is going to be the year it happens.

6. Friends – I will make more time for my friends this year. I live back in my hometown where a lot of people I grew up with still live yet I don’t take the time to make plans with them. That will change this year.

7. Charity – I will be more giving this year, and teach my kids this as well. I will help random people as well as give to my charities of choice in 2013.

8. Football – I love professional football. I know quite a bit but would like to know more and understand the game better. I’d also like to do fantasy this year, more then just the Perfect Challenge the NFL offers. And I would like to go to both a Miami Dolphin and Houston Texans game when the 2013 season starts.

9. Save – I will save more money this year. I will put myself on a budget, stick to it and put money in savings and away for retirement. I will get my kids to save more. I want to reestablish the envelope system and have them put money in for spend, short term goal, long term goal, save and charity.

10. Complete – this year I will start something and complete it. I will start 30 day challenges and not complete them. I will complete things this year.

Music Monday – Music Obsession

The following songs I am completely addicted to and listen to them over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over (ok, I think you get it) again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Music Mondays – Work Out Playlist

I was working out today at the YMCA and usually I just let whatever movie they are playing in the background dictate my workout. I realized today that I have to stop doing that. Depending on who is the “floor” person determines if we listen to Top 40 or Easy Listening…and let’s just face it, easy listening doesn’t suit well for a workout.

So my current “Work Out” playlist consists of the following:

1. Jessie J – Domino
2. Gotye/Kimbra – Somebody That I Used To Know
3. David Guetta/Nicki Minaj – Turn Me On
4. Kelly Clarkson – What Doesn’t Kill You
5. One Direction – What Makes You Beautiful
6. Calvin Harris – Feel So Close
7. Breathe Carolina – Blackout
8. Gym Class Heroes – Back Home
9. Chris Brown – Beautiful People
10. Outasight – Tonight is The Night
11. LMFAO – Sorry For Party Rocking
12. Train – Drive By
13. Maroon 5/Wiz Khalifa – Payphone
14. HOt Chelle Rae/New Boyz – I Like It Like That
15. Foster The People – Pumped Up Kicks
16. Jennifer Lopez/Pitbull – Dance Again
17. Carly Rae Jepsen – Call Me Maybe
18. Maroon 5/Christina Aguilera – Moves Like Jagger
19. Britney Spears – Toxic
20. Gym Class Heros/Adam Levine – Stereo Hearts
21. Foster The People – Don’t Stop
22. Yolanda Be Cool/Dcup – We No Speak Americano
23. Estelle/Kanye West – American Boy
24. Cobra Starship/Leighton Meester – Good Girls Go Bad
25. Dev – In The Dark
26. Havana Brown/Pitbull – We Run The Night
27. Alexandra Stan – Mr. Saxo Beat
28. Afrojack – Take Over Control
29. LMFAO – Party Rock Anthem
30. Cee Lo Green – Forget You
31. Chris Brown – Turn Up The Music
32. Hot Chelle Rae – Tonight Tonight
33. Cobra Starship/Sabi – You Make Me Feel…
34. Kanye West – All Of The Lights
35. Luke Bryan – Country Girl (Shake It For Me)
36. Neon Trees – Animal
37. Get Cool – Shawty Got Moves
38. Marianas Trench – Cross My Heart
39. K’naan/Adam Levine – Bang Bang
40. Animotion – Obsession
41. Junior Senior – Move Your Feet
42. Jason Derulo – It Girl
43. Chris Trousdale/Nevermind – Not Too Young
44. Groove Armada – I See You Baby
45. Tina Parol – Who’s Got Your Money

So, I ask you….what do you work out to?  What should I add to my Work Out playlist?

Tuesday Truths – Resolutions

We are four months into the year and my resolutions have both been kept and broken.  Here is where I stand now with them. My resolutions for 2012:

1.  Blog More – Well you all know how this one has gone….basically it hasn’t gone well. I say all the time I would honestly like to blog more and then I don’t. I am the only one to blame for that. There is plenty I could blog about to fill up at least four to five of the seven days of the week if not all seven.

2. Be better to myself – this is another one I have broke and I am paying for it. I take weight off, I put it on, I take it off, I put it on. I get active, I get lazy. I feel good about myself, I fall into depression.

3. Priorities - I am going to blame this one partially for why blogging more has fallen off my list. I have been trying to spend more time with my family, and have been. I have not kept up on some of the other priorities on my list such as being good to myself and incorporating faith and God more into our lives.

4. Give Back More – I have done some volunteering but not as much as I would like to.

5. Make new friends and reconnect with old ones – Reconnecting with old friends just seems to keep happening and reoccurring constantly for me. I am reconnecting with people I haven’t seen or spoken to in years and it feels good. Now to work on the making new friends part.

6. Take a family trip/vacation – I am working out a family trip (plans, budget, saving) for a trip to Hawaii in the summer of 2013. I am hoping it will all work out so that I we can go, looks good for now.

7. Put myself on a budget and STICK TO IT!!! – Still saving and investing, still not on a budget!

8. Be more organized and efficient – This has not been an easy one for me. I have become more efficient and organized at work but not at home or in my own life.

9. Date Night – Still keeping with weekly (or as often as we possibly can) lunches with one friend. Have spent time out with my girls. Try to go out with my husband (just us) or go out as a family for dinner. Sometimes we go to dinner as a family then the boys go to one movie and the girls go to another.

Tuesday Truths – Following Up On Resolutions

My resolutions for 2012:

1.  Blog More – this is one I say I am going to do all the time and then fall behind on it. This year I would honestly like to blog more and want to make an active effort to do so. I enjoy blogging even if I don’t do it that well. – Well, let’s see…..I certainly have not stuck to this one. I honestly do want to blog more and would like to make the effort to do so.  But I know I can say that and until I do it is nothing but words.  Maybe I am still afraid of what people will think of what I write and I need to just stop that.  

2. Be better to myself – how I feel, the way I eat, how much I exercise, taking care of myself, making an effort in my apperience (nails, clothes, hair). – I have made a small effort at this one.  I did change my eating habits for a while but fell back into eating junk cause it’s just easier and let’s face it, it does taste good. This needs to be an effort that I put more into because if I don’t my health will pay for it.

3. Priorities - Get my priorities in order: God, Family, Myself, my friends, etc. – I can honestly say that I have done the most with this resolution, aside from taking better care of myself. I am making an effort to spend more time with my friends and family, and enjoy myself while doing so. I am not dealing with people’s drama, and instead avoiding people who bring drama into my life. I have a great family, a great set of friends who are like family and I have God in my life.

4. Give Back More – Volunteering, donating – I have not done anything on this resolution.

5. Make new friends and reconnect with old ones – Being back in Sebring has helped me to reconnect with my old friends and through them I have met some fantastic new people. I have also reconnected with a great group of girls that I love even though we are all in different parts of the U.S., I feel like they are my soul at times.

6. Take a family trip/vacation – A trip with Richard, the kids and myself to Hawaii? NY? Texas? California? – This might not happen till next year because of saving money to do so; however we are spending more time together as a family. 

7. Put myself on a budget and STICK TO IT!!! – Set a weekly/monthly budget for myself to stick to, invest more and prepare for the future. – I am actively putting money away for retirement, however I have not put myself on a budget yet so I have yet to stick to anything. 

8. Be more organized and efficient – in my life, at work, at home – The procrastinator in me will not allow this to happen for what ever reason and it is both sad and sickening. I need to be more organized, my stress would be so much less if I was.

9. Date Night – make regular “Date Nights” with my hubby and my girls, even if only once a month. - This is probably one of the only resolutions I have done anything with. My hubby and I have taken time to go out together. I have a friend who we try to do lunch every week. Now I just need to get a girls night together with my girls here in town and this resolution will be almost perfect.

Resolutions for 2012

Ok, so maybe I behind the norm….waiting till the 8th day of the new year to post what my resolutions will be for that year but I wrote the list in December of 2011 so it still counts right?

This was meant to be posted on the first of January but nothing ever happens when it is supposed to in my life. There is a reason I am known as a procrastinator. I’d say that is one thing I would like to change but I know honestly that it probably never will.

Alright, enough with the chit chat…

My resolutions for 2012:

1.  Blog More – this is one I say I am going to do all the time and then fall behind on it. This year I would honestly like to blog more and want to make an active effort to do so. I enjoy blogging even if I don’t do it that well.

2. Be better to myself – how I feel, the way I eat, how much I exercise, taking care of myself, making an effort in my apperience (nails, clothes, hair).

3. Priorities - Get my priorities in order: God, Family, Myself, my friends, etc.

4. Give Back More – Volunteering, donating

5. Make new friends and reconnect with old ones -

6. Take a family trip/vacation – A trip with Richard, the kids and myself to Hawaii? NY? Texas? California?

7. Put myself on a budget and STICK TO IT!!! – Set a weekly/monthly budget for myself to stick to, invest more and prepare for the future.

8. Be more organized and efficient – in my life, at work, at home

9. Date Night – make regular “Date Nights” with my hubby and my girls, even if only once a month.

 

Music Monday – Favorite Christmas Carols

The following are my favorite Christmas Carols:

“Angels We Have Heard On High” – 1862 – a French traditional carol “Les Anges dans nos Campagnes“

“Away in a Manger” – 1885 – first two stanzas attributed to unknown auther with the third stanza written by John McFarland in 1904

“Do You Hear What I Hear?” – 1962 – written by Noel Regney and Gloria Shayne

“Joy to the World” – words by Isaac Watts based on Psalm 98; music arranged by Lowell Mason based on themes in Handel’s Messiah

“Noel nouvelet” – French Carol – 15th century – translated into English as “Sing We Now of Christmas“

“O Holy Night” – words by Placide Cappeau de Rouquemaure, translated by John Sullivan Dwight, music arranged by Adolphe Adam

“Silent Night” – “Stille Nacht! heilige Nacht!” – written by Franz Xaver Gruber and Josef Mohr, English translation by John Freeman Young

“We Three Kings of Orient Are” – 1863 – written by Rev. John Henry Hopkins – strictly an Ephiphany carol