A couple of fun goals

 

Goal # 75 - Add to my lighthouse collection

 

Ok, I got on e-bay and found some lighthouses that I liked.  I haven't had

experience with the whole bidding thing, so I put a bid on

all the ones I liked that I could afford.  Well No one bid on 3 of them

so I was the highest bidder.  The Christmas one had a few bids

and it is the one I wanted the most, so with the help of Tish

(and Aaron & Lorins experience) I learned the art of bidding on

e-bay and became the highest bidder.  YES!!!!! 

Top right is Thomas Kinkade-Bottom right is Boston Light (Bradbury Mint)-

Christmas is Harbour Lights Limited Edition-Top left is just one I bid on

and no-one bid on it so it was mine.  They are all pretty and in the curios cabinet.

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Goal # 51 - Learn more about my camera

I read 179 pages of the manual of features my camera has.  I had no idea it could

do so many things.  Below is a feature that you can make a panorama from

pictures.  I used Photo stitch that was downloaded on my computer.

I will use it again because it was extremely easy-

didn't know I had this feature.

 

 

My first try-didn't get the last two pictures lined up exactly right.  I'll do better next time.

 

This feature is with color enhancement. 

Sepia, Black & white, vivid green, vivid red,

 vivid almost any color, etc.

 

Vivid Color-not a whole lot of difference but enough to use.  I told

Lorin we have to go back to southern Utah now and retake all the pictures.

 

Bottom is regular, top right is vivid blue, 

top left is vivid color - very slight difference.

 

If you have a face that is washed out you can use the

"darker skin tone" effect. It also has a "lighter skin tone" effect. 

 

I can change the exposure to compensate for darker areas and lighter areas.

I know I will use this one.  Needed this one at Hoover Dam.

 

There are a lot more features. Special scene modes

include aquarium, beach, fireworks, foliage, indoor, kids & pets,

night, portrait (with this one is face recognition),snow,

sunset, underwater.  One that I'm sure I will be using is

that I can add voice tags to the picture.  From now on there

is now excuse for shooting bad pictures.

 

 





Some goals take time

Goal # 78 - Make a movie of places Lorin & I have been

Sounds like something that should take a day or two, right?  Maybe for some, but for me it took a month.  The hardest part was coming up with music to go with the pictures.  It needs to be interesting to listen to because there are a lot of pictures.

It was a lot of fun (sometimes a little frustrating) and I am pleased with the result.  It seems like you learn with each project that you try and as I was watching the burned DVD I found some things I would have changed.  Live and Learn....

In the picture below there are two pictures of the program I used
to make the movie, two of the DVD with the cover I made, the other two are the case inserts-front and back.  

Goal # 64 - Drink 6-8 glasses of water a day for a week at a time 6 times 

This is the cup I kept in the fridge because I don't like the temperature of tap water.  I was having a hard time drinking enough water so finally this idea came to me and it worked very well; get thirsty - go to the fridge - get a big drink of cold water.

I will keep it there so I drink more water.

A few more goals completed

Goal # 6 -  Polish Nails 2 times a month for 6 months and

Gaol # 12 - Get a manicure

I didn't take pictures of the 6 months of polishing my nails.  On the 10th of July I took grandma to Evans beauty college to get her pedicure and I did a manicure while she got the pedicure.  I will get pedicures from now on because they do the manicures on one end of the building and the pedicures on the other end, therefore we weren't together. I have to say I did not get a very good job done.I guess that is what you get when you got to the beauty college instead of a salon.  I have mom go to the school because they are much more gentle with her than the salon was.

I need lotion bad!!!!

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Goal # 62 - Watch movies we bought with Lorin

We had a video rental  place in Rexburg that went out of business and they were selling the used videos and games.  Out of curiousity we went in and were able to find numerous shows that sounded interesting. They were mostly $1:00 & $2:00 each.   After watching them we decided there were some much more interesting than others. Here's a list in order of interest, in my opinion.
The Brotherhood, My Sister's Keeper, Flight of the Intruder, The Cincinnati Kid, The Family Man, Four Christmases, Where Eagles Dare, American Outlaws, Bad Company, The Box, Cold Sweat, Mazes & Monsters.
It took a while to watch them and we were very entertained-a little popcorn, soda, comfy couch, and each othere's company.  Pretty fun time.

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Goal # 32 - Organize Memory Manager

This took a long time.  I had scanned all my pictures into Memory Manager on the computer, and put them in seperate folders which took me many months and then I enhanced the old ones to make them look better.  My computer started running very slowly so I thought it had too many pictures on it, so I downloaded it all onto a exterior hard drive and then deleted it out of my computer along with the program.  BAD MISTAKE!!!!!  I lost all the pictures I had entered in to the program.  They wouldn't work for some reason.  Well I had to re-download the program, make new folders for the different pictures, scan all the pictures back in (I scanned them in 3-8 pictures at a time, so I had to make 2-7 copies of each scan to have enough copies to seperate them all), and enhance them all again.  This too took many months of almost daily working on them.

This time I was a little smarter and burned them onto DVD's.  There is a Fowler Vault, Hales Vault, and a Gutke Vault. They will stay on my computer in Memory Manager having learned that the pictures wasn't the cause of the slowness anyway.  Live and Learn.



Sage Day Spa

Goal # 10     Get a facial

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Goal # 49     Use my Sage Day Spa Card for whatever I need most.

This was two of the most enjoyable goals that I have completed-ever!!!

Thank you my kids for such a wonderful gift.

First I got into a preheated bed, got a wonderful foot massage with

warm lotions so my feet wouldn't get cold, then booties

to keep the oils in. Next an incredible face massage with numerous

lotions and oils, followed with a scrub and more lotions. While I was

waiting for the face mask to work (with a great smelling mist blowing

 over my face) I recieved an arm/hand massage. I have never

felt so pampered. It was incredible. It was supposed

to take 1 hour and I was there for 1 1/2 hours.  I will have to have

 another one of these for sure. I can't really explain how awesome

it was with only words.

 

The spa in Rexburg

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Goal # 22     Go to the temple for endowments 2 times a month for six months

Lorin and I went to the temple today to do a session. It is so peaceful and

I love being there. I miss working there on Fridays, so it was so nice to

see our friends.  We like to go on Friday for that reason.  On of the times

we attended in Idaho Falls to see Lorin's Niece take out her endowments.

What a fantastic experience that was. She has been married

for numerous years and so it was a very special occation.

This too was such a great goal to work on.



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It's time for catching up on accomplishments

Goal #39:  Clean my jewelry

You wouldn't thing it would take very long to clean jewelry,

but I had to work on it for two days to get them all

 clean and shiny.  Does that mean I need to get rid of some?  Probably

It is very hard and tedious to clean ear rings, especially

studs. That was the hardest part of the whole thing. You can't

tell by the pictures, but everything was really shiny when I finished.

Part of my cleaned jewelry.

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 Goal #58  Read "The Fire of the Covenant"

I have always had a great respect for our ancestry and after reading

this book I can't even imagine how horrible the ordeal would

have been. They suffered persecution in thier home-lands so

they came to america where they were still persecuted in the
Eastern states. It was about the handcart companies of Willie
and Martin. What they had to endure was horrendous-so
extremely cold and hungry, living on 6 oz of flour per adult and
4 oz for the children,  water, and whatever meat they could find.
 Pulling the minimum it took to live-leaving piles of thier
belongings when they  started out and getting rid of more on the
way. I  am so glad I didn't live to  have to endure what they did. 
I asked Mom and Dad if we had relatives  that pulled handcarts.
We did on mom's side but none suffered with the

 Willie and Martin companies. Still it was a huge hardship. 
I really enjoyed reading this  book a lot.  Thank you Tish and Aaron
for the  Mother's Day present numerous years ago.

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Goal # 60:  Go shopping again and again

I have to admit I love this goal.  This shopping trip was for my birthday

present.  I have a few jackets that Lorin doesn't like the looks of so he

wanted to buy me a new coat. I dragged him all over Rexburg, which

doesn't take long considering we are limited on stores. Then we

checked out all the stores we could think of in Idaho Falls. There are a

lot of places there to check, but it was spring and all the winter

coats were sold out-except at Sears. They had a huge selection and there were

a lot that were regular $189.00 on sale for $20.00 and $25.00. That was such

a good buy that we bought two. At that price I should have

 bought a couple of short ones too I suppose.

We were talking to the Kinghorns about it and Donna Jean decided it was

such a good buy that she went there a couple of days

later and bought two for her.  Hopefully they aren't the same ones

I bought. What are the odds of that though.

I am ready for winter now, but I hope it takes it's time.

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Goal # 15:  Make a quilt to give away

This goal worked out very well since Misti got was going to have

a baby this year, although I had no idea she would work with

my goals so well.  Yea!!!   Another grandchild.  I couldn't decide

what material so when I got to the store I texted Misti some pictures

of different material to choose from. I love technology. 

Good choice Misti!!!  Perfect for a beautiful baby girl.

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Goal # 84:  Re-read "When I Say No I Feel Guilty

I read this book about 15 years ago. There are some very good points

and suggestions to help be a bit more assertive.  I think what I got

from it is to be gently assertive. It is basically teaching you how to

deal with people that are trying to manipulate you.  One chapter teaches

how to deal with criticism- how to not let it make you feel upset or bad

about yourself. How not to be embarrased by compliments-how

 to accept them graciously. I can always use a review of this chapter.

 Also a chapter on conversing with people you don't know very

well. How to keep the conversation going.  There are things that aren't

 relevent and a few points that I couldn't do, so I kick them out of my

 brain and use the things that are helpful for my life.

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Goal # 96:  Help Lorin fix the trailer to sell

We won't be fixing this up to sell because we are giving it

to Lorin's daughter Tawna.  She will be replacing the lights

and what ever else needs to be done.

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Time to catch up on the goals

Goal # 40 - Make some more dish rags

I decided I could work on this goal during Lorin's Physical Therapy.

I used some thread that I already had in the sewing room, loaded them into

a bag along with my purse and this is what I came up with after numerous visits.

During the crocheting of the "rags" I decided to find some different ways to

make them so they didn't all look the same. They don't really have too much

for crocheting dish rags, but I found a crochet stich called Tunisian knit stitch.

You'll notice that there is only one that has this stich and that is is pretty small. 

Good to try something new, but it would take a lot of patience and practice to

get good at it or to be able to be fast. I don't like to knit, but I think I could

knit faster than I could crochet this stitch.

P.S. It turned out crooked.

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Goal # 47 - Go through the things on the top of my closets

Closet #1 Before

Closet #1 After - I'm still re-oganizing the pictures so it will look better later

Closet #2 Before

Closet #2 After  

After I finished the two closets I decided I need to get rid of

some things in another dresser cupboard.

I threw away these and the cupboard looks much better now.

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Goal # 11- Get a pedicure



I really love it when goals are so much fun. I was talking to

Grandma the end of January and she was commenting that 

she couldn't see to cut her toenails and that they were hurting

because they were so long. I decided that we need to make it

a mother-daughter outing to get a pedicure every month or so.

We are in need of another one very soon since the last

one was 1 1/2 months ago. I will call and get us in this

Friday I hope. So much fun. It just makes you feel pretty.

 

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Goal # 26 - Clean up my PAF (Family history) files

I printed the "possible problems" from the PAF program

that I have on the computer. I got a list about

5 pages long on the Jensen side of the family.

As I went through the reasons that they had problems and correcting

them on paper, I realized that everything about Family History

can be looked up in New Family Search on the church's website.

I did go through each one and feel that they are alright.

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Goal # 79 - Take pictures of beautiful sunsets and make a movie/collage/scrapbook page of them.

This goal also was a lot of fun. I have to admit right now that I didn't take all

 of the pictures myself. I found some on the internet that were beautiful,

I also found some that Tish had posted that were just as beautiful (thanks Tish).

I did however put them in Microsoft Word and played around with different

shapes and made them into a movie. I am a little disappointed because it

turned out a little blurry. I still need to practice I think. It was fun though.

I still have the pictures, so I may try again.  I hadn't made a CD cover

nor a CD holder cover for a long time so that was good practice also.

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Goal # 86 - Re-download the songs in my i-phone that aren't in i-tunes

For some reason I lost a lot of songs off i-tunes. They were still on my phone

so I made a list so I could go through my CD's and re-download them into

i-tunes again.  I could have just let it go, but it bugged me that it happened. 

Anyway this is the list of songs that I put back in.  I think there were about 4 pages.

GRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Goal # 20

Goal #20 - Reach my goal of meeting up with Tish on our "walk".

Tish called me a while back feeling homesick, so she said

she was going to run to Sugar City.  That way when she

was running on the treadmill she would at least

be going somewhere and would have a goal in mind. 

 I thought it would be good for me if I met her somewhere

on her run (I do NOT run, so I speed walked and excersized to

count my miles). We decided that Winnemucca was

half-way so that was the goal.

I got on google maps and printed me out a map to hang on the

wall in the computer room so I could keep track of where

I was at.  Of course I had to estimate according to the way the

little turns in the road looked.  I feel like I was pretty acurate however.

Letisha took time out to care for twins and still made it there before me.

If you look at the smiley faces along the trail you see

Tish smiling.  That is because she likes to run.  My smiley

has a hanging out tongue cause I don't, plus I'm about ready to

cross the desert of Nevada. (Ugh, so hot-I need water!!!!)

It really is a lot more fun to excersize if you have a goal!!!!