New Adventure!

Hello. Haven't posted in a WHILE, but I have some exciting news!

I am now a Initials, Inc. consultant!

I am beyond excited.

Since I am home all week by myself I wanted to find something to do to keep me busy & something that would be lots of fun!

I just joined yesterday, so I am still waiting for my starter kit to arrive in the mail!

Initials, Inc. carries organizational items, a baby collection, bags, totes, accessories, travel items, & much more! Also, personalization is FREE!

 

If any of you ladies are interesting in hosting a catalog or online party please feel free to let me know!

I would be more than happy to mail you some catalogs or you can just host an online party!

If you haven't ever heard about Initials, Inc. please head to my online shop & take a look around. I am currently having my very first online Launch Party!

Just simply go to www.myinitials-inc.com/katclark & click on shop, then find the Launch Party event & click on shop now.

As soon as my kit arrives in the mail, I will be posting pictures of the wonderful items that I received.

 

I will end with a few pictures!

 



Thursday

Didn't know what to title this blog. Haha. So, my birthday was a good day. I had lunch with J & dinner with the rest of the family. We went to Outback & it was delicious. For my birthday I got money from my parents & J's parents. I got 5 $10 scratch off tickets & a red velvet cake from J. Haha. Our Vegas trip the end of this month was my Christmas/birthday gift from J! So part of my birthday gift I got on Christmas. My brother gave me a $25 iTunes card & I of course already used it downloading music this morning. I downloaded the new Chris Tomlinson cd, Hinder, & Pinks new cd. Oh, & I purchased the single from Nashville soundtrack called Change Your Mind. I have already been jamming today! Music always puts me in a good mood.

I am so happy I purchased this iPad mini! I absolutely love it! I use it every single day & don't think I could live without it now. That's sad isn't it? I hardly ever use the desktop or my laptop anymore.

Tomorrow night it is back to work for me. Bummer. I love my job, but I love being home too. I could so be a housewife! I just love to spend money too much not to work! Haha. I am sure my priorities will change once we have a little one. Speaking of that, I have thought about blogging about our trying to conceive journey just so I can remember a long time from now what we actually went through. I'm kind of hesitant because I didn't want to be so public about it, but honestly, I don't think very many people if any read this blog. It is more so I place for me to write how I am feeling & what is going on in our lives more so than anything. I don't have a very good memory so I need something like this to look back on one day.

I'm going to think about it some more today & make a decision whether or not it is something that I want to open up about in this huge cyber world. We will see.

I really need to take some pictures of the kitchen now that we have finished it so I can post on here & do a before & after. Can't wait to compare pictures! I love my kitchen so much now! My hubby did a wonderful job!

That is all for now!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday To Me!!! I am 25 years old today. Halfway to 50, oh my! It just feels like another day. I miss being little when your birthday seemed like the best day of the year & you got lots of presents! Haha. Is that bad? My husband says its my birthday everyday of the year, because I am always buying myself "presents". He is too funny some times! My great aunt BB died this morning around 4am. I hate I didn't know her better. She was such a sweet lady. God definitely gained a wonderful angel. I just hate my birthday now has to be shared with the death of a loved one. We plan on going out to dinner tonight with family. I get to choose where I want to go & I haven't decided if I want Outback or Texas Roadhouse. I am going to meet Jason for lunch in a little while. I have been working on a photo book of our Honeymoon all morning. We already have a little photo book, but I wanted a really nice one. I just got a new digital camera last week so I plan on taking tons of pictures from here on out. I feel like Jason & I have hardly any pictures of our first few years together. Hardly any since our wedding & honeymoon. Jason surprised me with a trip to Las Vegas for Christmas! I am soooo looking forward to it & plan on taking lots of pics then! I hope everyone has a wonderful day!

Instyler

Today I thought I would blog about a wonderful product that I use mostly everyday.

The InStyler.

It's a hair product that straightens & curls your hair at the same time.

I love it because I have to straighten my hair everyday or else my hair is very frizzy & bushy.

Before I got my InStyler, I straightened my hair with a regular straightener you can buy at Walmart or smililar stores.

I liked my hair being straight, but it was very boring & looked very plain.

I would sometimes straighten my hair & then try to curl it with a curling iron..

Epic Fail!

My hair would not hold the curl... No matter what kind of hair spray or other products I tried.

Then, I discovered the Instyler.

I was hesitant to buy it because I wasn't sure how I would like it, but I am now extremely happy I bought it!

For some reason, I don't really know why, but my hair holds the curls when I use the Instyler.

And I mean holds the curls all day!

I would definitely recommend this product if you want something that is super easy to use & gives you great looking hair!

Also, did I mention that it only takes me 7 minutes a day??

I LOVE IT!



Family

Today I am thankful for my family.

Thankful that I have people that love me unconditionally.

What are you thankful for today?

I found Courage

I finally found the courage to post something that changed our lives forever.

Both for the good & bad.

I wrote the original post back in June, however, I am just now posting it to my blog.

You can find it here.

I will warn you, it is very emotional & is something that is very close to my heart.

Decisions

I have never been one to be great at making decisions.
I married my husband & that was a wonderful decision.
I decided to become a nurse, which I feel was the right decision.
However, my career has me stressed right now to say the least.
I have been working weekend nights for one year now.
I work every friday, saturday, & sunday night.
Yes, I work when my husband is off.
I work when our families have get togethers & dinners.
I work when Jason races.
I work basically when "normal" people are at home.
It has its positives & negatives.
I am now stuck trying to figure out the which out weighs the other.
By working on weekends, I'm off monday through thursday every week.
It's very easy to make doctor appointments, hair appointments, etc.
However, I'm home alone at those times.
I have no hobbies.
I get very bored & very lonely.
I find myself sleeping a lot & feel as though I'm in some kind of rut or funk.
Jason makes comments all the time that he wishes I worked during the week so we could go places on the weekends.
He makes statements like, "well if you didn't work every weekedend, we could go to the beach".
I work with such wonderful people that have taught me so so much.
We are close & we work as a team.
I started off my nursing career working week nights.
I hated it.
I didn't hate when I worked, I hated one particular person at work.
She was very hateful & not a very good person to work with.
I was miserable & I really think she was the reason.
Another thing about working during the week is that I won't have a set schedule like I do now.
One week I may work mon, tue, wed...one week I may work mon, wed, thur...etc.
And one week I may work mon, wed, fri.
Thats one of the negatives that I really don't like.
I will also be taking a pay cut.
I make more money for working weekend nights.
About $11 more an hour.
Thats a pretty big deal I think.
I say all this because I am torn.
I don't know what to do.
The lady that I mentioned above that I hated when I worked week nights is now gone.
She no longer works at the hospital.
My husband I think would be more happy with me working week nights so we can be together on the weekends.
I however, have absolutely no idea what to do.
I talked with him tonight while we were in bed & he said that he wanted me to stay on weekends if thats what makes me happy.
But, I want us both to be happy.
We put almost 20,000 miles on our car when I worked during the week.
Since I've been working on the weekends, we have put 5,000 miles on the car.
By the time Jason gets off work during the week, we don't have time to go anywhere.
I wish this were an easy decision.
I know if people are reading this, you really don't give a rip.
I wanted to post this because I want to remember important things in my life.
And this to me is important.
Right now my gut is telling me that I should give week nights a try again.
However, it is 3am & my brain isn't functioning at its best.
I will think on this some more tomorrow & talk with Jason some more about it.