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Kelli's Journal
Dec. 31st, 2004
07:43 pm - New Year's Resolutions
Well, here goes nothing!
Kelli's 2005 New Year's Resolutions (not in order of importantance)
- Move into own home
- Learn Spanish
- Recreate personal website
- Set up Kelco as a business
- Follow skin care regime daily
- Send b-day cards to all close friends and family
- Do one load of laundry every night
- Clean truck every time I get gas
- Update online journal at least 3 times a week
- Write in hard copy journal every day
- Learn a new word every day and use it in a sentence
- Learn to prepare one meal from appetizer to desert
- Straighten room every night before bed
- Have fundraiser to sponsor a camper at Victory Junction
- Ski in Angel Fire in December
- Connect with God by:
1) Regular morning & evening prayer
2) Morning study - read in Yearly Bible
3) Evening study - look up scripture of day and read other literature
4) Type the Bible
5) Write in Personal Driven journal
6) Volunteer at church
7) Go to church on a regular basis
- Get Healthy by:
1) Loose 2 pounds a week
2) Follow healthy living diet on Self Diet
3) Work out at YMCA Monday - Friday mornings
- Upper body on Monday and Wednesday
- Lower body on Tuesday and Thursday
- Water aerobics on Friday
4) Water aerobics on Tuesday and Thursday evenings
5) Walk Lucky every night
6) Do a 30 minute tape every night before bed
7) Plan meals for every week
- Get Organized by:
1) Put checkbook on computer
2) Save all personal files to floppy and put in planner
3) Set up budget
4) Organize planner
5) Make a weekly file folder
- Menu
- Budget
- To Do List
6) Make Budget Goal Sheet
7) Carry a tote bag to have everything always at hand
03:46 pm - So much for being sick...
Well, we finally cleaned house today! It has been a long time since we really cleaned. I know it is gross, but goodness, I just don't have the energy when I come home from work. How cliche is that? The last thing I want to do is clean, or even worse, cook! However, all that has got to change...one of my New Year's resolutions! (I am debating on listing them out on here tomorrow...we will see!) But anyway, my mom and I got together and really cleaned the house today. It looks great! I wish that all the people who have been to visit in the last few weeks (Maggie, Jackie, and Chris) could see it now! :)
Now I get to go clean my room and finish watching "The OC" reruns!
11:26 am - Ending the year on a low note
So I really did mean to write the other night. Honest! I was going to brag about how I did Tae-Bo and Yoga. Then I got so bogged down with work that I just never got a chance. Then I got snick. And I am still snick. It is yucky. I hate it when you have to spit the stuff up that is dripping down your throat. Blech!
Tonight is New Year's Eve...I will be home snick. I could have gone to a party at Brian's for Britton's birthday, but I opted not to. See, I can say no to him! :) It is even debatable if I will go out with him tomorrow night. It will just depend on how I feel and what he is doing.
That is all for now...more later, I promise!
Dec. 28th, 2004
09:55 am - Long time no write
Okay, so I haven't posted since August. Maggie has been on me to post, but I just haven't had a lot of time. Still don't really...should probably be working right now instead of doing this!
Maggie and Patrick came home from Christmas and Maggie came over last night! Yay! We went to dinner at Saltgrass and then just went home and hung out. We took Lucky for a walk and gave each other massages and just sat and talked. I wish that we could have stayed up later, but I had to get up today and come into work. Blah! But it was good to see her and spend time with her. I really miss her. I can't wait for her and Pbur to come home and "make babies out the wazoo". :)
Speaking of babies...Reyna had Olivia on December 17th! I am a godmother! She is soooo beautiful! I was there the afternoon she was born and the next morning. Precious! Absolutely precious! I am going over this week to take family portraits with Reyna, Joe, Deuce, and Olivia...or Livvy Lu and I like to call her. :)
That is all for now!
Aug. 24th, 2004
12:32 pm - Wet T-shirt Contest at the local YMCA
Okay, so I admit that I am teensy self concious about walking around in my swimsuit at the Y, it being street level with windows and all. But last night, oh my hell...there was this lady who was a little overweight and she was swimming in a WHITE COTTON BODYSUIT! Now, maybe she didn't have the money for a swimsuit. And good for her for trying to be healthy. But goodness gracious, someone should tell her that white cotton conceals nothing (and I mean NOTHING) when it is in the water! WHEW! I might not be Amanda Beard, but at least I am covered!
Aug. 23rd, 2004
04:10 pm - I need a name!
Okay, I need a name for my business. I just can't do Lucky Dog. I have tried and tried, but I just can't get into it. I am just not feeling it. And it sucks cause I have a checking account in that name, lol, but I just can't work with it. It just doesn't sound professional. So now I gotta come up with a name and FAST!
04:04 pm
Brian asked me to help him do some PR work for his "kung fu career". At first, I thought it would take me just a few hours to do what he wants, but turns out, he wants a full-scale campaign. It isn't exactly PR work per say, but I am actually enjoying it. I am researching all the different fighting chamipionships in the United States and Canada and then putting it all together in a packet so he can pick which league he is going to join. I am also helping him put together a "demo" DVD that shows he knows what he is doing and he isn't like Pete from Friends and just jumping into a ring for the heck of it. I get to make press kits to send to the different organizations with his application. It is really kinda interesting. And he is paying me! What he doesn't know is that he could have just asked me for help and I would have done it as a friend! Actually, he is being very professional about it. It is almost kinda cute.
03:47 pm - Save a Horse Ride a Cowboy
I went and saw Big $ Rich on Saturday night at Billy Bob's! It was SO awesome. I met this girl off their message board and she is from North Dallas and she just happed to call BB's the day they announced the show and she was able to get front row seats! I had never met her in person till Saturday night so that was a little different. It was Evelyn and the Adam Petty board all over again! :)
The show absolutely ROCKED!! They were SO good! And when they sang my favorite song "Holy Water", it brought tears to my eyes. John did an intro about how both his and Kenny's sisters had been in an abusive relationship and how they wrote the song for them. But it was also about a girl being with a guy who just didn't treat her right. The first line of the song is:
Somewhere there's a stolen halo
I used to watch her wear it well
Everything would shine
Wherever she would go
But looking at her now you'd never tell
Then the chorus is:
(she says)
Take me away
and take me farther
Surround me now
and hold me like holy water
Another verse is:
She wants someone to call her angel
someone to put to put the like back in her eye
She's looking through the faces and unfamiliar places
She needs someone hear her when she cries
Anyway, so John was talking to the audience and he said, "Girls, I don't care who you are with, but if he doesn't treat you like a fine diamond then you just need to kick him out on his ass cause there are plenty of Texas cowboys that would be good to you!" I thought the roof was going to come off, the women were yelling so loud! It was really cool.
And, get this, turns out that the girl I went with (the one I met off the message board) used to date John about 4 years ago. She didn't tell me that till after the show when I confronted her. He stared at her the WHOLE night. He kept coming over to us and singing to her. It was SO obvious he was singling her out. And it was so obvious that he still has major feelings for her. When they left for the final time after the encore, he leaned down and thanked her for coming to the show. It was really sweet!
Sigh, and Big Kenny was beyond hot. He might be 40, but I would still Big that Kenny!!
Aug. 19th, 2004
04:05 pm - Today has been CUHRAAAAZEEEE!
We had a huge event and press conference at the museum this morning. Sigh. It was sooooo tiring! First, it rained ALL morning. Can't releas butterflies in the pouring rain so the poor little things are still in their crate. THEN...the electricity went off for several hours. We almost had to have a press conference in the dark!! It was absolutely NUTS! I never thought it would end!
And in the middle of all that chaos, one of our front desk attendents yelled at Christine and tried to start something right there in front of everyone. What is UP with all the bickering?? Sheesh!
After it was all finally finished, Christine and I went for a loooooooong lunch! And guess where we went?? To see Tom! It was SO awesome. He misses me!! He hugged me and said, "I was beginning to think that you would never come back!" It was so sweet. And then he and two other waiters took care of us. We had the best service ever. Tom even gave us free desert! I am telling you, he is THE nicest guy I have ever met. And when I left...I gave him my business card and Christine told him he should come vist me the museum. He hugged me again and told me to come in more often. Man, I love that guy!
So anyway, that is all that is happening today. I am ready to go home as soon as it hits 5:30!
Aug. 18th, 2004
10:59 am - Goldilocks better look out
A bear broke into our house in Angel Fire yesterday! Some guests had left their food out on the dining room table and kitchen counter. The bear broke through a window and tore down the screen and mini blinds to help himself. My dad had to leave today to go and take care of it. Gives a whole new meaning to "don't feed the bears"!
09:14 am
Okay, so a lot has been going on lately, but I have just been too tired to post. Apparently, I need to work on that or I am going to get e-mails and posts from Maggie, lol.
This past weekend was crazy. I went to Big Sandy Friday after work to stay with Brian. We went to a movie and then we went back to hous...and get this, we camped out! Brian didn't want to, but I begged him and wonder of wonders, he gave in! So he loaded up a backpack full of bottled water, protein bars (of course), and our sleeping bags and pillows and off we went. I thought we might go in a neighboring pasture. You know, far enough out to be called the woods, but not too far from home. Brian told me if we were going to do it, we were going to do it. So we hiked about a mile into the woods and then stomped down brush in a clearing until we had a flat place to lay our beds out. It was so awesome! We saw 10 shooting stars! Yes, we counted. :) There were SO many stars and it was so dark and pretty. I loved it. And it was cold enough to make you want to snuggle into your sleeping bag, but not so cold that you were freezing. It was the perfect night to camp out. When I woke up the next morning, I opened my eyes to see lazy susan sunflowers against a blue sky with white fluffy clouds. It was probably the most poetic moment I have had, lol. I wanted a camera so bad.
The rest of the weekend went by in a blur because I was rushing around from place to place. I went to a wedding on Saturday night and came to the conclusion that I do NOT want a formal sit down dinner at my wedding. I hated it! I want my wedding to be more laid back and just FUN. I did not have fun at that wedding.
Monday night I went to water aerobics again. I am trying to make going a habit. It was fun. Tough, but fun.
I think that my parents and I have decided to go to Florida for the Feast rather than stay in Texas. I hate Destin, but that is where all my friends are gonna be. We are actually going to stay in Panama City Beach and I think that will be a lot of fun. I am really excited! I haven't been excited about the Feast so far and it is cool to have that feeling again.
So, work is crazy right now. There is so much tension in the office, I am not sure they make a knife sharp enough to cut it. Suzy is quitting. Fran told me today that she is meeting with our founder this morning and that she might be leaving this afternoon if it doesn't go well. Nice. That would leave me and Christine. Then I have to decide, do I leave, too? Or do I stay on the condition that I get a promotion? I DO love my job here and I love the museum. And then there is always that job at SMU that pays soooo much more than what I make right now.
Too many things to think about at once!
Okay, I think that is all that is going on in my life right now. I will try and do better about updating, I promise!
09:12 am - Maggie is a nut
My journal is suffering from a disease called neglect?? You crack me up!
Aug. 12th, 2004
10:49 pm - Move over G.I. Jane
Okay, if Monday night's water aerobics class was like training for the Olympics then tonight's class was like training to be a Navy SEAL. Mashed potatos with creamed brocolli on the side! If I close my eyes and listen really closely, I can STILL hear that instructor yelling at me, "I don't care if you are new! Get your knees up to your chin!" For a moment, I was literally frightened. And after 20 minutes of running sprints (don't forget, in the water with TWICE the resistance) I could have sworn that I had shin splints. And my calves were on fire. I was barely able to climb up out of the pool after the class was over. It was literally one of the hardest things I had ever done. But I bet I burned like a gazillion calories! :)
I am SO excited! Tomorrow night I am going to spend the night with Brian and we are going to sleep out! I busted out with my sleeping bag and everything! The weather here is beeyooteefool and it is the perfect time to sleep under the stars. He thinks I am a little crazy cause I am so excited, but honestly, it is going to be awesome! I can't wait!
Aug. 10th, 2004
09:53 am - (Champions of Fire playing softly)
So I went to water aerobics last night! Yeah, I have got the Olympic spirit in me now because I might as well have been training for Athens myself!
We would do flutter kicks for 1 minute and then the instructor would say, "Okay, now do 30 more seconds!" And we would do 30 more seconds and then she would say, "Hold out for 15 more seconds!" And we would hold out for 15 more seconds. Then it was, "That's it 10 more seconds." And even though I thought my legs were going to fall off, I did 10 more seconds. And then she said, "Okay, now release." And I collapsed and almost drowned.
We had these little dumbbell things that floated. We had to hold them underwater at all times. And they are made to float. Do you know how hard that is? Imagine trying to hold a life jacket completely underwater for 45 minutes while kicking and jumping to and fro. It is not easy!
Sigh, it totally kicked my butt. I feel a little pathetic for letting one class do me in, but man alive, that woman was a tyrant.
I think I am going to go back on Thursday. :)
09:51 am - Bitchology
When I stand up for myself and my beliefs, they call me a bitch. When I stand up for those I love, they call me a bitch.
When I speak my mind, think my own thoughts or do things my
own way, they call me a bitch.
Being a bitch means I won't compromise what's in my heart.
It means I live my life MY way.
It means I won't allow anyone to step on me.
When I refuse to tolerate injustice and speak against it,
I am defined as a bitch.
The same thing happens when I take time for myself instead of
being everyone's maid, or when I act a little selfish.
It means I have the courage and strength to allow myself to
be who I truly am and won't become anyone else's idea of what they think "should" be.
I am outspoken, opinionated and determined
I want what I want and there is nothing wrong with that!
So try to stomp on me, try to douse my inner flame, try to
squash every ounce of beauty I hold within me.
You won't succeed.
And if that makes me a bitch, so be it.
I embrace the title and am proud to bear it.
B = Babe
I = In
T = Total
C = Control of
H = Herself
B = Beautiful
I = Intelligent
T = Talented
C = Charming
H = Hell of a Woman
B = Beautiful
I = Individual
T = That
C = Can
H = Handle anything
Aug. 9th, 2004
10:59 am - Monday - bleh!
I am sooooooooo tired! It was a crazy weekend. Flew into Knoxville, drove to Whitesburg, drove to Kingsport, flew to Nashville from Johnson City and then finally onto Dallas after a 3 hour layover! Whew!
I weighed myself this morning. I am down 15 pounds from my heaviest weight ever which was about a month and a half ago. Of course, I am still in the range of where I gain and lose the same 10 pounds, but I finally got rid of that top 5, lol!
I am going to try and go to water aerobics after work today...depends on my parents. They are driving home today and if they will pick up Lucky from the Pet Hotel then I am going to go work out.
Maggie sent me pictures of their apartment in New Jersey today. Oh my goodness, they are really there! There is one of the pier that faces NYC and it is soooooo pretty! I am excited for them.
Aug. 6th, 2004
09:23 am - I just had the most startling realization!
I absolutely love what I do at The Women's Museum. I do marketing and PR and memberships. To do our memberships, I have had to learn this super complicated database program. I have been told that it will look great on my resume and all that, but I never realized how much it really matters till today!
I had to go to the website for the database program to look up some help files. Well, I noticed a "career" link so I went to that. Mashed potatos and green bean caserole!! There are a TON of non-profits that are hiring for database managers and memership directors! I could totally do that!
I am SO excited! I might not here at the museuem as long as I really want to be (long story) and it is so cool to know that I have SO many other places where I can use these skills that I am building and do the job that I love!
It makes me feel a lot better about things. A LOT better!
Aug. 4th, 2004
04:20 pm - Redneck Astrologer
Someone sent me a "redneck horoscope"...this is mine. It is actually a little scary!
POSSUM (Apr 21 - May 21) - When confronted with life's
difficulties, possums have a marked tendency to withdraw and develop a don't-bother-me-about-it attitude. Sometimes you become so withdrawn, people actually think you're dead. This strategy is probably not psychologically healthy, but seems to work for you. One day, however, it won't work and you may find your problems actually running you over.
08:36 am - I almost fell off the elliptical machine today
Okay, so I haven't worked out all week. To be blunt, I am having the worst "time of the month" that I have had since high school. I feel like I am dying. I have no energy whatsoever and I feel like I could sleep for a month.
But this morning I told myself that I HAD to go workout and I drug myself out of bed. It was rough. So I get up to the gym and go get on the dreaded elliptical machine to do my warm-up. I am striding along, feeling as if my legs were jello, when I hear, "Hey, Kelli! Kelli! Over here! Kelli Hogg!" I turn around to see who on Earth is at the YMCA at 7:00 in the morning that would know me and my knee twisted and I nearly fell off the machine. I grabbed on to the sides cause my feet were still moving, but my legs had buckled. Now that I think about it, I bet it was pretty funny, but at the time, I felt like I was Rose and flailing for all my life, yelling for Jack.
Turns out, it was a girl that I went to school with in Commerce (the first time) that I had recently seen at an event at the museum. We didn't know that we each worked out at the Y and she was a little excited to see me. I was, too. However, my legs were not! I ended up only doing upper body on the weights cause I just felt like I was going to collapse. Bleh. Now I have to go in tomorrow and do lower body and then on Friday to do both so that I get in my two strength workouts this week. Bleh.
Aug. 3rd, 2004
08:20 pm - Speak Your Piece
So, my mom is a subscriber to her little hometown newspaper from Kentucky. They have a page called "Speak Your Piece" where everyone call either call or write in and they print, well, your piece. I read it every week. It totally cracks me up. Most pieces are about politics and the local system, but some are really funny!
For instance...
- To a certain so-and-so: In the 24 years I have known you, your britches are still too tight. It seems now that you are a grandma and claim to be a grandma to other kids, you'd figure out that wearing your clothes too tight is not flattering for a middle-aged woman. But this doesn't surprise me because you always have and still do claim to be something you are not. You take the cake when it comes to pretending. DO yourself a favor and go up a size in your britches!
Another one...
- I would like to tell Redneck and Olive Oyl that their daughter's got more sense than they ever thought about having.
They just crack me up!
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