Zombie Sunday 1/30

A month of Zombie Sundays has come and gone! 

 And man oh man am I glad that January is winding down! It always does seem to pick up at the end of the month. A birthday celebration for the hubs, then straight into a short and busy February. There is the super bowl, we have tickets to a Cirque du Soleil show (yes, they actually came to our little town, bizarre!), and I am crossing my fingers for a girls mini getaway. And then March will be here before we know, playoffs will start, and thank tha Lord, spring will finally arrive!

Unlike the usual Zombie rambles, I have actual content for today's post. But, don't worry, I am still slacking a bit because I have been saving these up the whole week for an easy-peasy Japanessy post today. Ok, so maybe its more like a tame vegetarian zombie and not so much a Night of the Living Dead zombie.

WARNING: Shameless Plugging! :) First off, I want to remind everyone that today is the LAST day to enter for a chance to win a custom blog header and button in my giveaway. DO IT NOW (of course if you want a new blog header, haha). If you don't know about the giveaway, full details can be found here. I will announce the winner tomorrow, and am looking forward to designing something special for one of ya'll!!! And thanks to all of ya'll already participating. My first giveaway is going great!

Project: Do Me 
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So, the lovely Ms. KY over at Travel Babbles had a great idea for a mini mental makeover. Her project, titled the sassy and clever "Project: Do Me" asks readers and writers to think about their happiness goals for themselves.  Because, as she puts is so wonderfully, happy girls are the prettiest girls.

This is such a great idea. There is never a bad time to step back and take a look at your goals for yourself and for your happiness. So, she asks, what are your goals, however lofty they might be, for your well-being on a daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly basis? These had me thinking. I consider myself a pretty happy and at-peace gal. This year in Germany has really allowed me to be that way (or maybe taught me to give up all hope and just stop caring??! haha, jk). So, here goes my goals, always changing, but always heading in one direction: happiness and a better me.

Daily

*Go to bed earlier, at least at a reasonable time

*Spend more productive time online and less mindless wandering

Weekly

*Call or lengthy email a different friend every week (ugg, always my goal, rarely happens)

*Dust off my old German books and at least review vocabulary that has been slipping

*Meet with the gals once a week for lunch, coffee, etc.

Monthly

Hmmm, this one is a little harder to think of...

*At least for the next month, take better care of the skin on my face. I feel like a pizza right now! :)

*Take a mini-vacation/trip somewhere new every month. Even if it is just a day exploring a neighboring town. I need to take better advantage of this whole Europe thing!

Yearly

*I really have a great feeling about this year (what's new, I say that every year :)). But this one's different. We are finally feeling normalized in Deutschland, our relationship grows deeper every day, and everything else just seems on the up and up. So my yearly goal is to remember how I feel right now, remember that this year, just like all the rest and all to come, will be MY year. If I can keep that on mind, then the rest will just have to fall right into place.

If you too would like to join Ms. KY's project, hop on over to Travel Babbles and link up your upcoming post. Thanks again girl, it was great to express that on 'paper', I have a feeling it will keep me a bit more accountable!

My very awesome in-laws are in town for a couple of days, which is so nice! They regularly make business trips to Germany every year, and we are lucky that they can swing down here to see us before their meetings start up . I am really, really happy they are here and looking forward to catching up with them in the next few days! I might be a little more MIA than usual. I think you'll cope! If you want to see a very old post, you can have a look here and see when my in-laws came to visit us two years ago. Back when the blog was just a baby...well, really, it still is.

And last, but certainly not least awesome lady Mollie over at OK in UK passed on a super cool award. Woohoo, I got the LOL Award!!! You're the best Mollie, and I look forward to your sarcastic-ass posts and comments every day :)

I promise to pass on the award soon enough. I'll do a 'funny day' post or something of the like. And since I have already done the random things about me list for the Stylish Blogger award, I won't bore you with another seven. I think one should do the trick....

1. Much to my mother and father's chagrin, my first word was "kitty". I also have loved cats, and really all animals. But we always had kitties (ok, badass cats I might add) so they have a special place in my heart. And even though I consider my twisted humor above this - can't believe I am admitting this right now - I love those stupid 'LOL' and 'Can I has Cheeseburger' Cats. Call it my one guilty indulgence.

(So, I probably lost half of you with that one, but if you are still here, keep reading. Not much more to go :))

Also, I promise in the next week to add a blog roll list to the side bars, with categories, and that will hopefully suffice as my "pass it on" list for now.

AND I can't help but steal her line at the end of the post:

Believe in your dreams, people!

Have a great Zombie Sunday, ya'll :)