Freckle Friday | Weird Wisconsin Weather & the Cold Hard Facts.

 Let me start off by saying, when the whitest thing laying on the ground the first week of January is a pile of decaying coyote poop, sometime crazy is going on with the weather.

I’m not complaining at all. After school today the kids and I had plenty of time to throw on a sweatshirt...yes, just a sweatshirt and take a little stroll to the pond. Usually the pond is frozen with inch after inch of solid ice. This year, it looks like this. So of course, I let my kids walk on it. 

2011 #1 Trend To Forget About {Writer's Worksop Wednesday}

Tonight I am pulling from one of Mama Kat's weekly writing prompts. 

I chose #2 - Top Trends of 2011 That I Want To Forget.  

Here's the deal, we don't have TV in our house. We have television sets & stuff, but we stream Netflix, instead of paying for cable TV. The great thing about that, besides the price, is that we see NO commercials, NO news channels and NO reality TV shows. Not having Stephen Colbert & John Stewart is only manageable because the Kardashians Sisters & Tori Spelling disappear right along with them. But it is hard to keep up on the latest trends without TV shows & commercials.

Luckily, I have one issue with a certain fad that I've noticed a lot lately when I venture out of The Compound....

Fake Eyelashes

I am not talking about the lovely brides who want to enhance their princess for a day feeling. I'm talking about the 16 year old sandwich artist at Subway. The girl whose eyelashes were so wildly excessive it looked like there was a Daddy Long Leg orgy in progress on her fricking eyelids. Not cute Tammy Faye, now get me a 6" club on honey oat!

Even once possible Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann has fallen victim to this annoying trend. Maybe now that her campaign is over she can focus on another craze hitting the streets....umm, let's see equal rights perhaps.  

What a great role model you are for our daughters, Miss Family Values! Guess what girls, you might even get to run for President of the United States someday, and the best way to make that happen is make yourself up like a hooker. 

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Change the words, change the life.

According to Wordle, here are the words written most here at From The Compound. 

I made this as a guide for me see if I was headed in the right direction with this blog, which is typically a pretty good representation of my life.  Some of what I saw, I expected. Words like love, camera, school, write & life. I knew I would see those. Then there were words I was not expecting to see as much, like need, busy, crazy, choose & stress.

This really is a pretty good indicator of what 2011 was like for me. I was doing many things that I loved, but because I didn't have enough structure, balance and control, I wasn't loving what I was doing. 

I spent too much of my time worrying about pleasing others. I tried hard to be a little bit of everything to everybody, and kind of forgot who I wanted to be.

As 2011 ticked away, I knew I would require a change if I was going to achieve all I have planned. I have lofty goals. I dream big, and I have a lot to get done in this lifetime. 

This time next year I plan to see these words in this exercise - awareness, thanks, peace, intention, laugh, calm, happiness, mindful, discipline, gratitude, fulfill, give, reflection, fun, & spirit. 

I know 2012 will be my best year yet. 

Happy New Year!