This July I turn 50. I'm not too bothered by it, I don't think. My only regret is that I haven't done more with my life. This year, the year of 50, I am going to change that.
I want this year to be a year of beauty. A year of creation. A year of engaging in life.
We will be moving back in to town soon (THANK IGGY). Once I am able to get my taxes done I will have two years of self-employment income to show and I can get a mortgage. Believe me when I say the MOMENT that happens I will begin the house hunting process.
This time I want something new. Something turnkey. I don't care if it is cookie cutter, it just needs to be a slate I can build from to simply decorate. And decorate I will. This time I want to have updated finishes/layouts. This time my husband will have no say over the decoration and, in fact, he will be prohibited from doing ANYTHING decor-wise without my approval. BOOM.
He's not that bad. He usually just wants to make me happy, it's just that he has a tendency to not want to put things back where they belong so they end up shoved up among my decorations. And if I'm honest, I have been so tired of fighting it, and so unhappy where I am, I have resigned myself to it. But not once we move. Once we move I want my home to be comfortable, lovely, and well appointed. He will have his own room which we will decorate, but which will also be his to mess up if he wants.
I started playing this game on the phone where you can design a room and then people can vote between it and another to see whose they like best. I've only had two results and no 5 stars yet but I also don't have a lot of money to buy inventory. They started me out with a good amount of money but I didn't use it wisely. I tried to start over by deleting the app from my phone and reinstalling it to no avail. So I have to be patient.
There's that damn patience again! GAH. That has been my lesson for the past year. I want a new lesson in 2018! Though I think we all know I have not learned that lesson. Or rather, I have not conquered it.
Anyway, I digress. I've had fun decorating with the app. It's good to flex those muscles again.
I also started buying and borrowing design magazines again. I'm ready to get back into decorating, get back to enjoying it. I do enjoy it, I just haven't been keeping up with it much outside of Fixer Upper. With the magazines and following some designers on Instagram I will start immersing myself in beauty and be inspired.
I also have pulled out Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain and am starting those lessons. I want to create art so I want to get back into drawing. I never was great, but maybe I can be.
I guess I want to become Joanna Gaines who can make anything pretty; who has the confidence and courage to create whether it's cooking, art, design, flower arranging, whatever. I'm hoping at 50 I can find that and I can do great things. It's in me. I know it is.
For 2018, the year of 50, I am retreating less into television watching and engaging more in life, learning, and beauty.
I want this year to be a year of beauty. A year of creation. A year of engaging in life.
We will be moving back in to town soon (THANK IGGY). Once I am able to get my taxes done I will have two years of self-employment income to show and I can get a mortgage. Believe me when I say the MOMENT that happens I will begin the house hunting process.
This time I want something new. Something turnkey. I don't care if it is cookie cutter, it just needs to be a slate I can build from to simply decorate. And decorate I will. This time I want to have updated finishes/layouts. This time my husband will have no say over the decoration and, in fact, he will be prohibited from doing ANYTHING decor-wise without my approval. BOOM.
He's not that bad. He usually just wants to make me happy, it's just that he has a tendency to not want to put things back where they belong so they end up shoved up among my decorations. And if I'm honest, I have been so tired of fighting it, and so unhappy where I am, I have resigned myself to it. But not once we move. Once we move I want my home to be comfortable, lovely, and well appointed. He will have his own room which we will decorate, but which will also be his to mess up if he wants.
I started playing this game on the phone where you can design a room and then people can vote between it and another to see whose they like best. I've only had two results and no 5 stars yet but I also don't have a lot of money to buy inventory. They started me out with a good amount of money but I didn't use it wisely. I tried to start over by deleting the app from my phone and reinstalling it to no avail. So I have to be patient.
There's that damn patience again! GAH. That has been my lesson for the past year. I want a new lesson in 2018! Though I think we all know I have not learned that lesson. Or rather, I have not conquered it.
Anyway, I digress. I've had fun decorating with the app. It's good to flex those muscles again.
I also started buying and borrowing design magazines again. I'm ready to get back into decorating, get back to enjoying it. I do enjoy it, I just haven't been keeping up with it much outside of Fixer Upper. With the magazines and following some designers on Instagram I will start immersing myself in beauty and be inspired.
I also have pulled out Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain and am starting those lessons. I want to create art so I want to get back into drawing. I never was great, but maybe I can be.
I guess I want to become Joanna Gaines who can make anything pretty; who has the confidence and courage to create whether it's cooking, art, design, flower arranging, whatever. I'm hoping at 50 I can find that and I can do great things. It's in me. I know it is.
For 2018, the year of 50, I am retreating less into television watching and engaging more in life, learning, and beauty.
LOVE YOU POOKIE! Accidental shouting. Have you read The New Bohemians? Get it from the library!
ReplyDeleteI love you, too! The New Bohemians Handbook? I Googled and that is what I found for reading. If so, I have no but I'm excited to! Not worth buying?
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