#blog challenge Day 41 Fave blogs or websites

BLOGGING/LINKY GOODNESS
This is about sharing blogs or sites I visit.

local sugar hawaii blog She is a fantastic blogger. I stumbled on her blog from Michelles Blog
I stumbled on this site from Michelle too lol Latte Junkie
The host of the blog challenge is another I visit goinggreenwiththegrizls
I heart organizing
I heart organizing projects
I heart organizing Pinterest
Googie momma and everything she posts. She has a Pinterest page too that you HAVE to follow!
Kiwi Mummy Blogs is where bloggers from New Zealand have their blogs posted. Mine is on there somewhere and its where I found Michelle.
Oh and I can't forget to add my friend Trishy because she would never forgive me haha

I think thats about all I can find while I am on Johns laptop.

Have fun and on Michelles blog she has link goodness (where I spend HOURS)

Much Love

Summer blog #15 - #18

Photos I am proud of
I take a lot of photos and am proud of every one I take. 
Here a few:

My baby, Tungsten. She is a whopping Great Dane/Bull Mastiff cross and about 6years old.

Muffins I made John. 

Mr Andrew Pants 

Declan

The boys eating muffins for breakfast.

I don't have a lot of pics of John as he doesn't like to have his photo taken and there aren't alot of me either as I'm the one behind the lens lol.

Fitness guru or Couch potato?

I'm not one or the other, I'm both! I can go days without going to the gym and I can go days of nothing but the gym. I'm not going to lie and say I LOVE THE GYM, because I don't.....I also can't sit around home and do nothing either. I have SADD. Its Seasonal Depression and when Im feeling a bit blue, I get up of my butt and go to the gym. I'm lazy though, if I don't go to a gym class then I only do about 10mins at a time.

3 things I am proud about my personality?

Um......Can I answer this some other time?

A recipe you love

I have a recipe that I use all the time. Its so basic and easy and its my go to recipe when I feel like something healthy, but something easy too.

I buy Healthy Food Guide magazine and belong to their Facebook Group and also have their website Healthy Food Guide as a back up on my computer/iPod Touch/Johns Laptop 

I use 5pm Panic! for a lot of meals when I meal plan etc and its really good. Okay, heres the recipe:

http://www.healthyfood.co.nz/recipes/2008/october/tortellini-bake

Tortellini Bake

Ingredients

• 2 x 300g packets fresh meat-free tortellini pasta
• large jar tomato pasta sauce
• bag baby spinach, chopped
• 180g reduced-fat ricotta
• 1/2 cup shredded reduced-fat mozzarella

Instructions

Preheat oven to 220°C. 

Spoon pasta into a 7 cup-capacity baking dish. 

Add sauce and spinach. Mix to combine. 

Spoon into a 7-cup capacity baking dish. 

Top with crumbled ricotta and mozzarella.

Bake uncovered for 15-20 minutes or until bubbling around the edges. 

Garnish with parsley.

Anyway, its a fab cold day. The fire is going yet again, there is snow on the hills behind my house. I have my brother and his work mate coming for dinner and to crash on the couch.

Happy Monday

xoxoxo

Summer Blog Challenge Week One

I found a Blog Challenge and although its Winter in little ol NZ (New Zealand), I thought it would be a great thing to do to get out there and have something to do over the gloomy days.

Its already 6 days in, but Im starting from the beginning.....here goes

Why are you doing this challenge.
I am doing this challenge for myself and to get out there in the blogging world. More for myself.

Post a picture of you smiling.

This is me on Monday 4th June 2012 the day after I got my hair cut

15 interesting facts about yourself

• I like to read
• I like to watch movies
• Im a secret Fan Girl
• I have two children (Andrew 8yo and Declan 5yo)
• I live in a little town called Masterton, Wairarapa in New Zealand
• I go to church
• Im 28yo in August and I only got my second stage driver licence last July
• I am a list freak
• Sometimes I feel that my life is not as exciting as other peoples (especially when I read blogs)
• I spend a lot of time on Pinterest
• I want to travel the world, but have a fear of flying
• I collect things
• I started to scrapbook and have only done ONE layout in 5years lol
• I dont drink alcohol and when I do, its only 1-2drinks in a blue moon
• I have been with my best friend for nearly 10years and we are still in as much love as when we first met.

Meaning behind your blog name.

There isn't really a meaning behind my name. 7 years ago, I was just starting out on my own with my husband (we only just got together) and I baked and cooked and even though I had some slight depression, I had a zest for life. Over the years, I lost my zest for life and now I want to get it back again. My blog is about me having to answer to myself every day so I try to achieve something so I have something to post about.

Short term goals for this month and why those goals

• To try and be more organised (my house is pretty small and cluttered with toys etc everywhere and dishes on the bench lol)
• Do more with my boys (they are currently in an After School Program to interact with other children)
• TBC (because this is very hard)

Nicknames you have & why you have them.

I don't really have any nicknames....I have lots from my childhood, but I that isn't my life anymore and the people that gave them to me aren't people I talk to anymore.

Picture of something that makes you happy.

This is a pic of my family and my brothers family.

Thank you for letting me take part in the blog challenge

Much Love

xoxoxo