Happy New Year!

Photo by Creativity103

So much for getting the redesign completed for the new year.

I still have a ton to do, but I am going to take another pass at the #SITS31DBBB challenge. Hopefully that will help me finish the redesign that I've been working on for what seems like forever.

By tonight, I'm hoping that I'll have the new domain and twitter name set up.

Things aren't working for me the way that they are at the moment, as evidenced by the fact that I haven't posted in two months. I'm hoping that participating in this challenge will help me to refocus so that this blog works for me instead of just being work.

Here's to an exciting new year!

What I Love About Me

Sometimes I forget to appreciate myself. It is especially easy in this bad weather, where nothing seems good anymore.

When my husband came home yesterday with a dozen gorgeous roses, it showed me how much he loves me. He doesn't do flowers, he's very allergic, so I've accepted that I just don't get them. That made me start to think about why I should love myself, which I seem to have forgotten.

So in the spirit of The Mommyologist's Mom Sexy Valentine's Day Bash, here are ten of my reasons to love myself.

1. I'm a geek. I'm a huge fan of Star Wars and I have been since I was little. Friends know not to question my Star Wars knowledge, and I still can't get them to play Star Wars Trivial Pursuit with me (which I own more than one version). But I don't limit myself to Star Wars! I'm pretty much into science fiction in general. I'm a huge fan of Doctor Who, Stargate (all three series) and even Star Trek.
2. I'm good at computers. In another life (pre-baby), I was even a web developer. I wouldn't be able to jump right back in without bringing myself up to speed, but I'm still the person that gets called when anyone has a computer problem.
3. I'm a huge Broadway buff. I miss the days when I would perform in musicals, and was serious about dancing. Now I really just get to sing along to the music in the car.
4. I'm smart and I love to learn. I worked hard all through school, and it paid off. Even now, I still like learning new things.
5. I am a wealth of random knowledge, and I love to share it.
6. I'm a reader. I love books, and I love to read. I just need some more time to do it.
7. I'm hot. I'm back in the shape that I was at the end of high school, at the peak of my dancing "career". Due to a very restrictive diet because of a dairy/soy allergy I've managed to loose all the baby weight, the first year of marriage weight, the post college weight and the freshman 15...
8. I will do anything for my baby. He's allergic to dairy and soy, so I haven't had any in over eight months. That was huge, almost everything has dairy or soy. And I'm a big fan of cheese and chocolate.
9. I am fiercely loyal. I stick by friends when they need me, and even when they don't.
10. The Baby loves me unconditionally. Anyone that perfect must have a good reason to love me like that.

Explained in Thirty Seconds

Day 1 of the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Challenge on SITS (a few days late).

I had a hard time with this, mostly because I'm not sure where I am going with this blog. Today (if today was Monday, which it obviously isn't, but let's pretend) I am supposed to write an elevator pitch for my blog. How do you explain in thirty seconds something that you aren't sure about?

So I pulled from my "About Me" page, which I had worked so hard on.

It reminded me of where I started. Even though I haven't been blogging all that long, I had lost what I wanted to do here. I'm afraid that I was starting to think of this as a "baby" blog, which it was never intended to be. This blog is supposed to be my release, my path. While I will talk about the baby, and some of the things that we are doing, he isn't my focus here. I am.

So, my new (work in progress) elevator pitch:

A new stay-at-home-mom trying to guide her family through the changes of their new lives while not loosing herself in the process.

The Challenge

To help motivate me, I'm going to join the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog challenge with the SITS Girls. I'm late starting, so I am going to be playing catch-up, and I hope that it won't take me too long.

This is me throwing my hat into the ring.