By Nicole

1. I numbered this list first, and I messed up twice. 2.  I put on pajama pants or sweats almost as soon as I get home every night. 3. I like the taste of the coating on Advil. 4. I love my chiropractor. 5. I'm addicted to coffee. 6. I like to Google people, but I am not a stalker. 7. The snooze button is my friend. 8. One of my favorite verses is 1 Corinthians 1:25 - "For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength." 9. My Amazon wish list is five pages...of shoes. 10. My notebooks are covered in doodles. 11. The older I get, the braver my fashion choices. 12. My nose has been pierced for over 10 years. 13. I don't forward forwards, no matter what doom will befall me. 14. I am the oldest of four. 15.  Chocolate is my favorite food.  When I was pregnant with Leilee, I couldn't even stand to smell it, let alone think of eating it. 16.  I love a good, dark beer. 17...

Where to start. Over the course of the past four months I have done two entirely unrelated things (I have also done LOTS more unrelated stuff - like deep clean my refrigerator, clean, grind, cut and wrap 70 lbs of deer meat (with Jason ), sew a merman tail and learn to make cedar roses - but those are not part of this particular story). So the two things... begin my Christmas shopping super early (in order to avoid stress, relax and enjoy the Reason for the Season) AND slowly let frustrations regarding events mostly beyond my control pile up and stress me out until I sometimes want to scream and run down the street pulling my hair and basically making a complete fool of myself. Soooo, all stress that would have been relieved by Christmas shopping early, has now multiplied much beyond what it ever would have been EVEN if I had waited until Christmas Eve and marathon shopped. Every night and every weekend I have told myself - now is the time to relax, let it go, in the grand scheme of ...