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What matters most to you these days? Is it wealth? Is it family? Is it rediscovering yourself? Is it inner peace? Is it something altogether different? Have you sat down recently and rethought what really matters to make you feel fulfilled in life?

I recently discovered that in mine. Family of course is a top priority but more importantly self-fulfillment is very important. If you’re not happy, how can you be all that you can be for your family? If you lose who you are as an individual (remember, we weren’t always “mommy” or “honey”) can you really be happy?

I tried being a stay at home mom for almost 2 years. In the beginning I loved it! I loved sleeping in, having a clean home, playing with the kids, enjoying the sun by the pool during the summers, making breakfast and healthy dinners, taking kids to and from school/practice. The list goes on. But then it happened…I felt like my brain was going to mush, days were filled with cartoon characters and Miley Cyrus (it gets old quick), and I was grumpy by the time my husband came home. I decided to blog more, connect with others online, network with businesses and individuals. Life started to regain more, then I wanted more. I realized that I needed more, needed more recognition, needed more intellectual challenge. Then my husband was laid off the week before Thanksgiving and though I had been looking for work for a year at that point, I went into high gear. The week before Christmas I was finally offered a job in a member marketing group where I felt more at home. Roles have switched at home until work picks up for him; he’s cleaning/organizing these days while I work and cook dinner when I get home.

As I was looking into mineral makeup at Bare Escentuals, visiting RethinkWhatMatters.com helped me in rethinking what matters to me. There are still things I’m working on to get that complete harmony in my life. Spiritual growth, academic achievement, physical/mental activity, etc.. Do you know what matters the most for balance in your life?

Born from employees rethinking makeup itself – the beauty brand found looking good is not about using artificial gunk to cover imperfections, but about enhancing what you’ve got.

Rethink What Matters invites women nationwide to shake up their foundation and sound off on topics that are more than just skin-deep—from going bare in public to discussing what freedom really feels like.

Each week at RethinkWhatMatters.com, a new discussion topic has been featured with five questions for all to answer, share with their friends and have the chance to instantly win free products and other fantastic goodies.  New topics and products will be featured weekly, posted each Friday to the site.  This week’s topic is “Rethink The Need to Find Yourself”!

HOW TO BUY…For about $15 you can buy it at a Bare Escentuals Boutiques, Sephora and Sephora.com, Ulta and select Nordstrom & Macy’s

THE GIVEAWAY…Thanks to Bare Escentuals I’m getting a shade (Sugar Plum…the shade you see below) to try out AND I get to give away a shade to one of my lucky readers! This giveaway ends on February 28th and a winner will be randomly selected via Random.org.

(1) Lucky reader will get to chose one of the following lip gloss shades (view the shades here):

• Cassis (Golden Rose)
• Chiffon (Nude Sand)
• Cupcake (Rose Pink)
• Iced Coffee (Java Cream)
• Sugar Plum (Purple Plum)
• Sugar Cookie (Pink Peach)
• Wild Honey (Golden Peach)

HERE’S HOW TO ENTER…Create a comment for each action as I use random.org to randomly select winners.

• MANDATORY: Become an RSS or E-mail Subscriber (add email address to subscribe box; look right)
  
• MANDATORY: What’s important to you and which shade would you pick if you win?
  

EXTRA ENTRIES…

• Follow me on Twitter (@farrah1230), tweet this and add “@farrah1230 #flpitb” in the tweet.
• Post this giveaway (your blog, facebook, etc) and leave the url. (You must leave the post up at least through the month of February)

The race is on…the race (at a reasonable pace) to lose weight and get down to a healthier and happier me.

It was on my New Year’s resolutions…

I’m starting things a month behind…

But I’m doing it, OK? OK…

My BFF (I sooo feel like I’m in HS…lol) and I are in a race to weight loss. We figured we needed to stop talking about and just do it! Our first goal is 10 pounds. Whoever loses the first 10 pounds first treats the other to a manicure or pedicure.

Yesterday was the 2nd weigh in Monday for us and I managed to lose 3 pounds while she lost 2. Woohoo!!

What am I doing? I started off the first couple of days doing Weight Watchers with her but to be honest, I hate counting points and I don’t even like counting calories. So now I’m watching what and how much I consume, drinking more water, take the stairs at work (well, down 3 floors at least to start), and trying to stay away from the fast food drive-thru’s.

I have noticed that heavier foods feel way too heavy on my stomach and because I’m eating slower, I don’t THINK I need more food to feel full.

Now if only I can get really motivated to REALLY get moving and exercising! My next step…

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Early this morning I woke up screaming. Absolutely startled my husband who shot up grabbing onto me thinking the worst. Once I was able to calm my nerves a bit and my thundering heart beat I couldn’t help but laugh at how silly I felt thinking it was reality when it was just a dream (or perhaps more of a nightmare)!

So my dream…

I opened my laundry room door which leads to the garage and noticed the garage door was open. I was about to reach out to close the door when I noticed palm sized tan spiders in a web in the door frame of the door leading to the garage AND 2 spiders near my foot in a floor web.

Let me say that I am TERRIFIED of spiders…I ABSOLUTELY HATE THEM! HATE THEM HATE THEM HATE THEM…
Seeing images (like the one below) creeps me out!

Anyhoo…back to my dream…(and a quick turn of the mouse to get that horrid image from my sight…)

I see my daughter come into the open garage and start heading towards the door into the laundry room. I yell at her to go around and not go through the door. Does she listen to me? Of course not. (When does she ever really?)

She starts through the door and gets caught in the web and obviously aggravates the spiders in the web. They leave whatever thing they were messing with to go towards her head. I’m screaming and trying to swat a broom at the spiders near me so I can get to her (I swear the distance seemed so far yet in reality, it’s just a step).

These spiders are soooo aggressive lifting up on their “hind” legs and “screaming” noises are coming from it. They’re quick and quite frightful looking. Just as I think they’re going to bite her I scream.

And literally I scream out loud, startling my husband when then of course the dream ends.

So what does this mean? As much as I hate spiders, dreaming of spiders is actually not too bad in it’s meaning. It usually depicts good luck, something about money, being more careful, etc…but aggressive, attacking spiders?

This I had to look up in my “10,000 Dreams Interpreted” book by G.H. Miller…and here is what it says…

To dream of a spider, denotes that you will be careful and energetic in your labors, and fortune will be amassed to pleasing proportions.

If you dream that you see many spiders hanging in their webs around you, foretells most favorable conditions, fortune, good health and friends.

To dream of a large spider confronting you, signifies that your elevation to fortune will be swift, unless you are in dangerous contact.

If you kill the spider, you will eventually come into fair estate.

For a young woman to dream that she sees gold spiders crawling around her, foretells that her fortune and prospects for happiness will improve, and new friends will surround her.

To see spider webs, denotes pleasant associations and fortunate ventures.

Hmmm…my spiders were quite large I think, I noted the “gold spiders” in case my “tanned” ones could be considered “gold”, and I also noted “kill a spider” since I was swatting at the ones closer to me to get to the ones closer to my daughter and they did seem to kind of “disappear”.

What do you think?

So this morning I wake remembering the dream I had. This time my dream is related to someone stealing my identity and trying to pass of as me which left me frustrated trying to redeem who I was. Sounds like the dream represents what it is in that I struggle to be who I was and trying to get it back. Could it be that as I try to get back into the corporate world? Could it be I’ve lost this portion of me when I became a full time stay at home mom? Could I have lost the balance between mother, wife, and self? Hmmm