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jessica490
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Weekend Plans?
What does everyone have going on? TGIF!
Re: Weekend Plans?
We are in the middle of a snow storm! 3-6" and we are already at 4". I made it early to work today and it should be done by the afternoon so should be good for the ride home. I took H's SUV and I only live 10 minutes from work so I'm lucky...I just don't get why they didn't let people telecommute....
Anyway, rant over.
Friday- Just hanging out, clearing snow, catching up on The Blacklist from last night (love that show!)
Saturday- Painting our bathroom
Sunday- More painting maybe? Gym
Nothing too exciting but not sure what else will pop up.
4-day weekend for me!!! Oh yeah!
Being in NOLA, Mardi Gras is on Tuesday and it is a holiday at my work. In fact, the main parade route goes directly in front of our offices. So then I'm also taking Monday as a vacation day. Just to make it a 4-dayer
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But my H and I are boring, lol. Are we going to Bourbon St.? Are we going to any parades? Hell no. In fact, we are actually leaving town on Saturday for Biloxi. We're staying overnight at one of my favorite hotels and have tickets for a Pat Benatar show Saturday night. Love her!!!
We come back Sunday mid-dayish. Toodle around the house and then start getting yummy food ready for the Superbowl. I have some buffalo wings ready to go. I'm making two dips. Onion dip made with plain Greek yogurt and celery sticks for dipping. Plus my world famous guacamole...or, at least famous with anyone who has had it, lol.
Monday and Tuesday, I'm just going stay in bed with the covers over my head until the Mardi Gras season goes away. Actually, I will be continuing to tidy up/organize my house. Maybe take a cue from you @jessica490 and do some painting of our back addition. That's been waiting in the wings a long time. On Tuesday (Mardi Gras), my H and I might hit a few local bars in the morning/mid-day because a lot of walking clubs head out from there. So, they are fun places to hang out.
Tonight--We have tickets to a play at the local community theater. We might grab dinner beforehand.
Saturday--Big plans to clean out the spare bedroom, haha. It's the only place left in our house that we haven't de-cluttered and it's also the worst.
Sunday--Finish up with the spare room and take anything over to my Mom's house to sell (she likes selling things on FB); grocery shopping; I also need to do some homework for my two classes so I'll probably do that while H watches the Super Bowl.
*We might give in and buy a new hot water heater this weekend because I'm sick of juggling when we can do laundry/showers/dishes, so I might do cleaning the spare room by myself if H is occupied with removing the old and installing the new. We haven't built new stairs to our basement yet, so the existing staircase is partially covered up and really kind of dangerous. It's going to be a B-word to replace the hot water heater.
Delivering a virtual King Cake for everyone. I wish I could send the real thing!
That is a pet peeve I have about stadiums...or maybe its the NFL in general...that host the Superbowl. Both the host stadium and the NFL make upteen millions of dollars on the Superbowl. But they hire VOLUNTEERS for many of the positions. Really? Really!?!? Y'all really can't afford to pay...maybe...100-200 people minimum wage for a day. I side-eye it hard.
And most of the volunteers don't even get to see the game at all. Some of them aren't even in the stadium.
Saturday: all-day paczki-making marathon! Our church makes 800+ paczki using our family recipe (they are REAL paczki, not the donuts that some bakeries like to say are paczki!). It's a lot of work but it's a really fun day.
Sunday: drag ourselves out of bed for church because someone needs to sell the paczki...lol. Then be lazy because we earned it on Saturday, and go to my parents' for the Superbowl even though I don't care for the teams. Mostly going because my mom will feed us! haha.
Amen. And using the term "volunteers" in this capacity makes me stabby. So does the idea of the NFL as a "nonprofit" (fortunately they gave up this status in 2015). Disgusting.
Working on bf's valentine's day gift.
I'm making him a picture frame. I put a pic of us on the beach in Thailand (we went this past Nov) & I'm decorating it with beach-related things.
Saturday dinner & drinks with my best friend and Sunday is superbowl.
Snowed like a b*tch here last night/this AM