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10 Things Tuesday
1. Why did I start this I have such a hard time thinking of ten things.
2. I have a mandatory staff meeting at 11 am but no one knows what it's about....
3. I am not scared about the meeting, probably because I've only been back a week so I figure it's nothing I did lol.
4. Last night I was super productive, I am hoping to carry it through tonight too.
5. Because of being super productive last night, my morning was very mellow and I loved it.
6. Thanksgiving/Christmas are sneaking up awfully quick this year.
7. I would love some chocolate. Perhaps I will get some on the way home from work today.
8. Working has forced me to be super organized at home and I kind of like it.
9. Me going back to work has forced H to really step it up around the house and he has been a rockstar. I love it!
10. I cannot believe that next week is the beginning of November.
Re: 10 Things Tuesday
1. I just ate 4 cookies.
2. I only feel slightly guilty about it.
3. We have a staff meeting at work today to go over a new thyroid diet. I am only excited about it because we get free lunch.
4. I need to go somewhere today to find more jujubees. I don't understand why everyone is sold out.
5. I keep smelling something that smells like dirty gym socks but I can't figure out what it is. It kinda makes me want to puke.
6. Our house looks like Toyrs R Us exploded in it. I'm not sure how to go about remedying this situation.
7. I was doing laundry this morning and some random person walked between my house and the neighbors house carrying a piece of plywood. I understand they are still building houses in the neighborhood but why do you have to trample our lawn to move your crap around?
8. I am excited because Tuesday is our pizza night because I don't get off of work until at least 7. I love pizza.
9. I have a lot of things about food. Hmm.
10. I can't wait until Saturday at1 PM because I will be done with work for two days.
1. I don't normally do 10 Things Tuesday because I'm so bad at coming up with 10 things to day, but I'm going to give it shot!
2. We carved pumpkins Sunday night and I love them! Mine is a mummy & DH made a spider web. Now it really feels like Halloween at our house.
3. I may have convinced DH to take a break from his thesis writing for one night to go to a Halloween party this weekend.
4. While I'm super excited about the party, I'm kind of disappointed that I have only a few days to throw together a costume. I hope I can come up with something in time!
5. We're going to a birthday party for FIL this coming Sunday. Costumes are "required" for kids, optional for adults. I really want to wear a costume but I don't want to DH & I to be the only adults dressed up. Not sure what to do...
6. MIL has now been staying at our place for 2.5 months. I really really hope she finds a place soon.
7. On the bright side, MIL did buy me the pumpkin flavored coffee mate I'd been searching for. So she gets a
for that!
8. I was super productive at work yesterday, so now I feel like I've earned a little nesting time.
9. I got my winter coat back from the dry cleaners yesterday. They did not do a good job cleaning it.
10. Whew, so glad I came up with 10 things! I wasn't sure I was going to make it.
1. My stomach is upset.
2. I think #1 was caused by my "lunch" of a pb&j, a brownie, and some candied pecans. Not exactly balanced.
3. It just started raining.
4. I didn't know it was going to rain today.
5. I need to go to CVS and pick up a perscription before I go home today. I keep thinking I'm going to forget to do that.
6. I am making 2 dinners tonight so that I don't have to cook tomorrow or Thurs.
7. I am making peruvian style roast chicken and chili
8. The chicken is supposed to be for tonight, but I think I want the chili
9. I'm dehydrated
10. I'm tired
1. I got a new office mate today!
2. She seems cool, but I am going to miss having an office to myself...
3. The good news is, it sounds like she isn't going to be around all that much.
4. DH and I need to carve our pumpkins ASAP!
5. FIL is staying with us all this week and we don't have a pumpkin for him to carve, so we probably wont do it until Friday evening.
6. It's supposed to get really cold this week... I'm not looking forward to that...
7. Most of our office thought we had a meeting today, we all had different times on our schedule... it turns out we don't have a meeting at all. We're all a little confused about the whole situation...
8. I made baked sweet and sour chicken for dinner last night with fried rice, it was delicious and about as healthy as chinese food can be!!!
9. I went grocery shopping last night and I saved 38% off of my final bill, with sales and coupons. I was pretty proud of myself!
10. I have no idea how the extreme couponers get down to 90% or higher savings. I don't think my store doubles coupons though... that might be the difference...
Serendipity3, South Beach, Miami, FL 2012
FI got a new iPhone too. We have totally be asking it inappropriate questions. It's hilarious! The other day FI told Siri that his name was Daddy, just so that he would answer his dirty questions and call him Daddy. bahahahaha
1. I'm eating leftover cheesy pasta bake that FI made last night. It is soooo yummy!
2. I have a dentist appointment tonight.
3. I definitely need to remember to floss first.
4. I have to go to federal court later today for a hearing.
5. While I'm not looking forward to the hearing, I lvoe the federal court downtown.
6. Oddly enough, I feel most "lawyerly" when I'm walking up the federal courthouse steps.
7. I can't believe it's already near the end of October.
8. I hope my mother and I are speaking by the time Thanksgiving comes around.
9. No, my mother is still not talking to me.
10. #9 sucks.
1. I hope all of my 10 things aren't all complaints, it's just one of those days!
2. Another road by my work is under construction now, I am SO frustrated! Traffic is totally sucking lately :-(
3. My brother gets his wedding pictures tomorrow, I can't wait to see them! I hope they got a good one of me, DH & DD cause I didn't get any of us together on my camera.
4. I need to check the weekly ads and see who has the best deal on halloween candy this week.
5. Someone at work mentioned that it's 2 months until Christmas. CRAZY!
6. Normally I am the one to count down way early, but with DD's birthday being in November, I don't like to start thinking about Christmas until after her birthday.
7. I am tired of trying to convince DH we should hire a cleaning lady. But I really want one!
8. I am still wearing flip flops, people ask me all of the time "isn't it too cold to wear flip flops?" and I always tell them I wear them until it snows!
9. My feet never get cold and I never wear socks around the house, I love to be barefoot!
10. This took way longer than it should have...lol.
1. Bummed it's not as warm as they predicted & it rained earlier, I was hoping to get another walk outside in today.
2. DD woke me up 4 times between 3:30am & 7:30am.
3. Only 1 time was it to try to use the bathroom, the other 3 was because she couldn't pull her blanket up.
4. I was worried I'd be so tired & not pay attention to the BSF lecture today, but I made it through ok.
5. DS is new to dipping his food in things, last week he dipped his grilled cheese in ketchup & today he wanted to dip his ham slice in my black bean dip!
6. I am loving this phase in kid's, the 15 month-2 yr period where they really get their personality.
7. Why is it on Friday I can come up w/10 things when only 5 are needed, but on Tues. I have problem?
8. I have a few things I'd like to get done while the kids (or at least DS) naps, I hope I get the motivation to do them.
9. That might mean staying off the computer, LOL.
10. But what fun would that be if I didn't Nest or get on FB?
1. I didn't eat breakfast until about 11:30 this morning.
2. At that point, we might as well just consider it an early lunch I suppose.
3. I dressed up Lily in her baby monkey costume and about died at the cuteness of it all.
4. I've been looking forward to getting a shower all morning, and now when the kids are sleeping I'm choosing to Nest instead of get in the shower.
5. That's how much I love you all.
6. I've had the same cell phone since December 2008, and don't have texting on my phone, which most people don't believe.
7. I took the kids out to Costco yesterday, which I believe was the first outting I've attempted alone with both of them.
8. It went well because the carts there are flippin' huge, so I put Lily's carseat in the basket and Emma sat in the actual seat part.
9. I still need to type up Lily's birth story so I don't forget it.
10. I kept saying I was going to write Emma's down and never did, and now I wish I had since I've forgotten little things about the day.
Hahahaha... that's hilarious.
1. I bought full-size candy bars for halloween because I want to be the "cool" house on the block, lol. I justified it because it cost about the same as buying a bunch of mini candy bars.....I'm banking on our one past experience where we literally got only about 10 kids, so I only bought one box of them from Costco.
2. I don't plan to dress up. Frankly, halloween isn't really on my radar right now, other than making sure we have candy to pass out.
3. Even though I told myself I would "get right on it" when we returned from our trip, I am intimidated by the task of sorting through our photos. I took over 1700 of them.
Gulp.
4. I am kinda pissed at myself because one day when we were visiting a pink sand beach, I had my camera on the wrong white balance, and all the photos are blue-ish. I hope PhotoShop can fix it for me!
5. I forgot to wear earrings today, and it's bugging me. I feel...unfinished. I actually looked for a pair to buy on my lunch break. No dice though.
6. It bugs me that so many people were itching to be part of the book club, but about 95% of them don't comment, don't respond to polls, and don't show up to meetings. I'm not really sure why they bothered joining.
7. DH used my kindle while we were on vacation, and I think he is hooked. He keeps talking about getting one for himself, but I hope he doesn't so that I can get it for him for Xmas.
8. There are so many babies around lately. I feel like a lot of the people who got married around the same time as us already have or are incubating their second one. It makes me think, "geez, what have we been doing the past 3 years?!" like I'm some sort of slacker for not keeping up.
9. If it were free, I would drink something from the Starbucks menu about 4 times a day.
10. I gained about 5 lbs on our vacation, and I am totally ok with that. It was worth it.
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1. I just ate a whole can of soup with lots of crackers and I'm still really hungry
2. I went to my first cider mill this past weekend when I was visiting up there
3. I would slap someone for a piece of the apple crumb cake we got at the mill
4. I have to clean my house when I get home tonight
5. Skittles are not a particularly good substitute for food when you're hungry...too many make you feel icky.
6. Bella was super cute this morning and very glad for her momma to be home
7. Work is boring today, even though I have stuff I need to do
8. Coming up with 10 things is really hard!!
9. Puppies are cute
10. I think I should clean up my desk at work. There are papers everywhere
1. I have realized since we moved out of the IL's house that I'm much more relaxed. Interesting...
2. When you don't have your belongings for a couple months - it really does make you appreciate them more when you get them back. I love you couch and bed!!
3. I referred a friend's sister to my company and I'm starting to regret it. She has been late every day and has been making comments that she's not happy. I told my Mgr if it doesn't work out with her I completely understand. Now I feel like a fool for referring her.
4. My boss and I were supposed to have a one-on-one last week and he keeps putting it off. The meeting is about me getting a raise.
5. Speaking of phones - H ordered the new iphone and we still have yet to receive it. I'm jealous of everyone!
6. I have a pimple in my ear and it hurts. Sorry if that is gross!
7. Tonight we are having perogi's...YUM!!
8. I read a person's blog last night about a woman losing her H at 32 and I was crying like a baby. I made sure to tell H how much I loved him and gave him a great big hug.
9. I can't believe Halloween is next Monday. Where are the scary stories??
10. I made it to 10...YES!! I agree with Latte "I like Kittens"
I'm gonna' need your address so I can come trick or treating.
LoL at "incubating". If you ever wonder what you've been up to, just take a look at your fabulous house! There's definitely a lot of hard work that went into that, you Slacker!
Sidenote, still looking for a countertop for the craft table?
Awesome job! In the few months, I've really started to coupon. I generally save about 1/3 and DH always makes fun of me for it not being EXTREME enough.
But if you look at what those ladies are buying, it's 100 things of pasta when they are on sale with a coupon. I've gotten a few things for free and stocked up when that's been the case but I didn't have 100 copies of the coupon. Those women are absolutely nuts.
Out of curiosity, which store do you shop at? I'm a Meijer shopper but I'm debating checking out Kroger and their coupon policies to see if it's a better deal.
1) I am totally late to this but wanted to play anyways.
2) I am very excited for Halloween.
3) I am also very excited to go see Let's Make a Deal in a few weeks.
4) I can't wait to carve a pumpkin DH and I haven't done it yet.
5) I had my review at work today and it went really well.
6) DH bought us a mini pumpkin spice bundt cake at this amazing bakery by our house and I want to eat the whole thing instead of share.
7) Part of me wants to host Thanksgiving this year but I don't want some of DH's family coming over because they aren't my cup of tea.
8) Part of me is also hoping no one in DH's family does anything for Thanksgiving either so then it can just be the two of us.
9) I made my Christmas list this weekend.
10) #9 made me realize how boring I am because I didn't ask for anything super fun.
1. I'm a bit late but I always like doing these for the challenge!
2. I'm sitting in the hotel room and am deciding where I want to order dinner from. I'll probably just end up driving to Burger King.
3. I am the least adventurous person ever. I have a day off in between events tomorrow and instead of exploring the city I'm in, I'll chill at the hotel and maybe layout by the pool if it's nice out.
4. I'm really hoping it's nice out
5. I'm bummed that there is no good TV on tonight (or at least TV that I generally watch.)
6. Ah! But there are several episodes of SVU so you all know what I'll be doing.
7. I love doing crossword puzzles and am excited to do the one that was in the paper this morning.
8. I get really, really irritated when people try to help me with them. In college, my only goal was to finish one before I graduated. I finally did it my senior year
9. H thinks I'm a giant nerd for #7. But he loves videogames so I don't think he really has a leg to stand on.
10. I'm really thankful my hotel room has a refrigerator. I get super annoyed when they don't, that should just be standard in all hotel rooms for crying out loud!
What'd you ask for? I can never think of anything and it drives DH bonkers.
I asked for a couple things:
A mini pie pan
A new cutting board
Some nifty kitchen utensils that have a thing on it so it is raised up off the counter when you put it down (hope that makes sense haha)
A new pair of boots
New tires (this is the one that made me feel lame)
This is my worst fear.
I will be doing the same to DH when he gets home from the store.
This is like the official TV show of hotel stays haha.