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TGIF!!
What's in the plans for all of you beautiful ladies??
Lovin' Life: M+D 7/06, T 1/08, B 5/10
Getting back to it- my diet and exercise blog
Losing it...Without Losing it
Getting back to it- my diet and exercise blog
Losing it...Without Losing it
Re: TGIF!!
We're going to be busy packing/disposing/donating items, in preparation of moving to the new place in a few weeks (if all goes well with the appraisal results, etc).
Also, deep clean this place. It needs it.
And hopefully, we'll make a trip to Chuck E Cheese for the kids to play. T has been earning stamps/stickers for a while and I think it's time for him to cash in. It'll be a nice break from the craziness of packing and cleaning for the kids (and hopefully us too!)
We're going to go to our new library today for a storytime and see how it is.
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I'm so glad it's Friday!!!
Tonight I'm going to dinner with friends.
Tomorrow shooting and working the shoot all day, probably dinner with friends after.
Sunday-Church, grocery shop and hopefully some relaxing!
I'm also so glad it's Friday!!! My day has been pretty busy so far, but I've already checked the most important meeting off the list of things to do and I have a pretty good game plan for work for the next few weeks! I'm very excited!
This weekend is going to be an awesome weekend! My birthday is on Sunday and I'm having a party with one of my best friends who's birthday is on Monday! (we always celebrate our birthdays together)
I'm going grocery shopping tonight and picking up the Margarita Machine that we are using for the weekend! I also need to make a Margarita Cheesecake! (YUM!) I'll probably also chop all of the stuff up for our taco bar and get that ready for tomorrow!
Tomorrow i'm watching the football game at my house and the party starts at 5! It should be a great time!
Sunday will probably just be low key, but DH is taking me to Wolfgang Puck's in the MGM casino for dinner for my birthday!!!! It should be great!
Serendipity3, South Beach, Miami, FL 2012
Sounds like an AWESOME birthday! Happy (early) Birthday
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Kzoo ~ have a great birthday!
Tonight I need to do a little cleaning up around the house.
Tomorrow: My parents are picking us up early to go to the UofM game - they're coming with some friends who want to see the nursery, thus the cleaning friday night. After the game I'm sure we'll go out to eat.
Sunday: Maybe church, farmer's market, laundry, maybe starting to fill up the new chest freezer.
Kzoo -- HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Enjoy those margaritas..
Today: Working from home, my car is in the shop, they think it's my tranmission.. if that's the case I will probably be looking for a new car. Which stresses me out to the max, a car payment is not in our budget..
Tomorrow: Drinking my stresses away at the MSU game with my 2 bff's. I can't wait!!
Sunday: Relaxing and trying to figure out my mode of transportation for the next week.
PS. I HATE CAR ISSUES!!!
Pretty much all day yesterday I thought it was Friday.....and then I realized I still had another day to go. Ugh, that is the worst!
We have a LOT of crap around the house to list on craigslist, donate, or throw away. I'm so ready to be rid of it all, and I'm hoping to make a big dent in it over the next couple days. I also have a lot of work to do, so it's going to be a busy weekend filled with all work and no play. Bummer.
Mardoll - Speaking of stuff, didn't you have a garage sale? How'd it go? Was it alot of work?
We had a garage sale this year and it was definitely a lot of work! Fortunately I was super organized about it and got everything pulled together in time. I was also fortunate to have my mom come help run the sale with me on Friday. DH was around on Saturday (and my mom was definitely more help then DH, lol)
Serendipity3, South Beach, Miami, FL 2012
Moms are always more help then DH's!
Yep, we did. It went pretty well, although we didn't sell as much as I'd hoped (I imagine that you never do, haha). We still have a lot of the big furniture pieces left, so those are going up on Craigslist soon. I have already donated all the books, clothes, home goods, etc. I just want it GONE!
It was a TON of work, especially because we had SO MUCH STUFF. It's so hard to judge if it was worth it.....we made some cash, but I also spent about a week getting ready for it and then 2 whole days running it, so I dunno. People literally kept walking through saying stuff like, "you've got a lot of nice stuff!" and someone said, "you've got stuff priced to sell!".....and yet, they weren't buying anything.
Just the luck of the draw I guess.
Oh, and moms are absolutely more helpful than DHs! So true!
After our garage sale we packed everything into DH's jeep and took it to the salvation army. Not a single thing went back into our house! It was awesome! But we sold a ton of stuff (we had a great sale) and all of the stuff we had left could fit into one car load!
Serendipity3, South Beach, Miami, FL 2012
Today just staying home, my Sept. b-day girls dinner got cancelled, since it'd only be 2 of us tonight (5 of us all have Sept. b-day's so we try to get together for dinner in Sept. 1 gal moved to Washington, but still trying to get 1 night where 4 ppl can agree on is tough).
Sat-finalizing plans w/DH about redoing our bathrooms. It'd be nice to have the guy start on 1 of them, but we need to make sure we have everything agreed on. The sooner we can get the bathrooms done, then hopefully next spring/summer we can redo the kitchen.
Sun-church; b-day dinner w/DH since he was gone on Tues. & missed taking me out to dinner, my parents will come down to watch the kids so we can go out
Tonight - going for a run when I get home, then out to dinner in downtown Farmington tonight - they have a Taste of Farmington Event going on as part of the Harvest Moon Festival going on this weekend
Tomorrow - Run in the morning, running some errands, starting to move into the house, chucrch in the evening and then afterwards going out to dinner and over my grandparents for cake to celebrate my grandpa's birthday
Sunday - Run or bike with DH, more work at the house/moving, going to the Ren Fest.
I have a busy weekend a head of me.
Today I will leave work around 4pm and drive out to Pinckney to pick up mine & my dad's race packets. I then have to drive down to Cabela's and will meet my dad, step mom and DS for dinner. DS & I are staying the night over his house too.
Tomorrow my dad and I need to be up and out the door by 4:30am. We are both running the dances with dirt 50K trail race. We'll probably all go to dinner later in the evening and then DS & I will head home.
Sunday I need to grocery shop, prep for the week, making homemade pizza for dinner, watching football & nascar, resting my legs. :-)
2012: Running & Race Accomplishments:
2-12-12: Riverview Winter Fest 4 mile, 34:59 8:45 pace - 23 weeks pregnant
2-29-12: Leap Year 4 mile, 36:45 9:11 pace - 25.5 weeks pregnant
3-11-12: Corktown 5K, 28:33 9:13 pace - 27 weeks pregnant
3-25-12: Rock CF Island Half Marathon, 2:11:03 10:00 pace - 29 weeks pregnant
4-16-12 Boston Marathon, deferring to 2013
8-11-12: Run thru Hell 10 mile or 4.8 mile
9-30-12: Brooksie Way Half Marathon
10-21-12: Grand Rapids Marathon
11-22-12: Detroit Turkey Trot 10K