Things here have been super busy. The little girlie had some weird stomach bug thing for three days. She’s fine now, but that on top of everything being closed because of the weather here really threw us all off of a schedule. The youngest didn’t have a class on Tuesday and almost didn’t on Thursday.

I’ve been getting weighed each Monday and I’m thisclose to having a 20 pound weight loss! I hope to get there on Monday. I’m at 19.2 right now, that’s pretty close to just 19! Anyhow, I’ve been working out M, W, F and Sundays. I bought a Polar watch (F6) and love it. It tells me how many calories I’ve burned that day and what my heart rate is on every machine I use. I’ve been doing a run, elliptical and then the bike. I rest by doing weights and then abs. I’m usually done in about 1 1/2-2 hours including a shower and warm up and cool down stretches.

We just refinanced our home yesterday. It cut our payment down by $400 a month, which is most excellent! We don’t have a payment for February which is super great!

We had a painting inspector come in this morning to tell us the fee for painting the entire kitchen and family room ceiling. It’s $100 and they provide the paint! For an extra $20 they will patch up anything that needs patched, then paint. The guy will be here on Wednesday afternoon for a few hours. I’m so excited! I picked a really neutral buttercreamy color as some day in the future we’ll have the kitchen painted as well and it needs to flow with the family room. Most rooms he said were in the $100 range, which I personally think is really a good rate. They are hurting for business right now, so we’re going to take advantage of it and probably have at least 2-4 more rooms painted this year, including the basement. It’s a pretty big area, but soon it will have carpet and will need paint.

Next Friday we go to H & R Block to get our taxes done. It’s the first year living here, so we’re not sure how to handle the house and everything I’ve done as well. And we have to file Virginia as well as Maryland taxes. I just hope we don’t owe anything!

Hubby and I went out today and bought some steel toe boots for him to take on the cruise. He’s leaving sometime in mid-February for a few days. It’s the new carrier, they have to make sure everything is running correctly before they start manning it. We also went to the thrift store and bought like 4 or 5 pairs of pants for him to wear in the engine room as he didn’t want to ruin his dress pants. And a couple of sport jackets. I think he paid with a $20 bill and got change back. We also went to Lone Star for lunch. Our waitress said that I was skinny, I didn’t want any bread. That’s the first time anyone has said that to me. Made my day! We then went to Value City Furniture to see what we want for the living room. A love seat and a few chairs will work in there, but not much else.We went to Target to get chips and stuff for the game tomorrow night. Go Steelers! I personally don’t really care who wins, I just root for hubby’s team if they are playing. *LOL*

Tomorrow I need to work on some scrapbook things. I have the photos in my h/d waiting to be printed. I’m doing an “All About Me” page.  I also framed some photos of  the little girlie and we need to hang them tomorrow. I want to wash my Jeep, it should be near 50°F so that works for me. I was going to the Chinese parade in D.C., but, it’s too much of a pain with the Metro where we live now and I would be there for about 6-7 hours total. Oh well, maybe there’s something nearby I can shoot photos of next week. I do have some photos to post on Flickr, I hope to do that tomorrow also.