Getting back into the swing of things.
You know the old saying, “I need a vacation from my vacation”? That’s SO true! Just today everything is back to normal. It’s crazy! We unpacked suitcases downstairs and then unpacked them upstairs as well.
We had a great time in Atlanta! We saw Jess on Friday after bowling for a few hours, then spent the day with my sis-in-law and her family on Saturday. We never did get to the races, it rained, so we went for Mexican food instead. *LOL* We met with my brother and my niece for lunch at Subway on Friday and then met him and his wife for brunch on Sunday morning. Sunday afternoon we shopped with Jess and then finished our Phase 10 game and just hung out. I did upload some photos to Flickr, although there’s a few missing that I have a feeling are on my laptop’s h/d. I will have to get into that tomorrow.
I’m pretty much caught up on the laundry, just have to clean the bathrooms tomorrow and put the Scooba and Roomba out tomorrow on the floors.
I just ordered this yesterday. I’m SO excited about getting this, finally. I currently carry my D200 in a Crumpler 6 million dollar home and my D40 in a 4 million dollar home. I also carry my laptop in either a case or a backpack. Plus I have my tripod to carry and then light stands for the flashes if I’m inside, the background stands…tons of stuff. This will make it nice, only one thing for 2 cameras and all the accessories and my laptop. I’m going to order either this one or this one next month.
I went to a few specialty stores today to drop off some business cards and card holders. I also grabbed a few business cards from the bridal store, I plan on contacting these people and hopefully get some business networking going that way as well.
My sis-in-law, Tina, is a Mary Kay consultant, so if you are looking for one, let me know and I will hook you up. I haven’t tried any Mary Kay stuff in about 15 years when it made me break out in hives everywhere on my face. Very attractive. She gave me some samples while I was there on Saturday and I was very nervous using it as I have extremely sensitive skin, like hyper-sensitive. But nothing happened! My skin is acting really well to it actually. Yay! I haven’t worn blush since I was like 20 as any blush would make my cheeks break out. I’m getting ready to order some things from her, she ships for free, just charges the tax for her state which is 6% as they charge her. She just started in March of this year and is really doing well at it.
Greg and I are off on Saturday morning to Kings Dominion. Then we’re spending the night and coming back on Sunday afternoon. The trip is literally just costing us the price of the discounted tickets ($40 total) and gas and food money. The hotel is free as we reserved it with the Comfort Inn points we had accumulated two years ago with our cross-country trip! Nice! 
Greg’s off of work on Monday and next Friday as well, so it’s a short week!
Jacqueline is starting college on Wednesday. Her schedule is really good actually, we worked it out so I can watch Violet for her! YAY!! She’s taking one online course and the rest are at the college. One she and Storm are attending together. Awwww! One is in the mornings and the other is at night on the same day. It worked out just perfectly, none are on Friday’s either. She’s so excited, we’re off to get her some new sneaks tomorrow.
Violet is growing by leaps and bounds. She’s walking and crawling everywhere and is now 15 months. She has her next doc appt. on Tuesday. She eats everything and tries everything, which is great. Only baby food now is the veggies so her mommy knows she’s getting it somehow and sometimes cereal at night. She’s sleeping all night from 8 p.m. or so until around 7:30. I don’t know any parent that can complain about a 12 hour nights sleep from a toddler! I hope it lasts! 
I’ve been getting back to working out as well. I ran today and on Monday for a few minutes. I just have to get past the 10 minute mark on the treadmill and I’m golden. Funny how strong your mind is, eh?
TTFN! 
Protected: Week 5
Trip to Atlanta
We had a couple of hours to kill at the airport before our flight yesterday morning. We took out our PSP’s and played head-to-head “Buzz“. Too fun!
The flight was really good actually. There were two babies in the row next to us and they were SO GOOD! I didn’t even hear them cry once. One was a year old, slept most of the way, the other was 8 months and too cute. Both girls, maybe that’s why they were good, I don’t know. When we boarded the pilot asked me if I wanted a tour of the cockpit, I said “no thanks”…but wasn’t that nice?
After getting our luggage and making our way to the hotel, it was nearly 3:30 and even though I brought something to eat on the plane, Greg hadn’t eaten anything all day. He skipped breakfast and drank some coffee before we left. We went to Subway so he could eat and the Kroger for a few things.
Jess came to our room last night, it’s so good to see her again! She had a dinner meeting with some vendors who are in town for a few days.
Today we went to Centennial Park and The World of Coca-Cola. I found some scrapbook paper, stickers and a new mouse pad for my desktop there. We also bought a pack of playing cards for Jacqueline (yes, she’s still collecting them), some postcards and a cute little toy for Violet. We’re saving the aquarium for November so Jacqueline and Violet can go with us! I really wanted to go today though, they have some of the artifacts and a replica of the Titanic there. We ate lunch at the Hard Rock. Jess is making us some dinner at her new apartment. I can’t wait to see it!
Tomorrow she’s off at noon from work, then we’re going to try to meet my brother and my niece for lunch in Alpharetta. Then we’re going to bowl as she needs to make up 3 games from last night. She has 21 games, so, we’re going to bowl a few with her tomorrow afternoon.
Saturday we’re spending the day with Greg’s sister, Tina and her family. It’s been 5 years since we’ve seen them, so we have a lot to catch up on! We’re going to the dirt track that night and sit in the pits. Her hubby, Dave knows the guys that run the cars on the track, so we’ll be nice and dirty. Good thing she gave us a heads up about that, I packed old sweat pants and a t-shirt that we painted in.
Sunday we’re meeting my brother and his wife for brunch, then spending some time with them. 
Our flight doesn’t leave until dinnertime, so we’ll have a good visit.
I’ve taken TONS of photos so far, I’m going to upload them to Flickr, but I’m not going to have a chance to tag or describe anything until we get back home.
Peace!
Protected: Day 21
The weekend
The weekend is filling up. Going to upgrade to the latest and greatest new version of WP. Probably on Sunday as tomorrow is filled with patching holes, painting over those holes, hanging things and sleeping. And I will be meeting my new Creative Memories person. She keeps my tape runner and photo file box needs met. I found her through the gal that runs the crops on Friday nights. Hopefully some business cards will make their way into her goodie bag to hand out to her friends.
Speaking of cards…I handed out cards and talked to a family waiting outside the JC Penney studio this morning. They brought their 3 kids and a week old newborn to the mall for photo time. She thought it was awesome that I would drive to them vs. having to schlep everyone. 
Hopefully she will call me when they need their holiday photos done. She liked the idea of having the photos on a DVD a lot. 
I also handed out cards to the gal at Borders and the one at Best Buy. They aren’t doing me any good unless they are in someone’s pocket!
I found a bathing suit to try on in JC Penney’s. I then ordered it from the catalog through the gal there, it may be here before we leave, but, I don’t plan on wearing it except for when we go to Kings Dominion in two weeks, so no biggie. I could only try on a top in one suit and a bottom in another suit to gauge the sizes. I think I’m going to be another size smaller by the 30th, oh well. I gave that gal a couple of cards as well.
Tomorrow night Greg and I will have our first date night in three weeks. I think we’re going out to eat and then to the movies. I’m a Star Wars geek just like he is. We may end up shooting pool instead, who knows.
I bought some really cool cards for Greg, Gary, Storm and Tina. They all have birthdays this month. Gary and Greg on the same day, of course. Tina is the 28th and Storm is the 29th. He will be 21. It’s pretty sad that they don’t make any really nice cards for someone’s 21st birthday. He doesn’t drink, so, the options are pretty limited. At least where I went they were. I did get a good one though, one from Hallmark. I wish they carried cards for a twin to his brother, that would be awesome to have to give to Gary.
Greg’s gifts are this (the catapult) and this. I hope he likes them! I cannot believe he asked for a book, that never happens. I guess he will read it on the plane. I’m taking a book to read.
Hopefully on Sunday I will get a chance to decide what to take on the trip, we leave Wednesday morning. Hard to believe we’ve never traveled on a plane anywhere alone, eh? I guess this is our time.
TTFN!