Winter
New look for the blog. Since we’ll be on the road for Thanksgiving, I decided to change it a little early. Please pop out of your reader and check it out! 
I think I love it…gonna keep it until the Spring.
Monday
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It’s definitely a Monday. I haven’t really had a bad day, just a long one.
I went and weighed in today, down 2.8 more pounds for a loss of 10 pounds in 10 weeks! Go me! In 10 days it’s my bday and maybe I will keep my goal of 12 pounds by then, but if not, no biggie. I ran a 12:19 mile on the treadmill this morning! A new pace for me, I’ve been at 4.7 for a while on the speed, cranked it up to 5.0 so I can get more and more speed and get this weight off of me! I started working on my abs as well, I’ve been putting that off for a while. I’m going to take my own personal yoga mat to the gym and put it in my locker. I cannot stand using a mat with a towel. I have no idea who or how many people have been on the gym mat before me and I’m a germophobe that way! EW! Anyhow, I plan on working on them each time I’m at the gym, so by Christmas I should see some sort of improvement. I’ve been working out each weekday for the past two months! I just realized that today. I only skipped last Friday because there were a lot of things going on and it was Greg’s day off.
The weekend was good, we went to the race on Saturday. Jen and Matt went with us and we even got a photo taken of us there. I took one of them as well, you can see that on my Facebook and our Flickr account. There was a really bad accident early on Saturday morning, during qualifying. The girl riding the bike in the tower lane near us, wiped out so badly that we were all stunned and just sat there. (We later found out that she was fine, moving, talking, no injuries, thank God for that!) I thought I had gotten photos of it happening, but, didn’t know that I hadn’t until Rich Christensen asked me to let him see. Since I didn’t and there was a camera…I asked if it was okay to have a photo taken with him. Hubby took it and did a pretty good job I think. We had a good day, I took a lot of photos and got some great bikes speeding along at over 150 MPH in some cases. Jen and I walked around and saw all the bikes, went to the top of the track where everyone was lined up waiting and took some photos of some bikes and some of the guys and their kids too. Greg and I each bought at least one shirt. I think that was a great way to spend the day. It was sunny and in the low 70’s, not very humid either.
Sunday we got some stuff done around the house, then went and delivered the DVD in our old town to the “wedding” couple. I don’t do weddings. ‘Nuff said. We also went and shopped for some baby things for people we know having babies. I just have to wrap them up and send them off this week. Theresa has gotten her gifties by now, how about you Cheryl? It was SO weird to see our old town, really weird. I haven’t been back there since we moved I don’t think.
Jess is going to be visiting this weekend, I’m so excited!! She flies in on Friday night, so I’m off to meet Greg at Pentagon City Mall for dinner, then we’re picking her up! She flies out on Sunday evening. I know it will go SO quickly. We’re taking our Christmas family photo on Saturday and probably doing lunch somewhere as well. She hasn’t been here since the end of May for Violet’s birthday! We saw her for a brunch in mid-June and Greg and I saw her in August. But, Jac and Vi haven’t since June. Hopefully she will remember Violet.
We finally hung the photos on the wall in Violet’s room. She loves them. I took a bunch of photos that one day a few weeks ago and had them all printed up in 5 x 7’s. She can see Jac and Storm as well as Jess and Greg and I any time she wants. We just change them out as the family photos are done. There’s a little gallery on each wall and we put one right next to her line of sight on her changing table. Target had a HUGE sale on frames for college students and I ended up getting like 30 or 40 of them for about .50 each. I have a bunch to hang in my office as well.
Gotta run and get some food, then, time for laundry and then hopefully watching Prison Break tonight. TTFN! 
It’s October!
Did you know that Fall is here? The leaves are changing color quickly here in Maryland. I had Greg take out the Halloween/Fall things last weekend. We’re going to go through them today and Sunday and start decorating!
I’ve been doing well working out and with the Jenny Craig program. I did get weighed this past Monday, but, gained .8 of a lb. so I didn’t post about it. I really chalk it up to two things. Stress and PMS. Don’t they usually go hand-in-hand? I know that I’ve been losing inches even though I’m not losing weight. Everything is fitting differently. I will try to post on Monday with an update after my WI! (weigh in)
Today all of us went to the eye doc. This is the first time we’ve been since early 2007 for Jac and I and late 2007 for Greg. As he’s retired, he gets a free one, then again in 2 years. Jac and I paid this time as in March 2009 we would be eligible and we’ve both been having problems with our vision lately. Her eyes did get a little worse as did mine. Greg got his eyes dilated, they look so weird! He’s got a freckle on each of his irises and one on the back of his cornea as well. They looked at them at Bethesda last year before he retired, gave him all the info on a thumb-drive. He took that with him today, the doc saw it right away and wanted to dilate his eyes. Anyhow, he’s still 20/20, must be nice! I really think that my eyes aren’t too bad. I’ve been at the same Rx for 10 years now. -7.50 in one eye and -7.00 in the other. Yes, I’m really blind I tell you. I’m -8.00 in one now and -7.00 in the other I think. Jac and I both have trial contacts on order…we put them in when he calls us in a few weeks and then wear them for a while, he checks them out and then we get our Rx’s. I use Contact Lens King for all our contacts. They always have my Rx in stock, which is great!
I’ve been busy on Twitter and Twitter Mom’s lately. I created a Tattooed Mom’s group on Twitter Mom’s the other day and it has 60 members in it right now! I would like to have more people participating though! If you are interested in tattoos at all, feel free to join us in discussions! There’s a few people that have no tattoos yet, but are interested in getting one in the future.
Greg and I are heading to Maryland Int’l Raceway tomorrow with some friends. Hopefully we’ll be there all day and into the night watching the bikes! I’m taking my Nikon and hopefully we’re parking in the pits so I can put stuff there when I don’t want to carry it around. It’s supposed to be nice weather tomorrow, in the low 70’s. Yay for Fall!
Sunday I’m delivering the DVD photos to the wedding couple from last month. Jac and Storm are taking Violet to the Ren Faire! Jac has been every year for 3 years now. This is the second year for Violet. Greg and I aren’t going this year, it’s impossible. Oh well.
I had some issues with my Pinkberry this past week. I’m currently putting everything back on it. It makes me sad as I had cool things on it and had it set up just right. Then, I had to wipe everything and I was still having issues. Since I’m within the 30 days, I just exchanged it for a brand new one! I hope to have ring tones back on it this weekend.
Time to get laundry done and I have to run the Scooba as well.
New look!
I’ve just given this blog a new look. It’s the same style sheet as the previous layout, but it’s one that I really like. Very PINK, very GIRLIE, so beware if you click out of your reader! 
I love it though. I will probably do one for Halloween, I think I have one already made around here somewhere.
Helloooooo!
Anyone reading this? Please pop out of your feed reader and comment so I know I’m not just talking to myself here! Thanks!
Sometimes the best things are the familiar ones.
I went back to an old layout tonight. I really like this layout and I’ve used it in the past, last year I think for a while. Sorry to keep flipping on y’all, but I think I’m good now.
Keeping busy.
I’ve been keeping busy here. We leave in a week for Atlanta! I’m SO excited! I get to see Jess, Greg’s sister Tina and her family and my brother David and his family.
It’s going to be great to see Tina and the whole family, been 5 years since we’ve seen her and her oldest daughter and we’ve never met her youngest daughter. She was pregnant with her the year Jess graduated high school, 2003. I don’t think her hubby came up to see the high school graduation, I cannot remember, but I think it was just her and her daughter. So it’s been longer since we’ve seen him!
We haven’t seen my brother and his family in years. I have, when I went down to Florida a few years ago, but, Greg hasn’t, so that will be good.
We haven’t seen Jess since mid-June and that was just for breakfast when she was in Northern Virginia for a wedding. We get to see her new apt. and meet her roomie and finally see all the places that she’s been talking about visiting but has been holding off until we get down there.
I have no idea what to pack. I haven’t even had a chance to think about it until today and we leave next Wednesday through Sunday night. I have to get a bathing suit this week and I plan on packing workout clothes as there’s a gym in our hotel. I don’t know what’s in it, but, I’m prepared to do whatever they have there! Read more
New Look
New look for the journal. It was time for an update. This is one of the few themes that I actually liked and didn’t really have to change to make it mine. So, pop out of your reader, please and check it out! Tell me how it looks on your browser. It looks great in Firefox on a Windows computer.
It’s done!
No, it’s really done! I now own Sara Nelson Photography! I just moved everything over this morning. This blog isn’t moving, so keep it on your links, please!
Friday
Today I woke up late, checked our bank account. The gov’t decided to put some extra cash in there to stimulate the economy. YAY!! I went and ordered a new bed for the guest room! It arrives tomorrow morning sometime between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Now when my mom, Lisa or Jess visit there’s a real bed there. I dropped into Michael’s this afternoon as there were a few things that I wanted to buy for that room. I think we’ll be busy tomorrow hanging things on the wall. Jess arrives Sunday morning and then leaves sometime on Tuesday. Greg’s folks arrive on Thursday afternoon. I bought things from this collection. I don’t know if you can see them very well on the Michael’s site or not. I bought a huge, distressed flag wall hanging, a couple of photo frames, one of the paddles, a bag and some shell animals. We have a lot of sea shells from when we would go to Orlando or Daytona Beach when the girls were young in the room already, which is what inspired the idea.
I added threaded comments, yay! I love that and I missed it!
I’m off to scrapbook tonight with a group of gals that I met here locally. It’s actually a funny story. I was in line at Target a few weeks ago and saw some scrapbooking stuff that the gal in front of me had on the belt. We started to chat, she invited me. I went once or twice and did some chit-chatting and some scrapping. So, tonight is another time, first time in a while, although they do it every Friday night. She’s also the same gal that I picked up some Free Cycle things from, unknowingly to each other! Haha!
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Later y’all!
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