Weekend stuff

We’ve got the tree and all the decorations put away. We took most things down here and there over the last few days and everything today off of the tree. Then we boxed it all up and put it in the attic.

The living room is so bare with nothing in it! I cannot wait to get some furniture in there. We hope to have a couch and some end tables and a coffee table by late April. We’re thinking about a sleeper sofa, which would come in handy when company visits. Cindy and her crew may be here over Memorial Day weekend!

I’ve finally made the archive files for the family photos from Thanksgiving. I threw in Christmas on Jess’s archive. Now I’m uploading my SIL files to the website so she can grab them at her convenience. I’m currently making a DVD of our Christmas photos. I’m SUCH a dork! I was wondering where they were! I had them on the CF card in the camera! *ROFL* Never had a chance to take them out as Jess was sick and then I had that bad cold and then reformatting my desktop. So, now they are getting backed up on DVD and then I have to put some of those in Jess’s archive.

I got a little surprise this week from my ex-SIL. Greg’s brother was married to her for about 10 years. I never really liked her or got along with her to be honest. She’s on her 6th or 7th marriage and actually had her tubes UN-TIED to have another baby. Crazy to me…as she’s my age or just around there. Anyhow, she messaged me on My Space to add her as a friend! *LOL* How bizarre.

I ran 5K on the treadmill this morning, been a while since I’ve done the 5K. I can feel the pain in my thighs! But, I did it and I plan on running that weekly. It was a little busier today at the gym, I’m sure it has to do with NY resolutions, eh? All 8 treadmills were being used when I was running, which is really busy in my opinion. The ellipticals were being used too, as well as the bikes. There’s 6 or 8 ellipticals and about the same number of bikes. I wonder how many people will be there this time next month? I cannot believe it’s been nearly a year since I started going to the gym at least 4 times a week. It’s been 5 months since I starting running and you can see my last 5 runs here: My Runs I upload them to the Nike server through  my Nike+ thing on my iPod. Pretty cool eh? Anyhow, that’s not up to date as I haven’t added the one from yesterday on there yet, but it’s pretty close. I’ve run 30 miles since my birthday in October! Wow!

This next week will be pretty busy for me. I have to get a necklace I’m making completed so I can start on the layouts I want to do at the crop on Saturday! There’s a crop from 3-11 p.m. I missed the one in December.  I also want to sew the backdrop material I bought back in November. I have it all cut, but I have to pin it and get it sewn. It’s really pretty tan fleecey stuff. Thought it would be nice to offer something other than black or white when inside. I also have to figure out when I can drive up to DC and get my Nikon cleaned. And I have to drop by the tattoo shop with my portfolio and cards.

Melissa was nice enough to post about our Mary Kay transactions! I have been selling it since Halloween here and there in town, but she’s my first mail order person! If you want to look at the site, here’s the link to my personal page on the Mary Kay site. I was really happy to be able to help Melissa out without her being local. I sent her some little samples and some tubes of foundation along with  my color matcher tool. I thought she would be the 204 color and I was right. It looks great on her and she loves it so  much she’s ordering concealer too! Thank you again for your orders! :smile: I usually place an order weekly if I don’t have something in stock, so if you are running low on something, give me a shout through the website, okay?

I will try to post again this week, hopefully tomorrow with more weight loss stuff! :kiss:

Posted on Sunday January 4, 2009 ♥ 2 pieces of comment love!  
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Monday, Monday

Keeping busy around here!

This past weekend was nice, Greg was off on Friday as well. We did get a lot accomplished:

  • Halloween/Fall things put away in attic.
  • Oil changed in Impala.
  • Saw new James Bond movie.
  • Organized our DVD movies.
  • Finished Christmas shopping for Jac and almost finished for Storm.
  • Got a table and 2 chairs for Violet.
  • Caught up on DVRed shows.

I went to a Creative Memories open house thing on Saturday and I had a good time chatting with Sami. I scrapped with her and some others last month. They are having a crop on Sat. from 3-11 and I’m going! There’s only 6 people that can go as it’s in her home this time. I did buy another coverset, this one is for Greg’s scrapbook.

Yesterday Jac and I went to a Slipada jewelry party. It was at Tammy’s house. She’s best friend with Sami. Jennifer is the jewelry and Pampered Chef gal. While I was getting directions from Tammy she told me that they would probably be using me in the very near future for a photo session! YAY! Breaking into this group would be great, just takes a few and then business will start rolling. Tammy and Sami’s kids are the same age, 15 and 17. Both girls are older, they will be uprising seniors next year. So, I will be busy this summer! Hopefully the referral incentives I have set up will bring in some of their friends as well. Anyhow, we had a good time at the party and I ordered two things, neither for me! I have a wish list though. Jen and I talking I’m going to have a Valentine’s open house for Mary Kay and have a Slipada party at the same time. My SIL did this and got a lot of jewelry free as well as some MK bookings! :smile:

I have booked 3 Mary Kay skin care classes for the first weekend in December. If you are local and wouldn’t mind me borrowing your face, let me know. I just need to get 15 faces done in 2 weeks and I get something called “Perfect Start”. No one in the unit I’m in has gotten it and there’s a lot of them, like 25 or so. I have 9 faces booked, including Jac! One of the gals at the gym used to use MK, but, her gal moved, so that’s very cool for me. Just going to do the class and then take reorders. I’m going to do a follow-up with her the next week for color. Storm’s mom is going to get some church gals together and I invited my friend Jen to a class with Jac. I need to borrow your face, Alisa, Ginger, Joanna.

I got weighed and measured at JC this morning. Didn’t gain, didn’t lose, but, I’ve lost a total of 16″. Wow, eh? It’s coming off, slowly but surely. I’m kicking it up a notch this week at the gym, varying my routine, not just running. I think I’m PMSing, so that’s probably why I didn’t gain or lose. :cry:

Violet has been sick since Thursday night. Not eating much, but still drinking and slept almost the entire day and night on Saturday. She’s a little better today, eating crackers and drinking milk and water along with juice. I think that Jac said she was going to call the doc today about her. Poor baby, she’s exhausted and so is her mommy. I’m a little worried, but not overly as she’s still got wet and dirty diapers, she’s not running a fever, no puking. Maybe it’s going around.

The movie on Saturday night was really good. Really, really good. I liked this one a lot more than the one before it with Daniel. He’s not the best looking guy, but, he’s alright body wise. :grin: The trailers at the begining were good, even though it was a 20 minute time frame. We saw a few that we want to see when they come out, especially since Vin and Paul are back for “Fast and Furious” as well as my girl Michelle. The movie with Jim Carrey looks hilarious! It’s been a long time since Greg and I went to the movies, the last one we saw was The Dark Knight back in July! How did that happen?

Posted on Monday November 17, 2008 ♥ 3 pieces of comment love!  
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Weekend Update

I’m laughing at the title I wrote, just like on SNL! I hope tonight it’s a good one now that all the election stuff is over and done with.

I just reorganized the entire kitchen. We’re getting rid of some things, moved some things, stored some things in the attic. Much better. We just added this to our counters, it’s big! I knew it would be, so we had to shift things around. We’re off to Home Depot today to find an over the range microwave! Finally! We’re putting the existing one downstairs in the game room, for popcorn and stuff. Hopefully we can find one we both love. We will probably have to have it delivered and I’m really considering paying the $75 for them to install it. Seems like it may be a hassle, of course if you ask Greg, it’s easy! I could then have it installed without him having to be here, easier to me.

I’m batch processing the family photo session from last weekend. I’m so glad I moved it to last Sunday vs. today. First, I have a cold and second it’s rainy and for an outside shoot, that’s a no go. I deliver  it tomorrow.

I didn’t get to go to the gym yesterday as I woke up feeling pretty cruddy. After a hot shower and some Sudafed I felt much better. I didn’t go to Tyson’s, just the base. I have 3/4 of our Christmas shopping done! I just need to get some shirts and jeans for Greg, a few sweaters for Jess + a gift card and some books and gift cards for Jacqueline. Violet is almost done too, I need to find her some of those Duplo Lego’s and a little camera. We bought her a riding toy and some little people things so far. Last year it was books, this year learning stuff. I may look at the V-smile things for babies/toddlers, she has one of those. I have yet to make up my list, I really just want to have Jess here for Christmas. :smile:

The other day Greg found a cruise book that we missed back in 1987 on a MED cruise. We either didn’t have the money or didn’t get it in time. Someone put one on eBay, probably from an estate sale and we jumped right on it. We’d never seen one, so we didn’t know that he was in a few photos! It’s nice to have one from each of the 6 cruises that he did. We finished the set and now it feels like we have closure or something. It’s a rare one as there wasn’t enough printed or something, I remember something about that.

My Mary Kay site is up and running here. Please go and visit, order if you need to replenish anything and if you are in the area and want to host a skin care class or facial, let me know! I have secure shopping and checkout, I only see what you are buying, not how you are paying for it. Every three months they update the site for me, nice that I don’t have to do that! I have a call with my sales director tomorrow. I’ve already contacted a few people about having a skin care class. I have cards on order and I have a few things for a starter kit. I do not like the pressure from everyone to take out a loan or borrow money or put it on a few different credit cards to have more product on hand. It makes me feel very uncomfortable that a company runs their business that way. VERY uncomfortable. I will just buy the product as it’s ordered and as I make more money, then I will buy stock. We don’t have $600-$4800 for something like this. I wouldn’t even think of taking out a loan for that, that’s ridiculous to me. We’re trying to pay everything with cash and get our debt down, hopefully Mary Kay will be helpful with this, but, I refuse to put ourselves more in debt!

I picked up my Father Christmas at the ceramics store the other day. We found one through an ad in the local paper. I did paint one ages ago for my MIL and wanted to do one for our house (once we bought one) as well. Over Christmas break I will have plenty of time to get it done! Jac is done with school on the 15th of December and isn’t back in until mid-January. So if not for this Christmas, definitely for next as decoration!

Have a good weekend everyone!

Posted on Saturday November 8, 2008 ♥ 6 pieces of comment love!  
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Stuff

Catching up with everything around me. Did you vote? I did this morning, yay!

Work: Doing well, booked and did a session one day apart on Sat/Sun. Went and picked up stuff for auction photos on Thursday. Delivering auction photos, this Friday. Delivering family session this coming Sunday. Booked another family session with our Realtor on the 21st! Have to get with his wife for confirmation. I had to re shoot all the auction photos, I hope he likes them at delivery!

Work II: I just became an independent beauty consultant for Mary Kay! I have my training materials in the house, been looking at them when I can. Tomorrow is a phone call from my director. I joined under my SIL in Atlanta, so I’m out of state, but she gets me on her team. :smile: If you would like some samples, let me know. I have a few to give out to people that have never tried MK or haven’t in a while. I really like how it makes my skin glow and it’s all soft and healthy. I posted about it back in September and in August. If you decide to purchase after trying the samples, let me know! I ship for free! Everything can be ordered online and there’s a secure server for payment. I have to get all that set up tomorrow, so look for a post with the URL in it!

I’ve just been busy working out at the gym and I’m THISCLOSE to being at my 1/2 way weight! I think I will hit it next week. I lost over 3 pounds last week, my weigh in was awesome! I’m wearing a size 6 jeans now and I just had to return some shirts that were too big. I’m in a petite small now vs. a misses small. There’s a HUGE difference with that! I ran and did the bike + abs today and I do the arc trainer + abs tomorrow. Thursday I will run again, then Friday I’m off to get the 5K under my belt for the week. I didn’t get to run it last week as I was at the doc, so it’s been a while.The doc gave me a three month holiday from taking the Zocor. I’ve been taking that for 10 years for my high cholesterol. This is the first check since joining Jenny Craig, so we’ll see. I go back in January. I really think that the weight is coming off easier because I stopped taking it.

Friday I’m off to Tyson’s to shop for a while, then delivering the DVD on the way back through to the auction guy. A WHOLE DAY OF SHOPPING! No kids, no grand-daughter, I’m terrible, oh well. :grin: I can’t wait to spend a little bit of money on some nice stuff.

I went to a Pampered Chef party last weekend, was right next door to the family session, didn’t know it till I looked at the address. *LOL* Was a good party, met some more people. I’ve been invited to a Slipada jewelry party on the 16th! MORE people! And there’s a meetup group meeting on the 14th and the 22nd. I can’t wait for this, they are all over 35+ and women, which is exactly what I wanted. I have friends, Greg’s co-workers are married, those are my friends. I want my own friends, weird huh?

We changed our hotel for our Thanksgiving trip - November 26th through the 30th. We found one that can offer us separate rooms for just a little more than one room divided would be. After travelling for 3 weeks with everyone in one room and NO Violet, we don’t mind spending a little more for two rooms. It’s always worth it. It’s a long drive, 10 hours, so hopefully it will be okay. First long trip for Violet. I remember the girls being 6 months and going on long trips. She’s so antsy all the time, it’s like tying her down or something. Part of it she’ll sleep through, which is a blessing. Turkey at my brother’s house, then visiting with Jess on Friday. Also, we’ll have a porta-crib for Vi, so that’s one less thing we need to pack. Tina (my SIL) has one we can borrow while there she’s borrowing from a friend. I’m so excited to go already! We’re planning on going to the aquarium on Saturday. I think that my brother and his family along with my SIL and her girls + Jess are going to join us! Wow, what a group!

Time to go and watch election stuff. TTFN! :kiss:

Posted on Tuesday November 4, 2008 ♥ 3 pieces of comment love!  
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