Catching Up

I’m finally catching up a little!

Thank you everyone for the wonderful birthday emails, messages, comments, posts, it means a lot to me! :kiss:

Greg is the BEST husband ever! He bought me this and I love it! I ran with it on the treadmill for my 5K run on Friday, I think it needs calibration! We’re off to do that this morning. I just have to run once around the 1/4 mile track so it gets a feel for my pace and length of my stride. There’s no way in HELL that I’m running a 9 minute mile. That was a great gift and he bought me a cute fuchsia colored pouch to hold my Nano and headphones. That was something I talked to  him about after getting my purse from Jess. There’s not enough pockets for everything and then the headphones get everywhere. I do wrap them up, but, this is better still! He brought me 2 bunches of flowers and I did take photos. I’m waiting patiently for the UPS man to deliver our new video cards. My current monitor is a widescreen and as my computer is 6 years old, the video card makes every photo and graphic look WIDE. Not good when you want to crop photos! I’ve been dropping them on my laptop and editing them there. PITA! So, tomorrow is my final gift. :smile:

Jacqueline, Violet and I went to Arby’s for lunch on Thursday. I cut the regular RB sandwich in half and ate that and had one fry. I’m lucky that I can just do a taste of something. I used to just steal one chip from Greg’s plate! *LOL* I really didn’t like the Arby’s though. It’s changed a lot since we were there in June. It’s not as clean and even though it was lunchtime they weren’t really staffed for it. There wasn’t anyone at the register, just running back and forth from the drive-through and the register. We had to wait a while for our order to be taken. I totally understand lunchtime, but, if you have a busy drive-thru, have another person inside as well. There was a line of about 5 people at any given time inside, just waiting. Maybe they are under new management or something. Then, this guy hit on Jac! He said that he would give her his number if she wanted it! Oh wow…that was terribly funny. Obviously she’s in a relationship, although he didn’t know that as we’ve only been there with Vi, never with Storm as well! *LOL*

Jacqueline, Storm and Violet gave me a wonderful card that Jac made down in the craft room. She used chalk and put a faery on the front. I will scan it in and post it. And I also got some yummy goodies from Bath and Body Works via his mom, Emma. Warm Vanilla Sugar is SO yummy! Shower gel, lotion, sprays…I’m so spoiled!

Friday was a good day, Greg was home and we spent some time together both before and after my tattoo session. I actually have photos of them and of Keith as I took Jacqueline with me. They turned out great. I discussed with Keith exactly what I did and didn’t want and he drew everything on my back. During the discussion he was saying that he wanted to “finish” the rose that he did back in June. I wasn’t really sure what that meant, until he told me exactly what he was going to do. You can click here and see the photos from my latest tattoos. :smile:

Dinner on Friday night was most excellent! We went to Joe’s Crab Shack! Alisa I know through the military forum board we used to go to and everyone else I know through Greg’s work.

Photos and more of the weekend under the “more”! Read more

Posted on Sunday October 19, 2008 ♥ 8 pieces of comment love!  
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The Weekend

We’ve been having a pretty low key weekend, which is just what I needed! We picked Jess up at the airport on Friday night, she’s been sick, so her throat and ears were killing her on the flight. Saturday she felt a lot better, although she was coughing a lot during the night and was tired. Today she’s better, just in time to fly home. There’s a slight chance that she and Brian will be here next Sunday for a few hours. :cross:

We all sat down yesterday on the couch and used the remote for my camera. We have family portraits now for our Christmas cards. I will probably post them sometime this week on Flickr.

Storm came over last night and we all played “Cranium”. We had the game and thought we had played it before, but we must have used a friends game as this one wasn’t opened yet. We had a good time though.

I received this for my bday gift from Jess along with a matching wallet. I couldn’t find the wallet online to link it, sorry. I needed a new one though, she bought me a checkbook wallet. Yay! I bought a Buxton set a few months ago, like in April I guess and I’ve been using that ever since. I have all those free membership point cards that take up tons of room, although I edited out a few and it seems to work great in the new wallet. I also like having a pen loop.  :cloud9:

Greg and I went to Home Depot and Lowe’s. We are installing dimmer switches in our bathroom (for over the tub), the basement bathroom (for over the jacuzzi) and in the eat-in-kitchen, over the table. I found a few things at Lowe’s for Christmas. Since we have a fireplace, we’re probably going to hang the stocking there, now we have hangers. I bought 2 boxes of 4, as our family is growing by leaps and bounds.

Jacqueline has decided to cut off Violet’s “baby mullet”. I totally agree, it’s time. It will happen sometime today, while Storm and Jess are here. Look for photos of that as well!

Jess, Jacqueline and I had a few hours yesterday that we spent scrapbooking! I have nearly 20 pages ready for CropTober Fest on Saturday. I’m so excited!

I had a gal call me for a photo session yesterday, yay! She received my card from my Creative Memories gal, the one that’s doing the CropTober Fest on Saturday. We chatted, she’s going to look at the website with her hubby and contact me for a definite time, the date is in early November. After the job is finished, I’m going to send my CM gal a thank you card and  gift. I know she uses Mary Kay, so I thought that Satin Hands would be a nice gift, just a tube, but it’s to show appreciation and thank her for giving out my cards!

All in all a good weekend. :kiss: TTFN!

Posted on Sunday October 12, 2008 ♥ Comments Off  
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