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I spent the last 5 hours cleaning and in about an hour I am headed to the Big E (for those of you who are not from New England, it is a HUGE fair. The Big E) to eat, shop and then see Chris Daughtry tonight at 8. It should be fun!
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Let's see , sitting at my store now, working and waiting until 2pm to be able to lock up. Then go home and do laundry. Try to not to cry too hard as I watch Michigan Football lose again. Then I will pull myself together and make sure the house is in good shape for breakfast with in-laws tomorrow. Do my books, pay bills.......gosh this doesn't sound like fun.
Okay I promise I will find time to lay in the hammock in the cool air and read....for me.
Had work already this morning. Going on "date night" to Bertuccis (my daughter calls it A Tooshie) then the Disney store to get her Disney Dollars for her chore chart for the week. Running 6 miles @ 6 a.m. tomorrow with my running coach. Then Sesame Place for the members party. Then hopefully getting a good nights sleep for once this week.
Last night I went to see Mr. Woodcock - it was pretty funny and I got free Milk Duds out of the deal. Then we got onion rings and milkshakes from Cook Out (healthy supper, huh??), I came home and fell asleep during David Letterman.
Today, I played 3 back-to-back games of softball in an "inter-office" tournament. It was tons of fun, but I'm so exhausted. There are actually two more from 4:00 - 6:00, but I only agreed to play in the morning. The team is from where I did my internships, and I still hang out with a lot of the people, so I was happy to help out this morning when they needed some extra people...plus, 90% of the offices are guys, so...boys in tight baseball pants, can't beat that. But they should be good with their numbers for the afternoon and I need to do laundry!
Haven't decided on plans for tonight - either going to one friends' house and grilling out steaks, or going to this party another friend invited me to --- the party is kind of a costume party (I shouldn't repeat the "theme" of the party here, but let's just say that everyone is supposed to dress "trashy" ), and I haven't figured out a costume yet, so I don't know yet (insert obligatory jokes about how that shouldn't be too hard, etc.).
Tomorrow - I have a JL meeting after church, then just relaxing unless my Dad decides he wants to go to Lowes and get the stuff to build my new storage building. Exciting. I've got to pack my stuff for next week's travel too.
Today we took the kids to the Wings and Wheels Expo at Teterboro airport and saw a WWII B-something bomber take off and land. What a beautiful aircraft. I wish I could remember which "B" it was - DH would know, but he is napping. Everyone at our house is sick with a cold!!! PHOOEY!
Tomorrow is cleaning day... and then we're having dinner with MIL at her house. As long as we aren't all too sick, anyway.
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Today Zoie had pep band, and Jack had a birthday party to attend. In between all the running I got a couple loads of laundry done. Now DH and Jack are at a college football game, and I'm about to head to the grocery store. Then I'll come home and bake Zoie's birthday cake for her birthday party tomorrow. Tomorrow it's just the party which consists of a few teenage girls hanging out and playing guitar hero, eating pizza, and then getting dropped off at the roller skating rink for a couple of hours. All I have to do is take everyone home (and pay, of course ). Now, I guess we're going to a movie instead, one of the girls hurt her knee and can't skate...
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Nate came home from school last night- he and Allen went up to the high school football game. I went to the Disney store!
Today - I took down my summer door wreaths and table decor, put up the fall wreaths and put fall leaves on the mantle of the fireplace and put fall placemats on the table with the fall candle and centerpiece there too.
Laundry, laundry, laundry! (Nate brought lots of dirty laundry home!)
Cooking chicken and noodles tonight for our dinner tomorrow - as Zach and a friend from California are coming home tonight! They traveled across the country to watch the Notre Dame and Michigan game. Needless to say - we are all terribly sad around here as our fighting Irish lost yet another one!
Zach and Brian will leave tomorrow around 3 for Chicago for their flight back to CA.
Nate will leave around 4 to go back to school, and I will........relax!
I pretty much rested most of today due to a headache that I still have I did go to Best Buy to pick up my laptop and decided to just go ahead and have them install a hard drive. Had them add some memory while they were at it.
Sunday will be a morning of cleaning and laundry. Then in the afternoon getting together with my aunt and uncle to play cards then we will be going out to eat.
I slept all day (after having the night from h e double hockeysticks at work) and woke up about 6; just being a couch potato.
Tomorrow I will watch my beloved Steelers play (hopefully unless blacked out) and work on making my sore throat worse by screaming at the TV as is Sunday's ritual at our house!
We went to my sister's company's picnic at a local amusement park (someone at work gave her their tickets).
Tomorrow DS has soccer pictures. No game, just pictures. It seemed like a big waste of time until I learned that I already paid for the team photo and a head shot with the registration fee. After that we'll probably hang around the house and clean.
Today, Luke and I actually got to sleep in until 9:30 (very unusual for us). Then we worked out at the gym, went to the tanning bed, and ran by the post office. I vacuumed and mop before we got ready for church this evening. Tomorrow we'll take it easy in the morning, watch the NASCAR race in the afternoon, and maybe even take a walk as the weather as been very nice here this weekend. We also need to report a couple of plants and clean out Luke's Mustang. I'll probably run to Target for a few items as well.
Drove from WV home today via Amish country in central Ohio. Memo to self: don't go to Amish country on a Saturday, esp a beautiful, crisp one...it's worse than WDW! Unloaded the trailer, restocked some groceries and started some tie dyes.
Tomorrow will be finish the tie dyes and unpack from more than 3 weeks away from home. I'm happy to say that our souvenirs this time fit into one of the purchased Disney shopping bags which made DH very happy.
Through it all will be gritted teeth and lots of avoidance until my mother and 19yo DD leave on Monday. I leave 2 weeks from Wed for the next show, so LOTS to do between now and then!
Planned on doing some shopping, getting the laundry done, and putting away a good portion of the foot-high pile of papers I've piled on the desk. Got the papers down by about 3 inches. Spent most of the day watching baseball games with Mom - the only thing she likes to watch! And the Cubs won!
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Then I will pull myself together and make sure the house is in good shape for breakfast with in-laws tomorrow. Do my books, pay bills.......gosh this doesn't sound like fun.
There are actually two more from 4:00 - 6:00, but I only agreed to play in the morning. The team is from where I did my internships, and I still hang out with a lot of the people, so I was happy to help out this morning when they needed some extra people...plus, 90% of the offices are guys, so...boys in tight baseball pants, can't beat that. 
But they should be good with their numbers for the afternoon and I need to do laundry! 
), and I haven't figured out a costume yet, so I don't know yet (insert obligatory jokes about how that shouldn't be too hard, etc.).
). Now, I guess we're going to a movie instead, one of the girls hurt her knee and can't skate...
I did go to Best Buy to pick up my laptop and decided to just go ahead and have them install a hard drive. Had them add some memory while they were at it.
Unloaded the trailer, restocked some groceries and started some tie dyes. 
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