I started taking down my Christmas decor. We always leave the tree up until Epiphany but I want to leave everything up.
We left the house at 1 pm for a movie. Decided to go to church today since we were already out, so we went directly there from the movies.
After Mass, we decided to go and try this place in the next town. They are supposed to have really great pizzas and burgers. I've seen pictures of their food and it looks amazing.
We drove all the way there to discover it's TAKE OUT only. I was so mad. Why isn't that on their FB page? I sent them a message to please add that information but I haven't heard back.
We drove around and found a Mexican restaurant so we went there and drank margaritas and had a delicious dinner.
We just got home and I'm exhausted but in a good way.
We had DD1's birthday party. She turned 9 on Thursday and today was her party with friends.
We had 12 kids show up. They had a blast at an arcade-type place, went through a shitton of tokens, pizza and cake, and everybody went home happy. YAY.
I am exhausted and it was so loud in there. I am a little hoarse from talking over the noise. I could sit in total silence for 24 hours and be completely happy, not that that is going to happen, lol.
I spent a big chunk of the morning cleaning, and also building Lego sets that my girls got for Christmas. It is very zen. I can all too easily see myself slipping into the POV of the dad from the Lego Movie, where he's like, "This is not a child's toy! This is a sophisticated, interlocking brick system! The way I do it, it's an ADULT THING." LOL.
Not much. I did some crocheting and organizing of my yarn and craft stuff. Then we discovered our 15 year old microwave was dead so we had to do some research and go buy a new one. While we were out we had pizza and did the grocery shopping. Now we're just hanging out, watching football, and waiting to find out if FIL needs emergency spinal surgery. Crazy Saturday at my house.
Well, not really. The boys went to swimming lessons with H while I put together a photo calendar for my dad's 69th birthday gift. Then I did laundry while the kids played outside in the snow, answered student emails, researched and booked some tours for our France/Germany/Prague trip this summer, and finally just fooled around on the internet and drank wine while H made dinner.
Post by textbookcase on Jan 7, 2017 20:13:46 GMT -5
I'm glad it was a nice day!
We took care of the goats and rabbits all morning, then Cambria had to go to a 4h training at the fairgrounds. Then the older two had volleyball practice and they are showering now to get ready to go to a Christmas tree bonfire at a friends house. Fun!
Post by whitemerlot on Jan 7, 2017 20:23:07 GMT -5
We had a birthday party for my son this morning and then came home and put all of the inside Christmas decor away and vacuumed. I'm absolutely tired.
I'm trying to not spend any money on alcohol this month. I have only one bottle of red wine and then tequila and regular, raspberry, pear, and vanilla vodka and tequila. I'm trying to save my wine but am not creative.
It snowed like, 5 inches here. I woke up around 10. Went to the market around 11:30. Instead of buying supplies I decided to swing by my favorite Chinese restaurant and got lunch (funny, considering the delivery thread earlier).
Then my puppies and I napped for 2 hours. Played my sims game. Showered. Met a friend for wine and football at a bar 2 blocks from my place. Now I'm replying to this thread. Lol.
Pruned a TON of trees and cleaned up our jungle in the back of the property, so now we can plant grapes and fruit trees in the spring.
Then of course the usual laundry, cooking, etc.
H is out buying wine now,
Pet shelters would love the blankets & towels!
I would love to have a fruit tree climate. Do you grow avocados too?
Great idea, I don't know why I didn't think of that earlier! I'll send my stuff there next time.
No, I wish we could grow avocados. Right now we just have 3 cherry trees, but we plan to plant peach, apricot, plum, apple, and pear trees in the spring.
Took my son to tae kwon do then to a friends house for an all day play date. My H worked, so I had the entire day to myself. I just ran some errands and grocery shopped, but doing it alone and leisurely was glorious. I walked around Target for a good hour (and spent way too much money) Then came home, did laundry, cleaned up the house and took a long bubble bath and read my book.
H picked DS up on his way home. I made an awesome salmon with lemon beurre blanc sauce. Now I'm parked on the couch watching football. The only thing that would make it better is a beer or wine. But I'm trying to do a dry (well mostly dry) January. It's only the 7th, I can't cave yet.
Post by thatgirl2478 on Jan 7, 2017 20:28:34 GMT -5
We finished the laundry. Then decided it was time to do anything that wasn't in the house so we went to the hardware store to see if the kitchen guy was in (he wasn't) so we looked at countertop samples -ooooh exciting! LOL
The girls were so good at the boring hardware store, so we took them to the toy store to spend their Christmas money. It was fun to watch them make choices and put x back to get y because they didn't have enough for both. The little old grandmas loved watching them too.
Then we came home for 'lunch' (cheese, crackers and fruit). The youngest took a nap, I messed around on the computer, then I fell asleep on the couch while my DH and DD1 played with her new legos.
DH and DD2 went out to get dinner (chicken on the bone!) and we had a wonderful dinner where I didn't have to nag at either girl to eat their dinner. DH just finished playing more legos with both girls (DD2 got some new duplos) and now they are going off to bed.
DH worked from 5:30am to 6:00pm so I had the day to myself with my pups. Did laundry, worked a bit, then saw an episode of "This Is Us," I'm hooked. Now I'm watching all of the episodes on demand.
Bailed on my group run this morning because I've got some kind of nasty sinus infection/stomach bug from hell. I ended up having to go into town anyway to drop my car off yo get inspected with H and bring DD to dance. Got back home and cleaned the house until H got back and he made me lay down. Now I'm wide awake because I napped. My stomach hates me 😷
Body Pump Long nap while H and boys were at Costco Finished Insecure Played with the puppy Groceries Made fajitas Watch rest of Harry Potter with boys Wine
Got my car detailed, got my hair cut, cleaned, froze our asses off on a hike with the dog. Now waiting on our paella at the tapas place while drinking wine.
I spent the morning playing games on my phone and screwing around online. Then I talked to my mom for over an hour before picking up my book and reading for a bit.
Now I'm lounging on the couch with my sickie cat, who is feeling cuddly for the first time today, with the Seahawks game on in the background. My H claimed he wanted to watch it, but he's still in the office playing Minecraft.
Post by ProfessorArtNerd on Jan 7, 2017 20:39:07 GMT -5
Took Lucy to cheer, after that we had lunch with my mom, got the ingredients to make dinner, made our weekly family meal.
Then h went to get in my car to go to work but the battery is dead. He's so mad at me- "I work seven days a week to pay for that piece of shit and I never get to drive it. I'll just go clean off my piece of shit now and see if I make it to work ok. Better get some duct tape too."
Guys, I have a job, and if he didn't work seven days a week, I'd make just as much as he does. He has never tried to find a better paying job, either
Woke up around 10 Worked for about 5.5 hours Took a power nap Baked a cake and cleaned my kitchen while it was in the oven Currently drinking wine, watching Netflix, and playing computer games while DH watches sports with his friends
In Oregon visiting family. It's been snowing, sleeting and freezing rain, so the roads aren't great. I have a car here but since it's been in my stepdad's garage, unused, the battery died. One of the family friends came by today with a battery charger this morning. Eventually I got the car charged up enough for my little sister and I to head to the closest coffee kiosk for my morning latte. Unfortunately my stepdad doesn't have a coffee machine, so I was jonesin' for some java.
After we got our coffees, I went to the grocery store to stock up on groceries for my stepdad. After that, I came home and have been chilling all day. Right now we're watching the Detroit/Seattle football game.
"Why would you ruin perfectly good peanuts by adding candy corn? That's like saying hey, I have these awesome nachos, guess I better add some dryer lint." - Nonny
It snowed a foot which is unheard of for here so we shoveled a lot. Our driveway in this house is 2x the old one. It took us 3 separate outside trips plus re-shoveling.
Took down Christmas stuff Walked dog & kid Fell asleep on the couch while Asher watched the Bee Movie Target Dinner at local grocery co-op Tried to make a lemon cake and it stuck to the bundt pan, so now I'm turning into a trifle with blueberries and cream
We got about a foot and a half of snow over night, so we were outside cleaning vehicles and pathways by 9 so H could get busy plowing. DS1 had to leave for hockey around 11:00, before plowing was complete and slid into the snowbank by our mailbox. Shoveled him out, he drove back to the garage to try again and got hung up on the bank the plow left while he was in bank #1. I did feel bad for him, he was late for his pregame and freaking out inside. He handled it well though. H had to come with the enloader to get him out. I went to his game at 1:00 and DS2's game at 3:30. I was already frozen and wind burnt when I got to the rink....not a good way to start a day with back to back hockey games.
I finally got home and lit the sauna. I sat and took steam for almost an hour, and am finally warm. Watching football and doing nothing tonight. :-)
Post by underwaterrhymes on Jan 7, 2017 21:06:38 GMT -5
We are recovering from the flu (K and me), and sinus infections (N and H), so we just hung around the house. Unfortunately K has a prednisone prescription because his asthma complicates the flu, so we also dealt with threenager roid rage for most of the day. OMG. I didn't drink at all this week (good!) but had three glasses of wine tonight (bad! But also good!)
Also screamed and danced around because cbwm1 fucking rocks and I'm going with her to Obama's Farewell address.
N loves Barefoot Books, so we also watched Up, Up, Up and similar several thousand times.
I worked until noon when my department head decided to close due to a lack of students and the snow. Then I came home and napped, made beef stew, shoveled snow, and cleaned the kitchen.