Sleepy

Well, the weekend is over and I really should go to sleep. But I feel this need to stay up so that I can be miserable all day tomorrow due to the actual lack of sleep. I guess this is just my way of creating misery for myself.

This was a pretty good weekend. The quad went out for dinner Friday night at Portofino's and I ordered the special which was extra yummy... mahi mahi with clams and mussels and linguini. Very very tasty and I hope that it is a special again! From there we were supposed to go see Brokeback Mountain, but it was not to be. Our dinner took an extra long time to arrive (very unusual for this place) and by the time we got to the theatre we realized that we were indeed too late. So off to pick up Jenni and head to World Market for a fun shopping extravaganza and then to play Uno. Much fun was had by all...

Saturday... not much to talk about. I did manage to get my eyebrows waxed and get a pedicure. That was so taxing that it took me hours to recuperate. Later, after I managed to shower I went to buy groceries. Yeah food! Later I did stitch on my CSO and almost completed my first goal until my eyes started to cross and I realized that it was 1AM. Probably time to go to bed...

Sunday... Slept in, very nice! I did manage to fix some blueberry pancakes this morning. Yummy, yummy! Laid around most of the day until we decided that we should probably go to our house and remove the rest of the random things that are left. Joe noticed that the heat was running even though we turned it off... then we realized that the gas was turned off (we turned everything off when we thought we were closing a month ago). So I turned off the gas to the fireplace and we will need to go back and check the gas water heater and furnace to make sure that when the gas comes back on it is not spewing into the house. That would probably be bad. Oh yeah, we did drive by the house again today. Not too much to report, but Joe did take a picture of our beautiful new shingled roof. I will get around to posting that eventually. Finally went to dinner with friends at Harpers. Love this place! Had a fantastic meal and it was nice to hang out with friends that I don't see that often... BTW: hope you are enjoying my blog and tell your man not to make to much fun of me :-)

That is it for me... to sleepy to type anymore...

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Samir


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Just for fun

I would just love to recieve this for Valentines... any takers?

Everyone loves Chewie, right?

Cute Sheep

Here is Happy Dance for me! Small, but a finish none the less. This is a cute sheepie (called Busy) from Shepherd's Bush. I love these and I think I have just about all of them now.













Here is my progress on Earthdancer as of yesterday. I would love to finish her this month, but I have been sidetracked by the Chatelaine Stitching Olympics... which is just an excuse to stitch on the Chatelaine I have started (and have been sadly neglecting) for the duration of the real Olympics. If I reach my stated goals then I will be able to proudly display an award on my blog. Yeah! I know everyone will be looking forward to this with great anticipation.

Roof

Here is a picture of our house from Friday. It is looking so good! It is exciting to drive out there and see the progress they are making. Today we drove out after dinner (very dark and cold) and we have our bathtubs and they are starting to add the plumbing. Progress is a wonderful thing. I do need to make a call tomorrow, since it looks like one of our shower/tub combos is covering part of the window... not sure how that was missed and they have not added Joe's closet in the bonus room, which concerns us because it looks like they are done framing. I guess that is why you check on their work.




I thought I would add this picture so you could see what are backyard view will look like. This is our master bedroom. Looking very lovely, just imagine a nice comfortable chair with a small side table.... can't wait!

Sticks!

Look! We have sticks! Now the house building is getting exciting. Everything is looking really good. We did have to call the builder and let them know that they had framed two windows we had deleted (these were in the master bedroom). Other than that everything looks really good.

Rough day

Not much to talk about right now. We just finished up a long day of moving out of our house. There are still some small items left. Well, one not so small item is the big screen TV that just wouldn't fit into Joe's car after the Uhaul went home. I think Joe is going to rent a small truck to get that and the rest of the random items there. Thanks to everyone who helped! Appreciated it!!

Oh and for those who were not there we only had one disaster. And no, it was not the giant armoire... it was the really cool fish fireplace out back. It went to the big fishie pond in the sky. Oh well, I am sure it could have been a lot worse. On that note, I am off to sit on the couch and relax.

Good night!

random

I think Joe is getting me one of these for my birthday!

In return I am getting Joe one of these.

And I can't seem to get this song out of my head... click on the link that says "Watch this movie" over to the right.

Progress... sort of

There has been a small amount of progress on our new home. We drove by Friday night and the whole thing was covered with plastic, which we saw as a good thing. We were assuming they were trying to keep the dirt dry so they could lay the slab.

This is what it looked like today. The plastic has been removed and they have graded all of the dirt inside the foundation. We dropped by MI and they said there should be a slab down sometime this week. Yeah!

We have also started moving some things into our new apartment. A friend of ours was moving yesterday, so we comandeered her Uhaul and moved some of our furniture and a bunch of miscellaneous items. Today we moved two car loads of boxes over as well. We figure the more that gets moved before Sunday (our official move day) the better. Our last day in this house will be January 27th... it will be sad to leave our first home, but it is all for the best!

Eye news

I talked to Mom tonight and she had good news! She went to eye doctor today and he said that everything was looking good and that she should be able to raise her head up next week (I believe she said Monday or Tuesday). Anyway I do recall she said that would make it 12 days of face down non-activity which is much better than the full two to three weeks it could have taken. Nice to hear that this stint is over even though there will be more to come.