January 12, 2009

• Fire Brigade Training Week

  Good morning all! It is Monday and I hope this finds everyone doing well. Hopefully you had a great & restfull weekend before another week of work kicked off.

  Friday during the day I made some changes to our TV, home phone and modem carrier. We will get over $300 cash back for switching. I am pretty proud of that. I was also going to make some changes to our security system... but long story short, they resigned us to another year contract... I was pissed! So, for all of you out there, that's the kind of stuff Brinks pulls. It apparently was my responsibility to keep track of the exact date (3 years ago mind you) that my contract was signed to call in. They don't give you any heads up or anything... they just sign you up to pay them for another year without any consent on your part. So, I have marked it in my calendar to remind me in Decemeber to call and cancel any contract extension before it happens. They have officially lost any chance for future business with me.

  Our weekend was good. Friday night we just chilled out at the house. We did some running around first, just after Tancy got home from work. We went to the eBay store in town to see if the guy there could tell us anything about a specific item. He couldn't. Then we went to take a water sample to our fish guy, he was closed already (even though it wasn't time for him to close yet). So we went to Mary Jo Fabrics to pick up some canvas to restructure the hood for the lighting on the aquarium. And lastly we stopped by the community college to see where Tancy would have to be for training this morning. Then it was "Home James" and I started cooking dinner.

  I had gotten a skirt steak at Target (a cheap piece of meat, unlike flank steak) that is used for fajita's and who knows what else. I did just that with it. Pan fried it in butter and then sliced it thin to put on fajitas. (You'll remember I had made salsa and guacamole.) We had dinner and just enjoyed each others company. It was nice. Seems like its been forever since we had that opportunity.

  Saturday morning We had coffee, it is so nice to have someone fix my coffee every now and then. I had been craving French Toast, so I made myself some (I tried to guilt Tancy into doing it, but that didn't work out for me. LOL). I was delicious! Tancy later made herself a sandwich, she didn't want French Toast. Then she got online and started looking for Wii's. She's good like that... its rare that there's something I want that bad... and she tries to work it out for me. Anyway, after talking it over and looking at the recent savings we have earned from making some changes in the household, the decision was made to get a Wii. We found one priced reasonably and went and got it. This will more than likely be the last frivilous purchase for a long while. We came home, hooked it up and tried it out... it is SO MUCH FUN. Mom, you would love it. It's physical activity, but not just in an exercise room. It makes you laugh and try harder. It's quite a work out. I am sore still from the boxing on Saturday!

  Soon it was time to head over to Jenn and Tab's house for dinner. We had a great visit and a great dinner. We headed home right around 10. My battery was dying and I was ready to be in my jammies. It didn't take me long either, we got home and into our PJ's and into bed. Tancy stayed up to watch SNL, I crashed very quickly. I slept like a log. Strange dreams as well. Nothing bad, just very imaginative. LOL.

  Sunday morning we got up a bit earlier than Saturday, not by much. It is so comforting to sleep in, together, and not have any place to be or any rush to climb out of bed. Again Tancy made my coffee, I swear it tastes better when she makes it. We sat on our butts on the couch for a bit and then started moving. First we got online and started looking at properties again. Our contract on the place we made an offer on is about up. I feel like it isn't the place for us more and more. But we still think its a good possibility that we will sell our house (which means we have to find a place). We found a property that is about 15 minutes from here (in the opposite direction of where we were headed last time). We drove past it, decided it was a possibility and contacted our Agent. She'll arrange a showing for us this week some time.

  When we got home we got started on the house work. I got the kitchen done while she was working on the floors. I gathered up dirty clothes (not many, I actually did a better job with laundry than I thought) and just put things back where they go. While we waited on the floor to dry we started working on the puzzle Tancy's Mom got for us in Ohio. Tancy was having some trouble with her back, so that didn't last too long, kitchen chairs aren't exactly overly comfortable.

  Next we started working on the aquarium. Tancy took apart the hood that we got with the lighting. We couldn't get to the fish to feed them. So, once that was done, we started re-building it to work for us. Once that was done, I got to work putting the canvas that we'd gotten Friday night on it. What a pain in the ass! Tancy worked on the water change with a few snags along the way. We learned, the hard way, to do the work on Saturday so that Sunday we can take it easy. We didn't get finished with it all till nearly 7:00 and were both worn out!

  We got baths and into bed. We watched some of the golden globes. I had to pee every 15 minutes for some reason, which began to really annoy me. About 9:00 I was ready to go to sleep. I think Tancy watched TV for a bit longer before going to sleep. I think we both slept well. I had another night of interesting dreams. I was in boot camp and since I am pregnant, they made me pack a skillet around. My "training" was less strenuous than everyone else's and they were very nice to me. Like I said, interesting!

  This morning, though our wake time was later, was basically the same routine. Up, dogs out, coffee on, dogs fed, coffee made (cups poured), visit a minute, watch the morning news (mostly for the weather report) and see Tancy off to on her way to work... or trainging. Then I log onto the computer, check email, send my morning emails, read blogs, comment, and then blog about my latest goings on. Once my computer stuff is done I will start laundry, all the floor mats need to be washed as do some sheets and "nasty rags" from cleaning the floor, etc. Oh! And there are the towels from the salt water spill yesterday!! That's an entire load right there. Once that's started I will pick up the remaining items in the living room from working with the canvas and a few pieces of wood and some tools out from yesterday. Basically just working around the house. It's mostly "tidying up" today. A few bigger cleaning projects, but mostly putting things back where they go.

  So, I know you are all back to work today. I hope your week goes well. Casie, Chuck & Marlie will be headed to Louisiana Wednesday I think... I hope they have a good time while they are there. Alright kids, I should really get to work!

  Love to all!

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