Well, it was quite the Labor Day weekend. Since my normal off day fell on Labor Day it got pushed to Tuesday. I returned home from Atlanta on Thursday and decided that going back to work on Friday would totally and completely suck. So I took some time off... it was about the best decision I could have made.
With being out of the office in Atlanta last week and then this fabulous five day weekend it really helped me de-stress and get away from the drama of the office. Right now I'm feeling quite rejuvenated... I don't think I realized how much I just needed a break... I love my job and I love my co-workers but sometimes it's nice to just get away for awhile.
So you may be asking exactly what did I do with my 5 day weekend... and that would be a good question...
On Friday, I just lazied around the house. I went and got a card for a wedding and did a little grocery shopping (getting delicious strawberries!!) I tried to go to the mall, but I just wasn't in the mood to shop. (one of these days the shopping bug is going to bite... but it hasn't yet...) Friday night Chad and I just spent the night together. I like having a low-key Friday night and with being out of town all week it's always nice to spend time the two of us.
On Saturday we had a wedding of a friend to attend. How amazing was the weather on Saturday? Perfect day for a wedding. The ceremony was outdoors at the World's Fair Pavilion in Forest Park. There was quite a strong breeze... kinda interesting when the ceremony finally got underway. The ceremony started about 25 minutes late... and I'm blaming that on the fact it was unbelievable weather and everyone in St. Louis wanted to be at the park.
After the ceremony we headed up to O'Leary's with some friends to kill some time. I haven't been there forever and I think I'd like to go back soon. They even have fried pickles like we made in our cooking class. After we killed a little more time we headed up to the reception. It was a lot of fun. Drinking and dancing with friends. I always have such a good time at weddings. I wish more of our friends would take the plunge.
Sunday involved some surprisingly fast recovery on my part... but that was only a small part of the day. I got to do something I haven't done in quite awhile - hang out with my family. My mom, brother and I visited my grandma. We went out to eat at Mimi's Cafe in Chesterfield. It was quite delicious. I also got to see my aunt, uncle and cousin.
After visiting with grandma, we headed back but ended up at my mom's house. I had an idea for some more art for my house (stay tuned for that.) I also got to see my little sister. We all played Picturecka... it was a pretty fun game. I really enjoyed just having a casual day with my family... I'd love to do it more often.
Chad and I had another somewhat relaxing day on Monday. We slept in and made breakfast together. We did some housework and then went on a grocery shopping trip. We first went by Petsmart and then onto Schnucks. We haven't had a grocery trip like that in quite awhile. Thankfully we spent way less than we were expecting but we still got a lot of food and we didn't get any sweets... go us. We wrapped up Chad's Labor Day weekend with pasta and garlic bread for dinner... yum-o
Today I've had another day to myself. I've gotten laundry done and vacuuming and dusting... I'm not sure what I'll do this afternoon but I hear Chad is going to make special cheese burgers... I, for one, am excited.
Happy Labor Day weekend everyone!!
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
The Competition - Week 3
This was a bad bad week... with me on travel and then labor day weekend it went to hell in a hand basket... but in full disclosure I bring you this week's weigh in.
As a reminder here's where we started:
Chad: 210
Jenn: 178
After week 1:
Chad: 208.5
Jenn: 177
After week 2:
Chad: 207
Jenn: 176.5
After week 3:
Chad: 208
Jenn: 177
And percentage of weight lost (weekly):
Chad: -0.48%
Jenn: -0.28%
Since we both gained weight neither of us won... we are back on the wagon... or off the wagon or whatever means we'll be better this week.
As a reminder here's where we started:
Chad: 210
Jenn: 178
After week 1:
Chad: 208.5
Jenn: 177
After week 2:
Chad: 207
Jenn: 176.5
After week 3:
Chad: 208
Jenn: 177
And percentage of weight lost (weekly):
Chad: -0.48%
Jenn: -0.28%
Since we both gained weight neither of us won... we are back on the wagon... or off the wagon or whatever means we'll be better this week.
Friday, September 3, 2010
12/25
I'm really starting to wonder if I'm going to reach my goal... but I'm happy I'm trudging forward.
Upon the recommendation of my good friend Carrie. This book came out in the mid-70s I believe... I had never heard of it but Carrie claims it's a classic. Overall I enjoyed the book but it was really strange and weird at times. It's about 4 kids locked in an attic together. It's interesting to see how their relationships change as well as how the cope with never getting to leave the attic. I think this book is part of a series and I'm hoping to read the other ones. I have a couple of books in my queue.
Upon the recommendation of my good friend Carrie. This book came out in the mid-70s I believe... I had never heard of it but Carrie claims it's a classic. Overall I enjoyed the book but it was really strange and weird at times. It's about 4 kids locked in an attic together. It's interesting to see how their relationships change as well as how the cope with never getting to leave the attic. I think this book is part of a series and I'm hoping to read the other ones. I have a couple of books in my queue.
The Competition - Week 2
I know I'm late on posting this but I was in Atlanta all week... we weighed in on Sunday night since I left on Monday morning.
We've completed an entire week and thankfully both of our numbers actually went down... yay!!
As a reminder here's where we started:
Chad: 210
Jenn: 178
After week 1:
Chad: 208.5
Jenn: 177
After week 2:
Chad: 207
Jenn: 176.5
And percentage of weight lost (weekly):
Chad: 0.72%
Jenn: 0.28%
Which means Chad has won again this week...
We've completed an entire week and thankfully both of our numbers actually went down... yay!!
As a reminder here's where we started:
Chad: 210
Jenn: 178
After week 1:
Chad: 208.5
Jenn: 177
After week 2:
Chad: 207
Jenn: 176.5
And percentage of weight lost (weekly):
Chad: 0.72%
Jenn: 0.28%
Which means Chad has won again this week...
Friday, August 27, 2010
Home Improvements - Able to walk in the guest bedroom again
I can't believe I'm about to admit this to everyone... but our guest bedroom was AWFUL... seriously... you could open the door, but couldn't really walk past there.
We had a fair warning on the door...
This room has been the dumping ground for just about everything... don't believe me...
On my last AWS day, I started to tackle this beast of a room... and lucky for me Chad began to help. We ended up with about 6 garbage bags of clothes to donate.
And made other piles of 'like' items
After that we neatly put some stuff back in the room and other stuff when to the basement. The room is by NO means complete. I'd like to make this into a very pretty guest bedroom for all the guests we have (haha... more like the drunk-os spending the night.) But this major clean up/de-cluttering/getting rid of made this room so much more manageable. Want to see the after pictures?
How much better is it now? Like almost a million?? Stay tuned for more improvements to this room... oh one more thing about cleaning out this room... we found things we thought we had lost. I know for me, I found a brown cardigan I had looked every where for... and some tweezers I was wondering where they ended up... I felt so happy to get this started!!
We had a fair warning on the door...
This room has been the dumping ground for just about everything... don't believe me...
On my last AWS day, I started to tackle this beast of a room... and lucky for me Chad began to help. We ended up with about 6 garbage bags of clothes to donate.
And made other piles of 'like' items
After that we neatly put some stuff back in the room and other stuff when to the basement. The room is by NO means complete. I'd like to make this into a very pretty guest bedroom for all the guests we have (haha... more like the drunk-os spending the night.) But this major clean up/de-cluttering/getting rid of made this room so much more manageable. Want to see the after pictures?
How much better is it now? Like almost a million?? Stay tuned for more improvements to this room... oh one more thing about cleaning out this room... we found things we thought we had lost. I know for me, I found a brown cardigan I had looked every where for... and some tweezers I was wondering where they ended up... I felt so happy to get this started!!
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Home Inprovements - Photographs
Down the front hallway I've always thought would be our photo collage wall... and we've finally started it. Awhile back I went through all the pictures I had on my computer and created a 'printable' folder. I waited patiently for Snapfish to run a special and finally they had one and I ordered away.
When we got married almost 2 years ago, we got some picture frames... that have sat in a room... gathering dust (go figure). When I got the pictures in the mail (I printed about 111 pictures) I pulled out the frames and Chad and I went through and picked our favorites. We didn't get all of our favorites up on the wall yet, but it's a start.
As I did with the living room wall I set all the frames out on the floor and picked the arrangement I liked best. But when we put it up on the wall it all changed (stupid intake vent...) but I liked the set up we came up with.
The tall frame has pictures of just Chad and me... mostly ones we took ourselves. The frame to the left of that is all of our pets. The frame directly to the right is just random pictures. (what I've found with those collage frames is finding enough pictures that are taken the "correct" way (horizontal or vertical... most of our pictures are taken horizontal.) The small frame was taken on our anniversary last year when we went to the ballgame. We brought our friend Sam and Liz - so we have a picture of Chad and Sam, Me and Liz and Chad and I. I'm excited to watch these pictures grow and grow.
When we got married almost 2 years ago, we got some picture frames... that have sat in a room... gathering dust (go figure). When I got the pictures in the mail (I printed about 111 pictures) I pulled out the frames and Chad and I went through and picked our favorites. We didn't get all of our favorites up on the wall yet, but it's a start.
As I did with the living room wall I set all the frames out on the floor and picked the arrangement I liked best. But when we put it up on the wall it all changed (stupid intake vent...) but I liked the set up we came up with.
The tall frame has pictures of just Chad and me... mostly ones we took ourselves. The frame to the left of that is all of our pets. The frame directly to the right is just random pictures. (what I've found with those collage frames is finding enough pictures that are taken the "correct" way (horizontal or vertical... most of our pictures are taken horizontal.) The small frame was taken on our anniversary last year when we went to the ballgame. We brought our friend Sam and Liz - so we have a picture of Chad and Sam, Me and Liz and Chad and I. I'm excited to watch these pictures grow and grow.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Home Improvements - Living Room Wall
We added something else to our living room set up. As you may recall we have already hung art of two of our walls. I had some items to hang on our third wall (we still have one blank wall, but we'll figure that out at some point...)
I got the items out that I wanted to hang on that wall and played around with them on the floor. I first came up with this arrangement.
But I didn't like that it was horizontal, horizontal, vertical, vertical. So I moved it around and got to this, which I liked a lot.
The next step was getting someone manly to help me hang them up on the wall... this is where my awesome husband steps in. And voila - it looks awesome
And here's a close up/explanation of what's on the wall
This is a photo print I bought from an arts and crafts fair in Soulard earlier this summer.
Next is this lovely painting I bought from the same guy I got the photo print from... I really enjoyed a lot of his work.
All of the shelves we registered for when we got married and they have been sitting in the basement gathering dust. Finally got them on the walls!! On this shelf you can see above in a silver piggy bank that came from The Container Store. Below you can see what sits on the top... A Golem and The Holy Infant - both were purchased in Prague.
I bought this print while I was in New Orleans. I got it at a gift shop, so it's nothing special. I frame this print and the print above myself. I bought the frames from Hobby Lobby during a 50% off sale - when you shop at hobby lobby you should always wait for a sale, everything will go on sale about once a month and it's usually sales like this 50% off.
Above that on the shelf is another New Orleans find. It's a 3-legged pig that I got at a VooDoo shop... it's suppose to bring good luck.
On the big shelf I have some salt and pepper shakers. On one side it says 'before' and depicts a pretty couple on their wedding day. And when you flip them to the 'after' side you get an unkempt couple (sorry this picture is so dark!!)
And finally above that is another canvas - this one was painted by yours truly. It was my first try at oil painting, and while I'm not completely sure I was doing it correctly, I love how it turned out.
I'm hoping to continue to add to these shelves... maybe more art as well, but right now I'm really digging the flow of the wall. One of my ideas is whenever I go on vacation I'll pick up a small figurine like the ones from Prague and New Orleans... For all of my work trips I get a magnet that I keep at work.
I got the items out that I wanted to hang on that wall and played around with them on the floor. I first came up with this arrangement.
But I didn't like that it was horizontal, horizontal, vertical, vertical. So I moved it around and got to this, which I liked a lot.
The next step was getting someone manly to help me hang them up on the wall... this is where my awesome husband steps in. And voila - it looks awesome
And here's a close up/explanation of what's on the wall
This is a photo print I bought from an arts and crafts fair in Soulard earlier this summer.
Next is this lovely painting I bought from the same guy I got the photo print from... I really enjoyed a lot of his work.
All of the shelves we registered for when we got married and they have been sitting in the basement gathering dust. Finally got them on the walls!! On this shelf you can see above in a silver piggy bank that came from The Container Store. Below you can see what sits on the top... A Golem and The Holy Infant - both were purchased in Prague.
I bought this print while I was in New Orleans. I got it at a gift shop, so it's nothing special. I frame this print and the print above myself. I bought the frames from Hobby Lobby during a 50% off sale - when you shop at hobby lobby you should always wait for a sale, everything will go on sale about once a month and it's usually sales like this 50% off.
Above that on the shelf is another New Orleans find. It's a 3-legged pig that I got at a VooDoo shop... it's suppose to bring good luck.
On the big shelf I have some salt and pepper shakers. On one side it says 'before' and depicts a pretty couple on their wedding day. And when you flip them to the 'after' side you get an unkempt couple (sorry this picture is so dark!!)
And finally above that is another canvas - this one was painted by yours truly. It was my first try at oil painting, and while I'm not completely sure I was doing it correctly, I love how it turned out.
I'm hoping to continue to add to these shelves... maybe more art as well, but right now I'm really digging the flow of the wall. One of my ideas is whenever I go on vacation I'll pick up a small figurine like the ones from Prague and New Orleans... For all of my work trips I get a magnet that I keep at work.
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