Happy Friday!

I'm really excited for the weekend because tomorrow, we're heading down to Bethany Beach in DE and spending 3 days!! I've never been to a DE beach, so it should be fun! I have to say that the weather won't be as perfect as it was when we went to OCNJ because summer has really set in now, humidity wise, but it'll still be a good time!

Our dream of buying Alex's grandfather's house when it goes on the market is still alive. We have no idea when it might be happening but we're going to start preparing our house to sell now, just in case. We have to replace a couple windows and a screen door, finish the painting and put down the half rounds. After that we should be in 99% tip top shape to sell if need be. Another thing that's hard is trying to plan without having a price to go by.

I'm going to start taking online real estate pre-licensing courses when we return next week, so maybe that will help me with the buying/selling thing. I really think it's something I would enjoy and i've been thinking about it for a long time. Now that i'm not a shy phone person anymore, it should be a lot easier!

Wishing everyone a happy friday and a fabulous weekend!

The flyby..

Exciting things from the weekend:
- New VS undies!
- New Chelsea handler book to read!
- Saw the new Harry Potter movie!
- Julia came down for the evening!
- Food & Brew fest in Newark with Nick & Laurel!
- Decided if we have a boy (i'm not prego currently) we'll name him Xavier!
- Played with their cute kitties!
- Found some great prospects for OBX 09!
- Finally did some Laundry (what a highlight!)
- Watched Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix (to refresh my memory)!
- Enjoyed some Hoss's!!
- Spent time analyzing our potential situation (i will try to elaborate in another post, but in the short of things.. we might be moving soon, eep!)

Ho hum?

So i know i've talked about this before which is probably jinxing it but i just wanted everyone to know (or no one, basically) that i didn't win the powerball last night..... again.

In other news, I'm excited for my half day tomorrow.. taking lunch to the hubster at work and eventually seeing harry potter with julia. After a lovely doctor's appointment of course. I really need to remember to take my dad's camera back to him so hopefully this will help me remember. I don't really have plans for friday night.. i should be returning to lanc around 8 pm so we'll see if Alex has cooked up anything to do.

I really have nothing else interesting going on... hurry up 5 pm!

As I wait..

As i'm waiting for my pictures to upload to snapfish so I can make a wedding album, I figured i'd write a post.

My ear doesn't hurt anymore and I don't have a headache! Last night it was coming on pretty strong when it got close to bedtime. I took a Benadryl Allergy to help me sleep since we didn't have any nyquil or sudafed. Must've been the ticket (plus sleeping in AC instead of fresh air) because I woke up with no pain at all! I'm chalking it up to allergies.. oddly enough. But now i know if it happens again, to take a benadryl!

Something a little less boring.. i'm excited for the weekend. We're going down to Delaware to hit the Newark Food & Brew Fest with Nick and Laurel. It's going to be so much fun, I can already tell!

In food related news, I've been doing pretty well. No meat! Other than a burger last night on the farm. It's hard to say no to other people's home cooking that they worked hard on, ya know? Plus the burger was AWESOME. The good news is, i've lost 4 lbs.. since sunday! It's only wednesday! That's faster than the south beach! Now i just have to keep it going. So much easier when fruit is allowed though!

We're over the hump and hopefully sliding down the rest until Friday! (I'm taking a half day) Woo!

I've come to the conclusion..

That my life probably isn't fascinating enough to blog about? I don't really do anything terribly interesting, really. Oh well, i'll continue.

My ear hurts. Yep, it really does. On the inside. I think it's because I cleaned it last night when I got out of the shower. Needless to say, it's given me a headache and made my jaw hurt so I'm definitely going to have the doctor check it out on Friday.

In other news, I've been working on my wedding pictures during lunch recently. Trying to get them ready to put into photo books. To my surprise they needed a lot of updating.. mostly shadows and highlights to make them a bit brighter. Thinking about photos makes me think of a great website I looked at yesterday. It's a woman who does a lot of portraits and weddings and the photos are fab. Check it out!

This just makes me think of how I want to change my profession. I wish I had a great eye for photography, because wouldn't that be a blast! I love taking pictures and editing pictures and to do that as a job would just be awesome.

On the other hand though I still think about Real Estate. I definitely want to take the licensing courses but now is such a bad time in the housing market. At least I'd be prepared to jump in though when it sparks up again, right?

And then I think, hmm maybe I should go back to school to get a teaching certificate so that I can have summers off with my children later in life. But would I get bored with that after a couple years due to the monotony?

I'll keep thinking and maybe some day it'll actually turn into actions?

It's summer.. so..

So since it's summer and I can't imagine giving up fruit for the SB diet.. i'm going to make my own 'diet'.. It's going to consist of fruits, veggies, beans, nuts, brown rice, fish and dairy products. Basically i'm not going to eat any high calorie meats. Not even chicken which is relatively low calorie. It's wayy too hard not to each fresh and ripe strawberries and blue berries and peaches.

So i'm going to have fruit for breakfast, veggies for lunch and then a complete protein and veggies for dinner. Nuts for snacks.. etc. I'm hoping it will be easy.. which really, it should be when including fruit, because i love fruit! usually I avoid it because of sugar content but i plan on burning lots of calories for the rest of the summer so that shouldn't be a problem.

Thus starts my.. work out once a day routine. Today, Alex and I are going to play tennis! Tomorrow, hopefully we'll either play tennis or basketball and then he can toss me some balls to spike at the park. And i can practice serving.. build up some arm muscle/lose some flab?? On days when we don't have time to do that, i plan on doing pilates or aerobics in the house, somewhere. Since we got our new desk it takes up a lot more space then the one before did. Our bedroom might suffice?

I'm going to try to stick to these plans. Keyword, try. I probably won't beat myself up too much if I skip a day.. it's just not my style.

Happy Monday!

Oooh Wee.. it's friday!

I'm excited for tonight for many reasons..

..I love going out to dinner, and we're doing that!
..We're going to a place called 10,000 villages to spend some gift cards and though I have no clue what it is.. shopping is always fun!
..We're going to Home Depot to get a new Kitchen faucet so that Alex won't have to replace my sprayer thing when he puts in his water filtration system. I simply must have the sprayer.. it makes dish cleaning so much easier!
..We're heading to Nate's to play Rock Band after much anticipation of how 'awesome' the game is.. my hand eye coordination is a little iffy so I'll probably just rock the vocals.
..During the rock band sesh i'll be drinking wine.. yum!

Why Saturday's going to ROCK..

..we might go see The Hangover.. it's supposed to be a hoot!
..we'll probably do some serious outdoor activity.. tennis, basketball.. here we come!
..hopefully we'll hang out with some cool kids later on that evening.. sweeet!
..i'll be looking forward to a nice relaxing, possibly movie, sunday!

Have a good weekend!!!