Day 39-2102

Wednesday, turned out to be interesting.  About 9:30 yesterday morning, I got a call that we were to have a showing from noon to 1pm.  EEEEEP!!!!  I had 2 hours to clean!  I called my mom so she could come over to entertain Ava.  I cleaned like a maid on speed, let me tell ya!  I couldn't have made the house look or smell any better.  (No feedback from it!)  


We left before the showing and drop Daisy off at my parents' house for the afternoon and a sleeping Ava and I headed to do some piddling.  My plan was to go get my nails done and Ava would still be sleeping. You know what they say about plans?!   She woke up as soon as we got there.  I brought in the Kindle Fire and she sat with me in the chair and watched Tom and Jerry and was really really good! She did NOT like the nail lady though.


We had about an hour to kill before we were to meet Clint.  We stopped in Books-A-Million and completely shut down a walkway in an aisle.  We had books and stuffed animals every where!  This employee kept walking by looking horrified!  I happily said, "don't worry we will pick up our mess."  We killed an hour playing and put everything back in its rightful place.  


We met Clint at the gym parking lot and went to Publix.  Childcare doesn't start until 4pm at the gym, so we had an hour to shop.  I had my list and Clint added to it.  Ava slept 99% of the shopping trip!  We saved about $85 on the trip.  Not too shabby!


Gym time!  I did a slow and steady 5 miles in 47:30 minutes.  I won't be able to get to the gym until Saturday, so I wanted to get in a couple more miles than usual on my weekly runs.  It was a good and sweaty run.


Ava and I went to pick up Daisy and met Clint at home.  Supper was leftover randomness aka clean out the fridge.  I had a barbecue salad and Clint had barbecue nachos.  


Back to work on Thursday!


I hope you had a great day!!

Day 38-2012

Yesterday, was lots of playing, cleaning, lounging, coloring and spending time with my great daughter!  She is just so much fun!  I enjoy each moment with her!!


We didn't get out of the house, except to check the mail for 2 days!  It was glorious!  When Clint got home, I did some couponing and then we headed to the gym.  The mill I was on stopped at 1.37miles.  Just stopped!  Then, I got about 2 more minutes in and it stopped again!  I'm fairly certain I let a cuss word out!  


I jumped on another one and finished up my 4 miles for the day. I had already lifted arms at home.  I have decided I can lift at home and then just use my time to run on the mill at the gym.  Time management baby!


We left the gym and went to Clint's basketball game.   It was a good game that went in to over time!  They lost, but it wasn't that big of a deal haha!


We came home and had leftovers from the night before and then it was time for Ava to head to bed. Clint and I sat up later than usual and spent some time together.


I hope you had a great day!

Day 37-2012

My boss closed the office until Thursday.  His father in law passed away unexpectedly and they will be flying to Wisconsin for the service tomorrow.  So, I get 3 entire days in a row with Ava!  

Yesterday, we stayed in our jammies ALL DAY!  We did change before Clint got home haha!   But we really did a lot of nothing.  Well, we played and Ava had her moments of crank.  She is almost better. I boiled some chicken for chicken pot pie and folded some laundry. Yes, some.  I was just not motivated yesterday.  I even told Clint, we didn't have to go to the gym!  Who am I?  I don't know why I was in a funk yesterday.  I just didn't feel like it.  

I made semi-homemade chicken pot pie last night.  I mixed a can of cream of chicken soup with a can of peas, can of green beans, 1 cup frozen broccoli, cut up cooked carrots, Clint got a cut up cooked potato and Ava and I had a sweet potato in ours.  I covered Clint's with canned biscuits and put it all in the oven for about 45 minutes.  It turned out really good.  I'll take that as a success!!

I hope you had a great day and no funk came your way!

Day 33-2012

It is FRIDAY!!!!  WHoo hoo!  I love Friday's.  It's the end of the work week and full of possibilities for the weekend!


Yesterday, was my day off and Ava and I lounged around the house in our jammies until about 11am. Then we headed to take some things back to Walmart.  Ava slept through that errand!  Next was CVS.  If you are a beginning couponer.  Drugstores are the place to go!  I saved like $75 there!  I know, right!  I only spent $25!  Score!


Then it was on to a local family grocery store.  They just incorporated a new coupon policy of Thursday's are double coupon days UP TO $1.00!!  Heck yea!!!  I will be making note of things that are on sale for the week and using my $.55-$1 coupons there!


We went home and had some lunch.  I inputed all of our receipts into the spreadsheet I have and we have already saved $600!  Just in one month.  My goal is $4000 for the year.  I'm fairly certain I will hit that goal!


We were meeting Clint's mom and husband for supper and were going to head to the gym first.  They texted and said they were on their way.  EEEEK.  I only get 3 days at the gym and they are precious, so I was a little bummed.  Clint told me to go run outside.  I hesistanted for a second because there were last minute things to clean up around the house.  He said, "you have 30 minutes, GO!"  Yes sir!  He is such a great husband.  It was my first outside run since I hurt my back last August.  It was such a great and kind of difficult run.  We live around ginormous hills!  I was getting it though and pumped out 3.25 miles in 28:30 minutes.  I am so glad I ran!!


We headed to a local diner to eat and then came back home so they could play with Ava.  There were drums and trains involved! haha


It was a great productive, spirit lifting day!  Love my "days off".


I hope you had a great day!