Off For Veterans Day... Yay!

I'm always happy to have a day off! 

I had originally planned for this to be a day of cleaning.  Since I made some progress over the weekend, I decided that I could just have fun today.  That is exactly what I plan on doing.

Jon and I are going to have lunch with a friend.  Having lunch with friends is another favorite activity of mine.

In other news, I have decided to train for a half-marathon.  I have to do some training for it, so I can't do the Baton Rouge Beach Half-Marathon.  Luckily, there is one in New Orleans in February.  It is one from the Rock n' Roll Marathon Series.  I am so excited!  Unfortunately, we are a little late signing up, so we will have to pay more of an entry fee.

Jon is a runner, I am not, so I plan on walking this half-marathon. 

TGIF

I have Saturday and Sunday off!  I will be so glad to not have to be at work.

I think that I will move on to organizing the bathroom this weekend.  It will be nice to have two rooms organized.  I will have the bedrooms, the living area, dining area, and closets left.

We get Veteran's Day off, so I will take advantage of the day off by getting something accomplished.

I am going to see my grandparents in a week.  We are going to drive up on Friday and just visit.  It is so much easier on all of us to do that than try staying over night.

We are meeting with our photographer to talk about the finalization of our wedding album this evening.  We will hopefully also get our wedding images on DVD. 

We are going to Virginia for Thanksgiving.  We just decided to go this a few weeks ago.  I was not allowed Tuesday or Saturday off, so we are going to drive to VA on Wedneday after Jon's class.  We will spend Thanksgiving (Thursday), then drive back on Friday.  Thanks a lot, job!

When Jon gets his Ph.D. and we move, I will be so glad.  Then I can focus more on what is important; family and home life.  I think I was meant to be a full-time homemaker.

We shall see...

Weekend in Review

Jon and I had a nice weekend. 

Friday night, we went out for steak.  We went to Logan's and I was very pleased with my food.  It was nice to be able to take my time to get ready (hair and makeup) and then go out with my husband.

On Saturday, my friend Samantha had lunch and did a little shopping.  Then I had the honor of showing going with her to see her new place of employment.  She just got a youth services librarian postion at the Baker Branch!  Yay!

Jon and I bought pumpkins on Saturday night.  We did not get around to carving them.  I think we will wait and carve them on Friday night.  With our strange weather, the pumpkins tend to get moldy really fast.

Yesterday, I cleaned and organized my kitchen.  It looks so nice and I feel so good about getting it clean.

I have accumlated a great deal of plastic containers, glass jars and bottles that I just can't bring myself to throw away.  I know they have a potenital use.  I do not have a garden, so I cannot use them to can.  I learned that there is a recycling every 3rd Saturday for apartment dwellers, so I will bring them there.  I know that Jon is also happy about this discovery.

My next cleaning and organizing project will be the bathroom.  I am so tired of living in a mess!  We are so unorganized.  It is very discouraging to live in so much clutter.  By taking it one step at a time, we will get this accomplished. 

While cleaning, I finished listening to Home to Big Stone Gap.  I assume this is the conclusion to the series, but I am not sure.  I really loved the Big Stone Gap Series.  I just loved the characters and reading about an area that is close to where Jon grew up. 

I am going to attempt to start listening to the next One Book One Community (The Big Read) book, The Great Gatsby.  I got really frustrated with it, while trying to download it to my computer.  The tracks were not in order.  A bit of a headache.