Weekend Work

This weekend we got a lot done.. and it is only Sunday morning. Friday we took MIL to her head doctors up north and since her hospital stay things have not been right... and I think we have figured out why. The hospital stopped some of her medications.. and said they would start her on new meds... but they did not. Basically her medications have been a bit messed up for the last month and now with getting them back on track hopefully things will start getting better again.

Dave and I then headed to storage and started sorting that. We wanted to go through everything and weed it all out again... every time we do this it seems we are able to get a load for the good will and a load for the dump. This time was no different. Weeding through it all and wondering what in the world we have been paying to store some of this stuff. We ended up with a large load for the dump and one for the goodwill. Then it was time to decide if we wanted to bring this stuff all home and find places for it.. or if we wanted to keep the storage and move some of the stuff from the house/sheds into it. We have decided to keep the storage for now and put some more stuff from the house/sheds into it that we are totally tired of tripping over but not ready to get rid of yet. We have a huge storage unit and it is only about a 1/3 full.... but we have had it long enough that it is an awesome price. We have had it long enough now that hanging onto it for another year or so until we know better what the kids will be doing.. just makes sense. We are going to offer to rent a corner of it out to my son for a lot less than he is paying for the one he has now.. save us both some money.

Now that we have narrowed the boxes down again.. we will be putting some shelves in there and we will be going through the boxes and really sorting and storing... will take pictures of what is in each box and label them all so we can look them up at home on the computer and will know where everything is without having to dig through boxes. In this sorting we hope to find some jeep keys.. and a dog tag.. and I am sure there is a couple more things we hope to find.

One thing that made me so wonderfully happy... we brought home all the clothes we had in storage... and... half of mine fit me... it is like getting brand new clothes.. been 5 years since some of this stuff fit... a bunch of "new" jeans and skirts and sweaters... I am so happy... the half that does not fit yet.. really gives me a goal to work for... lucky for me the stuff that fits now is great for fall/winter and the stuff I still need to lose a bit for.. are great for spring/summer. Means I have 5 to 6 months and by then there is no reason I should not fit into those clothes. Once I fit into those clothes that will be the smallest I have been since having kids. My goal is to be a size smaller than that. Which would be about as small as I would ever get and still be healthy... but if Ican get one size smaller than those then I will have the perfect excuse to go get ALL new clothes :)

Today I am not sure what the plans are.. I am thinking being lazy and relaxing. Two days of working in storage have taken their toll on both of us. Dave with his bad ankle hates the cement floor... and even though I only moved things around that were very light weight.. my shoulder is still screaming today. I think just having a do nothing day is a great plan for today.

~Michelle

A New Beach

Well it is not a new beach .. it has been there awhile but it is a new beach for me. I went out this morning with my girlfriend and instead of walking on the beach here she took me to another beach on the island, Tillicum beach. She used to live here and has some friends there. Beautiful beach and private. We saw a big black lab but no other people at all and no garbage. It was a beautiful morning for a walk on the beach. Found a bunch of sea glass and some shells and agates.

When I got home I spent some time on paperwork and started working on some orders for my shop. I opened it a week or so ago and have sold 2 bookmarks and have had an order for a set of 8 wine charms. I love making these and love that other people enjoy them too. *thank you guys*

On the workout news.... tomorrow is the first day of the second week.. so I will be increasing the running from 60 seconds/walking 90 seconds... to running 90 seconds/ walking 2 minutes.. I am expecting it to be very difficult... I know the first time I did the running 60 seconds I was not able to do it for the whole 20 minutes... but yesterdays I was able to do the complete workout and it felt awesome!

~Michelle

A Little of This and That

So today is a ramble day.. I do not have anything huge to report here.. but a few little things. Sunday we worked on the yard, trimmed up the front bushes and had a little fire to burn everything we collected this summer. Grass and yard is pretty much ready for winter. Still working on getting the area around the shed all cleaned up and graveled. The fire was great.. we roasted some hot dogs and it was fun.

Yesterday was Monday and it was the second day of the Couch to 5K workout for me. I made it through.. thought I would die.. seriously. Afterwards though I was feeling pretty good so I went ahead and did some sit ups. I am putting lots of focus on standing up tall.. shoulders back and down... tummy in. Well everything is a bit sore... some muscles are on fire... some calf cramps... shoulder is killing me... but nothing like my tummy last night.. it so freaked out. Time for bed and I could hardly sleep... from now on I am only doing the workout or the sit ups.. not both on the same day.

I ran my daughter around this morning for some appointments.. it is nice to get some time to visit with her... and then went and visited my MIL who seems to be doing ok. We talked knitting and looked at some patterns and picked out some yarn... I will be visiting her once a week and doing some knitting with her. I went and checked out the local knitting shop in town and love it... can see it doing some serious damage to my wallet but I do love it... it is also a great place to take MIL for a break... big open space that she can get around in.

Now I am making some dessert for Dave. He has been working really hard.. not only on work stuff but on helping me with a lot of stuff and I love him so much, he is so good to me that I love to make surprises for him.

Off To The Races

Last night we went to the races at Evergreen Speedway in Monroe. I had been to some bike races there before and then early this summer we went to some car races down south... but this was my first time to some demolition derby stuff.. which to me is not the same as the races. Races they all go fast to see who can cross the line first... and last night.. there was some of that.. but there was a LOT of who can put the biggest bang on someone else's car. Even though it hurt me to watch them banging into each other.. I LOVED it!

There were some stunts... they were ok.. not really my thing though.. and waiting for them to set them up and then clean up the track after.. sort of was a turn off for me. They did some hornet racing.. which was small cars sort of beat up that went around the track fast... those were fun... then they did some figure 8's. This was my first time watching that type of racing.. and those guys/girls are just 110% nuts. With the small cars they were exciting to watch.. no big crashes... then they had the school buses going at it.. those were really cool to watch.. then they added boats on to the back of the cars and buses and they all raced together. The thing is I did not get what that meant.... but what they do is they tie a boat ( no trailer ) to the back of the car or bus... most of them had regular old wooden boats.. one had a rubber boat...there were plenty of sizes of boats too.. and maybe they were not wooden.. but anyway.. so the boat is tied/chained onto the back of the car/bus and then these crazy people drive around the figure 8 (very fast) trying to slam into other peoples boats and the last person with their boat still attached wins. This is one crazy thing.. there were boat pieces and car pieces everywhere... I was laughing so hard. I loved it! Did not get video of the boat races was too busy watching them. Plan is to go to more races next summer.

~Michelle

New Shop Is Open

I finally got my new shop open online. I had wanted to open it last month but life happens and I just had too much going on. Now it is open but I am still going to be tweaking it and playing around with it. I want to add some more color and I need to learn how to use all the bonus things a pro account gets on artfire. At this time I still have my old shop open too but will be moving most of those items to the new shop and I also have some new items to add. You now can securely shop directly from my blog, on the right hand side in the rapid cart, and from my facebook profile. One of the things I love about this shop is that there is no need to sign up, you can shop just as you do most places online or in person. If you see something you love, you buy it!

~Michelle