Weekend
I'm so glad that I decided to take today off of work. Our office wasn't closed, but this was one of those floater holidays that we can use the time on or not.
On Friday we had some homemade beef stew and spent the night at home; I was beat from my week so it was nice just being somewhat horizontal. We watched Clone Wars and the Celebration V 501st Legion DVD that arrived very early. The production value of it was very good and it made me excited to go to CVI next August. The clones in Clone Wars are starting to get mean!
Saturday was our day to stay home and pack in preparation for our house to be deleaded. I had rented 30 big orange crates for this process (the kind you would have at the office when moving from place to place) that Brian had picked up last week and had set in the garage. Our den, living room, baby room and Brian's collectable room are all packed up and the contents are pushed to the middle of the room. We have some more things to take care of that we'll pick away at during the rest of the week. The rest of it will get done on Saturday night after we have a 501st event, and on Sunday after spending some time at the Rock and Shock convention we'll come home, grab our clothes, toiletries, animals and pet supplies and head up to NH to stay with my parents for 4-5 days.
I can't wait until this is done so that we can settle back in, put up the Halloween decorations and then finally set up the babe's room. I sound like a broken record. :)
Carlos rescued us on Saturday night and the three of us got dinner at Chinese Mirch in Framingham followed by the Rockem Shockem Robots movie that I keep forgetting the name of in Imax. It had looked cheezy from the initial trailers but both Brian and Carlos had read some very good reviews of it. It was excellent! Fun and a sweet, touching story. Hugh Jackman was great! It was nice to get out and have some fun after such a tiring, productive day.
We had put yesterday in the calendar over a month ago to hang out with Tember, and after breakfast we decided to brave Salem. Getting there early (at 10:00 AM) made a huge difference and made for a lovely day. It wasn't too hot and wasn't too crowded yet. We wandered around and picked a few things up, visiting friends that were vending with the folks on the Essex Street Mall. We lasted until about 2:30 when the 85 degree weather (hello, it is October?!) and the crowds were getting to us. We made a few more stops along the way homeways, stopped for an early dinner (we had not had lunch) and dropped Tember at home. My feet were so freaking swollen that I spent most of the rest of the night on the couch with them up (in between flipping some loads of laundry). I keep saying, if this is as bad as I have for most of my pregnancy, I'm doing OK. I cannot wait until we reliably don't have 85 degree weather to deal with.
My plan is to try and have a nice balance of getting things done today and keeping my feet up and reading. I want to make the most of this 'free' day. :)
On Friday we had some homemade beef stew and spent the night at home; I was beat from my week so it was nice just being somewhat horizontal. We watched Clone Wars and the Celebration V 501st Legion DVD that arrived very early. The production value of it was very good and it made me excited to go to CVI next August. The clones in Clone Wars are starting to get mean!
Saturday was our day to stay home and pack in preparation for our house to be deleaded. I had rented 30 big orange crates for this process (the kind you would have at the office when moving from place to place) that Brian had picked up last week and had set in the garage. Our den, living room, baby room and Brian's collectable room are all packed up and the contents are pushed to the middle of the room. We have some more things to take care of that we'll pick away at during the rest of the week. The rest of it will get done on Saturday night after we have a 501st event, and on Sunday after spending some time at the Rock and Shock convention we'll come home, grab our clothes, toiletries, animals and pet supplies and head up to NH to stay with my parents for 4-5 days.
I can't wait until this is done so that we can settle back in, put up the Halloween decorations and then finally set up the babe's room. I sound like a broken record. :)
Carlos rescued us on Saturday night and the three of us got dinner at Chinese Mirch in Framingham followed by the Rockem Shockem Robots movie that I keep forgetting the name of in Imax. It had looked cheezy from the initial trailers but both Brian and Carlos had read some very good reviews of it. It was excellent! Fun and a sweet, touching story. Hugh Jackman was great! It was nice to get out and have some fun after such a tiring, productive day.
We had put yesterday in the calendar over a month ago to hang out with Tember, and after breakfast we decided to brave Salem. Getting there early (at 10:00 AM) made a huge difference and made for a lovely day. It wasn't too hot and wasn't too crowded yet. We wandered around and picked a few things up, visiting friends that were vending with the folks on the Essex Street Mall. We lasted until about 2:30 when the 85 degree weather (hello, it is October?!) and the crowds were getting to us. We made a few more stops along the way homeways, stopped for an early dinner (we had not had lunch) and dropped Tember at home. My feet were so freaking swollen that I spent most of the rest of the night on the couch with them up (in between flipping some loads of laundry). I keep saying, if this is as bad as I have for most of my pregnancy, I'm doing OK. I cannot wait until we reliably don't have 85 degree weather to deal with.
My plan is to try and have a nice balance of getting things done today and keeping my feet up and reading. I want to make the most of this 'free' day. :)