Catching up, quick and dirty.
Friday night we tried the new Nuvo Burrito in East Nashville. It was. . . meh. Not bad, but I won't be rushing back there. Not while Baja is in town! Their guacamole was good, but tasted a lot like ours with less [or no] lime and pureed into a uniform, albeit thick, consistency instead of leaving it chunky, like we do (which I prefer).
gondoriangirl has been generously offering to share her employee discount at World Market for a while now. Saturday, after balancing our budget and discussing it at length, we decided to take her up on it and bought two new leather armchairs and a matching love seat for the living room. She was even gracious enough to bring the two chairs over after work, since all three pieces wouldn't fit in our collective cars.
Sunday, I listed our fugly old couch on Craigslist for free and a couple of very appreciative college students came to pick it up that afternoon.
Monday, Chris took the day off. The new component cabinet that Chris ordered at the same time as the parts for his new Hackintosh arrived and we assembled that with little difficulty, but much time. arymetore & witchcat07 had invited us to the zoo with her brother and sis-in-law and their kiddos. Although the kids didn't interact much, I think they all had a great time. As for me, I'm always entertained by the zoo. I noted that the playground area, which we hadn't spent much time in until now, really would be a great place to take some pirate costume pictures, especially if someone had a tribal Jack Sparrow costume. Too bad Chris won't let me make him one.
After we left the zoo, Chris Jonah and I headed to La Hacienda (as seems to be a zoo tradition) for an early dinner of some cool, refreshing ceviche and tacos (well, I had a torta). On our way home, Jonah passed out in the car. Once we got home, he was a little fussy but settled in eventually to watch a movie. I wrestled with him for about an hour to keep him out of Chris' hair while he got some things done. After that, I felt absolutely exhausted between that and being out in the sun and humidity at the zoo all afternoon. So, I proceeded to do nothing for the rest of the night while Chris picked up the pile of packing materials we had accumulated over the weekend.
Yesterday, I spent a fair amount of time breaking down said packing materials so that I can take them out to a recycling receptacle besides ours (since there's quite a large stack of large pieces of cardboard from the furniture and two full kitchen trash bags full of styrofoam). Then just generally got the house back into shape. I'm pretty sure I've eradicated all little bits of styrofoam from the bottom floor of the house.
I didn't run at all last week. I'm not sorry about it, except for the fact that I thought it was going to give me more time to get the office done.
Yes, I'm still working on decluttering/reorganizing the office. I know I'm on the right track though and it must be done and I guess I'm the one to do it. I will keep plugging away on it until it is finished.
Our front door appears to be rotting at the place where the spring arm mounts to the door on the bottom. How a seemingly metal door rots, I have no idea. Gives us an excuse to replace it I guess, which is something we've wanted to do since buying this house.
And speaking of "since we bought this house", next week marks the third anniversary of our closing date. To celebrate, maybe we should paint something (we spent a good three weeks painting in this house before we even moved the first box in).
Need to get The Two Towers read by Saturday for our book discussion. Well, I've got to read up to the end of book three anyway. I just started it last night. YES, I said just started it last night. Procrastination, let me show you it. I read two chapters before passing out last night though and I've got less than 200 pages to read, so I think I'll be good. It is making me want to work on my Angel gown some more though, which is probably a good thing.
gondoriangirl has been generously offering to share her employee discount at World Market for a while now. Saturday, after balancing our budget and discussing it at length, we decided to take her up on it and bought two new leather armchairs and a matching love seat for the living room. She was even gracious enough to bring the two chairs over after work, since all three pieces wouldn't fit in our collective cars.
Sunday, I listed our fugly old couch on Craigslist for free and a couple of very appreciative college students came to pick it up that afternoon.
Monday, Chris took the day off. The new component cabinet that Chris ordered at the same time as the parts for his new Hackintosh arrived and we assembled that with little difficulty, but much time. arymetore & witchcat07 had invited us to the zoo with her brother and sis-in-law and their kiddos. Although the kids didn't interact much, I think they all had a great time. As for me, I'm always entertained by the zoo. I noted that the playground area, which we hadn't spent much time in until now, really would be a great place to take some pirate costume pictures, especially if someone had a tribal Jack Sparrow costume. Too bad Chris won't let me make him one.
After we left the zoo, Chris Jonah and I headed to La Hacienda (as seems to be a zoo tradition) for an early dinner of some cool, refreshing ceviche and tacos (well, I had a torta). On our way home, Jonah passed out in the car. Once we got home, he was a little fussy but settled in eventually to watch a movie. I wrestled with him for about an hour to keep him out of Chris' hair while he got some things done. After that, I felt absolutely exhausted between that and being out in the sun and humidity at the zoo all afternoon. So, I proceeded to do nothing for the rest of the night while Chris picked up the pile of packing materials we had accumulated over the weekend.
Yesterday, I spent a fair amount of time breaking down said packing materials so that I can take them out to a recycling receptacle besides ours (since there's quite a large stack of large pieces of cardboard from the furniture and two full kitchen trash bags full of styrofoam). Then just generally got the house back into shape. I'm pretty sure I've eradicated all little bits of styrofoam from the bottom floor of the house.
I didn't run at all last week. I'm not sorry about it, except for the fact that I thought it was going to give me more time to get the office done.
Yes, I'm still working on decluttering/reorganizing the office. I know I'm on the right track though and it must be done and I guess I'm the one to do it. I will keep plugging away on it until it is finished.
Our front door appears to be rotting at the place where the spring arm mounts to the door on the bottom. How a seemingly metal door rots, I have no idea. Gives us an excuse to replace it I guess, which is something we've wanted to do since buying this house.
And speaking of "since we bought this house", next week marks the third anniversary of our closing date. To celebrate, maybe we should paint something (we spent a good three weeks painting in this house before we even moved the first box in).
Need to get The Two Towers read by Saturday for our book discussion. Well, I've got to read up to the end of book three anyway. I just started it last night. YES, I said just started it last night. Procrastination, let me show you it. I read two chapters before passing out last night though and I've got less than 200 pages to read, so I think I'll be good. It is making me want to work on my Angel gown some more though, which is probably a good thing.