hungry from all of this typing?
i was a busy bunny this weekend!!
went to school Saturday morning, got home about noon-ish...tony and i went to Subway for lunch. spent the rest of the day cleaning the house like crazy people. you can only moderately tell we did anything to it. the upstairs still looks like a natural disaster took place in it.
saturday night lowell came over, as usual. i made bison burgers with some sea salt and olive oil fries i bought at The Fresh Market. then yesterday morning, i woke up at the crack of down and drove in the thick fog to pick up the kids to take them to the zoo. it was $5 day, so i wanted to take them. normally it's $18, which, i found out, as expensive as everything there is, is NOT cheap. i spent nearly $75 ($20 to get in, $20 for animal food/ride tokens, $14 for ice cream...). and then after we went to Target and i bought them one of those mini-pizzas that they split with each other, and icees, and i had a mango smoothie. mailed Patrick's present off, filled up our 4 water jugs, and then came back home. the day started at 7:00 and their mom came to get them at 6:10. WHEW. it was fun, though.
we hand-fed the giraffe, koi, goats, llama, stingrays, and budgies. so the expense was worth it. the girls rode the camel, but they paid for that with their own money. the ice cream was delish, and i think i walked off at least some of the calories. we got to see the African penguins (from Namibia), and the sweet little blue duiker. we saw the manatees, and i realized after we got home that we must have missed the pygmy hippo. i'm sure we missed a bunch of things...those kids were so frantic...all over the place. but it's fine...mildly organized chaos and we saw PLENTY. and of course we visited the meerkats, and the boy for some reason wanted to use this (shoe-on) foot massaging machine, so we did that. and we rode the family coaster, the Tasmanian Tiger. lots of walking and way worth it. and at the end of the day, i was able to send the little brats HOME. haha. (strangely enough, the oldest was the worst, and the youngest was the best.)
and then tonight i have school, for my math class.
i did, however, find out on Saturday morning that with my degree, i will qualify for 3 additional business certifications. as of right now, i'm halfway done the qualifications for the first one! all three will only maybe require me to take one additional course, and i'm sure i can get that covered by my work since it's business-related as well.
so woohoo!! nice to find out all of the crap the advising office never tells you..
happy monday. i'm starving!
went to school Saturday morning, got home about noon-ish...tony and i went to Subway for lunch. spent the rest of the day cleaning the house like crazy people. you can only moderately tell we did anything to it. the upstairs still looks like a natural disaster took place in it.
saturday night lowell came over, as usual. i made bison burgers with some sea salt and olive oil fries i bought at The Fresh Market. then yesterday morning, i woke up at the crack of down and drove in the thick fog to pick up the kids to take them to the zoo. it was $5 day, so i wanted to take them. normally it's $18, which, i found out, as expensive as everything there is, is NOT cheap. i spent nearly $75 ($20 to get in, $20 for animal food/ride tokens, $14 for ice cream...). and then after we went to Target and i bought them one of those mini-pizzas that they split with each other, and icees, and i had a mango smoothie. mailed Patrick's present off, filled up our 4 water jugs, and then came back home. the day started at 7:00 and their mom came to get them at 6:10. WHEW. it was fun, though.
we hand-fed the giraffe, koi, goats, llama, stingrays, and budgies. so the expense was worth it. the girls rode the camel, but they paid for that with their own money. the ice cream was delish, and i think i walked off at least some of the calories. we got to see the African penguins (from Namibia), and the sweet little blue duiker. we saw the manatees, and i realized after we got home that we must have missed the pygmy hippo. i'm sure we missed a bunch of things...those kids were so frantic...all over the place. but it's fine...mildly organized chaos and we saw PLENTY. and of course we visited the meerkats, and the boy for some reason wanted to use this (shoe-on) foot massaging machine, so we did that. and we rode the family coaster, the Tasmanian Tiger. lots of walking and way worth it. and at the end of the day, i was able to send the little brats HOME. haha. (strangely enough, the oldest was the worst, and the youngest was the best.)
and then tonight i have school, for my math class.
i did, however, find out on Saturday morning that with my degree, i will qualify for 3 additional business certifications. as of right now, i'm halfway done the qualifications for the first one! all three will only maybe require me to take one additional course, and i'm sure i can get that covered by my work since it's business-related as well.
so woohoo!! nice to find out all of the crap the advising office never tells you..
happy monday. i'm starving!