Wow it’s been pretty nice out side this week. So nice Joel and I were inspired to go to a near by park and walk. It wasn’t cold, not too hot perfect walking weather. There was hardly anyone there. We were a little confused at first by the mileage markers but I finally decided walking the whole thing was a total of 4 miles. Theres a loop marked 3/4 mile, a long straight stretch marked 1 mile, that connects to another look marked 1 1/4 mile. We then have to take that long 1 mile stretch again to get back to the car. By my calculations that makes 4 total. The thought of walking 4 miles is hard but it’s doesn’t seem that bad. Granted I’m just walking at this point probably at a leisure stroll for the first several times we do it. But the weathers nice, Joel and I are chatting and the time and miles just fly by. We actually went twice in this last week, we were suppost to go more but we had a few rainy days and we aren’t that dedicated yet. I hope we can keep doing this. Not only is the exercise good but it gets us out of the house for a bit and gives us time just us, no electronics. And hey maybe I’ll be able to do enough to manage to shrink a little. Maybe by the time it gets “too hot” to walk we can afford gym memberships and be able go to indoors.
Last weekend my BBFF came into town. I love hanging out with her because we don’t have to DO anything major to have a good time. Friday night we picked up some groceries. Saturday afternoon I was back with her and we just sat around talking and I watched her bake a cake, and we chatted while she cleaned. I had a great time, yet it was simple and free!
Saturday morning of Easter weekend I went to my great aunt’s house where we had a family gathering for Easter. My mom, grandma, uncle and his girlfriend all came to town for it. My cousin, his wife and girls were able to come by and my BBFF was there too. We just visited and caught up on each other’s lives for a bit. Then we ate and had an indoor egg hunt due to the rainy weather. I love watching little kids, they get so excited about finding those plastic eggs. The little girl ( she’s 2) opened up one of her eggs and got the candy out then couldn’t get it back together. She brought it to me and said “Broke it”. I told her it was ok I could fix it and I showed her how to put it back together. After that she kept bringing me her eggs and saying “fix”. I have a great photo that goes with this day that shows that sometimes we never get to move up from the kiddy table but I’ve been sworn to keep it out of the public eye. Too bad cause it’s a funny picture!
This week was fairly low key. Joel and I went and put in our applications at another Staffing agency. Those papers take forever to fill out they are so long and ask for so much. We were probably there nearly an hour and a half just filling out papers. Lets keep our fingers crossed before to long something good will come open for both of us.
I worked one day this week in the computer lab at a near by elementary. In a way it was great because I only had one class from each grade level for 40 minutes. They come in I told them what program they were to work on, they put on their headphones and worked. I just walked around and monitered they were staying on task. When class time was up I told them to log out and line up. EASY! Except for me it was too easy. Now if I was the regular teacher I’m sure I would have had my own computer work to do or working on student reports or something but being as I was the sub I just sat there. For me I’d really much rather be busy busy than just sitting there. I get tired when I’m still for too long. But hey it was an easy paycheck for me!
Other than that my week was pretty routine. Cleaning house, watching tv, playing on the computer, crosstitching. Rinse and repeat lol. I did paint my nails a fun Spring time color, then realized I did it before hand washing the pots and pans and didn’t want to mess up my nails so I solved the problem.
Oh while I was modeling my nails and dish washing protection I also caught a shot of my ghetto fabulous watch I’ve been sporting these days. See a month or so back I found my watch was always reading 8:20 no matter when I looked at it. We have fallen on financially hard times right now and a watch though really not that expensive is beyond my budget at the moment. So my grandma found an old watch of hers that she had. Unfortunately it wouldn’t fit my overly fat rather ample wrist. So she rigged it up to fit me. Pretty fancy fixings lol. I have since gone through 3 rubber bands that keep breaking and don’t look so stylish. My dad bought be a nice watch for my birthday but alas it too was meant for thin wristed people and to get a link added to it is way more expensive then just returning it and getting a different watch.
Yesterday we were invited to my cousins daughters birthday party. Again another great time watching the excitement, fear and joy of children young and old. She had a horse themed party and even had a horse to give rides. They had a one of those play Barbie cars they all took turns running into things and people in their way driving around the yard. There was a trampoline, sandbox and lots of little kids. What fun! Why do we grow up and not get fun parties like that anymore?
The horse themed birthday cake. The birthday girl getting her horsy ride.
My cousin Tony riding the horse. The birthday girls mom even takes a ride.
This is the beautiful old barn they have on their property. If you’ve noticed in my pictures few are posed pictures. I’m more about the candid shots. They are more real life and true to character. Landscapes are some of my favorites. And barns are my absolute favorite. I have a barn picture (I might have mentioned and posted a picture before) of my grandparents barn behind their house. This picture is blown up and framed in my hallway. I want to do a whole barn motif so I’ve crosstitched some barns and have some other barn pictures that just have never been framed and hung. I might have found another wonderful piece of art for my home décor.
So that about covers my week. Today I’ll probably stick to my “usual routine” because I have business on Monday and maybe some work this week so I’d like to have the house in shape just in case. I’m about half way through my current crosstitch project and since I only have a little over a month til my deadline I’ve got to get to working on it also. Until next time…..
This is my computer wallpaper on my main screen.
