Picture overload

I've been trying to sort through the thousands (literally!) of pictures (some good shots, some garbage shots) we took while on vacation to post here and it's just overwhelming!

I thought breaking it down into smaller posts would be best...so hopefully I will get together a handful or two of pictures for each place we visited.

Stay tuned. I know you are all just dying of the suspense...right?? ☺

What to do?

School is out. For EVER the quarter.

I've got a week and half to waste...relax...do something with until I am back in school four nights a week for ten weeks. Again.

All this free time and I've got nothing exciting planned out...but I am working on it.

I am determined to:

• not let this time off waste away
• not have sitting around catching up on all the episodes of LOST, Grey's Anatomy and 30 Rock that I've missed be the most exciting thing that I do
• dig my bike out of the garage and spend some time with it on one of the many trails by our house
• not freak out about turning 29 next week
• get in some quality time with The Robster
• hit a bucket or two of balls at the driving range
• finally drop off all those boxes marked GOODWILL that have been taking up space in our garage for the past year and a half

If I even get two of these crossed off my list, I will be happy! I know, I know...I am such an under overachiever.

From '09 to '10, Utah style

OK, so I have finally gotten around to posting about our little jaunt down to Utah to celebrate the new year. I flew down to Utah the day after we returned from Canada while Rob responsibly returned to work before joining us at 'Party Central' down in Utah a few days later.

The morning after the big snow (Tuesday AM maybe??) we ventured out into the white mess to have breakfast at Beez Cafe. I was nervous about driving in the snow, so Jordan carefully chauffeured me around.

Originally Rob and I planned to ring in the new year in Park City, but we got frightened off by the idea of driving in all the snow that had fallen up there, so we cancelled that reservation and re-booked at a hotel down in Salt Lake, a land of less snow. But alas, more snow fell all around and we wussed out of our Salt Lake plans as well.

Lucky us, we ended up spending New Year's Eve at the party house with my family making homemade pizzas, playing games and bangin' pot n' pans outside at midnight. It was fantastic...although I had to get my NYE smooch inside, because Rob was too cold to come out and celebrate with us in the snow. I don't know that he'll ever get used to the snow. ☺

After sleeping in, we all celebrated Mom's New Year Day Birthday with a yummy lunch and then an evening of Galactic Bowling...oooooh! It was lots of fun and I almost broke 100. Almost. I think that there was more goofing around and picture taking than actual bowling taking place.

Erika thought our goober car was super cool and wanted to ride along with Rob and I wherever we went, so she also got roped into a grocery stop. It actually turned out to be pretty fun because they had mini shopping carts and she was all business about loading it up. She found a juice that had Hannah Montana on the front of it and just had to get a picture with it!

We spent a lot of time just hanging out at Ryan & Melanie's. It was really nice to just relax with everyone! We sure did miss Jason & Courtney's family though!!

A few noteworthy but picture free highlights include:

• A double date with Ry & Mel. Dinner at Tepanyaki and saw It's Complicated. SO funny!!
• Discovering the deliciousness that is Cafe Rio with Tyler. Yum-my. I wish we had them in WA!
• Playing The Game of Things...thanks for introducing us to it Anne!
• Melanie and I had a girlie night...dinner and New Moon. Yes, I saw it again. And will probably see it another time or two. ☺
• Going through some boxes of stuff I left at Mom & Dad's when I moved out. Great finds, I tell ya...old clothes (Oshman's and Dilly Dally shirts), dance pictures (eek!) and a Leonardo DiCaprio poster.

  Good times, good times.

'To do' really means 'I'm not doing it'

I've had the exact same to do list for months...and have yet to cross a single thing off of it! Here's a little taste:

• Clean out my car - my trunk is so full, I can barely fit my bags in when I go to the grocery store.
  
• Drop off bags at Goodwill - there is about a five or six square foot patch of garage that is taken up by stuff I keep meaning to take to Goodwill (which I pass three times a week!), but I just can't bring myself to load it up...which also goes back to my last task...I don't have room for it anyways. The pile is growing too...pretty soon Rob won't be able to fit into the garage!
  
• Clean out the fireplace. It's still full of ashes. And not ashes from logs...it burned my old bills instead of shredding them. I thought it was a great idea, but turns out it made a HUGE mess. Rob was not happy!

I am hoping to use this long weekend to tackle a task or two, but I will most likely keep up my streak. I'd be better off paying someone else to do it...that's the only way it will happen. So, who wants to make $20?

It's a REAL sickness

I stayed home sick today, but I was having the hardest time resting. Probably because we spent almost our entire four day weekend lounging around. Although we did brave the mall for a few hours of shopping yesterday.

This morning I realized that I was really sick of sitting in bed and wanted to get up and do something. Then it hit me...we have so much crap that we do not need. I started pulling clothes out of closets, books off of shelves, empty unused picture frames out of the garage and stacking it all into bags and boxes to drop off at Goodwill. After the big rush died down a little bit, I noticed that I had not packed up as much stuff as I thought I would have. Turns out I have a hard time parting with things, even if I have not used it for years (and probably wouldn't use for a few more!). I really should get rid of that stuff, right?

So my first stop of round two was the storage bins under the beds...my purses! It was actually pretty exciting to go through them because I had forgotten that I had some of them and was looking forward to using them. Needless to say, I had gotten off track! It brought me back to a comment Rob made yesterday while I was searching for a new purse at Macys. How many purses do you REALLY need? I quickly dismissed his comment...what does he know about purses!?! Besides, I really don't have that many.

Or so I thought...

After counting, I was completely stunned to find out that I have thirty-eight...that's right - 38 purses! Now that doesn't even include laptop bags or travel totes! Well, he is right...I definitely don't need that many purses. But now the hard part is deciding which ones I don't absolutely have to have.

I then had a Carrie moment when I realized that the cost of all of these purses could have covered my student loans. No more purses for me. Well, not in the near future at least. :)

What a mess! I should have just stayed in bed and been sick.