For you loyal readers (THANKS MUCHOS)…here’s the weekend update. As you read, right before this, I started my monologueing and wooshed right over my weekend. I did a bit better on the photo logging, with the exception of Saturday.
Our nephew slept over Friday night and it was X-box’ing, a movie and then to bed for the 3 of them. Then getting out of bed at 4am Saturday morning when I hear 2 sets of feet trying to creep around the house completely unaware that our creaky floor is practically saying “HEY YOU KIDS GET BACK TO BED BEFORE SHE WAKES UP!”. Did they listen to that floor? Heck no! So who do you think had to get out of her warm bed to flick on the kitchen light and tell them “I see the top of your head poking out the side of the ottoman – get back in bed”. Jeesh! I don’t know what they thought they were going to do since they didn’t turn on any lights AND they went into the family room instead of the room where the X-box is. Weirdos.
After waking up at a normal hour (630am, UGH) and finishing up my circuit workout, I whipped up a huge batch of scrambled eggs, turkey bacon (SMELLS SO GOOD) and hashbrowns for the 4 dudes in the house. I whipped myself up a protein pancake topped with blueberries and ate the leftover 1/2 bacon from HunBun. Since I’m such an awesome home-maker (insert snarky smirk here), I didn’t realize I had no milk until I went to pour some for the boys at breakfast. Oh well…GATORADE for all! 🙂
They went back to the X-box while I did my favorite chore of all time – CLEANING BATHROOMS – Super Bleah!
About noon nephew’s mom and lil bro came over to pick him up…and spend some time hanging out in the backyard while HunBun did his most favorite chore of all time – CLEANED THE YARD.
That’s what she said…HA HA!
After the visitors left it was errand time. Needed to get some groceries, pick up some (cheap) nice black dress pants, black dress shoes and a long sleeved button white shirt for 12yo and his upcoming Band performance (for 3rd graders no less) and some butt cushions for our wooden dining room seats (as HunBun has complained numerous times about his aching booty after sitting there when working from home). So that meant a drive to the Fremont Hub to hit up Bed, Bath & Beyond, Target, Trader Joe’s and Safeway! Love the convenience!
So our erranding was successful UNTIL I left 12yo & 10yo in the car while I went to grab the last few things from Safeway. When I came back to the car guess what happened? Give up? (I about did too) That darn car wouldn’t start up!!! SUPER ARGH! I calmly (I think it was calmly) asked the boys what they had running while I was in the store…radio, a/c, gps screen. So I just pulled out my roadside assistance card, gave them a call and was told someone would be out to assist me in about 30 minutes. After about 40 minutes the assister called me and said he’s been looking for us in the parking lot. So I explained where we were (a lot more complex than it should have been) we spotted his white van…flagged him down (because apparently he still didn’t see us)…he popped the hood…pulled out his little jumping box…gave us a zap and we started right up. WHEW! We got on our way and both boys apologized for using the battery power while I was in the store (pretty sweet of them)..and I said “hey you couldn’t have known and we got to spend time together”.
You gotta cherish those little pieces of time while those boys are still young enough to want to hang out with their mom. 🙂
And that was just my Saturday! Why do I think my life is so boring? 😀
Sunday started with a Meetup group run…except for the fact that there was no one else meeting up AND I dropped my dang Nano while waiting for apparently no one to show up! You can barely see (but I can totally see) the spiderweb that is now in the top corner of my screen. CURSES! I was so irritated I just started running…but had to stop cause that dumb Nano lady started telling me what song I was listening to from what playlist. Are you kidding me? Didn’t I shut you off? So I had to stop and go through every single setting to figure out why the heck she started blabbering at me again. Finally after clicking through every – and I mean every – setting on that thing I finally clicked on “Male” then “Off” and she shut her yap. I used all that annoying energy to haul patootie down the trail – throwing in some speed intervals with walking. I got up to a 8min mile pace and ended at an 8:30min mile pace – pretty sweet – maybe I should tick myself off before every race? 🙂 I didn’t run very far – I think just 2.5 miles since I had stuff to do at home.
I’m reconsidering the drive out to my Meetup group Sunday runs. It’s about a 30 min drive there and back…and not to be a complete cheap-o…with the gas prices where they are at (I filled up at $4.45 on Friday – and that was the cheapest station!) I may need to reconsider my plan. I’ve got a perfectly good neighborhood to run around in on Sundays. Maybe I’ll just do every other week or once a month at Campbell and the rest will be pounded out around home. Decisions Decisions.
I did try out a new watch I got in support of Breast Cancer awareness. Heartmonitors.com had a special announced on Active.com for a deal on one of their GPS watches. Took me a little while to figure out but certainly a bit smaller than my Garmin plus it comes with a watch function so you can actually use it as a watch if you’re into the fitness look. I thought you could track your steps with it but I’ll have to look up the detail on the interweb as they post the user manual there.
After I got home I felt like a superstar 1950’s housewife….not because I wore a dress and pearls around the house but because I was a baking fiend (and that’s what Barbara Billingsly would be doing for the Beaver)! I picked up a mini-donut pan at BB&B on Friday and made some gluten free donuts for breakfast. I put too much nutmeg because they tasted like gingerbread…and looked like dog turds (but that’s not because of the nutmeg – HA). The “poo” appearance was because 10yo and I put too much mix in each of the little pan holes and they poofed up and over. Hey every minute a lesson is learned…and ours that morning was not to overfill the mini-donut pan (or maybe it was follow the directions that said “do not fill more than 1/2 way”).
Soy MIsto and Homey Donuts
Before I left for my run I threw some chicken breasts and Stubb’s BBQ sauce into the ol crock pot and turned that whiz bang gadget on. The entire house smelled DE-licious all day long.
10yo and 12yo came (were dragged) along with me to the Verizon store to activate 10yo’s replacement cell. That kid is on his 4th phone already. Keeps losing the dang things. I laid the law down this time (I think) and said if he’s not talking on it, the phone is in his backpack pocket or on the charger at home. We’ll see how far the law goes with that one. I need to find a cheap replacement for 12yo’s phone that went swimming in the ocean when they were in Hawaii this summer. I’m checking around before I break down and buy one from the store. Cheese balls these kids! Already expensive and all these bonus buys just add up!
To finish up the day, I whipped up some gluten free bisquick biscuits to go along with the BBQ chicken for dinner. I didn’t have enough shortening so I threw in some Heart Balance spread to make up the difference. So yummy…especially with the drizzle of honey I put all over my 2 biscuits. Slurp-ur-rific!
Verizon store waste…Lunch Wrap…GF Biscuits
We had the World Series on and learned later that the Giants won (I don’t know what I was doing instead of watching – going through my stack of magazines maybe?) Then learned that a bunch of dopes in the city decided to “celebrate” by burning stuff in the middle of the streets in the Mission. Turds!
And now you’re caught up from my weekend. Hope your’s was as adventurous!
See ya later!
Cathy
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