Long Weekend

We have tried to really make the best of the last long weekend of the summer.

Friday- we signed the purchase and sales agreement on our new house. Then we just hung out at home, watched some baseball and went to bed early after a crazy stressful couple of weeks.

Saturday- we slept in a bit. Went to my sisters so she could cut DH's hair, went to the grocery store and came back home and watched some baseball.

Sunday- we went to the beach and it was really windy! So we decided to head to my sisters house (with a pool) and spent the rest of the day there drinking rum punch and enjoying the pool. I overindulged in the rum punch and went to bed as soon as we got home.

Monday- we slept in again. We paid the bills and gave our landlord notice that we're moving out. Then we took the dogs for a hike at a local reservation. Finally, we went to my sisters for a labor day BBQ and we headed home early to relax a bit for work tomorrow.

YAY for 4 day work weeks!!

Noooo the weekend can't be over!!

I still have so much to do to get ready for tomorrow. I am actually helping to run a meeting I did not know I was involved in so there goes 1.5 hours in the morning that I thought I'd have to prep for some training I'm doing in the afternoon. So frustrating!!

I am proud to say that I did not do any work related stuff on Friday (other than the interview), and although I did a little work yesterday I managed to work in about 5 hours of beach time! I so missed the beach, grad school was in a landlocked state and I only saw the beach maybe 3-4 times during my 4 years there. On my list of things I must have for the next move is less than 1 hour commute to the ocean, preferably the Atlantic!

I'm probably going to do some job search stuff tonight too. After the interview flop on Friday and the fact that I haven't heard anything from job interview #1 in 2 weeks I'm starting to feel a little antsy about not having applied for anything in about a month.

I really want Sushi for dinner. I hope I can convince DH that it's a good idea.

Sunday Morning Laziness

I starting this morning by sitting on my deck, with a cup of coffee and my computer basking in the sun. I love when days start off like that. Reading blogs and email and just relaxing without a care in the world.

I decided that this was a no work weekend and it's just what I needed.

I got my massage and manicure yesterday and they were "eh". I was spoiled in Oct by a girls weekend that included a spa day at the most luxurious, professional and expensive spa I've ever been to. So yesterday could just not live up. I still have some $$ left on my gift certificate so I think I'll give them one more try but I have a feeling I'll be holding out for the more elaborate spas in the future.

We're off to my sisters to help them out with some yard work. I have a profession issue I'd like to blog about, it has to do with reviewing articles, but that will have to wait. Maybe tonight or tomorrow.

Random Ramblings

* Who the hell weedwacks at 8am on a Sunday, shouldn't you be at church so I can sleep!

* My throat is still scratchy, but it hasn't gotten worse so I'm betting on allergies over strept again.

* Grad Advisor (GA) wrote back to say they're going out of town so I sent my paper to my undergrad mentor (UM) to read in the mean time. I'm annoyed about this but really don't have a right to be. I'll get good feedback from UM and then hopefully GA can make minimal changes and we'll get this paper submitted.

* It's beautiful out today, I'd like to get some exercise but the scratchy throat may pose a problem.