Extra Hour

Having an extra hour to sleep and an extra hour in the weekend with the time change was nice, although the darkness of night setting in an hour earlier was not so nice. My "pic of the day" is of Paul with his head in the stocks at the Renaissance Festival that we went to a couple of weekends ago.

Weekend At Last

I arrived home exhausted after a really busy week filled with too many demands and too many commitments. I'm so thankful to have started my weekend and for it to be an extra hour long due to the time change.

Weekend Fun

My "pic of the day" is of a little fun that Paul and I had with his friend Ben at the Renaissance Fair last weekend.

Central Missouri Renaissance Festival

We spent the afternoon at the Central Missouri Renaissance Festival. So my "pic of the day" is of one of the performances we watched. This one was actually of some belly dancers, which didn't quite fit the "renaissance" theme but fun to watch nonetheless. We couldn't have asked for better weather, as it was a beautiful fall afternoon and very sunny with temps in the mid 70's.

Three Day Weekend

Tonight is the start of my Three Day Birthday Weekend!

Summer Storms

My "pic of the day" is inspired by all the green vegetation that has sprouted up from the rain, hot temps and humidity which has created a nice "greenhouse effect." Late this afternoon we had a summer storm that rolled through our area and cooled us down to the upper 70s.

Hot Weekend

It was another very hot summer day with a heat index in the 100's. This evening we braved the heat and humidity to attend the grand opening of Stephen Lake Park's amphitheatre which featured a family theatre performance and music from the community band. Outside of that we had a pretty quiet day trying to catch up from the week. My "pic of the day" is from another recent hot day that we spent blowing bubbles.

Weekend Fun

Paul and I made a new friend today from our 20's & 30's Meet-Up group, as we had a new person come over as part of the group to an event we had scheduled to watch the World Cup Soccer game (England vs. USA). After the game we played the Wii version of Trivial Pursuit. It's been a pretty peaceful day (minus the mid-afternoon thunderstorm) so that's why I chose the pic of a peaceful nature seen that I took several years ago.

Journey

My "pic of the day" is of our neighborhood geese and their goslings that were passing through our apartment complex one morning toward their day's quest. I noticed them while I was getting ready for work. This picture reminds me that each day is a new adventure full of surprises as we go along our journey. This weekend Paul and I are on a small journey of our own, at least doing something out of the ordinary.

Frustration

Today marked the start of summer welcome and the freshmen/transfer student orientation and advising sessions for the next month at work. It was a busy a day. I have tomorrow off for a 3 day weekend, and I came home disappointed that I had been delayed at work for an additional hour. Then one weird thing ran into another and three hours passed at home with frustration and tears. Hopefully now we are back on track to start off our weekend on the right foot. My "pic of the day" is another photo from the Botantical Garden.

Slow Day

The weekend was waaaay too short. We had some time to watch a movie this afternoon which was nice, and talk about things that we want to work on as a couple. We also watched the final three teams enter the Amazing Race finale. I just wish I had one more down day to get to feeling even better before heading back to work. My "pic of the day" is of some funky weather clouds left over today from all the rain we had this weekend.

Fever

Sorry, no pic today because I'm too sick. I came home from work and my temp was about 100 at 6:30 p.m. and rose to 102 by 8 p.m. I slept and broke my fever down a bit to 101.4 by 10 pm. I'm really sick with bronchitis and I would say a sinus infection in addition. This illness came just as I was scheduled to be off from Wed. - Mon. The last time I was scheduled to be off for fun and relaxation I became really sick too, do we see a pattern? So much for resting up and enjoying a few things before work gets busy again.

Declutter

Paul had a wedding to shoot this evening and I wasn't feeling well so instead of going to a get together I was invited to, I decided to stay home and rest. However, I started decluttering areas that had been accumulating for months and one thing lead to another and I realized I spent 3.5 hours decluttering and cleaning! That was in addition to the work I did earlier today when I read research articles and worked on my annotated bibliography and reflection journal for the teaching internship I'm enrolled in this semester. I no more than warmed some food and put my feet up this evening when Paul came home from the wedding reception. Not exactly the restful evening I had in mind.

Weekend begins

My "pic of the day" is of the sprigs of green grass that were clumped together in patches across campus this week. We had a warm day, but it's shortlived with a cold front coming in for the weekend.

This morning started busy, but at about 2:30 the traffic in our office slowed and I was able to answer some of my emails. Since we've been working so hard and so many hours recently, our boss actually threatened to fire us if we did NOT leave by 4, lol. I left at 4:15 and enjoyed a walk around our apartment complex, went to the store and then had to grade some papers. How long the evening feels when it's not 7 or 8 when one gets home! We just started the movie, "Did You Heard About the Morgans?" when I realized that I hadn't completed my blog for today, so here it is.