Man, what a BUSY week this was! Between dinners for clients, having people over, and getting stuff ready for a yard sale that we didn’t know was going to be pushed back another week AGAIN, I was busy almost every night.
All day, the big S word came up in conversation. Weather.com kept going back and forth between snow starting at 9, or midnight, or 3AM…For once, it started EARLIER than they predicted, and flurries started falling downtown around 4:30. One I was done grocery shopping, there was a little more, and when I got home, it was full blown snow.
Today, I did my first big grocery trip based solely around coupons and sales instead of just getting things we need. I’m really pushing myself to get into this instead of using coupons here and there so we’ll have more money to pay off bills and move.
I spent just over $120 but saved over $80 between sales and coupons. I’m so proud, and can’t wait to see those numbers reverse.
All night, it snowed and iced over so that our road was impossible to travel on. It’s pretty steep, and any attempt to leave would have been futile. At the crack of dawn, the nieces and nephews were sledding, so we joined in near dinner time. We had planned to have a yard sale as part of our downsizing, but obviously it didn’t happen. We spent most of the day playing No More Heroes 2 until the kids coaxed us to join them. It was SO much fun!
Matt came over later and went sledding with us. When his truck slid several feet down our driveway, he moved it to level ground across the street and decided to stay the night.
On Sunday, Clay and Heidi came over for dinner. Our street was still bad for most of the day with cars struggling to leave, but the sun finally shined its rays on the pavement and it melted pretty quickly. I made a yummy white bean chili and bought a cake (that we didn’t eat!) and Clay and Heidi brought home made corn bread and a salad. It was delicious! Afterward, we played Cranium until after 10, and it was so much fun.
This is a sample of one of the activities. I was trying to draw without speaking or writing words and Kyle was trying to guess what action I was drawing. All my drawings looked like people getting molested. The word was “frisk.”
Copying Sara, I started knitting a very simply cover for the back of our toilet. I had never heard of it, and loved the idea; Sara’s looked so good! I didn’t have any yarn to match our shower curtain perfectly (the beige there sort of does, but I wanted more color in it) but that’s okay. I’m so excited to use this in the new apartment, and am still trying to decide if I should save it for the new place. :)
I am not a big fan of leftovers, but found myself happily chowing down on leftover chili and cornbread from dinner with Clay and Heidi.
Ice still covered a lot of the ground, and I spend the first few days of the week listening to city workers chipping away at the sidewalks. Our city is sooo not built for this.
Every couple of months, my company does a training session for three days where clients come from all over the US and Canada to learn about the shredding industry. The first night they are there, we have vast amounts of barbecue delivered to the brewery our company owns, RJ Rockers, and we serve them dinner. They eat and drink our beer and hopefully brag about it when they go home. It’s always fun.
For the first time, we had a vegetarian client, so I had to get some food for him elsewhere because the only thing he could eat was the coleslaw (which is all I ever nibble on). This gave me an excuse to ask for some other food myself, and I was permitted to get some Thai food for both me and the client. Yay!
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I’m not listing day 35 this week. It was taken at dinner with the clients, and I stupidly put all the photos on my work computer. There wasn’t a single good one of me, and I wish I realized that before today when I uploaded them, but there are still a couple of them. Next week, I’ll post 8 photos, days 35-42. :)
As a bonus, however, I will share a picture of the yummy breakfast that I get from Groucho’s. :) If you haven’t been for breakfast yet, you really need to go. Ashley is a sweetheart and is half the reason why I like walking down there in the morning.

You should really click on the picture and view it large in all of it’s melty-cheesy glory.


















































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