Well, I had a really fun weekend. I took Friday off, and Thursday afternoon I met up with mom in Weatherford for a weekend of shopping in Austin. We left early Friday morning and stopped by Shawn & Emma's to get a tour of their digs. Boy, is that place nice! We had a nice little visit with them, and then it was time to pound the pavement and find some good deals. We were seriously at stores from the time they opened until the time they closed on Friday and Saturday. We had so much fun! Our first stop was Ikea, where I found some cute area rugs for the guest bedrooms, some curtains for our room, and a few kitchen things (this was my first Ikea experience, and I'm hooked). Then it was on to the outlet mall in Round Rock where I found some clothes. Next we went and checked in to our hotel and went to our favorite Chinese restaurant, Twin Lion, for dinner. Not to waste any time, we then headed to the Arboretum for more shopping, and finally, the Gateway shopping center where they have a Crate & Barrel (first time in one of those too), an Ulta, and various other stores. Well, we still hadn't gotten our fix, but they were shooing us out and locking the doors, so we decided it might be time for us to go to sleep. On Saturday we headed out to the mall and then went to my favorite Mexican restaurant ever for lunch, Trudy's. After that we went to a few local Austin stores further south, and headed out of town around 5:00. On the way back to Weatherford we stopped at the outlet mall in Hillsboro where I found my prize item, a beautiful Kitchenaid Artisan mixer, and I got a great deal on it...less than 50% of what the regular price had been of the one I saw earlier in the day at Macy's. I've already used it twice and I love it! Anyway I was joking earlier about them turning off the lights and locking the doors, but this really did happen to us just as I was finding some really cute stuff to try on at the Gap outlet. Not to be discouraged when they turned off a light, I ran to the dressing room. It was a good thing I did because I got some really good deals there too on some cute stuff. I got back on Sunday in time to pick Chad up from the airport. It was really good to see him after not seeing him for a week.
This week has been a good one. Things are dying down at school, and spring is in the air, which means everyone is in a relatively better mood. We have a 4 day week this week with a teacher workday on Friday. I get one teacher workday off this year because I'm a UIL coach, and I was originally going to take this Friday off, but I decided that I will take one off later in the year and use this Friday as a day to get caught up, wrap up some yearbook stuff, and plan my curriculum for the rest of the year.
Lastly, we are excited because we have a brand new internet service provider. I know, fascinating. This is what people without kids have to talk about on their blogs. Anyway, I didn't know until about two weeks ago that you can get DSL and not have a landline...did you know that? Well, you should have told me! Since Chad & I only have cell phones we didn't want to put up the extra dough for a landline just so we could have better internet, so we suffered with stinky wireless for 6 months until I finally found something affordable and fast! So now we are up and running with our DSL and Chad can actually take his practice tests at home without "a network cable being unplugged" every 5 minutes. Woo hoo!
That's it from here. Chad has his 5th test tomorrow...we'll keep you updated of course!
**Update...Chad passed his test yesterday with an A...only two more to go.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Well, I figured since it's Saturday I better post since I have the time. Not much has been going on around here, just the usual. We had a good week. Thursday night (Valentine's Day) we had a few couples over from church for dinner and then we all went to a play at Tech. The play was written by a guy in our small group who is getting his Master's in playwriting from Tech. Anyway, it was being produced all week so we all decided to go on Thursday. It was really good and funny. (I know, I should be a play critic with insightful comments like that).
We are almost finished with our 4th yearbook deadline, with only one left after that. I'll have workdays every day next week until it (the 4th DL) gets done. I can almost taste the sweet satisfaction of completing the yearbook. Once the middle of March rolls around, it will be done, and all we have to do then is wait for them to print it and deliver it, and -oh yeah- plan next year's book.
Hmm...what else is there to tell...oh yeah, we got our new mattress. Some of you out there in blogging world may not care (especially the random people I don't know out there who read this blog), but we have wanted to buy a new mattress for a really long time, and it's not just any mattress, it's a Tempurpedic. Yes, that's right, we paid way too much money for the privilege of sleeping on marshmallows. Seriously though, we've had it for two days, and so far it has been super comfortable and worth every penny. So for those of you out there who have thought about buying one of these and just haven't brought yourself to do it yet, we can attest that it really is worth the money, as much as we know about it so far.
Yes, just another exciting week in the Montandon household. Hope everyone has a good weekend.
We are almost finished with our 4th yearbook deadline, with only one left after that. I'll have workdays every day next week until it (the 4th DL) gets done. I can almost taste the sweet satisfaction of completing the yearbook. Once the middle of March rolls around, it will be done, and all we have to do then is wait for them to print it and deliver it, and -oh yeah- plan next year's book.
Hmm...what else is there to tell...oh yeah, we got our new mattress. Some of you out there in blogging world may not care (especially the random people I don't know out there who read this blog), but we have wanted to buy a new mattress for a really long time, and it's not just any mattress, it's a Tempurpedic. Yes, that's right, we paid way too much money for the privilege of sleeping on marshmallows. Seriously though, we've had it for two days, and so far it has been super comfortable and worth every penny. So for those of you out there who have thought about buying one of these and just haven't brought yourself to do it yet, we can attest that it really is worth the money, as much as we know about it so far.
Yes, just another exciting week in the Montandon household. Hope everyone has a good weekend.
Monday, February 04, 2008
It's been a few days
Well, things are going well here. Chad took another test on Saturday and yep, you guessed it, he passed with an A. He is now on to his fifth test. He also just bought all the wood to build his climbing wall in our shed, so he's been working on that the past few days as well. As of today he has a cold, so he might be moving a little more slowly until he gets over it.
My weekend was good. My team won first place in Glen Rose, and I got to see my friend Larry from college. It was good to hang out with him and good that my team won, but not good that one of the buses broke down while we were in Glen Rose so we all had to pile on one bus for the 6 hour ride home. Anyway, the trip was fine except for that, and me being tired pretty much all the time from all the UIL events and yearbook deadlines that are running my life at the moment.
Yesterday we also went to a Superbowl party after our small group Bible study, and it was an evening filled with food, games, football teams I don't care about, and hanging out with friends.
That brings me to today. I finally got our plane tickets booked for our vacation this summer, so that's exciting. Only four more months until school's out! I won't start counting down the days quite yet (too depressing) but I am looking forward to summer, or at least spring break.
My weekend was good. My team won first place in Glen Rose, and I got to see my friend Larry from college. It was good to hang out with him and good that my team won, but not good that one of the buses broke down while we were in Glen Rose so we all had to pile on one bus for the 6 hour ride home. Anyway, the trip was fine except for that, and me being tired pretty much all the time from all the UIL events and yearbook deadlines that are running my life at the moment.
Yesterday we also went to a Superbowl party after our small group Bible study, and it was an evening filled with food, games, football teams I don't care about, and hanging out with friends.
That brings me to today. I finally got our plane tickets booked for our vacation this summer, so that's exciting. Only four more months until school's out! I won't start counting down the days quite yet (too depressing) but I am looking forward to summer, or at least spring break.
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