It's the weekend! It's the weekend!
C, facebook is super fun and easy! You don't have to be friends with people that you don't want to be -- I have rejected friend requests and the nice thing is that the person doesn't ever know that you have rejected it -- well, except that their friend request is never accepted.
How's everyone else this evening?
Good morning, gnomies! It is gorgeous here in CT. Already warm enough to have the windows open and it's only 8:30!
Well apparently I do have a twitter account b/c LL and Paula are now "following" me. Not that there is anything to follow since I a) don't know how to do an update and b) nothing much really goes on to update about!
It will be fun to get updates about WDW though.
LL- how did the gnome conversation go with your mom?
What does everyone have planned for the weekend?
Good Morning, C! I saw that you were following me. I'm trying to talk myself out of buying a camera phone today. I just keep thinking about sending Disney pictures.....I've become obsessed. My current phone has no camera.
I don't really have anything planned, just getting organized for Disney and maybe some house cleaning.
The gnome conversation went fine. I think she thinks I'm a freak.
Not to enable you or anything but pictures would be awesome! Maybe we can take up a collection and the camera enabled phone can travel to WDW along with Nobby anytime anyone is going. 
Well, how much would a camera phone be?
Well I guess between food porn and Nobby all of your Disney secrets are out with your mom now!
I found one last night for $50. I just have a prepaid phone so the phones are not super fancy but they do have them with cameras. I'm trying really hard to be good.
I think I am going to hold off. I think texts will be pretty awesome.Wow. I was expecting you to say a lot more. But still $50. Think of the souvies you could buy. Or the food. Or the champagne.
Woo Hoo for crowd level 5. I am getting more and more excited for gnomefest! For some reason it feels much more real now that we are less than a year away.Well, we went from 85 and sunny yesterday to 58 and rainy today, UGH! I don't think we have any big plans this weekend. I'm going to hit the gym this morning and there is laundry to do
Monday April 26, 2010 - Crowd Level 5
It's so much smaller than I'm used to...more similar to what my old hosp was like 10 years ago when I started. Since it's small there is very little 'automation' so it's back to basics...recording things by hand...actually SEEING nurses/therapists/anesthetists again...it's fun, reminds me why I went into Hospital pharmacy in the 1st place
But after a pot of coffee, 2 Sudafed, and 3 motrin...i felt like me again 
) for Allison's States Meet next weekend... she competes Sunday afternoon. The scores are posted from the other sectional meets now...there's 2 girls that beat her score...but since there were different judges...we will have to see how it all pans out next week. I don't expect her to 'win' anything...but I'm hoping she at least medals in the AA, Beam and Floor....that would be awesome She has the highest Beam score from Sectionals, going in.... but I have the feeling that the one little girl may have fell (all her scores were crazy high but that one) and if she did she 'at least' would have tied Allison (maybe squeeked past even) But regardless, she has a pretty good shot at it...if she doesn't get herself all worked up like she did last year It's nice and warm...but cloudy...I think there's a chance of showers. I want to go get more mulch for my gardens
What a great feeling to really like what you're doing!! on the girls not thinking you were as mean this week!
You worked super fast on that twitter account!
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so after my last note, I went upstairs to read a bit then very quickly started to get dizzy (my inner ear condition must be flaring up) so I took a 1 1/2 hour nap and now am finally getting some food but I think I will just lay low for the day. I took some medicine for the dizzyness that works really well but usually takes a good part of a day for full effect. So much for getting to the gym today. Using treated wood would be $7-8 grand . The porches are NOT large and Greg thinks the materials won't cost more than $2000 so I think he is leaning toward doing them himself unless the other contractor comes back with a much better estimate. It's pretty big...runs the length of the house (50 ft x 10ft...give or take) We are having the floor replaced and the posts replaced. We are then having railings and bullisters put in (it's currently open with no railings). We are also going to have them put in new steps with matching bannisters too. The grand total is 5.6K... We're using a contractor and all treated wood (my house is 100 yrs old...I think the composite/vinyl stuff would take away from the house rather than add to it) And our contrator is designing the rails/bannisters himself, since what I want is very old fashioned and not commercially available Even if i didn't...Tom's certainally not competant to BUILD ANYTHING so we're stuck with contractor prices
I'm enjoying being outside...but wheeling around mulch is too tiring in this heat I may need to finish later tonight after I drop Allison at her friends house for a sleepover birthday party.
wow Paula, you got a WAY better price than we are getting! Greg came back from the store and informed me that he can get the composite materials for around $4,000. We're going to wait and see what the second contractor has to say but if it is a matter of saving 6-7 grand, Greg will be doing the work himself!! We're already looking at 9 grand for the heating/AC units
The real estate agent thinks we'll get about 20 thousand more for the house than what we paid for it 9 years ago. I don't even want to THINK about how much we have invested, much more than 20 grand, that's for sure!
After about 1K in paint and cleaning supplies...I increased the sale value of our house an easy 10-15K...seriously...it's crazy! I feel we got our house for a steal... 91K for 6 bedrooms and 3000 square feet. Even though we are 'outside the main towns' which brings down the sale price...we got it so low, cause no one wanted to deal with the clean-up disaster!! than what we have spent.) If I get the chance...I'll post a few 'before and after" pics ...in many ways it is hard to believe it's even the same house
