Lazy day

Mary Poppins was awesome!

Mo Pro Joe was a lot of work, but really awesome!

Today I did as little as possible.

Better post tomorrow, I promise.

Random thought/fact for the day: The quesadilla from Freebirds is very messy!

Bonus fact: The movie "Dance Flick" is ridiculously lame. Turned it off after about 20mins.


-- Posted from my iPhone

Single moments

A precious friend of mine has a running tab on her blog of reasons she needs a husband. I keep coming up with moments when I feel extremely single. So, I think this will be my running list that I sporadically add to.

Single moment #1: When the man taking pictures for the church directory tells me to get my family together and come take our picture. Dude, you're looking at my family!

Single moment #2: When eating dinner with all couples and when the check comes, telling the waitor everyone is paired up, except you, you'll be on a ticket by yourself!

Single moment #3: After church on Sunday when your normal lunch buddy is out and you don't have a built in person to eat lunch with.

Random thought/fact for the day: When I order potatoe skins at a restaurant, I use sour cream, ranch dressing and ketchup. Yes, all in one bite.

-- Posted from my iPhone

...quick post...

I've been trying my best to not just give you totally lame posts, just to fill the nablopomo daily requirement, but today, I regret to inform you, that's all you're going to get. For you see, I'm off to "The Show." A dear friend of mine and I like to go to "The Show" together. Tonight, our feature event is Mary Poppins!!! I couldn't be more excited! I've heard the reviews are just wonderful! So, yes, you can expect a report, maybe not tomorrow, but for sure at some point this weekend I'll be sure to update you!

Yeah, and sorry, tomorrow's post might not be terribly thrilling, as I'm helping with a fundraiser for Aid Sudan...check it out at their website, here. If you're in the Houston area, you should join us! The event is called Mo Pro Joe. It raises money to send Sudanese missionaries back to Sudan! It's going to have a nice coffee shop feel to it, and yes, I might have something to do with the ambiance of it all, seeing as how a few of my friends and I are the "room set up and decor team." It starts at 7pm tomorrow night at the Tallowood Center Worship Center. Call me for details or look at the website.

Random thought/fact of the day: Don't go to the post office unless you have a minimum of 30-45 minutes to stand in line and wait to buy a few specialty stamps. The postal workers don't care how long the line is and are in no hurry to get you in and out of there in a timely manner.

...spontaneous trip...

Next Tuesday my boss, her husband and I will road trip to Corpus Christi!!! I'm pretty excited!

Here's the deal. When we moved into our new building with all new furniture, we had A. LOT. of furniture to give away. Several churches came and claimed their portion of the furniture. One of the churches that we had set aside some furniture for was a church in Corpus. For the past 18 months, we have stored the furniture for them, waiting for them to find a time and money to get a truck up to Houston to get the furniture.

It hasn't been a huge deal, so we have continued to store the furniture. Anyway, long story short, the place where we are storing the furniture is being rented out and now we really have to get rid of the furniture. I told my friend from the church, if they couldn't come get the furniture soon, we'd have to give it to someone else. She understood and said we should probably just let someone else have it. As sad as this made me, I didn't think we had another choice.

When I told my boss that we needed to find another church or group that could use the remaining furniture, she was equally as sad. She suggested that we pay for the cost of renting a van/truck for them to come get the furniture. Then we began dreaming about us driving a van down there and personally delivering the furniture!!! Super fun!!!

So, that's what we're doing! We'll head out Tuesday after lunch, deliver the furniture, stay with my parents and then head back to Houston some time on Wednesday! This is a rather small church that will really be blessed by this furniture! I can't wait to help them set it up!

I can't wait to show Susan and Joe a little bit of where I grew up! I'm sure I'll do a follow up post next week, with it being nablopomo and all...

Random thought/fact of the day: I'm very afraid that my Christmas shopping is going to sneak up on me!!! Trying to think ahead and spread out the spending...but it's so hard when you have a family as big as mine! Gotta get on it!

...returns & exchanges...

yesterday I ventured to the mall to attempt to make 2 returns.

The first return was more of a complaint. 2 months ago I purchased a new cover for my iphone. I am one that is fanatical about protecting my phone and therefore am willing to make an investment in a nice/good/sturdy cover for my phone. Yes, I consider $30 for a piece of plastic/rubber to be an investment. Well, not even 6 weeks after I had purchased said case, it had developed an air bubble and began pealing. I have been fed up with it and frustrated that the $30 case didn't even last 2 months! So, I took my damaged case into the apple store only to be told that since it is not an apple product they can only honor the normal 2 week policy on returned items. If I had an issue with the product, then I should contact the company, incase.

I went home, found the incase website and filed a complaint. I find it is much easier to be irate when typing than when speaking to a sales rep in the store. I heard back from them today, I will admit, I was impressed with their prompt response. They said that I would need to fill out an official product complaint form. I did so, but found out that I would have to have proof of purchase. I had already done a somewhat thorough search for the receipt and had no luck in finding it. But I did remember that apple offers to send you an email receipt. I had opted not to receive that email receipt, but figured they could look it up and resend me the receipt. So you best believe that I got on the phone to the apple store that I purchased the incase iphone cover from, they were extremely helpful and sent me the receipt in no time at all. So, I was able to fill out the form, complete with proof of purchase AND a picture of the faulty case and I'm hoping to hear back from them saying that they will replace the case...I'll let you know how it works out! I don't normally do something like this, so I was very proud of myself for going through all of those steps to see that I get my money's worth!

Return #2 was a sweater that my mom had purchased for me about a month ago when I went to Corpus. When I got it out to wear it a few weeks ago, I found some discoloration around the hemline. I took it back to Macy's to make a simple exchange. Just my luck, I could not find the same sweater. For some lame reason I wasn't in the mood to shop. I had them check the price and one lady told me it was valued at something around $17. I knew we had paid more for it than that, but not much, so I figured if I got $17 back, it was better than nothing. I looked around a few more minutes, but decided I would just get store credit and shop later. When I walked up to the counter it occurred to me that I had probably used my Macy's card to purchase the sweater. A different lady at the counter helping me than before, scanned the sweater and said yes, I had purchased it using a Macy's card and could get a full refund on the sweater. Apparently I had paid $27 for the sweater, with tax, that was $30 refund that was going to go back on my Macy's card. This was working out great...until shortly after the refund was made, it occurred to me that my mom had paid for the sweater and the $30 had just been refunded to HER card...ugh! I just tricked myself out of $30! If only I had been in the mood to shop and had decided to make an exchange rather than a return, then I would have had $30 put towards that purchase as opposed to put back on my mom's card. Dang it, stupid stupid stupid! You best believe I called my mom and told her she owed me $30, even though it was her $30 in the first place...haha, I guess she can just put it towards my birthday present next month!

Random thought or fact for the day: my dad and I talk on the phone more now that he's my fantasy football advisor than any other time in my life! We talk almost everyday about players to pick up, how my team is doing, did I win this week? what is my rank? Just a different way for him to be involved in my life, I guess!

...swap party...

Two weeks ago my friends & I had a swap party! A few of us had heard about it and wanted to give it a try. Here's the idea. We all have clothes/stuff that we never wear/use. Weather you lost weight, gained weight or redecorated a room, you know your closets are full of things that others could be enjoying! So we all cleaned out our closets and pooled together our shoes, purses, jewelry, tops, bottoms, movies, books and a few random housewares.

There are a few different ways that you can set it up. You can each bring your items and barter with each other, or you can give out tickets for each item you bring, making sure you only make a one-to-one exchange for every item you brought. We chose to make it a free for all, not worrying about if someone brought more than another person or if someone else left with more than you. Giving away stuff that you weren't using was enough benefit.

Here's some of our collection:

It was SUPER fun to see your friends get so excited about getting "new" pants or shirts or purses. I'm not sure if it always works this way, but we had a good range of sizes and things that no longer fit one person, looked GREAT on another friend! Seriously, a few of the girls walked out with several bags of loot! The whole process was just really fun, trying on clothes, making outfits, saying, "oh, this would look great on you, try it on!"

I've been carrying a purse I got at the swap and have gotten several compliments on it! I also just watched a movie that I picked up at the swap and thoroughly enjoyed it! I would highly recommend the swap, and if you decide to have one, invite me!

Random thought or comment for the day: I just found out tonight that my hair stylist lives right below me! Seriously! We ran into each other in the parking lot tonight! That reminds me, I need a haircut!

...first of many...

Today is the beginning of NaBloPoMo!!! I'm looking forward to reading other daily posts of friends that have accepted the nablopomo challenge. So if you're a blogger and hadn't thought about joining us in this month long marathon, please reconsider! It's really fun to have daily posts to read!

In case any of you were wondering, my annual Hallo"wii"n costume party was canceled :( So no fun pics to share this year, which would have been challenging anyways seeing as how I don't have a camera right now. But for those of you who were wondering, I was going to be an iphone! I was really excited about my costume and already purchased a few things to begin constructing it, but at the last minute, we had to cancel our party, for various reasons.

Last night my church tried a different version of a "Fall Festival", one that has been used at many churches for several years now, Trunk or Treat. Of course, trying something new usually takes some getting used to, but it was a huge hit! The cars looked great, the kids were cute and had a great time! Of course the inflatables were popular and everyone loves some cotton candy and popcorn on a night like last night. Oh, and the weather was AMAZING!!! Awesome night to spend outside!

OK, well, I'll be seeing you soon. Same time, same place, tomorrow! (Yeah, I know, I'm a nerd!)