I made a list for myself last night, of things I wanted to accomplish before I went to bed. I’ve gotten into this bad habit lately of eating dinner and then watching ET & ET Canada until 8 before cleaning the table and doing the dishes and then I get nothing done because I figure its too late to start anything.

After wasting little time and getting everything on my list done I felt so good! It is amazing how great you can feel when you’ve accomplished your goals for the day. I haven’t felt that in a while as things at work are slowing down and the motivation just isn’t there this week to accomplish anything. Plus, I somehow spent the entire day online yesterday and got very little done so I felt guilty with my lack of productivity.

Today Claudia and I will be heading down town to do some store research and some buying. It’s small fun things like this that excite me about my job, though they don’t happen as often as I would like. The boss is away until the end of the month, but once she is back we will start to prepare for the trip to LA which I will hopefully be a part of. Nothing is set in stone yet but there is a pretty good chance I will be accompanying Claudia down there in September.

I have an hour before we go so I should finish up the last few things I have on my desk. By the looks of it we are going to finish early and then I can head home with plenty of time to wash all the sheets and towels today! Woohoo!

I have the most amazing chicken marinating in the fridge right now and I can’t wait to BBQ it when Chad gets home! I’m also going to attempt to make couscous, though its stove top couscous and I don’t know if thats a good thing or a bad thing. Guess I will find out tonight!

My first day back at work and you know I am already hating it. So much can happen if you miss a day and I have no idea what the status of any of my projects are right now. I don’t know if people have answered the questions that were sent to me or if they are still hanging, waiting to be answered. My desk is a disaster, as usual, no respect. I don’t know why people can’t stop for a minute and put things back the way they were. As much as they are for others to use, they are technically mine, and they have been organized in a specific way. Thank you for ruining that. I’m in a bad Thursday morning mood. I don’t want to be here. If I feel like this after a week, who knows what I will feel like after a month in Italy.

It’s funny that my neck has felt pretty ok all week long and the one time it decides to be a huge pain in the ass is this morning. Thank you neck wound. I think its healing pretty well but the slice itself is itchy and sore. All the skin surrounding it is very sensitive to everything as well.

I spent the majority of my time off watching the food network. I am now obsessed with becoming an amazing cook. I found a bunch of really good recipies and watching the shows and watching how people actually do things really helps when you are clueless like me. I realized I use the wrong size of knife when I cut certain things whic is probably why I keep cutting myself. Maybe cutting chives with a giant butchers knife isn’t the best idea.

Not only did I spend way to much time watching cooking show but I was surprisingly productive. I mean, I had to take it easy and I rested lots, but sitting there doing nothing was driving me nuts so an hour here and an hour there I orgaized a few things. De-cluttered the bookshelves and Chads desk. I actually started working on one of my scrap books and finished it last night. Organized the deck garden a bit and now it just needs to be clean with soap and water and man strength before it is perfect. I did the laundry and washed the floor. It was good to get up and move around a bit, though I did have to take lots of breaks – naturally – but it worked out well.

Now I have a back log of work to do and organize and a back log of photos I need to upload onto my computer.

I painted my finger nails but forgot my toes. Who does that!?

I’m not as excited about today as I should be. Alicia isn’t here so I get to take over her job as photographer. If I was shooting a mannequin I probably wouldn’t be as nervous as I am about shooting the bosses daughter. Ok that just sounds weird. I’ve only ever used the camera to goof around, not to take professional photos. I barely even know how to work the thing. Ugh. I’m probably freaking out for nothing but oh well. Maybe I will go down there and clean everything up in preparation so I feel more settled. Everything about this place is a mess and it seems that I am the only one who ever cleans up and organizes anything. Yesterday I threw out a huge garbage bag full of coffee grinds and crap that was growing mold everywhere. Ummm healthy! I don’t even drink/make coffee. Sometimes it feels like I am the only one who cares enough to have a clean work space.

This tea has too much sugar.

So today is technically a Friday because I get tomorrow off, not Monday however like the cool people. I don’t have any plans for this weekend other then lots of church and family dinners, but that’s not stressful, its relaxing. I think the main thing I am going to spend my time doing this weekend is going through 2 years worth of photos and organize them and figure out how I am going to print them all to put them into photo albums. 2006 is done, but 2007 & 2008 are far from it. I need to start staying on top of this and print pictures right after events happen. Costco is going to be getting a lot of my money in the next little while!

I’ve done a really good job of maintaining cleanliness in the apartment this week. No more leaving things in a pile until Saturday rolls around. This means that the only thing I will have to do on Saturday is clean the bathroom and that will take a whole 30 minutes which is a far cry from the millions of hours it usually takes on Saturday. I can’t believe it took me this long to figure out how to bypass my laziness.

Chad has gone for a Bone Scan this morning because of his knees. Hes going to be radioactive all day. Way to steal my thunder there Chad. I was suppose to be the one who was radioactive FIRST. I guess we can be radioactive twins. He always has to copy me. Bastard.

Anyways, I should go clean up.

The warm sun is shinning in this giant window and is making me feel so cozy and sleepy. Had a restless sleep last night that was brought on by Chad wanting to snuggle as close to me as possible while snoring in my face and breathing his sick germs all over me. I didn’t want to wake him as I knew he had had bad sleeps all week long, so the fact that he was actually passed out made me think twice about harassing him. But its fine, I rather enjoy playing the Martyr.

Tonight he is at a promotion party for one of his co-works. I think the plan is to sit in a room and drink beer and eat pizza with head honchos and big wigs. Maybe one day Chad will be a big wig.

Tonight I am going to make some sort of creamy chicken and potato and veggie explosion for one. I am so looking forward to it, I just hope my stomach can handle it.

I drowned myself in Sudafed last night and felt much better this morning. I’m still feeling weak and congested in my chest but my head has completely cleared up. It is wonderful to not blow your nose every three seconds.

I think I should do some laundry tonight so that I don’t have to spend my entire Saturday doing it. I should probably wash our germ infested sheets. Ew. Oh but crap, I wonder how much change we have. Humm. That might prevent my plan.

Got a call from the In-Laws last night. They want to come to Italy with us next year, along with my parentals. Should be an interesting experience. I know each of us wants to do our own thing while we are there, but it will be fun to have the company and tour parts together. We’ll have to start planning the trip in the Summer, get all our dates in order and stuff. I think we are planning to go in September of 2010. Should be perfect timing. I can not wait. I am going to blog the whole trip.

Tomorrow is Friday and that makes me happy.

Oh yea Alicia, remid me to tell you about all the new hot stores that are going into Metrotown. Its a secret but I found out and shall pass it on to you.

I had to go pick up some things for dinner last night and lunches this week after work yesterday.

I got home at 5:45.

Chad was working late again so I had time to organize. I put on a load of work clothes in the washing machine while I prepared as much of dinner as I could.

Chad got home at 6:45.

I was making Greek food and had the Lemon Potatoes cooking away in the oven. Only problem is that our oven is dirty as hell on the inside and I keep forgetting to put it on self cleaner. I wanna do it on a Saturday while I am home because I don’t know how long it takes. We bought the Stove second hand so I am not 100% sure how the self cleaning part works. It says not to clean the inside of the stove with any stove cleaning products because it affects the self cleanliness of it or something, so I removed all the fallen food and crap that I could. It doesn’t matter though because every time the oven is on and I open the door to pull out the food a huge puff of smoke comes out and the smoke alarm goes off. It is so annoying. I really think I am going to have to take some stove cleaning products to it tonight because its friggin driving me crazy.

We finally ate dinner at 7:30.

I did the dishes and then jumped in the shower. There was still hot water in the building which was good and appreciated.

I then had to iron all of Chads work shirts that I had put in the laundry as I knew he would need them this week. As much as I enjoy getting wrinkles out of clothing I find ironing SO exhausting. Maybe because I always do it as my last activity of the night or maybe because its just a tiring activity. Anyways, I plowed through it and managed to finish in about 45 minutes which was like record time. Thankfully his shirts weren’t too wrinkly so it didn’t take too much man power.

Once I was done all of that I made the lunches for today and was finally able to hop into bed to watch some TV at 10:30. I was so damn pooped.

I woke up this morning totally exhausted. I didn’t want to get out of bed and started making noises which Chad said made me sound like a baby Velociraptor. I managed to pull myself together enough to arrive at work on time, only to notice that I have a cold sore forming on my nose and no Abreva to take care of it. Dammit. Why oh why am I getting another cold sore. I can not believe how many I have had since Chad and I have been together. It is ridiculous.

My mom has been sick all weekend and I saw her all weekend which most likely means I have caught her cold. I can feel it coming on which is NOT good because I can not miss any work as I will be missing like two weeks for my surgery. Which reminds me that I should probably phone and see if they have booked me in yet. It has been two weeks. BOOK ME ALREADY.

These are the only pictures I took of Super Bowl Sunday. I may or may not have fallen asleep halfway through the game.

Anyways, I will probably be back later. You can count on it.

Weekend Shmeekend