Tuesday Tidbits

• I got up early today so that I could meet with someone who is interested in buying my blue cruiser bike.  It was a rough morning.  I didn't sleep well last night so I've been dragging all day.  She was going to think about it.  I'm crossing my fingers it sells.  I don't use it and we could use more elbow room in the garage.  

• I found someone to buy my recurve bow.  So there's that.  Slowly weeding my way through all of the stuff that I no longer use and don't much care to keep around.  I also have a buyer for my hunk of junk mountain bike.

• I've filled another two tubs worth of garage sale stuff.  And have a whole car load of stuff to take to recycling.  Bags of shredded paper, office paper, and boxes.  Progress!

• The blue room is slowly getting emptied.  I'm also trying to organize my office so stuff from the blue room that will eventually get filed in the office can fit in the office until I get furniture.  I pretty much know what I want at this point so I just have to wait a while.

• I set out more mouse traps today.  Eight more.  Ten total.  I'll make the rounds in the morning and see how I faired.  I don't know exactly where they making camp around here so I'm winging it until I start catching some.  I haven't seen any since my baby mouse incident a week ago.  But I know they are still around.  It's too darn cold out for them to just disappear.

• I thought our new leaf blower/vacuum was broken.  Before I set out to return it to Home Depot, I tried it with a different extension cord on a different plug.  Wouldn't you know, it worked!!  So now I'm perplexed as to why it wouldn't work for me the other day.  Maybe it was the universe's way of telling me to do more squats.  My hamstrings are still killing me from all the squatting to get handfuls of leaves.  Three hours of raking and bagging.  And you'd never know it by looking at the back yard.  And the front yard too.  It's a nice problem to have.

• I spent most of the day cleaning - this house is huge.  And I only got part of what needed to get done.  The tub and my bathroom sink are clean!  And I did a whole lot of vacuuming.  

Since getting off work on Saturday, I have swam a half mile, biked approximately 7 miles, played three volleyball games, and ran three miles.







My heel pain hasn't been nearly as bad or as present. It's far from normal but I'm doing less hobbling so that's a start.

Thank you cards are done. A small fraction of the leaves have been cleaned up. The back porch has been cleaned up. And I made a small mess in the blue room, a MUCH bigger mess! I've got a lot of recycling and shredding to do.

I got Halloween decorations up and candy purchased. And I got a lot of plans for Christmas figured out.

First snow

Thankfully this didn't stick around very long...







Brinkley raced the setting sun for a speed walk after I got home from work.

I'm ready for my weekend. Always ready.

I've been busy...

It's a photography filled day around here.  Kind of.  I'm working on some pictures from a shoot I did last weekend.  I wish this was a full time job. 

Brinkley and I took a break and went to Petsmart to get his nails trimmed.  He seems to be a little happier now.  I was going to take him on a few more errands but it was too hot outside and I didn't want to leave him in the car.  At least, it felt too hot.

I also have to work on thank you cards for the wedding.  I'm thinking I should just break them into smaller junks then the project will not get terribly overwhelming.  So many to write!!

• I saw the first snow of the year yesterday morning.  Some flakeage action was happening when I let Brink out.  Luckily it wasn't sticking and stopped within a couple of hours.

• Scandal premiered last night.  Excellent show!!  Within the first few minutes, I was giddy.  It so great to see my people and be sucked back into the story line.  It was definitely the start of another rollercoaster ride.  Olitz is still end game.  That's all that matters.

• The government shutdown has me highly entertained.  It's always entertaining to me when something that happened on The West Wing happens in real life.  Of course, I wish people in real life had as much moral direction and bravado as those on The West Wing.  Bartlett for President.  Always.

• I'm back to swimming again.  Three times in the last week!  Woohoo!!  I'm trying to get a routine down so that I can stick with it through fall and winter.  I have a long way to go before I'm able to swim non-stop for a half mile or more.  My ultimate goal is the Tri for the Cure next August which is a half-mile open water swim, a 12 mile bike ride, and a 5k run.

• I've got another 5k this weekend.  The Hot Chocolate 5k complete with hoodie and hot cocoa as race schwag.  And then my girls and I are trying on our hands at painting!!  Yup, painting!