TGFW & WTWL (see below)

I'm sure you all are wondering what gibberish I have written as my title to this blog. It stands for Thank Goodness For Weekends & Wish They Were Longer! We had a great and productive weekend, but man I wish I could have some more time.

It just never seems there are enough hours in the day. Here we are working 40+ hours a week plus spending at least 5+ hours a week traveling back and forth to work and then by the time we get home and cook dinner, we are so tired it is difficult to motivate to do much of anything so we end up postponing everything to the weekend. And then the weekend comes and we have 48 hours to accomplish all kinds of things and by the time Monday rolls around, we've accomplished a lot and yet we are still tired! It's like you either get stuff done and be tired or you get sleep and have nothing done. I really wish I required less sleep because then that would solve many of my problems.

Just imagine if you will how much more you could get accomplished if you only had to sleep say 2 hours per night and feel completely rested! I usually get about 7+ hours of sleep per night so that would give me an extra 5 hours EVERY DAY to get things done so that I might have time to stop and smell the roses on the weekend instead of moving at mach one! I'll have to work on that whole sleep deprivation thing! ;)

Enough of my complaining - in reality, our weekend went very well. Friday night we got to catch up with Austin's cousin and good friend which was nice since we hadn't hung out in quite awhile. Saturday, the Rooms-To-Go people actually showed up at a decent time (about 8:05 am) which was super exciting since we were dreading having to be home the entire day when we had errands to run and other things going on. Turned out, I stayed home most of the day unpacking my clothes, reorganizing my drawers, and repacking up for storage my summer clothes since it's obviously too cold now to need those. I left out some in between ones for layering purposes and for when we are in Florida at the end of the month, but the shorts and capris and spaghetti tanks had to go up! I also watched the new Harry Potter which came out on video which I enjoyed (I LOVE the books and am pretty fond of the movies as a result and I hadn't gotten to see this one in the theaters yet because Austin thinks it's goofy so...). We also got our surround sound all wired up and hooked up so we have some quality seating and living space now! ;)

Saturday night, we went up to Grapevine Mills because I had a free movie ticket from my moviewatcher's card so we went to see National Treasure. It was actually really good - I didn't think it would be bad but the reviews I had heard weren't very good. Then again, I don't often rely on movie critics' reviews because I don't always agree. Yesterday, I went to Target & Pier One to pick up some gifts and to get some more organizational stuff for our closets and whatnot. I love doing that stuff but boy is it expensive! Thank goodness we still have some money from the wedding to help defray the costs and hopefully I will be getting a bonus next week! Then Austin's friend, Brad, came over and was totally awesome and helped us hook up a wireless Internet system so we could both be online at the same time and so there aren't cords all over the place. And if my laptop battery was actually functional, I would be able to sit wherever I wanted to in the apartment and be on the Internet (I'll have to work on that!). We also went to Walmart last night to do some grocery shopping and to grab a bookshelf which Austin put together for me last night. So tonight I will unpack some more boxes and put away my books and frames and whatnot. :)

So that is my somewhat non-interesting story of the weekend. Needless to say, I have a feeling that we will just finish up with everything by the time we leave for Florida but at least we'll come home to a nice organized place in the new year! And we aren't moving out of there until at least February 2006 so we have time to enjoy it! Now....gotta run to a meeting and work on that whole not needing sleep thing. Need to grab a cup of coffee!