Labor Day Weekend Recap

Hope everyone had a great holiday weekend. It was another scorcher :o( but we had a great weekend. This recap might be a little long.

Friday I had taken the day off to just hang out at home and do house stuff. I've got a bunch of vacation time racked up again so I was able to take an extra day for the long weekend. I slept in til around 9/9:30 and then got up and did some housework and laundry, took the doggies on a long walk. Around 10ish I headed into Walnut Creek, I needed to return some stuff to Macy's and I was meeting Olivia, Jeanette and Amy for lunch at Whole Foods. I got my errands done and met the girls on time as planned. We sat outside and enjoyed our yummy lunches and sort of enjoyed the weather. It was a bit hot and muggy :o( the weather man even said it was suppose to thunderstorm although it never did. Unfortunately, Amy and Jeanette had to go back to work after lunch but Ms. Olivia had the rest of the day off so we decided to hang out. I had been debating on what to do because I was suppose to be in Walnut Creek at 6:30 for dinner with Brandy, Lindsay, Jeanette and Olivia and I knew that if I went back home to Oakland I probably would have bailed and not driving back especially since I wasn't sure how bad the holiday traffic would get later in the evening. Olivia invited me to hang out at her house so I wouldn't have to go back and forth.



First though we had to do some shopping :o) We headed to Target to pick up a few gifts for a friend and of course when you go to Target somehow a thousand other things seem to jump in your basket and you end up spending more than you had planned. Me Love Target.

Afterwards we decided to ditch one of our cars so we weren't driving all over town with 2 cars. Then it was off to Ross for new purses. Olivia and I both needed new purses and we both managed to find some nice ones at Ross. Me Love Ross. Although purses and shoes are really the only things I shop there for. I have no patience for going through every single rack of clothes looking for decent stuff. It's always a mess in there too.

We thought we might see a movie but we missed all the movies in the 2:00ish time frame, the 4ish ones were too late and we'd be cutting it close for dinner so we scrapped the movie idea and just headed to Olivia's house to relax. We swapped out our old purses for our new ones and then watched a little TV. It was weird being in the house though, it was just like old times watching TV in "my spot" on the couch but yet it wasn't my house. Very weird.

Around 6ish we headed back out and met Lindsay & Brandy at Stanford's. WE MISSED YOU JEANETTE. We were able to get a table outside and enjoy the nice weather. It had cooled down and was much more enjoyable. We don't get to hang out with Brandy much outside of running because we all have such busy schedules so it was a nice evening with the girls.


So Friday ended up being a day with the girls, I had a great time. Then it was back home to the hubby. He stayed in relaxing with the doggies and playing his guitar. He's had a super duper stressful few weeks at work and he really needed the night of quiet, well as quiet as it can be with our two doggies :o) I brought him home some yummy ribs though. He was a happy camper.
Saturday was of course an early day for us and it was going to be a long day as well. We got up and headed out to Berkeley Marina, AGAIN, to meet the team for the mentor led run. My schedule called for 12 miles but the team was only doing 10 so that's what I did. I ran the first 2 miles pretty much on my own and was feeling good although this weekend instead of being freezing cold it was already warm. The sun had broke early and it was warming up quickly. Around mile 2 Phil had seen me behind him and he stopped to wait for me. We ran the other 8 miles together, THANKS PHIL, it helped out a lot and we did pretty good. Finished 10 miles in exactly 2 hours. I felt pretty good the entire time although I did end up with a side stitch and I'm wondering if I had way too much water. I decided to skip the electrolyte drink and have it in pill form instead. Jeanette let me have a few Thermolite pills to try out. My belly felt great even with the 2 GU's I had taken but I'm wondering if now that I don't carry an electrolyte drink if I'm drinking too much water. I will have to talk to Mama Lisa about how to use the pills and how much water I should be drinking and when. I felt thirsty so I drank but when I got back all four of my bottles were empty :o( Hmmmmm????

After the run Rocky and I headed back home to shower, pack our stuff, pack the doggies stuff and head to Granite Bay. Rocky's older brother lives up there and the whole family was going up for an overnight trip. They made some yummy bbq, they have a pool and we just hung around and relaxed. The doggies all played and were tuckered out by bed time. We were too. Sunday we got up, had some breakfast and did some more relaxing and eating :o) We headed home around 6ish and luckily enough we didn't hit any traffic. We did see quite a bit of very dirty cars though coming back, it took us a while to figure it out but it was folks coming back from Burning Man. They were some very interesting folks in very dirty cars and RVs. We got home around 8ish and put everything away and then pretty much did nothing.

On our way to Granite Bay

With Cousin Jet

On our way home all tuckered out

Monday, we SLEPT IN :o) I love sleeping in :o) Around 11 Rocky and I decided to head over to Montclair. We needed to go grocery shopping so we could bbq later on in the day. We went over to Peet's Coffee and Noah's for a bagel first. We sat outside of Peet's and people/doggie watched while we enjoyed our bagels and coffee then we headed over to Safeway for some grocery shopping. Went home and put everything away and then it hit us it was almost 1pm. YIKES!!!

YIKES, because we had talked about going mattress shopping at Sleep Train and if you buy a mattress before 2pm they'll deliver it the same day and we DESPERATELY need a new bed.

I called Sleep Train to make sure they were open and make sure they'd deliver since it was a holiday and they did so we headed out and made it there by 1:30. We plopped on about 10 beds trying them all out and finally picked one out. Boy, those things aren't cheap :o( but we really needed it and if we want to sleep better and stop having back issues then I guess we had to spend the money. We made the 2pm cutoff and our mattress would be on it's way by 10pm. We also got free 600 count sheets as a gift because it was the holiday. YAY! I think the best sheets I've ever had were 250 count.

Rocky tricked me and made me take a quick detour to Guitar Center, that places gives me the willy's, me no like. Luckily we were in and out of there in about 5 minutes :o)

Then it was back home for some bbq steaks, salad, potatoes and grilled corn :o) After lunch, I went over to Macy's for a few more bedding items for our new bed, Target for a movie to watch later in the evening and then it was back home to relax and wait for our bed.

The poor Sleep Train delivery men arrived just before 10pm and made their cut off. They had started their day at 7am, had 18 deliveries just in Oakland alone and they were pooped out. They were in and out of our place though in about 5 minutes. They brought the new mattress up, took the old ones out, put the new ones in and were gone.

We set the bed up and it was ready to go for bed time....YIPEE! I think even Patch was excited. We watched Casino Royale, although I need to finish watching it cause at 11pm I was tuckered out and went to bed. It was a nice day at home with the hubby and doggies.