8x8 - because I was tagged

Holly tagged me...

8 THINGS I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO:
- my sister's wedding on June 20th
- TTC #2
- Our trip to the beach in July
-Nora getting over her current virus.
- Having time to actually garden after clients tomorrow.
- Rich being done with this project so I can stopped being a single but married mom
- Finding a church this summer, it's about time I got back to that.
- Tennis practice on Thursday nights

8 THINGS I DID YESTERDAY:
-woke up at 5:45 because Nora had a 103.8 fever
- went to the Grocery store
- took a nap
- had the in-laws over for dinner
- finished booking stuff for the trip to KC
- did 2 loads of laundry
- Said a silent 'thank you' prayer when Nora went to bed after a long, sick, fussy toddler day
- Told Rich to come to bed at 2:30 in the morning

8 THINGS I WISH I COULD DO:
- Afford to finish the house renovations so I could stop looking at them!
- find a stay at home mommy group over here in East Cobb.
- Sleep in during the week
- Make sure that Nora doesn't inherit the infertility that runs in my family
- Appreciated more of the small stuff before it happens
- Be a better mom and wife, there are days when I know I'm lacking
- Lose the last 10 lbs, gain 2, lose 2, gain 2, lose 2
- Figure out how to pass by licensure exam

8 SHOWS I WATCH:
-How I Met Your Mother
- Big Bang Theory
-Biggest Loser
-Oprah
-Project Runway
-Grey's Anatomy
- House

8 FAVORITE FOODS:
Chocolate
Steak
Salmon
Fruit - almost any kind
Pickles
Cheetos - didn't have them alot growing up, guilty adult pleasure
Tangerine Beef chinese
Wings

8 PLACES I'VE TRAVELED:
-Cozumel, Mexico
-France
-England
-Switzerland
-Belgium
-Germany
-NYC
-San Francisco

8 PLACES I'D LIKE TO TRAVEL:
-Lochness in Scotland
-Washington State - there's some cool plant life/ecosystems
-Ireland
-New Zealand
-Mayan Pyramids
-Egypt
-Hawaii
- Grand Canyon

Recycled Thoughts

Guilt, guilt, guilt over ALL the diapers we are sending into the landfill! It sent me over the edge into the recycling world last month.

Of course, the recycling increased our quarterly trash bill by $18 BUT I also got the trash portion of the bill reduced by $4 a quarter. Almost 1 quarter of recycling free!

Back story on the price reduction.....Bunch of us neighborhood ladies were talking about the economy, price cutting, and what bills we had 'cut'. It came out that people were paying 2 different rates for trash, I think it had to do with when you signed on. So hooray for Liberty Trash being nice and reducing my rate!

The trashcan that all the recycling goes in is about 3/4 the size of the Bigger trash container. To my utter amazement we actually FILLED the thing the 2 wks before they picked it up. When you REALLY start realizing how many things have the little triangle of recycling it does start to embarrass you.

Because this is cutting down on trash, I figure we might actually cut down on the # of trashbags we use every month. So I did some simple math.

Previous bags/wk - 5, which is 260/yr
Current - 3, which is 156

Math:
260-156 = 104 fewer bags a trash a year!

The box of trash bags we buy is always in counts of 80 from BJ's for $9 or less if I have a coupon. (FYI, for people with club memberships, BJ's takes coupons!) This means I'm going through $12 less in trashbags per year! Not a huge savings but it almost makes up for another quarter of recycling cost.

BUT, here's one I had to laugh at.

We buy Nora these organic ravioli's at BJ's because she LOVES them and doesn't like tomato sauce. Organic product, hard plastic packaging, NOT recyclable?

Ironic isn't it?

Swimming with the Alligators.

I don't even know where to begin this one!

We had a playdate over at a friends house. The kiddos(nora and andrew) LOVE the little pool and it keeps them entertained for a LONG TIME.(keep this in mind for later)

Kathy and I are just chatting along watching the kids play. Nora stands up, having been seated for 30 mins. or so. Ummmm, the entire back of her swimmer is hanging LOW.

Me thinking, Oh my land!

What I said, " Uh, Kathy Nora's pants are looking pretty heavy I better check that out"

Get to the pool, murky water! EWWWWWWWW!

"Kathy, you might want to remove Andrew, we have little swimmer failure"

Kathy, the germaphobe, gets Andrew out. ONLY to discover that he has also poooood!

Double the swimming in poo! Might as well have been swimming in the sewer with the alligators.....it's gonna take a long time to TOP this one in the mommyhood.