Well, the day
started off pretty normal, but ended pretty exciting.
Work was pretty
standard. The afternoon got a little chaotic when we were hit with a big
surprise from one of our district offices. Spent a good portion of the
afternoon fighting a losing battle over a Contract that we had no desire to
take over, but have apparently been nominated to do just that. I get so
frustrated with our office sometimes…we used to write ALL of the Contracts for
the state, but that was disseminated to the districts and some of the offices
throughout the state years ago. We still write a majority of the Contracts in
our office, but we are supposed to provide “support” to the other folks. One of
the offices that I do write Contracts for has decided to take over a Contract
from another office, which means I have to take it over and it’s a huge mess. I
tried my hardest to say no, but our office doesn’t really stand behind “no”,
and ends up doing everything anyway, so it was pointless. That is how my day
will be spent tomorrow, and I’m not looking forward to it at all.
After work, I
picked up the girls, met Christian at home and we were off on tonight’s
adventure…finally buying the girls’ swing set!!! YAY! We’ve wanted one
forever…but, we wanted to make sure to wait until they were both old enough to
use and enjoy it, safely, together. I don’t want to have to watch their every
move when we send them outside to play, or hover over them, so we skipped
getting one last year. Since the girls have SO MUCH stuff, we suggested to our
parents, and Christian’s good friend Lorenzo, that they could just contribute
to the swing set fund if they would rather do that. So, we waited for that.
Then, we decided to just wait a tad longer and see if the stores starting
putting their sets on sale for “end of the season”. Sure enough, Toys R Us is
having a big sale right now, and we have a coupon on top of that, so we felt
the time was finally right! I debated the swings the set style with Christian
for a while…he wanted wood; I didn’t want to waste the extra money and wanted
to just go with metal. Another losing battle, he wanted wood. So, I’m extra
happy they’re having this sale right now!
It took us FOREVER
at the store. They didn’t have the prices listed on the display stand, and they
didn’t even have all of them in stock. We ended up writing down the sets they
had on the display, and sat with one of the cashiers for a while so she could
pull each one up in their system, find out what the total discounted price
would be and if they had them in stock. We got it narrowed down to three sets,
and after staring at them for a good while and debating the price, we finally
made a decision, made our purchase, loaded it up and were on our way. So
exciting! We’re hoping to find some time to get it up this weekend, fingers
crossed!
By the time we left
there, it was already bed time for the girls, so we picked them up a couple
happy meals, ate quick at home, then sent them off to bed. They were both
exhausted, and passed out right away. YAY! It was too late, and I had just
eaten, so I wasn’t able to work-out tonight. BUT, my new workout did come in
the mail today, so I’m really excited about that! I just watched a couple shows
instead, and then made my way to bed.
I took a picture of Chuy tonight while I had him outside on a bathroom break. What puppy eyes!
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