16 posts tagged “weekend”
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It was a really nice weekend – a whole bunch of stuff went on.
Friday night was a Financial Course, but not like any we’ve ever taken before. This one wasn’t really about money, but your attitude toward money.
Have you ever noticed that people tend to cluster in like earning groups? People don’t tend to be comfortable with people in a significantly higher or lower income bracket than their own.
If you want to bring yourself up financially you need to change your attitude about money. It’s startling how many opportunities that you may have to make changes that you pass by simply because of your attitude.
Saturday morning was a trip across the border to do some shopping and then part two of the Financial Class (it’s called “Healing Your Financial Soul” – well worth reading) and then Dinner Club for the rest of the day.
It was fun and funny and tasty and comfy and just a really good time. We called it a night relatively early, but we were beat.
Sunday after church we had Michelle over for lunch – which was really nice and then we did a bunch of little chores around the house and took the night off (we watched a movie and went to bed early).
Whew.
So, Michelle is doing really well. She’s got a job now at a local Telemarketing Company (which she really doesn’t like, but she needs the money). Her plan is to earn enough to pay for her lifestyle while she looks for a new job.
(Which, btw, is _exactly_ what I told her to do while she was living here...)
Her first paycheck is already spent – and then some. She has a lot of catching up to do – hopefully that will motivate her to learn perseverance... it’s the last skill that she needs to learn to really be successful.
Sherry is starting to wear out for the season. She put her elbow out on the last job and she’s basically just hanging in there waiting for the end of the season. I’m really glad that we have a hot tub for her to warm up in after work.
One of the exercises for the Financial Attitude class is to carry around a lot of money (they suggest $300) in cash in your purse or wallet. I think Sherry is a little uncomfortable with that idea. Hopefully she’ll get past that – I like the feeling of having cash in my wallet.
I’m thankful that Michelle is doing well – it’s nice to see her finally doing the stuff that we’ve been trying to motivate her to do.
I’m thankful that Michelle is still friendly with us – forcing her to grow up could have been nasty.
I’m thankful that we’ve started to change our attitude toward money.
I know that God wants us to be wildly successful.
non-responsive programs is that
In other news we’re planning on keeping a low profile this weekend. We’re hoping to take another financial course and do Dinner Club and that’s pretty much it.
It’ll likely rain all weekend so finishing the tree is pretty much out.
I’m thankful that it’s the weekend
I’m thankful that my code doesn’t break like this very often
I’m thankful that our attitudes toward money are very similar
I know that God wants money to serve us and not the other way around.
Happy Friday!
The most stressful thing that happened to me yesterday was breaking a glass.
Oh, that’s such happy news (once I got past the fact that I had to move the bed to get the little shards). Oh, and the dog rolled in something and had to be bathed while I was cooking supper. And I burned the ham (just a little) and had one of my PCs fail.
Anyway, the point is that my stressors are back to normal! Oh, happy day.
Tomorrow is date night and I’m in a really spectacular mood.
I did a little work last night on my 8mm Film to DVD job and the reels all transferred flawlessly. Perfect colour and no flicker. I’ll render them this weekend and have the finished product ready to go for Monday morning.
The cash will go toward the kitchen renovation (or maybe our next vacation – we got a Sunshine Guarantee coupon because of Gustav – so we’ll be going back to Jamaica to collect the coupon – it’s worth over $300 off our next vacation!)
I’m hoping to make really good progress on my mapping app today – it’s way easier to program the tough algorithms when you’re in a good mood. I should be able to get the tough stuff wrapped up today – then it’s all integration and cleanup. Should be good.
Sherry is trying to talk Johnny into letting her go the Second week in November instead of the Third. That’d be cool. I doubt he’ll fall for it, but I have vacation booked for the fourth week to force Johnny’s hand a little (he did promise, but every now and then he changes his mind...)
I’m thankful that I’m in such a good mood today – it should be a fabulously productive day!
I’m thankful that I’m in such a good mood today – it should be a really fun date night
I’m thankful that I’m in such a good mood today – it’s a reflection of my life returning to normal
I know that God wants me to spend more time in deep joy.
Oh, I was in a foul mood yesterday. It’s better today.
We’re hosting a dinner on Monday for a couple of couples that got left out of other plans. It should be a good time – I’m toying with breaking out the Guitar Hero and having a tournament. We have fooseball too…
Today was a catch up day – I’m teaching next week so I had to get my handouts ready and tune up my powerpoint and get my notes in order, yada yada.
I’m looking forward to our long weekend. It should be a good time.
We bought a rental hot tub. It’s one of the cheapo ones that inflates and then tears down at the end of the weekend. I suspect that it’ll still be cheaper to run than the old one that we had. It cost us about $15 per use for the last one – and I can’t see using that much water and natural gas to heat the water… I’ll let you know how it goes – this weekend will be our first.
Sherry is finishing up a $20,000 back yard tune up. Yikes. It’s been nasty work and she’s been getting home a little grumpy too. Bummer. Tonight is pizza and a movie rental and NOTHING else. Hopefully she’ll be in the mood for a date night tomorrow.
It’s a little scary in the stock market now. We’ve lost thousands upon thousands of dollars of our retirement savings. They had better recover…
I’m thankful that we date.
I’m thankful that have a home theater
I’m thankful that we can afford pizza (even if our stocks have taken a beating).
I know that God will care for me regardless of what the markets do.
Mondays are a terrible way to spend 1/7th of your life.
Blah.
In other news we had a pretty good weekend. First Friday was interesting. I don’t think I get today’s art.
There was a ‘landscape’ artist show this month and one artist had filled a room in the gallery with cedar mulch (from my wife’s company) and placed cut logs around the room as seats (campfire style) and had a video running with the downtown map (where the gallery is) with tree icons popping up and down.
That’s it.
Mulch, stumps and an animated map.
Art.
Hmmm.
Art.
It smelled nice.
Mmmm. Cedar.
Art.
Ok.
Another artist had a pile of corn husks (landscape theme, right) in the middle of the room with a rock in the centre of the pile.
That’s it.
Corn husks. Rock.
Art.
Ok.
It didn’t smell like much.
Art.
So Sherry and I pretty much called it a night and watched a movie at home on the big screen. That was nice
Saturday after our 6am meeting we took a quick trip to the States. We picked up some stuff from the POBox and then bought some groceries and gas (next weekend is Thanksgiving here).
That night we went to a demonstration of Yoga and Prana Yoga Massage. Very, very cool. Sherry is planning on taking a few classes in the off season – that should be fun – and good for her physically too. The massage looked wonderful – I entered the draw to win one (a $65 value!) – here’s hoping!
We called it a night early then too.
Sunday was church and a Deep Coffee with a friend of mine. He had some pretty deep insights into Michelle’s situation. He shared about his own ‘girl gone wild’ teenager. We laughed, we cried. It was good for both of us.
We went to our Home Depot to look at kitchen remodeling supplies (which we plan to do in Sherry’s off season). And we accidentally bought a soft-walled hot tub – the kind that you rent for a weekend.
We had been looking at them off and on for a while and at 1/10th the price of the last hot tub we had it seemed like a good deal. We took the risk and bought one that was on clearance yesterday – we pick it up tonight – I’ll keep you posted.
Sherry is still looking forward to the end of work. The job she’s on now sucks – which is exactly why she got it. Bummer. At least Johnny knows she can handle the brutal jobs – which is why she gets a pay raise each season.
I had coffee with Nancy P. today. That was an amazing time. She has such an incredible story and it’s inspirational. We had a great time. Rick needed a sympathetic ear today and Don wanted to chat too. It was a social day – it’s a good thing that I was changing hardware today and had two one hour backup / transfer jobs – the timing was absolutely perfect!
I’m thankful that Coffee is a good way to visit.
I’m thankful that I know a little more of how Michelle sees the world (even if it doesn’t really make sense).
I’m thankful that Sherry will be able to soak in a tub of hot water after a long day’s work again (she really missed our old hot tub).
I know that God wants Sherry to be comfortable after a hard days work.
I went away for the weekend with a bunch of guys from our church. We went camping (well, conttaging) and it was great!
While the guys fished I photographed, during our spare time I had a chance to chat with some of the guys and just get to know them better, we had an archery competition and a euchre tournament. There were stupid prizes for loudest shirt, loudest snore, biggest fish, best fishing photo, etc, etc, etc.
The food was great – we had a chance to listen to an inspirational speaker that had some really great ideas (I’ve decided to write out my life mission statement!) and we had a great time.
It would have been perfect if I was able to sleep in a strange bed without Sherry by my side, but I’ll catch up on my sleep.
So, I’ve had a great weekend and I come home to find out that my dough-headed daughter has quit her job at Wal-mart.
What?!? - Ya, she thought it was too much work to stock shelves night after night after night.
So now she’s a high school drop out that can’t keep a job at Wal-mart. That’s going to really limit her life-options.
So, now what do I do? Let her sleep in front of my TV all day and party all night at who knows who’s place? I can’t make her get a job – she’ll just quit. Take away her car insurance (we’re paying for it right now)?
I’m at a loss and the stress that it’s causing between me and my wife is not only unreal it’s unfair and unrealistic to expect it to continue.
We could kick her out and let her either find a job or apply for welfare.
She complains that we don’t love her ‘unconditionally’ What she doesn’t understand is that loving her in this case means making her poor choices uncomfortable. She must be confusing ‘love’ with ‘enabling her poor choices’.
Bummer.
I’m thankful that I’m thankful – it improves my outlook on life
I’m thankful that I know world class mentors – it improves my quality of life
I’m thankful that I know Sherry will support me in whatever we decide to do with Michelle – it makes it easier to make the tough calls.
I know that God wants Michelle to succeed – I just wish I could see what He sees.
We cancelled everything but the fun stuff this past weekend. We had a nice easy Friday night - dinner with the Dinner Club and nothing else, Saturday was a trip to the States to buy stuff for The Party (we’re hosting a huge BBQ Aug 9) and then a picnic supper at Bernies. Sunday was church and a lunch in honour of Rick’s b-day. We ended the evening with a movie and pizza. Nice’n’easy.
Michelle came over for lunch with Rick. We had a really nice lunch – inch thick New York Strips BBQ’d to perfection with onions and BBQ’d potatoes. Very nice. Birthday cake for dessert. Yummy.
We had a couple of minutes to discuss Michelle’s future with her while she was getting ready to go. It looks like she’ll move back in here and finish up High School while working to pay for the debt she accumulated while ‘making it on her own’. Then September 2009 she’ll reapply to college.
It’ll interfere with my second honeymoon, but you need to make sacrifices somewhere to make sure the right thing happens.
We went to a wedding at church yesterday. Jimmy T and Sylvie got married during the service – it was cool and a surprise. Her vows were beautifully written and his were heartfelt and sincere. It was really nice.
This week I’m headed an hour’s drive East to teach my program to a team that bought it a while ago. I think we could do it over the internet, but it’ll be fun to get out of the office and get paid for it.
Our backyard is in really nice shape for The Party. It should be a good time, but once again it’s surprising how much work it is to host a party like this. Wow.
I’m thankful that Michelle is back to normal.
I’m thankful that we’re still going on our honeymoon trip to Jamaica.
I’m thankful that Michelle wants to finish school.
I know that God will bless my family’s plans
We cram so much into our weeks that it’s a little crazy.
Now that Michelle has moved out, Sherry and I are saving for our second honeymoon, so every chance that we have to make a little money on the side we’re taking.
This weekend was a job for an old customer from Sherry’s work. He doesn’t want to hire the company, but he’s really impressed with Sherry’s work so he hired her on the side (with permission from her immediate boss).
We made just over $500 for the weekend and when you add that to the $550 that I made on 8mm transfers that puts us about half way to our goal. Whohoo. We’re hoping to go in September or October so we still have the rest of the summer to make the rest.
Michelle came over to complain about her phone bill. She thinks that we should pay the $100/month bill for her cell phone. I’m not exactly sure why that is (other than she didn’t have a credit card when she signed up for the phone and Sherry used hers… we’ll have to fix that as soon as there’s no penalty for switching). She’s making my life more complicated that it needs to be.
Speaking of complicated – today is the day that John needs the next version of our flagship product ready to ship and I don’t have my internet up yet. That means that I can’t get the install finished. That’s going to push the whole thing right on top of our Festival – which has a hard launch date of July 6th. Yuck.
I’ll need to get Bryon trained shortly since we have Canada Day tomorrow and no one is working. I need a better internet connection!
I’ve decided to just give away my code and not tell Bernie that I’m teaching Colours. Let the chips land where they may. I’ll keep Dad posted on what’s up with the payment for the code – he’s really pissed that I haven’t been paid for it yet too. I’ll just let Bernie know that I feel like his millionaire friend has screwed me over by not paying for the code that he relies on to keep the Festival gates running smoothly. Whatever happens after that is fine. I’ve already emotionally checked out of this whole Festival thing now. Poor Bryon.
I’m thankful that we get to have a second Honeymoon – I can’t wait!
I’m thankful that Sherry’s client was so easy to work for and so generous
I’m thankful that Sherry is on board with this trip in September.
I know that God wants our marriage to be strong.
This is becoming a recurring theme – I had a great weekend, but not quite enough sleep!
Friday was supposed to be a trip to the movie theatre to watch Iron Man, but a friend of ours got sick and she and her husband had tickets to a fancy-smancy dinner that they couldn’t use anymore. The table was with another friend of ours and the dinner sounded amazing, so I said I’d take the tickets.
Turns out that was a really stupid idea. Sherry yelled at me for trading our movie plans for a free $100/plate dinner. Ooops. I’ll never do that again.
The dinner was incredible. They served the best tasting escargot that I’ve ever tasted and the salmon that I had was amazing. Sherry’s prime rib was even better than my salmon. The conversation was fun and the evening was really pleasant. But I’ll never do that again – getting yelled at was pretty traumatic.
Saturday was errands and getting ready for the Poker Party that we were hosting that night. We also started putting the skirt on our deck. Poker was a lot of fun, but a little late. We all lost $10, except Eric who won $50 – which is actually not a surprise – he was there to teach us how to play Texas Holdem.
Sunday was church and we finished the skirt – it looks amazing for two amateurs. We went over to my Mom and Dad’s place to return his table saw and to have tea. Then we called it a night (and made the mistake of watching the second episode of Lost – which made it another late night in a string of late nights…)
I’m thankful that the skirt is done – all that’s left now is the plexiglass – once it’s all done I’ll post pictures
I’m thankful that dinner was so good or I’d be in a lot more trouble than I am
I’m thankful that my friends thought of us to give the tickets to.
I know that God wants us to enjoy food.
