Spectacular Saturday and Super-Productive Sunday

This whole weekend has been pretty darn amazing. As I type I have rice cooking and sauce simmering; working to get a head start on what is slated to be a busy, busy week. But before diving into the forecast ahead let's back track to this past weekend, beginning with Friday.

I moved almost everything (except the desks, chairs, file cabinet and empty boxes) out of the nerd domicile and into the garage. I also moved everything that was up in the guest room (except the futon). I am trying to consolidate everything as much as possible.

Saturday we climbed out of bed (a little unwillingly but...) bright and early, had breakfast, and loaded groceries for dad into the truck. We picked up spice drops for dad, got gas, and the ever important coffee, and made our way to the coast. We took dad into town and visited with him for a bit. And then played tourist in town. It's always kind of fun to play tourist and just meander around the mall and the shops "downtown."

At the mall we popped into Old Navy where I scored a couple of adorable tops uber cheap. Then we made our way over to downtown Lincoln City. We moseyed around the cutesy tourist traps and happened upon a little body jewelry shop called SpeakEasy. I spied some fantastic oven mitts (I need some new ones) so we went in and perused their wares. We found an awesome shower curtain and I jumped on it. We need one for the master bath at the new place and this one was totally us! There will eventually be a picture of it... Somewhere... Like after we are moved. From here we meandered with a touristy shuffle to the corner of 15th and Hwy 101. Here we found mecca.

Deli 101. One word to describe it? Awesomedeliciousyummyspectacularcra-mazinglywonderful! Great atmosphere and totally one of a kind. I had the Taby sandwich; bacon (super awesome thick cut perfectly crisp!!), turkey (no skimping on the meat), lettuce, tomato, onions, avocado, and this amazing spicy grainy mustard on the perfect crusty baguette. DELICIOUS! Next time I am totally trying a panini. Collin got the Sissy panini and LOVED it. Next time we are going to get each get something different and share... I was a little greedy yesterday and didn't think to do this. LOL. I also got to visit with my K while we were there, AND we tried this fabulous delight called an Oregon Joy. Imagine a soft chewy fluffy cookie that is basically a de-constructed Almond Joy bar and that's what we had. IT. WAS. AWESOME. I am thinking I will become a bi-weekly regular when we go to Lincoln City to check on dad. Okay, screw thinking, I KNOW I will...

After eating and visiting for a few we decided it was time to cruise on home. On the ride home I was feeling antsy (we had skipped our Saturday morning run in order to get to the coast early and planned to do it today instead) and just wanted to go for a run. So, when we got home at six thirty we swapped outfits and went for a nice three point six mile run. I am so glad we did. I felt fantastic afterwards. We then had a nom-ilicious dinner of sourdough grilled cheese and tomato soup.

Today has been an extremely productive day. I packed two more boxes, and moved seven more boxes into the garage. All that's left to pack are the dishes, the basic kitchen necessities, our bathroom stuff and our clothing. We have managed to find ANOTHER load worth of stuff for Goodwill. We took Collin's used and abused dresser, my two winter coats (I have accepted the fact I would be swimming in them by the time I need to wear a winter coat again), one of Collin's winter coats, and a bunch of old shoes that are two big and we can't wear them anymore. Oh, and the over the toilet shelf thingy we had. We really won't need it with all the storage at the new place. As I said at the top of the post, I cooked rice for Wednesday and made sauce for tomorrow.

This next week is pretty stacked:
Monday: work, run, dinner and school work for Collin.
Tuesday: work, grocery shopping, dinner, hockey game on TV, and school work for Collin.
Wednesday: work, run, dinner, and (you guessed it!) school work for Collin.
Thursday: work, get deposit/rent cashier's checks, bowling with work gang/hockey game on TV, dinner, and school work for Collin (are you seeing the theme here??).
Friday: work, lease signing!!!!!, dinner, and school work for Collin (hopefully he will almost be done for the week...).
Saturday (aka torture-day!!): TWELVE AND A HALF MILE RUN, and curl up and die.

Okay, so we know we will be fine on the run. It will be great, as long as I don't fall.... Halfway through... Like on the eleven mile run. The rest of next weekend will be taking boxes to the new place and packing the rest of this house. Should be a blast!

Lasagne!