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Sunday, December 6, 2009

Busiest Week Ever!

I can probably count on one hand the hours I spent home and awake this past week. Okay, maybe not one hand, but definitely two. Monday was the only night I didn't have something! It was the busiest week I have had in a long, long time....but it was totally worth it.

On Tuesday I worked my normal 7.5 hours, had cheer practice for 2 hours, came home to take Kona out, and then headed to a restaurant to meet with some girls to discuss Olive Kitteridge. Have you read the book? If so, I would love to hear your thoughts. I loved the book, but didn't like the story. Does that make sense? I don't want to give it away if you haven't read the book, but a bunch of the things about the story didn't sit right with me. However, the book is very well written and is presented as short stories, which I liked.

Wednesday felt like the longest day of my life. We hosted our first home basketball game, so after I work I had to supervise my girls in study hall and then prepare them for the game. The were so giddy and nervous; it was adorable. They did a great job considering it was the first game. The game was supposed to start at 5, but didn't actually start until 5:30, so I didn't get home until 7. That is a 12 hour workday! I don't know how those of you that regularly work 12 hour days do it! I was so tempted to stop and pick something up, but knew that we had food waiting to be cooked in the refrigerator. When I arrived home I cooked a couple steaks, some mushrooms, and broccoli, quickly ate, then patted myself on the back and promptly headed to bed.

On Thursday I left work a few minutes early so that we could get in line for the National Christmas Tree Lighting. Last month AJ and I both entered the lottery for tickets to the event and we luckily scored two seated tickets!

The event was hosted by Randy Jackson (who was broadcasting about 20 feet ahead of us) and included performances by Jordin Sparks, Sheryl Crow, Common and the PS 22 chorus, Celtic Woman, and a few other people. President Obama gave a Christmas message, Mrs. Obama read The Night Before Christmas, and Santa and Mrs. Claus made a quick cameo too. Here is video of the tree lighting!




By Friday I was pretty much spent, but a teacher at my school gave me tickets for the opening night of Zoolights at the National Zoo.

I wanted to go last year so I was actually really excited when she offered me the tickets. It was a lot of fun and good exercise so I am really glad we went. Ever punctual, we were able to see the opening ceremony which included "dancing lights". We of course videoed the dancing lights, but that video is 3 and a half minutes long and I am not about to try and upload that to blogger. If we are facebook friends you can see it on my page there. It is really neat....the lights flash with the music (obviously I am easily amused).


Yesterday morning I headed back to school at 7 am. I wanted to cry when the alarm went off. The three other coaches and I took the cheer girls to see a cheer competition out in Maryland and it started at 8 am. It was a great experience for the girls though and I think it motivated them to get their booties in gear. On the way home from the competition it started snowing! I came home, put on my sweatpants and did not move off the couch for the rest of the day. It was glorious.

Today we went to church, hit up the grocery store, and got our Christmas tree. Of course, getting our tree wasn't without a mishap. I refused to put the tree in my car (it probably wouldn't have fit anyway), so we decided to tie it to the roof. Everyone in the parking lot was doing it! I asked AJ if he knew how to go about this, and he assured me that he did. I followed his directions, put all the windows down and started tying that sucker down. However, we ran into a little problem. Let's look at this picture.....


Can you tell what's wrong here? No? Us either. Until we tried to get into the car. Yes, we tied the doors shut! I wanted to untie everything and start over, but AJ refused....so we CLIMBED THROUGH THE WINDOWS in the middle of The Home Depot parking lot on a busy Sunday morning. Obviously I took video of this!



Ignore my hyena laugh, please. Yes, this is my life.

19 comments:

  1. Wow.. all that is making me exhausted!

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  2. OMG hahahahaa. that video is amazing. your husband looks so tall too - i'm sure that was no easy task for him!

    so jealous of your holiday filled weekend. how was ps22? i freakin LOVE those kids!!!

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  3. Very cool! I would love to check out the lighting of the National Christmas Tree sometime. Too bad all this stuff had to happen in the same week!

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  4. This sounds a lot like how busy my week coming up is going to be. I'm starting to accept now that I won't be home much! I would love to do some of those fun Christmas things you got to do!

    And that video was super awesome... that is so funny!

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  5. oh my goodness, SO FUNNY about the tree! That is something that my fiance and I would do :) haha Hope you have a good Monday

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  6. that sounds like a great week to me!

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  7. HAHAHA we did that when we were MOVING!! I was so stressed and started yelling and then crying and then we just undid it all. I wish I had the forethought to just climb in the windows! Quick thinking!

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  8. Busy, busy! The tree lighting would be so neat to see! The tree episode at Home Depot has me laughing! I am sure that I would laugh if I was a bystander. ☺

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  9. Busy busy girl!! Love those pics :) Hope you get some time to relax soon!!

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  10. Hahahahaahahaha, that video of your husband crawling in the car through the window is PRICELESS!!!!!!! I love it!!!!!!!!! He's super tall, too, right??! Too funny.

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  11. oh my gosh, that is hilarious!!!!

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  12. Seriously dear, you must be so tired! Your video, hilarious!

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  13. That is so something I would have done! I think I would have climbed through the windows too...that's a lot of tying work!

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  14. LMAO! I love that video!!!! You guys crack me up! Miss you dear!

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  15. That sounds so awesome. I never know about these things until after they've already been done. Maybe next year.

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  16. Ha! I just laughed out loud at the car doors tied shut. Too funny! We're getting our tree tonight and it's the first year without an SUV with a luggage rack on top. Need to remember not to do that...

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  17. you are hilarious!! you will remember this forever ..can't wait to see you next week xo

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