It's been a couple days... couldn't write Friday because our computer connection was out (probably due to the storm) and then we left for Madison to help some friends move (into our old apartment), and run some errands while in town.
Then after getting back yesterday afternoon (from helping them some more....) I took a nap and when I got up the connection was still down. When DH got home after 11pm, I told him about it but was too tired to blog when he saw that it was now able to connect....

Moving TJ and Addie, while work was still enjoyable because they packed very well in totes and boxes and actually did the lifting too, instead of just watching us.... We've helped some people move and they had packed barely anything, instead throwing it randomly into boxes while we hauled their stuff out to the van.....

Our friend Carol (and Tom) had her baby!!! We callled on Friday to see about coming over and found out she had a baby girl (Silvian) on Thursday. So Friday after taking one load of boxes to the apartment, we headed over to the hospital.
Carol delivered about a month early... so you know Silvian will be surprising them her entire life! And she's a Virgo (like DH and I), so how could we not instantly like the child?!? The baby's healthy, just a little smaller then normal, but Carol was still discharged on Saturday.

We ended up going to Weber Tire (if you live in the Madison area, I highly recommend going here for any tire related work you need, since all they do are tires and are very resonably priced), to get a new tire for our Aerostar... it's had a slow leak in it due to Spyros driving it on the mail route and getting various objects stuck in it, but we didn't want to get a new tire until he no longer had the mail route....

Then we went to OfficeMax to return their brand of glossy photo paper. (I Do Not recommend their brand of paper, since after three weeks what we printed on it still left fingerprints and smugged if you wiped your finger across it....).

I didn't think the manager was going to let us return it at first... DH and I would have raised hell... but finally we got a gift card and ended up getting some other things we've needed with it... a paper shredder and garbage can, a business card holder/wallet for DH, and a write on/wipe off and bulletin board. Plus we still have a couple of dollars left on it....

We found the write on/bulletin board at the end of an aisle on clearance, but when we went to the section with all these type of boards none of them were on sale, and the cheapest one that was also the closest to ours was about $8 more.... so it pays to look around. Make sure to check end caps and the back of the store.

Then we went to PetSmart to get cat food and litter (using our PetSmart card when we checked out...), and on the way to the register I stepped in dog diarrhea, but didn't know about it until I had tracked it from the end of the aisle to the checkout lane.... I have nothing against bringing pets into stores, but if they crap please let someone know... and if there is another person with you have them stay by the mess until someone cleans it up!!!!

Today will find me doing laundry... and for a change the sun is acutally shining. I want to really get the last of the odds and ends put away today... even if it does mean putting them in their proper home upstairs. I've been trying to not put stuff upstairs since I wanted to tear up the carpet and clean the glue off the hardwood first... but oh well.

Frugal Thought of the Day: Do daily stretches, even if it's just for five minutes. Being flexible can really help save your back pain and your wallet pain from having to visit a chiropractor....