4th of July Weekend

Well, this past weekend was the 4th of July. On Friday, I had an interview with an employment agency. They have one opening that would work perfectly with my schedule and pays pretty decent, however, it's an accounting position. Yes, I did go to school and I hold an Accounting degree, but, the truth is, I have no desire to be an in-depth accountant. I think I could handle pretty much everything on the list, the only thing I'm nervous about is financial summaries. That is the exact moment in class when I said "Being an accountant is not for me. I do not want to do that." She's supposed to call tomorrow to see what I think about the job duties and discuss if I think it'll work. I guess we'll see what we decide and what the job decides.

Brian did get a lot closer to finding a job, though. He has an interview tomorrow for a job he didn't even apply for. The guy heard about him word of mouth from the parts guy here who heard from the parts guy back at his old job. Hopefully that goes well. He also has an interview with a used car dealership on Wednesday, and he had turned in his application at the big dealership chain around here and I'm hoping I can convince him to call back on it, because he really needs to.

After the job searching we headed out of town and on the way we picked up my wedding ring from being saudered finally. I really missed it! We stopped at my grandparents' halfway to get some meat from my parents for Brian's parents, and I felt bad rushing out but we had plans with friends and it was already going to be 10 by the time we got in town. We went and hung out with our friends... nothing too exciting, just hanging out and chatting. Saturday after we woke up we went to the park to pick up our nephew to take him to Brian's mom to watch. He's started talking so much now! He's sooooo cute! Brian went off and played with him the whole time while his brother's girlfriend and I sat and talked. I love watching Brian play with our nieces and nephew. He's so good with them. I can definitely see him being a great dad someday.

We headed out to Brian's parents' house and played with Noah and the dogs and then his brother and girlfriend came to hang out for a while. Nothing too exciting. Noah got kind of excited about fireworks so we went and bought some more to light off. So we ended the night by lighting off a bunch of fireworks and blowing up some mole holes with them and we helped light some off at the bar down the road. I got a lot of great pictures using the fireworks setting on my camera.

Sunday it was humid and overcast. We woke up late and Noah was already down for his nap. His mom said she was hoping it wouldn't rain because she promised him a ride on the "choo choo" at the park. He woke up and the first thing he said sleepily was "we're going for a ride on the choo choo!" So, we headed into town to try to beat the rain and ride the train. I barely had him unbuckled before he started grabbing at me to get him out of the car. We rode the train that wasn't enclosed and he actually sat on my lap the whole time. I was pretty surprised. We got rained on an little but he didn't care. After that we gave him back to Brian's brother and went home. We ended up napping for a while watching TV and when we got up it was time to pack up and go to the park to grill before the fireworks. They were way better than last year's, but it was so humid and the air pressure caused all the smoke to sit and the grand finale was just a bunch of flashes and booms behind the thick cloud of smoke. Not a spark to be seen. Despite sleeping in late and napping for quite a while, I fell asleep almost immediately after getting home.

Today, we went to get some of Brian's favorite Chinese food so his parents could celebrate his birthday a day early with him. After that, we headed to my parents' house. We decided to go out for ice cream for Brian's birthday with my sister since it was where my parents were headed, on the way back home for us, and where my sister lives. It was fun to spend time with my niece. She sure is goofy. We finally came back home, and here I am.

So, this weekend diet-wise I didn't do a good job at all. Exercise-wise... not good either. I have the desire to run, but I can never bring myself to actually go do it. I wish I had someone here to exercise with. So here's officially my plea for a partner. "If anyone in the Appleton, WI area reads this and would like to start working out with me, that'd be really great. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE!!!!" I think I'm going to print out another yoga routine and throw that in with my "skinny jeans" yoga workout. I am liking the yoga because I've never been overly flexible and I think it's helping, plus it doesn't take much for equipment, it's low intensity, but high in calorie burn, and I can watch TV with Brian while I'm doing it. I'm also going to try eating more veggies and drinking more plain old water.

In other news, I finally got my wedding pictures back. It sucks because they changed the uploader on facebook and it locks up my computer when I try to use it. So now, not only do I have Canada pictures, but also my wedding pictures.

Tomorrow is Brian's birthday. He has the one job interview and hopefully it goes well. I'm going to make him one of his favorite foods and instead of a cake a giant chocolate chip cookie, because I know he'll like that more. I already got him his tv I promised him. I'm excited I at least get to spend pretty much the whole day with him this year. This whole not having a job thing is pretty nice, other than only living off of our wedding money which is quickly disappearing and having things we would really stand to buy.

Oh well, I'll enjoy it while it lasts and hopefully we get jobs soon so we can keep some savings for something useful.

I'm off for now. Maybe I'll sneak in some yoga at some point tonight...