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This past weekend I felt like I was bored a lot, but still managed to get a lot done. I had no plans (as usual) for my short Friday, so when my sister said she and my mom were going out to eat and to the mall, I decided to tag along. After lunch at Red Robin we went to the mall and hit up a bunch of stores. I struck it lucky with a lot of sale stuff from Lucky pants at Nordstrom to the semi-annual sale at VS to cheap flip-flops at Steve Madden. I came home and had to get stuff ready for the guy who was going to buy our desk and take away our couch. I carried way too much down the stairs only to be told once he saw it in person that it was too big for his room. Boo. At least he took away the couch, but unfortunately (for both of us) when I was pushing it towards the front door, I didn't realize the side was just fabric and no stuffing underneath, and my knees broke through the fabric and jammed on the inner-frame. Ouch. At least he still took it! Friday night Ric and I went to dinner at Panera and headed home, where cleaning up Pip's fur gave me an allergy attack. I just went to sleep to avoid dealing with it.

Saturday I slept in as usual, but only until 10, which is good for me. I finally finished reading Lynne Truss' Talk to the Hand, which I have been reading intermittently for the past year. I love her sense of humor. Ooh, and I just looked it up and see that she has another one about apostrophes, which will release in a week. I'll have to check it out. I headed over to do laundry at my parents' place and watched VH1's marathon of Britain's Next Top Model for a good few hours. Jenny and I went to Target to shop for Cosette's 1st birthday. You have no idea how long that took because everything is so frickin' cute. I met up with Ric at Wendy's house to celebrate Cosette's birthday with the family. We also signed the lease agreement for the house while we were at it. After Cosette's cupcake-eating, the grandparents went home and we all had some Starbucks and chatted. I stayed up late that night watching Monkeys, Go Home!

Sunday I went to church while Ric stayed at home answering dispatch calls from work. The Andersons and I all agree he didn't miss much by way of music or sermon. Since none of us are in an Adult Bible Community, or ABC (these are Sunday School classes in disguise), we thought we'd follow the church's trend of abbreviating everything and use our first initials to spell out the name of our own ABC. Of course, Jeri, Elizabeth, Colin, and Ric = JERC. Haha. We all ate out at Ruby's for lunch, then Ric and I napped in the afternoon and spent time packing. I counted all our spare change and came up with almost $150. Sweet! That will cover the cost of buying boxes as well as moving the piano. In the evening we went to see Live Free or Die Hard. Review to come! When we came home we sat down for another fun one, Zathura. RTC as well.

Up this week: trying to sell off some furniture, preparation for moving, the La Mirada fireworks show, and lots of time off (I only work today and tomorrow). I have no plans, really. Hopefully I'll think up something to fill the time. Maybe an outing of some sort.