I’ve got another crazy weekend planned! You may have all read about the craziness of last weekend and helping my mom paint, plant new plants, and rearrange her living room. We were busy, busy, busy last weekend! (Oh, I forgot to add that going to my moms from my house is a 4 hour drive too!). We took our kids to Bay Beach last weekend too! (For those who don’t know, Bay Beach is an amusement park in Green Bay. Rides cost 1 ticket to get on (each ticket is 25 cents!). There are some two ticket rides too. The new roller coaster they put in, The Zippin Pippin, is $1.00. (We wen’t on it — it’s worth a $1!).

This weekend is shaping up to be busy — just not quite as busy. Tonight, I have to go to a dinner with Bill for work. These things are always nice and well, boring. I’m hoping to get some more of my own yard work done this weekend.  I want to put a border around my front pine trees, and then add the rocks that are around the side of my house under the tree.  It isn’t like we can grow anything under those trees anyway.  However, something I’ve noticed that has happened with all of the yard work I’ve been doing — I want to be more active.  Now, I’m not saying that I am going to run out and get myself a Recumbent exercise bike or a gym quality bikes or even a Keiser indoor bike (though I could if I wanted to). Instead, it just makes me want to get out and exercise.  For me, that is a great thing since I don’t normally have any motivation to do so.  If it doesn’t rain, I’m going to paint my front porch too.  The only problem is that I can’t figure out what color to paint it!  Also, if it doesn’t rain, we are going to take the kids to be Morton Arboretum.  They have an awesome kids section there and I got a great GroupOn for it a couple of months ago.

As you can see, we have a crazy weekend scheduled.  What does your weekend look like?

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Day 2 went rather smoothly. By midmorning they had filled in the holes with the drainage tile and the rocks.  They also had rerun the sump pump outside too.  I am not sure why but it stunk really bad while doing all this.

After their lunch break, they finished laying the concrete.  I have to admit that I am impressed with the work that was done.  It looks great and this should solve all of our water issues.

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So far it has been pretty exciting.  The plane ride here sucked.  It was four and half hours with screaming kids.  I made it through it though.  LOL  They had a limo pick me up.  It was pretty cool.  I got to baggage claim and the driver was standing there with a sign with my name on it.  I probably will never have that happen again, but it still was super awesome.  We are staying at La Valencia Hotel and this place rocks.  I highly recommend it to anyone staying San Diego.  I have an ocean view room.  I can literally lay in bed, open my balcony doors, and watch the waves.  Sony also provided in our rooms some chocolate and a rose.  We also were given gift certificates for dinner.  I had fillet mignon.  It melted in mouth, that’s how good it was.  Even though I didn’t order dessert, I tried my fellow bloggers desserts and they were to die for.  So far, this trip has been awesome.  Tomorrow should be another fun day.  We get to play with the cameras that we are getting.  They have us going from 9 am – 9 pm, so hopefully, I will get a chance to blog somewhere in there.

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Have you heard of Entrecard before? If you are a blogger, its one of those sites that makes you excited like when you were in high school and found the best acne treatment ever. Seriously, Entrecard drives a fair amount of traffic to your site. However, they recently have gone through some changes that all the users don’t agree with. I won’t get into that since everything can change again in a day or two.

Instead, this post is about Owen and how awesome he is. Owen has written a plugin called EntreDroppers for us WP users. You can see it working in my sidebar (Its called Latest EntreDroppers). All you have to do is input your RSS feed from your Entrecard inbox, and that’s it!  You can tweak it to look like you want — descriptions after blogs, number of blogs showing, etc.  I have mine to show the last ten blogs to drop on me.

Give a shout out to Owen and let him know he rocks and download his plugin!

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All I have to say is that the last person who touched my old laptop was Bill.

For those of you who don’t know, I bought a new laptop before I went to Miami because of issues I was having.  However, I haven’t had a chance to get everything off the old one yet.  Bad move on my part.  Now, we keep getting a weird error.  From doing a search, I pretty much figured out it is the hard drive.  I am too afraid of losing my data, so I am not messing around with it too much.  Unfortunately, that means I have to go bring it into the shop to get it fixed.  The really bad thing is that I couldn’t get the Money file to transfer over.  That is bad, because it has my tax information for last year on it.  I need to access this!!!! <deep breathing> Ok, my computer place rocks, so I know they’ll be able to fix it.  They usually charge me less than their posted prices since this will be the 3rd time this laptop has gone into them.   Keep your fingers crossed for me.

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