Ups & Downs

I'll start with the downs so I can end on a good note!

• The acting class I tried to sign DS up for (the same one he's taken in the past) is FULL! That not only screws us up, it screws up my friend who we were going to carpool with. Hopefully someone will drop out because he's 1st on the waiting list. If not, my research for another activity begins.
• The economy sucks. I'm tired of it. I'm tired of watching the news and sometimes just watch fluff tv instead because it's a much better escape from reality.
• I can't go on my girls night out tonight and FG and I got into a fight about it. True, I should have looked at his schedule and but when I asked him if he had plans he said no. There is something on his schedule but it begins at noon. How am I to know that it's going to last until after 7 pm???
• It's freaking cold at night! I had to shut the window at 2:30 because I was cold under my down comforter! It's almost time to turn on the heat.
• The filters need to be changed.
• The yard looks like crap. The weeds have taken over. I cannot do it all and have told FG he better not be playing golf this weekend!
• He has to leave town for work again soon. Leaving me with a week alone - over a weekend too. ick.
• DD is growing like a little weed. I have trouble keeping her in shoes and clothes that fit! DS on the other hand I'm feeling like needs some new clothes because he's got the same shirts he wore in Kindergarten. He's in 2nd grade for God's sake!

Now the ups!!

• FG is not playing golf this weekend and I've already warned him he has a To Do list. He agreed and told me he expected it. He is good like that and doesn't mind if I give him a list. His request is that I write it out for him so he knows exactly what I would like him to get done. Most of the time, he does 100% of it too!
• I'm going to buy filters now. He will install them this weekend. :)
• FG surprised me and bought my season ski pass. Whoohooo!! Now I have to pray for snow. I hope we have a winter like we did last year. Not only do we really need the water, it was an awesome ski year and I DIDN'T GO ONCE! DS didn't go once. DD has never gone and really wants to. But this year with a pass again I plan to drop her off at preschool and head up the hill for a few runs before I pick her up on the way home. It will be GREAT!
• We are finally moving forward with one of the house projects we want to do. Last year it was the stone patio outside. This year I feared we wouldn't be able to do anything. But we had a contractor that is a client of FG's come over this morning to sketch out built in's for the front room.

It looks a bit different there now, this is several years old and the toys are all moved to the playroom we had built 4 years ago. But behind the doors of the cabinet is my computer and where I am at this exact moment. We've never been happy with the look of the entire wall and it was never the "vision" I had when we moved in. Now it will be one 7' high unit that goes along the entire wall. You can't see to the right of the bookshelves is another filing cabinet and then a little 1 1/2' pop out wall. This whole area is one big open room with the family room to the right of what you see. It's been a great layout with little kids, it just needs to be more aesthetically pleasing and functional. I'm SO excited!!!!