Checking in again…  I had a major WOW moment last weekend.  We finally went to King Dominion to try and see if I could fit in a rollercoaster again.  I DID!  We rode 7 rollercoasters.  It was AWESOME!  I haven’t been on a roller coaster comfortably in nearly 10 years.  I will post the picture from the Dominator.  :)

I’m proud to report I’m fitting in a size 18 pants now.  And I just bought a new size 18 dress for a wedding I’m attending this weekend.  I was SO excited.  I took my mom shopping with me and we shared a dressing room.  As I was slipping the dress over my head, I told her “you know, last year, I wouldn’t have been able to get this over my shoulders”  We really just stood there in amazement.  It was a really good moment.  And even better – I got a $80 dress for $20!  WOOHOO!  :)  Go me – the sale shopper.  :)

This weekend is full of great plans – I’m going to a show Friday night, a get-together on Saturday, and then a wedding Saturday evening.  Tonight I’ve got to stop by the mall to get a gift and drop Aunt Jean’s sweater off to her.  I’ve been holding it hostage since Memorial Day.  Boy does time fly.  I won’t have a lot of time to visit with her, but at least I’ll feel better finally getting her sweater back that been in my car.  Then I’m off to home to have some dinner and get some rest for tomorrow.  I’m glad the week is nearly over.

I can’t believe it’s so close now, but we are rounding up on our last week before our vacation to Myrtle Beach.  It should be a really great time.  So far we have our hotel reservations, tickets to a ballgame and know we want to hit Broadway something or other and Barefoot Landing again.  I looked online and sent a couple more ideas of things to do to Nate to see what he thought.  As usual, we have lots of ideas of stuff to go to, but not enough time.  I have to ask him to pull out the suitcase(s) this weekend so we can start planning what we are bringing and all.  I know next Thursday evening will be hectic for us packing and taking the cats to Wingmont Kennels.  That reminds me, I need to grab a bit of fabric from my stash, to act as small blankie’s for the cats.  I’m going to through them in the bed with us next week so the fabric gets our “smell” on it and hopefully reminds them of us and makes the separation a little easier.  Piper will be fine, last time she even came out and played with the office staff and sat on their desks while they worked.  But Nemi will be another story.  She gets extremely aggravated when she has to get in the carrier to go anywhere, nevermind sleeping in a strange kitty condo.  We are going to leave instructions this time to just feed and water her and don’t try to do any handling, because she scared the shit out of the staff last time around.  Also we are going to load her into her condo and take her out too, to try and make it an easy time for everyone.  Last time we had to get her out of there because they were unable to.  She’s a BAD hissy spitty kitty when she wants to be, but Nate has become our certified cat wrangler!  Even the vet always says how good he handles her when we do vet visits.  He is her assistant, because the vet assistant usually doesn’t want to risk losing an eye.  Sigh…  Poor Nemi, she’s been my baby now for 9 ½ years and she STILL has issues, even though she was only 6months old when I got her.  The abuse really left a toll on her.  I wish people could see how sweet she is with me at home, she just doesn’t deal well with change.

Other than that, I got promoted at work last week.  I’m now a Senior Estimator.  Life is good.  :)