WEEKLY WRAP-UP

WEEKLY WRAP-UP

12/8/2008-12/14/2008

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WEATHER: some wind, mostly sunny around 80, until Saturday then we started getting rain.

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SUNDAY SERMON: Pastor Greg spoke of Christmas and Christ's return.

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LIFE LESSONS: I'm a big girl now and can drive a far distance all by myself!

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FAVORITE MEALS: onion taco cornbread

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TREASURED MOMENTS: I got to shop by myself! Drinking my Godiva Dark Chocolate Decadence drink; taking a wonderful nap (even though I felt horrid).

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TALKED WITH: mom, big sis

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THINGS I READ: Praying God's Word, Nikki Sixx's Heroin Diaries, The Pillars of the Earth

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WHAT WE WATCHED: the kids and T watched Drillbit Taylor

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PLACES I/WE WENT: I had an adventure (see pics below); the recycling place; T and I went to superwalmart; I went to the mall; to the Tapout wherehouse.

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BUDGET SAVERS/BUSTERS: Well, it was kind of a mixture, I mean, buying Christmas presents is a buster but I got some pretty good deals.

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BLESSINGS: my little adventure

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CHALLENGES: driving 160 miles round trip all by myself (through LA no less); keeping up on my chores (which I did really well); walking every single day (which I also did really well).

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ACCOMPLISHMENTS: see challenges

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FAMILY HAPPENINGS: KT had a dance on Friday. She got socked in the face by some 8th grade boy who was dancing crazy. She had a little bruise, but she's ok. It was totally an accident.

We went to the Tapout wherehouse for a huge sale late Sunday afternoon. I hadn't been feeling all that great ever since I was at the mall (hence I took that wonderful nap when I got home). I started feeling really sick inside the Tapout place and had to go outside and sit down. Extremely nauseous. I finally threw up sometime in the middle of the night. Austin and I were out for yesterday with it. We're both feeling better, but not quite up to snuff today.

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MY ADVENTURE:

On Wednesday, I had to go to the corporate office on the other side of L.A. for a training meeting:

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On the drive there, all of a sudden, there was the Disney Studios right off the freeway!!!! I didn't have time to stop. I spent most of the meeting thinking about jumping off the freeway on the way home.

So that's just what I did. Unfortunately, I didn't see the arrow pointing right, which is where I wanted to go and instead went left, onto Bob Hope Dr.

I thought I was lost. There was no Disney studio here.

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But I did get to see this:

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And this:

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Then, finally, I went around a few corners, and I saw this:


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And then, there it was:

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This was the best part....the Animation Building:

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The pictures aren't the greatest because I didn't get out of my car. Since I know where everything is now, I'm going to check on going on a tour.

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I also got to see this on the way home:

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I was almost home and just thanking God for taking what could have been a really stressful and/or boring thing and making it into such a fun thing,

and He goes and does this:

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Not something you see every day (even in California).

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Project 365 pictures

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#154; 12/8

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#155; 12/9...my Rudolph shelf

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#156; 12/10

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#157; 12/11.....downtown Riverside

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#158; 12/12....AC and friends playing RockBand

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#159; 12/13....me trying to take a picture of the moon through some clouds; obviously I should have gotten out the tripod

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#155; 12/14....what we do on a cold, rainy day