Friday Five

Happy Friday! Here are 5 random thoughts from today/this week :).

1. There is not much going on at work this afternoon (the friday before the labor day holiday), so I have been playing on my new HP Touchpad. This thing is a pretty fun toy. Its basically like an IPad but with fewer apps, no camera, and it was a whole lot cheaper. It reminds me of a very large smartphone. In case you are interested, you can read about it here: HP Touchpad info

2. Wednesday we had Christmas in August at choir. I always love choir practice, but this week was extra fun because we worked on Christmas music and got to eat yummy food. Made me excited for December to come!

3. This weekend, some of Michael's family is coming to visit. They are coming tomorrow, and staying the weekend. It should be a lot of fun, and I am really glad they get to come!

4. We went grocery shopping this week. You are probably thinking, "ok, so what?" But this is kind of a big deal because we are trying out this new thing where we don't buy any new groceries until we eat all the food in our pantry/fridge. Why you ask? Well, I feel like we are really big food wasters. And I really don't like throwing away leftovers or other random things in the pantry that eventually go bad from never using them for months and months. It just feels like a waste of money because we were doing a lot of throwing away. So since we are trying to be a lot more diligent about our budget and saving for some things that we really want to buy/trips we want to go on, grocery shopping is going to become a once a month trip. At least that is the new goal. The only exceptions to this is for things like milk and eggs that are used very frequently. I tried to make a very good list and make a rough meal plan so hopefully this works out!

5. I got my wedding book in the mail! Finally after a year and a half of marriage (procrastinate much??), my BFF Brooke helped me organize all my awesome wedding pictures into a book on snapfish. It looks really really great (at least I think so)!


Hope everyone has a fun and relaxing Labor Day!