Hello Monday - January 29, 2024

I'm linking up with Holly and Sarah this morning for Hello Monday and a weekend recap.

Busy-ish weekend.  Vic continued working in the guest room.  He dismantled the cheap wooden closet components and scraped off two layers of borders that had been painted over, what a chore that was!  The so-called wallpaper removal tool was useless and he ended up scoring the borders with an Exacto knife and then scraping away until all the paper was gone.

Husband of a scrapbooker - "Yes, honey, I'll stand here with this ridiculously heavy piece of shelving until you grab the camera!" - he's such a good sport.

I don't think there have been children in this house since the 1990s so you can imagine how tough this was to remove.  At the bottom, you can see the heavily textured paint that will be next - thank goodness for the professional sanding tool, we are certainly getting our money's worth out of it.

While Vic was busy in the house on Friday, I went to my appointment at the Work Injury Clinic.  How long these appointments will go on, I've no idea but I am so over them.  I guess they want to hear that I'm ok now but that's not going to happen.  My knee will never be at 100% again.  I stopped off at Barnes and Noble to return a book I bought earlier this week, it turned out to be the re-released softcover version of a book I already had!  Then it was next door to pick up Crunchie candy bars for Sophia's birthday.  If you haven't tried a Crunchie, it's divine honeycomb enrobed in milk chocolate.

Vic cooked Spinach-Stuffed Salmon for dinner on Friday, it's fast becoming a firm favorite and is on the menu at least once a week.

On Saturday, I ran to the post office to drop Sophia's birthday package, then to Staples to drop the four ink cartridges I'd used to print photos for the retreat.  Do you recycle your ink cartridges?  Staples gives you $2 in reward dollars for each cartridge you drop off.  Final stop was the library where I dropped a book I have just not been able to get into at all.  The parking lot was just about flooded, it's been raining that much.

Home to drive with Vic to the dump to drop off the closet components, some leftover flooring, and other assorted trash.  Malone rode along, too.  We stopped at Joann's on the way home so I could grab some white cardstock.  We were both feeling pretty lazy so dinner was leftovers.

Vic worked his way through a Fast & Furious marathon while I worked on prep work for the retreat.  This is a 12 x 12 album full of top-loading page protectors.  In each one, I drop in the photos, paper, embellishments, and other memorabilia that will be on each page.  It makes it so easy to have it all organized like this.

Sunday it was off to church.  Vic connected with the media team supervisor to volunteer and we met with the small groups coordinator to express our interest in finding a group.  After church, we headed to Whole Foods to pick up three items and came home with thirteen.  It's just too tempting in there although all of our products are either Whole 30 friendly (two more days to go) or gluten-free for our plan for after the Whole 30.  Although I gazed longingly at the bakery case, I resisted.

How was your weekend?