Doing stuff around the house

This weekend was a great weekend. Friday night I hung out with my sorors after sorority meeting and went to a yummy restuarant, Pizza Capri. Had so much italian bread and olive oil sauce with pesto - it was ridiculous. The spaghetti was good, too.



THen Saturday, I worked out (yea, me) and then went to brunch with my friend Venessa Grant at this place called Yolk. Yum Yum, as well. It was a good eating weekend.



So on Sunday, I decided to get to down business and start getting my receipt together for my accountant to do my taxes. Well, in order to find the receipts, I had to clear the clutter of paper and stuff from my desk. Whittled the four piles down to one more to go through.

Notice the virtually empty inbox!!! I'm so proud!

That's my last pile to go through on the left there in the other inbox.

You can't see the file cabinet underneath but the biggest accomplishment of the day was going through and tossing out old files - to make room for my new files!! Four garbage bags worth of files - it was crazy! But so CATHARTIC!!!! How fun!

Sedona, AZ photots - I figured out how to post them!!!! Yea

These two photos were taken on our last day in Sedona. We were in the car heading to Phoenix International Airport. I just wanted to get a couple more shots b/c they are so pretty. Now that I'm starting to figure out how to post photos to the blog, I'm more inclined to figure out how to use my digital camera. Wish me luck. In the meantime, enjoy these photos!

Bloomington-Normal and other travels...

This past weekend I went to Bloomington-Normal for the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Illinois Statewide Founders Day. It was a BLAST! While I was procrastinating about driving down because I really did not want to go, it was tons of fun once I finally got there. I rode with another soror as I ultimately decided I did not want to drive down by myself in the rain, fog and darkness. The only challenge was that she did not get to my house until 1:00 am Friday Night/Saturday Morning so we did not get down there until 3:00 am. So I was a little tired at the breakfast at 8:00 am on Saturday morning. However, after a nap, I was good to go for the rest of the day and played cards until 4:00 am (forgot about daylight savings time). But it was fun, fun, fun.

I took Monday and Tuesday off work to just get things together and have a few days "off" with no agenda. It's been lovely. I would have taken the entire week off except that I have something "scheduled" to do for work on Wed and Thurs. It's been great just to rest up and take my time in getting the house "uncluttered." I also did some work for one of my girlfriends who is running for a national office in our sorority but once again, it's been great to just relax.

So I do not have pictures from my trip to Bloomington yet but I do have pictures from my trip to Sedona, AZ this past November with three of my girlfriends for our 40th birthday. let's see if I can figure out how to post these photos.
OK, I don't think I've figured it out yet. I'll email Jeff to HELP!!!!!

Phew.... a long day...

Sometimes, it's hard to say no. And other times, you want to say yes, you're glad to say yes, and then it's just tough following through on the committment. However, I've made the committment so I must follow it through. Boy, am I tired, though. That's why i'm taking off a couple of days next week to putter around the house and do not much of anything, thank you very much. You need those every once in a while.
Life is good, though. I am grateful for every day God grants me on this earth. As My Dad says all the time - "It beats the alternative as I'm not ready to give up my space."
This weekend, I'm traveling to Bloomington, IL for my sorority's Statewide Founders Day. It should be fun! Perhaps I'll have learned to snap digital photos and then we'll have some photos on the blog. Finally! Yahoo!!!! Happy Days to all!

Cherai's First Post

Wow - a blog. How fun is this? I love Jeff and Laura's blog so I decided to try this out for myself. Of course, I'll have to remember to tell people about it, too.

Well, in keeping with my title, my most recent travel was to San Diego, California. My client AAAAI had their Annual Meeting there at the San Diego Convention Center. Although I was working LOTS of hours for my client, I did actually get out to Coronado Bay and have dinner at this really yummy seafood restaurant. Some friends picked me up and we had a great time.

Since 2007 has started, I've been to Palm Springs (nice and warm - yea) and New Orleans (not so warm but had a great time - just got a little cold b/c it was wet and cool but we got over that one).

Stay tuned for future posts as I continue to travel the world. Next weekend I'll be in Bloomington-Normal, Illinois for a sorority statewide meeting. My goal is to learn how to use my digital camera so that you can enjoy photos as well as prose from yours truly.

Have a happy week!