Misson Accomplished

Holy crap!! This weekend has been so busy! We've seriously been non-stop since Friday night. We did accomplish everything that we set out to do so, even though it was very busy, I consider it a huge success!

Saturday morning we all got up bright and early, put on our best pink get ups, and headed out to the Strides Against Breast Cancer walk. I was shocked by how emotional it was for me. When I was planning it I thought, oh this will be a nice thing to do and it'll make me feel like I'm doing something to help. It was so much more than that though. When we signed in we were given the opportunity to write who we were walking for on a little placard that we pinned to the backs of our shirts. Something about writing, "Favorite Aunt Patti" on that placard was just so overwhelming. I don't know if that's when it hit me, the gravity of what she's going through/been through but I just started to tear up. And seeing all the people that were there who were survivors of cancer or those who were there to support someone they knew that had cancer or even those walking in honor of someone who died from cancer. It was amazing. But I'm so glad we did it. I think they said that all the participants of the walk we did raised over 1.2 million dollars!! That makes me feel so good. And we all agreed that we want to do it again. Go Patti's Perky Posse!!

While I was walking for the cure, Joe was home prepping the yard for landscaping. He pulled out all our old hedges and took them to the dump, prepped the bed with landscaping mat stuff and got it all smoothed and ready to go for today. We had already planned on going out to dinner that night so we left our landscaping behind and headed out for some sushi. After that, Joe talked me into a movie so we went to see Quarantine. I have no idea why I agreed to see that movie. I purposely shield myself from scary movies because my over-active imagination always gets the best of me. I probably watched 20 minutes of the movie and spent the rest of the hour and 10 minutes with my eyes covered. But even just hearing the movie was enough to scare the crap out of me. If you like scary movies, you'll like Quarantine. It is shot Blair Witch/Cloverfield style but the acting was very good. You truly believe that the characters are scared out of their minds. If you don't like scary movies, stay away!!

Today Joe and I got up nice and early and headed out to Home Depot to get our plants for the yard. It didn't immediately go so well. The plants that we had originally picked out were no longer available so we had to decide on other stuff. We both disagreed about what to get or what would work so we decided to go to Lowe's (across the street) to see what they had. Well, we weren't impressed with that selection either so we went back to Home Depot. The sales people at stores like that are so unhelpful. They really have no idea what they're talking about. We picked out a small bush that we liked and asked the lady in the garden department how big it would get. She said it wouldn't get much bigger than it already was, which was like 12" tall. So we bought some of those and some azaleas and our Fox Tail palm and headed home. When we got here we noticed that our neighbor has the exact same bushes that we bought but his are like 3 and a half feet tall! Dumb Home Depot lady. We ended up taking those back and going to another garden place down in Rockledge, which is now officially my new favorite place, and getting some golden mound bushes and some inpatients. We've got all that stuff planted and the mulch in and it looks awesome!

Now we have to finish up our regular weekend chores and try to figure out what we want to have for dinner. I hope you all had a nice weekend too. Don't forget to check out all the pictures in both albums!!