Wow, I can't begin to tell you how glad I am last week is over! I honestly can say that of everything that has happened this year, the last week was by far the busiest I have been! Of course that means if I was busy it was a slow week for Logan at work ha ha...go figure!
Since Halloween I have been running around like a chicken with my head cut off. Monday through Wednesday last week I actually worked 6-3:30 pm shifts at Curves, which most of you know is unusual. I usually work either 4-6 hr shifts, not 8 or 9! We had the National Curves Convention in Nashville this past week. I worked M-W at the club since the other person who could normally work was in Nashville. Then Thursday and Friday I went to convention in Nashville. It was very fun, but it's safe to say I have never been in a room with that many women before (around 2000). It is also safe to say that I never thought I would be doing the macaraina dance at the age of 24 lol...I guess it's how they motivate their owners, managers, and employees to pay attention during all the different talks we heard! I will have to say though I learned a ton and have a new found joy with my job. Curves is not only for working out but the new message they are proposing is for promoting wellness-working out can help women prevent certain disease, i.e. diabetes, cancer, obesity...you get the point. I enjoy working for a company that promotes the healthiness of women! Stronger-together and 1,000,000 women stronger by the end of 2010! Let's hope they meet this goal!
Here is a picture from the convention this week-sorry poor quality, it was taken on my phone!
As for other things this week-I attended a military spouse support group this week through Grace Community Church. It is held at a lady's house who is in the army herself and then her husband is a pilot. I am not sure if there are any other wives who are in Logan's unit, but I didn't really ask either. There are about 10-15 wives that attend-I was a late joiner, but they were very welcoming. I found out about the group from the lady who cuts my hair and I went with her. Basically, it is Christian based but what happens is they take a verse from the bible and then apply it to real life, usually associated with the military. This past week the verse summarized was those who walk with the wise are wise, however those who walk in the company of fools suffer. One of the questions asked was how do the people you associate with help or hurt you and then help or hurt you as a couple. I spoke with Logan about this and we agreed we need to hang around other couples who are going to help our marriage and not make us fight or jealous. We went down this path in Hawaii with a couple and it definitely led us to some problems-so we know that it is important for us to socialize with couples who have the same morals and values as us!
Logan and I have not been able to spend much time together this week with my crazy work schedule and other act
ivities. Then the one day I have off, he had to work-go figure! So on my one day off I have accomplished many things-I finally put up the Christmas tree and finished wrapping some presents! Here is Rusty posing in front of the tree! It is a bit weird having the tree up this early but it is for Logan so he feels he can get his fill of Christmas! So here is our tree this year! Its pretty-I love Christmas time. Makes me wish is were cooler outside right now rather than 75! I also did some Christmas shopping, cleaned, gave stinky Rusty a bath, and am now updating the blog! Rusty's friend Riloh left last night since his owner was back from a trip! Rusty had a good time but made both Logan and I realized we are by no means ready for a second dog ha ha. They drove us crazy with constant playing and running around the house!
Yesterday, I worked the inaugural Clarksville half marathon (13.1 miles). Curves had volunteered to work a water booth! Here are the volunteers (members and employees plus a few randoms from schools in the area- I believe). That is my car in the background which was used to hold balloons and the Curves banner ha ha. This was taken before the fiasco of the water started. There was about 1300 runners and walkers-well needless to say those two jugs of water and cups lasted about 5 minutes, which then led to angry runners and walkers. So we will see if we volunteer to do this again next year! I am betting Clarksville will get a wrath of angry people about how the water and cup situation went over-I am just hoping Curves does not get a bad name since we were handing out the water! I mind you we didn't organize this, just showed up to hand it out and help out!
Here is one last picture I will leave you with: Our beautiful tree!
Love,
Nicki and Logan
wrapped the receipt in a box and tossed in some batteries to confuse him. He is too good at guessing presents-so I went to trick him ha ha! Well we had to open them last night because we only have a few days to deal with this until his trip-so I wanted to make sure he had enough time to exchange and talk to the people abo
ut the install!
On Friday we have someone coming out to look at how much it will cost to set everything up for us-I am worried about how much this will cost! We need to test paint the room so we can also get to painting. Once we start on a project we seem to end up doing it all at once vs. waiting to do it over time...maybe we need to work on that!
