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In case you haven’t heard, we are in the process of selling our house. Don’t worry if we sell right away, we will be staying in the area until at least winter. Right now it is on the market and we have to leave the house every so often for a showing. Since the house has been on the market I have been pretty good about picking up around the house early – you know just in case. Saturday was my day of rest…ummmm…yeah, I figured since we hadn’t heard from our realtor’s showing service that we wouldn’t have any showings on Saturday. I was wrong. We missed the call from the showing service. Around 12:30 the hubby went out and picked up lunch for us from Burger King. I had just gotten through my Whopper Jr. (with a sleepy toddler napping on my side) and was pouring the dressing on my side salad when someone knocked at the door. We figured it was our lawnboy coming back to ask a question since he had just stopped by in the morning. Well, the hubby was stunned to find a realtor at the other side of the door and I’m sure the realtor was just as surprised to find my hubby staring at him. Awkward moment! The hubby asked for ten minutes. And in that ten minutes we ran around like chickens without heads trying to clean up around the house. Think the morning scene in the movie Home Alone when they realized they slept in and were going to miss their flight to Paris. Chaos! Thank goodness I had enough sense the night before to clean up around the house – just in case! I am ESPECIALLY glad that I had cleaned the dishes from my brownie baking mess the night before which normally I would have just waited to do the dishes the next day, but I had a friend who just had her first baby calling me late at night to talk and the only way I could stay awake in between her calls (while she was attempting to nurse her baby or having to get checked by the nurses) was washing dishes. Little Monkey actually slept through all of our running around. He was rudely awakened to the sound of the vaccumm since he made a little bit of a mess with crumbs that morning. Somehow we managed to get the house in showing condition in ten minutes – I’m not sure how and I was really tired after all that running around, but we did it and that is all that matters. Note to self: Whether or not there is a showing scheduled, clean up the house and act as if there is a showing no matter what.

In other news – my Tastefully Simple catalog party and giveaways end tomorrow at midnight. There is one giveaway (Samples Giveaway) that is free to enter and there are two other giveaways (Special Release Items Giveaway and Delectable Desserts Giveaway) that you can enter with the purchase of any item(s) from my catalog party. Why not purchase something delicious to have the chance to win these yummy giveaways?!

Tonight we’re having margaritas…why you ask. Why not?! No, but seriously we’re having margaritas to finally relax from the two crazy weeks of trying to get this house in order to put it on the market. Tonight our house had it’s first showing. We don’t know how it went yet. We’re hopeful. My knees are killing me from going up and down our stairs. Our next house better be one level! I am so done with stairs.

In other news, now that the house is finally in order I will be able to start back on my EA Active for Wii. I’ve been doing some great strength workouts lifting boxes and going up and down the stairs, but not enough aerobic exercises. I’ve managed to keep off the 7 lbs. that I lost with EA Active, but I really need to lose some more. I ordered Tracey Mallett‘s Sexy in 6 book, 6 Minute Quick Blast Methods dvds – Total Body Fat Burner and Total Body Calorie Blast. I’m excited to get those in the mail to try them out.

Well, The Office is becoming hilarious and the screen is starting to fuzz…hmmmmm…I think it’s time that I walk away from the computer before I type something horribly misspelled or something that doesn’t make any sense…which now that I reread this I’m not sure it makes sense, but I don’t care because I am enjoying my much deserved margaritas!

In honor of taking a California vacation, Lara at Chicken Nuggets of Wisdom has left us with a FABULOUS giveaway (aka Woo Hoo box), so that we don’t forget about her while she is on vacation without us!

Want to see all the FABULOUS loot?! Go to her Vacay Giveaway post to see the prizes and enter to win. I think there will be some other giveaways while she is out of town, so you’ll have to stop by and check it daily.

When you are on Lara’s blog, go over to the blue book on her left sidebar. Learn about Fishful Thinking’s Story Book feature and get ready to make your own. You’ll be able to do one a day. That will get you an entry into her giveaway of the day AND a chance at a $10,000 scholarship from Pepperidge Farm!

Be sure to stop by Chicken Nuggets of Wisdom while Lara is away to check out her guest bloggers!

Angie’s Spot is hosting her first blog swap! Yeah! The theme is Christmas in July. I love the idea behind blog swaps! I’ve only participated in one other blog swap, but I had a great time, so I thought I would jump in on this one, too! The blog swap sign up will be up until June 24th or until she has 50 people signed up – whichever comes first. Hope to see you there!