I got back to NE mid-afternoon on Friday. Been mostly resting and relaxing since then.
The trip went pretty well. As expected, my brother didn't come. So I ended up going through the shed with all of dad's things by myself on Tuesday. Tuesday night I FaceTimed with my brother so he could pick out what he wanted to send up with our Aunt.
I left everything out on the back porch - most of it was under a roof (one of the last projects my dad finished with a lifetime buddy of his.) Guess what? That night around 3:30 a.m. I woke up to the sound of RAIN!
I ran out to the porch and got everything under cover that hadn't been. A box of books got ruined, but that was the worst of it.
I spent a lot of time on Wednesday going through my dad's slides and trying to repackage them into smaller packages.
Part of Wednesday also was spent taking my grandma and Aunt out for a mani/pedi and out to eat (my treat.)
Thursday we had one guest for dinner. We had WAY too much food for 4 people. There was even a "turkey" - I think they got it at the Village Market (Loma Linda) - it looked like a real turkey - even had a hole where you put stuffing in! Weird.
I took home a LOT of slides and a few other things of my dad's. I had brought my biggest suitcase with the bare minimum of stuff in it. I ended up filling it completely, plus a large backpack of dad's AND a reusable grocery bag my aunt gave me.
Even so ... my suitcase weighed in at 55lb! Which meant a $75!!!!! overweight fee. Ugh!
My aunt lent me a machine to feed the slides into my computer.
I bought something on Amazon for a Christmas gift which apparently gave me a year's unlimited storage space on Amazon Drive. ???? I'll take it! I'm going to have a lot of photos and video's to upload.
That's the other thing I took - numerous home videos in two different formats, and a bunch of recorded sermons on cassette tape. I'm going to have to figure out how to get the videos into a watchable format.
My plan is to get everything onto DVDs and then give them as gifts to Mom, brother, aunt, grandma next year. Hopefully I can get it all done by then.
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Tomorrow I plan on doing some shopping.
I have $21 in Walmart gift card money. I also have about $31 left in grocery money. I also have around $50 in the Medical category (allergy meds!)If I get everything I'm planning on, I'll get back somewhere between $10 - 15 from iBotta, and $5 or so from MobiSave, and a $3-4 from the other apps.
I went through iBotta, Saving Star, MobiSave, SavingStar, etc., and also printed out a bunch of coupons. Tomorrow I'm going to double check the Target app because there were a lot of things expiring today.
I have a printed out list of everything I have a rebate and/or coupon for (that I want/can use.)
I'm looking forward to shopping. 
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I redeemed a $25 AGC from PerkTv on Friday.
I completed my 5 months of spending $500 on Discover - so in a week or so I should get my $75 cashback bonus.
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I'm glad to be back, although I was glad I made the trip out to CA!
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