A few months ago when I was talking to my mom she mentioned wanting to get together with my brother and I again. This last week I was talking to my brother, and he mentioned it too.
So I got thinking ... what about a cruise! We went on one when dad was alive - the 4 of us - a friend was getting married on Cozumel and 3 of us were in her wedding party. We had a blast!
I looked it up - and a 7 day cruise out of Galveston is still about $500! Not cheap, but not bad for 7 days lodging, food and entertainment.
The next thing would be figuring out airfare. Maybe get one of those travel rewards cards?
We're looking after Thanksgiving - time to save up and to plan.
I'd need to take 6 vacation days, but I have at least 5 right now (which I'll need for whatever vacation DH and I do.) I think I should have enough built up by then.
The next thing is figuring out how to save enough for the cruise, airfare, etc. I'm making around $75 - 100/month with swagbucks, and then more off and on from other places. But half of that goes to my giving/tithing category. The other half I divide between spending and big goal. So .. it builds slowly.
Maybe this will be the motivation I need to get stuff put up on ebay, etc. 
I hope this really happens!
*I was trying to find something that left from San Francisco so I could see my grandma as part of the deal - but as far as I could tell nothing starts/ends in San Francisco. (I'd go with a shorter cruise)
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We went to a Mexican restaurant for our belated Vday dinner. It was a unique place - flour tortilla chips, veggie tacos made with green beans, broccoli and something else, etc. The food was decent, but overpriced. Our waitress was awesome though - DH said she was in the top 10%. Left her a $10 tip. (our bill was $32)
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I've got a whole list of stuff I plan on getting done this weekend as part of prepping for my friend's visit. Hope I actually get to it all ...
One thing I'm not doing is cooking this weekend - other than spaghetti on Sunday. I have enough stuff in the freezer for lunches. So hopefully that'll save time / energy for cleaning!
One of the things I want to get done this weekend is hang the mirrors! We have plaster walls so I'm really nervous about hanging heavy stuff on them. I'm going to be looking for youtube videos on it.
I'll also be renting a rug doctor ... see how much that'll help. Sigh.
If DH will do something about the basement ... litter boxes and chickens ... that might help too. Doubt he'll do anything though.
Maybe a Cruise?
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Kym - Yep - she was just that good. My DH is a delivery driver and makes his living on tips - so we always tip well, unless it's horrible service. This was extra well and not usual.
Ceejay - They're doing ok ... they've been eating their eggs ... DH plans on getting rid of them in the spring when they've had a chance to get fluffy feathers again. He'd switched to cheaper food and their feathers were curling and in bad shape. I'll be happy when they're gone for a number of reasons - one of them being that I think they'll be much happier out in a farm yard than in an oversized kennel. Another ... smell ...