Weekend Recap: Office Group | Life on Virginia Highway

I hope you all had a super weekend! Sadly, we didn’t win the Powerball, so it will doubtless be my first full week once more to work since mid-December and I imagine it’s going to be a battle. Why can’t every week have holidays and four-day work weeks?!

The biggest info of this weekend? We closed on our rental residence Friday morning! That’s such an unlimited step for us, on account of it is absolutely out of our common comfort zone. However, I imagine as quickly as we get the cling of points, we’ll almost definitely truly want it. I do comprehend it acquired’t go along with out it’s challenges, nevertheless thus far, points have gone truly simply, and I imagine we now have now two households truly involved with renting it! Our pal Nick has given us quite a few good advice and confirmed me web pages and devices that make your entire course of tons easier. I’ve been truly shocked by the number of readers which could be already landlords or which could be about to vary into landlords, so it seems like we’re in good agency! I’ll write a additional detailed submit on the rental residence and the devices we’ve effectively used throughout the coming weeks. Nevertheless for now, a lot of quick footage of the home (it’s a cute little 2 mattress, 2 bathtub metropolis dwelling pretty close to the place we dwell – which we love)!

After closing, we headed to lunch with just a few of my husband’s work mates and their spouses at Crave in midtown crossing – always a gratifying cope with! Then, to have an excellent time our first rental, my husband and I headed to Scriptown Brewing, throughout the Blackstone District, which is shortly turning into thought-about one in every of our favorite beer joints in town! Each time we’ve gone, we now have now cherished the bartenders and the overall vibe (the financial decor is beautiful). We merely need it had been nearer to dwelling!

I do know just a few of you noticed last week, nevertheless I’ve been making some modifications on the weblog. I modified my theme to a cleaner mannequin and I’m nonetheless tweaking points a bit. I am moreover working with my advert agency to scale back the adverts you see that take over photos (these all of us hate) and to make modifications to rush points up. I moreover found that my core web page was slowed down with earlier photos that had been loads too big (file size-wise), so I spent about six hours this weekend making updates there. I moreover moved to a CDN (content material materials provide group) that should velocity points up as successfully. I’m not a techy specific individual, nevertheless I’m brave adequate to even be dangerous and try to interchange points alone 😉

Bottom line, I am a lot nearer to having a sooner web page with a lot much less obnoxious adverts and I hope you all can uncover a distinction. I nonetheless have a lot of tweaks to make, nevertheless I imagine the affect is already noticeable!

Sunday morning, we picked up our mates for a quick Starbucks and Supplier Joe’ run (I needed flowers for Friday’s submit) after which took them over to tour our rental.

I then acquired right here dwelling and started organizing our office. Now that we now have now your entire rental issue going, I’m drowning in paperwork and needed a better submitting system (the one drawer in my desk was not slicing it).

I’ll share additional particulars subsequent week, nevertheless my priority yesterday was to clean out the closet throughout the office. It’s a coat closet, however managed to retailer all of this junk: a lot of hundred CD’s, about 50+ VHS tapes, 50+ DVD’s, XBox video video games, all my digital digicam instruments, our board video video games, an earlier scanner we don’t use, 3 Guitar Hero guitars, an precise guitar and quite a few random completely different crap. I cleaned out stuff we haven’t even checked out since we moved in, so I decided it was time for a Goodwill provide.  As a side discover: my chick flick assortment on VHS was pretty stellar and I was sad to see the titles go. Nevertheless, I did take pics of all of them in case I would like to arrange them on DVD 😉

I acquired right here all through this truly moderately priced abstract art work over the weekend and prefer it! I’m pondering of using it in our customer bathroom makeover! I’m digging the whitewashed physique that’s included with it as successfully! And speaking of the customer bathroom – I didn’t get the second coat completed as deliberate, so it ought to potential be a lot of weeks sooner than I can share it. #shocker

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