On Saturday, my family went to Melinda Scogginns wedding at our old church. The I met Melinda when we first came to Lakeside when I was in second grade. We went to church together through high school. It was great to see her so happy and starting a new phase of her life! Here are pics of the cakes. I just love cakes and thought these were both very cute.
I've been hanging out here at Fluor this week in Las Colinas with this 3 headed Fluor brothers statue and these crazy rocks. They have a nice campus but I am ready to head back to the office and see my friends!
Justin and I ran the Too Hot to Handle 15K race at White Rock Lake this Sunday. It was supposed to start at 7:30 but was delayed until almost 8:00. It was a tough and hot race. I ran it in 2007 and swore I would never do it again. I let Justin and my running group talk me into again. Now really NEVER again! It is too hot for a race in Dallas in July. The high for the day was over 100 so I don't even want to know how hot it was when we finished around 9:45. I was exhausted all day! I didn't get any pictures of the event so I went on the website to look for a generic start or finish line photo...and found a pic of me! Out of the over 2,500 participants, I made it into one of the 50 or so photos on the website. The guy in front of me is my pace group leader, Hans. Oh, I finished in 1:43 which seemed pretty good to me especially in the heat. It is a full 5 minutes faster than my 2007 time.
Today (7/11) was free slurpee day at 7-11. You just had to walk in and fill up the 7.11 oz cup with any slurpee flavor. We went to 7-11 to get gas and fill up our back left tire...so I got a free 7.11 oz pina colada slurpee. Yum. I love slurpees. My favorite is lemonade...but they never have that flavor anymore. When I was in high school, they always had lemonade slurpee at the 7-11 by our house. Ah, the good old days.
Any true couponer is always looking for a way to get those coveted coupon inserts that come in the Sunday paper for less then the $3 it costs to actually buy the paper. I, for example, have my mom save her coupons for me and then buy 1 paper so I get two sets of inserts each week. I found a discounted Dallas Morning News subscription for Sunday only delivery for $8.48 a month and was about to bite the bullet and subscribe when I found it...The Briefing. On a fellow Dallas couponers blog, I saw mention that the Saturday edition of the Spanish edition and The Briefing both contain the coupon inserts that normally come in the Sunday edition. Best part...both are free. I looked on The Briefing website and signed up to get free delivery Wednesday through Saturday. But nothing came. I wasn't too surprised as the website said delivery was only available in certain areas of the metroplex. So I tried to find the Spanish edition but that involved visiting gas stations in the area south of our house we try to pretend doesn't exist. Then on my run last week I noticed The Briefing laying on the sidewalk in front of my neighbors house! I was so excited! As soon as I got home, I logged on and reapplied to have free home delivery of The Briefing. Only a few days later, we walked out to leave for work and there it was, the Wednesday edition of The Briefing! By now you can probably all guess what was laying on my lawn when I got home from my run today...that's right...the Saturday edition of The Briefing! I ran inside and opened it up and it was true...there were my two coupon inserts...for FREE!! It is a couponers dream come true! Plus The Briefing is actually pretty cool. It is a brief version of the Dallas Morning News. So basically a one section newspaper covering all the main stories.
We had dinner at Maggiano's. This is where we had our rehearsal dinner and it is always fun to go back. Then we saw turtles and cacti.
