When Mike is gone for the weekend....

I can eat breakfast for every meal of the day- the bathroom stays clean and the toilet seat stays down- the dishes get washed as they get dirtied- the dog get a little more annoying and energetic- I can go to bed early and sleep in late- the house stays clean- a bottle of wine lasts me two nights, instead of Mike thinking I opened it for him- Lysol and I become BFF Friday night- I make up for lost time and go out with friends- I organize his closet and find clothes that have been deemed "missing"- I clean his car and find other things that were supposedly "lost"- I can bake bread without a slice being cut 2 minutes out of the oven- I can work on scrapbook pages and the photos, papers, pages and all of my tools remain where I left them the night before- the vacuum cord gets wrapped up and not just wound up and hung over the handle.
I almost hate to write this because it slightly sounds mean, but I like when he's gone for the weekend because of all these things! :)

Thirty-something thoughts

Next month is my birthday-- and a milestone birthday at that. 30!
Up to this point I haven't had any anxiety about turning 30, and I've always thought that people must be slightly unstable in the head to get their panties in a bunch about a 30th birthday. I don't have a list of goals I need accomplished before I turn 30, and I don't think my life is over the minute June 29 rolls around. The only problem I have is that 30 sounds old! I don't feel like I should be 30. Shouldn't a 30-year-old have their forever home, a couple of kids, a dog and a cabin on a lake? Yeah, right...... I have one of those things. The cheapest-- a dog! I don't feel much pressure from friends to have kids and "grow up" because most of my close friends are barely married and have no kids. I think that's where my "laziness" comes in, if you could call it that. Isn't 30 the new 20? That's my excuse.
Another thing I feel like I have to figure out is an awesome way to celebrate my 30th birthday. I'm leaning towards Vegas, just because it's going to be pretty cheap and we can also golf and do the Grand Canyon stuff that I've always wanted to. I've been to Vegas once, but didn't get to golf and only made it as far as the Hoover Dam. This time we'd venture farther into the Grand Canyon because that's somewhere I've always wanted to go, always! This feeling has just landed upon me in this past week. Now, I'm obsessed with travel research and finding the best deal out there. 
Maybe I can turn my blog into a travel research blog for a few weeks.... but on second thought, that'd take more time than I have to commit. :)