A lot but not much going on here these days. I'm still stuck in a plateau on my weight loss. I still have ringing in my ears, hopefully it will get better some day. We've bid new shifts at work, so now I have different days off. My "grandpa" (next door neighbor growing up who kinda adopted me) fell, broke his hip, had surgery, had a heart attack, and is finally supposed to get out of the hospital tomorrow. *Happy dance* My mom, who had a knee replacement earlier this year, now needs a hip replacement, and is scheduled to go in next Monday. (Big thanks to the doc for putting off his vacation for a couple of days!) Mike is doing well in his summer course, which is great since he has to get an 'A' in it so he can start his teaching curriculum in the fall. We're facing a heat wave here in Kansas, worst part of it was last Friday when our AC went out! Thankfully, we only had one horrible night of 90* sleeping. Our landlord is great.
This weekend I took a couple of extra days off, we have Dem Chickins coming down!!! This will be the first time Mikey gets to meet any of my Topeka friends, and these two are awesome. Cat and Kylee were a couple of the best friends I had when I lived in Topeka. We had weekly movie/game/dinner nights, lots of Rock Band, and Cat eating spaghetti with ketchup instead of sauce. (Disgusting, right?) So this week they're coming down for a night, and Marc, Joey, and Marah are all coming over. We have to introduce them to the wonder that is Drubers Donuts. (An awesome overnight donut shop 2 blocks from my house. They have the best peanut butter donuts.) So I have a huge list of cleaning and what not to do before they get here on Friday. Our house is a bit of a mess. And on Sunday we have a birthday party for Mike's grandpa.
In trying to conquer the mess, I've been trying to get the house in order using The Flylady system. So far I've gotten good at making my bed every day and cleaning the kitchen sink...most of the time. I'll post more after I get it figured out a bit more. My hope is to get the house in order, have more time for what I want, and be more organized. I keep finding all sorts of great craft projects and things I want to do, but feel guilty for doing it since the house is such a mess! How terrible is that?
You're supposed to establish a morning and night routine. I've noticed that when I do the routines, I feel more calm. (Mikey says, "She's domesticating you.") But if it ends up with us having a cleaner, more organized, calmer home, I'm for it. I do have to do some tweaking to do on the routines yet, but it will get there. I also need to work on my inventory lists, so my grocery shopping and meal planning is easier.
I have made a few yummy new recipes I've found thanks to my good buddy pinterest. I'll be attempting to put them up in the coming week or so (I have a four day weekend, what will I do with myself?!) There were cookies, cupcakes, brownies, crockpot dinners, and more! We were nice and helped my nephew's football team out with their bake sale. That kid owes me!
Also, I bought the EA Sports Active 2 game for Xbox360 Kinect, and then I took it back. It was not acknowledging most of my movements and made me re-sign in after almost every exercise. Thankfully the guys at GameStop were understanding and let us switch it out for another game. Mike got himself another PS3 game, and I bought Zumba for Xbox. I tried it out that night after we got home from the movies (Brave was super cute) and it worked great. And it hurt, man did it hurt! So now I need to come up with a good schedule for myself to play it often, maybe that will break this plateau!
I apologize to anyone who read this and were yelling at me for jumping around so much, and for how long this is. I swear one day I'll be a bit more fluent. :)
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