by Ang
My last post on this blog was on July 19th. Almost a month ago! I think that’s some kind of a record. We have been extremely busy. I was trying to think if there was one particular thing or event that has kept us busy, but no. Just life! Here’s what we’ve been up to:
*My sister and the family came!
We had a lot of fun. We went swimming every day, played rock band, did some shopping and other stuff. We had such a good time. I miss them. Here's my nephews in the pool. My older nephew looks like he has freakishly long alien arms:
*I start school again in 12 days. I’m taking two classes this term – Algebraic Problem Solving and Medical Terminology. Both of them are online. The math class is a pre-requisite for the biology courses I’m taking next term, so I’m looking forward to getting it out of the way (I HATE math). I have my books and supplies and I’m ready to go.
*Our Fantasy Football draft is coming up. I just loved it last year. I got my magazines and have been doing my research and I’m hoping for a decent team. I came in 2nd place last year, but I’m not expecting to do that great this year. It just can’t happen twice in a row. :) Because my husband is the draft commissioner, we host the draft at our clubhouse at our condo. I went to Party City and got some football stuff to make it a tad more festive. Not that a room full of guys really care about festive stuff, but I do! PLUS, this year there’s another girl in our league! So I’m excited about that. She’ll appreciate my football plates and napkins at least. :)
*Howie got sick. He has diabetes. We are treating him though (he’s only eight) and he should be able to live a happy, healthy life. We’re still in the first week, so we’re working with the vet to get his blood sugar regulated. He is doing well with the insulin shots. He doesn’t even feel them. We’re pretty sneaky though, we (meaning my husband) sneak up on him while he’s eating or drinking and don’t make a big deal about it. He doesn’t even flinch. He’s a trooper and a sweet boy (to everyone but the dog) and we love him, so we’re hoping he’s with us for a few more years! I have yet to give him a shot, my husband has been doing it. I used to give shots to humans, and had no problems with that, but humans don’t move!! I’ll do one one of these days.
(that picture of him is so unflattering. He's really not that fat. He weighs 15 pounds.)
*We bought a juicer and have been juicing. A LOT. And eating tons of fruits and veggies. I love it and we’ve both lost some weight and feel a lot better. It’s a lot of work though. After our weekly trips to Costco for fruits and veggies, I spend at least 2 hours doing prep work for the week (washing, chopping, etc.) Our fridge has never been so colorful! Or packed.
*I got this beautiful new painting for the dining room. I seen it while out shopping with my sister when they were here. And then I couldn’t stop thinking about it, so I drug my husband to the store with me so he could look at it and we ended up buying it. I love the designs and all of the colors. It just brightens up the whole room!
*My goal for the end of the year is to finally get done with all of my pictures. I had been putting them all on flash drives for backup, but the flash drives got unmanageable. So my husband bought me an external hard drive for them. It holds up to 25,000 pictures or something crazy like that. So I’m going to start the transfer hopefully this weekend. I’m also going to put a lot of them on our shared Shutterfly site for our family. Because we live so far away, sharing pictures is vital!
*Remember my once neat and clean desk? Well, this is what it looks like now:
I'm just keepin' it real! I like to think that I'm Supergirl and can handle it all, but I can't be put together and organized all the time.
(yes, I actually own a couple of Supergirl comic books). So I'm going to try to get my desk whipped into shape by the end of the weekend.
That’s about all that’s been going on with us. Hopefully things will calm down a bit and I’ll become a much better blogger!
