Mental Health Day

I woke up this morning at 6am, took a shower, packed my lunch, kissed Corey and Chloe goodbye, walked to the door and decided NOT to go to work. Corey and I are taking a "Mental Health Day". That is one thing I love about my job - flex time. Corey did have to go in this morning for a meeting, though.

I think this unusually warm weather is giving me sinus issues. When I woke up this morning the temperature was in the 60s. That just isn't right. Global warming is real.

If anyone else out there is into photography and looking for some inspiration, check out this article over at Photojojo.

Thoughts

My husband has suddenly become a "Wheel Watcher". Yes, as in Wheel of Fortune. Also Jeopardy. He even Tevo's it sometimes. I'm starting to think I don't know this man at all...

On another note, this completely cracked me up. Aprille was a part of the Iowa caucuses and documented the experience in her Flickr photostream.

What a deal!

Have I mentioned my love of craigslist? Well, I love it even more today. We've been looking for a new dining room table big enough to seat 6. I'm sick of family get-togethers involving tv tables and sitting on things other than chairs. I was not looking forward to buying a brand new one (seeing as they are so darned expensive) so I've been keeping an eye on craigslist for the last 6 months, or so. The deal of the century finally arrived. We got this oak table plus 6 chairs for a whopping $150.00. Woot woot!!

Lexi squared

Both of our nieces are named Lexi. We've got one on each side. We got to spend lots of quality time with them over Christmas. Our poor little nephew, Tatum, had pneumonia over Christmas :-(

"Little Lexi" Checking out the ornaments on Grandpa and Grandma's tree.


"Big Lexi" fending off Uncle Corey, peppermint pig thief.

Great news!!

Chloe's tumor biopsy came back benign!! Yay! What a great big relief. We couldn't be happier for that. Its a Christmas miracle ;-) She's still doing great and hardly even complain about her stitches.

We had a great time this weekend, catching up with our families and spending lots of quality time with our nieces and nephews. I have some cute photos to share, but unfortunately my computer is not cooperating at the moment. I'll post them soon.

One strange thing happened when we got home. We noticed that our hot tub cover was off and propped up against the railing of our deck. Then, we noticed that the water in the hot tub had a layer of ice on top!! I immediately assume the worst... that some hoodlum neighbor kid was messing with our stuff. We did some checking and testing and realized that the breaker is bad on electric going to the hot tub. Not sure how the heck the cover ended up where it did. Corey thinks maybe the wind blew it off (it was really windy the last few days) but I don't see how it would have ever landed in such a position. Maybe it was in the yard and someone picked it up for us? I have no clue. Our only option tonight was to drain the water out of the hot tub to keep the pipes from freezing up. Hopefully that works until we get a new breaker tomorrow.

David Gregory gettin' down with Mary

It's hard for me to put into words how much I love this. Yesterday, Mary J Blige was on the today show, performing songs from her new album, Growing Pains. Leading up to her segment, David Gregory, the rather stiff and demure fill in host of the Today show, confessed his adoration for Mary. He said he was a long time fan. "Yeah right", I thought, they have to say that kind of stuff. I started to wonder when he kept going on and on about her. Then this happened.





LOVE, LOVE, LOVE THIS!!!!! It makes me so happy. And really, who doesn't love Mary?? She rocks!! Always has, too.

little trooper

Chloe is doing great!! She came home this morning, wagging her nub with joy. She's hardly even limping. Her first priority was the water bowl, where she drank a ton. Corey saw the tumor, which was sitting in a jar on the counter at the vet. Yuck, I know, right? He said it was the size of 3 golf balls in a row. It sure didn't look that large when it was on her leg.

The vet tech said she was really good while she was there. I think good girls deserve waffles.