What's the Plan?

Almost everyday we start the phone call circle and say, "What's the plan?" Not sure who started it, but that's the phrase that means, "What, Where and When are we eating dinner?" With mental anxiety and fear of decision making, I've been against living in limbo. I insisted we start doing a weekly menu. Originally I envisioned cooking on one day for the entire week. I'm not sure how this will work out, but this week Sonja agreed to cook the entire week. She even hosted dinner at her house every night. She's since decided that no matter who is cooking, she'd like to have everyone over there. This was our menu for the week. Good Eats! My turn next week!

Your Shape, Her Shape OR My Shape???

So I got a deal on Jenny McCarthy's Your Shape Wii game. I think I'm spending too much time on "savings" blogs and spending too much money too! Well I bought it thinking the best. I set it up on E's Wii and started a workout, which is plenty intense, but I noticed in one of the special programs that it wasn't really monitoring me. Since it was Wednesday and I need to eat before church I let it run, because I didn't know how to stop the game. I went to the kitchen, fixed my dinner, sat on the couch and watched as it continued. It continued to say, "Good Job", "Watch your arms", "Great Job!", "Looking good", etc. and I was disappointed YET again by a Wii game. I think it is made by the same company as Just Dance. Well even if it doesn't work well, it does work me out well. I guess it's a good deal to have $40 trainer!

Floor Experiments

So Mia did a number on my floors (God rest her little kitty soul). I've done some reading online and am experimenting with hydrogen peroxide to bleach out the dark spots. We'll see how I can get a shine back on my floor! I'm hoping to display a before and after pic soon!!

Bad Blood Twice Removed

I had blood work done today. When I got there the nurse said, "You're having a lot of test run. Look at all these we have to fill." It was about 8 or 9 viles. She examined my left arm and decided the vein wasn't good enough; she proceed to check my right and was satisfied enough to proceed. At the half way point she told me we were half way there, so I asked her something, sort of small talk, though now I can't seem to remember what I asked...hence the blood work for one of my symptoms of memory loss. Well at that point she says, "where did my vein go?" Then she was rooting around for the vein and she asked if I was o.k. and she proceeds to tell me that she'll have to stick me in the vein she didn't like that was in my left arm. So I got stuck in NOT 1 but both arms today.

I pray they find whatever connections these symptoms have. I'm going crazy not being able to spell, or remember what just happened or didn't happen.

On Frozen Pond

E kept saying it over and over. It's frozen solid, no really it is! So both ponds plus the "cement pond" are frozen. The big pond was solid throughout. E kept picking up rocks about 6" in diameter and tossing them on the ice. You'd hear this great noise and it'd slide across the ice, like curling!


It will be warming up this next week. I really enjoyed seeing all the frozen ponds on my drive to and from work. I wonder how long it will take them to thaw. I doubt I'll make it back to mom's to watch the ponds thaw. Mom said she noticed cat prints in the snow on top of the frozen pool water. She also said she hoped they didn't forget and try to walk on water!!

Even Larry Bird had to start somewhere!

E had his first church league basketball game today. He was pretty clueless about what to do, but he did play two full quarters of the game, which meant there were other boys just as clueless on his team.

They lost the game 55 to 4
(apparently no mercy rule in church league)! He enjoyed it, but I think we'll all be talking about how to play the game. The team only had their first practice on Tuesday and only played for 30 minutes, so all-in-all I guess it's a good start.

Happy Brrrrthday Elvis!

Ok, so usually there is major talk about Elvis week! He would be 75 year old today. Rick and Bubba are always wanting to define HOW LONG we'll continue to announce dead celebrity birthdays, saying, "Elvis would be one hundred nineteen today."
Old Man Winter is still here. Despite being out of school yesterday for a NO "snow day", today flurries still continued to fly through the air. Yesterday I left a glass of sweet tea from McDonald's thinking I'd enjoy the rest of it on my way to school this morning, but no luck since it was frozen solid. Though you may have a hard time seeing it in the picture.
I have a hard time imagining people standing at Graceland to honor the King of Rock 'n' Roll. I'm sure there is an Elvis song cliche to end with but none come to mind at this hour.