Thursday again!?

Holy smokes, it’s been 2 weeks!  Just goes to show you how busy I’ve been…oooorr that I haven’t had anything exciting to say to warrant a post. 

• It’s been 2 ½ weeks since I started Nutri.system.  I spoke WAY too soon, the food is NOT good.  A couple of deserts are good, most of it is fine, and some of it is downright get-your-behind-to-the-bathroom-this*crap*-is-not-staying-in-your-stomach awful.  Needless to say I will not be getting the chicken and dumplings EVER AGAIN. But, I’ve lost 11 pounds!  Yippee!

Please excuse the grainy yellowness!  Our walls are actually a soothing light khaki cream color and the tile actually matches quite nicely...so really this photo is not accurate at all and I didn't need to show you. Oh well.

• Mr. Mags and I finally had tile installed in our family room.  We’ve been living on subfloor for a (long) while now and it’s so nice to have a real floor again!  Now we just need to install baseboard, seal the tile and get a ginourmous area rug to make the room cozier.  Then we can move all of the furniture that is covering the rest of our house back where it belongs.  P-cat loves the empty room.  We’ve found several kitty toys in there already. 

• I have therapy again tonight.  I think it’s going well.  The majority of my sessions so far have been about my sister.  Odd.  I didn’t think she took up that much space in my life, but apparently she does!  I am the younger sister, but frequently act as the older sister.  I often feel guilty for having a husband and trying to build the family I so desperately want because my sister is single and wants a husband more than anything.  This guilt is often brought on by my sister with comments such as, “well, at least you have a husband”, but sometimes is of my own volition.  I’m working on this.  (She has only said this a handful of times, but it has really stuck with me.  Sometimes she say’s she’s joking after…but really?)

• As I mentioned in my last post, I went to lunch with L a couple of weekends ago and had a great time.  She also offered to be my surrogate again.  She had some complications with her last baby, so I thought she would want to, understandably, renege on her offer from long ago.  Apparently not!  I had mentioned how my friend D offered and she got all huffy and said something along the lines of, “Oh, well, ya know, that’s great…not that I have to be the one to do it, but I WANT TO BE THE ONE TO DO IT!” It was hysterical and so heartwarming to know I have friends who would want to “semi-battle” over potentially being a surrogate to Mr. Mags and my baby. 

• My Dad turned 62 yesterday so to celebrate, Mr. Mags and I are having my parents over for dinner on Saturday.  The menu: Russian.  My dad is half Russian and we always have a traditional Russian Christmas dinner on Easter.  Yea, I don’t get it either.  But it’s full of love, memories and sour cream-delicious!  Anyway, I thought it would be fun to make some of his childhood favorites and some new ones as well.

Thanks for reading!!