Unexpected Perk

Hubby helped a customer, who happens to be in town because she is touring with a show, and to show her appreciation she gave Hubby 2 tickets to her show.

So Friday night I got to go see Mary Poppins! And it was totally awesome; from the house opening up like in a giant pop up book, to Mary Poppins flying, not just across the stage, but out, and up over the audience!

Date night 2 weekends in a row. I could get used to that.

I will never grow up

Friday night Hubby and I took a night off and went out for a "date". Dinner and a movie, the perfect date.

Made even more perfect by it being dinner AT the movies.

Made the most perfect by being a double feature of "Toy Story" & "Toy Story 2". In 3D. With previews of "Toy Story 3".

It was great fun.

And I am not even embarrassed about being spotted by my 7 year old nephew, who happened to be at the same show.

The flu is everywhere

My sister's youngest son has H1N1 (swine flu).

I got my flu shot on Friday morning. So by dinner time I felt fairly crappy. I was nauseated, running a low fever, FREEZING, and achey.

I was in bed by 8:15. I put on my long underwear, warm socks, and threw my fuzzy blanket on top of the regular blankets.

Hubby came to bed around 10ish and made me take some Tylenol. I think I warmed up around 3am.

I slept 12 hours!

Luckily, I feel better this morning (just a little achey) because I have way too much stuff to do.

Healthy Eating

To aid in our attempts at a more healthy lifestyle, we have been
eating a lot of turkey; turkey sausage, turkey bacon, ground turkey
instead of ground beef.

I have also discovered the tastiness of MorningStar Farms. Something
that I never would have thought I would like. They are vegaterian
"not meat" type meats. They have a Spicy Black Bean Veggie Burger,
and a Tomato and Basil Veggie Pizza Burger that I dearly love. They
also have an Italian Sausage, that is an adequate substitute. Hubby
loves their Corn Dogs to an extreme. He was actually moved to tears
of disappointment when we were unable to find them at any store
recently. A search on their website informed us that alas, due to
supplier troubles, they are temporarily unavailable.

Surly Teenager has been less than thrilled with all the turkey and
veggie meats.

I have tried cooking the ground turkey with beef broth to help give it
a more beefy flavor. But she thinks the texture is funky. So now I
usually compromise and do a half and half mix of the leanest ground
beef I can get and the leanest ground turkey.

The other day I was making Mexican Chicken in the crockpot. Surly
Teenager comes in and lifts the lid, kinda sniffing at it. She asked
what was in it. I started naming ingrediants, ending with chicken.
She looked suspicously at the crockpot and said, "Real chicken chicken
or some kind of fake turkey chicken"?

A Dry Morning

For the first time since last Wednesday....it wasn't raining this morning!

So naturally we hit the track.

The days are getting lighter later and it is getting cooler in the A.M. It was great.

AND I'm getting faster. 2 miles in 32 minutes!

A New Record

2.5 miles.

I just finished jogging 2.5 miles.

It took me 47 minutes...but still...2.5 miles!

I got yelled at...again

I know, I know, I know. I am slacking horribly about posting anything.

But nothing much is happening.

Hubby is still doing wonderfully and losing weight. His tooth is slightly better due to all the antibiotics. He goes back to the dentist next week and they will decide if the tooth can be saved or what they are going to do with it.

Surly Teenager is still doing wonderfully and is back to school. All her crazy pills are working beautifully and she is stable and is her lovely, charming self.

Lazy Teenager is still doing wonderfully and working at the same job and having fun living with 2 of her friends. She is going to take her driving test tomorrow.

I am still doing wonderfully and loving having a body bug. I lost 7.5 lbs the first week. Last week I went up a couple of pounds, which is totally expected after a big drop, but still aggravating. I have already started back down in the right direction again, though.

We are just chock full of wonderfullness! No drama here.

And I prefer to keep it that way.