Having A Long Weekend with my Hubby

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Current: Mostly Cloudy Wind: SE at 8 mph Humidity: 22% Thu 104°F | 88°F Fri 107°F | 87°F Sat 105°F | 86°F Sun 100°F | 88°F

Wow! This is what we're preparing for. I plan to be hanging around the pool as much as possible, to avoid these crazy temperatures.We leave out tomorrow morning and my brother-in-law (not the lummox) is staying at our home to babysit the dogs. Despite it not being the lummox, I'm still nervous and I hope hubby is clear on the ground rules. I hated the violation I felt the last time we left a relative in our home. My girls, thankfully, are staying with their aunt and cousins so, they won't get bored and they'll probably not even miss us.

Hubby's motive is to travel to a professional bodybuilding show as a spectator and possibly gain some sponsorship. I hope that he can network and gain what he needs while we're away. I also hope he doesn't forget about me. So often, a business/pleasure trip can tilt too far in one direction. I can just imagine taking the car and returning hours later to him not even realizing I had left in the first place. He could get that involved with the people he's talking to.

August is nearly here! Were the heck did the summer go? I'm not complaining at all (the sooner my eldest gets back into the classroom the better). I am getting anxious now about our vacation plans, since not everything is in place yet. We've got to get on that. Perhaps hubby and I can make an appointment for ourselves, so that we can get all of that taken care of next week.

Also, the Babe's birthday is coming up. I've created her invites and have in mind what the girls will be doing. I've even made arrangements for her sister, so that Indy doesn't cramp her style while they're trying to be all "preteeny". The cake just needs to be ordered, the gift bags put together and the pajamas purchased (It's an "All Day All Night Pajama Party"). I'm even on the lookout for cute jammers.

So, here's to my Thursday/Friday and having a weekend with hubby. I'll be crossing my fingers that I don't melt from the heat and hubby remembers that I'm there.

February Still Flying like a Jet-Plane

I had the rug pulled out from under me, last week. I hope to go into more details in a couple of weeks about the entire situation; however, I will say that it will change everything about my work-life. The only consistency in life is change, right? All I can do is pray and put it into God's hands...otherwise, I'll loose my mind with stress and anxiety.

Aside from work, hubby and I had a lovely Valentine's weekend. We spent Friday as a family and bowled, bowled, bowled. Indy was tired even before the first game finished. Lesson learned- only one game if we're going as a family.

My sister kept my kids over night from Saturday into Sunday. Hubby and I went to see Wolf.man (wait for the red box if you must see it, although I wouldn't recommend it), then off to dinner at Lone St.ar. I had the sweet bourbon grilled Salmon (yum) and he had the steak. After which, we picked up a bottle of spirits to take back to our hotel room, along with a cheesecake from the bakery (double-yum). Next, we went by a club in the Hilton, but the vibe was a little strange. Then, we headed to another club. Me and hubby at the club. Wow. It's been years.

The crowd was twenty somethings and thirty somethings. The theme? Mardi gras. Boas, beads, face painting. It was a veritable circus with a disco ball, in there! Hubby and I danced, but people watched mostly. It was hilarious! I hope we never acted like that (something tells me we didn't). One lady walked up to me and said, "Hey, sexy," hugged me and then pounded. Huh? Who are you? I asked my hubby if it was someone he knew. He said no. Oh, man. Perhaps I looked like someone she knew? Oh, well.

Round midnight, we headed back to the hotel for drinks and cheesecake. It was a wonderful evening. We ate breakfast Sunday morning and watched Couples R.etreat at home. It was pretty cute, but I was more excited to just have time with hubby. Sis brought the girls home around 1:00pm and they were most pleased with their day, too.

It's been great having my sister watch the kids these past few weekends. Hubby thinks we're going to go into "dating" withdrawal. I think he's right.

A Nice, Quiet Weekend

I spent an evening out with hubby, Saturday. It was just dinner, but it was wonderful having time with him to myself. The girls had a baby-sitter and I felt comfortable with the situation more so than the last time. Indy is older and the babe is such a big help, I didn't feel as paranoid.

Hubby's reasoning was that it was his weekend off and during the week, he wanted to be sure he spent time with me and the girls. The babe is already asking about whether she'll get chocolates or not for Valentine's day. She picked out cards for her classroom last night and is all excited about giving them out. I started to remember the ordeal that became, once I was older; being specific about who got what card. Thankfully, she's not at that stage, yet. She'll just write their names, stick on the chocolate, and that will be the end of it.

I've purchased a few things for hubby and still have a couple of things left to get. It's going to be tricky. I can't stop after work because hubby freaks out if I'm not home when I say I'm going to be. Then if I say I have errands to run, he's gets super nosey. I don't want to try and go at lunch, for fear I'll run out of time (the store I want to go to is a quite a distance and I only have a half hour lunch with my new schedule). I could be satisfied with what I have but, no. That would be logical and we can't have that.

My nose and head are still in the zone. I just can't shake this cold or whatever it is. I started thinking that maybe it's a sinus infection, but then I read up on the symptoms on Web MD and there's a lot of pain associated with it, and I don't have pain (thank God!). I guess I'll just keep drinking and drinking until I drown myself or flush myself of whatever this crap is. I'm so sick of it...I'm just sick of being sick. Thankfully, the inversion is gone and we're getting rain...a sort of spring rain, if you will. The air is clean, head and nose, it's time to be over this.