Bestie Weekend!

It was a normal week at work. Nothing earth shattering happened. Now, the weekend, that was more fun! 

Lunch for the week: baked potato with pinto beans, pulled pork, bbq sauce, cheese, and green onions. Sooo yummy.

Ace cuddles on thurs.

Thurs night treat. Confetti bundtlett and leftover wine from last Thurs. 😁

We had some cuddles, then he very pointedly ignored me. Sigh. I slept great, tho.

Friday I had a dentist appt. Just a routine cleaning again. Sigh... stupid gums aren't healing properly, apparently. Bestie came in around noon ish, and shenanigans ensued. We had margaritas and then wandered around downtown burleson. 

A black widow cocktail from twisted Sisters pizza. We had the cinnister for dessert after lunch at cocina frescoes.

Day 2 we went to the farmers market downtown, then came home and made bestie watch all of Spaceballs! Hehe.

Farmers market shenanigans.

Posing with the murder kitty. Don't mess with the Ace! 

He'll cut you.

We ended up making it an 80s movie marathon day with papa murphys. Ace seemed to enjoy it with us... Sacked out on me in many different degrees of comfiness.

The many poses of the Ace.

Sunday bestie went home, hubby went to work, and I did my usual prep for the week. Meals, cleaning, laundry, all the usual stuffs. 

It was very nice having a lazy weekend with the bestie and the hubbster. We got some one on one time at the market and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. I got some new earrings and some sourdough yummiest, she got some fun rings and such. We got some bestie therapy, which is never something to sneeze at. We also talked about our planned river time in july/Aug. How dare she live so damn far away! We need to do this WAY more often. Hehe. 

So I hope all of you are having a good day, stay hydrated, and if you are lucky enough to live in the same town as your bestie, meet up for a meal and a hug! It does the soul good. 

Deep Thoughts in Tough Times

I saw something recently that is sticking with me. It was a tweet or meme or something that said "No marriage ends happy. They all end in either death or divorce." That's true. The ending of a marriage is not happy (except in some divorce cases, see Nicole Kidman after she divorced Tom cruise). I think the point the person was trying to make was to not get married since you're only signing up for heartache. In the comments, someone pointed out that its true of all relationships. Friends either fall out or die, family often falls out and dies, no relationship really ends happy. Is that a reason to become a hermit and never get close to anyone ever again? Some may say yes. For years, I thought that by protecting myself from getting too close to someone I'd be less likely to suffer heartache when they inevitably ceased in my world. You know what actually happened? I was extremely lonely and people snuck in anyway. So my life is a cycle of joy and pain, which is just how life is. There may be some truly touched people in the world who rarely if ever have things go not according to their preferences. Those blessed few whose life truly is roses and sunbeams. For the vast majority of us, however, life is a series of ups and downs. Some of the ups are as high as mountains and some of the downs are as deep as the Mariana trench. Now when I find myself caring about someone, getting close to them, I think "the joy and laughter we will share will be worth the pain and the tears when it ends." This is no less true now that I myself am married. I know our story will end with one of us buried (as I regularly tell hubbs that the only way we end this is with a body bag) and the other to carry on. They even made a point of telling us this in our pre-marriage classes thru the church. No marriage has a happy ending. 

Apparently this is a quote by Bob Marley. I like it.

I have learned to relish the good and slug thru the bad in the hopes that the bad won't last long and the good will get even better. I knew that life wasn't suddenly going to be perfect when we got married, tho I did hope for a good "pause" in the crazy while we learned to live together. Silly me. Life never pauses because we want it to. How lovely it would be if it did, tho. We have to participate in society and work through the slowest, most expensive apocalypse EVER. I can't shake the feeling that planning for buying a house and retirement is going to be useless considering the inevitable societal collapse that... is coming... then again, I've lived thru like 5 unprecedented economic crisises, so everything seems ultimately pointless. It would be so easy to become a nihilist. Curse my innate optimistic outlook!!

I guess I'm rambling thru all this to say, I've gone a little organization-mad at the apt. Storage containers, donation piles, rearranging the kitchen cabinets, I feel as though everything is being taken over by things out of my control, so I must take back what little control (HA) I have. I'm slowly spiraling into madness as life drags me down and only an organized closet can save me. Lol. Humans are such strange creatures. I've never seen the lilo and stitch with multiple experiments, but I've seen the gif of the sandwich making one. I feel like that. The world has gone mad, but I can still make STACKS of sammiches. Nothing can take that from me! MUAH HA HA HA HAAAAAAAA!! Ahem... slip of the madness, there. 

A and I had a margarita getaway on thurs. We went to weatherford for happy hour at Rio mambo, then stayed at the super 8 and enjoyed their pool. 😁

Nice, relaxing evening. We had a lovely little getaway. We've decided this needs to be in our rotation along with the every other week margarita therapy. We'll institute an every other month margarita getaway. 

Hubbs and I had a Friday of shopping shenanigans. First lunch at black bear diner, then half price books for me to get a book my counselor recommended, then bath and body works cuz their candles were on sale for $10.99, which is a good price. I signed up for their rewards and got even MORE off, so yay for deals! Finally we ended up at home depot to get screws so we can fix the dresser for hubbs. We also got a light bulb for the living room lamp that DOESNT require an app (but has a remote), plug in air fresheners, and super glue. When we got home, I went on my organizing frenzy in the kitchen, reorganizing a few cupboards, opening up some space. I need to wait for the closet until I get some under the bed storage containers. I did find a skirt I was afraid I'd given away. Turns out, I didn't! Hehe. The purple wrap-around that didn't fit for a while is still in my closet, and I'm slowly getting to where it will fit well. 😁 I am getting rid of those items that don't fit so well or look so good, but I'm hesitant to get rid of anything that I love, but needs me to shrink more. 8 lbs down for the year, so far... slowly getting closer to goal. It is very nice to have a working lamp in the living room, it's cozy for my reading days. 

Saturday we had a 4 year Olds bday party to go to, which was fun. Sunday I went to Mass and then to a thing at a ft worth social club. A boozy library day. My niece in law came with me. We had velvet taco, then looked around the vendors, then went to a used book store in downtown ft worth. Then I went grocery shopping, came home and did my meal prep for the week. I made bbq pork baked potatoes. Should be good juju. 

Velvet taco. Buffalo chicken and Korean fried rice, with queso. 

Fun! 

Truth.

Cute sign.

So we are gearing up for another week of work and such. Same old, same old. Sigh... this weekend will be a different one, with my bestie coming over 😁 I'm looking forward to it. 

Life goes on

It was a short work week for us, as we decided on a planned hooky day on thurs. Monday was normal stuffs, Tuesday I got roped into showing a group around the hospital, showing them all our machines and the cool things we can do. We are a small hospital, but we have top of the line CT and MRI, a full lab, and some GREAT staff. Wednesday I had to go over the new electronic health record system we are changing to. Its.... ok. I'm salty cuz there's whispers that they are going to take away my nice quality software. Sigh. Back to paper and spreadsheets (hiss). One VERY good bit of news is that we got a grant I'd applied for! To apply I had to use  a REALLY WEIRD system (gov, go figure). But, we got it, so we will be getting a new call light system with ALL the good stuff. 😁

I also got the last of the prints from Erin Curry (the ends) to finish my wall. I love it. She's an amazing artist, check her out on insta, fb, or her shop at https://erincurryart.storenvy.com/

Shameless plug, I know, but I like supporting local artists. 

I've been working thru my TBR pile, and on Thursday AM I decided to go thru my bookshelf and pick out everything that I haven't actually read yet. 

Reading The Wager with cake! Well, kinda. Ace refused to cuddle.

It's kinda big, right? And I still want to add to it! I want the other 2 mead mishaps books, and I just placed a hold on a book called Asylum because an ad popped up for it on FB and it looked good! I also want to read another book by the guy who wrote The Wager, which the library does have, and is currently checked out. I finished the Wager in 2 days, it is very well written and while its likely a mix of what actually happened and artistic license, its a good read. I also placed holds on deep blue sea 1 and 2 just for funsies cuz bad shark movies are kinda my thing. Besides, LL cool J vs shark is fun! 

We went to The Rim on Thursday. It was yummy!

Fried mushrooms

Jay's margarita

And a margarita pizza

Veggie quesadilla. We were in time for happy hour. 😁 not pictured is my wine. Then we went to HEB, got snacks, and came home. We spent the rest of the day being lazy. 

The weekend was mostly lazy, I got to do a lot of reading.

Ace is super helpful 

Good book! 

We went to see the niece on sat, but she didnt really wake up to say hi. Hubbs just ended up dropping off some stuff for her. We got lunch at BJ's on Saturday and apparently I overdid it because I felt like CRAP when we got home after the Costco run. All I had was some of the spinach and artichoke dip, shrimp tacos and black beans! I keep forgetting that cheese is fatty, so I NEED to take my bile pills since the gallbladder was evicted. Sigh. So rude. So I decided to watch deep blue sea while hubbs watched news on the protests. 

Someone woke me up on Sunday so I'd give him treats. On a related note, I truly don't know if Ace or the skull would win a staring contest. 

Sunday funday. Mass, groceries, lunch, meal prep, cleaning the apt, and a partridge in a pear tree. I hope all of you are enjoying the weather, your good health, and some good food. Shout out to all the dads on this Father's day, especially mine, the only one I know who goes on vacation with a studfinder and calls working 40 hr weeks "retirement." 😁 goofy old man. 

A week

It's really hard waiting to hear news from the ICU. The good news is that she is waking up, her breathing tube was removed, and she has been responding to commands. When amshe responded to the speech therapist she remembered family and friends, so that's good news, too. She has a long road of recovery ahead, but she's still here and that's not nothing. We saw her on Sat. She didn't say anything, but she was awake and wanting to get UP. Reminded me a bit of Dad when he was in the hospital. "I got places to BE!" I think she's going to be alright.

We had a gathering at the in-laws for the other niece, M, who just graduated from high school. She's planning a year off (smart woman) before college. She's going to study to be a forensic investigator. 

At work I've been working with my boss having meetings with people to make sure we are going to be ready for when our joint commission window opens. June we are focusing on getting all of our documents in order so when they ask for something we can bring it to them. We have been doing rounds to get things fixed, and this is on top of everything else for the new EHR. Thursday night I was invited to drinks after work with people and I went. It was interesting to hang out outside of work. I haven't done that in FOREVER. 

As it's June, it's the start of summer as far as I'm concerned, so I had a little Jaws marathon with Acey Face. 

He was thrilled

And riveted! Lol... he didn't appreciate all the honking of the boats in Jaws 2. I've been wanting to find deep blue sea, too. I think I've been fully accepted by the kitty cat. I have a shameless love for horrible sea monster movies. Gods of the Deep is horrible, but has a good looking cthulu (who they wake up by taking a HUGE skin sample... sigh).

I've been working thru my TBR pile. Finished my re-read of the Cleric Quintet, moved on to the Glen Rose Moonshine Raid, some fascinating history of my work town, and now I'm on That Time I got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf. So far, very entertaining, somewhat steamy. After that I'll move on to The Wager: a tale of shipwreck, mutiny, and murder. I figure fantasy, reality, repeat is a good process. Until I run out of the reality books which will be right after The Wager. Lol. I'm thinking of reading Dune before watching either of the movies. Thoughts? Book first or movie first? I mean, it's kinda a moot point because I watched Dune 1 in WY, but I don't remember much of it (other than Jason Momoa was BEARDLESS, which should be illegal, IMO). I do want the other 2 books in the Mead Mishaps series (yes, that's what it's called). I did mention it's entertaining, yes? Hehe. 

And so, life goes on. We continue to muddle thru. We have a short work week, as hubbs and i are taking a planned hookey day on thurs. We've been joking about getting Friday the 13th tattoos together, but I'm not sure that's going to be a thing. I wish you all well, be safe from the storms, and sending all the hugs and love from me! ❤️❤️ 

Phone Upgrade

You know me, I'm not one to want the latest phone with all the features and crap. That being said, I want to swap phones with my hubbs. His phone takes SUCH better pix. Case in point:

His panorama of gma and gpas back yard.

And his zoomed in pic of a Bluejay taking a bath in one of the fountains. 

Finally, his pic of our lunch. He had the black and blue burger- burger with blue cheese. I had a chicken sammich.

Anyway, we got home and on Sunday hubbs went to work, while I met up with L and we went for pedicures and ice cream!

Bellini at nail spa.

My flavor

My ice cream! Tasted EXACTLY like advertised.

Monday I made my food for the week, and watched vampire movies in honor of Dracula day.  

Baked potatoes with beef and mushroom Stew, peas and carrots. Red wine, of course, as I was watching vampire movies. 

So much rain on my lazy Memorial Day. 😁

Then it's back to work on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Thursday is my weigh in day, and its been good news this month. I can finally celebrate the fact that i am 6lbs DOWN from baseline. FINALLY. I think i have my cals, protien, and fiber 'secret sauce' recipe mapped out. Monday i return to the gym for health reasons. Thursday night i went out to see A for margarita therapy, and came home fri AM. 

a after 2 margaritas and with her 2 puppers. Pancha and of course, cake!

Hubbs and I had a 1pm appt to pick up our glass from the glass Blowing adventure! 

Our pieces 

So proud. 

My pepper grew some friends after the rains.

We did have some bad news on Thursday night. Hubby's niece, c, was in a motorcycle accident. She has been in the hospital since Thursday night, so if you are a praying person, please pray for her recovery. We aren't totally sure what lies ahead, but it will be a long road. It's been a hard weekend, not going to lie. 

The view from the waiting room at JPS. We are hopeful for a full recovery. 

Thank you for all your prayers, the whole family appreciates it. This was one helluva kick in the shins for his family. Sigh.