Lacey, Weigh In, Pills, Etc.

I have had quite a busy weekend!

Firstly, I had my first Biggest Loser weekly weigh in today! According to the 'official' scale I love 5.5lbs!!! (Okay, so according to my home scale, I lost 3, but shhh, I like the other one better!) GO ME!

Second, I GOT A NEW PUPPY!!! I have wanted a second dog since.... well since we got the first one. I've asked over and over and over and each time J has not been on board. Well, guess who finally gave in?? He must really love me. We brought home a 9 1/2 week old purebred yellow lab. Her name is Lacey and she is a-fricken-dorable! She is such a sweet and mellow lover. (remind me of this when she keeps me up again tonight, will you?) Harley is being a good big brother and adjusting to this invasion pretty well. He's done his fair share of moping, but he tolerates her.

The first few days of my Femara are going really well. So far no evil side effects. Fingers crossed that one week from now the doc will give me good news. Our appointment is on Monday.

To sum it all up, I'm getting skinny, I'm medicated, and I fell in love. I'm going to look hot at the dog park this summer. ;)

Without further ado - our new little girl:

Lacey

Don't you want to just want to pet her soft fur, kiss that sweet face, and play with her extra puppy skin? Don't get me started on how I love it when she tries to run... love!

Laptop Travesty

It's official - my laptop has shit the bed. Stupid effing piece of technology. How is it acceptable that a mere 4 years is considered a long and happy life?!

Now, not only do I need to start pricing and shopping (I don't think we'll be able to splurg on the mac that I want... :(), but it had been a couple weeks since we backed anything up to our external harddrive and now I've lost a bunch of recent pictures. BOOOO.

This was the final straw in the suckage that was my 'Monday' (which fell on Tuesday this week since I took Monday off). I slept through my alarm, woke up with 12 minutes to spare before I needed to be out the door. I forgot to temp in my whirlwind panic. Didn't get breakfast, obviously. Forgot my cell until I was about a mile form home. Ran back inside to get it, scraped my leg on my car door (which resulted in a large red welt and a sexay bruise - the blue of the bruise complimented my brown dress nicely...), and that was all before I got to work. Since I'd selfishly taken two days off I suppose I deserved the ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY-EIGHT emails that filled my inbox, the to-do list that was never ending, and the 4 meetings on my calendar. UGH.

Needless to say the last thing I needed yesterday was the death of my beloved laptop. I think poor J thought I was going to jump off the roof by the end of it.

Monday's Suck

I may need to make this a weekly revisit because I find myself bitching about Monday's almost every week. This weekend was really busy so I think this Monday is particularly shit-tastic because I didn't get a break to relax after the hectic week we had last week.

J and I have a rental house that has currently been on the market for 4 weeks. We've dropped the price twice and there has been LOTS of interest, but no apps. As I was venting to my dear friend Mrs. O, paying the mortgage on two houses SUCKS. Especially when you are looking at doing it for a second month in a row. It is really eating up our savings, which of course we were working hard on to do things like pay for our future child(ren). (My feelings on the incredibly ridiculous cost of childcare can wait for another day.)

Just in case you were wondering, Me + Rental Mortgage + Rental 2nd Mortgage + Our Mortgage = bat shit crazy. You know, just for future reference. Especially when I come home late afternoon yesterday (Sunday) exhausted after a long weekend birthday parties and baby showers to my husband telling me that there is yard work to be done at the rental. Which, of course he couldn’t do himself while I was gone all day, because it takes two people to load the truck with a full yard waste bin, mower, etc. Oh, and a friendly reminder that he was leaving for the coast Monday morning at 2:30AM for work and would be back probably late Tuesday night. I can’t believe I forgot about that.

Did I mention that Monday’s suck? Yes, I do believe that I covered that.