Typical Monday Night

More often than not, I have no problem listing off all the things I HATE about mine and Sean's split schedules. However, one thing I'll miss when we are finally on the same schedule (in about, oh, 43 years when we might get to retire) is the opportunity to eat whatever the heck I want. On tonight's menu: broccoli & cheese stuffed in a chicken breast (don't get any great ideas that I'm excelling at cooking. They're frozen and you can get them from Sam's), a salad (consisting of lettuce, croutons and dressing) and the condiment every fancy meal requires:

 In other news, I've only done about a million loads of laundry tonight...

 Not to worry, the night started out with a nice walk around the block followed by a deep doggy cleaning. Followed by a deep shower cleaning. It was pretty awful but everything is clean now. 

10:00 p.m. Sunday Night

 After a busy night and morning at work, we spent the evening tonight with Sean's dad & step-mom for super bowl. For the last 2 years, we've sworn we would have a party at our house next year and ended up at their house which has been A-OK with me. And just like the last 2 years, I fell asleep about 20 minutes before the game was over.

Today's POTD is brought to you by America's Favorite Store where we had to stop on the way home to get Sean some insoles for his shoes and some lunch meat. This is where we were at 10:00 pm tonight. 

 

Holding Hands

Ever since Angus was a 10-lb puppy, he'd put his paw on top of yours while petting him. 80-lbs later, not much has changed!

 He LOVES our niece, Lex. He's not a huge fan of our nephew, tolerates OP, and merely wants to be in constant contact with Sean or I, or even better, both. But he fawns over Lex. If everyone walks in the front door at the same time, he will magnetically run towards her. His has a bad habit of putting his front paws on her shoulders which, since they're the same height, puts them eye to eye. For the most part he's doing well getting broken of the habit, so he settles for just holding hands.

 

Oh Snap!

My title could either refer to my enthusiasm posting TWICE in one day. Or it could be in response to this snarky attitude I have acquired over the last week (where has that come from?!) BUT, it's most likely in reference to my brand, spanking new (belated) Christmas present!

 I spent a good hour and a half at the photo store learning probably 1/100th of the things that this camera can do and another hour at home playing around until the battery died. I am pretty excited! 

I had a couple of pictures saved on my iPhone for the fat mum slim February photo challenge, but am choosing to ignore them due to the horrible quality! 

So: Day 1 your view today

Lex & I have been watching Breaking Dawn Part 1. Actually, I have been watching the movie, she has talked since the opening credits. Thankfully, Bella's acting is pretty horrible so I don't much mind. 

 

 Day 2: words

 

 The physician in our office randomly gave everyone in our office these little books. Most of them were full of games or funny pictures. Mine was words of encouragement. Was there a message I was meant to receive here??

My battery died before I could get anymore pictures so I'll have to get day 3 & 4 together.

Fabulous February & {30R30M}

This has been an a.w.f.u.l. week. All I have wanted to do at 4:30 each day has been to come home and go to bed, but have ended up working until 9 or after every day this week. Until last night!

Sean started clinicals this week which, to me, feels like school is finally on a roll. He has had to travel to various locations around Springfield this week and the day starts at 7:30 AM. I am not super certain on the number of times Sean has seen 7:30 AM unless he's on the tail end of a long night. We have had FOUR alarms set in an effort not to miss 5:55 AM so we both have time to get ready. It's been rough! But it's been nice to spend a small amount of time together before the day begins and has been the best part of my day more than once this week. Sadly for him, he's at the hospital from 7:30 AM until 11:00 PM on the three days he works during the week. That has to get old so fast.

The after school job has been good. I'm working slightly more because they are so short staffed, but even a few more hours seems like such a load with everything else going on. Thankfully, the people are so great to work with and my sales are improving!

The other job has just been so busy. Remember that week I took off at the beginning of the year? Yep, still not caught up from that time off. This week I have had a deadline for both health systems (along with a name change which is just such a hassle...) and an audit to prepare for. All the work had pretty much been done for the audit but the anxiety was a lot of added stress. I got so little sleep Wednesday night worrying about it. Come to find out, it went great (for me, anyway) and I got some great ideas to improve where I am lacking. The phone call from a friend letting me know of the compliments I had recieved as she drove the auditors to the airport made everything worth it and was so, so appreciated.

Last night was my big night off with Sean. We had dinner at Bairs with some friends and then I "watched" Sean play volleyball while beginning my February read. It was a great night OFF. He works tonight and I work all weekend before the week starts over (and I am pretty sure he is due to work next weekend) so I have to hold on to the night off together for a little while. Meanwhile, I should have plenty of time alone to get into my book!

February {A Friend Request - Book}

The Loch, Steve Alten

According to Amazon, here is a synopsis of the book:

Loch Ness holds secrets, ancient and deadly. Does a monster inhabit its depths, or is it just myth? Why, after thousands of reported sightings and dozens of expeditions, is there still no hard evidence? Marine biologist Zachery Wallace knows, but the shock of his near-drowning as a child on Loch Ness have buried all memories of the incident. Now, a near-death experience suffered while on expedition in the Sargasso Sea has caused these long-forgotten memories to re-surface. Haunted by vivid night terrors, stricken by a sudden fear of the water, Zach finds he can no longer function as a scientist. Unable to cope, his career all but over, he stumbles down a path of self-destruction...until he receives contact from his estranged father...a man he has not seen since his parents' divorced and he left Scotland as a boy.

Angus Wallace, a wily Highlander who never worked an honest day in his life, is on trial for murdering his business partner. Only Zachary can prove his innocence - if he is innocent, but to do so means confronting the nightmare that nearly killed him seventeen years earlier.

This book has been the only read that my good friend Lisa has talked about since, like, day 1 when I met her, I think! It's kind of long book (for me) and I am not totally sure that it's going to be my type of book but I am willing to give it a shot because it's a friend request! Lisa doesn't usually have bad taste in too many things so we'll see.

I was actually really excited to read another book this month (requested by my friend Marri), but then found out it was on the Oprah book club and thought there weren't probably going to be too many other books that I'd find as much enthusiasm to read so I will wait!