Making progress

I finished my first book for my summer reading. It was Case Histories by Kate Atkinson, and was really good! Kenzie loaned it to me like a year ago and I never have any time to read but I am really glad I read it. If you like mysteries and aren't bothered by some foul language and sex than pick it up.

Trevor also planted 18 tomato plants yesterday...well I guess 16 since I helped and planted 2! So I helped Trevor with the garden and met another goal! Ha ha. I also planted some herbs and have been seeding and watering the lawn for most of this month. I hope it starts to grow better soon. Watering it a lot has really helped fill it in, but we still have a few big bald spots.

I am working on talking Trev into a camping trip, but he is hot to trot on the house and yard so it is proving to be difficult to convince him to stop and go play. I forget what some of my other goals are...good thing I wrote 'em down! OH! I rode my road bike for the first time yesterday and am going to again tonight. Look at me go! Crossin' shit of the list left and right! We rode our bikes down to Living Traditions and had some Sudanese food and $5 beers. We saw some really neat stuff, like bonsai, pottery, weaving and a man was doing metal and iron working. I love the nice weather and this weekend really felt like Summer to me.

Wow

This cleanse stuff is really hard. I feel totally zapped of energy and when I got home from work last night I read a little and then fell asleep for two hours. I was really struggling with wanting to eat something last night as well. Trevor suggested I come home early and bbq....uhhhh, yeah not happening and thanks for getting me thinking about smoky, savory food. After I woke up from my nap we walked the dogs (Luna is staying with us for a few days) and that was nice. I played wii for a little while and then read until about 11:30. I still want coffee dammit! We have a lot to do this weekend. Finishing pouring the last part of our concrete patio and some veggie planting and other yardwork so I'm seriously considering having some food later tonight. As of right now I feel like I have negative energy levels. I have read where people say they feel "so energized" when they do this but maybe you need to get passed a few days to get there.

Spring cleaning

My house needs it, my car needs it, my office needs it, and my body needs it. The house I have been working on, but the office and car should be relatively quick. A few friends of mine have been doing the master cleanse lately, with mixed results. It is the cleanse where you drink a lemonade concoction for a number of days. No solid foods, and you also drink laxative tea and do saltwater "flushes." I had decided a while ago that I wanted to try it and was bummed to hear the bad experiences. The master cleanse recommends 10 days on this regimen. 10 days!!!! No wonder everyone I know hates it. The mental challenge of 10 days with no food, let alone coffee or a beer is frightening! I am giving myself the challenge of 3 days. In my mind, I can do that and I hope I prove to myself that I can. I love food, but this isn't about starvation, it is about cleaning some junk out. I started last night and already this morning I have a yucky, bitter taste in my mouth. I want some coffee.

Summer Goals

Spring semester is officially over!! Now I will wait and see what unfolds for getting into my program. But it does feel great to have my pre-req's completed. I'm hoping this the end of an era for me...the era of working full time while trying to go to school as much as possible. In order to occupy myself for my new found free time here are my goals for the summer:

- Read at least 3 books
- Knit every week (I have a lot of gifts to make for the future and my skillz need some refreshing and refining)
- Help Trevor more with our garden
- Make the back yard pretty and fix the fence
- $Pay off debt$
- Go camping until I have had my fill of it
- Ride bikes...a lot

The only thing missing is the perm

We have this family photo from Trevor's family in our living room. He hates it. I love it. It stays. Anyway, he shaved a beard he had been growing for a month so I made him leave the stache and that cheesy chin thing (don't know what it is called).



That's his poppa with the killer mustache and perm in the background. Oh, and Trev is trying to give the same facial expression HA! I was laughing so hard I could barely hold the camera still.

Celery...

is totally nasty unless it contains a glob of peanut butter. I love vegetables and am making an effort to expand my vegetable horizons, to find ways to eat the ones that I currently dislike. I thought I hated brussel sprouts but a friend of mine marinated them in honey, soy sauce and ginger...I think...anyway, he tossed them on the grill. Doooood, brussel sprouts are good when they aren't frozen green giant brussel sprouts! Same with spinach. Spinach is SO good. I think a lot of people have their first experience with spinach as a nasty frozen sludge that doesn't even resemble spinach. These people grow up thinking they hate spinach. Sad.

Spring and the latest haps

Wow! Where does the time go? I can't beleve that one year ago, we were coming back from Europe!

The last month has been pretty nuts. A few weeks ago I got the sickness from hell and was laid out for days. The entire thing lasted about 12 days for me. Then it got passed on to Trevor and he kicked it in roughly 4 days. My immune system sucks. School is trucking along, I took my final in my cadaver lab on Monday night, I am 90% finished with my psychology class and my physical therapy class should be finished by the middle of next week. I think my Anatomy final is on May 7th, so the end is near. I also should find out in about a month if I got into my program this coming Fall. Most of me wants to just go for it this year, but I am worried about quitting my job and being a full time student living on loans and basically no income. I guess whatever happens, happens!

The last few weekends we have been busting ass on our front yard. There are so many lovely plants and trees that were already there when we moved in. I'm sure our neighbors are happy that our house is no longer the foreclosed eye sore of the neighborhood. I have been talking to the tulips for the last few days when I walk by and they finally opened up about yesterday! I talk to my plants...is that weird?

I had a bunch of fun pictures of recent events but this stupid site is being difficult. Pictures later. I promise.