Physically things are progressing. The knee is still off and on hurting randomly, mostly on staircases and after I’ve been sitting for a long time. Otherwise I am fine and really looking forward to getting back into working out at Curves next week. No post-walk letdown exhaustion this time. Probably because I didn’t do the whole thing! I am still pissed about that.
I am taking next week off in hopes of catching up from the little things which piled up over the last two months. The yard has had NO attention! That could be scary 🙂 I do need to trim back a couple of things in preparation for holiday lights. Also need to get my damn digital camera fixed. I still haven’t called customer service and it stopped working in Maine! But then, I’ve not had any extended time to be on the phone. Same with my PC. Oh! Consumer note! Do not download IE7!!! Wait wait wait. I stupidly downloaded it onto my PC at home and now it wont recognize the internet connection anymore. Even after I did an uninstall and loaded Firefox it wont see the connection. Sigh. So that will be another long phone call I am sure. I also thought that since Alex is off school, we could hang out together as we would normally between Christmas and New Years. Since I gave his dad permission to take him to Hawaii at that time, next week can make up for that.
Alex has a baseball tournament this weekend – we hope! We chose this weekend because it was the best weekend in Nov to have maximum attendance. Not so. Even though football is over for us, a few teams still have games tomorrow am. And now, soccer is clashing. So at the moment we only have 7 players for the 10:00am scheduled game! Argh. Hopefully our coach can recruit a couple of the 9 year olds to play up with us. Haven’t heard anything about that yet.
Ok, onto the love advice. So this year I am strapped for cash as we know and we were in the middle of the floor project and I pretty much skimmed over Marcus’ birthday. While in Maine I got the idea to treat him to 35 days of love. 35 to match his age. So everyday I sent him an e-card and told him something I love about him. I kept track and did not repeat myself once 🙂 Well, it was so cool!! For a little over a month I was totally focused on all his positive traits. It was fun to peruse all the freebie e-card sites and pick out cards that speak to our personalities. I noticed that by opening myself up to him like that, I was able to dismiss little annoyances with more ease. I was also able to verbally be more direct with my emotional state with him the whole time which is always a plus. The process which was supposed to be a gift for him, became really a gift for US. Since it ended this past Tuesday, he says he misses his love notes. So I am going to randomly work those into my mornings for him. Try it sometime! 10 days of romance maybe? Doesn’t have to be 35 or your partner’s age of course. I just did that since it was a birthday gift.
Trees & Flowers & Birds! 
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