Monday Madness

Hello Journal Goddesses….I have been quite the Journal slacker as of late….I guess I’m still having troubles getting back into my “pre-holiday routine”…lol…actually, I’m trying to retrain myself into some new routines and also, husband and I were still getting over our colds last week…so blah blah blah…there are my excuses for not journaling…plus I haven’t been in the mood…lol…excuses excuses…I’m sure it’s just a phase…

Anyway….one of the new things that husband and I have started doing is walking our dogs (and walking ourselves) when we get home…I’m getting a little frustrated with that though because he does a lot of stopping to pet the dogs…and that’s not so much exercise but what I started doing on Saturday was the two laps around our field with him and then me and Chaos left husband on the porch and we did a fast paced lap around the field…I drove my car around there once to see how far it was and it’s .2 miles for one lap. So I figure if I do 5 laps I’m walking a mile give or take a little it for accuracy…that’s my goal right now to get up to 5 laps and then more but baby steps right…lol…I just need to do something to get myself moving…I’m way too sedentary…and once I’m moving I feel so much better…so anyway…we did that every night last week, except Friday because I was zonked and husband worked late…so that’s why I did double on Saturday…also we didn’t do it yesterday…oh well…

So umm…last week was pretty uneventful…husband and are becoming friends lol…with him home so much more it’s bringing us closer and closer…for those of you who are just tuning in…lol…until about April of last year husband had a job which took him away from home almost weekly and sometimes for many weeks at a time…that is sorta how we ended up in Kentucky…he was on site in Louisville at UPS and actually had an apartment in Louisville for over a year…I’ve always wanted to live in Kentucky and it was looking like the Louisville-area work wasn’t going to let up (which it didn’t) and this all happened about the time that dad was transferred down here from Michigan (and they said that this is where they were going to retire and then sister and her husband said they were thinking of moving here too)…so all things seemed to line up so we took the plunge and moved here (moving to a different state is a HUGE financial ordeal and I’m not looking to do that again anytime soon!) (also, I HATED my job at Airborne so being able to quit it was a huge plus for moving to KY)…I did see husband a ton more…which was of course really good for our marriage lol…

anyway….I get sidetracked so easily…lol…his job still caused him to travel a lot – if we had lived in Ohio still I would have NEVER seen him because he was at UPS constantly and then Evansville jobs continuously (Evansville is 3 hours from here – it would have been like at least 6 hours from our house in Ohio) I think I’m rambling but ya’ll get the point, moving to Kentucky helped the problem a little bit but he was still not around much….and in the summer during tractor pull season, we were both miserable….it was really awful…we hardly would see each other and when we did it was great but then wrenching when he’d have to leave again….or arguments about tractor pulling…blah…so last April, he quit that job and took a job with a local company….BIG step of faith as neither of us were really sure what would happen, but God was with us and it really was the best decision we’ve made…husband is soooo much happier and I’m sooo much happier and we spend soooo much time together now…it’s like we’re married and we’re friends and it’s really really awesome…over 9 years of marriage and it feels like in the past year we’ve grown closer than our first 8 years of marriage combined! I just am really falling in love with that man on a whole other level that I didn’t even know existed…he just means so stinkin much to me that I can’t even express into words….

Ok enough mush…lol…now for reality…lol…I was such a stinker to him yesterday….I’m soooo not a morning person…I know we’ve covered that….well he was in such a great mood yesterday…really hyper and stuff…so he woke me up by running around the house whistling and singing and opening the curtains to let the sun shine in….it was a gorgeous day here yesterday…it was like spring! But it was morning and I was the antithesis to his happiness…as good of a mood he was in, I woke up in the complete opposite bad mood….I was a total grinch and I kept telling him all the way to church to leave me alone and be quiet…I was a total turd!! Lol….and he was in such a loving happy love-the-wife mood….he calls me Joy (short for Joy of his heart) and he kept calling me Joy…just being so happy and mushy and I was in this horrendous mood….lol…so we get to Sunday school, me growling and him chirping, and our lesson was about choosing to be happy…it was about depression, which wasn’t my problem, but portions of the lesson were about choosing a positive attitude and dwelling on happy things….so I was totally called out…lol…so my mood improved somewhat…but I was still a little melancholy and husband was still ultra-hyper…lol….

we had children’s church…we were on the roster and in the bulletin and on the overhead display as having children’s church….so we went up for the first part of worship (because the children aren’t dismissed to children’s church until after the children’s sermon) so for children’s church we were going to talk about the importance of prayer and I had made annual calendars for the kids to decorate and take home and put stickers on the days that they pray…sort of like a little prayer journal…well…so I had worked for about four hours on Saturday on these little calendars…so we sing the hymn and then the children’s sermon is introduced….the girl that was going to do the children’s sermon comes over really quickly to where I’m sitting and whispers to me that she noticed that husband and I were listed as having children’s church but her schedule (?) said that it was her turn so was I ok with her doing it…well…I was put on the spot and I didn’t have a problem with her going ahead and doing it if she wanted to so I told her ok….so she walked back up front and did the sermon and the kids were dismissed to children’s church…husband was very upset…he wouldn’t let it go….the offering is after that so I went downstairs and showed SK the calendars and asked her if she’d pass them out for the kids to take home and she said ok and she was sorry about the mix-up and I told her again that I was really ok with whatever….so I went back up (I was still in sort of a monstorous mood and husband was trying to be all affectionate during church with the putting of his arm around me and just whispering various comments. I kept telling him to leave me alone, so he started whispering to SP across the aisle LOL) but he was still upset about the whole children’s church thing…on the way home he was ranting about how much time I had spent making those calendars and he said I bet she threw them away….I told him I thought it was humorous that everyone else’s calendar reflected that it was our Sunday for children’s church but I was really ok with not doing it and I needed a sermon this morning anyway…so I had to go to a meeting at church on Sunday night and I found only two calendars left, so obviously she did pass them out and there were extras so I took them home to hubby…he’s still miffed…but I’m over it…lol

ok…when we were at church we talked to LKP (a fellow journal goddess) and she said that the guy she is interested in talked to her some last week and she thinks he is just being very shy…it’s sounding like something is brewing there so husband get his name and says he is going to call him (husband has met the guy once) so after dinner on Sunday, I’m trying to take a nap and husband comes upstairs and said he tried to call the guy but got no answer…I have no idea what husband intends to tell this man…but I’m not so sure that’s a good idea…but whatever…lol….husband was just in such a goofy mood yesterday…I love that man…

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UK lost horribly this weekend…it was totally depressing….also the Bengals lost….bummer…and U of L lost (or maybe they won on Saturday but they lost on Thursday) and Ohio State lost….ugh…after UK’s game on Saturday husband and I joked that we should run up to Steve and Barry’s and get Ohio State jackets but them later Ohio State lost…so bummer….

Well…I should really try and get some work done…please keep my boss in your prayers…her 89 year old aunt fell over the weekend and nobody found her until three days later…she was in her bathroom, and she did have some clothing on and she got wedged between the tub and the toilet and so she was trapped for three days…she lives in the D.C. area and one of her friends got worried so she had the landlord bust down the door and they found her…she’s alive and she didn’t break anything and at first the prognosis was good but the doctor has now said that she has taken a turn for the worse so Judge and her sisters are going to go over there tomorrow…she’s a very spunky older lady and Judge is worried that since the doctors are probably telling the aunt things like that she’ll have to go to a nursing home, she may have given up hope, because she’d rather die than give up her freedoms like living in her own apartment and driving etc. anyway, please keep them in your prayers! Thanks!

Talk to you all later….lots of love and prayers to you all!