Hello New School Year!

Just swung by the vet so they could take a look at Lucy's incision - the vet said that she is completely healed and she can have the cone off for good!!  Oh.  My.  Gosh.  You have no idea how thrilled I am about this!!  I have felt so bad for her - she's had it almost a week!  She just could not quit licking, and it made us sad to see her with it, made us a nervous wreck to see her without it... it was just no bueno.  And she finally got to play last night, which she has been dyyyying to do - and I think she wore herself out!  She didn't wake us up at 5:30 this morning, and has just been snoozing the whole time I've gotten ready (extremely out of character!).  Maybe this is the new, more relaxed, newly spayed Lucy?  I actually kinda hope it is... she is very demanding of our attention ALWAYS.  :) 

As for me, today is our first day back to work!  I think I'm kind of excited to go back... and I think I will feel better when I've got next week all mapped out in my head a little better.  It will definitely be great to see everyone today though - it's always like a little mini-reunion!  But it's also a sad goodbye to two people who are just so "East."  One of our awesome APs and our amazing technology integration specialist, who was also my partner in crime for scrapbooking club... and my friend.  I'm super bummed.  Everyone is.  :( 

Speaking of starting the new school year... this time of year always inspires me to have a fresh start on getting up on time, planning good meals, watching  what I eat, working out, etc.  I reinstalled the "Lose It" app on my phone yesterday, and I'm actually enjoying inputting everything I eat and what I do for exercise!  We'll see how long that lasts... last time I had it on my phone, I eventually had to take it off because I felt like I'd gotten obsessive about it.  :/  But I definitely think it helps you to be much more aware of how much you're eating, and if you're eating the right things.  My current plan will allow me to lose about 8lbs by December - losing only 1/2 pound per week... I don't think I have the willpower for a pound per week!  If I can manage that, I'll be back where I was when (I think) I looked my best.  I hope I can stick to it... crossing my fingers!! 

And last but certainly not least!  I'm getting an iPhone 4 for my birthday!!!!!!  I am sooooooo so so so excited!!  I really didn't even care about getting the new one for a long time, I've been quite happy with my old 3G (that's right - we don't even have the 3GS!).   But then when I was in OKC for my best friend's at-home reception, I used her 3GS... I couldn't believe how much faster it was than mine!  So my formerly adored 3G quickly turned into my irritating dinosaur phone.  And if you're going to get a new one, might as well get the iPhone 4!  And we found a place that will buy our 3Gs for $125, so it will only cost $75!  Ahhhhh I can't wait!!  (I apologize for the incredible amount of !!! in that paragraph, I can't help it!!!)  :)

Have a fabulous week! 

My Little Cone-Head

 

Poor little baby got spayed yesterday, so she's wearing her little cone for a few days (maybe a week? eek!).  We're also supposed to "limit her activity"... which if you have met her, you would know that this is REALLY difficult!!  So she is confined to the spare bathroom right now... it's about the only place in the house where she will kind of be forced to rest and take it easy.  Not many fun places to run and jump on, no stairs to run up and down... but I feel bad for her, because I'm sure she is lonely (she is normally with us every moment of the day when we're home) and bored.  And not loving that collar, poor baby!  She does, however, have a bathtub filled with towels and blankets to sleep in... which she really likes.  :) 

...and she's still pretty cute even with her "Elizabethan Collar" though right?  hehe

Ummm... no.

 

Happy day!!

Two years ago today was the happiest day of my life...

So today is Tim and I's two year anniversary!  (Is that right?  "Tim and I's?  Seems wrong... "mine and Tim's?" Definitely not "me and Tim's - although I think that's what I say in conversation!)

It feels funny to me to celebrate a two year anniversary when we've been together for nearly six... makes it seem like, "Awww... just two years?  How sweet.  Young love."  I feel much more like an old married couple (in a good way) than "awww... just two years?"  We've been together so long that I kind of can't remember life before him.  I can't imagine my life without Tim in it - maybe because it's not just mine anymore - it's definitely ours.  And life is good!  Okay, I think I'll stop there on the sappiness - I could go on a lot more!  :)

As for anniversary plans, tonight we're going out to dinner at Hibiscus - can't wait!!  I've never been there, but it looks great and has amazing reviews.  Should be fun!! 

Annnnnd I am the proud aunt of the newest addition to our family - baby Ireland Colby Logsdon!  My brother Trae and his wife Julie just had their third baby this morning at 10:08!  He's sending me a picture, so as soon as I get it, I'll update this post.  Can't wait to meet her!!

Update: Here she is!!  6lbs, 10oz and 18" long.  :) 

Chairs, Chairs, Chairs!

Tim and I have been on an ongoing quest to find an accent chair or two for our living room.  It is SO hard and frustrating!!  Either I like something and he doesn't (or vice versa), or it's a cute chair/ugly pattern (or vice versa), cute but too big/small, wrong colors, not enough color, TOO much color... you get the idea. 

So today we went out for breakfast at a little local place in Deep Ellum (such a cool area - especially at 11am when it's not the least bit scary!), and then we hit the shops.  We shopped and shopped (til I got sick and we had to go home - lame!), and then I've been shopping all evening online. 

Here are a few contenders...

We would put a red throw pillow on it to give it a little more color, but I love the birdies!

This would also have a colored throw pillow so it's less... brown.

This one is at a build-your-own kind of place, so it would have different fabric

Another one that could use a bright pillow, but loooove the pattern!

Basic brown, but it's got good bones :)

This one's cute, but the colors might be a little blah...

So, there you have it.  Quite a dilemma!  Especially since I'm not sure that I completely love even any of these, and I'm pretty sure Tim won't like most of them. 

Thoughts??