Unexpected pleasures....

Occasionally, Chris will bring in lunch to work for Hubby and me. Today he went to McDonald's, and got me a Happy Meal. It was a fun surprise, because I used to eat them when we were teens, so it was a fun memory moment.

My updated passport with the new name says it will be delivered today! Only 3 weeks after they picked it up. I hope the courier gets here soon!

Finally made it back to the Korean Spa.  Not only did I take my little girls and they did AWESOME for almost the whole 24 hours, but my friend talked me into getting a body scrub and massage.  For $70, they scrub off a few layers of dead skin, massage you for half an hour, do a cucumber facial, and wash your hair. I know I'm a somewhat brown person, but the skin coming off my body was BLACK.  I really needed it, I guess.  5 days later and I still feel so refreshed! Can't wait to take my Mama for mother's day. 2nd to last Mother's day here

Omg my big ass American Maytag washer and dryer just arrived!!! I'm literally in tears!! I'm so happy!!

I managed to convince hubby he HAD to go shoe shopping for work shoes, got him into the shoe store, shoes tried on and purchased with very little whining today! Usually it takes a month of convincing, then a traumatic trip to the shoe store where he grumbles about shopping, the price of shoes, and how much he hates trying them on.

I managed to convince hubby he HAD to go shoe shopping for work shoes, got him into the shoe store, shoes tried on and purchased with very little whining today! Usually it takes a month of convincing, then a traumatic trip to the shoe store where he grumbles about shopping, the price of shoes, and how much he hates trying them on.

I'm with your hubby there. Shoe shopping is horrifying!!!!!!!!! 

I'm with your hubby there. Shoe shopping is horrifying!!!!!!!!! 

Yes. 

*cough* online shopping *cough cough* 

We do a lot of online shopping, but the shoe situation was too dire to wait for shipping. He should have had new ones weeks ago. I happened to look at them yesterday and notice just how bad they were.

I find the dressing room situation to be very negative. It is. It seems like this part of the marketing system should be the most pleasant. Because they have you in the store, with the item, with your mind made up that you are going to spend - you are, as the cattlemen say, "in the chute".

But no.

First of all the interiors of most dressing rooms are grim...like something they put you in for prison induction to de-louse you. I'm looking around for spray nozzles. And the curtain never closes all the way. There's always a little gap there that somebody walking by could glance through and see you not only undressed but probably tugging up a pair of too small trousers. I have been working out for the past two years and if I am properly braced and flexed, and am staged at a very specific angle, in kind lighting, I sometimes think things are getting better. But if a person glimpsed me bent over tugging up a pair of British cut jeans, it could be traumatic - like seeing grandma gyrating into a pair of pantyhose.

And it is always really hot in there. I always seem to go clothes shopping when the day starts out chilly but turns sort of warm so that the stores must crank up the heat and overshoot or something because I am always sightly sheened in sweat in the little proofing oven of a dressing room. Bent over, sheened in sweat, tugging at miserly cut trousers....perhaps being seen by a passing person.

 

All of that! I hate trying on clothes, but it is a necessary evil. Depending on brand, style and fabric, I can fit into several sizes so I can never just walk in, get my size and go.

I found the lion!  And there is much joy and dancing across the land!

Oh wait, it is just me that is happy.  Still, there is much joy and dancing in my life!

Six (ish?) years ago, McDonald's had Madame Alexander "Wizard of Oz" dolls as the Happy Meal toys. I managed to get all of the set except the lion. The next year they ran it again, and although I thought I was watching closely, I missed the lion again. Today I found him, in pristine condition, at the flea market for $3. Finding him after looking all this time made me so happy. I have looked on eBay and what people were asking, or reasonable price with insane shipping, or having to buy the whole set, always kept me from just going that route.

Me again! Hubby just told me that friends of ours in the UK are expecting.  I love miniature people! They are telling very few people yet. She's at 14 weeks now.

She posted on FB about experiencing her first totally sober Download Fest and the thought she might be pregnant never crossed my mind. She drinks socially, but had posted something a few months ago about how many calories per unit are in various types of alcohol, so I was going along the watching calories line of thinking when I read her post. Silly me!

Reconnection.
Ever since the littles arrived, my husband and I have been like ships passing in the night.  At first it was being new parents, but then as the little one came so quickly after her sister and was and still is a screamin' demon [we are still trying to figure out what's wrong with her], we have somewhat let our closeness go.  We didn't outwardly miss it, I don't think, but we were missing it without knowing it.  Usually when we get a break from the kids, it's either crash into a heap, or a mad rush to get things done that are too hard to do with them around.  That sometimes includes binge watching things on Netflix.

But a couple of weeks ago I hired a babysitter for two consecutive days during the week because I felt like I was going to crack. I requested that she give me a day at home [take the kids out], and a day to go do things on my own.  And in between I slept at the Korean Spa.  I slept a lot, did a few chores, got my hair cut, ran a few errands, and read a large chunk of a book I'd bought for my kindle for the occasion.  Even though I probably didn't get enough time, I was refreshed enough from it that when my Mama decided to take the kids for that weekend, I was rested enough to focus on my husband completely. 

We both realized by Saturday night that it felt just like 'us before kids' for the first time since before I even got pregnant. We made a commitment right then and there to cuddle every night--no matter how tired we were--and to work hard to wrap up things before the kids go to my mama's next time so that we can spend more one on one time together and have no agenda again.  It was so lovely and it just reminded me of how much we are still in love <3

Small, but a nice UP. We had a $26.80 refund check from AT&T in the mail today. It doesn't say why, but there it was. I put it toward new work shoes.

DS brought home from work some shirts for DH and me (with sun protection fabric) plus some trousers for me (petite).  The store doesn't carry petite -- must have been returns -- so even cheaper.