Recent Happenings

Wow, it seems like forever since I've blogged and I apologize. I have been addicted to a new game on my cell phone called Words with Friends, it's just like scrabble and it's addicting. Its been taking up a lot of my time so I haven't had a chance to blog.

So, what's been happening in my life lately, well, not really a lot, however we did just get home from a weekend in Davenport with family and friends, I wish I had some more pictures to share but I don't. I only have one of mom and her friend Cheryl's son. His name is Jack or John, I don't even remember. I think we were all 3 sheets to the wind when I took this picture and I don't even remember why I took it.

 

I took off early from work Friday to get to Davenport a little early, Tom and I had to go make a "deposit" at the lab. It was quite comical and I don't know if I should blog about it, but here it goes, sorry honey! So the day before we left I called to the lab to ask a few questions, my biggest question was how long do we have once the "sample" has been released? LOL She said 20 minutes and I was like "well, I'm coming in from Dubuque and we're staying the weekend in Davenport, however I don't think our room will be ready, so we would need a place to make this deposit" she said "oh we have rooms here that he can use" OK, so that would work right, well we get into the lab, once we found where we were going thanks to the GPS because I was in the wrong area, we had to go to the hospital. The whole reason we had to do this in Dport is because the doctor wanted the analysis done a certain way and the lab here in DBQ does not do it that way so it had to be done in Dport. So we get to the lab and lady at the front desk asked for our sample, so I had to explain that we don't have it yet because we came from DBQ and that someone said we could use a room here. So she's like "well we don't have any rooms, but you can just use the bathroom outside in the hall" WHAT??? So off we went into the bathroom, thank God it wasn't one of those stalls where there are multiple toilets. Tom's was like "I could've done this out in my car"! Anyway, off we went into the bathroom, I don't think you need anymore information on that. So we dropped the sample off with the front desk and off we went!We stopped at Sonic before we headed to the hotel, it was SO good. The last time I had Sonic was in TX with Stephanie.

Saturday, me Tom, Chis and Kristi all went to Jumer's casino in Rock Island, it;s a smoke-free casino and wow was it awesome! I know the casino's here in IA are trying to get that passed too but they haven't had any luck, but it was sure nice not leaving there smelling like smoke. And I really don't think it was keep people away because there was lots of people in there. Unfortunately we were not winners but we had fun. Chris and I play a little blackjack together and Tom was off playing slots. He found a fun one to play called "Press Your Luck" remember that game show - no whammies, no whammies. I didn't remember until they said that but he had fun. 

Oh, I forgot to mention that Saturday afternoon, the nurse called about the "deposit" we made and said everything looks fine and does not seem to think we would have any problems getting pregnant with an IUI so once the time comes that's what we'll be doing. This will be the 3rd time and if that doesn't work then we'll see what's next.

Sunday we left the casino fairly early, we got up for breakfast, then packed up and headed out. We were home around noon, it was a long weekend with lots of beer plus the hour time change we were exhausted. Tom got home and went straight to bed and I did a little cleaning and rested on the couch all afternoon.

Monday here at work was a big day for us, we moved to the 1st floor and I got a window seat. I love it. We're facing the opposite side of the building than we were up on the 2nd floor so now we get the sun in the mornings instead of the afternoon. Here's what I see when I look out my window.

I can't wait to start to see the trees blooming and this morning, I see smalls little flower buds, if I remember correctly they're tulips. I can't wait to see them, they are so beautiful. The only thing I'm battling right now, and I'm not complaining, is the sun, wow is it bright and we have such big windows as you can see from the pictures but it feels so good. Their are window shades but they don't seem to help too much. At first I had my computer on the opposite side so the sun was hitting my back but it was so bright I couldn't see my computer screens so I moved to the opposite corner so I can just glance up and see outside! I like it here much better especially in the afternoons. So on Monday, our first day down here, I wasn't used to the sun and I was asking if anyone had a "visor" joking however a girl I work with brought me over her "foam crown" she had at her desk, it worked wonders, however I looked pretty ridiculous and she just popped over and surprised me as she's taking a picture and posted it to everyone in our dept. As you can see it's pretty bright.

And to get a better picture of this crown, here's another girl wearing it yesterday because she's having a "bad hair day" and Cyndi, the crown's owner, thought wow this crown is getting lots of use.

Nice huh??