Shannon, Me & Episodes of Friends

This is Shannon's belly bulge from the in vitro procedure. I estimate this will be her at about 4 months along.

I brought my six seasons of Friends to watch with Shannon over the 4th of July weekend. We picked up where I left off at home. Finished up season 5, watched all of season 6 and borrowed seasons 7-10 from her friend. We didn't get through all of them. Shannon was feeling pretty poorly most of the weekend. We stayed home all day Saturday watching TV and only went out to eat. Today she has been laying down in the living room all day while we watched more tv. Brian grilled us salmon and we had baked potato, ceasar salad and garlic bread on Sunday. Eating out is fun, but I have to admit this home cooked meal was the best.

On the road again

Not that I travel a lot, but we are hitting the airways today. Scott is staying behind to continue his money earnings at the shipyard while he awaits his wedding day. Fred will end up in St.George for a Daly Family reunion. I will be staying with Shannon and Brian in Las Vegas. Originally I was going to the reunion, but then Shannon's invitro procedure was going to have her on bed rest that same weekend so I wanted to stay and help her. Now her invitro procedure has been postponed, but she is still not feeling well. On Monday the doctor harvested 53 eggs and 48 survived the transfer. That is an outrageous amount of eggs. Usually it's around 10. Shannon's eggs were not as big as they should have been on the expected date so they upped her meds to help them grow larger. Well instead of growing larger, she grew more. Anyway - she is experiencing the after affects of too much egg production. Doctors would like her to stay at home and take it easy. So I'm still going to stay with her. She really wants to go back to work as her work load is huge right now. She may feel well enough to go to work tomorrow (Friday) so I am taking fabric and a pattern to sew a dress that I MIGHT wear for the wedding. I haven't sewn anything for myself since Shannon was married in 2004. BIG body changes since then....so I'm not sure if this sewing project is going to be successful.

By the Way

None of the other ladies at work will use that bathroom anymore! It's possessed!

I'm a bit traumatized

My experience today was actually pretty funny. Right after it happened I just laughed, but now I feel a bit troubled. Here it is:

At the high school they are installing new toilets. Today I went into the bathroom and one of the two stalls was taped with the door open. I went to the next stall and didn't see any sign or indication that it was not open for use. I put the nice little paper cover on and sat down to tinkle. Well "crack". I got up and looked and the porcelein had actually cracked. I thought, well it should still be able to flush because I was hoping I could at least avoid the added embarrassment of leaving my pee...... so I flushed the toilet and water spurted out from the base of the pipe and soaked the floor and me head to toe. Luckily it only sprayed about 2-3 seconds. I wiped myself off with paper towels just laughing and went to the main office to report that I broke the new toilet. I did have to laugh because what was my option. I gathered everyone in the Counseling office so I only had to tell the story only one more time. After everyone enjoyed the laugh, I packed my stuff and came home and took a shower. How would you feel?

Fancy Nails

I went to the Seaport Salon and Spa last night. As you can see, I wasn't into matchy match.

I thought I would get crazy and go with a really fun color for my fingernails.

I think I will do this kind of fun color more often. It was really good to sit for the hour

pedicure so my fingernails really set well.

Self Compassion Diet

So I bought this book. I don't remember now what magazine I was reading, but there was an article about weight loss that caught my eye can you imagine that? It's called "The Self-Compassion Diet" A Step-by-Step Program to Lose Weight with Loving-Kindness by Jean Fain. Now doesn't that sound interesting and wonderful? I totally identified with the emotions and words in the article so I ran home and ordered the book. Here is a quote that I read in it tonight. "

"One of the delights of life is eating with friends, second to that is talking about eating. And, for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating while you are eating with friends".

Can you identify with that statement. I sure can. I just had to share it. So far the book seems half and half mumbo jumbo, but I'll keep reading. This is way better than counting calories or depriving myself. I'll love myself with kindness while I eat.

This are the six "Practices" they teach you in the 1st chapter of the book.

Metta: Loving-Kindness Meditation - "May I set aside shame and accept my body" this is what I picked for my metta statement.
Compassionate Advisor: A guided Visualization - I don't like visualization exercises
Compassionate Note to Self: A Writing Exercise - I'm already doing a lot of writing with other "issues" in addition to my weight obsession
Compassionate Glasses: A Guided Visualization - again, don't like visualization exercises
Head-to-toe Appreciation: A Guided Visualization - actually I kind of do this sometimes
Tonglen: Give-and-Take Meditation - sounds too complicated

Anyway this is what I'm into currently.

Magnificent Cake Creation

Today at work we held a retirement party for four of our teachers who are retiring this year. One of gals at work who plans this affairs has a friend from her church who made the cake. Take a look. My pictures don't do it justice.........