saturday morning semi bliss

It's a lovely Saturday morning. I am sitting in the living room listening to Jack Johnson and watching Neil do his Saturday push up set. Jack Johnson isn't one my favorite musicians, but he is good Saturday morning music. Neil is doing the six week push up challenge. It's cute to watch him do push ups in the morning.

I woke up early and took my dogs to the groomer. Yoshi, my oldest shih tzu ( and the love of my life) HATES the groomer. He was shivering with fear when he saw where we were going and refused to get out of the car. It breaks my heart to leave him there, scared and all alone. But it's even worse when I try to cut his hair myself. No more mommy haircuts.

I hit up a garage sale on my way home. I got a beautiful skirt for a dollar. It fits, but it's not quite as flattering as I had hoped, ohh well. After I got home, I made myself a hearty breakfast of scrambled eggs, morningstar veggie sausage and veggie bacon. IT WAS SOO GOOD! sometimes I think I would fail as a pesco-ovotarian if it was not for the delicious meat alternatives. Some of them are so gross , but some of them are better than real meat(if cooked properly).

Now, I am sitting around and trying to motivate myself to get my butt to the grocery store. I want to make some sangria for a little AMC party I am attending tonight. AMC is the old company I used to work for. For some strange reason a pretty large group of us managed to remain friends (even after we got laid off together). We are really different, but we all have similar sense of humors. I think you had to have a darker sense of humor to work in that place. We used to joke that it really was like working in the show " The Office". And it truly was.
One of our ex co-workers, named Joey, just got back from a year in Iraq. I am so relieved he made it back safe and sound. Another one of my ex co-workers Lisa is moving back to Chicago, so the party is sort of a welcome back/goodbye get together.

Yesterday I went to a gynecologist for the first time in four years. In the past, I have never really been able to find a gyno that I like. It is always such an awkward experience, and I usually find gynecologists to be such cold, dry people. However yesterday I met the raddest gyno ever. She was gentle, informative, funny, and just plain cool. She and I discussed switching birth control and she is really in favor of me getting an IUD. To be honest I am scared of an IUD. Everyone I know who has gotten one says that they hurt A LOT. And you bleed for months afterward. But the idea of not having to take a pill every day or put as many hormones into my body sounds like it may be worth some pain and inconvenience. Plus it is a one time of $25 dollars for up to ten years. That saves me almost $200 a year. Okay now I sound like Neil. He always thinks in terms of a yearly cost.

Last night was sewing 101 at Joanne's. I am not sure I learned as much as I had hoped to, but some parts of it were informative. Sewing is so much effort. There is just so much to learn. However walking around the store and seeing all of the BEAUTIFUL and interesting fabrics inspires me to KEEP PUSHING!

so off to grocery store I guess.

Happy weekend!