Updates

Happy Friday!
Things are good. I have been so tired trying to take care of Kevin! He is a lot of work. But worth it. While we originally thought he would be back to work by now, he is still at home on crutches. He has a doctor's appointment on Wednesday and hopefully will be back to work on Thursday. But he is still in a lot of pain and has a lot of swelling still. He is pretty disappointed today. He put a call into the surgeon's nurse so hopefully she will have some good advice.
Other than that, not much happening. I realized my fingers hurt from bowling! I can't tell if they are bruised or what but they hurt to touch and move. Not incredibly bad but enough to notice. Seriously. I can't believe that! And we have couples bowling tomorrow night. Obviously, Kevin isn't bowling but he is hoping he can come by for a little bit.
Work is going great but my boss announced that she is leaving at the end of November to move to Texas. While it might be a good opportunity to get more responsibility, I am going to miss her. What if I end up with someone worse? I am hoping to pick up a large part of her responsibility so we will see. The president, my boss, the COO and the director of HR met the other day and Diane told me it was "mandated" that I will stop working for the community relations director after Recovery Palooza and start shadowing my boss until she leaves. So that is a good sign.
Anyway, have a great weekend!

Kevin

Kevin had knee surgery this afternoon and everything went well. They found an additional tear under his kneecap so they repaired that one and the meniscus tear, took out some pieces of floating cartilage, and smoothed some bone edges. It only took about 30 minutes for the actual surgery but they still put him completely under. I of course, being the huge gay-wad that I am, cried. Te he!
He is resting on the couch now with his leg wrapped from his foot to his thigh. He is still in quite a bit of pain but I think if I can keep him on the couch with it iced and elevated, that will help.
We will see how the weekend goes!

GIANT!

Those of you who worked with me at HM might remember how funny I thought those big post-its notes were that they used for ideation sessions. They are the huge almost poster sized paper that you could stick to the wall and write on. When I would be typing up all the hand-written notes / comments, I would laugh because I would always think of my boss being a giant and that was just his normal notebook. In fact, it is making me giggle right now!

Anyway, look at what Jennifer got me! Giant Smarties! I have been walking around with them all day! I was thinking that I felt huge all day but I guess that it should make me feel super small. Oh well. Nonetheless, they made my day! Hhmmm, now I feel so confused....and yes, I did eat some before I took this picture. She gave them to me first thing this morning and they have been sitting at my desk! At least I waited until after lunch!

Thanks Honey!

As part of my birthday month, Kevin bought me a watch. Today is the first day I have forgotten it and it is awful! Our phones for some reason don't keep the right time so it shows 2:01 am and our computers don't show the time because we have to be on some gaywad portal system. I don't even know what time it is right now. I hope it is at least 2:30.....oh it is 2:25! Not bad!

Catch Up

Ok so I haven't posted in quite a while. Sorry! Here is a recap of things from the past couple of weeks:

• Krista still hasn't gotten a bike helmet.

• I started my bowling league with Heather & Melissa on our team, "Can't Touch This". We have done two weeks now (we pre-bowled on Friday instead of tomorrow). Melissa got a 98, 196 and then a 90! That is crazy! I have been more consistent with everything between a 120 and 150.
• Kevin and I just committed to bowling every other Saturday with Kyle & Heather and Eric & Kristi. It worked out perfect because that is the Saturday we don't have the kids. However, that is a lot of bowling! I am already worried that my left arm will be much stronger than my right because of this and it will be noticeable!
• Kevin and I went camping for the final time at Aunt Karen's for Labor Day weekend. She is moving in October and it is going to be so hard. For her and for me. To know that she is leaving the house her and my uncle built together as their dream, crushes me. She knows she can't maintain all that land herself and that she needs to leave, but I don't think her heart is ready for it. I took a bunch of pictures that I hope to post soon for those of you not lucky enough to have seen the natural beauty.
• The kids started school last week and so far, so good! Makenzie is loving it as she always does for the first couple of weeks. Things may be different though with a chance at a cell phone dangling in front of her. I am honestly considering dangling that in front of her for the rest of high school! Tyler of course is doing well and looking forward to the fact that it is his last year. He started filling out college applications for GVSU, Western and MSU.
• Kevin's "good" knee has been bothering him for about a month now, swollen with water on it. Tuesday night he did something to it at work and started limping. Wednesday morning his knee, calf and ankle were swollen to about 3 times its normal size. Yet, he went on his guys canoe weekend! Boys! They are such dorks! I will say though that the swelling has gone down and he isn't in nearly as much pain. He is getting an MRI done tomorrow morning so hopefully, they will figure out what is wrong.
  

• Because Kevin was gone this weekend, I spent my second weekend ever alone! And I handled it quite well! Friday I met up with some friends at Z's, met Heather, Melissa, April, Kyle & Zachary to bowl and then headed over to Kyle & Heather's for a bit. Saturday I was lazy all morning and then started to do some major "fall" cleaning. Saturday night Steven & Melissa invited me over for dinner and I stayed there until about 11:00. I haven't seen my nephews in a while and they change so fast! Tristen can count to 100 now and rides the bus to school, Nathaniel is talking so much more now and Pierson is getting to be such a stinker. You can see it in his eyes. I will post some pictures of them soon too.
• Andrea started her new job today! Welcome to the other side Andrea! I got a quick Email from her today and so far, she was loving it! Yea!

Ok, that seems like enough to appease you. I will post more this week....promise!

It is nice to be loved!

I promise to post tonight. A lot!