Getting Stuff Done

We spent Saturday hanging out and playing video games, mostly Super Mario Party 8. Jen and Carlo came over for a while, and we ordered Italian which was very good. Carlo brought Mike a Wii controller and Wii Play game as a birthday present, which was very sweet of him! (thanks Carlo!)

Jen delivered some very happy news, met with much congratulations!

We got Jen watching True Blood, a vampire story based on a series of books called The Southern Vampire Mysteries, to which Mike and I are both addicted - we're anxiously awaiting Season 2. We want to get the book set as well and see the differences. Jen brought over her Wii Fit and demo'd it for us, then left it here for us to borrow (thanks Jen!).

I got up early Sunday and put in about 30 mins on the Wii Fit. I had fun with it, and it's a good workout, but I'm not sure yet I'll be able to cancel my gym membership and use it primarily instead.

Then I went to work on the garage. We still had so many boxes left out there from our April Fool's Day Move! :) Mike came and helped, and we actually got a lot of it done - about half the garage is cleared out now - YEA!!! Garbage day isn't until Tuesday, so once the empty boxes and other bulky trash is put out, it'll be easier to see how much progress we've made, and how much farther we have to go. We got a mirror hung in the living room, unpacked Mike's dishes to assess what we had that was worth keeping (not too much, I'm afraid), and found all of our cameras - yes! - so now we can actually post some higher-quality, more-recent pics with this blog ;-)

Then Mike and I went to see "Land of the Lost" with Will Ferrell. It was a fun movie, but I kept expecting it to trigger some memories from watching the series as a child, and that didn't really happen.

We are all missing Jake. Mike especially, of course. When Katie got home from her visit with her Dad, the first thing she asked was "Where's Jacob?", so we told her he had gone to visit with his Mommy for a few weeks. I don't think she understood, but she did OK last night. I think it will hit her in a few days when he still hasn't returned home. Hopefully we can all learn to deal. I just keep telling myself, "It's only a few weeks!" When I said that yesterday, Mike responded, "It's more than just a few." To which I replied, "I'm in the middle of much-needed self-delusion here, don't interrupt me with the facts!". Harhar.