Monday Five Countdown

Happy Monday! (Now that's an oxymoron if I ever saw one...)

"You're an ox AND a moron!" 10 points to you if you know what movie that's from.

And, moving along now...

Five Things I'm Grateful For

1. It's the first day of tutoring for this quarter (I supervise the tutoring center at the school I work at) and we already have three appointments scheduled today. This is GREAT great great because we are under a lot of pressure to get more students in for tutoring.

2. I joined the "Biggest Winner" competition at work. I'm pretty sure I'll be sorry I did this, but I thought a little external motivation to drop some pounds and generally be a bit healthier would be good. This morning was the initial weigh-in and I weighed two pounds less than I did at home yesterday (even with the fluffernutter sandwich I ate at 11:30pm last night).

3. Yesterday was my nephew TJ's 3rd birthday party at a local bouncy-house place and Nate had a good time. He's too little to do any of the bouncing and seemed overwhelmed by all the big structures and the 8,472 screaming kids running around, but he did really well considering all of that. He played with some smaller stuff and had fun in his own little way. (And everyone always says he's so cute, which I will never, ever get tired of hearing.)

4. We took Nate to see the Easter bunny on Saturday and he was SO good. We got a nice smiley picture that we'll be sending out on an Easter card later this week. I'm always so grateful that he's so happy and smiley and generally content.

5. The hubby and I had a really good weekend, for us. There's so much going on lately that our fuses - okay, my fuse - is short and I'm just kind of constantly overwhelmed. But this weekend we had some fun as a family and some good couple time.

Four Things I Can't Stop Thinking About

1. Nate's birthday party. One month from this Thursday!

2. Over the weekend, we went to a local outlet center and I saw a black trench at GAP for $42. I need a new trench because my current one could fit two of me in it and my older GAP trench is too small for me. I hate this in-between size thing.

3. Dinner tonight: pork chops, yum!

4. All the stuff we have to get done in the house. SO. MUCH. TO. DO. (Cleaning, organizing, rearranging, etc.)

Three Things I Want To Accomplish This Week

1. Significant amounts of work on the two research projects I'm supposed to be working on for school.  See, that good family and couple time this weekend? It came at the expense of my homework. Something always has to give.

2. Tasks at work that I wanted to complete last week.

3. Keep up the positive mood I'm in today.

Two Things I Am Working To Be Positive About

1. The hubby's job prospects. We really need him to find something soon.

2. Bills/expenses. (See #1.)

One Random Thing

1. This Saturday we have plans to go out to dinner with a bunch of friends. We have a babysitter lined up and everything. I always have mixed feelings about this because I know it's good for us, but I hate leaving Nate. But it's just dinner, not a nine hour night on the town, so I think we'll all be good. :)

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