Operation Finish Dining Room - Tuesday 22:00

The grout it held me captive...the sealing...oh the humanity, it was terrible. I did not think I would make it out alive!

Okay seriously, we're done. DONE. We have a dining room and it is awesome. We have some minor little things like putting quarter round on, and fixing thresholds...but the rest is DONE. It feels so nice. So Sat. we grouted a quarter of the floor, cleaned it up, etc. That took awhile. A long while. On Sat. night, I woke up telling Scott my arm was broken. I could have promised my soul, I thought my arm was broken, it hurt so bad. Ends up...I just used muscles I never had, and it was just burn from working them. I tell you what, I never have had anything hurt so bad. It sucked. Then Sunday we went to church, came back home, and while my mother watched Mat, Scott and I took to grouting...and grouting, and grouting more. Cleaned up the grout, which took longer than laying the grout. Then we chilled. Well actually we started working on the living room. So then Monday, Scott had minor food poisoning, and Mat was a wee bit whiny. I left the house to work, then came back as I kept forgetting things. Scott wasn't getting any better, so I stayed home to assist and because I felt like I needed to stay home. So while he was not feeling well, Mat ended up being fine and Mom took him to swim class. Scott ended up getting better and went to work. And I stayed home and caught up on Lost and sealed the grout. Sealing that stupid grout took ALL day. ALL day. Well not all day, because I mowed the lawn. But that was only because Scott finished sealing while I mowed the lawn. And now it is Tuesday. We went to work, picked up Mat, then I cleaned up the house a bit, and Scott went to school. I think that pretty much catches you up.

So on the Mat front...I may have said this, but I'm not sure. MAT IS COMPLETELY POTTY TRAINED AND I NO LONGER AM SPENDING MONEY ON DIAPERS/PULL UPS. Yes, it is awesome. I love it, and am thrilled to be done...for now... He is learning lower case letters now, and pretty much can recognize them all after one afternoon. He is also learning to write and read now too. His imagination is crazier than usual. He now pretends he is Jerry from Tom and Jerry the cartoon, and Scott is Tom. And those two will pretend all evening. It's cute. Oh Mat also things that a battery can fix everything. A skipping CD, a torn article of clothing, anything. Also, Mat has learned that dancing is more than just jumping up and down and flailing your arms. We were in the car listening to music, when all of a sudden he yells, 'MAMA, LOOK! LOOK AT ME! I'M DANCING!' I reply, 'Oh, that's nice.' then he's like 'I'M MOVING MY HIPS!' Just the way he said it cracked me up. He also got a new ball, that is weird, its about the size of a kickball, and is really rubbery and has these green tentacle things all over it. Well he calls it his hairy ball. Though one day, he said hairy balls. Needless to say, Scott was proud.

So August is a busy month. This weekend we take Mat to Eastgate on Sat. and meet up with my sister as she is taking him for the night. Then we will probably hit up the Longacre pig roast. Mat will then spend time with them Sunday, and my mom will take Mat Sunday night and Monday night. This is all due to our anniversary. That's right folks, Scott and I will have been married for seven years and together for fourteen years. Next weekend though is GenCon Indy. YAY. Then the weekend after...I'm drawing a blank. Then Josh, Kim and Jonah will come see us!! HUZZAH! We're gonna go to the Melting Pot, see the Amish, to Baba India, probably Serpent Mound, maybe the RenFest! We'll play all kinds of games, and just have a blast in general! Then I'll cry when they have to go home, but I'll convert them to the ways of Ohio, and they'll fall in love with it here, and MOVE HERE. Yep, that's how it's going to go down. It's a genius plan.

Anyway, it's bedtime. Nighty night.