The Nelson Narrative

Up until last Thursday I was so proud of myself for not having gotten sick yet, but then I finally did.  I felt awful on Thursday but couldn't take the day off because I was helping one of our newer employees with something that was due that day.  I probably could have just done that in the morning and taken the rest of the day, but I didn't. Then Friday I felt crappy again but for sure couldn't take that day off (I worked from home both days, though, so not infecting anyone else) because I was covering for someone on PTO.  Sigh.  By the time the weekend rolled around I was feeling a little bit better but still grateful to have those couple days to rest up. Earlier in the week, before I got sick, I went to a Barre class with Olivia.  That was fun but really hard!  Well, for me anyway, as I'm not used to doing anything like that.  I walk a lot, and I'll do the occasional push-up or a few weights, but that's about it.  But I'm trying to change that....

It has been ages since I have participated in the What's Up Wednesday link-up by Shay and Sheaffer , but here I am. What We're Eating I didn't want to have to cook on Sunday because of the game, so I made Taco Soup in the crock pot. Other meals this week include low-carb Chicken Alfredo, some ravioli thing that Paul picked up a Costco and not sure what else yet. What I'm Reminiscing about The Seahawks just won the NFC Championship and are heading to the Super Bowl for the first time since 2015, so I've been reminiscing about their first Super Bowl win in 2014. What I'm Loving Up until a few months ago I had never heard of Dubai chocolate and now it's everywhere.  So yummy! Also, the current Seahawks season. What We've Been up to celebrating my birthday What I'm Dreading The girls are graduating from high school this year and heading to college in the fall, so I'm kind of dreading the tuition payments (times two!) and other expenses. What I'm...

What a great weekend!  My birthday was Saturday, and birthdays around here always drag out for a week or so, although this year I was able to rein it in to just a weekend.  On Friday night, Paul and I had a date night at Earl's Kitchen + Bar.  I had been wanting to go there for years and we finally did and it was great. We got the calamari appetizer and then I had steak and tortellini and Paul had a southwest chicken salad.  Everything was delicious. Saturday morning the four of us went to brunch at the neighborhood Irish Pub.  That was really great as well.  Then the girls went out to get me a coffee from Huxdotter and some flowers. Paul had got me flowers, too, and I also had some delivered from my best friend. So many flowers! In the afternoon Paul and I took Kona for a nice walk and it was a beautiful sunny day.  The whole week has been really nice.  Then we went to Paul's mom's for dinner and she had got my favorite cake from Costco. Today we...

I meant to post this Sunday or Monday or at least Tuesday, since Monday was a holiday anyway, but couldn't quite get around to it. We had a great weekend.  On Saturday, we went to a wedding.  It was in a town about an hour and 40 minutes from where we live, but Paul's mom's is in-between, and he needed to go there anyway to help her put all her Christmas storage boxes away, plus the Seahawks game was on at 5:00, the wedding was at 2:00, so we weren't going to make it home in time, so it worked out great to just stop at her house after the wedding and watch the game there.  And what a game it was.  The Seahawks DESTROYED the 49ers 41-6! Looking forward to the NFC championship game on Sunday! I loved the centerpieces at the wedding.  Every table had a small stack of books, with a candle/lantern thingie and lights.  They were so pretty.  After all that, it was nice to have Monday off.  I think I mostly just cleaned and maybe grocery shopped, but what...

In light of the girls' impending graduation/going off to college, I'm starting a new series called, "Things I Won't Miss".  In this inaugural episode, the topic is laundry. A common site around here is a pile of unfolded laundry.  It seems like one or the other does a huge load about every other day, and usually around 10:00 PM when Paul's already asleep and I'm thinking about it.  And then it sits in said pile for several days, while the owner just randomly selects what they need that day instead of folding and putting everything away.  I almost always end up folding it and putting it in their room, but I'm trying hard not to do that anymore.

Today I am linking up with Erika and Shay for a series they do called Let’s Look, where they "look" at various aspects of their lives. Today’s topic is what we outsource without regret. At first, I didn’t think I outsource anything but then I remembered a few things. Meal planning -  It's only a small percentage that gets outsourced but it helps. We get Hello Fresh for 2 meals per week most weeks, and I love not having to worry about what’s for dinner those two days. The rental of our Crescent Bar condo . This was kind of built in, because we were gifted the unit from Paul’s parents and they were already doing that with their other unit and most of the owners do, and so it just kind of naturally happened that way.  Every now and then we will rent it on our own to someone we know but mostly it’s through the rental company. Car maintenance - I don't know very many people who do their own but I know there are some, just not us. Dog nail trims - I do the cats myself, but...