Currently: Friday | 23June2023

Life Updates

Hailey had a bad eczema rash on the back of her knee this week. It was tough trying to get her to feel better. The cream wasn’t helping her and she had one night where she cried for 45 minutes from how bad it was hurting her. The kids had water day and a bubble party at school! Hailey also had a magician come and show them tricks this week.

Favorite Hailey quotes from the week:

Start it at the beginding (beginning)
I have a happy plate! (she wants seconds)
She has been writing in her journal at school and is very good at drawing flowers

Favorite Miles quotes/things from the week:

He is so snuggly!
Reading to him at night is so fun, he repeats everything you say. He also points to different things in the book and asks “dat?”
- In the Baby Please book, when I point to the front on the shelf in one of the pages, he says “Ridit” (ribbit), it’s my favorite
He has been wanting to snuggle balls lately..which isn’t that unusual, but it sure is cute.

My finger is getting a lot better! I’m such a good healer. It’s finally not as tender as it was so I can function without the splint!

I had book club last week for my book club. It was really fun! Jen and Kelly were there and then one of my coworkers came as well. It was a nice little crew of incredibly smart women :). I was supposed to have my other book club that I haven’t been to in a long time this week but ended up getting stuck at work until 7, so wasn’t able to make it (but then went to dinner with my boss and a couple coworkers from out of town, so that was nice!). Next month’s book is Legends and Lattes. I’m excited to read that one!

My boss has been in town the last 2 weeks, which has been really great (lunches, dinners, team building). He ordered me a new work computer since the one that I have is a lemon… he got me a Mac Pro to use, so hopefully will get that in the next week or so and actually have a computer that doesn’t crash just pulling up powerpoint.

This week, we had a group in for two days that we were showing demos for and having discussions. It was a lot of work to get it all set up. We had a working dinner Monday night with them and one of my coworkers brought up this brain teaser:

“You have 12 marbles and a balance scale. One of the 12 marbles is inconsistent with the others, meaning it could be heavier or lighter than its peers of normal weight. You are allowed to use the balance scale exactly 3 times to identify which of the 12 marbles is irregular AND determine whether it is heavier or lighter than normal.”

Since it was a group of very smart people (I was probably the least educated of the bunch… by a long shot), we had napkins and pens pulled out and trying to solve it. At one point, I thought I had it, but then it turns out I didn’t. It started to bug me, so I tried to solve it again in between meetings the next day on a white board at work, and got stuck – my coworker had googled the answer the night before and accidentally gave me a hint on how many to start with, so that helped a lot! I sat down after finally getting the kids to bed that night and grabbed a notebook and I’m pretty sure I solved it.

My Solution!!

I played in a slow pitch game last night with one of Joel’s friends. She texted me in the afternoon to see if I wanted to play. It was a 9pm game! OOOFT. I’m not used to staying up that late but it was so much fun! I miss softball. I didn’t play great.. but I should expect that when it’s been over a year since the last time I played.. I also pulled my right hamstring, the one that’s been bothering me. Hopefully resting it will make it feel better soon. She said that they need subs quite a bit, so hopefully I get asked to come back!

Orange Theory Fitness Summer Shred

Summer Shred started June 5th at Orange Theory. It goes through the end of July. It’s an 8 week challenge that cost $25. You do 3 In Body scan (which are normally $15 a piece). If you do 37 workouts (7 can be at home), you do not need to pay the $25. The winner of the challenge gets $250 and second place gets $150.