Friday, May 23, 2008

Happy Memorial Day Weekend!

I hope you all have a wonderful and safe holiday weekend. May you have safe travels if you're leaving town. We are staying put but I'm so excited to have a 3-day weekend. I'm a big believer in the 3-day weekend. Two days are just a tease.

We have no major plans, but we do have our 5k Monday morning! I am getting really excited. We're going running at the park again tonight - it will be our 4th time. I can see major improvement in myself every time we go. Plus the trips to Tutti Frutti after make me push on through. I am mental! Oh funny story... this morning one of my girlfriends emailed me asking for a little *styling* help on her daughter's 1st birthday party. She said she'd treat me to yogurt at this new yogurt shop she's heard is good but hasn't been to just yet. I was like, um... you mean Tutti Frutti and yes I can vouch for its goodness as I've been 4 times in the last week. I really do have a problem, y'all. But OMG yesterday we got a coupon in the mail (awesome - as if I needed an excuse to go!) and it had the real skinny on the calories. So here is the deal - it is 17 calories per ounce. And fat FREE! So my jumbo 8 oz cup is only 136 calories! Well I add a bunch of fruit, but hey - it's fruit. I'm in love.

Anyway, so the 5k on Monday and then that afternoon we're going over to a cookout at our friends' house for some burgers and bocce ball. So that should be fun! Other than that, we really have NO plans this weekend. Which I love... because that is rare. Tomorrow we have deemed as "Basement-Cleanout-Day!" I'm hoping we really make some progress there because our basement is embarrassing. It's a freaking disaster. I love having a basement so you can store junk down there - but it has just become a total dumping ground. Half of what's down there just needs to be thrown out. So that will be Saturday.

Sunday morning we'll head to church - we haven't been in the last few weeks so I'm really itching to get back. I feel very out of touch if we miss too many Sundays in a row - just seems like we've been all over the place lately! So I'm looking forward to that. And I'm sure we'll throw another run or two in the mix before Monday a.m.

So in other news - I had my annual yesterday with my OB/GYN. I was catching her up on the last year's fun with surgeries and whatnot. I've mentioned it before - but she referred me to my RE and he was actually her specialist when she was having trouble conceiving years ago. I'm currently reading her book (yeah I know I've mentioned that before too but I can take forever to get through a book) and she was like, you know Dr. Toledo (my RE) is the hero of my book, right?! She had very similar infertility issues as I have so that makes me love her even more. Anyway - she goes on and without me even bringing it up, she throws out the idea of trying acupuncture along with everything else. I was like OMG I have totally been researching this lately! She was like yeah, we have no idea why but it has been proven to increase bloodflow to the uterus. And for whatever reason it seems to help some with endo. So now I'm like totally sold. And then I'm on the phone with my mom afterwards telling her all this and she's like, well you know I did acupuncture for my hand, right? Um, nooo... I did not know that! I seriously expected to get an eye roll from my mom at the mention of acupuncture but she was all for it. Who knew?! My doctor gave me a name of someone here that used to be an anesthesiologist and is now a full-time acupuncturist (is that a word?!). Because of that, my doctor said this chick would fully understand my "issues" as my doctors do. So that's exciting...

Well I'm counting down the hours till the weekend... I hope you all have a fabu holiday! And my heart and prayers go out to all of you remembering those lost in the war and wars past. I'm so very proud of our military and all those who have served in the past. I hope everyone takes a moment to remember them inbetween the beer and burgers! :-) Be safe and have fun!

9 comments:

Preppy Lizard said...

Good luck with the marathon on Monday!
Sounds like a fun fun weekend you have planned.

Kate said...

I've had good luck with acupuncture for my allergies - it has helped more than any medication/food elimination/etc. Hope it is helpful for you with the fertility issues!!

Readings, Recipes and Rambles said...

Too Funny....we are cleaning our basement tomorrow as well!!! Today was the garage. It's a brutal job but once its done I am so happy. Hopefully this time tomorrow I will be thrilled!!
Have a great weekend and good luck in the marathon!

Jill said...

Have a great weekend. Good luck with your run.

Sasha said...

OK- you have to stop with the Tutti Frutti---- I am dying for some! There's a new store going in called Passionberri by my house, but it's currently empty and their website is crap, so I can't figure if it's like Pink Berry, or Tutti Frutti, and you are just killing me!

Hope your 5K goes well! Can't wait to hear about it.

Lauren @ Adventures of a Southern Newlywed said...

Happy Memorial Day Weekend to you too! I hope the acupuncture treatments work for you. It sounds like you have a great team on your side.

Enjoy your long weekend!

Jill said...

Hey girl! Congrats on the running - and I MUST check out Tutti Frutti!! Interesting about acupuncture..someone was telling me about it recently too! We need to get together soon..Pam and I were discussing ladies night..I will E mail you...

Kelly said...

We've gone through infertility also and I've had a TON of people tell me success stories about acupuncture. I think you should try it. Why not????

Britt said...

HOpe you had a great weekend...I loved your Charleston post - I love all the places you mentioned!