I haven’t posted in awhile mainly because I haven’t done anything. I’ve been eating and shortening my Netflix queue, that’s about it. I’ve definitely hit an exercise plateau. Just in time for the summer too. Perfect timing! I’m 3 weeks into my 2nd go at P90X and I started biking on Saturdays, but I’m just not into it. My workouts are half-ass, at best, my diet is lucky to make it to Wednesday and I consume enough calories over the weekend to pretty much cancel out the soggy vegetables, slimy chicken and tasteless brown rice I gag over during the week. When I started working out in January, this upcoming week was my deadline week. I guess I’m pushing that up another month. The summer hasn’t started until July for the past couple of years, right? I have a few more weeks!
Since I’ve done nothing for the past few weekends, of course this weekend was jam packed.
Most of us are currently more preoccupied with our 2 playoff teams, but no one can pass up a night at Fenway.

Speaking of our playoff teams, how amazing is my Bruins playoff beard? You can’t get a great glimpse of it here, but I assure you it’s there. I started growing it the day they clinched the playoffs back in March. It’s not pretty, but true B’s fans grow playoff beards. That’s just how it works. I promised Jack that I would trim it if they swept Philly, so last weekend it got a little shorter.
Note to all men – never wake up your wife (especially if she’s preggers) with a broom after a series sweep. They don’t get sports and never will. Frigin pink hats.
Saturday was my third weekend in a row biking with my friend Harry. He is training for a half Ironman this summer and I told him I would join him on his Saturday rides as long as my back was up for it. I stopped riding in June last summer because I just couldn’t stay in that hunched position for an extended period of time. So far, so good this year. We did 30 miles on Saturday and I felt fine. Well, my legs felt like wet noodles, but my back made it, which is all that really matters. I have yet to swing a golf club this year, which will be the real spine test. I’m holding off as long as possible.

After my friend rode 30 miles and ran 5, I obviously made him help me move all the furniture in my house to my parent’s. Nice friend huh? I rented a U-Haul in Lawrence, which was a mistake right off the bat. It barely had breaks, no taillights and I’m pretty sure there was a huge blood stain on the passenger side door. I immediately understood where the blood stain came from as soon as I started driving back to my house. Has anyone ever driven a 17-foot truck through Lawrence on a Saturday? It’s comparable to driving a regular car blindfolded. I’m not sure that the residents of Lawrence understand that if they get hit by a car, they will be seriously injured or even die. They walk out in the middle of the street, on their cell phones, as if they’re inside a ‘no-death’ bubble. I can’t complain. I broke my own rule – never, ever go into Lawrence. Ever! Lesson learned.

We wanted to move into a real house before the baby was born. That was the plan anyway. Unfortunately our condo is worth less than a stripped ’07 Honda Accord, so I guess we’re staying put. Since we aren’t getting a new house, we figured we mine as well make our ‘old’ house look like a new house. We bought new furniture and we’re replacing the squirrel piss-soaked carpets this week with hardwood floors. We purchased 3 rooms worth of furniture about a month before Jordan’s Monster Deal and they wouldn’t allow us to participate in it. If a ball hits that sign, I’m burning down one of their stores.

My house currently looks like the set of Slumdog Millionaire. Computers on the floor, giant black rats running around, holes in the walls and a room filled with more shit than I even knew we owned. Some times I hear Tula crying because she is stuck in the middle of all the shit and can’t find her way out, so I have to climb into the pile and rescue her. That’s usually the low point of my day. Until 20 minutes later when she does it again, of course.
Saturday was Tula’s 4th birthday. I’m honestly shocked she made it this far. Nevermind her illnesses and that half the bones in her body have been surgically replaced with steel rods, the fact that I haven’t killed her yet is the real miracle. To celebrate her defying all odds for 4 years, we got her a birthday cake and my parent’s came over to watch her eat it. True story.

I couldn’t decide what was worse: sitting in my living room watching my dog eat a pet birthday cake or sitting in my living room watching my parents and Jacky watch the dog eat a pet birthday cake? Toss up. I also couldn’t decide who was more insane: Jack for taking Tula to the Barkery (no, not bakery) to pick out her own birthday cake or my parents for driving all the way to our house to watch her eat it? Again, toss up!

Come to think of it, I’ll give myself the award for most insane. I was the person later that night to help Tula into our bed. Yes, this is typically a nightly occurrence except our bed is currently a mattress on the floor! That squirrel/cat couldn’t jump onto the mattress and cried until someone picked her up. I know, pathetic! No, not the dog. Me!
This morning, I had to pick her up and put her on the ground. True story.

Happy belated Mother’s (and mothers-to-be) Day Moms!