Life is Good

So, I have not been real good about posting anything on here while Kelly was gone. That is probably because I am just boring by myself and who wants to see pictures of me eating cereal and watching TV? Now that Kelly is home, we are busy again. Last night, we worked in our yard for several hours and accomplished more than I accomplished the entire 3 weeks he was gone. We planted our garden and planted a bunch of flowers all around our yard making it look so much more colorful. For now, everything looks really good, but who knows how long it will take us to kill all the plants. We planted cucumber, zucchini, pumpkin, tomatoes, bell peppers, jalapeno peppers, basil and mint. We also planted mums, petunias and marigolds. We are hoping for good things from our garden - like a nice pumpkin for our annual harvest feast! We shall see, I am a little worried that the small, burrowing animals will eat all our plants. We really accomplished a lot last night and I am so glad that my Kelly is home Ü

7 things about Melanie

1. I love Kelly! I am so glad that he is coming home on Saturday. I don't know how much more of this I can take. I've had to take the garbage out for 3 weeks now - that's just ridiculous. Seriously, Kelly spoils me like crazy and I miss him terribly.

2. I love the feeling/smell of the world after rain. Everythings feels so clean and renewed and everything looks so green.

3. I love getting in my car after it has been sitting in the sun all day. I often climb in and leave the windows up and just soak up the warmth. If others are with me, they are generally not too fond of this behavior as they think it is suffocatingly hot. I disagree.

4. I am a night owl. I love to stay up and it doesn't matter how tired I am, I still stay up late. I have been really bad since Kelly left. I think 11:30 is the earliest I have been to bed since he left. I am looking forward to more sleep once he returns.

5. I hate missing the first few minutes of anything. If a movie or TV show has already started and I didn't see the first part I would rather not watch any of it.

6. I love to read. I can get so wrapped up in a book and totally forget about everything else in the world. This goes well with my love of staying up late. I always check the clock and think - just 1 more chapter.

7. I love to eat good food. I would rather have something that is full of butter, sugar, and lard that tastes really good than something that is "good for you". It is just not the same and I don't care what anyone says - they don't taste the same. I would rather have a little of something delicious, than a lot of something that's just okay.

I love Spring!

Isn't my yard looking beautiful??? I am enjoying the beauty of spring as the flowers and trees in my yard blurst forth in splendor!

Okay, so only the little twig tree is in my yard. I am really excited that it is growing so many leaves though. I have 4 trees that are all doing really well. Haven't seen anything yet from all those stupid bulbs we planted. What a waste of time. The flowers above are from Temple Square in SLC and Central Park in NY. Perhaps someday my yard will look like that Ü

Missing my Kelly!

It is just not the same without Kelly here. For example, I am posting to the blog late on a Friday night. He has been gone for 1 week, so we only have 2 more to go. Living alone sucks! I can't wait for Kelly to come home.

Au revior Kelly

Today my Kelly left for France. I am going to be home for 3 weeks waiting for him to return. I hope everything goes well for him while he is there and that he will be speaking the French fluently when he returns. I know he had a long day just trying to get here because his flight was late and they bumped him so he could make another connection. It is typical when flying with Kelly to run into a myriad of problems and visit one or more cities that were not in your travel plans.

The good news is that I started playing soccer today! I have been looking for a team for several months now and was able to get hooked up with a team that plays in Saratoga Springs. It was a nice warm day and I didn't even throw up, pass out, or have to be revived in any way. I scored 2 goals and our team won Ü The good news is that we play on a smaller field with only 9 a side, that way my being out of shape is not quite so obvious. I am looking forward to playing and actually getting some exercise once in a while. The lesson learned for today is that there's a reason for wearing 2 pair of socks instead of 1 - Blisters!

Of course, as we were chatting before the game I explained that I hadn't played for about 2 years and it might be a bit scary at first. There are no age restrictions on the league that I am aware of and most of the girls seem quite young. I think I have at least 3-4 years on the "older girls" on the team. I heard a girl telling her mom after the game that I was really good and that this was the first time I had played since high school. Oh if only they knew that I am 30 now!