happeningssssss

So, since I fell of the face of the planet last week, I thought I'd fill you in on the life and times...

First of all, remember how Matt got his identity stolen?  Well it turns out, the extent to which that happened was/is far greater than we originally thought.  The theft had both mine and Matt's information. That includes every address we've ever lived at, bank account numbers, everything you'd find on a credit report, etc...  So, theft is in jail after opening accounts at Sears, Best Buy, Home Depot, and renting a U-Haul in Matt's name.  And apparently of all these places, Neiman Marcus was the only store who thought the guy was suspicious enough to try to check into beforehand?  Thank you Neiman's, if it wasn't for you, we'd have no clue this was happening.

How did he get it?  Apparently someone at our home lender's corporate office decided to print that all out and share it for fun?  Note: This lender sends us Starbucks cards on our birthdays... I personally think they should send us Starbucks cards for life as an apology for this terribleness that has gone down.

So that's fun?!  How do you deal with that?  Who knows who else got our info?  And we have "protection" for seven years... what happens after that?  Whatever, I guess I'm cool with never moving again and paying cash for everything... and trusting in the sovereignty of a good God over what man intends for evil.

Next!  We've all been sick- well everyone except Matt.  As you remember reading last week, Sam was pretty sick.  After several trips and calls to the Pediatrician, we think he may have had RSV, which Henry then got (which is more like a bad cold in a two year old), and then just when we thought we were on the up and up... PUKE CITY!  For me, that is.  So far no one else has puked.  But yes, we got the 24 hour stomach bug.  Henry went to sleep with a fever tonight, and I'm hoping he doesn't wake up in a pile of puke.

So that's why you haven't really heard from me. Not only have I been quarantined, but I also haven't quite been functioning.

Ahh, it feels good to be back though.

long run long shmun

It's flippin' cold outside.  And I'm supposed to leave my house in an hour at 6:30 AM to go run 11 miles with my friend, and I am just N.O.T. excited. Dreading it. DREAD-ING it.

But now that I've gotten my bad attitude out on the table, I think I'm just going to get over it and try to be excited about freezing my buns off and chafing my thighs.

OH MY GOSH.  Just checked temp. It's 44 degrees.  This is terrible.  Seriously, you guys don't know how much I do NOT want to do this.  I guess that's the benefit of training with other people... you can't let them down.  I am 99% sure that if I canceled on my friend, she would still go running.  If she canceled on me, I would get back in bed.

In other news, I voted early yesterday. Anyone else feel like people act weird at the polls?  Like there's just a weird air happening there... maybe people are excited, or nervous, but no one really talks to each other in line, and people seem super serious.  Maybe it's just me.  I felt the urge to ask the people in front of and behind me, "So who ya votin' for?" (As a joke.) I resisted the urge. 

I'm also a little ticked that I somehow forgot to get an "I voted" sticker... my plan was to save it and use it for free stuff on election day.  You think if I go back and show them my receipt they'll give me one?

On that note, I actually e-mailed Starbucks about the free drink card that got "lost" in the mail.  As I was writing my email, I thought to myself, "Really, Leah, are you seriously doing this?"  Yes, yes I am.  Plus the dear hubs appreciates anything free from Starbucks since 95% of our fun money goes there.

I'm sure I've told you this before, but people at work give Matt Starbucks gift cards. BEST. GIFT. EVER!  Why? Because they come straight to me.

That's all for now.  Here's to hoping I see you on the flip side of this dumb run.

more confessions?

Cause really they never get old...

Right now at this moment I am sitting in front of a Starbucks, kids strapped in their seats watching VeggieTales, and I am taking care of email/computer/blog business... Seriously, guys... when you are quarantined from all activities due to kids being sick, you have to do SOMETHING.

I taught Henry to say, "Mommy needs her coffee."

I was supposed to go to bootcamp this morning... I snoozed on my alarm... twice... on purpose.  I seriously need someone to come to my house and drag me out of bed.

I spend too much money on coffee.

Last week I ate a krispy kreme donut.

Also, this is not a confession but other news... we got a call yesterday from Neimann Marcus because some dude named Matt Gibson was trying to open an account under Matt's SSN.  He had an ID with our old address, he had checks from our bank... and fortunately he did not get the Gucci purses he was TRYING to buy on our dime.  We found out later that he had already spend $1000 dollars at another nearby store w/ a newly opened account under Matt's name. So now we are official victims of identity theft.  And guess what - we have a credit protection service!!  Drama, drama, people. :)  Fortunately, we caught him early and it hasn't been too tough to get it all worked out, but dang people.

It's Thursday, and I've already blogged 4 times this week!!  Maybe tonight I can catch up on your blogs!

Confessions

When all else fails, write a confession post. 

• My brain does not currently work.
• I keep my phone on vibrate almost 100% of the time.  90% of the time I don't hear when people are calling.  10% of the time I do hear when people are calling.  About 90% of the time I hear my phone, I don't answer it because it's not a good time. (There's a math problem for you: What percentage of the time does Leah purposely not answer her phone?)
• I know I admitted this like a week ago, but I have neglected having a clean home and taking showers.  Nothing has changed.
•  I really appreciate the time while Henry is in preschool.   (Usually Sam is napping too.  Double Bonus.) Recently, I have almost been late to pick him up because I have gotten so carried away in whatever business I happen to be taking care of, and I'm not talking about the bathroom, McGrosserson.
• As previously admitted, I am a hypochondriac.  Sometimes I struggle deciding whether to take my children to the doctor because I don't want the doc to look at me like, "He has a cold you idiot."  (No need for lectures on how dumb this is - I know.  And yes, several times my children have only had colds.)  Sammy has been pretty sick the last few days, and I had a huge internal debate about whether or not to take him to the doctor yesterday afternoon (for the second day in a row).  Not wanting to get the "Oh it's just a bad virus" answer, I sent MATT to the doctor with Sam.  Of course it turns out that Sam probably had/has some actual bad infection, and it was a good, good thing he went.
• What I did not admit in my last hypochondriac confession is that in one attempt to figure out if I was in fact, diabetic, I actually bought a finger-pricking at home glucose monitor so that I could figure it out myself.
• Also, I have mentioned before that I know my body pretty precisely... I may have recently taken 4 pregnancy tests in one day because I was "late" (forgive me, non-existent, gentleman readers).  Note: Control freak.  Note also, I was genuinely "late" and not pregnant...
• Last confession: I am now having a huge internal debate about whether I ovulated late or whether my luteal phase has lengthened.  If you know either of those words, we should be friends.

Goodbye.

and some other excitement...

Two more things to be excited about right now...

One, Super Sam has taken multiple steps (and more and more by the day)... I think he's up to 5 or 6 consecutive steps... and he is SOOOO stable, he just needs some confidence.  I'm telling you the kid is gonna be running tomorrow, and no, I am NOT down with that.

NEXT, we are switching from one family football feud to another!  Goodbye to Texas University, and HELLO AUBURN.  Now Mom, David, Nana, I am so, so sorry, but on Saturday it is ALL BTHO Auburn over here!! Whoop!

And since I slept less than 5 hours last night, I've decided it is probably time for bed.

five reasons why I loved my 10 year reunion

So last night we finally had our 10 year reunion, you know the one I helped plan, and I had a great time. My BFFs and I were in charge of greeting people at the door and checking them in, and not gonna lie, after most everyone had arrived, we looked at each other like, "Are you sure we have to go up there?"  Haha.  Anyway, we, of course, went to mingle, and I had a blast.  I thought of a few reasons why our reunion was awesome... here they are (and it goes without saying, I speak for myself here).

1. Everyone was nice.  I didn't encounter one jerk.  Victory.
2. No one was playing the one-upper, posturing game.  Seriously, who wants to hear people brag about themselves?  NO ONE (at least no one I encountered) did that!  Another reason why my high school class is/was/is the greatest.  The conversations were fun, energetic, entertaining, and completely lacking any one-upmanship.
3. My hot husband was there.  I mean really, that makes everything great right?  I truly believe if he had not married me there would be no chance he was at that reunion.  I mean it.  So all of you old classmates out there who got the satisfaction of know what Matt Gibson was up to... I say, you're welcome.
4. Atmosphere was perfect and NOT LAME AT ALL.  The only goal I had when my bffs and I started planning this thing last year was, "PLEASE DON'T LET IT BE LAME!"  Check mark.
5.  Pretty sure I didn't have one conversation that I was dying to get out of... also a success.

So to my awesome class of '02.  Looking forward to whatever will go down in the year 2022.  Or 2017, if some brave soul would like to plan a 15 yr reunion.

In true form, I took no pictures.  Thanks to my BFF for snapping at least one... nevermind that we don't look 17 yrs old anymore.

funny starbucks story

So Starbucks has this gold card program where, if you maintain "Gold Level" status on your gift card, you can win points towards free drinks.  It should go without saying that I am Gold Level, duh.

Anyway, because I have the handy Starbucks app on my phone, I am usually notified that I have earned all my "stars" and that I will be receiving a free drink card in the mail soon.  Just recently they changed from sending you a free drink postcard to a free drink email.

So I find myself at Starbucks telling the barista that I never got my last free drink postcard, and he was kindly giving me the info I need to get it.  At this point I say something to the effect, "It's probably a good idea that you guys started to e-mail those because if I was the mailman, I would probably steal one every now and then..."

Then the barista points to the customer in front of me, and he goes, "Careful what you say about the mailman... this guy comes in here with free drink postcards ALL the time!"  I kid you not, without realizing it, the guy in front of my in line was a mailman!  And I don't know if barista was kidding or not about the dude bringing in free drink postcards, but I wouldn't doubt it if it was true!

of late

It turns out that these days I am most awake and productive during the hours from about 10PM-1AM.  Needless to say when my children wake me up before 7 AM, or at 2:30 AM, I'm not quite fully-functioning.

Forgive me (or don't, whatever) for straight up neglecting my baby (not Sam, the blog).  If you must know, it is not the only thing I have been neglecting of late...

I have also been neglecting my half-marathon training schedule... yes, regardless of training, I WILL be in San Antonio on 11/11 running a half-marathon... how that turns out for me will be determined by how much I continue to slack over the next month (less than a month, but rounding up feels better).

I've also been neglecting any sort of healthy eating habits, cooking dinner, sleep, my unpacking/decorating/making-my-house-a-home duties, and (dare I admit) PINTEREST.  (Yes, you know it's bad when you neglect Pinterest.)

You may be wondering, what HAVE you been doing Leah?  Well, here are the things that I have NOT been neglecting.

Social life.
Community.
Bible Study.
Children. (I didn't say I don't ignore them sometimes.)
Dear Husband.
NBC on Thursday nights.Comfort food.
Laundry.

Now, if I could just switch the comfort food on the "not neglecting" list for the healthy eating habits on the "neglecting" list, then I'd be pretty pleased with life in general.  Oh well, there's always hope.  I'm joking.

No but for real, if you'll allow me to continue with this very self-involved blog post, I will say that although I am totally worn out most of the days these days, I haven't had much time to focus on myself, which I'm gonna go ahead and say is A WONDERFUL THING... really, really... I only wish I could forget about myself EVEN more... because the way things are going right now - well I am just super happy.  God is showing himself to me in new ways, which I hope to share and process with you soon.

For now, though, I need to go get H back to sleep.  Later.

Things I am excited about plus some pictures!

Okay... Obvs I haven't updated much since moving to the new place, but I thought I'd share with you some happenings/stuff I'm excited about right now!

- there are two new farmers markets opening within a mile of our new house! Matt and I are into the farmers market idea, so this is fun news!

- there is a little over one month until my half marathon! I have run 8.5 miles once, which is probably not enough- but I also ran 7.5 miles the very next day... So I feel confident! Yay!

- my high school reunion is in two weeks! Somehow my two bffs from hs and I are responsible for planning it together because we were also class officers back in the good old days... I won't lie, I wasn't really looking forward to it till about a week ago, but now I really am excited to hang and party like it is 2002.

- speaking of bffs, some of my newest bffs and I got to get a night away on the lake this weekend (made possible by our awesome husbands), and it was so fun to relax and recharge with some of my newest friends/sisters in Christ who I love dearly! They are seriously gifts from God.

- we LOVE our new location and feel like God was so kind to us by putting us there. I promise to post more pictures soon!

- I am doing a women's development program through my church (as referenced in my 30 before 30 list), and I am loving it, mainly because I love the Word of God!

Enjoy the caption-less pictures and feel free to tell me something that is exciting to YOU right now! (Oh I must mention that the pictures of me and Matt were taken by Henry!)

whoop

I interrupt the silence on my blog to say... the Aggies are still alive, and so am I.

Thanks.  And Gig 'em.