Yahtzee!!!

I told Maggie yesterday but forgot to mention it on yesterday's post: I'll be a little later than usual in blogging today. Sorry about that. I have a 1/2 day PD thingy at central office and don't need to be there until 8:30. So, I slept in about an hour. Actually, I got up before my alarm went off because I was done sleeping which is annoying. Why can't I sleep past 5:30!? I even stayed up a little later than usual. Anyway, I have a little less than an hour until I plan on leaving so I can take my time here and get the dogs all settled for the day. A good thing since Jim's in Columbus. 

Speaking of which, I checked the tracer (Life360) and it looks like he didn't get back to his hotel until 2:32. Ugh! I'm sure he's exhausted. Hopefully he'll get a full 8 hours of sleep and be able to relax today before going back to the job. He should be home tomorrow around noon...fingers crossed. 

When I got home yesterday, I saw that Jim managed to get some needed things done in preparation for our trip Saturday. He did his laundry which is the biggest thing and cleaned his room. That means he won't have many jobs tomorrow when he gets home. 

Guess what? I lost another 1.2 pounds for a total of 3.4 so far. I'm happy with that. It's happening as it should, slow and steady. I'm not starving myself and I'm still working out like I do. I figure by the time the Bahamas comes around, averaging about a pound a week, I'll have lost nearly 10 pounds by then. Halfway to my goal. Woot! I was feeling a little like I hadn't lost this week so was pleasantly surprised when I stepped on the scale. 

In terms of side affects, I haven't had any nausea since that first time. I've only had heartburn about 1 time since I first reported it. I do get headaches but I get headaches everyday and chalk that up to school and stress. When I was off those couple days dealing with Jim's hospitalization, I didn't have one headache and that was a stressful time. The moral of that story is: Local wood makes good. Haha! Just kidding (the Arbaugh kids get that). The moral is that school sucks. Anyway, nothing else seems to have popped up as a result of the med so that's good. 

Oh, right so an explanation for the title of my post (sorry if it's more information than you care for): So for 20 years or so, really, since I've lived here, I've had a hand-held Yahtzee, battery operated game in my bathroom. You know to occupy me while I take care of business. Through the years, I've had to replace the game once because the original crapped (no pun intended) out. I got my replacement at Target, I believe. Well, recently my game started pooping (pun intended) out again. I could no longer clearly see the 3rd and 4th die faces when I rolled. So I went on Amazon to get a new one. Well, apparently they are now collectors items because the cheapest one I could find was $135!!! WTF!? What the heck am I supposed to do on the commode now!? 

(Sidenote: In looking for a pic of the game, I saw that they sell them on eBay and say they have them at Walmart but are "out of stock".) I'll keep investigating. Maybe that's what I'll do while I'm in my meeting today!

Okay well, I need to finish getting ready and wrangle the boys out one last time. Happy Thursday (I started typing Monday! WTF is wrong with me!?). Later!