Thu 28 Aug 2008
1. I’m so sorry this blog has seriously lacked posts lately! I wish you could see my desk at work, my monitor faces the hallway so anyone walking around can see exactly what I’m doing. Seriously cramping my internet style!
2. My 401K isn’t coming out of my check yet, you have to be here 3 months to be able to do it, and while I’m enjoying the extra money I’m dreading when I have to say goodbye to it. 
They don’t match here yet since they’re a new company and I’m going to try to make up for it by putting 10% (GASP!) of my check into it. Before I put 5% in, Bentley matched the first 2% by 100% and the next 3% by 50%. So I was getting like 8% or something.
3. John and I started a diet. Together. Has John ever been on a diet? No. He’s doing so well though! He usually has this technique of eating less and exercising more, which is GREAT, but we don’t do it. So we started the South Beach Diet a week ago. It’s very similar to what I was already doing, a little more veggies, a lot less fat, and so far, we’re both holding strong. I’ve lost 6 pounds this week and John’s lost 4. Yay for us!
4. The past week’s weight loss puts me at 40 pounds lost since January. I can’t tell you how much better I feel. A little more like myself.
5. Dash is teething like a maniac. I think they’ve finally all broken through now.
6. Dash has also been sick for the past 10 days. Fussy, clingy, snotty. Just a mess. He’s finally getting back to his normal sweet, independant self. I missed my baby!
7. He’s started stomping his feet when he’s upset. So. Freaking. Cute. Hard not to laugh. I asked him if he was hungry while I was cooking him some dinner and he came over, looked up at me and started crying and started stomping his feet. Ha!
8. We went to Cathedral Caverns this past weekend. Nifty. On the way in, you go like 100 ft, stop, listen to the tour guide, start moving again. On the way OUT, the tour guide says “ok, head out of the cave and I’ll follow you…” We must have been 2 miles in. Dash was in his fussy stage and had cried several times on the way in. What’s worse than a crying baby? A crying baby in an echoing cave. So I was booking it on the way out. I’ve never walked so far up so many hills pushing a 25 pound baby in my life. Holy Moly.
9. College football starts tonight! Hooray!
10. The Tennessee Valley Vipers won the Arena 2 Football championship. They were runners up their first year, fairly successful for a few years but a TON of fun to watch, and then the owner got fed up with the Arena 2 organization and moved them to the Universal Football Association (or something like that) and all but squelched the team. Several good players left, and they had a horrible, horrible season. They rejoined AF2 and were able to turn it around over the past few years. I’m so glad for them, and can’t wait to go to a game next year. It’s always fun when a bunch of people are there and there will be more people with a winning season. If you’re in the Huntsville area, check them out. 12 dollar tickets, kid-oriented promotions and beer. It’s hard to beat that. And they seriously are fun. If the ref makes a bad call the commentator goes “Need your eyes checked?… Check out Sears Optical…” and turns it into a commercial. 
) But it got him to the point where he could go to sleep with a little patting so we laid them next too each other.
