50 Shades of Manatee

Remember when I said I was going to slack less and blog more? Yeah, I lied. Life has been a crazy ride the last few weeks (the blog on the biggest change is yet to come), so blogging hasn't been on the forefront.

We've been hella busy. Pretty much every weekend for the last 6 weeks has been filled to the brim. A few weeks ago, we celebrated Derek's grandmother's 90th birthday party.

It was a great time! We went to Pt. St Lucie and met up with all the family, who either flew or drove in from all over the country. I did, however, have a moment of mortification when I saw this on my 90 year old grandmother-in-law's doily covered coffee table.

The next weekend we HAD to do something to get that out of our head, so we decided to go kayaking with manatees.

We didn't get too far from 50 Shades though because we ended up seeing 50 Shades of Manatee Mating season. Yeeeeah, awkward.

On the home front, Derek has been a busy bee! He installed a snazzy new water filter...

And he got the new toilet in, which means we now have 2 places to pee in the house-fancy!

WARNING! If you don't want multiple pictures of your butt put in each blog,
don't get married to me. (I wonder if he read THAT fine print in our vows! lol)

And he did it just in the nick of time because that very night I had an awesome girls night Pinterest party!

My party even had a few extra special guests...

These buggers were caught within minutes of each other. We really don't know how they're getting in (although we have our suspicions), but we're catching them on a regular basis. I even caught one while sitting on the toilet because I'm that badass.

In other home improvement news, the summer heat has been killing our AC, and with our attic getting to 120 degrees plus, Derek decided to "ghetto rig," a little something. He knew we needed something to cool the attic off until we get an attic fan, so he decided to rig up a fan of his own for now. This is no ordinary "ghetto rigging," job though because my husband is no ordinary homeowner.

I later had to inform him that even though the wood isn't laminated and has unfinished edges, that this is no "ghetto rigging," job because it doesn't involve duct tape or things hanging precariously, and he used a saw. I told him that if most homeowners were to rig something for this problem, they would most likely take the fan, lean it sideways in the corner of the hole and then put the original door/cover thing over the hole. He was quite disgusted by this idea, and you could tell that he genuinely hadn't even thought of such a thing. Yup, my man is his own kind of breed. The manly fix-it kind.

As for me and my runs, well I've been slacking. Can you blame me?!? It's a bajillion degrees out there. Plus I did this...

Fortunately though it was just tendonitis, and it healed in time for me to do this...

So now I'm back on track (she said for the billionth time). But for real, I'm actually typing this in my running clothes, and I'm not going to count watching Real Housewives while wearing running clothes as a workout today (but maybe tomorrow). I'm planning on actually getting these clothes sweaty. (Was that convincing enough?)

In other news, I can't figure out how to wrap up this post, so I googled "funny house ecards," and decided this is how I'll go out...