Wow, take a breath

Wow, this week was crazy. I walked to the post office 1.2 miles away, and mailed in the immigration forms so I can be a permanent resident, YAY! I'm so excited and relieved to have it done. Then I celebrated and walked to Cato and bought some cute sandals. Now I'll have to help Cody save money...meaning I'm going to have to budget our groceries and bills, and his video game buying. But I'm sure we can manage that, I'm just glad to have it done. The process is started now, and before I know it I'll be allowed to go find a job.

Also, it was Cody's 21st birthday this week, I did my best to make it special. We had dinner with his parents in a fairly southern way. Macaroni and cheese, chicken wings, chicken fingers, mashed potatoes, Shrimp I sauted, sweet rolls, and corn bread. And of course the infamous birthday cake...talk about bad for my weightloss goals. Oh I also gave Cody a new Wii game, and 4000 microsoft points for him to spend on his xbox live. Which he has done. His mom gave him a new cell phone, and his brother tossed in 20 dollars. Cody has spent his birthday money, not that I'm surprised.

Yesterday we got one of those dreaded phone calls. One of the apartments that Cody takes emergency calls from flooded. Turns out there were three apartments all sharing kitchen walls that are flooded. We called out Mr. Rooter to tell us what we needed to do, since Cody couldn't find the leak. They said...hmmm we can't find it either, call these other guys before we start tearing things out. In the process of their looking they pulled out the fridge to check an access panel. One tenants cat decided to explore inside the wall, then Cody put the access panel back, checked under the fridge for the cat and put it back too. The tenant was distraught about not being able to find her cat. We spent the next 40 minutes looking for cute little patches. Eventually Cody checked the access panel and coaxed a very scared patches out with some ham. The lady was very grateful.

This whole escapade made us an hour late for my 4 year old nephews birthday party. But we made it just in time for the food, watched them dig for dinosaur bones in some buckets of dirt, open presents, and eat cake. The big hit gift...Water guns. My husband and some of the little boys really got into it. The birthday boy was thrilled! Our gift was a soccer ball and soccer jersey.

After the festivities we had to rush back to Huntsville to get ready for Cody's party at the Mellow Mushroom. It's a very interesting pizza place. We were concerned because they don't take reservations and we figured we'd have 15 or so people coming. Like a responsible wife I called ahead and was told it would be an hour and a half wait from the time we arrived. Cody was a bit upset to say the least, and we nearly changed the restaurant. But since we'd told people 6pm and it was 5 already, we decided to stick it out. When we got there though the girl I had spoken to said she would see what she could do. We were seated in about 15 to 20 minutes. YAY! The meal was fantastic and we had a great turn out, we completely filled the tables, and Cody had a great time. I ordered a chicken caesar salad, amazing!

We came back to the apartment with Cody's younger brother, and a couple of friends and had a great time playing games on the wii and xbox. Cody did get a headache (no mountain dew yesterday) and went to bed around 11. I stayed up with his friend and brother playing games and talking until I decided to go to bed around 3am! Holy...Which of course made Cody wake up and go, wow I passed out. He went out to play, and rejoined me around 5 am. It was a great night, and a successful celebration of Cody's 21st. He thanked me for planning the whole thing, and I'm really excited it turned out so great.
My 24th birthday is this month...we'll see how that goes.

Okay so my update...I lost 1 pound! yay! Even with a small sampling of birthday cake twice this week I managed to lose. That brings me to a total of 8.8 pounds. Oh last week my 8.6 pounds was bad math, lol. Anyway that gives me 59.4 left to go. No more birthdays for 3 more weeks, should give me a head start. :) So far I'm feeling better, my clothes are starting to really look different, and I sleep better. I also did my EA active work out three times this week for around 40 each and burned around 240 calories each. Yay! Oh and I'm working on drinking enough water, thats a tough one, but I'll manage.

Overall, an eventful and good week.