Tuesday Updates and Salute

I've been extra busy lately; I'm not sure doing what -- living, I guess.  I'm trying to get caught up with everyone, so if I haven't already been by, I'm on my way.

I'm alternating squats with my crunches each day.  Yes, squats won in the poll.  I guess that's a good thing, but I have to say in all earnesty I don't like squats!  But they're good for me.  Next month I'll probably add something else to the routine. 

Yesterday I did 20 crunches.  I only had to do two via comments, but I'm doing at least 20 daily.  I thought that was a good, easy number.  Today I will do 10 squats, even though I only had to do three via comments.  My goal is still to have dropped several pounds and inches by June 20, and I do see progress.

Our weather here was nice yesterday and today, but that will change tonight with some storms moving in.  Sunday was drizzly, yucky, chilly, and gray, but it was still a good day for me.  I really didn't want to go anywhere, so we stayed inside and had a nice family day together.

Let's see, what else?  Oh yeah, we're having a spate of graduation parties here.  A couple weeks ago two of Andrew's friends, a brother and sister, a year apart in ages, who are homeschooled and finished school at the same time had a party.  They wanted to get theirs out of the way early since their circle of friends has so many having parties this year.  It was a very nice co-party.  One half of the room was decorated for him and the other half for her.  The kids had a great time, and I even got to see my son slow dancing!  I was so surprised that he did that at a party where there were adults, because he's usually a bit shy about that sort of thing.   He even danced with his ex-girlfriend.

The next party is on the 30th, and then there's one on the seventh.  One of his friends is waiting until August to have his party to give us all a breather! lol  Thomas and I always try to give a generous cash gift to high school graduates, so we're glad to get advance warning of parties, so we can budget that in. 

Andrew has told me that he doesn't want a graduation party.  I have no idea why, but he did tell me that he'd accept the equivalent of the expense of a party in cash. lol  He may change his mind; we'll see.

Barbara at Life and Faith in Caneyhead recently started doing something in her journal that I think is neat, and I told her I was going to steal the idea from her.  Do you guys remember the segment on the show Hee Haw where they'd salute a town in the US and announce its population?  Then they'd say "Salute!", only they'd draw out the word till it sounded like "Sayyyyyyy-LUTE!"  Well, Barbara is going to start ending her entries with a salute to a town that shows up on her Site Meter; the town of a reader of her journal.  I thought that was a fun idea, so I'm going to start doing it.  I actually meant to do so yesterday in that entry but I forgot.

So to end today's post --

Montevideo, Uruguay  population over 1,000,000

approximately 4600 miles from me.

Sa-LUTE!