I'm baaaaaack

My computer is back!

More importantly, Joseph is back. But since he took my laptop with him, my laptop is back as well.

Joseph went to a nerd wordpress conference where he mingled with other nerds web developers, marketing, IT people....

Starting a few weeks ago, I started asking him when his flight left on Friday. I was under the impression that it was a Friday to Sunday trip. After asking a few times, he finally checked his itinerary....it was a Thursday to (late Monday night) flight.

Not my picture. No clue as to the identity of this perturbed baby. But this it matches my inner feelings.

There was a time in my life when I was proud of my independence. I don't need anyone. I get stuff done on my own.

Now I am pretty sure I have codependency*. What do I do without my Love?

Well, I kept myself busy. Since last weekend was Joseph's birthday I didn't get much non-fun stuff done. So this weekend was non-fun stuff overload.

• Returned Shanna's borrowed pan
• Frontyard weeds obliterated
• Found a baby swing for my Mom (tried to go to a community garage sale...it rained**...found one at Other Mother's)
• Costco run because I was out of popcorn which is a Major Problem
• Pet mess spray from the pet store ($3, marked down from $12, woooohooo)
• Bought an air pump to pump up Joseph's new basketball, purchased for his birthday because what kind of a present is a FLAT basketball you can't even use
• Library to pick up some books (this is only on the non-fun list because I do not enjoy picking up the books...I usually have J pick them up for me....because he is my minion sweetie)
• Gas station
• Post office to mail crocheted items to my sister and coworker, both in TX
• Best buy to buy a thumb drive
• Went to TJ Maxx where I bought a new dog bed (for the new dog baby) and some photo frames for a secret project
• Vacuumed my truck
• Housetrained the puppy (she is soooo smart, no accidents in the house since Saturday and today is Tuesday ohhhh yeah)
• Cleaned the house (like really, really cleaned...we're talking moved everything out to sweep and mop, sanitized the animal bowls, vacuumed, organized the tupperware drawer - things seem to be disappearing since Jacob has moved in - scrubbed the bird poop off the side of my freshly-painted house, scrubbed the tree sap that dripped on my sidewalk, swept my back porch which is really just a cement slab, put all of Joseph's tools in the shed where they belong instead of strewn all over the backyard, etc)

I need to catch up on some stuff. Now that I have my pictures back. 

*I am not co-dependent in the clinical definition, where someone is controlled/manipulated by someone else who has other psychological issues such as narcism. It's a NICE codependency. Where I want to be with him because I like him and he makes me laugh and he laughs at my stupid jokes. The dogs just don't get my jokes. The puppy pretends she does, but she's just trying to fit in because she's new.
**Side note about the rain. The last three times it has rained I am pretty sure it was my fault. It POURED BUCKETS during my sister's baby shower that was supposed to be outside. Then it rained when I got Joseph a car detailing for his birthday (we were able to pull J's car into the garage....but still). And then when I decided I'm going to go to a community garage sale....it rains enough that everyone went inside. What the heck weather gods.