Spring Fever!

What a beautiful day! The sun is shining brightly, the snow is melting slowly. A little bit warmer and it would be t-shirt weather! The other morning I heard birdies chirping as I was walking across the parking lot at work. It won't be long now and my tulips will be up and blooming!! I am really looking forward to that! Scott's mom sent him a bunch of seeds for his birthday, so he's looking forward to tearing up some of my weed bed to make a vegetable garden this spring. Guess we've both got a bad case of spring fever!

Life, explained

I hope everyone had a nice Valentines Day. We didn't do anything really, just spent some time together doing nothing (it's something we both excel at). Today Elton brought over a video of his little girls (twins born 11/21/2003, so just about 3 months old). They are ADORABLE!

I was going through my emails and came across one that explained life:

On the first day, God created the cow. God said, "You must go to field with the farmer all day long and suffer under the sun, have calves and give milk to support the farmer. I will give you a life span of sixty years."
The cow said, "That's kind of a tough life you want me to live for sixty years. Let me have twenty years and I'll give back the other forty."
And God agreed.
On the second day, God created the dog. God said, "Sit all day by the door of your house and bark at anyone who comes in or walks past. I will give you a life span of twenty years."
The dog said, "That's too long to be barking. Give me ten years and I'll give back the other ten."
So God agreed (sigh).
On the third day, God created the monkey. God said, entertain people, do monkey tricks, make them laugh. I'll give you a twenty year life span."
Monkey said, "How boring, monkey tricks for twenty years? I don't think so. Dog gave you back ten, so that's what I'll do too, okay?"
And God agreed again.
On the fourth day, God created man. God said, "Eat, sleep, play, have sex, enjoy doing nothing, just enjoy, enjoy. I'll give you twenty years."
Man said, "What? Only twenty years? No way, God. Tell you what, I'll take my twenty, the forty the cow gave back, the ten the dog gave back, and the ten the monkey gave back. That makes eighty, okay?"
"Okay," said God. "You've got a deal."

So that is why for the first twenty years we eat, sleep, play, have sex, enjoy doing nothing. For the next forty years we slave in the sun to support our family. For the next ten years, we do monkey tricks to entertain our grandchildren and for the last ten years, we sit around the house and bark at everybody.
Life has now been explained.

Hurray for 'normal' blood pressure!

Wednesday I took the time to go have my blood pressure rechecked and I'm really glad that I did. I've lost a little weight since November, I'm exercising a little more (not the 30 minutes a day thing, but still more than I was before) and I guess it all paid off because my blood pressure is "normal" still a little on the high side of safe, but still under the red flag numbers. So, I'm going to stick with the lower carbohydrate diet because it really seems to be pretty easy for me to follow - all the fruits and veggies I want, lean meats, 3 dairy & 5 starchy time carbohydrates a day - not hard at all.

The snow finally stopped falling sometime this past week, but then the winds picked up and blew it around. Wednesday I took the day off and was driving around in Sioux Falls and didn't really notice much in the way of visibility problems, but I heard the further north and east you went of the Sioux Falls area, the worse the visibility became. Today it was in the low to mid 30s and it started to feel a bit like spring, which is a welcomed change. I am very very ready for spring to come and my tulips to start blooming.

snow... snow... /sigh

Well, it has snowed pretty much all day, every day for the past 3 days - a very light, powdery snow, but enough to require using the snow blower a couple of times each day. In most spots in my yard there is well over 12 inches, but, there is a fence on both the west and south sides of my yard so it pretty much becomes the catch all for blowing snow. Anyway, I'm really glad that I have a 4-wheel drive pickup to get around in because one of the roads I take to work had not been plowed all weekend! WOOT, love being a trail blazer!! Even the mail was late today, was just delivering on my side of town when I arrived home. Scott knows what a "normal" South Dakota winter is like now.