curry fingers and vacation partners.

Last night I cooked a new recipe (and it was really good) and while overall the recipe was super fast and easy, it did involve first toasting some curry powder to use in a dressing. Toasting curry powder. It was awesome. It smelled awesome. But for some reason now, over 12 hours later, I'm sitting in my office and every time my hands are near my face, all I can smell is curry. Oops. I'm hoping I'm the only one who notices this. Well, until lunchtime when I bust out my leftovers. But then everyone will just be jealous.

Lest you think I've been doing totally exciting stuff this week instead of blogging, let me set you straight. I haven't been. Just reading. I'm finally over Gone Girl and back to reading books that follow my favorite Formula. In case you were wondering, right now Dee Henderson is my go-to author for books that will suit my current mood. I know. I know. I am completely 100% lame. Oh well. At least I'm entertained. What I find particularly entertaining in her books is how heavily all of the characters rely on pagers. And these books were written in the 2000s!! All the characters have cell phones, because that's how they return each other's calls...but still they ALWAYS page each other first. It really cracks me up. Does anyone still know anyone that uses pagers? Is there some secret underground network of people who can't let them go? I often wonder the same thing about fax machines, which is clearly why I have an entire 'label' dedicated to the fax machine phenomenon. Yesterday one of the volunteers here at my work was hanging out in my office and he was musing on fax machines and why anyone uses them anymore. I must say- some people still love 'em. I probably get things faxed to me about once a week. It's crazy.

Oh wait- something exciting DID happen this week!! We are going to have company on our vacation this year!! Woooo!! Some friends of ours were thinking about planning a similar vacation (relaxing, relaxing, relaxing, unlimited food and drinks, relaxing) and after a few conversations, we decided the best thing ever would be for them to book the same vacation as us so that we can all be sloths together in Mexico. HOLLA!! It took a few weeks for them to get theirs booked, but now it's done and we are going to be spending 6 lovely days in Mexico with FRIENDS this time!! I am super beyond excited. It's going to be the best of both worlds (traveling as a couple, traveling with friends) because we'll have our own rooms (as opposed to staying in a condo together or something) at the resort and we can spend as much time together or apart as we want. Or split up guys and girls! Or whatever! We are just super excited, and at least 40% of the excitement (okay, kidding) is because now we will have reliable people to take pictures of us and won't rely on 'selfies' to document the entire trip! Oh and there will be other people to talk to once Matt and I run out of things to talk about! Don't lie- don't you always hit that place on a vacation? Umm...we've been stuck together 24/7 for x number of days...EVERYTHING that I've seen, you've seen...EVERYTHING that I've done, you've done...THERE IS NOTHING LEFT TO TALK ABOUT! That really isn't a problem for Matt and I because we're totally content to spend 80% of our time in silence (well, because I'm reading the whole time), but it'll be nice to be able to leave and go do something with Jessie and then when I get back THERE WILL BE SOMETHING NEW TO TELL MATT!!! Ha. So, yes. A new round of vacation enthusiasm. Because my enthusiasm wasn't already high enough.

I'm getting extremely anxious and antsy for warmer weather to show up so that I can start spending my life outside in the garden and flower beds. I know YOU are getting antsy to start being inundated with obnoxious pictures of my flowers, aren't you? Just wait. It's coming.

Matt has an appointment next week to follow up from his surgery. And I just now looked for the blog to link to about his surgery, and there isn't one? How did I manage to not blog about his surgery? When I had surgery it got its own category assigned! Matt's surgery? Nah. Well, guess we can see who does the blogging 'round here. Oops. Anyway-- this just in, Matt had surgery December 14!! The surgery was to correct a bunch of vein abnormalities and other junk down in The Region. They don't do the surgery follow-up until 3 months later because that's how long it takes to see a change in sperm quality/production/etc. So next week he'll have the new SAs done, as well as some ultrasounds and such to see if the surgery was successful. We won't get the results that day (I won't even be there), probably not for another week or two (or whenever we can get another appointment and I can be there)...but it's exciting/scary to kinda get the ball rolling again. It's been such a lonnnnnng three months with no trips to the RE (not). Of course I am praying that there are huge improvements and that the ultrasounds and SAs reveal that. But I'm also curious/scared about what our next steps could/should/might be. 

Well, that's as much updating as I have for the morning. My heart is rather heavy today as it's a tough day for my sister and brother-in-law...he's being shipped back out to ____ (a place very far away where there's a war and people try to kill people like my BIL) for the next ____ (long time) and I can't imagine how heartbreaking it is for both of them. Our prayers are that he will be safe (of course) and come home to her quickly. He's been deployed many times, but this is his first since they've been married (over 2 years). I just can't imagine how her heart breaks as she has to say goodbye. And now I'm going to make myself cry, so let's wrap this up and yall keep them in your thoughts and prayers if you will.