Da' weekend and Da' boat

The Coach purchased a new boat. He's been waiting on it for about four months. He picked out everything from the paint color, the upholstery to the stitching in the upholstery. It's HIS baby.

Quite the Coachy  catchy name, huh?

Every time I get on a friends boat or the Coach mentioned a new boat my first question is: 

Does it have a potty?

Potty good.

NO POTTY, BAD.

Well, this has a potty. 

I mean, it has a flip up lid with a bucket/toilet seat. 

Although I'd prefer a nice enclosed space with a bidet. 

Beggers can't be choosers. 

We took a nice ride from Naples all the way to Cape Romano to see the Dome houses. I know I've written about them before, but they are just SO cool to see with such an interesting history. 

They used to be on land and people lived in them in the 80's-90's. 

When I blogged about them in 2017, there were two more structures out of the water. I'm sure Hurricane Irma didn't help much. Or the fact that we all used so much aqua net in the 80's. 

It was a fantastic day and we saw gobs of dolphins. I'm still a little peeved that I don't have one as a pet, but I'm not finished asking either. 

Later that night we had a fantastic dinner/wine pairing with 8 of our friends.

I love the weekends so much, I really wish I could have more of them.
XOXO

Who ate my lip balm?

Yesterday was my Mom's heavenly birthday. She would have been 76; like the bicentennial. Goodness, I still remember what a big year 1976 was. All the hoopla. All the red, white & blue.
Anyhoo, I'm still keeping up the tradition of celebrating her in the way she would like.
Two of my besties and I have a nice Mexican lunch with a margarita in Bev's honor.

I love that they also love this tradition. You can't beat great friends.
Well, you could. But then they wouldn't really like you so much, now would they?
Bada-Bada-Bump!


But something cute happened this week.
On Easter Lolo's dog, Mattis found my 'Suz's sitting on the couch necessities basket' under the coffee table.

Does everyone have this? It's all the important things I might need once I sit down for the night and don't want to get up again:
dental floss, foot and hand cream, lip balm & eye drops.  (I'm dry I tell ya!)


Well, Mattis found my lip balm and proceeded to open it and eat the balm.
That's NOT the cute part.
Luckily, it was on the low side, but still, Mattis should have moisturized lips for a few days.
The cute part is two days later I get a package from Amazon that I didn't order.

Lolo replaced the lip balm X6.
I'll check with Mattis and see which flavor he prefers and save it for him.
My girls are the best.
Also on Easter, Linds brought me flowers and candy for us both.
Mama did well.
Have I mentioned how much I really love those girls? Like.A.LOT.

Anyhoo. That's my cute story for this week.

Have a great weekend!
XOXO

Easter Feaster

I hope all my peeps had a fabulous Easter weekend.

I'd planned on having some of my cousins/family from the East coast over to visit, but it seems it's just a struggle for some people to commit. *raises fists in the air*

Anyhoo...there are several people that I can always count on. 

MY People.

Not sure why, but the only pics I got of our girls were when they were laying by the pool....after Easter lunch and prior to Easter dessert. It was a beautiful day; we were experiencing a cool front after a day or two of storms. 

Mattis came to play for the day as well. And when I say play, I mean run around like he's never been allowed to run free before. MANIAC. 

Some things that I never thought we'd discuss at the dinner table are (and we discuss everything!)
Credit scores.
My girls are on a mission to have excellent credit even though it's SO hard to get a good credit score when you DO NOT have credit. It's so funny to hear them talk about working on it, goals, etc....

I made some cute little chocolate tarts. That's about the extent of my baking capabilities.  

And my first attempt at making Deviled eggs was a total success. (The Coach added bacon to them because....bacon) I learned that making hard boiled eggs in my Insta-pot/pressure cooker is the ONLY way to make them for now on. No worrying about watching a boiling pot and timing it perfectly and they peel like BUTTER!

 

In case you have an instant-pot and want to try them yourself; this is from MY brand of instant pot and I used 2 cups of water instead of 1 1/2. 

My local inlaws came to join us as well as Lolo's boyfriend. It was a quiet, but very nice day spent with my people who I can always count on. 

This was the first year that I didn't hide eggs for the kids. I know. I'm so disappointed in myself as well. But, they did get Easter treats, I'm not a complete monster. 

Have a great day!

XOXO

Which one of us will go first?

I've been struggling with allergies.
Or am I getting sick? 
I've had this same conversation every day with myself for almost 2 weeks.
Many nights I took a 24 allergy pill before bed but didn't notice any improvement.
One day I realized I'd forgotten to take the allergy pill at night, and decided to take in the morning.
Big mistake.
HUGE.
I was falling asleep at noon. Which was unfortunate since I was driving at the time.
Then I was remembering to take the pill at night.
Good for you SuzyQ.
Except, I was still getting crazily tired during the day.
No.more.allergy.pills.
I'll just suffer from the sinus/throat/nose issues.
Sleep driving is frowned upon.

I think the Coach was jelly of my struggles and he decided to get a phantom cramp in the lower left side of his belly.
He lived with it for over 24 hours. Then he decided to drive himself to the hospital for a CT scan.
Hey, I offered to take him.
They quickly ruled out a blockage of his intestines and decided it must be diverticulitis.
I ended up having to catch a ride to the hospital and pick him up since they gave him some pain meds as well as IV antibiotics.
See, I did save the day.
He, of course, was up early the next morning and headed off to work...he's a worker bee.
He's currently on antibiotics and has pain meds if he needs them although it seems the (fingers crossed) worst pain has passed.
He IS on a liquid diet for a few days though. Lord, that doesn't even sound fun.
I've had to eat all my food in the closet.
Kidding.
I don't allow food in the closet.

Hoping that he's feeling dandy like candy for Easter Sunday.

Well, that's all my woes for this week. And YES, I feel lucky that this is the only issue we're having at all.

Wishing everyone a beautiful Easter weekend!
XOXO