He said he's seeing someone new

[Ophelia]

ILs have been and gone. Was nowhere near as stressful as I thought it'd be of course. I always work myself up about things like this and they never turn out as bad as I'd imagined.

I was telling them about my workouts this week, and mentioned the punching bag, telling them I'd gotten it for my birthday and joked that it was like exercise and therapy in one, at which they both actually laughed. FIL actually asked, "And does this punching bag have a name?" I replied with a wry smile that sometimes it does...depends on my mood, and at that they both laughed louder than they did before. I'm not talking a polite little half giggle, I'm talking a real laugh. So I kinda got a kick outta the fact that they got a kick outta it. Wonder if they'll mention it to H.

MIL loved the broms I got for her and her friend on ebay. She said that they're planning on paying another visit to a brom nursery they'd been to a month or so ago, it's like a wholesale nursery where you've actually gotta make an appointment to go along. They loved it last time, and the owner has invited them back, and MIL said she'd let me know when they were going so that I could come along too. She reckons I'll really love it. So that should be good.

They mentioned a birthday party they'd had for two of FIL's kids, (they're twins, now in their 50s) last Sunday, and filled me in on some of the more interesting happenings. I asked MIL if she could give me a list of everyone's b'days because the only reason I've remembered them in the past is because there's usually a family b'day party. She said she'd make a copy of her list for me.

So I'm gonna send belated b'day cards to my BIL and SIL, and then it's one of my nephew's b'day today (he's turning 2), so I'll send a little something to him, and then it's one of my niece's b'day next Tues (she's turning 8), so I'll send her a little something as well. Lots of cards to buy!

MIL and FIL will be going to visit my niece on Tues as there's gonna be a little family party for her, and I came *this close* to asking if I might be able to tag along so that I could see everyone, (seeing as how I didn't get to see them at Christmas), because being a Tues, H obviously wouldn't be going. I didn't want to put her on the spot though, so I didn't ask. I'll just post a little present instead.

I sent H an email last night. Not a reply to his last one, but I was checking out the forums at midlifeclub.com and saw this thread which made me laugh. In his last email, H mentioned one night when he had so much work to do that he was at the office til 2am! So I just sent him the pic from that thread with a subject line of, "Are you tired of your high stress job?" and in the body of the email I just said, "You know, it could always be worse..." and signed it with a and attached the pic. Don't expect a reply, but hopefully it'll at least make him smile.