Wine and Love

This week I wasn't feeling inspired by any of the Writing Prompts, so I've decided to join in on another meme. This one comes from Walking with Nora:

Things I'm wine-ing about:

• Henry's teething situation. He has been such a crank, and he's been waking up screaming every single night. I feel like we should take him to the doctor because he just seems to cry so much, but I don't know if I'm overreacting or if there's really something wrong. When the teething started I took him in several times because I thought he had an ear infection, but no. Now I'm second guessing everything - I think I'm even a less-sure parent than I was with the first. Is it just the teeth? Is he sick? Is this normal? We have no snot, no high fevers, no lethargy. Just a bad temper.
  
• My lack of friends. This is a sore subject for me, because I actually have a lot of friends, but I don't ever feel like I have someone to call on my drive home, or go out for drinks when I've had a bad day, or who I can confide in and who confides in me. The relationship with my old best friend was toxic, and she hated my husband and needed me more than she allowed me to need her, but at least I felt comfortable randomly calling. I feel like my old friends don't need me, or think that I don't need them because I'm married with kids. I crave friend-type companionship, but sometimes it feels like all my friends have left me for new friends and don't feel it necessary to include me.
  
• My training. Training has not been going well, least of all because my neighbor has been going with me and I'm finding it hard to get the drive to push her and me too. I am one of those few people that a) trains better alone and b) runs better outside than on a treadmill, no matter what the weather. I need to carve out yet more time to run, but do you realize how hard that is?
  

Things I'm loving:

• Harry Potter DH2: I took a half day and we went to a fantastic little cajun bistro in Ybor for lunch (fabulous food, terrible service - don't go right when they open, evidently) and then went to the best theater in the city to see it in 3D with THX surround. I usually don't care about all that gobbledy-gook, but it was worth it - awesome! Two thumbs up.
• The little personality that Spencer has become: Sometimes I get down on him because he can be so loud (I know, he's a toddler and a BOY) but yesterday I suggested a family walk and it was so funny to hear him jabber for 1.7 miles on his tricycle. I tried so hard to commit every piece of conversation gold to memory, but I failed. We need more family walks.
• My weight loss: After I hit 30 lbs down, I stopped pushing myself so hard. I do work hard, and I make hard choices with my food but if I feel like a spoonful of peanut butter with chocolate chips (the only sweet in the house) at 9pm, I have it. Despite those spoonfuls, I'm continuing to lose weight and that makes me happy. I'm 12 lbs away from my final goal weight and beyond the actual number, I feel so much better at this weight. I don't get hot so quickly, I don't get tired with the kids so quickly. I feel like actually doing things instead of laying on the couch. We got home from our walk yesterday and put on bathing suits to play in the sprinkler for awhile. And I like wearing a bathing suit!
• My budding friendship with my neighbor: If you remember Project: Neighbor, you know that I was trying to befriend my neighbors since we moved in. We have, in the past few months, really become friends and I love her! Husband's okay, good to hang out with them as a couple but Amanda and I talk so much lately. I'm so glad they moved in next door. Maybe she'll eventually be the one I call when I need a glass of wine after a bad day or just to talk. I found out on Tuesday when we went bike riding that she was doing the same things trying to get to know me! Ha! I'm not psycho!

So there you go. I'm loving more than I'm whining this week. I'm pretty sure that makes it a good week.