Giant Slacker!

Ha! I can't help but laugh at myself because I get really excited about doing things and then if it's longer than a few weeks I get bored. Oops. I know a lot of people are the same way so I don't feel as bad. Plus, Holy freakin' busy last couple of weeks. My summer is ending quite nicely! I had one of the better Sundays yesterday. We started out at a football fantasy draft pick at Dave and Liz's, then went to one of Dave's gym friends going away party, went to get Bandit washed by the Denver Roller Derby girls at Prost to benefit both them and the Max Fund, relaxed a bit, and ended at dinner and ice cream with Jackie and Jaime. Packed full of great people and positive feelings! Thank goodness because I'm going to be working a lot this week. Icky.

Last weekend a big group of friends went up to Salida and climbed Mt. Shavano, went rafting, went to breweries and a winery, played outside and just enjoyed a gorgeous view. Again, just great feelings! Then I come back to reality and get screwed over trying to find a job so until them it's serving beer and pizza and setting my worthless masters degree to the wayside.

Back to the book...

I don't remember what we ended on so I'm just going to write a few highlights because I get the feeling people don't care about the non-drama, lovey-dovey crap I write about anyway.

There are a few dares that may be helpful later in our relationship when we do fight or have to compromise but on a random day when we don't see each other its had to do that days challenge. But some good ones that I like are when we do fight we need to establish healthy rules of engagement. So that's always a good thing to have! I said I won't thrown things (don't worry, no things have been thrown at dave) and that we need to use "I feel" statements (Look! My counseling degree coming in useful for once!). I also added that we need to end with saying I love you. I feel it lightens the mood and it's good to still let each other know we love them even if they are driving us crazy!! We got good advice from Dave's cousin in one of our wedding cards which said "fight naked." Very smart! Dave said he's not going to yell and I said he should not walk away (He does that when people don't agree with him).

I'm excited to see what he does for todays challenge which is Purposefully neglect an activity you would normally do so you can spend time with your spouse. He LOVES Crossfit so of course that popped into my mind right away but this is also the last day his friend is going to be there so I couldn't be mad if he went to say good-bye. Even if she wasn't leaving I worry he wouldn't pick to stay with me and go to the gym :( I'm pretty lazy and go with the flow of what Dave wants to do most of the time so I don't know what I would neglect to spend more time with him. I barely leave the house on Mondays because it's my recovery day and house cleaning day. I may have to do this challenge on a different day. See what I mean?! Sometimes these challenges aren't valid when you're supposed to do it. However, I'm still enjoying this book.