Please watch the video below. It’s short. Less than a minute.

So, yeah. Ashley got engaged this weekend. He took her out to dinner and while at dinner, the people from the restaurant at the hotel put rose petals leading up to her room and decorated the room for him. When they got there and she walked in, he called her name and when she turned around and he presented her with the ring. By the way, that was a reenactment. Ashley had no clue what was going to happen. She just knew that they were going out for dinner and to a hotel. I think it may have been their dating anniversary or something.

She’s so happy. I’m so happy for her. Isabelle says, “I’m okay with it…I get to be a flower girl!”

I’m going to be a mother-in-law. For some reason, that makes me feel older than being a grandmother.

Today, while at work, I was walking down this grassy, muddy, snowy, slushy hill in my Crocs and scrubs, trying to get to my truck which was parked in the street. I was doing this sort of tip-toe, ballet sort of walk, in hopes of not getting my socks wet and I did a really graceful pirouette and fell right on my ass. It was so graceful and, honestly, hysterical. My friend and co-worker who was walking with me, in between guffaws, asked if I was alright. It’s okay, I was laughing, too. I was alright except for that kind of scraped up, bruised hand thing you get when you fall in to icy snow and my clothes and jacket (which I had just washed) were covered in mud.

Now, several hours later, I am more than a little sore. Especially in my back and hip. My back because I think I twisted it when I fell and my hip because I fell on it. Such. A. Dork. Luckily I wasn’t a little older and more frail or I could have broken my hip.

Anyone have suggestions on how to get mud out of pastel pink scrub pants?

That pretty much sums up my weekend.

Friday, I had one of the worst migraines I’ve had in a long time. I spent most of the day in bed because I could barely open my eyes. As luck would have it, it was very sunny out on Friday, so I stayed in my shade darkened room instead of the main living area where it was way too bright.

On Saturday, the headache was mostly gone so, after WeightWatchers and then a brief nap, I helped Jason strip wallpaper from the walls in the dining room and stairway. We did that until dinner–steak, hashbrowns and asparagus–and then after dinner we watched a movie with Isabelle. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. It was cute. Reminded me a little of the movie Armageddon.

Sunday morning Isabelle woke me and Delilah at 7am. Yippee! We ate choclate chip pancakes for breakfast and then I took a nap and when I woke up, I went back to stripping wallpaper.

Now, I’m sore and tired. But, I have some post ideas lined up, so if I’m not too tired to get them posted this week, I’ll have more for you.

This will be the most posting that I’ve done in months!

And now, to add insult to injury, Jason’s car broke down in the grocery store parking lot. It runs, but it’s not drivable because the front wheels are pointing at each other or, as he says, his car is pigeon-toed.

Yeah, so…

If you haven’t done so yet, or today, please go here and vote for Emily’s school. The school that is in first place has an unfair advantage because they were featured on CNN. Seems fair. Not.

Apparently, I’m “not taking this seriously enough”. Even though I’ve posted about it several times on Facebook, I’ve Tweeted it multiple times, I’ve emailed all my coworkers about it and I posted about it here. I guess I’m supposed to do an entire post about it, so here it is.

Emily lost a good friend on January 10th to suicide. It has been very hard on her circle of friends and really on all of the seniors at Andover High School. It is a great tragedy. He was talented. He was well loved. He was funny. He is greatly missed. His name was Nick.

To honor/memorialize their friend, Max Roth made a video and submitted it to Dell’s Superprom Contest. If they win, they will get $100,000 to spend towards their prom. I think it would be awesome for them if they win. I don’t think it will make them forget Nick, or miss him less, but it would help to bring some happiness to their final year of high school that has been very difficult for them.

In addition, Max will also win something if he gathers the most individual votes. Since he’s the one who did all the work on the video, if Andover wins, he should rightfully win the individual contest. Some people inadvertently posted copies of his video. While all votes for a certain school go to that school, no matter which of the videos you vote on, the individual votes don’t go to Max. So when you go there to vote, please vote on the video that has Max’s name below it.

And here’s where you come in. Please go here. If you haven’t already, you will have to register. It takes a few minutes for them to send you a password (you can either stay logged in, or you can change your password by clicking on your name once you are logged in and choosing “edit” and then “sign-in information”), but when you get it, log in and vote for Andover High School (you just click on their high school in the standings on the left side). They are currently in 2nd place, but they have been in first on and off. With your help (all 10 of my readers) they could possibly win.

Please, please, please vote and vote everyday. There are 5 days left. Tell your friends, tell your family, post about it, Tweet and re-Tweet it, share it on Facebook. Whatever you have to do. If they don’t win, someone (ahem, Emily) will blame it on me. Dell, in their wisdom, has even made it easy for you to share it on various networking sites. So, if you do, I will be eternally grateful. I would offer something as an incentive, but I have NO money to buy the winner of any contest anything and I don’t think that you would like anything that I could make you. Also, I don’t have time to make anything. So, there’s that. I’ve been voting and voting and voting, but one person can only vote so many times, y’know.

So please vote. I love you. Thank you.