Thursday, April 25, 2013

Thursday Thoughts, and my first time co-hosting a Link-Up!

I'm co-hosting my very first link-up with Jaime, Jamie and Dani today and I'm super excited! I've never done this before, so you know, be gentle and stuff. =)

This week has been very.. umm... interesting. As you saw, Garrett's birthday was on Monday. I was planning on staying until Tuesday (I don't take off work for my own birthdays, but I'll do it in a heartbeat for other people's birthdays. I'm cool like that.) so we would have some time to relax and hang out and, you know, be a normal couple for a while. How novel, right? Our weekends usually fill up so quickly, especially now that we're planning a wedding, that it's really hard to find time to relax together.

I digress. Anyway, we got a call on Tuesday morning that Garrett's dad was scheduled to have heart surgery on Thursday to repair some blockages they found. We knew it was a possibility, as he's had a few appointments with doctors and cardiologists over the last few weeks, but it seemed to all happen really quickly. We went from "it's something the doctors want to keep an eye on" to "I'm having surgery in 48 hours" really fast. When stuff like that happens, obviously you want to be close by, not four hours away, right? Right. Garrett said I don't NEED to stay, but of course I'm going to. The doctors are super optimistic, so we're not too worried. Obviously we are, but it's pretty routine, so you know.

Anyway, me spending the week here was a nice surprise. We get to do normal things like go grocery shopping and talk about our days while we cook dinner. I mean, last night we sat and stared at each other for 20 minutes trying to decide what we were going to do for dinner. For those of you that live in the same are as your partner, it sounds ridiculous to notice things like that, but for us, mid-week dinner is absolutely a luxury.

So even though the reasons behind my staying all week are kind of crappy (keep Garrett and his dad and the rest of his family in your thoughts today!) it's been really nice to be able to just have a normal relationship for once.

And in case you're wondering, we ended up just picking up a pizza for dinner. Papa John's garlic sauce is my weakness. Not even sorry about it. =)

What's on your mind this week? Link up below!
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6 comments:

Adriana from Glitter & Sarcasm said...

Yay for co-hosting! And I feel like staring at each other for 20 min is a total norm and Tom and I live together haha

Hope Garrett's dad has a speedy and uneventful recovery! Thinking of you all!

Carly Hilinski-Rosick said...

Dear god, we can spend a half hour going back and forth on dinner options until one of us stops listening and just picks a place!

Dani said...

My husband and I spend forever trying to decided what to eat and going back and forth between all of it. I think it's just what couples do. I hope Garrett's dad recovers fast.

Stevie C said...

Thinking of you guys... and now i'm totally thinking of pizza, too.

Amie said...

New follower, found you through the linkup! Hope the surgery goes well and glad you got to spend some time with your guy! And...I absolutely love that garlic sauce too, it's addicting!

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