Toledo and I

This couch and I are soul mates. I could picture myself sitting on it like this all day, everyday.

Davie teaching me how to eat

Cute Kari and I going to a RS activity.

Yay, see that baby? It's from a centipede and I went to an instacare for it because I was terrified it was a brown recluse and my arm flesh was going to fall off.

Best part of the Mudhens game = these attractive little mouth pieces.

Visiting one of my all-time favorite places in the universe.

This is how David eats at T-bell. He lines up his hot sauce packets in a perfect row and tears off a corner from each and THEN he eats that taco like it's nobody's business. Davie (in the background) obviously thought it was as hilarious as the rest of us did. My nephew has an excellent humor for being a mere 19 months old

Just the pops and Sel playing a friendly game of softball. Sel ended up being the "ringer" of the team hitting home runs like he played for the Yankees. He even decided to join his med school's two softball leagues now since he did such a stellar job. Also, the pops did an amazing rough-and-tumble somersault to catch a ball and it was impressive. Just so you know.

This was in Champaign. I though the DeLoreon cause it has been centuries since I have seen one of these bad boys

This is in the living room of the house we want. Looking at it makes me want to call the seller and just beg him to stop being so ridiculous

This week has been a bit of a bummer. Getting our house has become a bit more complicated. Let me just throw this out there, I had no idea getting a place to live in Toledo, Ohio would be this crazy. Manhattan, maybe. Canada, undoubtedly (cause Canada is the worst). But Toledo? Every day I am super duper grateful my cute in-laws are letting us invade their space, eat their food, use their water, and make their life more inconvenient than it was before we bombarded them with our presence. I cannot even tell you how great they are and how fun it has been to be with them. They are seriously the best. This week alone Kari has single-handedly made us two 3 course meals of delicious heaven. That being said, I am beyond anxious to have our own place. I still feel like we are just vacationing in Toledo (ha, funny, I know…no one in their right mind would vacation to Toledo). I have been a little bit mean to Toledo cause I feel like I am over here all ready to be in a committed, long-term relationship. I have totally put my vulnerable self out there and Toledo, the player that he is, has rejected me almost every time. Toledo stalling on me has just highlighted all the flaws I see in it instead of the fun, safe side I am certain Toledo is hiding beneath these layers of frustrating give and take.  Toledo even had the nerve to have some terribly venomous creature bite my arm in my sleep. If you were looking to get under my skin (get it? Get it? Cause whatever bit me actually did), it certainly worked Toledo. Work has also been a bit of a bummer as we are soooo slow and anyone I deal with feels the need to swear at me for not giving them a job. Which makes me feel angry that people who don’t have jobs are essentially telling me I am bad at my job. I hate feeling angry at anyone or anything. It’s really is the worst.

Even if Toledo keeps acting like it’s not interested in us (which I know deep down it is), we are working on our relationship by trying to do fun things together. Thursday we went to a Mudhens baseball game and it was really fun and we made a bunch of friends on our bus ride downtown. We also have been waking up at the crack of dawn for the past two weeks to run around the Toledo neighborhoods. Super proud of us for this part. We have also been giving ourselves time apart and have been visiting our Amish friends in Columbo this weekend. Let me tell you, no one makes food better than the Amish do. I mean, not a soul on Earth can match their baked goods. (my mouth is watering right now recalling the pumpkin pie and maple cookies).We have actually spent almost every single weekend since we moved to Toledo not in Toledo…We’ve been to Chicago for one weekend, Columbus for two weekends, Rochester for two weekends, and we are going in Columbus this weekend. We will also be coming back to Columbus in another weekend and potentially going to New York next weekend...

I don’t consider it cheating on Toledo since T-town, as pointed out extensively in this post, has yet to commit to us. We’re totally allowed to hang out with other cities until Toledo decides to start putting out. So, here’s to eating buttermilk and maple cookies while riding in a horse and buggy!