I'm Still Here! Friday Frag Catch-up

Hi everyone! It's been a month of Sundays since I posted ... You know what they say though - no news is good news! Not that I don't have news, but you know what I mean. I hope. Anywhooo ... How about Friday Frags as a great format for catching y'all up on things? YAY! That's what I thought too!

• We took a really great fun vacation to HILTON HEAD ISLAND last month. Sooo nice! Sooo beautiful! SOOOOO HOT! Good thing we were right there at the beach, or I might have died. It was my first time to HHI and I really did enjoy it. One of my favorite things was the fact that a whole bunch of pelicans were in perpetual fly-by mode over our condo. I can't explain why but I thought that was the awesomest thing ever, to look out the balcony doors and see pelicans cruising by at any given time. I miss them a lot now that I'm back home in the great midwest.
• I may or may not have mentioned earlier that I was so annoyed by my scale that I decided not to get on it for a whole month. Ya know, I thought that would be hard, but it ended up being great. It gave me the opportunity to "walk by faith and not by sight" with my fitness plan, and in the process I gained a lot of self-esteem without that beastly machine spitting out narrow-viewed numbers at me. In the end, I actually felt positive about checking my progress ... and guess what? I lost 5 pounds in July. Even being on vacation. I'm beside myself with glee about that!
• My Dad has decided he's too old for another bout of surgery, so he's decided to combat his tumors with stand-alone chemotherapy. I understand his decision and his reasoning, but have mixed emotions about this.
• I bought the series collection of Gilligan's Island just because I wanted it - for Incrediboy to have some good wholesome television to enjoy. This was my hands-down favorite show when I was a kid and it's still freaking hilarious - and for a whole new bouquet of reasons as watched through the eyes of an adult. We are all enjoying them immensely. Interestingly enough, we'd been calling the Hub "Skipper" but when the Hub called Incrediboy "Gilligan", he informed us he was not Gilligan, he was the Professor. :). Such a precocious imp! I then chided that this must mean *I'm* Gilligan. Incrediboy responded by telling me I was Ginger. I love that boy so much. :). (I know, I know - most men really had a thing for Mary Ann. But I always thought Ginger was completely breathtaking, so I am immensely flattered. Shut up and let me have my moment.)
• I treated myself to a Wii Fit! It's totally fun. I even let Incrediboy play with it a little bit, but mostly I've been hogging it to myself. ;D. I also got myself a boxing game with glove set for it, but as of now I'm still playing with the games that were included with it.
• I wandered by the bakery in the grocery store last night and saw this. A crab cake!?!? Seriously the funniest thing I've seen all week. I'm still laughing about it.

Hope everyone's well. Enjoy the rest of summer!!! ~