Flexible

I have good news: the pool is finished! And, oh man has it ever exceeded my expectations. It is absolutely gorgeous; pictures aren't quite giving it justice at this point. I have been sitting at the edge of the pool today quite a bit just absolutely mesmerized by the shimmering mosaic of colors and gorgeous ripples of the water.

I've also been sitting outside a lot today literally watching the water level rise. You see, we're filling our pool, and it's taking forever! According to the contract, the pool company started filling the pool with water as soon as they were finished, and the way it all goes is that you're not supposed to stop filling it until it's full because it will cause some kind of stain on the new surface if you do.

This presents a bit of a problem, because, well.... We're supposed to be in Vegas right now!!!!! Or, at least we're supposed to be on our way to Vegas. After weeks of planning the perfect anniversary weekend, I had no idea that the pool company would actually finish so early and throw all of my plans right out the window.

Last night, our actual anniversary, we spent in downtown San Diego at my friend's birthday party. After the party we had a hotel just down the street so that we didn't have to drive home. We were slightly late to the birthday party, though, because we spent hours staring at the pool and trying to figure out just the right water pressure so that the pool didn't overflow while we were gone (overnight) and so that it wasn't painfully unfilled when we returned home the next day. Well, the pool certainly didn't overflow while we were gone.... I wish I could say the same thing about it being painfully unfilled, though.

Thus, here we are. Waiting. For. The. Pool. To. Fill. Up. Already! You've heard that expression, "A watched pot never boils" or something like that. Yeah, that's how I currently feel. Watching that water line take its time to edge up and up the pool wall is just a teeny bit frustrating. Especially because, in case I didn't mention it enough yet, I'm supposed to be in Vegas right now.

Actually, I do believe that I deserve a gigantic pat on the back. Because, after initially finding out that the pool people were going to be finishing the pool Friday and realizing that was going to throw a gigantic curveball into all of my amazing plans, I had a bit of a temper tantrum about the whole thing. Poor Mike. His mantra for that evening was, "This is NOT my fault. You can be mad but you cannot say this is my fault." He was right. It wasn't his fault. But my frustrated this is why I never plan anything because everything I plan always backfires in my face-self needed someone to blame for the unfraying of my beautiful weekend right before my very eyes.

Except that after I threw the tantrum of the century, I basically got a grip. Ok. So we didn't get to sleep in at our beautiful San Diego hotel. So we have had to spend a few hours back at the house waiting for this pool to fill up. So maybe we will be getting to Vegas Saturday night instead of Saturday afternoon. Oh well. whatever. We still got to spend an amazing anniversary dancing the night away with one of my best friends on her birthday. We still got to stay in a beautiful San Diego hotel even if we weren't there all that long. We still get to spend our weekend in Vegas. And, to top it all off, we have this beautiful pool paradise that we've been dreaming about forever.

When all is said and done, maybe our anniversary weekend isn't panning out to be the perfect weekend that I had concocted in my mind, but it is turning out to be perfect. And, it's teaching me that after 5 years of marriage one thing that we've learned how to do really well together is be flexible!

Which leads me to one of my absolute favorite quotes of all time, "Blessed are the flexible for they will not be broken." So true.