Friday!!!

It's Friday!

And you have no idea how excited I am about that!

Tonight I will be:

Going to see this movie with a friend.

Watching my hubby, FIL, and a friend build our new deck!

Relaxing and SLEEPING!

O and to make things even better, the sun has decided to show it's face again after 7 days of hiding!

What do you have planned for your Friday evening??

 

Welcome and a weekend recap

I've had a few new followers lately and I just wanted to say welcome!  Thanks for stopping by and I hope you find what I have to say slightly interesting.  If not, I don't blame you for leaving :-)

On to the weekend recap!

Let me just say that this weekend was spent doing the following in no particular order:

Relaxing.

Wine drinking.

Reading.

Grad homework.

Laundry.

Movies.

Cooking dinner with hubby.

Running a few errands.

Buying new bedding. (I'll share it later!)

Watching the snow fall.

Cleaning.

Releaxing.

Playing video games with hubby. (yes, I'm sorry, I admit going to the dark side from time to time!)

What I'm looking forward to:

Day off on Friday.

Getting some much needed things accomplished.

My parents visiting this weekend.

Getting a new hot water heater!

Shopping with my mom.

Dinner date with two of our good friends on Friday night.

Dinner and movie date with just hubby on Saturday night.

Said movie date to Dear John!

Lunch with my parents on Valentines Day.

Relaxing.

Do you have anything fun planed for this weekend?  It is the BIG Valentines day weekend! 

Hubby and I usually buy a small gift and CARDS, (I love me some cards, especially from hubby) but this year we're forgoing gifts to do a fancy dinner!

What do you do to celebrate the Day of Love?

3D!

This weekend we were able to go see Disney's A Christmas Carol in 3D!

I LOVED this movie!  My hubby & my in-laws went with.  I've never been to a 3D movie before, but it was very cool.  I think I'll be buying it when it comes out, hopefully in 3D!  I would not recommend it for children under 10 though as some parts are quite scary.  They added a bit to this version, but again, I really enjoyed it.  Things jumped out at you and felt as if you could touch them!  Very creative!   Definitely a Must See.

Catching up!

It's been a few days since my last post and I have no real good reason why.... I mean, I'm busy, but I could have sat down to type something up.  Nothing was blog worthy, but now that I have a few minutes, I thought I would catch you all up on what's going on.

This weekend was great since we were able to spend it at home!  Jesse was home sick on Friday, so most of the weekend was spent taking care of him and watching movies.  I have my first draft of my lit review for my research paper due this Sunday (which I was able to START on this past weekend)  I'm only about 2 pages in, so I've got a long way to go.  We did get to see some great movies though.  We watched The Proposal which was cute and a must see!  We also watched Lies & Illusions which was the worst movie we've ever seen a very odd movie to say the least. State of Play was the other one we watched and it was ok, not my favorite, and not my least favorite.

Other than that, Saturday, hubby drug me kicking and screaming took me to a speaker competition.... Yes, I said speaker competition.  More on that in a later post, but really, it wasn't that bad.  It was quite humorous and fun to see how creative people are when it comes to building speakers that sound really great.  It's hubby's new found passion in his free time.  He's working on a new project for our movie theater room, so I'll have to show pictures of that soon as well! 

I'm currently loathing my research class.... It's got to be the most waste of time class I have ever taken.  There is so much busy work.  AND get this, the research project we are putting together, well we aren't even following through with the research (or at least we aren't required to and since I'm not currently working in a school, it's quite difficult to do so).  So, I'm going along, doing whats required of us, but not really learning a damn thing in the process... I keep thinking only 7 more weeks to go and I'm finished with the class!!! (I wish it seemed like a short amount of time!)

I'm having a crap-tastic week, I can't really share a lot of the happenings, but just know that I could use some prayers to help fix things... 

I'm excited for this weekend, it's our biggest annual fundraiser for Big Brothers Big Sisters called Bowl for Kids Sake.  Hubby and I are bowling with two of my co-workers, Angie & Katie.  We've raised our money and now we are ready to celebrate!  We'll be bowling, enjoying food, hopefully some prizes and just having fun.  Afterwords, my parents are coming to visit and go out to dinner with us.  I haven't decided on a place yet, but I'm sure I'll think of something! :-) I'll be working on my lit-review the rest of the week/weekend, so no other fun will be had!

Lastly, I just want you all to know that there's only 66 days until Christmas!!! I'm very excited, can you tell?  Although, I'm also almost as equally excited for Thanksgiving when both sides of our families will join us for a home cooked meal by ME!  Yeahhh!! 

I hope everyone is having a crappy week like me great week! (No really, I hope it's better than mine!)

Weekend Recap

Yes, it's Wednesday and I have yet to tell you how my weekend went!

It's been a long week so far, and it's only Wednesday!  I haven't been feeling well all week and I cannot shake this headache.  O well, I must push on I suppose!

Friday:

Hubby and I had a wonderful dinner out at a restaurant close to home

We enjoyed watching Changeling

It was good, but a bit disturbing.

Saturday:

Hubby had to work overtime on Saturday

Amber & Katie came over to watch the Iowa Hawkeyes victory over Iowa State!

We had Papa Murphy's Pizza, made bloody mary's, magarita's and some other delicious drinks!

We then watched Hoarders

Have any of you seen this?  This show amazes me and makes me want to go clean!

After 3 episodes of Hoarders, we decided that we had wasted enough of our day and went separate ways. 

I think decided to clean, (weird, I know) do laundry, and relax at home.

Sunday:

We drove 1.5 hours to go on the river with some friends, we grilled out on a sandbar, tubed, and just relaxed.  We got a bit sunburnt, and I'm feeling the wrath of it today.... It hurt so bad the past few days and not is starting to peal and it is sooooooooooooo gross!

Anyway, all in all it was a great weekend.  My bestie, Pam, is coming to visit this weekend on Saturday, followed by my mom on Sunday!  I cannot wait :-)

Hubby will be hard at work all week and on into Saturday.... 70 hours this week, which really is no fun for him... He's been exhausted and I've missed having him home.  He'll be working 10 hours on Saturday, so you bet you'll find us sleeping in on Sunday! :-)

Have a great rest of the week!

The Time Travelers Wife

Have you seen it? What did you think?

I went to see this movie last week with my friend, Amber, and I'm still not sure what to think of it. It was a decent movie, but I would probably recommend waiting until it comes out on video to watch it. We went at 4:30, so we were able to pay the cheaper price, which was nice, but it still probably wasn't worth the whole $6.50.

Happy days....

Today's Friday! I have the Happy day's theme song in my head now, great... Anyway this weekend we'll be:

Friday:
Going to see this movie, with my office-mate, Amber, and I'm very excited
Possibly going out to celebrate our friend James' birthday
(this is a rare occasion for us!)

Saturday:
Waking up early to head to my home town, 1.5h away
Spending a bit of time with our friends Nick & Katie (and wishing she'd have the darn baby already!!)
Going to a huge family reunion, then off to a corn boil (Yes, we live in Iowa!)
Spending time with my parents

Sunday:
Headed back home slightly early to get a few things done around the house
Relaxing and watching some movies with my hubby!

I'm pretty excited because this is the first Friday night we've gotten to say home in about 8 weeks! It's very very exciting actually! Next weekend we get to spend the ENTIRE weekend at home just the two of us and I am O SO excited! :-)

Any big plans for this weekend? I feel as though we are forever traveling!

In other news, we're looking at buying a new car {Read: New to us} I'm pretty excited, because it has a lot of room, I hated it at first because I thought it looked like Hurst, but it's growing on me! We shall see, hubby has big plans :-)

This weekend we will be:

Friday:
Meeting up with friends at Old Chicago
Having a few drinks
Going downtown for the night

Saturday:
Heading to my hometown tomorrow afternoon
Eating lunch at my favorite Chinese Restaurant (House of China)
Meeting up with old friends for a bit
Having dinner w/my parents and going to HARRY POTTER!! (Finally)

Sunday:
Sleeping in
Going on the river with our friends
Meeting my family for my future-sister-in-law's birthday lunch
Eating cake
Enjoying ourselves
and heading back home to reality

Any plans for your weekend?

Yahoo!!

I've really got to get back into the swing of things..... Work has been crazy, as well as, I'm sure you all know..... The weekends even crazier! Ahhh I have just a second to breath.... So I thought I would update from last weekend.....

My weekend all home alone was not as bad as I thought it was going to be, but still long and lonely.... I give those of you props who live by yourself, I don't think I could do it anymore.... There's nothing more comforting than waking up with my husband right next to me in the middle of the night...

Anyway! Friday night was spent eating take-out Chinese by myself, followed by working on my presentation for class on Saturday.

Saturday we woke up at 5 am to (another classmate and I who lives somewhat close) drive the 3 hours to Storm Lake for our class... Spent 5.5 hours listening to presentations from other classmates (each of ours was about 15 minutes) So it was a long, tiring day..... Then we drove the 3 hours back home. After that, I hung out with my wonderful office-mate.... We went to Texas Roadhouse for a margarita!!! And dinner, which was amazing. Then we headed back to my house to watch Rachel Getting Married (Which, I know some of you enjoyed... But I have to say I was not entertained in the least.... It was very longgggg in the fact that I kept asking, is it over yet? The camera angles were awful (I know, I know... It's an independent film).... Actors were not that great, with the exception of Ann Hathaway.... She did a fairly good job, but I was just so disappointed with the rest of it that I would not recommend it to anyone. Sorry guys....

Anyway, Sunday was spent sleeping in, finally! Then I got ready, did about 3 loads of laundry, cleaned up a bit, and waited for my mom to be there. She came for the day to go shopping with me! What a great Mom! :-) She knew I was lonley and needed some company, so she drove the 1.5 hours just to shop and have lunch. It was great. I got a lot of great deals shopping here, here and here.

My Yahoo title is all because "I AM NO LONGER A 1ST YEAR GRAD STUDENT ANYMORE!!" I am very excited by this because it has seemed like such a long year! But now I am a 2nd year grad student, so that light at the end of the tunnel is starting to become a bit clearer.

Happy almost Friday!!!! :-)