I don't think you're happy enough....

Sometimes you have one of those weeks, days, months, or years that really test your patience. This was one of those weeks for Nick and I. It all started off with me being hypersensitive about nearly everything (aka anything and everything was sure to elicit some kind of angry or upset response *blah*) . Wednesday night Nick's truck got stuck in the mud on his way to pick up some food. It took over an hour before we gave up and called tiger towing. I came up with a plan to fix the mess left behind (Lowe's- shovels and gravel, GO!).

Cleaning up the mess wouldn't have been too bad if:
1) the gravel Nick purchased didn't look dayglo compared to the rest of the gray old gravel (seriously it looks like we are constructing some kind of a landing pad out back)
2) Tobie hadn't decided to breaking free from me would be fun. We spent over a half hour chasing him around the garage next door. I caught him when he decided to poop.
3) I would have rather been at Thursday night margaritas (yum)

Friday, beautiful day outside. I was excited to start my weekend relaxing with Nick. Relaxing stopped before it could start. When I opened the door to the kitchen I noticed that the floor was black (this usually isn't the case). Tobie brilliantly decided that linoleum would be fun to play with. He removed a large section right by the doorway and chewed some pieces into little mini pieces. I wish I had taken pictures because he did a wonderful job of tearing the floor apart. I'm sure he also looked really cute while doing it.

Again, another trip to Lowe's (only $27) and Nick (with very small amounts of help from me) tiled the whole kitchen floor in 4 hours. This was something that I had never expected to do in my lifetime... I guess its always a good idea to try new things. Vinyl tiles are pretty cheap (36 cents a piece) and they were easy to put down. Just look at it isn't it just beautiful?Saturday was fun. I had some Myer's and cokes over at Bud's. We watched The Last Kiss and Beerfest. Good times. I also upped my Wii tennis score to reflect how awesome I am (I'm almost a pro) with the exception of how poorly I perform in the boxing ring.

Sunday, I thought I was productive. I wasn't. I watched the Oscars and numerous episodes of Law and Order: SVU.

Monday, I got to work at 8am and thought about how productive I would be. As you can read, I am actually writing this blog. Within an hour of being at work a coworker informed me that my car had a flat. So began the great tire search of 2007. It is now 2:30pm. I have a new tire (yes, I only purchased one... the other three will be replaced next week) and it only took... almost 5 hours!

Tonight, I am going to watch Heroes and sleep... lots of sleep.

Weekend of Excitement

Friday night started off with Nick asking me to put on my new green dress for a nice dinner at Jack's Gourmet. Personally I thought the dessert was the best part of the meal hands down. I can never say no to a tasty creme brulee. After dinner we stopped by Sky High to see my coworkers band LuciDream play. It was good to see everyone outside of a work environment. Steve's band was great and I loved the cover of Cheap Trick's "I want you to want me". I requested some Tears for Fears which, he promises for a future show.

Saturday, not so much fun. Nick had been complaining about back pain but said it wasn't too bad. Well he pulled the muscles in his back while lifting parts for his truck. I rushed out for some meds, a heating pad, and an ice pack. The heating pad helped but he was still out of commission for the rest of the weekend. We spent the rest of the day Saturday watching movies.

Sunday morning we woke up early. My friend Chike gave me the heads up on some Wii's being shipped to Target. So we went to Target at about 6:30am in hopes that we would be able to purchase one. Lucky for us we were 3rd in line so we were guaranteed a Wii.

I realize in my previous post that I stated clearly that I am not going to purchase anything for Valentines day. Well, Nick and I are considering the Wii our Valentines gift to one another. He also purchased the new Zelda game which, is awesome (I kick ass at fishing). As for Wii Sports, I suck at baseball, tennis is ok, bowling is alright, and I also suck at both boxing and golf. I guess I just need more practice on the sports.When we got home with the Wii we noticed that Tobie(our 11 month old border collie mix) wasn't doing well. He vomited 3 times and had shaky back legs. I called the emergency vet to try and figure out what was going on with him. Their main concern was if he had swallowed something that was causing problems. After about a half hour he perked up and was back to his normal self. My guess is he ate something that didn't agree with his stomach so we spent the rest of the day cleaning the apartment.

That warm fuzzy feeling

Yes, it's nearing that time of the year again. What time is that, you ask? Why it's almost Valentines day! (No, that exclamation point isn't there because I'm super excited about the holiday) Frankly I have to say that each time this "holiday" rolls around I find myself less and less interested in recognizing it as anything other than simply just the exact mid point of February. I used to love Valentines day when I was little. I looked forward to tons of candy, the silly little cards, and basically a day of fun at school. I always hated having to remember the names of everyone in my class so I could give them a card... but that's beside the point.

I fell off the "Valentines bandwagon" in junior high (when the fun parties basically ended). There are some of you thinking, "seriously you think Valentines day is worthless only because you no longer get free candy and party it up elementary school style? It's a day about love...blah blah blah blah blah blah......" I get that it's to celebrate the love you have for others and whatnot but, I happen to be a firm believer that love is something that we should celebrate on a regular/daily basis not just because some date on the calendar tells us to express it(and waste money on it. Which, listening to the radio today the Eagle 93.9 let me know that on average an American person spends $101 on Valentines day, SICK!).

This year I have admittedly told Nick not to buy me anything for Valentines day. Last year we spent it at Apple Bee's drinking margaritas and didn't exchange gifts. I have to say, Apple Bee's apparently isn't the big hang out for Valentines day. This year I am thinking maybe we will hit up Golden Corral or maybe Steak'n'Shake haha.

Give the gift of love this year... or maybe give a lobster gram?

Happy Groundhog Day!