Feeling better

I am definitely feeling better. I am such a baby when I get sick. Luckily I have Grant to keep me grounded and to help me feel better.

Today is a special day for me and Grant. 4 years and 4 months ago we started dating and 9 months ago we got married. I got up today like any other day. Grant was still sleeping when I left to go to the gym. Usually Grant is gone when I get back from the gym. Today I was running a little behind schedule and got home about 10 minutes later than usual. I was surprised when I saw Grant's car in the parking lot. I walked up the stairs and saw him standing there all dressed up for work. He hugged me and and gave me a kiss and told me that he waited to leave for work just to tell me he loved me and happy anniversary. I am a lucky girl!! Boys -- take notes!

Sickness

It is starting to feel like summer again in Florida and I am sick. I got sick last week and thought I was getting better, but it has not gone away. :( It's just a cold, but I am not a fan of being sick.

Other points of interest::
*Last night my Mom made my favorite dinner and invited Grant and I over. It was fabulous.
*Jordan and Ryan are coming to visit in May. They purchased their flights over the weekend.
*Grant is really enjoying his new job and is going to get his first pay check on Friday!

That is all for now! I am going to go take some more Tylenol Cold! =)

My Valentine's Day

This past Wednesday was Grant and my first Valentine's day as a married couple and our first since he left working at a restaurant. I was very excited to actually be able to have dinner with him on Valentine's Day for the very first time. =)

I woke up at 6:00AM like any other day and went to the gym. Now that Grant is working he is usually gone by the time I get back from the gym. I got back to the apartment around 7:40AM. I saw that Grant left the light on over the dining room table, which is very unusual. I walked over to the table and saw several heart-shaped pancakes, fresh strawberries and blueberries along with a Valentine's Day card. I was so touched! I opened the card and read the sweet words that Grant wrote. Later he told me that he picked that specific card because the colors of the card (pink, black and white) were the same as our wedding colors -- that is attention to detail!

While at work I received really beautiful pink and red roses -- LOVE them!

I left work a little earlier than normal and came home to find my husband busy at work in the kitchen!
He made me shrimp scampi and pasta with chocolate cake for dessert. We enjoyed some wine and a fabulous homemade dinner.
I gave him a fabulous new watch and a card, both of which pale in comparison to everything that Grant did for me. He truly is amazing. I usually have VERY high expectations for my friends/family. Grant definitely consistently blows right by those expectations. I am a very lucky and grateful wife!!

Snowy Indianapolis

Grant and I had a GREAT time in Indianapolis last weekend. We decided to travel up to Indy to visit with friends and celebrate Grant's new job! We were quite excited about the 6 inches of snow they received a couple of days before our arrival.

Right after we got to Richard and Nate's house we decided to layer up and play in the snow! We both made some fabulous snow angels. It was very fun.

Grant's snow angel

My snow angel

Grant's snowy butt!!

That night was "family dinner night" at Richard and Nate's. Several people came over and made dinner. It was fun hanging out with some of Nate and Richard's friends in Indy.

On Friday we went downtown to see some sights. In downtown Indianapolis there are several war memorials and a nice indoor mall -- perfect for the winter time! We walked around as long as we could bear the cold and stopped in museums and shops along the way. It was a fun afternoon.

That night we went to dinner and to a comedy club. Afterwards we hung out in Nate and Richard's hot tub...in single digit weather!! The guys decided it would be fun to run around the block in their bathing suits and make angels in the snow. They looked SO cold!!

BURRR! Crazy guys running outside in their bathing suits!!!

Richard, Nate and Grant -- Like old times!

Me and my Chicago girls =)

Here we are again :)

On Saturday a group went sledding and I waited for Jordan, Ryan and Marin to come over. I was so excited to see them and really touched that they made the trip for one night to see me! We went to Mongolian BBQ that night and spent some time catching up.



The weekend went by quickly and now it's back to work for me and the beginning of a new job for Grant. :)

I'm going to freeze!

Grant and I are leaving for Indianapolis tomorrow morning, not to celebrate the Colts SB win, but to celebrate Grant's new job. I am super excited to see our friends, but not super excited about the FREEZING weather! I complain when it gets under 60 in Florida. We'll see how I do when it's under 30 in IN.

I am, though, really excited to hopefully see two of my oldest and best friends from Chicago who may drive down for a night. It's tough being so far away, but I am glad the distance has not adversely affected our friendships.

Ms. Pacman Domination

Hey I'm a roll with these post, although, as Duck pointed out I'm a day late. It's hard staying at home with nothing to do.

A while back I had seen an info-mercial for these controllers that plug into your TV that let you play some classic arcade game. I thought it was neat and knew how much Becky loves or maybe should say loved Ms. Pacman, so I had it in my mind to get one for Becky as a gift. It had slipped my mind and forgot all about them until I ran across them at Target near the game section shortly after Christmas...dang few days too late. I showed them to Becky and we purchased the Ms. Pacman one. There are several controllers each with different games on them. The Ms. Pacman came with four other games but we were mainly buying it for one.


At first, neither of us were that great, but now I control the high score. Becky claims that's only because I stayed at home and played it all day but that is simply not true. I was and am a very busy person. The first high score that stuck around for a while was around 35k. Then, I set the new one at 43k. Shortly after that and on the same night, Becky had beaten it (I forget her exact score). Her score held for a while, but a few days later, I topped her with a score of just over 49k. The other night, after Becky went to bed, I played a few games and set a new high score of 54,130. I didn't tell her the whole next day. After dinner, before anything good came on TV she started playing. If she doesn't do well on the first level she restarts or she'll restart if she dies on the first or second level. I do too sometimes, but she is a reset master. She had a decent game going and still hadn't seen the new high score. I was sitting next to her just waiting until she saw it. She got pretty far, and after dying, she looked over to see how close she was to the high score and realized I set a new one! Her face was hilarious as she was surprised and upset somewhat that I didn't tell her, and also because she won't be able to catch me.

She knew I was going to write about my Ms. Pacman domination today, since I didn't yesterday. This gave her one more night to beat my high score and to stop me from posting about my crushing of her in one of her favorite games. She played all night right up until bedtime. On her last game she did really well, but fell short by 2 or 3 thousand points. She was so close, but couldn't pull it out. The frustrating part for her was the last level she played on. During the game floating fruit appears and on this level the fruit was a banana, which is worth 5k points. She had missed getting it and ended up dying in the process of trying to eat it. Had she gotten that one banana this post may not have been written, but it was.

One of the other games is pole position and I enjoy playing it also, and of course I'm rather good at it now.