Wonderful Weekend!

This weekend was amazing! It started on Thursday with Randy cooking!

That's right, the guy who doesn't even "know" how to make frozen pizza cooked me dinner. And not Ramen, which would have been delicious, don't get me wrong. He grilled steaks, made tator tots and beans! I've been working crazy late all week long, and he surprised me by playing husband of the year!

Friday night Randy and I cruised around town in my car. He cruised; I told him to slow down. Randy loves to drive my car. Why? Because he says it feels like he's driving a race car.

And if he tells me that race car is spelled the same backwards as it is forward one more time, I might scream!

Anyways, Saturday we went and watched a playoff basketball game. Randy's good friend from his hometown coaches a high school basketball team at a private school. We went and watched his team play a Lubbock school (man, that drive must have sucked). It was a tough battle, but we lost:( Oh well, they have to drive back to Lubbock. Boo-yah!

The highlight of the night was sharing my love of Matt's El Rancho with others. I'm all about sharing good things! Man, I love that place!

What did I love more than seeing old friends and eating great, no amazing, Mexican food?

Feeling young!

My friend and I went to the bathroom during a time out at the basketball game, and we had to walk past the cheering high school students. When we were walking by, one of them gave us a cat call.

He said, "Hey ladies, how ya'll doing?"

I almost turned to him and said, "I'm ten years older than you."

Gasp, it is true, they probably ranged between 16-18. I'm going to be 28 years old. Eek! I'm going to have my high school 10 year reunion soon!

but I also thought, "Yes! I still got it!"

Does this make me a cougar?

I'm way pumped about being a potential cougar prospect!

And I must have put on my young look last night because the bartender at Matt's even carded me! I love when that happens! Thank you kind sir for thinking I could have been born after 1990!

I ended the weekend with spending the day with one of my favorite people of all time! Jana and I went to see "Blue Man Group" at the beautiful Long Center. I am so blessed to live in such a beautiful city! It was gorgeous to exit the building and look out and see downtown Austin!

I love laughing with her! We go together like peanut butter and jelly! Seriously, you need a Jana in your life! It's good for the soul!


Here's to a great week!

want to know how i'm old?

I am an old woman.

Randy always tells me that I wish my life away so much that he thinks sometimes I want to be 40. Ha! Shows what he knows! Just look at my ultra hip list of things that make me 27 daily.


-I made bran muffins tonight to take to the office meeting tomorrow. Sometimes you just gotta jazz those meetings up. Bran will bring jazz to the meetings that will undoubtedly mention the word budget, procedures, and TAKS!

-I can cross "pay bills" off my things to do list.

-My hormones hate me, and I hate them! Blood work papers will be ordered for sure! My thyroid is pretty ticked off right now. I can always tell when things aren't right. My thyroid loves being lazy. It feels like my friend has taken a week long vacation. He needs to get back at making me some thyroxine.

-I use the word "thyroxine" in my daily vocab.

-Tomorrow night we're having Salisbury steak for dinner. I'm even going to garnish it with fresh parsley.

-Varicose veins...thanks Mom! Those little buggers keep popping up. My skin is becoming translucent! I'm about to call that number on the billboard 1800-spider-vein.

-I watch the ten o'clock news nightly, and then I immediately head upstairs to bed. Nothing like a routine!

Speaking of routines...gotta shower, read, and do my Bible study homework. Maybe I'll treat myself to a half of a cream cheese kolache. Maybe? Who am I kidding? That will be a definite. And probably the whole thing. Halves of any food item are for old people. I'm not old!

Indifference

I love making lists, and after I made my things to do list today, I realized I haven't made a list for my blog lately.

here is my list of things I don't care about or just not interested in

1) skinny jeans (umm tights jeans make me feel fat all day, why would I buy them that way?)

2) Glee (I think they sing on this show. I'm not sure...)

3) TAKS manuals (too bad I can't add them to my shelfari as books read this year)

4) charging my Iphone (the game Snoods is a battery drainer for sure)

5) taking pictures (I don't even know where my camera is currently)

6) monitoring Mopac's diet (How do you tell her no to treats when she looks at you with those big brown eyes?)

7) monitoring my diet (ugh, I was doing so well, and then the flu and TAKS season snuck up on me to throw me off my game. This week I'm back on plan...I hope!)

8) complaining about all of Facebook's changes. This week's complaint is the new photo display. People! It doesn't matter if you think Mark Zuckerberg's new Facebook ideas suck. Watch "Social Network." He doesn't care what you think and neither do the people who check news feed.

9) chasing Friday (uggh when is spring break?)

10) ending this list on number 9. I have to write something next to no. 10, even though it stinks. Sorry folks, but thanks for reading number 10. It made me feel better!

Looking forward to...

-TAKS season being over! I'm so busy at work. It's unbelievable. It makes my day go so fast!

-Bible study tonight! Randy and I love, love, love our church. But we don't know anyone. Well I need to do something about it! I joined the woman's Bible study group for the spring. I'm excited to get to know some other church members and love on God some!

-Our date weekend! Randy started feeling better just yesterday. So Valentine's Day umm kinda sucked. Not his fault, he felt terrible! I'm glad he's feeling better, and to celebrate us and love, we are going to have some dates this weekend. He's planning it! So I'm pumped to spend some time with him without the smell of Lysol being involved.

-Fixing up the house! The house the guys built last summer sold! Construction on house no. 3 is coming up soon. We got the check this week, and we were at Lowe's that same night looking around. I'm excited about the renovations about to go underway! First up, fixing the broken blind in the dining room. You gotta start small with Rands:)

Have a great weekend!

All Over the Place!

These Grammy's confirm that I am completely normal!

Some Grammy thoughts...
Cee Lo looked like a bird or he ate one!
Katy Perry is um, well developed, in the bosom area. Geez...
Bob Dylan needed an interpreter. I didn't understand a word he said/sang.
The Lady Antebellum female singer is precious. I love her big ring!
Lady Gaga...I don't have anything clever to say here.


We are finishing up the flu over here.
Favorite Flu Food...



I will probably still buy these when we are completely 100% healthy. They are delicious!

Randy is so weak from all the coughing he's been doing. He looks terrible! My poor sugar. We aren't even celebrating Valentine's Day this year. We'll go to dinner when we are back to normal. I did make him some funfetti cupcakes though:)

Will he eat any? Probably not. He hasn't eaten much. He's gotten so thin.

Being sick sucks! I'm at about 90 percent. Randy is about 50 percent. This flu really kicked both our butts. For the last two weeks, our house has been infected. I can't imagine how things would have went to crap if we both were down at the same time. We definitely have a partnership because I'm so exhausted playing nurse, chef, house cleaner, etc. I haven't gotten mail, and I forgot to take trash out this week. These are Randy's jobs. To be honest, I don't even know when the trash is picked up. I'll continue to play ignorant in this because I don't want this to become my job.

I'm ready for things to go back to normal!

Say a prayer for my sweet Randy.

Surviving

I haven't posted in a while because I've been too busy playing nurse. My sweet Randy got the flu:(

Seriously?
Seriously?

What else is going to go wrong?

He must have gotten the exact strand of the flu that I had. He's been coughing, shivering, and hacking away over here. I think he's almost done. He started running fever on Tuesday night, and I remember feeling better that weekend after. Hopefully that'll be true for him as well.

Have a great weekend! Enjoy the sunshine everyone! As the news reporter said, "We deserve it."

And all the northerners groan and call us babies.

Surrender Bay

This book is a must read! It's an allegory about God's undying love for us. It's told as a love story between a man and a woman. The woman in the story is constantly running from things in life. She doesn't even know which direction she's headed, but she's moving. She does some stupid things along the way, and she's shocked to find that Landon (the male character in the book) is still there waiting for her. She's shocked to find that he loves her no matter what stupid thing she says or does. That love is not earned. That love is a gift!

This book really touched me. It was very subtle, and you wouldn't even pick up on the fact that she's a Christian author. I love books like this because you can apply it to your life without being told how to. It's a book that keeps you thinking long after you finished it. God's always there for us, and His love has no limits.

The reviews said, "If you like Nicholas Spark, you'll love Denise Hunter."

I'm on book 2 in the series, and I can't wait.

All four books are inspired from a verse in Zephaniah.

The Lord your God is with you,
He is might to save.
He will take great delight in you,
He will quiet you with His love,
He will rejoice over you with singing.

verse 3:17

I love how God always knows what you need to hear whether it's a song on the radio or a random book you pick up from the library.

This book speaks to me! Put it on your must read list!