O What a Thrill

I'm sure Markus would be the first to say I love to embarrass him. So with that being said, we were coming back from dinner at the St. Jude Tennis Tourney at Southern Oaks and we drove through Green Trails to avoid the light. On our way through the neighborhood we saw this BARBIE doll house. It was a good 4-1/2 feet tall with plastic furniture in it the whole nine. I told Markus we HAD to turn around and go get it. He gave me this look like EXCUSE ME? Like I'm from LP as WE don't even do this. So long story short we rounded the block 3 times to avoid cars coming down the road. He made me get out and put the middle seats down so we could throw this thing in the back of the car and head to my mom's house to give it to my sister. hehe... Let's just say I haven't laughed that hard in a while and almost peed on myself while doing so. It was so fun. Markus says I owe him a year's worth of XBOX games and now we have to wait 3 years to have kids. HA! I guess before I forget to mention this, it was the 2nd time this week that we've lifted someone's trash and made it our treasure. Hey it made my little niece's night and I thought it was a good find. For crying out loud it was free. Markus was WAYYYYYY to good for that. It made for a good laugh if nothing else. I love you Markus.

What a Surprise

Markus took me out to eat on Wednesday night to Casa Maria. I told him I was in the mood for Mexican food. So off we go. When we got in the parking lot at 5min after 6pm it was almost full. I thought that was weird for such an early dinner. I saw a car that looked a lot like Nicole Cox's Honda. I told Markus that would be funny if it was hers. So he was like let's walk by it, I'm sure you can tell it's hers by looking in it, right? I wasn't about to do that. So, I looked in the restaurant while he peeked into the dark tinted windows. Sure enough I saw Nicole. How fun! Then sitting next to her I saw Brittany!!! She was in town. Yipee! I was excited to see her. Markus and I wished she still lived here, but we'll take seeing her when she comes in town. So instead of it being just the 2 of us for dinner, it was Ms. Linda, Nicole, Brady, Brittany, Kade, Landon, Kylin and then the 2 of us. It was funny when the server walked up and surprise 2 more people join the party. It was a lot of fun. Brittany we are so glad we got to see you and the kids. Hard to believe she has a little girl. It's always fun to see friends, but I just love surprises!

A Close One

Well I thought on Wednesday night I was getting sick, but I guess I was super exhausted. I'm so glad I didn't get sick. I mean the losing a quick 3 lbs is always attractive but not at the expense of feeling like crap, staying home and not getting to be productive. Not sure how I was spared but I'm so incredibly grateful.

On another note, Markus officially is out of a job. Anyone know who is hiring students right now??

My Baby is SICK :(

Markus was belly-aching about not feeling good last night. That was nothing unusual. So I blew it off like it was nothing until I heard him get up in the middle of the night and go to the bathroom. Once I heard his "sickness" I was like oh great! Yep the stomach bug is going around our house. Markus usually gets it first for some reason and then me a few days later. I'm knocking on wood that I don't get it, but we will see. I would much rather me be sick than him. It's hard for me to see him sick cause he is sooo miserable. I found these cute mini saltine crackers for him today while trying to get him some sprite zero and chicken noodle soup. I promised him when I got home if he still felt bad that I would make him some HOMEMADE chicken noodle soup. And homemade chicken noodle soup I did. It was sooo yummy and so worth the homemadeness. For those of you who can get past the can soup, you should really try this. It's great even if you aren't sick like me :)

Another Resolution

I know I have a lot of cookbooks as I'm sure most can say they do too. This lady I used to work with had a great idea that we both worked on for a while. She wanted to try a new recipe every week. Shouldn't be too hard to do for those of us who cook/ bake, right? So with my newest cookbook in hand that I've sifted through slowly since I got it on Christmas Eve, I thought I need to start that up AGAIN. It is really fun and gets you out of your comfort zone of the same old, same old. So for anyone else up for the challenge, I think you should try it. I'm going to make my posts of what I actually like on my RECIPE BLOG. So check it out if you are interested. BTW my new recipe for this week was Potato Chowder and it was great!

Is it me or am I just cheap?

I recently went to the mall around Christmas in hopes to find some perfume to buy. I have been quite adventurous and tried a new perfume last year. I wanted to do something different this year also since I bought a Burberry Summer which is a seasonal fragrance, so off to shop. I told myself I wouldn't look at the price cause I didn't want to base what I liked and smelled the best by the price. So I fell in love with this Flowerbomb perfume. Never heard of it before, but I liked it. I didn't buy any perfume on the few occassions I went to look. Just wanted to look and let the perfume wear on me. So I was sold on this Flowerbomb until I say the price. The big bottle was $150. WTH??? Excuse me? Um I don't think so. I was crushed. Now what do I do? I found a cheaper one I like, but I really wanted this Flowerbomb. Grr... why does it have to be so expensive or is it just me?

Happy 2009!

Great way to start off the New Year with the Tigers winning in style. Great game last night. Refreshing to see the other team with all the penalties and set-backs. Geaux Tigers!

As for the New Year I'm excited to see it come. Though I'm not sure how different it will be than last year. Same old Markus in school, Jenn working and we have no kids. I think that about sums it up for us.

Goals:
Markus to Graduate
Jenn's body to grow (in the stomach region)
Get old car fixed or buy a 2nd car
Fix up Masterbath once and for all
Work on fireplace wall
Start an herb garden (for real this time)
Pay off debt (yea we actually have some besides our house, weird I know 2008 just brought it on)


Look Here for Last Year's Goals= Seems I still need some work from last year. I think the only thing I should have down is PATIENCE ;)