love is in the air, apparently!
So, I had an excellent weekend with Casey. He's such a sweet romantic man. I love the little things he does sometimes, or the romantic things he says that I almost take for granted. I shouldn't. Anyway, since it was our three year anniversary on Wednesday, he took me out for dinner. And since we had already been out to a fancy schmancy dinner at Chart House over break (ugh, romantic and yummy), we went out for delicious finger lickin good baby back ribs at Chile's!!! Complete with spicy southwest egg rolls (though we barely had any time to eat them before our food arrived). All in all, a relaxed dinner.
That evening, to celebrate our 3 year anniversary with sweets, we went out and bought cake mix at Hyvee at like 10pm and made a delicious classic yellow anniversary cake with fudge frosting. I was a little iffy about the Hyvee brand icing over delicious betty crocker, but Casey won't eat trans fat, so we got it. I had no reason to be worried: 't was delicious. we decided to do a fancier cake, like with two circle pans instead of the 9x13 pan. Came out good no?
Well, at least we're excited
Throughout the weekend we proceeded to eat almost the entire cake. We threw the last piece out Sunday cause it got kind of hard (ew). It was kind of funny. We'd be eating dinner, and hey, how about a piece of cake? okay! Or watching Desperate Housewives (First season on DVD has entirely enthralled us. We watched like 2 disks this weekend and had so much fun yelling at the TV and discussing the characters all weekend. It's such a soap opera) and he'd be like, hey, want a piece of cake? okay! Wonderful. He also made garlic chicken which was tasty and I used the last of the potatoes
We also went out to sushi at Oyama and went mini-putting this weekend. Mini-putt has become sort of a past time for us and we like to create funny bets to make us extra competitive. We are both rather bad at mini-putt, or golfito as some say, but it's still fun. We did have problems with one hole and had to basically resort to shooting pool to get our balls out from under the course:
We both got pretty crazy, trying to pull some putting stunts on the course that would have been cool had they succeeded, but since we're bad they didn't. To see the rest of our wild putting adventures, and some other pictures of us excited about the cake, click the album here:
5th Block!
Overall we had a really fun relaxing weekend. We talked a lot too. And while I already have slippers, a robe, space in his shower for shampoo and stuff and part of his medicine cabinet for a toothbrush and contact solution, etc., he said he would be happy to clear out the top drawer of his dresser (since he's got that ridiculous "fridge") so I could keep clothes and stuff at his place too. While that was very nice, I don't know what clothes I would keep there, if I'd want them during the week, or if I would want to wear something different than what I had there... I don't know how I'd decide what clothes to have where. It was awfully sweet though, since we do spend so much time at his apartment on the weekends.
In other news, I need a sorting hat. You see, for my Oxford Application I need to pick a college to live at, and the system is very much like the hogwarts system (which is indicative of the british system in general, only you're not grouped based on personality), and I don't really know where to live! Julia said I should choose by scarf color. I probably won't get into Oxford anyway, but it's fun to think of needing to be sorted. I'm leaning a little towards Queen's College, cause that's where my cousin Sam lived. Or Christ Church because that's where we visted when we toured Oxford. I'd think of Anne's hat.
And, the big news of the weekend, LESLIE AND LUKE GOT ENGAGED!!!! AHHH!!! OMG! So exciting for them. They really are kind of made for each other. It has prompted much discussion of marriage and engagements all around amongst many people, which has led to interesting conversations. I'm so happy for them! The only thing about it is that more than one person has been talking about it in such a weird way, and was like "After two years a girl should really start expecting a ring," and then looked at me and said soemthing like "but some people wait a little longer, you know, if they're more laid-back about things or not ready," talking as if I'm so worried or sad or something that i'm not engaged already. It's totally bizarre, and a little insulting, especially coming from people who know very little about my relationship. hmm.
So much work to be doing...
And by the way it is BITTERLY COLD OUT!
That evening, to celebrate our 3 year anniversary with sweets, we went out and bought cake mix at Hyvee at like 10pm and made a delicious classic yellow anniversary cake with fudge frosting. I was a little iffy about the Hyvee brand icing over delicious betty crocker, but Casey won't eat trans fat, so we got it. I had no reason to be worried: 't was delicious. we decided to do a fancier cake, like with two circle pans instead of the 9x13 pan. Came out good no?
Well, at least we're excited
Throughout the weekend we proceeded to eat almost the entire cake. We threw the last piece out Sunday cause it got kind of hard (ew). It was kind of funny. We'd be eating dinner, and hey, how about a piece of cake? okay! Or watching Desperate Housewives (First season on DVD has entirely enthralled us. We watched like 2 disks this weekend and had so much fun yelling at the TV and discussing the characters all weekend. It's such a soap opera) and he'd be like, hey, want a piece of cake? okay! Wonderful. He also made garlic chicken which was tasty and I used the last of the potatoes
We also went out to sushi at Oyama and went mini-putting this weekend. Mini-putt has become sort of a past time for us and we like to create funny bets to make us extra competitive. We are both rather bad at mini-putt, or golfito as some say, but it's still fun. We did have problems with one hole and had to basically resort to shooting pool to get our balls out from under the course:
We both got pretty crazy, trying to pull some putting stunts on the course that would have been cool had they succeeded, but since we're bad they didn't. To see the rest of our wild putting adventures, and some other pictures of us excited about the cake, click the album here:
5th Block!
Overall we had a really fun relaxing weekend. We talked a lot too. And while I already have slippers, a robe, space in his shower for shampoo and stuff and part of his medicine cabinet for a toothbrush and contact solution, etc., he said he would be happy to clear out the top drawer of his dresser (since he's got that ridiculous "fridge") so I could keep clothes and stuff at his place too. While that was very nice, I don't know what clothes I would keep there, if I'd want them during the week, or if I would want to wear something different than what I had there... I don't know how I'd decide what clothes to have where. It was awfully sweet though, since we do spend so much time at his apartment on the weekends.
In other news, I need a sorting hat. You see, for my Oxford Application I need to pick a college to live at, and the system is very much like the hogwarts system (which is indicative of the british system in general, only you're not grouped based on personality), and I don't really know where to live! Julia said I should choose by scarf color. I probably won't get into Oxford anyway, but it's fun to think of needing to be sorted. I'm leaning a little towards Queen's College, cause that's where my cousin Sam lived. Or Christ Church because that's where we visted when we toured Oxford. I'd think of Anne's hat.
And, the big news of the weekend, LESLIE AND LUKE GOT ENGAGED!!!! AHHH!!! OMG! So exciting for them. They really are kind of made for each other. It has prompted much discussion of marriage and engagements all around amongst many people, which has led to interesting conversations. I'm so happy for them! The only thing about it is that more than one person has been talking about it in such a weird way, and was like "After two years a girl should really start expecting a ring," and then looked at me and said soemthing like "but some people wait a little longer, you know, if they're more laid-back about things or not ready," talking as if I'm so worried or sad or something that i'm not engaged already. It's totally bizarre, and a little insulting, especially coming from people who know very little about my relationship. hmm.
So much work to be doing...
And by the way it is BITTERLY COLD OUT!