Chocolate Chip Cookies, Pumpkin Pie, and Scrapbooking
This morning, Kevin and I woke up and spent a leisurely morning eating cereal and toast and just lolling around the apartment. Then I plucked up the energy to do some cleaning and after starting laundry, Kevin and I took out our trash and recyclables. After making a grocery list and running some errands we returned home and I was hit with the biggest baking mood ever. I made chocolate chip cookies and then a pumpkin pie (for dessert after dinner tonite- chicken casserole). While my pie was baking, I watched "The Goonies" with Kevin and just relaxed. It seems that its been sometime since we just relaxed in a nice, clean apartment with nothing really to do except whatever WE want. It was nice. After dinner and some tv, Kevin made us some hot chocolate and I worked on a scrapbook of our hiking adventures. It was just an amazingly awesome and relaxing day. I love Saturdays!
Something that gets on my nerves is friends who get all bent out of shape and over-react when plans have to change because something unexpected happened. An old friend from jr high and I were going to get together last weekend while Kevin and I were in Graham for the Puyallup Fair. Kevin and I had originally planned to leave Friday after I got off work and see my family and just spend most of Saturday relaxing with my cousins who were also visiting, then we would go to the fair in the evening and on Sunday morning before we left town, I was to hang out with this friend. Well, Kevin had a public safety test for Sheriff's Reserve on Saturday (which he found out that same week at an information meeting) and we weren't going to be able to leave until late Saturday afternoon for Graham. So I e-mailed my friend and said that everything was being pushed back and since it was such a hectic weekend we would try to meet again in Graham another time. She seemed very understanding. Until I checked my e-mail yesterday and read what can only be described as a lecture to me of the importance of keeping meetings and staying in contact with long distance friends and, since I was married now and may no longer have the interest or time to put into this friendship, she would understand if I wanted to disconnect. Ehh.... what? I wanted to reply with simplicity- "Life happens and we have to deal with it when it does," yet I chose a more diplomatic approach and re-explained the situation and assured her that we could still be friends. Maybe I was a bit soft, considering my eyebrows were furrowed the whole time and I was tight lipped as I typed niceties back to such an accusing e-mail. *sigh* Ah well. I'm over it. :)
In more disturbing news, I am finding myself completely hooked on "Gossip Girl." I don't know what it is about that damn show--because it's not really a topic of great interest to me, nor do I really care about any of the characters--yet I find myself excited every Monday at 8:00 to be watching it. Wtf? is about all I can say about that.
Also, although we are comfortable in our little two bed, two bath apartment, Kevin and I want a house so badly we can taste it- damn us and our wanting to be financially sound. I want a garden to putter in on the weekends and Kevin wants to Tom-and-Jerry-Lawn-Mow a lawn. And we want a dog. The PE teacher at work told me that a friend of his was selling his purebred black lab for $100 because it turns out his kids are allergic to dogs- I told him the obvious solution was to sell the kids, not the dog.
Something that gets on my nerves is friends who get all bent out of shape and over-react when plans have to change because something unexpected happened. An old friend from jr high and I were going to get together last weekend while Kevin and I were in Graham for the Puyallup Fair. Kevin and I had originally planned to leave Friday after I got off work and see my family and just spend most of Saturday relaxing with my cousins who were also visiting, then we would go to the fair in the evening and on Sunday morning before we left town, I was to hang out with this friend. Well, Kevin had a public safety test for Sheriff's Reserve on Saturday (which he found out that same week at an information meeting) and we weren't going to be able to leave until late Saturday afternoon for Graham. So I e-mailed my friend and said that everything was being pushed back and since it was such a hectic weekend we would try to meet again in Graham another time. She seemed very understanding. Until I checked my e-mail yesterday and read what can only be described as a lecture to me of the importance of keeping meetings and staying in contact with long distance friends and, since I was married now and may no longer have the interest or time to put into this friendship, she would understand if I wanted to disconnect. Ehh.... what? I wanted to reply with simplicity- "Life happens and we have to deal with it when it does," yet I chose a more diplomatic approach and re-explained the situation and assured her that we could still be friends. Maybe I was a bit soft, considering my eyebrows were furrowed the whole time and I was tight lipped as I typed niceties back to such an accusing e-mail. *sigh* Ah well. I'm over it. :)
In more disturbing news, I am finding myself completely hooked on "Gossip Girl." I don't know what it is about that damn show--because it's not really a topic of great interest to me, nor do I really care about any of the characters--yet I find myself excited every Monday at 8:00 to be watching it. Wtf? is about all I can say about that.
Also, although we are comfortable in our little two bed, two bath apartment, Kevin and I want a house so badly we can taste it- damn us and our wanting to be financially sound. I want a garden to putter in on the weekends and Kevin wants to Tom-and-Jerry-Lawn-Mow a lawn. And we want a dog. The PE teacher at work told me that a friend of his was selling his purebred black lab for $100 because it turns out his kids are allergic to dogs- I told him the obvious solution was to sell the kids, not the dog.