weekend recap/mon.

We started our weekend by getting Chinese food and renting Trouble with the Curve.

I don't always like movies that have a father/daughter conflict theme because sometimes it hits a little too close to home for me but I did like this one quite a bit.

I met my friend, Andrea, and her daughter for lunch on Saturday. We went to BuffaloWild Wings and then to her classroom so I could see their new set up this year.  We hadn't seen each other since last summer when we worked together so it was nice to catch up!

I pretty much spent the rest of the weekend on the couch.  I had/have some weird cold/allergies thing going on that has left me feeling pretty drained.  Then, yesterday, I started my week out with a bang by falling on the ice as I was leaving for work. I landed on my left arm and am pretty sure I sprained my wrist. Today my right midsection is really sore too.  I've fallen on the ice several times before but I've never had so many aches afterwards. Getting old sucks! :o)

weekend recap

Dave and I had a pretty laid back weekend. 

Friday night we finally watched New Year's Eve.  I liked it quite a bit.

I got some new running shoes on Saturday.

I love 'em!  They're cute and so comfortable.

Dave finally got a haircut. I forgot to take a before and after shot.   He kept telling me that he wasn't going to cut it until the Vikings won the Superbowl.  Uhhhh, yeah.  I wasn't willing to wait that long.

Sunday we mostly just hung out around home.  We went for a drive that afternoon and stopped at McDonald's while we were out.  Have you have one of these?

They are soooo good but definitely only a once in awhile treat since a small has 200 calories and a lot of sugar.

Hope ya all have a great week!

Failing

So I'm failing at my personal challenge of posting every day.  No surprise there eh?

Not much going on around here these days....

*My student that I told you about awhile back {the one with the voice}, was one of four students picked from her class to audition for honor choir.  :o)

*My "friend" still isn't talking to me apparently. 

*David and I went to the movie Moneyball over the weekend.  It was SO good!

*Ok, my husband won't be quiet as I'm trying to type and I can't type and try to listen to him at the same time so guess that's all I got.

Miscellany Monday

- David and I went to The Help yesterday.  As I told my mom, you know a movie is good when the credits start rolling and no one gets up to leave.  I liked it, a lot.  I loved the book, but I felt a much wider range of emotions during the movie.  I had to fight back tears quite a few times.  I'm not a public cryer (or I try really hard not to be at least), even when in a dark theater.

- I went to Hobby Lobby on Saturday and got a few fall pieces.  I'm so excited to put them out!!

- I'm getting my hair cut on Wednesday.  I can't wait!  I'm thinking about going fairly short so maybe I'll actually fix it for school this year.  We shall see what the stylist thinks.

- David will be running a 5K this coming Saturday.

- I've been working on a list of things I want to get done before school starts.  Nothing like waiting until the last few weeks of vacation to do what I should have been working on all summer.

August!

Woo hoo it's August!  Finally!  :o)

Some things I'm looking forward to this month:

• soooo excited to see this movie!!

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• watching this show again

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Ok, I fully admit I watch a lot of stupid TV.  This show probably wins the award for the stupidest though.  What can I say?  Its stupidity sucked me in. 
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• heading to Yankton to watch my husband run in a 5k and do some shopping at the arts/crafts show (in the air conditioned mall...so much better than outside!)
• attending my cousin's wedding
• school starting!  I'm a little nervous because I have to teach a class this year that I've never taught before {language arts}...could be interesting!  :/
• getting a little closer to fall!!  Fall makes me happy  :o)

Weekend Recap

David and I went to a movie Friday afternoon.  We saw Inception.  It was ok I guess.  I didn't really get it though.  I understood what they did and what they were doing but I didn't understand why they were doing it. 

I worked on stuff for my Etsy shop over the weekend while David worked.  I didn't get the things finished that I really wanted to get in there though.  The humidity was too high to use my spray finisher so for now everything is sitting on the table waiting to be finished.

Hopefully I'll get them done soon.  I am anxious to get something other than paper products in there. 

That was about it for the weekend.  David worked and I crafted.  We are pretty exciting people :o)

Weekend Recap

David and I went to Eclipse on Friday afternoon.  There were about 8 people in there, including us.  They didn't have the surround sound on which ticked me off.  Anyway, I thought it was ok.

David ran his second 5K Saturday morning.  There were a lot more people in this race than in the last one he ran.  He did really well and finished about a minute and a half faster than his first race.  He wasn't very impressed with his time though.  I thought he did really well considering it was really humid and he still finished in less time than his last one.

Blurry pic of the start of the race:

Crossing the finish line:

I spent the rest of the morning and part of the afternoon with my mom.  We wandered around Arts in the Park for part of the morning.  It was really hot and there were a lot of people.  I get really annoyed in large crowds, I'm like my dad in that way.  My mom bought a wallet but that was the only purchase made at the park.  I saw some things I would have liked to have had but my rule is: If I could make it I won't buy it.....even if I have no intentions of making it.  The prices on some of that stuff are ridiculous!

I took a nap Saturday afternoon which usually isn't a good idea.  I try not to take naps because I normally wake up with no motivation and just want to lie around.  This day was no different, but I got dressed again anyway so David and I could head out to the park for some food.  He had his annual 10" polish sausage and I had some fry bread.

Saturday night I went to my friend Christa's house for her bachelorette party.  Her MOH did a really good job putting together some fun games.  In this picture Christa is getting ready to put her cake in the oven that she had to make for one game. 

She had to answer questions about her fiance.  If she got it wrong she had to guess which ingredient (and how much) went into the cake.  If she got it right she was told the measurement but not the ingredient.  She's not a cook or a baker so it was pretty funny watching her trying to decide what to put it.  Luckily she got a little help from the rest of us so she didn't put in the 1 3/4 cup of baking soda like she had planned.  The finished product actually tasted pretty good!

David and I went back out to the park on Sunday to eat (the food really is the best part).  He tried the alligator and calamari (gross).  He said the alligator just tasted like fish.  I didn't end up eating anything cuz I got too hot but I did have a really good cherry limeade.  We spent the rest of the day just hanging out at home.

Hope you all have a great week!

Weekend Recap

David and I drove around town on Saturday looking for treasures.  It was city wide clean up so we were hoping to find something good.  We saw a lot of stuff but nothing good.  We spent some time at the library then decided to go to the local gardens.  A lot of it still looked like this.....

.....but there were some signs of spring around too....

Saturday night we saw Date Night..

It was pretty good and there were quite a few funny parts.  The funniest part of the whole thing wasn't in the movie though.  During the car/cab scene (if you've seen it you know what I mean), a lady in the audience just couldn't hold herself together.....OMG..this lady had the loudest laugh I have ever heard and she laughed nonstop for the entire scene (probably 4-5 minutes)....people were turning around to see who the crazy laughing chick was.  David and I started laughing because her laugh was so crazy and just didn't stop...it took me a bit to get my laughing under control....I didn't want to be the next crazy laugher.

David worked for awhile on Sunday then we spent the rest of the day just hanging out.  Nothing too exciting.

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This Is It

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David and I went to Michael Jackson's This Is It this past Saturday. Oh my gosh, it was amazing!! Even if you didn't like him, I think most people would appreciate all the work he put into the rehearsals. The mini-movies that were put together to play in the background during the concerts were also awesome. I definitely recommend seeing this movie.

Me and Michael go way back.... "Beat It" is listed as my favorite song during my second year in my baby book. :o)

PS - I changed my music player to a Michael Jackson tribute so if you're in the mood for a little Black or White or Man in the Mirror you're in luck ;o)

Dear Zachary

Most Sunday afternoons you can find me sitting in our living room watching MSNBC documentaries. This past Sunday a documentary called Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father was shown. I'm still thinking about it. I want to tell everyone I know to see it. It's shocking, sad, maddening, and it shows the strength of the human spirit.

If you have Netflix you can watch it instantly on your computer. Don't read anything about the film before you see it, the less you know the better the watching experience.

A few Netflix member reviews that say it better than I can:

This film ripped out my heart, jumped up and down on it and then put it back together and left me with hope.

This is perhaps the most moving tribute to a number of legacies of love I have ever seen. I've never ridden such an emotional roller coaster by watching a movie until seeing Dear Zachary

No matter how tough you may think you are, this movie will sit with you for some time.

Most powerful movie I've ever seen...a documentary that will leave you heartbroken. Unforgettable and beautiful.

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Movies

We went to The Hangover last weekend. Some parts were pretty funny, others not so much. The Rainman scene was hilarious! If you don't like swearing you most likely won't like it because it is excessive in this movie.

Gran Torino was David's choice from Red Box. I wasn't real excited about watching it but I really, really liked it! It made me cry, wasn't expecting that from this movie!

We watched Bedtime Stories the other night. I thought it was really slow. I suppose kids would like it but I'm a little skeptical on that one even.

I thought Fireproof was a good movie. Bad acting. Bad, bad acting. But the message of the movie is a really good one. If you're not looking for a cry, don't watch this movie!

Let me know if you've seen any of these movies and what you thought :o)

Weekend Recap

Made some of these and decided that I really "need" a sewing machine.
Looked around here a lot.

Caught up on my blog reading.

Got some of this ready to send out.

Read some of these.

Watched these.

Went baby shopping for my cousin's baby.

David and I went out for supper Friday night. We visited my brother-in-law and family later in the evening.

That was pretty much my weekend. I did a lot of nothing, um ....relaxing, this weekend and I still have one more day to relax before we head back to school.

Hope you had a relaxing weekend too!

Weekend Recap

So we finally made it out to see Twilight this weekend. My review:

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From left to right (for those who haven't read the book or seen the movie)
Emmet - very cute
Rosalie - beautiful
Esme - perfect
Edward - could have been cuter
Carlisle - perfect and cute
Alice - good choice, love the hair
Jasper - cute, though he looked painfully constipated throughout the movie

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Bella - hmm...not really sure, sometimes I just wanted to give her a swift kick in the butt and tell her to smile, she's way more serious in the movie than I pictured her to be while reading

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Jacob - way cute, bad wig (as my husband noticed), but cute

And that's about all I have to say. I was neither impressed nor disappointed.

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We visited my brother-in-law and his family Saturday evening. We got some more Christmas gifts taken care of on Sunday. That was about it for the weekend.

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I took off for work this morning about 10 minutes late. It was raining (though it was below freezing, that still gets me) which made for a wonderful drive. I got about 3 blocks from the apartment and realized that I had a flat tire. Wonderful! Called David, he brought me his car and took mine to get the tire fixed. Got to school and the parking lot was full due to a 5th grade band concert. Raced another car (as well as I could on the ice/snow covered parking lot) to the only available parking spot, and won. The school day went pretty well except some sort of stomach bug is going around so I'm hoping I miss out on that one. Left work at 4, went out to the car only to have to pry the car door because it was frozen shut; the whole car was an ice cube. Turned on the defrost and looked around for a scraper and couldn't find one. Called David and asked him if there was a scraper in his car, to which he said no. Told him I'd be home in an hour because the windows were completely frozen and snowed over. He told me he'd bring a scraper. About 15 minutes later he showed up, scraped the windows, and traded cars. So he saved me twice today. I'm really tired of winter already. Ok, so it's kind of fun to sit here and watch the snow fall but I hate it when I'm out in it.

My Husband Rocks!

My husband has listened to me ramble about the books and now he's going with me next week to see this:

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He has no interest in the movie at all but he's going anyway. Just another little reason I love him so much.
Did you know they are already planning the movie sequels??? So excited!!!

I'm still here...

Just a quick recap of the last few days..
Saturday
I met my mom in Sioux Falls and we did some shopping. She found a few new things for her dining room and I bought a candle holder. David and I hung out at home Saturday night. We ordered a pizza and played Scrabble. We also watched Dan In Real Life. The movie was ok. Probably wouldn't watch it again though.

Sunday
We were pretty lazy on Sunday. We watched The Bucket List and some random shows on TV. That was about it for the day.

Monday & Tuesday
I haven't done much the past couple days. I am getting extremely bored and am soooo ready for school to start. I'm sure once I'm back at school I'll be ready for a break again.

So, that's about it. Nothing too exciting.