this weekend was better. way better.

Friday and Saturday I had to myself, so Friday I was really lazy and watched a lot of Gilmore Girls and ate lemon creme cake. Oh, also exciting from the end of last week was the great concert on campus from this group.

Saturday, I got in a workout and headed to Wichita. I tried to go shopping but found myself in a style crisis — I found basically nothing I liked and only bought jeans. Help! Then I went to an awesome birthday party with adorable argyle cupcakes. They rocked.

For some reason on Sunday, I woke up and thought, "Yikes! This is the weekend we were supposed to spring forward!" I looked at my clock expecting to find it too late to make it to church, but it was not. Why did I wake up so early on both Saturday and Sunday? Get a life and sleep in, you! Anyway, Mark was in town (yay!), so we all went out for Italian for lunch and then kicked it at mom & dad's for the afternoon. Also yesterday, we fed the saddest kitten ever. It's a stray that had something terrible happen to it — part of its foot is just hanging by a flap of skin and it can't put any weight on that leg! We're hoping to work on getting close enough to it to take it in to the humane society. Some much-needed leaf raking (haha...it's March) and floor mopping also got done.

The weather has been beautiful, and it's supposed to get to 70 tomorrow. Tonight I'm hoping to cook something that tastes amazing and bake cookies. And work out, but that's not nearly as much fun.

wreck

This weekend was not uneventful. Unfortunately. There are more details, but basically we were rear-ended big time on Highway 50 over the weekend. After it happened, we turned around to see the offending car going through the ditch and then speeding away in the other direction. Hit-and-runs suck. Our car is a total loss. However, we are so glad no one in our car was hurt. There are a lot of "at leasts" we have to be thankful for.

sentences of disconnect

Last night I ate entirely too many cookie bars at the church supper. But they were still warm and gooey and just too irresistible.

I think I will need to wear earplugs while using my new hairdryer.

Diet Coke sweetened with Splenda is tasty.

Since I have banned the latte from my intake (except perhaps in rare situations), my new coffee drink of choice if I buy one is an Americano. Does it taste very different from a regular coffee? No. Unless, that is, if you live where I do and the coffee shop makes sketchy coffee that is very unpredictable. The espresso, however, seems to be predictable. In a good way. Paying a bit more for the Americano probably actually saves me money instead of throwing away nasty, bitter, burned coffee.

I need to try the new coffee shop in town.

off to a good start

Or not. My hairdryer decided to die this morning. Thanks a lot.

finally back

The sickness. It hit us hard this time. Fevers and all. My days became four-hour sections. 2pm, you say? Well, that's halfway there. Halfway to my next feeding. Of decongestant, expectorant, cough medicine. I'm surprised I'm not immune to that stuff by now. I'm afraid I don't have much to report. Unless you want to know anything about Gilmore Girls season 4 because I knocked that bitch out in like three days flat. Even the interactive quiz at the end informed me I'm a "regular" at Luke's Diner. Score.

cuteness

Had to share the cuteness of my grandma here. Em, I don't know if this will help your mouth-watering problem. Although, aren't you the one to claim, "they're just rolls"?

you know it's true love

when you have heart pizza! Last night was very nice. Very low-key and very nice. We had heart pizza, wine, salad, chocolate chip cookies, the parents, and Mark via speaker phone for part of it. And we capped off the evening with the Valentine's Day episode of The Office.



Earlier in the evening, I spent an hour and a half playing one game of TextTwist – a pretty good run, if I do say so myself. I racked up my score to 90,940 before losing on the letters RYVIEF.