finally. after years of failure.

We finally got to drink green beer on St. Patrick's Day! All of our other attempts have gone like this: Enter an establishment where people are drinking green beer. Try to order green beer. Hear the heartbreaking words, "We're out." Sadness. Disappointment. Sorrow. So who knew we would find it right in our own backyard? Our neighborhood grill, if you will. Eatin' good in the neighborhood, you know? Applebee's! We went with JMJ and Karen; I have not laughed that hard/much in a while. Hilarious. Doubting that any green beer would be found in town (and not in a bar...which leaves about one option), I had called Applebee's earlier in the evening to see if they were serving. Imagine my joy when they said, "yes." Because of Monday night forensics class, I asked how long they would be serving/were open. The answer? "Until 11...or we run out of food coloring." At least they're transparent about how it's made.

lots of lying down

First, though, a couple of highlights from the weekend were a Wind Ensemble and Jazz concert featuring the amazing guest trumpeter Allen Vizzutti, and eating at Bangkok (one of our favorite restaurants) that was also being frequented by "local celebrity" Dave Freeman.

The bulk of our weekend was spent mattress shopping. I'm happy to say that yesterday (Mattress Shopping Day #2), we were finally able to make a decision and purchased a mattress. I can't wait for when we can bring it home. I believe this is the first new mattress I'll sleep on since the one I got when I left the crib, and Brian doesn't think he's ever had a new mattress. These are exciting times, people, exciting times.

i identify with so many

This site totally cracks me up. You can also see the full list.

you will not be touched. i am indifferent to you.

A great time last night. Good company. Great food. Cheap beer. We hope to make the suppers a monthly thing.

coming clean

In the spirit of honesty and openness, I will tell you that last night I traded in working out for doing the laundry and the dishes. Oh, and three chocolate chip/vanilla pudding cookies. :)

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.