thursday date night

my new favorite thing is date night.  especially on thursdays when things are cheap and not many people are out to make things busy. yes please.  tonight we decided to go bowling. at first i pooed this idea mostly due to my slim finances-so joshua says, i will call and see how much it is, maybe we can get an afternoon deal. so i say okay go ahead, still thinking that we're not going for less than fifty bucks if we wanna play more than one game. and low and behold it was "dollar mania night". yes please.  we bowled i believe 5 games, and had shoe rental for a total of $21.8something. yes i sad $21 as in a 20+1. we will now be going bowling more than once every 6 months since it does not cost me 3 days of work. which makes me happy because it makes the man WAY happy since he loves bowling-and i humor him.  don't get me wrong, i do like bowling, but i ROYALLY SUCK at it in everyway.  so i do not go just for me cause i never score above 100 most days. yes i am that bad.  don't say a word and if you laugh i will come find you.  joshua is very good however, coming from a family of bowlers (his grandfather is in the bowling hall of fame okay? yeah i have NO chance. plus the kid just wins at everything he even tries dammit. we can't even play board games without him winning everytime. and anything athletic i should just throw in the towel before we start-but i love all of his talent, so i am not bitter. well maybe just a little, because i do have a somewhat competitive side sometimes.). So bowling date night was a success and it didn't kill my wallet which is lovely.  then i took the man to his favorite mexican restaurant, or rather he took us and i paid since he was the driver, but whatever.  and we at for less than 25. loveliness.  tomorrow we have decided that we will rent a redbox for a dollar and go out for icecream WITH a coupon which means i only have to pay for ONE ice cream.  i am becoming the QUEEN of coupons and we aren't even married. i am determined to be good at this and i WILL be finding ways for us to go to disneyland in march, and have one of us a new car by the end of the year, AND even though i'm not supposed to be talking about it, i will be saving for our wedding and have over half of the needed moola before the years end. i am determined.
on a side note, i got my new purse today. mother and sister were gonna get me one for christmas, very sweet, but the one i wanted was no longer there and they worried about which one, so instead they let me go pick.  normally i would NEVER ever ever spend more than 20 dollars on a purse, cause i just don't because i'm a cheapwad, BUT since they had planned on buying me a nicer one at $45, i definitely was not going to disappoint, especially since they were very nice.  unfortunately this may prove to be a bad decision, because now i super love this new purse and it's high quality and they have MANY more beautiful ones and i do believe i will be getting another. and probably before i even wear this one out. uh oh.  BUT on a positive note, i think i CAN get another one in a month or two, maybe i'll even wait for some new styles to come out, because i have been upped on the pay scale.  YES. it's not a whole lot, but it's a heck of a lot more when the paycheck comes in so i am a happy girl that is for sure! i hope everyone has a lovely friday!  i am sure i will have some adventures to share this weekend so....i'll be back...

Christmas here we come!

Yes i know it's only the day after thanksgiving....well technically it's 2 days now since this is after midnight, but don't get technical with me, i don't like it-i know it's still early, but i'm so ready to decorate the house and tree and wrap presents and bake christmasy things and do a million crafts and wear sweaters and drink hot cocoa and watch christmasy movies. and listen to christmas music-which i have already been secretly doing for about a week now-it makes me feel warm and fuzzy and i happen to like it-i pulled out all of my christmas music for the piano too-it is my favorite music to play by far!  i can't wait to have my own place to decorate next year! i have so many cool things that i keep finding on clearance or am inheriting from others and i am SO ready to have a place to show them off!  next year better come quick!
thanksgiving was good-we had a tiny group of 25 this year, so everything was ready wayyyy earlier than normal, but it was kinda nice cause we had lots of time to just chill and be. i was definitely ready for everyone to go home by 2 though lol. i know i'm such a party pooper, but it's just too much comotion for me, i love my family, but i can only do so much!  small doses is better for my sanity. i even got to webcam with josh for like an hour and a half in the evening and we talked on the phone while he was shopping in walmart-the booger bought something while he was on the phone with me and said it was a "perfect christmas present" so i am curious to see what he found! he is so very sweet, but it sounded mildly suspicious when he stopped mid sentence while talking on the phone, laughed and said, "babe i just found your christmas present, i'll call you in a sec after i buy it!" i think i might want to be mildly afraid. but i love him so i'm sure it will be awesome whatever it is!
today we decided to be super lazy and instead of keeping with the tradition of baking christmas goodies the day after thanksgiving, we instead watched a million episodes of criminal minds and late in the afternoon we ventured out to hobby lobby (yes, it was glorious) and found some super cool dealios and awesome fun things that i would just love to buy. i refrained however and only spent $20.00- i was a good girl! i bought some to die for wrapping paper that was $3 and i found these super cute letter pictures on clearance and bought them mostly for a wedding reception (yes it's early, and yes we're unofficial, but i feel gathering small things that have dual purpose is not criminal and a very good use of budgeting :) ) they hang from a ribbon and spell out "xoxo" and they are super uber cute and i love them, and they look SUPER awesome above my little photo collage of the man and i-by photo collage i mean the 4 pictures ever printed of the two of us, a birthday card, his valentines poem to me and several inspirational quotes bahahah probably need to get working on more pictures of the two of us-we royally suck at taking pictures of the two of us anywhere!
tomorrow we shall venture out to do our annual saturday christmas shopping-tracy, mom and i go every year and it is always a fun adventure-i will miss it next year when i can't come home, and this year we won't do quite so much since tracy has been so sick and uncomfortable-i feel so bad for her! hopefully the doctors can fix her soon so we can get her back in tip top shopping shape! and i think tomorrow i might be a sweet girlfriend and bake some goodies to send to the dorm for the man and jesse-maybe-if i'm feeling super crafty and house wifeish-which i may not since i made homemade rolls all by myself the other day for everyone to devour and leave me no leftovers-cool peeps-but i guess it is a compliment since they could have hated them and not eaten any! :) here's to happy shopping!

Birmingham Surprise Trip Day 3

Sunday was a rather lazy day of the vacation, Josh and i met up and had the left over Krispy Kreme's for breakfast, then we left to meet gramma and grampa but they had to cancel cause the weather was getting bad and they wanted to make sure everything was packed up so they could leave early in the morning. so josh and i went shopping at TJ Maxx and a few other places nearby and then we went to have some lunch, just the two of us :) it was wonderful! and so fun to have a date! after lunch we puttered around town some more wasting time til Josh had to go to practice!  we decided i should stay downtown, but everything was closing and i can't stay in his dorm without him, so i called leia and she and i went shopping and cleaned trey's apartment while they were at practice-well, we more like cleaned the clothes off the floor and then entertained ourselves watching cake boss and the food network-which was incredibly dumb cause we were both starving! after 4 and a half hours the boys were finally done! joshua and i decided to have some hungry howie's and rent another movie-this time it was Date Night with Steve Carrell-it was cute, not our favorite, but cute! then he and Jesse played some more video games while i made the shopping list for the next day's feast!

early pay day's

tomorrow is friday-friday's are beautiful days in the world, well usually, meaning like 98% of the time!  every other friday is also pay day, and that makes them doubly beautiful days in my book!  but today was thursday-the day before friday and the day before friday pay day-BUT there is a wonderful invention called direct deposit that make friday pay day's even more glorious because friday pay days then come on thursdays instead! hooray! it tis quite a miracle if you ask me-and it is my expert opinion we are talking about here so i'm pretttttyyy sure you should believe me.  so today was a glorious day because it was early pay day ANDDDD i got to work at the downtown office which is always fun since you get to listen to the guys make fun of each other all day long while you are doing your work!  i think it might be slightly counter productive but it is awesomely fun and pretty hilarious when rob and dustin, who have become like instant older brothers to me-kinda scary, but they like josh and they watch his football games even though they have never met him which i think is sweet, so i will let them be my older brothers!  so my day was happily entertained while i did boring data entry which became less boring listening to the two of them and then i happily recieved my check in my account which sent me a happy text saying that a deposit had been made so tomorrow i can go shopping with my happy kohl's cash and buy my much needed long sleeves for my big winter excursion to the great deathly cold across this vast united states.......dramatic? maybe-but i have lived here my whole life so anything less than a high of 44 is genuinely considered freezing. period. no ifs ands or buts.  so i will be getting another long sleeve shirt at least!  (i may have already bought two yesterday on a lunch break outing with my mother and they may or may not have been only $4.99 at ROSS......just saying-you don't pass up that deal my friends!) i hope everyone has a happy happy day!