First and most importantly, we're so glad that Dad L's surgery was successful, and we're hoping he has a quick and full recovery.
Our "best" story of the week stars Peanut. Two of Kim's coworkers lent us travel books, and we had been looking through those at night. But we made sure to put them up on the kitchen table so Peanut couldn't get into trouble while we at work. Well, after eating dinner on Thursday night, we noticed something sticking out from under the wine cabinet. Strange. Upon further reflection, we find it's one of the travel books...and a huge chunk of the corner has been eaten! Also under the cabinet was a second book. Fortunately, this one had not been eaten (we're undecided as to whether the paper wasn't as tasty or he just didn't like the picture on the cover). At any rate, we then quickly went online to find a replacement book for the one that served as an afternoon snack. Needless to say, Peanut spent the rest of the night in doggy jail!
Last night we went to Laura's baptism (the daughter of our friends Barbi and Andy). The Mass was very nice, and Kim got to be the resident photographer for the evening. After the service, we headed to Barbi and Andy's for dinner and got to sample three very tasty chilis. Our favorite was the chicken enchilada one. We also enjoyed watching all the little kids steal cookies from the desert table. They thought they were soooo sneaky. ha.
As some of you probably noticed, it's once again snowy and cold in the midwest. For this we apologize - it's completely our fault. Since the temperatures finally hit the low 40s on Friday, we both took our cars to the car wash. They were clean for about 12 hours. *Sigh*.
Current gas price: $1.87/gallon
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Monday, January 19, 2009
It's been a quiet week around here. Mostly because it's been too cold to make any noise. It's hard to believe we're dealing with global warming when we had air temperatures around -12 with windchills around -25. Thursday and Friday were days where even wearing multiple layers wasn't enough. Brrr.
And to top off the fun, our garage door decided to go on the fritz. We've always had problems with the sensors being finicky (there's a short in the wire somewhere), but you could always get it to work again if you jiggled the wire. Well, we headed out the door for work on Thursday morning and the garage went up fine...but wouldn't go down. Of course, Eric had left by this point, so Kim jumped out of the car to jiggle the wire. Nothing. Ten minutes later in the below-freezing-cold, and still nothing. So she put the door down manually and drove to work. We continued putting the door up and down manually until last night when it magically started working again. Thank goodness!
We got to see several of our friends this weekend. On Friday, we went to Dave & Busters with Danielle and had a lot of fun playing the basketball game and skee-ball. We also all managed to hit a jackpot on various games and won a total of 3,761 tickets. Wow! And no, we didn't get anything good with the points. haha.
Then last night we went to Mike and Katie's house to watch football. We had a great time hanging out and watching the game...even if we didn't like the outcome!
Current gas price: $1.87/gallon.
And to top off the fun, our garage door decided to go on the fritz. We've always had problems with the sensors being finicky (there's a short in the wire somewhere), but you could always get it to work again if you jiggled the wire. Well, we headed out the door for work on Thursday morning and the garage went up fine...but wouldn't go down. Of course, Eric had left by this point, so Kim jumped out of the car to jiggle the wire. Nothing. Ten minutes later in the below-freezing-cold, and still nothing. So she put the door down manually and drove to work. We continued putting the door up and down manually until last night when it magically started working again. Thank goodness!
We got to see several of our friends this weekend. On Friday, we went to Dave & Busters with Danielle and had a lot of fun playing the basketball game and skee-ball. We also all managed to hit a jackpot on various games and won a total of 3,761 tickets. Wow! And no, we didn't get anything good with the points. haha.
Then last night we went to Mike and Katie's house to watch football. We had a great time hanging out and watching the game...even if we didn't like the outcome!
Current gas price: $1.87/gallon.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Who dun it?
The highlight of our week was our big mystery dinner party last night - it was like a live game of Clue. We spent all week prepping for the event, and ran around like crazy to get everything ready yesterday. The good news is that it was all worth it.
Basically, the story went like this: five years ago the owner of a winery disappeared, never to be found. Five years later, his family and friends (us) gathered together for the annual wine festival and new evidence appeared. Now we have to figure out "who dun it"...all while sharing secrets about the other characters!
For the party, each of us was assigned a character to play, and we all got really into it (as you can see!). And yes, our friend J.P. is wearing leiderhosen.
We had a really nice dinner to go along with the game, and we even broke out the nice china for the occasion. (It's not like you get to use it very often, and this seemed like the perfect excuse!).
Given that the party started at 6 p.m. and lasted past midnight, we'd say it was a success. We won't ruin the game for you by telling you who was guilty, but it was definitely a fun night!
Here's us in costume. Eric's a retired vineyard worker, and Kim is a Scottish tourist.
Current gas price: $1.94/gallon.
Basically, the story went like this: five years ago the owner of a winery disappeared, never to be found. Five years later, his family and friends (us) gathered together for the annual wine festival and new evidence appeared. Now we have to figure out "who dun it"...all while sharing secrets about the other characters!
For the party, each of us was assigned a character to play, and we all got really into it (as you can see!). And yes, our friend J.P. is wearing leiderhosen.
We had a really nice dinner to go along with the game, and we even broke out the nice china for the occasion. (It's not like you get to use it very often, and this seemed like the perfect excuse!).
Given that the party started at 6 p.m. and lasted past midnight, we'd say it was a success. We won't ruin the game for you by telling you who was guilty, but it was definitely a fun night!
Here's us in costume. Eric's a retired vineyard worker, and Kim is a Scottish tourist.
Current gas price: $1.94/gallon.
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Happy 2009!
Another week, another year. Amazing how that works - and how quickly. We felt like we had two weekends this week as we were both off on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. (We definitely could get used to working two days, two days off, working one day, two days off). But alas, it's back to the normal routine this week. Hopefully we remember how to work five consecutive days!
As for New Year's Eve itself, we went low-key this year. Very low-key. As in, we had a nice dinner at home, opened a bottle of wine that we brought home from our trip to Michigan in fall 2007 and watched movies. The wine was delicious!
On Friday night, we met our friends Julia and Tony for dinner and a movie. First, movie tickets are outrageous these days. (Clearly we haven't been to a non-matinee in awhile.) Second, the Benjamin Button was alright, but not worth the cost of seeing in a theatre. So, save this one for Netflix if you were thinking about it!
Yesterday we took down the rest of the Christmas decorations...and now our house looks really empty. In fact, the kitchen looks really empty (spacious?) since the dining room table was in there while we had the tree in the dining room. At any rate, we got everything packed away and about half of the boxes back in the attic. Kim also went shopping to hit some of the sales while Eric was at the gym. Can you believe they're already clearing out all the winter stuff? And we're supposed to have a really cold and snowy February. What are we supposed to do then when all we can find are sundresses and swimsuits?
And today we went house hunting with Kim's dad. We saw a few we really liked...too bad we're not the ones in the market! We can see why Aunt Kay likes to go to open houses to get decorating ideas! This afternoon we ran a few errands to prepare for the party we're hosting next weekend. More details on that later...have to end with a cliffhanger to make sure you come and read next week's blog!
Current gas price: $1.85/gallon.
As for New Year's Eve itself, we went low-key this year. Very low-key. As in, we had a nice dinner at home, opened a bottle of wine that we brought home from our trip to Michigan in fall 2007 and watched movies. The wine was delicious!
On Friday night, we met our friends Julia and Tony for dinner and a movie. First, movie tickets are outrageous these days. (Clearly we haven't been to a non-matinee in awhile.) Second, the Benjamin Button was alright, but not worth the cost of seeing in a theatre. So, save this one for Netflix if you were thinking about it!
Yesterday we took down the rest of the Christmas decorations...and now our house looks really empty. In fact, the kitchen looks really empty (spacious?) since the dining room table was in there while we had the tree in the dining room. At any rate, we got everything packed away and about half of the boxes back in the attic. Kim also went shopping to hit some of the sales while Eric was at the gym. Can you believe they're already clearing out all the winter stuff? And we're supposed to have a really cold and snowy February. What are we supposed to do then when all we can find are sundresses and swimsuits?
And today we went house hunting with Kim's dad. We saw a few we really liked...too bad we're not the ones in the market! We can see why Aunt Kay likes to go to open houses to get decorating ideas! This afternoon we ran a few errands to prepare for the party we're hosting next weekend. More details on that later...have to end with a cliffhanger to make sure you come and read next week's blog!
Current gas price: $1.85/gallon.
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