glingdidit May 31st, 2008
So today I did something amazing…I ordered tickets to see The New Kids on the Bock’s reunion tour! Ahhh!!!  Jared said that he absolutely didn’t want to go…so I invited my good buddy Nicole and one of her friends. It’s not until November 10…but I’m still already pumped! Maybe we’ll crimp our hair…and tightroll our jeans…who knows!? Either way…aside from that…it’s been a pretty good week. We started working on our basement…which will take some time…but it was great to at least get a little bit done. Hopefully we’ll be motivated this week to get the ceiling totally painted…and all of the cracks filled. We had a lot of rain this week…thus our yard turned into the amazon….again. It finally dried up enough to mow and weed. I weeded in the garden for about an hour…and it’s looking pretty good. The plants are all looking really full….especially the potatoes. (I need to get some stakes to keep them from falling over onto the peppers.) I was excited to see the beans and sunflowers were both peeking through the soil this week as well. Oh…last night I also had sushi for the very first time. It was vegetarian sushi….which was good…because I don’t like fish. I was pretty nervous about giving it a try…but to my surprise…it wasn’t half bad! Definitely not something that I’d crave all the time…but definitely something fun and tasty to try. Today we’re lounging around being lazy this morning…which is great! This afternoon we’re heading to the first wedding of the summer for us…so we need to start getting ready pretty soon. It looks pretty nice outside…so it should be a great day to get dressed up and have fun with friends at the wedding. Later!
glingdidit May 21st, 2008
It’s been over a week since I really had time to sit down and give some updates….since then, life has been a whirlwind (to say the least). To start with…last weekend we headed out for a few days of much needed vacation. We took off on Sunday…and swung through Emden and Bloomington to visit with our mom’s on mother’s day. It was nice to get to see our family…even though it was a quick visit in both places. From there we traveled on to Chicago for a quick mini-vacation. It was only 3 days/3 nights….but it was just what we needed to get out of town and re-charge. Some highlights of the trip included (but certainly aren’t limited to):
-Staying downtown on Michigan Ave (even if it was a really old hotel).
-Chicago-style pizza at Giordano’s (our favorite!)
-Shopping the magnificent mile.
-Bowling downtown.
-The Field Museum (with a great new exhibit on mythical creatures)
-Passes for the “L”
-CUBS!
-Lots of walking around Grant Park and Millenium Park
-Walking along the lakeshore
-Flight of the Concords concert (which was AWESOME!)
There were a lot of other great things too, but those were the definite highlights. From there we headed back to Emden to be with my family and my dad as he had surgery this past week. For those who don’t know, we found out in January that my dad had cancer…and we’ve been through months of chemo/radiation and the surgery portion to remove the tumor took place this week. He’s doing really well and we’ve been blessed as a family to see the great doctors and nurses he’s dealing with. He’s been very positive and excited to get back on his feet…which is also a big blessing. It was great to spend time with family and to stay with my mom for 4 days…and I certainly wasn’t ready to come back to Greenville. We’ll be heading back up this weekend to visit dad and spend some extra time with family. I probably won’t do much updating about all of that online, just because it’s pretty personal and I don’t know that my blog’s the best place to write all of that. If you’ve got any questions or want to know how he’s doing…just let me know!Â
Other than that…we’re back in Greenville and are slowly getting back into the swing of things. The garden’s growing and looking tastier each day. In fact, I’m going to pick some fresh lettuce for salad tonight…yummm! We’ve got plans to start painting and sealing up our basement….so hopefully we’ll be done with that fairly soon. And that’s about it…adios!
glingdidit May 7th, 2008
So it’s been nearly a month since I last posted…my apologies. Life is just really busy right now! Over the past few weeks we’ve had a variety of visitors and people staying over at the house. (8 people to be exact.) I’ve also been busy with my current graduate class that I’m taking. (Financing…no fun!) A few weekends ago we got season passes to Six Flags…something that I’ve wanted since I was little. Maybe I’m too old to be excited about Six Flags season passes….but who cares! We also have been doing some work in the yard….thanks to my parents. Our garden is growing and looking more delicious each day. My flowers are starting to come up as well…which is a reminder of how much I love spring. I’m going to wrap things up with that…but do promise to be a better updater (is that even a word?!)!