Whatever happened to if you don't got something nice to say don't say anything at all? I miss those simpler times when people were not outright rude. Being in the South, we have a kinder way of being mean to others. We'll say something like "Well bless your heart." or "Bless her heart, but...." and then we say something mean...but in the most polite way possible. You all know since I've about bashed it into your heads by now that I'm from the Midwest. We are rude, sarcastic people-but usually we mean it in the most loving way. In fact, 90% of my relationship with my husband is based on pure sarcasm towards one another...and we love it. I guess I just don't understand how people feel like they have the right to say whatever they want to someone even if it is mean or cutting. I just wasn't raised that way. My mom ALWAYS told me to be nice- and I always remind myself to be nice to others even if they are being mean or nasty because we never know what kind of battles that person may be fighting in their personal lives. Anyway, I guess I should backtrack and explain by recapping the weekend starting from Friday since well...it's my blog and I like writing about what I do/did during the week. It's like my own personal memory book.
FRIDAY/ aka VALENTINE's DAY/ aka A DAY OF REMEMBRANCE
To quickly catch up it snowed from Tuesday-Thursday last week so I left work at 2pm on Tuesday and didn't return until Friday. There caught up. :) I went into work at 8:30 but it turns out I didn't get the memo so no one else came in until 10. I didn't really mind though because I got to work on things before anyone else came in. I ended up staying a full day on Friday. After work I went to the bank and then went home. The plan was to go to dinner at a low key place (Jason's Deli) and then go to the second hand bookstore-one of our favorite places in town. Well after it took us almost an hour to get there with crazy, crazy traffic I actually threatened to get out of the car and walk there. I was THAT hungry. It probably doesn't help that I hadn't really eaten ANYTHING all day. Sigh. Well we made it there and I got to get rid of my hunger pains. :) After dinner we went to the bookstore and I bought umm....7-10 books? I'm not sure about the exact count but in my defense....the total cost was only around $30 for all of them. That wonderful bookstore has gotten me to the point that I walk into Barnes & Nobles see that they want $17-30 for one book and it just makes me want to walk out lol. I have become way too cheap lately. Not that that is necessarily a bad thing. After that we went home, poured ourselves a drink, and watched two episodes of the new season of House of Cards on Netflix. If you haven't watched season one on it I highly recommend it to you. Well not a bad way to end Valentine's day. Now I'm sure you are wondering about the Day of Remembrance part. Ok, six years ago a shooting occurred at my university on Valentine's Day. It ended with 5 people dead plus the shooter and over 20 people injured. It is considered the 5th deadliest university shootings in the United States. It's been 6 years but I was there that day at school and it is something that my college friends and I will never forget. It is a great reminder to live every day to the fullest and to never take anything for granted. Ok...onto Saturday.
THE DAY OUR LIVES CHANGED...FOOOREEEVVVEEERRR (CUT TO THE SANDLOT CLIP)
On Saturday we got up and figured out our plans for the day. Ok...actually my husband got up and then he dragged me out of bed quite literally- so business as usual. The first thing I did was call our tax guy and let him know that we were stopping by his office to sign our taxes and pay him...and the state. Win some lose some right? After we put a dent in our bank account we went to the finest dining in town- The International House of Pancakes. Maybe you have heard of it? In some circles it is known as IHOP. After a twenty minute wait in a restaurant that has not one but two waiting areas, we were finally seated. Time actually went by fast though and soon I was sipping coffee and throwing a plastic container of creamer at my husband. I don't remember why to be honest. Very mature right? I ordered a plate of hashbrowns-yum (sidenote-one of the very few places you can get ACTUAL hashbrowns instead of weird potato pellets- thanks NC) and the Bacon Temptation Omelette- let me just say it was less tempting then you think. Ugh. After breakfast we went to look at couches because we have been planning on new couches for a while (belated Christmas gift to ourselves.) We found a set we really liked but we were worried about having enough space. The joy of living in a small rented townhouse. Sigh. We decided to go home and measure the space out again-this time focusing more on actual width versus length. Meanwhile, I spent the car ride telling my husband how it seems like we always have to settle due to the military- and that I was sick of settling. Earlier that day my friend the animal lover had sent me a text telling me that Petsmart was doing Animal Adoptions. We decided to go there just to look at some cute puppies to cheer me up. Ten minutes later after arriving at Petsmart we were signing adoption papers-ummm....what!!?!?!?!?
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