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Happy Valentines Day!  We don’t celebrate valentines day in our house.  Which is probably obvious seeing the pictures below.

But I did buy a valentines cake from the grocery store, only because I love cake and it was cheap!

This was not my anniversary present, but just a present to me from my husband because I wanted a plain band to wear.   I had to give in and agree to platinum instead of white gold, still a win for me.

my weekend started off with a visit to the COACH store, the last three times I went I couldn’t find anything i wanted and this time I found at least 5 purses.  I ended up buying two, with only minimal guilt.

We spent the night at the Royal Palms in Scottsdale.   The resort is very pretty and there are gardens and fountains all around.  When you get there, you don’t have a choice, you are just going to valet your car.   Everyone was really super friendly and a little confused that we didn’t want help with our bags or anything.

After check in we went to the lounge and had drinks for about an hour.

We stayed in a Spa Suite, which was not without its faults.  The TV’s in both rooms would randomly change themselves to channel 0.   I’m pretty sure a ghost was involved. The shower was also broken but the maintenance guy repaired it in just a few minutes.

half of the living area, in front of the couch is a massive entertainment center that had drawers full of exercise equipment.   underneath the couch is a massage table if you want in room massage.

the bathroom was an area between the living area and bedroom.  there were sliding doors on either side for privacy.  to the right of the tub is a STEAM shower.  I soaked in that tub and watched some TV this morning.

one side of the bedroom

directly outside our porch

We had room service for dinner and breakfast, which was kind of tricky because there wasn’t a table to eat at.   We kind of just ate in the living room using that ottoman and our laps or the floor as a table.

I would definitely go back to this resort, but I’d try a different type of room. Maybe next year!

Today (our actual anniversary) we’re just hanging out at home with the dogs.  I took tomorrow off to be even more lazy.

I can’t seem to accept fact that we’ve put 7 years into this relationship but are expected to start over counting anniversaries based on our wedding date.     Being married  7 months doesn’t sound as awesome as being together 7 years.   And I know that a 7 years is a drop in the bucket to some people, but not to us.  at least not yet.   So we aren’t going to celebrate with gifts anymore, but just acknowledge it with  a date.   so this sunday we are going to Coup Des Tartes.  They do a Sunday Brunch that looks fantastic, and if it’s even half as good as dinner i will be happy.  And then maybe we’ll hit a movie.    I’m also taking monday off because I find it unfair that Icey has the day off for presidents day and my company doesn’t give us that holiday.

I need to be getting ready to start my day, not sitting here drinking coffee and writing this.  I have so much to do today!  Normally Saturday is my errands day, but since we got home late on Friday night, I slept in and decided to take care of business on Sunday.

Icey’s Christmas party was very nice, but not nearly as much fun as last year.  This year there was nothing to occupy your time.  Last year it was a casino themed party.  We skipped out after about 3 hours.  The food was good, the drinks were free and Icey won a raffle prize again, this time it was 6 tickets to the movies.    And as soon as some good movies come out, we’ll be there.

I wore my pretty pretty dress after having to decide between 4 of them.   I don’t have any pictures, but trust me I was a stunner!   You know how when you wear empire waist shirts or dresses you are always thinking people will think you are pregnant but then you finally get over that fear and start wearing those types of things and then no one says anything so you feel pretty good and then people compliment you on how nice you look.   and then some random chick takes a look at you and goes, OMG you are pregnant, but you just got married…………………………   she’s on my list.    And then you go to your neighbor friends party still wearing that dress and all those drunk people you know who usually blurt out the truth when they drink just tell you that you look really pretty and make no mention of the non baby in your belly.  I’m not a skinny minnie pin thin girl, I’m what you may call ‘cornfed’ or perhaps average, but by no means does my stomach look PREGNANT.

This weekend I’m taking my husband out for his birthday and I’m wearing another one of my pretty pretty dresses that do not make me look pregnant.   Macys is my new favorite store for buying nice clothes, they have great sales, I got one of the dresses for $15, and it was originally like $70!   = WIN.  sometimes they have free shipping, and if you buy online, which I did buy some of those dresses on line, you can return things hassle free thru the mail or their stores.   So people, start getting married and throwing fancy parties because I finally have some nice clothes and we never go anywhere.

I had one meeting last week about work from home, I have a training class tomorrow and then a phone line will be installed into my house pretty soon.  After that, this girl is working from home 2x a week and can’t wait.    I think that if all goes according to plan, I should be working from home before year end.

Dennis turned 30 and found that the ladies love a mature man

we posed in the kitchen

Rich and Rylee came to town for Thanksgiving

We have a lot of friends

look, we found more of our friends

when no one is looking, he loves me.

I baked coconut choco chip cookies, hands down my favorite

I had today off and went to the dr. because I cannot breathe and it was getting ridiculous.   going up half a flight of stairs winded me.   I would wheeze half my day away.  I’m trying some medicine and hopefully I can start taking the stairs at work.  The good news is, I don’t appear to have the type of asthma that lands you in the hospital or causes asthma attacks.   it runs in my family and I denied that I had a problem until I realized I spent the last  3 months wheezing.  I’ve never been an excellent breather what with bouts of bronchitis as a kid and smoking for 12 years.

I also went shopping for a pretty pretty party dress and bought three.  One is going back to the store and I’m keeping the other two, they were husband approved.   I’m real excited about one of them because I get to wear my wedding shoes again!  They are a little fancier than your typical little black dress, so I’m still on the lookout for one of those.

I’m taking my husband out for a fancy french dinner for his b-day, maybe I’ll wear the other pretty pretty party dress out that night…….

I am so happy that we had today off.   I really needed to just not be at work, even if it was just for an extra day.   In two weeks we’ll have a mini vacation when we go to vegas and we each took two days off before and after the weekend, so that we will still be able to have some downtime at home before having to go back to work.      Right now our weekends are still pretty busy taking care of all the tiny things you need to do for a wedding.  Almost all of the major stuff is done, it’s the small things that add up and take up a lot of time.   Plus we still have to live our every day lives.

So I took today to do a little cleaning, we had lunch out, I played some Sims and watched 2 horror movies. Tomorrow we start again with the busy-ness.   no more sitting on my butt.

We’ve done a lot of wedding planning in the past two days.  Or really what I should say is that Icey’s mom has done nearly all of the legwork and I just sit here and make a few decisions.   Sure I ordered a cake topper and some announcements but for the most part, she’s taking care of the entire thing.  And for that I am thankful.   We’re going to write a book on how to plan a wedding in 30 days, because after this weekend I think we’ll be nearly finished.   And it only took a week and a half.

So now it’s basically one month and counting.   When am I supposed to start freaking out?

today we went out for lunch to joe’s farm grill. I’ve been meaning to go there and unfortunately we waited until after the place was featured on Diners, Drive-ins and Dives, so the place was packed. I’m pretty much in love with this place. I want to eat my next ten meals there. The menu is awesome and the atmosphere is even better. We already have plans to go back next week for breakfast. WAFFLES AND RIBS!!!! And hit up the produce stand. There is also a housing development out there that we have decided we must live in.

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Today I’m baking cookies again! This time it’s peanut butter and milk chocolate morsel swirls. I hope these turn out better than the stupid oatmeal raisin.

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We also picked up my engagement ring today. I had anxiety all week about it. whether or not I really liked it and if it was the ring I really should have gotten and what if it looked stupid with the diamond I picked………… it was all pretty irrational because the ring looks awesome. It’s pretty much the ring i imagined in my head if i were to ever get an engagement ring.  and then i got one, so that worked out.  it’s a size 3.5 and it’s still too big, i’m going to wait to see if i still need to get it sized after the wedding band is next to it. They resize your ring for free for two years or something, i think that’s because they think people get fat after they get married.

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I’m also supposed to go shopping next weekend for my wedding dress. It’s not going to be some big white frilly number. It’s going to be more like an evening gown or bridesmaid dress. and NOT strapless if i can help it.

Still going strong with the cookie baking.  I finally got good at it and know how long to bake them and what size to make them. And it takes me practically no time at all.  Last weekend was coconut chocolate chip and I’ve had a request for oatmeal raisin this week.

Spring cleaning is coming late this year.   We’re going to start working on organizing the house and getting rid of some furniture and misc crap we don’t need.  I still have wicker furniture from the 90′s hiding in the guest room.   Anyone want a wicker nightstand, or shelves????  Queen sized comforters anyone?   Would anyone like to buy a smith cage or a recliner?

The gym has been overrun with kids since school got out, they are mostly going to the pool or kids camps but they are ALL OVER the locker room.  and there’s really nothing more annoying than a group of teen girls all texting and giggling about boys while standing right where you need to be.   but one good thing about school being out is clear roads and my car getting 33mpg this past week.

oh and also, Icey and I decided to get married.

no srsly, I mean it this time.

I guess you can’t win with me because Fred the neurotic vertical circular swimmer now just lays at the bottom of his tank and blends in with the glass beads.  and that makes me mad too because i spend half my day wondering if he’s dead.   Every half hour or so he swims around and says hello and then goes straight back to laying on the bottom.  

I hope everyone had a good mothers day, including those of you with the four legged fur babies.   I had a tasty steak dinner made especially for me, with roasted potatoes and fresh green beans.  it’s time like that when having a boyfriend who can cook, really pays off.  We also got these tiny chocolate lava cakes that were TO DIE FOR.   especially when i saw that this tiny little cake that was about two inches around and high was 450 calories.   It was worth it.

I recently bought ANOTHER roomba, because again, I’m a glutton for punishment and did not learn from the two previous roomba’s that I do not have good luck with them.  I gave Roomba technology a few years to catch up and decided to try again.   Plus I got it cheap at Target.   It’s by no means replacing my Dyson, it’s just for quick pick ups, mostly on the tile kitchen floor so i don’t have to drag out the big vacuum.   And so far so good.  

What’s really fun is putting dog cookies on it and seeing who will get them.  The voo has no fear so he just takes them and runs. mojo is terrified of the roomba and you can see it in her eyes that this is the worst thing to EVER happen to her.   A cookie she cannot get.    So now when you turn the Roomba on, Voo looks at it to see if there are any cookies on it.  there was a sticker on it that said they welcome software programmers to make their roomba’s do something fun.  I think what Icey needs to do it make it into a remote control roomba and send drinks to me on it.

 The other day I thought I saw this ultimate fighter at my gym.  I’m sure it’ s just wishful thinking but if i see that guy again, i’m getting closer, just to make sure.