Around Here

This year we didn't have to endure the public shaming of not donating to Scouts. 

Little DIY project--these used to be black.

I'm quite proud of this photo, normally a casserole looks truly disgusting in photos.

Valentines

It would be more normal for me to not comment on all these artsy photos of my Valentine's Day, but I think we all need some commentary.

For one of our Valentine's dates (yes, everything we do is considered a date), we played one of our favorite board games, Stone Age.  I was dominating the entire game, and we both made comments about how everything just seemed to be going my way and I would, no doubt, win.  Then, somehow at the end, Scott won by 13 points!  I felt especially jipped because I tried to be extra compassionate several times during the game to soften Scott's inevitable landslide loss.  Well played, Scott.  Well played.

Scott wrote on my Facebook wall for the first time in probably 3 years and our friend told us to quote, "get a room." (Which made us laugh and we require more future comments from you, Nate!)  However, I'm not sure why we come across as homeless, so just so everyone's clear, we own a house full of rooms.  That's where we get the Wifi to write said sappy posts.

Now, scroll back above to that photo of me with my head chopped off, and then come back down here.  You're back?  Ok.  This reminds me of a super funny story.  When we took our engagement photos, we had two or three like the one below:

Nothing too out-of-the-norm for engagement photos.  Well, Scott's dad shared our photo album on his social media with the comment: "Wonderful pictures including the mystery topless pics."  *Cue me choking on my water.*  I don't want to know what kind of traffic a comment like that generated, but anyway we still crack up about this.  Worst double-meaning ever.

Happy Valentine's Day my friends.

The Business Trip

It's been a while since I've had to fly solo here at the house overnight.  So naturally Scott's trip to Mexico City was not pleasant news to my charmed-life-ears.  We've been spoiled with the lack of the-s-word* in this household for far too long it seems.

So anyway there I was waking up on the departure date and feeling like this might be the worst day of my life (drama queen alert).  I was just not sure how exactly I was supposed to fill these days with things to do.  Or how I was supposed to scratch my own back.

I had a few ideas on how to make the time pass.  Namely cleaning, grocery shopping, and wasting away on Youtube.  Sadly none of these activities take as long as I think they will and then I'm left to stroking Scott's pillow and weeping.  You know, just normal things like that.

All this time alone, however, has allowed me to slow down and realize I don't have to get in and out of Winco in 12 minutes.  I was at the store running at breakneck speed until I remembered there was nothing for me at home, so then I adopted a new strategy to "browse every item" (sung to the tune of "Climb Every Mountain").  You would not believe the new things I discovered.  Like the fact that I could buy a single fruit snack in the bulk section (I'm not talking a single pack, I'm talking a single snack). Would they round up to 1 cent do you think?  Or I also learned you can churn your own almond butter over there.  I've never even tasted almond butter so I guess this wasn't that exciting.

Another plus of this business trip is Scott took all of our mobile devices to Mexico, so shucks, all that mobile testing I could've done at work just couldn't happen.  Maybe he can just leave the devices in Mexico.

*scouting