January 1, 2010!!!!
Well we made it guys and gals!!! It's the new year!!! Jim and I arrived safely and without stress into this new year. Now what to do....
Last night I texted our good friend Spencer to see if he would like to meet us for breakfast this morning. Since we were out all day and night, we weren't sure if we could make contact with each other. When we got home last night, there were some messages from Spencer. Yeah, he would like to meet up with us!!! Now just connecting this morning is the issue.
Jim and I woke up around 7:30am. Let's call Spencer, and meet for breakfast. I called and got his answering machines. That's ok we're not ready to walk out the door anyway. We get ready slowly, as I'm not sure we are really awake yet. Finally around 8:30am it's time to eat!! lol. I call Spencer again and I was able to get a hold of him. Yeah!!!! 20 minutes we'll meet up at Waffle Square.
Breakfast was fantastic as usual. Spencer liked the place which is good, because it's close to both of us and it's not that expensive, a good place to meet up. We must have talked for a good couple of hours. It was nice. We haven't been able to connect with friends that much this year and it was a wonderful way to bring in the new year. What could be better than friends and food 'eh?!?! lol.
Once breakfast was over, we headed to our car and I was finally able to give Spencer his Halloween goodies I had made for him. I carved him a foam pumpkin, made a goodie bag (full of chocolate), and I gave him some of my homemade caramel crabapple jelly. We talked for awhile longer and finally parted with hugs and well wishes. My heart was full!!!
Once we came back home, we didn't know what we wanted to do. We had to go to the store and to Sam's club so we started there. Guess what....Sam's was closed. Oh well off to the grocery store then. We picked up a few things.....two racks of ribs, already cooked for $12.99, woot woot, I don't have to cook a meal or two!!!! Then while we were looking at the magazines, the store had some previously viewed DVD's on sale. Jim and I debated on weather it was a good idea to get them or not. We could go over to Hollywood Video and maybe pay a little more, but they are guaranteed. If the movies don't work for any reason, we can take them back and get another. Not sure we would have the same offer at the store. Next stop the video store.
I was like a kid in a candy store. I love movies and they were having a huge sale!!!! Movies from $2.99 to $7.99!!! We grabbed up a bunch of movies....ok, I grabbed up a bunch of movies and we headed home. I played on the computer for awhile and Jim watched some football. A little later we decided to pop in a movie.
Night at the Museum the Smithsonian!! That was so cute. I think the first one was better, but this one was very entertaining. What's next....another movie...Julie and Julia. I have been dying to see this movie since it came out. I can so associate with the movie's concept that it's almost not funny. It was a fantastic movie. I think I got more out of it then Jim, but hey it was a chick flick anyway. I LOVED IT!!!
Jim and I had sat around just nibbling here and there and decided that it was time to really eat. There is a chinese restaurant down the street from us, "The Lantern" that has fantastic food. I didn't want anything heavy so we went for a bowl of their soup. It's egg flower soup with chicken and corn....Yummmm....we also got an appetizer of egg rolls, wontons, foil wrapped chicken, and brandy fried chicken. There were only one for each of us on these and I let Jim have the brandy fried chicken. There was no way I was getting food stuck tonight!!!
We went home happy and full and spent the rest of the evening just kicking back. I had forgotten how comfortable it is to just spend time with Jim and Shadow. No worries, just us time. I missed that. Not any more though. I am staying committed to my family comes first this year.
I hope your year is starting out as wonderful as mine has. Enjoy the simple things in life.
