Today is Mike and my 10-year dating anniversary. It's strange to think that we have been together for more than a third of my life.
It is also my best friend, Christa's 28th birthday. She was glad when Mike and I finally got married so that we would no longer celebrate our dating on her day. Unfortunately for her, we still do.
This evening we commemorated the event by semi-reliving our first date. That called for sharing a shake at Denny's and coming home (but this time to our own home, instead of his mom's), to watch a John Cusak movie. On our first date it was Say Anything. Tonight we watched Serendipity with a crackling fire.
And now he's sawing zzzzz's...yep, it's been 10 years all right;-).
12/28/2004
12/27/2004
Winter Wonderland
This year for Christmas, as we were without any family for the first time, we decided to spend our couple days off to take a trip to Yosemite National Park. It is only 3 hours or so away from us. It made sense to do this, too, as it would probably be our last trip together pre-baby.
We stayed at The Wawona Hotel, a historic lodge, within the park. Historic meant no heat in the bathrooms that we had to walk down the below freezing outside hall to get to. It was like we were half camping. I never wanted to get out of the hot shower for fear of catching pnuemonia. And having to get up in the middle of the night to use the restroom was literally painful.
The park was beautiful, though. We thoroughly enjoyed driving and hiking around looking at the mountain peaks and waterfalls. It was especially Christmasy to be in the snow. Nothing else about our Christmas holiday seemed very festive or normal(none of our usual traditions), so at least we had beautiful snow.
Too, we saw lots of deer. Some even had antlers. Maybe they were reindeer.
We stayed at The Wawona Hotel, a historic lodge, within the park. Historic meant no heat in the bathrooms that we had to walk down the below freezing outside hall to get to. It was like we were half camping. I never wanted to get out of the hot shower for fear of catching pnuemonia. And having to get up in the middle of the night to use the restroom was literally painful.
The park was beautiful, though. We thoroughly enjoyed driving and hiking around looking at the mountain peaks and waterfalls. It was especially Christmasy to be in the snow. Nothing else about our Christmas holiday seemed very festive or normal(none of our usual traditions), so at least we had beautiful snow.
Too, we saw lots of deer. Some even had antlers. Maybe they were reindeer.
12/12/2004
ESCAPE!
After banging my car up this week, we decided to get me something else to destroy. Today after looking for months we finally purchased a red 2001 Ford Escape as my new "mom mobile." It seems to be in really great condition and has leather seats, a sunroof and a 6 cd changer...all these neat little features that would have been nice to have. It is much higher off the ground than my Accord, so I feel quite powerful driving it. We actually pick it up tomorrow. Wahoo!!
12/08/2004
Hit and Run
I hit a parked car the other day in my office parking lot when pulling into the spot next door. Neither vehicle was super damaged (my bumper may need replacing because it got scraped and my headlight cover shattered and the other car had some door trim issues).
The conditions couldn't have been worse to cause me to be so careless. I was shaky because I had been fasting all day for a doctors appointment. I also needed to pee really bad...pregnant and hadn't in 2 hours for my ultrasound test. The lot was busy, too, with hardly any spots left and a ton of traffic. I was trying to get out of another car's way when I zipped in the spot, miscalculating my turn. BAM!
I left a note with my contact info. Good thing, too, because it turns out to be a cop car. The captain of the Sacramento PD. He called me to fill out an accident report. I wonder if I will get in trouble now for still having FL plates and my old drivers license. Great!
The conditions couldn't have been worse to cause me to be so careless. I was shaky because I had been fasting all day for a doctors appointment. I also needed to pee really bad...pregnant and hadn't in 2 hours for my ultrasound test. The lot was busy, too, with hardly any spots left and a ton of traffic. I was trying to get out of another car's way when I zipped in the spot, miscalculating my turn. BAM!
I left a note with my contact info. Good thing, too, because it turns out to be a cop car. The captain of the Sacramento PD. He called me to fill out an accident report. I wonder if I will get in trouble now for still having FL plates and my old drivers license. Great!
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