Eventful Day

Randy had day surgery today.
Thanks to those that were praying.
He is at home with me and doing okay.
The valium is keeping him a little hazy.

We also saw two houses today.
The contemporary ranch was disappointing.
It had lots of space but was in miserable condition.
Now we know why it is headed towards foreclosure.

The second house looks much more promising.
I will post more about that on Saturday.
We still have a couple more house possibilities.
This is the season for selling! New ones added daily.

Tooth Extraction

The appointment was for 11 AM.
I was out of the office by 11:15.
Hubby was more concerned about it than me.
On the way home we stopped for additional supplies.
Picke up some juice and coffee ice cream and applesauce.
With a tooth extraction its soft foods and liquids only.
I had already prepared Blissful Macaroni Cheese Bake.
We also stopped by B&G for some rental videos.

Skipped AFI Date Night

We skipped our regular AFI Friday date night ...
It was going to be Mutiny on the Bounty.
We were busy finishing up The 4400: Season Three.
We may decide to watch the AFI pick tomorrow night.

This afternoon we contacted a real estate agent.
She will be showing us four properties:
a double wide manufactured home on Saturday,
and three different ranches on Monday.

Tax Day

Don't forget to get your taxes in!
Since we just got married in December
we ended up filing "married filing single".
We owed 3 of the 4 so just filed yesterday.

April Fools Day

Pranksters Unite - it's your day!!!
Last year my boyfriend and I told everyone
we got engaged after meeting in person just once.
Four months later in August that actually did happen!!!

There is an obvious prank for newlyweds to play ...
But considering last year's prank came true ...
we are hesitant to tell everyone we are pregnant.

I did google for April Fools Recipes and found many.
I still decided not to do anything this year.
But once I shared these links with my husband ...
he suggested "we" plan to do them on others next year.

April Fool Party Meat Loaf
Chicken Not Pie
Colorful Cupcakes
Rice Cereal Meat Loaf

Sunday in Review

Sunday we visited a new church to both of us.
Now that winter weather is (mostly) gone I can get out.
Decided to visit a non denominational church.
I actually did know the pastor from years ago.
He use to play drums at a church I attended as a teen.

The pastor's name is Terry and his wife's name is Terry!
I believe they said the church attendance is about 250 persons.
The people seemed friendly enough. Talked to a lady named Deb.
Having grown up in the area I recognized her from my hometown.
My parents met us at the church and came over for lunch afterwards.

Later in the afternoon we watched Time Changer.
It is sci fi in nature since it involves time travel ...
but it has a definitive Christian message to make you think.
I actually plan to rewatch it because I thought it so intriguing.
The time travel was necessary to see results of how we teach/preach

In the evening we decided to play some games.
Randy beat me the other day at Rummy so I wanted a rematch.
We played a couple of games of Rummy before trying cribbage.
Randy had not played before and it had been awhile for me.
We successfully found the rules online and printed them.

The Mechanics of Playing Cribbage
Rules of Cribbage - Wikipedia (shows examples)

The Game's Afoot

We played a couple of games last night.
First a game of Scrabble.
Randy won by just 2 points.
I had gotten stuck with the Q.
I had managed to use the Z and an X.
I had way too many consonants.
Really hard to make words without vowels.
And Randy had the opposite problem.
Basically the board never got opened up wide.

The second game was one we picked up with gift certificate.
It is called Reminiscing:
The Game for People Over Thirty - New Century Edition.
It asks questions per decade giving you up to five clues.
But another part of the game is actually reminiscing ...
you are encouraged to tell your own stories.
It's a great game to get to know people better.
The questions cover decades from the 40's to the 90's.
You only have to answer questions for those you lived.

Company Coming

Need to do some cleaning and cooking this morning.
Our upstairs neighbor is coming for lunch and a visit.
Tomorrow another friend may come for lunch as well.

Last night I made and put in refrigerator Cranberry Salad.
Need to cook up hamburger to go into Impossible Cheeseburger Pie.
And for dessert planning a Vitamin Pie which is like a coffee cake.

On a side note:
This morning I read that McCain is in so
blogged about it over at my Cathy's Meowings blog.

Playing Catch Up

I stayed offline most of the past week.
My arthritis seemed to be acting up.
I really needed to give my arm a break.
To force myself to stay offline ...
I had Randy take the laptop to a different room.
He used it to enter more movies in the database.
I did write down what movies we watched ...
So will be backdating posts of the past week.

Busy Morning Again

I started another blog called Video Pairings.
I had started putting them in this blog
but decided they would be better separate.
Once we watch a movie I blog about it here.

Randy has already been up and out shoveling.
We probably got 3 to 4 inches since yesterday.

I peeled and cut up potatoes and carrots.
They went into the crockpot with the pot roast.
This is only my second crock pot experience.
We are using 3 pound angus bottom round roast.

Busy Day planned

I need to get off the computer and moving.
My plan is to peel apples to make Apple Crisp.
I am trying to coordinate it with parent's visit.

My parents get moving first thing in the morning.
Dad will be showing off his new Tacoma truck.
Also we have a small wood project for him.

I still have a bunch more Video Pairings to get blogged.
And then I will have the Apple Crisp recipe to blog.
Thinking about making and blogging another recipe.

Super Bowl

I am not much into football but I do know it's Super Bowl Sunday.
Hubby is into sports a little bit more than I am ...
so will likely periodically check into the game tonight.
He now lives in Patriot Nation (aka New England) so can be a winner!
If they Pats indeed win again they can be the "greatest eve".

Thought I would post a few links associated with the Super Bowl.
Patriots can do a lot more than win fourth Super Bowl
'Twas the Night Before the Super Bowl
Official Super Bowl site
NFL Pulls Plug On Big Screen Church Parties for Super Bowl

Another Road Trip

In the afternoon we very all of a sudden decided on a road trip.
We had been looking to purchase a sale item from Target.
Our local Target store did not have it so Randy got a raincheck.
I got online and learned the item was in stock in another Target.
So we dropped our other plans and decided to go check it out.

We indeed found the item and had a choice of colors - Yeah!
The Target we went to was in South Portland, near Maine Mall.
We got a little lost trying to find it, so much for Yahoo Maps!
But we took the opportunity to see what else was around.
We spotted the new Big Al's - the original store is in Wiscasset.

Our dinner plans were to try Hannaford's hot "meals to go".
Tuesday is pork loin, Wednesday is meatloaf, Thursday is ribs.
Picking up the ribs in South Portland gave them time to cool down.
On the way home we had a few more stops to make while out.
We swung by Tim Horton's for low fat blueberry muffins.

The final stop was at Movie Gallery, a video rental store.
Randy has gobs of both VHS and DVD but does not have everything.
We ran into a problem though trying to sign up with 2 pieces of id.
Randy only has his license and nothing else with name and address.
I may have a problem too because my license has not been changed.

Coding html

Cathy showed me how to do some coding for some of our website pages. I entered a bunch of data (3 movie lists - AFI Top 100 (1998 Original), AFI Top 100 (2007 Updated) and Best Picture Oscars) and manuevered some of her coding to set it up.

It was pretty cool.

Tired Now

I did the last of my Christmas baking today.
That included Macaroonies and Banana Bread.

Mom and dad stopped by for a little bit.
They had been at Kohl's for our wedding gift registry.
What they purchased thus far was 2 muffin pans,
9 inch square baking dish and 13x9 casserole.
Some items were temporary out of stock.

For supper I made Chicken Casserole.
And for dessert Chocolate Pudding.

My throat has been sore since yesterday.
Think I will take it easy tomorrow.

A license or two

Went out before the snow storm to the department of motor vehicles to change my license. It cost me $40! But I don't have to do it again until 2013. I'll receive the picture license in about 30 days. (I didn't have to wait long in line either!)

Also picked up our marriage license (and a few copies). Got to see the new building they moved to - much more space.

And lastly, did a little bit of shopping to get us through the rest of the week or so.

Black Friday shopping

There were a couple of items from Best Buy that caught my eye - Smallville season 6 and House season 3 for only $14.98 each (regularly nearly $50 each). So Cathy called me just before 5 am to get me up so I could get going. I probably got to Best Buy about 5:25 and was surprised by all the cars there. (Not quite like Columbus but still a pretty decent number.) And they still had both sets available! I also added Knocked Up for $6.99 (which is probably the price I'd find it used anyway).

After Best Buy, I went to Bed, Bath & Beyond hoping to get some rugs and a curtain for the front door. It only took a little while for me to realize that I really was out of my element. (Mainly because they didn't have anything near any of the sizes we were hoping for.) So I didn't get anything from there. Or at Target either.

So the only other place I needed to stop was Tim Horton's to grab chocolate glazed donut holes. (And she let me eat most of those!)

Errands

Since it snowed yesterday errands got postponed to today.
Went out and purchased a new matress set and had it delivered.
Since I can not go out and about too much at one time ...
Randy went out the second time by himself to Walmart.

Waiting on Car

Randy and dad took car to the garage this morning.
I'd made the appointment a few weeks ago.
Dad took Randy back to their house to await call.
Randy is still battling a cold so he can rest some more.
Mainly at this point it is a sore throat.

I woke up this morning with red eye.
So I've been resting myself this morning.
I still have to add blog entries for last two days.
Saturday's will be about unloading Randy's belongings.
Sunday's will be about dinner party and virtual bridal shower.