Later rather than Sooner

So for the past few months I have been obsessing over, I mean wanting one of these:




So much so that I already knew what kind of applications I wanted to download onto my phone. I was ready to pay the $199 for the 8G and start another 2 - year contract with AT&T. But I just found out I can't get the 8G iphone for that price. Whaaaaaa?! Apparently because of the current contract I have with AT&T on our service I am not eligible for an upgrade until 10/21/09. That.is.so.long. I have the option of buying it now but I would have to pay full retail of $399 and still sign a 2-year contract. And as I much as I want the iphone, I just can't bring myself to pay the extra $200. Plus, the hubs wants to upgrade his phone to a blackberry so we would have to pay full retail price on that too. Boo! I hope October comes quickly.

First Crochet Project - DONE

So I finally got my first crochet project done! Even though it looks pretty small it's supposed to be blanket. I probably should have made it bigger but by the time I figured that out I was 1/4 of the way through and was too lazy to unravel everything and start all over again. So for now it's a lap blanket, or maybe a blanket for the kitties. It's got a few rows that are uneven but I'm pretty proud of my first project if I do say so myself.




Up next - A SCARF!

A Thursday Surprise :-)

I got these Thursday afternoon at work courtesy of the hubs. An early Valentine's Day present. How sweet of him.

a token of appreciation

This made my day :-) Pomegranate here I come.

Beauty in our Backyard

A little late on my blogging...

Last Saturday the hubs and I headed to the Huntington Library & Gardens in San Marino. I'd been here a couple of times back in college back in the [cough] 90's [cough]. The hubs has never been and I've always wanted to take him there. So we finally went. Last Saturday was a beautiful weekend in So. Cal and the perfect opportunity to take advantage and head out to The Huntington. Here are a few of my favorite pics from the day




We enjoyed ourselves so much we opted to purchase an annual membership. So for the next year we can head out there anytime and as often as we want. :-)

January 20, 2009

What an amazing day in our country's history. A moment that I hope one day to tell my children and grandchildren about. NFT.

Home Cookin'

So in the hopes of eating in more and saving some extra $$ I planned out this past week's previous dinner menus. Sadly, I didn't accomplish this 100% as I had hoped. But not too shabby. Out of 7 days, we successfully ate in 5 of those days.


Sunday - Spaghetti. Pretty much a staple in our household and I cook this at least once a month.

Monday - Sweet & Sour meatballs. This was a recipe I had never prepared before. The sauce was tasty but the meatballs were meh. That was my fault. I cheated and used the frozen pre-cooked meatballs rather than making my own. Next time I'll have to go ahead and make them myself.

Tuesday - cheat day. :-( I picked up dinner on the way home.

Wednesday - Chicken w/ stuffing and mushrooms. This was also a new recipe I tried this week. The hubs seemed to like it so I'll have to make this again in the future.

Thursday - was a repeat of Wednesday. We had so many leftovers and the hubs didn't mind having it a second night.

Friday - cheat day again. Picked up dinner at Rubio's.

Saturday - Roasted Pork Loin w/Mushroom Risotto. The pork was tasty as was the mushroom risotto. But don't think I made the risotto from scratch. I cheated with a frozen package of the stuff from Trader Joe's.

This is this week's menu. Hopefully I'll manage to be successful this time around.