Day 287: Spring Cleaning

WOW!  I was crazy productive today!  We're preparing for a multi-family garage sale next weekend, so Eric and I have been combing the house for stuff to sell.  Last night we went through our storage space and discovered that we have already de-junked that, so the only remaining space with "stuff" we don't plan to keep is the...dun dun DUNNNN...office!  So when Eric left for work at 10:30, I got up and started picking at the office.  It started with "here's one thing I can sell" and "I'd better wash this blanket", and quickly escalated into completely reorganizing, de-junking, and cleaning the room.  Hooray for having a functional office and guest room again!

After Eric got off of work at 7, we headed out to see Steven, Leslie, Grant, and Edie.  Edie made everyone dinner and cupcakes for the lovely Leslie's birthday.  We had salad, cheese and bacon quiche, mushroom and asparagus quiche, and vanilla cupcakes topped with strawberries.  We narrowly missed out on the fun of the police hunting for Steven, Leslie, and Grant because they were playing airsoft in the woods.  When we went back to their apartment, we had some drinks, played "Start the Party" and watched "Get Him to the Greek".  All in all, another successful Saturday!

A newly organized craft space - hidden away in the closet for me to use (and hide) as I please!

 Eric starting the party!

 Jessica waving the white flag!

 Happy (late) birthday, Leslie!

I poured my first ever layer shot, we called it an Apricot Grenade - grenadine, apricot schnaaps, topped with 151!

Day 286: April Fools

Eric didn't experience any pranks at work today, but I got to see a few. One of my paras told me one of my students threw up, kids were wrapped in ace bandages and telling each other their shoes were untied, and Facebook pranks included ditching the vegan lifestyle and break-ups.

Oh no...you spilled something!  This was left in our teacher's lounge.

Day 285: Late Night Shopping

Today is our day of the week where we get very little time together.  I leave for work before Eric wakes up, then he has to leave for class around the time I get out of school, and I have to go directly from work to KU for my class.  I get home around 7:30 and he gets home closer to 10.  We puttered around the house griping about not having food fod a few minutes before we decided to go shopping. 

We actually made a list and a few meal plans, and stuck to the list so we didn't go nuts!  I've got a school project going on right now where we're tracking minutes of exercise and servings of fruits and vegetables - which has made me conscious of the lack of fruits and veggies in our diet.  Tonight we bought a nice variety of produce and I'm excited to eat it!

And we managed to only spend $35!  I apologized to the cashier because we were fumbling with our envelope systems, trying to work out what came from food, pet, and misc. money.  Then I became giddy with excitement when he said "No problem, I'm a Dave Ramsey nut too!"  I get so excited when other people know what we're doing!

Day 284: Mystic the Easter Kitty!

Nothing interesting happened today, but Mystic is super cute!  She has been pretty active and happy lately - snuggling up with us, licking Eric's arm, chasing Addy off the bed, etc.  This picture is pretty funny because her ears look so giant! 

Mystic the Easter Kitty!

Day 283: Paying Down Eric's Car

We will officially start the "snowball" payments on Eric's car next month, but this is the first month where his car is our lowest balance debt.  Only $5400 to go!  We made his payment on time, but were a few days late getting it colored in on the debt thermometer.  His car hasn't been upside down for quite a few months now - it's worth a little more than $8000 in it's condition!  Today he brought up the idea of potentially selling his car and using the profit to buy himself a "Dave" car for 2-4 grand.  I love the idea!  Without his car payment and saving up for a year, he could have more than $15k for a new (used) car.  We'll keep you posted on any progress in that direction.

We are SO close to the top of the couch arm rest! 

Things are heating up faster around here!

Day 282: Scott Pilgrim vs. Boredom

Lately I've been working in the morning on Mondays, so Jess and I are spending Monday evenings together more often. Today we went for a walk after we both got home. We strolled around Eudora, talking and playing Word Feud against each other on our phones. On the way home we stopped by the gas station and grabbed a movie from Redbox to watch with dinner. We made our usual pasta and sauce with ground turkey and sauteed in some onions. Our slightly different dinner went well with the very odd movie, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. It was interesting, but I couldn't decide even at the end whether I really liked it or not. I guess if I don't know by the end, that means it wasn't great.

I actually stopped after one serving tonight, and Eric only had one half portion of seconds!  We're doing a little better at portioning our meals!

Day 281: A Sad Day for KU

Booooooo, we're out of the March Madness tournament :(  KU played VCU - we were ranked #1 and they were ranked #11...and they beat us by 10 points...  Definitely not a good game.

The day was highlighted by spending the afternoon with Andrew and Mom.  Andrew napped with us while we watched the game, and then we went out shopping and to lunch.  Overall, a successfully fun Sunday!

Chaos really likes the carseat.

Awe, Andrew napping with his Auntie Jess!

Win or lose, we'll still ... take a picture and go shopping?

Andrew REALLY liked these pomagranite and acai seeds covered in dark chocolate.  Really, really.

What a happy boy!  How did I miss getting a picture of Mom?  Oops, sorry!!!