Day 94: Our Quarter-Versary Celebration!

After I got off work I drove straight home so we could head out  for our date/classes/date.  First we went to Mass St. and had 3 Spoon's Frozen Yogurt - they have more than a dozen flavors and more than 40 toppings!  Then we went to Overland Park for Eric's classes.  I brought my laptop and worked on my schoolwork in the building while he was in class - I'm so far behind in my two classes and I haven't even started my independent study course!!!

When he was through with classes we went to one of our favorite restaurants, Buffalo Wing Wings, for $.40 wings!  After dinner, we went for a motorcycle from my parents house to WalMart and back.  It was our second ride together and went great!

When we got home we started the first filtering of the Skittles vodka.  We determined that it was probably saturated with sugar, and the residue floating on top was sugar beyond saturation.  we had to rinse out the filter 4-5 times because it was clogged up with Skittles sugar.  But the first filter looks really good!  We'll filter it a second time in a few days.

The glue on my boots melted when they were in the car and the weather was up in the 100's every day.  When we were walking in WalMart, the bottom of my shoe fell right off!  I ended up buying a new pair of boots there.

I took a picture of us riding - I'm the stripey helmet in the back, Eric is the black helmet in front, and you can see his motorcycles handlebars.

Filtering the lime Skittles vodka.

 The gross residue left behind.

Eric volunteers to taste it and i hesitant...

"OHHHH!  Really gross!"

"eeeenngghhh"

"I guess it wasn't so bad..."  This man will eat anything!

Day 93: Our First Quarter-versary!

Today marks three months of marriage for Eric and I!  We got to see each other for about 20 minutes after I got off work and before he had to head to JCCC for class - and utilized this time to start our project of Skittle infused vodka for Alan!  We sorted the Skittles by color and counted out 75 of each color.  That's all we got done before he had to leave for class.  :(

Sadly, Eric doesn't get home until nearly 9:30 on Mondays.  When he got home we worked together to clean the kitchen.  Thanks to the wedding we have a really awesome cooking area with our stove, microwave, electric skillet, toaster, blender, and halogen oven!  We put on some water to boil and started the next step of Skittle's infused vodka - mixing the skittles and vodka!  We were both in a crazy mood and this resulted in a night full of crazy laughter.  We made spaghetti and watched 2 episodes of Lost before heading to bed around midnight.

Tomorrow we celebrate for real and we're going out to dinner at Buffalo Wild Wings!  I love Quarter-versaries!

Addy wearing her dad's flip flop...

Addy wearing her mom's flip flop!

This is our floor to ceiling debt thermometer.  Each red flag marks a specific debt.  In order they are my credit card [paid off!], Eric's credit card [we're snowballing it now, should be paid off by April], my car [should be paid off by next August], Eric's car [should be paid off by next December], then each of my individual student loans.And if you counted, yes, there are 9 student loans.

We have a lot of debt left to go, I still have to lay on the floor to measure how much we've paid!  Each inch of this wall marks $1000 of debt.

 Eric is squatting to color in this month's car payment.

 That first red flag is how much was owed on my credit card when we started Dave Ramey's program.  Each black line is a monthly payment.  As you can see - that giant gap with no lines is our massive payment that we made in August to finish it off!  Now we've made a few monthly payments on Eric's credit card, which will be the next red flag.

This is our cooking area with our electric skillet, trivets and spoon rest, boiling pasta, toaster, blender, and halogen oven!

 Eric poured out 5 water bottles into our pitcher...

We sorted out all of the colors of the Skittles, and counted out 75 of each.

 Then we put the Skittles into the bottle one-by-one!

 How fun!

 The last time these Skittles will be non-alcoholic!

 Eric measures 12 ounces of vodka into each container.

 And I pour it through the funnel.

The end result...for tonight anyway, neon vodka with white Skittles pellets at the bottom!