Tonight is gaming, as usual. I'm hoping to knock more out of the baby blanket on my needles - it needs to get done, it's occupying way too much of my time. With any luck, H will have time to call the plumber this morning. The bathroom sink clogged again, and we think there are 5 different piping materials in 8 feet of run. We're going to get it fixed, obviously, but this might require cutting the wall and I'd just like to know what we're in for. I hope it's cheap - we found out this week H has to rent a tux to be an usher in SIL's wedding.
Tomorrow morning is housework, and H has gaming tomorrow afternoon. I'll tag along and knit in the corner with Netflix.
Sunday is for football, knitting, and laundry. It's also our 7-year dating anniversary and we will have been married for 6 months. I don't think we're doing anything special, though.
@wink0erin - GlobeIn sounds really, really cool. I'm looking on their website now. Does the "theme" change every month and everyone receives the same box?
Yep! Theme changes every month and everyone gets the same thing, but there could be differences with color/pattern. You also get a neat woven basket w/lid each month, which I am totally using for giftwrapping this year. There's an Artisan box where you get all the month's items and a Benefit basket where you get 1 of the "major" items. On MySubscriptionAddiction they often post spoilers so you can get an idea of what's coming up too.
@wink0erin - GlobeIn sounds really, really cool. I'm looking on their website now. Does the "theme" change every month and everyone receives the same box?
Yep! Theme changes every month and everyone gets the same thing, but there could be differences with color/pattern. You also get a neat woven basket w/lid each month, which I am totally using for giftwrapping this year. There's an Artisan box where you get all the month's items and a Benefit basket where you get 1 of the "major" items. On MySubscriptionAddiction they often post spoilers so you can get an idea of what's coming up too.
Do you get anything for referring people? If so, send it to me because I'm going to try it out!
@KeptInStitches That's dumb he needs to rent a tux to just be an usher. Sidenote, when I knit/crochet and watch Netflix I say I am Knit-flixing. Word plays make me happy.
@swazzle I don't think there's a referral bonus or anything. Apparently next month's theme is "bedtime" so I'm already pumped. I get this month's box today!
I've been in and out of meeting and on and off of the phone with doctors. It's been a crazy Friday. I want to thank you so so much for your love and support.
OMG guys I just remembered I brought 3 chocolate chip cookies to work. @swazzle, your cupcake pic reminded me! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYAYAYAYAYAYAYA!
"Stuart was scared, but he loved Margalo, Mommy. And there is nothing bigger than love." -The Bean
"His farts smell like Satan's asshole mixed with a skunk's vagina. But it's okay, because I love him." -CSousa
Holy hell. I had work stuff to get done before I could get on TK, but then it took me an hour to get through everything!
@minskat30 - Poor Raj! Is there a chance he'd have to have the surgery on the same knee more than once, since his joints are slanted anyway? Or is that something they could correct during the fist surgery? I want to see little minskitten too! (already forgot the word for dove )
@CLoGreenEyes - I've missed you! Was I too needy? Did I scare you away?
@TwoDimes - Why is your city growing so fast? Ours is growing quickly too, because everyone is ditching California, haha. I hope you have a blast with your niece!
@Swazzle - I am totally okay with you paying it forward! Apparently @eilis1228 thinks I'm some kind of cupcake whore! I don't need that kind of reputation, TYVM!
@speakeasy14 - I would totally do a pen pal thing! Although I'll need to check with the BF because I got something in the mail from @500days and he kind of flipped that I gave someone on the internet our address.... Also, if New York weren't basically the farthest city from where I live, I'd be more excited about that show, haha. I AM, however, insanely excited that you think of me sometimes.
@peaseblossom55 - I'm here to talk, whenever you need it. *hugs*
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Last night I made quesadillas with kale in them from BA, and they were AWESOME! If anyone tries to eat vegetarian once in a while, I highly recommend them.
Tonight we're driving the 5-ish hours to my parents' place, with the dog in the back seat. It's a soothing drive when I'm by myself. With BF it's more annoying because he constantly changes the radio, and makes me drive because he "drives enough during the work week". Eh. I'm gonna be PMS-y so hopefully we do enough fun stuff with the family to combat it. I can already feel it coming on, haha.
Do you subscribe to any monthly boxes or things like that? I get Blue Apron weekly and StitchFix monthly. I never would have tried SF if it weren't for this board. I had been interested in something similar to BA for a while. I also got my BF a subscription to something called Cairn, which is a monthly box of camping/hiking gear and snacks.
Do you like scary movies? If yes, what are they? I love SCARY movies. Gore is hit or miss with me, but suspense and genuinely terrorizing experiences for the characters are what I like. My favorites are The Exorcist, Sinister, Nightmare on Elm Street 3 (or most movies that take place in asylums), and Saw.
What's the weather like where you are? Cold but beautiful.
If you could have someone come and handle some kind of chore around the house for free, what would it be? Clean my kitchen! I will still cook, but if you could do the dishes and wipe up all the food scraps and sauce I've flung around, that would be great.
You have 2 weeks and unlimited funds. Where do you go/what do you do? I would visit major cities and FEED THE FREAKING HOMELESS YOU TERRIBLE PEOPLE.
But first I'd buy myself a Mercedes to drive around in. And maybe a shopping spree or two if I come across any cool places to shop.
What are you wearing today? My sweatshirt says "OBEY". If I were to take a selfie, the word would be backwards. The rest of me is boring.
@wink0erin I got it for Matt last xmas as a gift since he's a gamer/nerd also, but really there's so much variety that I love some stuff too! There's hoodies {which they offer sizes} and a huge amount of stuff, plus the boxes are able to be decorative too!
Fun fact: they did a vault thing for a special edition Fall Out crate and they got 15,000 hits on their site for it per second. The whole site crashed and somehow I magically got a box {I will have one happy husband!}
Think of hot topic, mixed with a gaming store - dooo itttttt lol It's beyond worth the money
@wink0erin If you're skeptic on enjoying it, you can do one crate or 3 months to start. I did 3 months to see if it was worth it and this xmas I'm bumping him to a year again
@AlPacina yup....you get me with the time difference, except I don't even have to be into the office until 10 am, so yea...that's why I am currently responding at 11 am.
@minskat30 aww poor Raj! I hope that the appointment on Tuesday goes well!
@CLoGreenEyes Hi!!!!!! Long time no see! I hope everything is going well with you!
@buddysmom80 FI and I just started C25K too! we haven't been very good about it but we will probably go for a run again this weekend.
@TwoDimes can I have your job? That sounds like a blast!
@CocoBellaF that sounds like a sweet wedding, and it sounds relatively healthy to me!
@speakeasy14 that ciderfest sounds amazing! Have fun!
@MissKittyDanger I need to look into this LootCrate thing now too! FI is a huge video game addict! Thanks for the info on it!
@wink0erin oooo where did you go in Ireland? FI and I are hopefully spending two weeks there for our honeymoon next summer! We have four nights booked at Ashford Castle, but haven't booked anything else yet, so I would love to hear about what you did, and what you liked and disliked! Also now I need to look into this MyIrelandBox thing!
So I have a pretty boring day today, and FI and I will probably just continue watching Star Trek: TNG on Netflix tonight while enjoying wine.
Tomorrow we have chiropractor appointments at 10 am (including a massage so I always look forward to it), and then I have a hair appointment at 1 pm. I don't plan to do anything crazy with my hair, just the standard cut and color. After that, I am probably going to go to the mall nearby (it's only a few blocks away from my hair dresser) and buy a Chargers jersey/shirt from Victoria's Secret because.....
FI AND I ARE GOING TO THE CHARGERS GAME ON SUNDAY!
He got Plaza Level End Zone tickets for free from our senior VP because of the awesome job he had been doing at work. I will be taking ALL THE PICTURES. I have never been to an NFL game before and our seats are awesome, so I am so excited. Plaza level is just above field level, so it is just slightly raised to get a better view. It should be a similar view to this:
And now, questions:
Do you subscribe to any monthly boxes or things like that? If yes, tell me about them obviously. If no, why not? Not right now, though I am looking into a few of the ones mentioned here now and FI and I are probably going to subscribe to a wine club soon because it is a good deal, we drink a lot of wine, and the airline we are hoping to fly for our honeymoon is running an awesome promotion for getting like 8k bonus miles for signing up.
Do you like scary movies? If yes, what are they? If no, what's wrong with you? I like scary movies, but I do not like gore. I tend to like ones that play mind tricks on you. I don't mind people getting killed and all, but I can't handle seeing blood and guts.
What's the weather like where you are? 72 degrees and sunny. Seriously my phone says 72. Perfect weather today.
If you could have someone come and handle some kind of chore around the house for free, what would it be? Dishes. I hate doing dishes, and so does FI. We can handle everything else, but dishes are one of those things that we do out of necessity but would have someone do them for us in a heartbeat.
You have 2 weeks and unlimited funds. Where do you go/what do you do? Pay off all of my and FI's student loans, buy our dream house (but budget to be able to afford the taxes every year), and then fly first class on Lufthansa or Singapore airlines to one of the many destinations that we have on our travel list for the rest of the 2 weeks.
What are you wearing today? I want pictures. Will have to post pictures later, but a nice brown and tan print scoop neck sleeveless shirt with a tan sweater in case I get cold/to cover my shoulders when not in my office, jeans, tan sandals, and my engagement ring in my new setting (which I am absolutely in love with) .
@aurorarose41 I hate you an your weather. Literally every time I bitch to H about cold weather, I say how I need to move to San Diego because it's always perfect there!!
@alpacina have no idea how your camera is showing it backwards hahah I have a Samsung
Re: Friday Fun
Yep! Theme changes every month and everyone gets the same thing, but there could be differences with color/pattern. You also get a neat woven basket w/lid each month, which I am totally using for giftwrapping this year. There's an Artisan box where you get all the month's items and a Benefit basket where you get 1 of the "major" items. On MySubscriptionAddiction they often post spoilers so you can get an idea of what's coming up too.
"His farts smell like Satan's asshole mixed with a skunk's vagina. But it's okay, because I love him." -CSousa
Holy hell. I had work stuff to get done before I could get on TK, but then it took me an hour to get through everything!
@minskat30 - Poor Raj! Is there a chance he'd have to have the surgery on the same knee more than once, since his joints are slanted anyway? Or is that something they could correct during the fist surgery? I want to see little minskitten too! (already forgot the word for dove
)
@CLoGreenEyes - I've missed you! Was I too needy? Did I scare you away?
@TwoDimes - Why is your city growing so fast? Ours is growing quickly too, because everyone is ditching California, haha. I hope you have a blast with your niece!
@Swazzle - I am totally okay with you paying it forward! Apparently @eilis1228 thinks I'm some kind of cupcake whore! I don't need that kind of reputation, TYVM!
@speakeasy14 - I would totally do a pen pal thing! Although I'll need to check with the BF because I got something in the mail from @500days and he kind of flipped that I gave someone on the internet our address.... Also, if New York weren't basically the farthest city from where I live, I'd be more excited about that show, haha. I AM, however, insanely excited that you think of me sometimes.
@peaseblossom55 - I'm here to talk, whenever you need it. *hugs*
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Last night I made quesadillas with kale in them from BA, and they were AWESOME! If anyone tries to eat vegetarian once in a while, I highly recommend them.
Tonight we're driving the 5-ish hours to my parents' place, with the dog in the back seat. It's a soothing drive when I'm by myself. With BF it's more annoying because he constantly changes the radio, and makes me drive because he "drives enough during the work week". Eh. I'm gonna be PMS-y so hopefully we do enough fun stuff with the family to combat it. I can already feel it coming on, haha.
Do you subscribe to any monthly boxes or things like that? I get Blue Apron weekly and StitchFix monthly. I never would have tried SF if it weren't for this board. I had been interested in something similar to BA for a while. I also got my BF a subscription to something called Cairn, which is a monthly box of camping/hiking gear and snacks.
Do you like scary movies? If yes, what are they? I love SCARY movies. Gore is hit or miss with me, but suspense and genuinely terrorizing experiences for the characters are what I like. My favorites are The Exorcist, Sinister, Nightmare on Elm Street 3 (or most movies that take place in asylums), and Saw.
What's the weather like where you are? Cold but beautiful.
If you could have someone come and handle some kind of chore around the house for free, what would it be? Clean my kitchen! I will still cook, but if you could do the dishes and wipe up all the food scraps and sauce I've flung around, that would be great.
You have 2 weeks and unlimited funds. Where do you go/what do you do? I would visit major cities and FEED THE FREAKING HOMELESS YOU TERRIBLE PEOPLE.
But first I'd buy myself a Mercedes to drive around in. And maybe a shopping spree or two if I come across any cool places to shop.
What are you wearing today? My sweatshirt says "OBEY". If I were to take a selfie, the word would be backwards. The rest of me is boring.
@Swazzle -
It's 10:15 am, bro.
ETA:
@eilis1228 - If only you had found this picture...........
@eilis1228 - And here I was thinking that Adam Levine could make ANYTHING sexy.
Boy, was I wrong.
@aurorarose41 I hate you an your weather. Literally every time I bitch to H about cold weather, I say how I need to move to San Diego because it's always perfect there!!
@alpacina have no idea how your camera is showing it backwards hahah I have a Samsung