This is such a fun day to ponder. Think "Pirates of Penzance." Think "marriage proposals by women." Think "years that are divisible by 100 and 400."
Okay, so maybe it doesn't hold that much magic for all of you. But I was really excited for this day to come around this year. It adds one more day to my birth month, prolonging the magic (And you know I love Cake).
My birthday this year was pretty nice. I turned 28. And while that does seem to be getting a little up there (that's almost 30, people), I still feel very young and happy with my age. I loved my present from Dave, which is a Nook! Yes, we've joined the people of the e-readers! I finished my first book on it about 3 days after I got it. It was The Help, which I thought was amazing. And I have already downloaded about a bazillion free books from Google Books that I plan to read. Their offering of classics is great!
Also for my birthday, my sister-in-law Anita and her husband Dean came down to Nevada from Utah and hung out with us for the Presidents' Day Weekend!! We had a lot of fun. We went shopping in Las Vegas, visited the Strip, and went to eat at The Wicked Spoon, which is an amazing buffet. Seriously, if you are ever in Vegas and don't mind paying quite a bit for REALLY amazing food, you should try it out. And not only was the food amazing, they offered a lot of different kinds of food and the presentation was really cool. One of their desserts was a brownie with fudge sauce. It came in its own little saucepan! Fun! I don't know if I'll ever go back again (Okay, it was expensive: $35 per person), but it was such a fun way to celebrate my birthday.
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Oh, What a Wierd-o I Am!
This week Dave and I are in Las Vegas for a few days. Dave is taking the Bar exam today, tomorrow, and Thursday. We decided that it would be easier to stay in Vegas so that Dave wouldn't have to get up really early to make it to the testing site on time. But we are (and I mean mostly I am) pretty cheap (and we've recently had some expensive days, since I had my birthday a couple of weeks ago!!!), so we decided to bring food for most of our meals with us. We are keeping it in a cooler with ice. This is not the normal approach to staying in a hotel in Vegas, let me assure you!
But I felt like it was a good decision for us, and I was totally happy doing it. When we went in to check into our hotel, there was obviously going to be a lot of stuff to bring in, and I decided to bring in some of the food that wouldn't fit in the cooler (cereal, silverware, plastic bowls, etc). But we found out that we were a little early for check in and couldn't get to our room for a couple of hours. No biggy. As we headed back to our car, we discussed some options for killing time.
Dave suggested that we go to Mandalay Bay to see the shark tank. Since we were trying to save on money on this trip, my immediate response was, "Is it free?" Dave and I were walking across a parking lot, and he was a little ahead of me since we were walking out of the way of cars and there were other pedestrians on the side of the road. I had to speak kind of loudly. And suddenly, a ridiculous image of myself came into my mind:
I was carrying a grocery bag with two open boxes of cereal and plastic bowls, asking loudly "Is it free?" I looked like a BAG LADY!!! The people around me didn't know me or what we were talking about. They just knew how crazy I looked.
To be honest, I didn't really get any crazy looks from anyone, but I felt ridiculous. It's a good thing that Dave and I know how to laugh at ourselves and each other. I can tell that this one is going to go down in the history books. I can imagine us saying to each other years from now, "Is it free????!!!!!" :D
But I felt like it was a good decision for us, and I was totally happy doing it. When we went in to check into our hotel, there was obviously going to be a lot of stuff to bring in, and I decided to bring in some of the food that wouldn't fit in the cooler (cereal, silverware, plastic bowls, etc). But we found out that we were a little early for check in and couldn't get to our room for a couple of hours. No biggy. As we headed back to our car, we discussed some options for killing time.
Dave suggested that we go to Mandalay Bay to see the shark tank. Since we were trying to save on money on this trip, my immediate response was, "Is it free?" Dave and I were walking across a parking lot, and he was a little ahead of me since we were walking out of the way of cars and there were other pedestrians on the side of the road. I had to speak kind of loudly. And suddenly, a ridiculous image of myself came into my mind:
I was carrying a grocery bag with two open boxes of cereal and plastic bowls, asking loudly "Is it free?" I looked like a BAG LADY!!! The people around me didn't know me or what we were talking about. They just knew how crazy I looked.
To be honest, I didn't really get any crazy looks from anyone, but I felt ridiculous. It's a good thing that Dave and I know how to laugh at ourselves and each other. I can tell that this one is going to go down in the history books. I can imagine us saying to each other years from now, "Is it free????!!!!!" :D
Friday, February 17, 2012
The Hogar del Niño Project
Please check out the button to the right for "The Hogar del Niño Project." It is an organization (run by my friend Rachel)
which sends volunteers to work in an orphanage in El Salvador. Please
check it out if you or a family member would be interested in
volunteering! They are specifically looking for volunteers for this summer, but they send volunteers all year round when they can get them.
Saturday, February 11, 2012
When Dave and Merry Have Fun...
Things like this happen:
We had just finished watching "The Devil Wears Prada" and felt the urge to catwalk. :D
We had just finished watching "The Devil Wears Prada" and felt the urge to catwalk. :D
Kidney For Kristy
On Tuesday, February 14th, my niece Jessica will turn 18! That's right, she was born on Valentine's Day. Sometimes I can't believe that she will be a "real" adult because it seems like she was just born! Aren't memories weird that way?
Jessica is a mostly healthy girl. But she had to have a kidney transplant in 2007, so sometimes she gets sick since she has to take immune suppressants to keep her body from rejecting it. However, she's really grateful to have the kidney. My brother Matt is the one that gave her his kidney, and everyone in the family really looks up to him for the sacrifice he made for her.
Not everyone with kidney problems is lucky enough to have someone in their family able to donate one. They have to be put on a list and wait for one to become available. And because of the expensive cost of the immune suppressants that I mentioned before, people aren't allowed on the list until they can prove that they will be able to afford the medicines and take good care of the kidney they receive. This means that she has to have the $5000 for her first year of medications for a year saved up before they'll put her on the list.
All of this is leading up to a story I recently read about on my niece Steffani's blog. Her friend Heather has a cousin who needs a kidney (Here are a couple places on her blog that she talks about her cousin:
http://browneyedbell.blogspot.com/p/kidney-for-kristy.html, http://browneyedbell.blogspot.com/2012/01/kidney-4-kristy-deadline.html, http://browneyedbell.blogspot.com/2012/02/thankful-thursday-v61.html). She has been attempting to get on the kidney transplant list for a few months. But the thing that is holding her back is the $5000. She has about $800 left to earn. But she has to get it by February 29th.
If any of you want to get involved, you can donate to her kidney fund here. Or you can share this story and this link on Facebook or your blog: http://www.giveforward.com/kidneyforkristy.
I hope that she is able to get on the list.
Jessica is a mostly healthy girl. But she had to have a kidney transplant in 2007, so sometimes she gets sick since she has to take immune suppressants to keep her body from rejecting it. However, she's really grateful to have the kidney. My brother Matt is the one that gave her his kidney, and everyone in the family really looks up to him for the sacrifice he made for her.
Not everyone with kidney problems is lucky enough to have someone in their family able to donate one. They have to be put on a list and wait for one to become available. And because of the expensive cost of the immune suppressants that I mentioned before, people aren't allowed on the list until they can prove that they will be able to afford the medicines and take good care of the kidney they receive. This means that she has to have the $5000 for her first year of medications for a year saved up before they'll put her on the list.
All of this is leading up to a story I recently read about on my niece Steffani's blog. Her friend Heather has a cousin who needs a kidney (Here are a couple places on her blog that she talks about her cousin:
http://browneyedbell.blogspot.com/p/kidney-for-kristy.html, http://browneyedbell.blogspot.com/2012/01/kidney-4-kristy-deadline.html, http://browneyedbell.blogspot.com/2012/02/thankful-thursday-v61.html). She has been attempting to get on the kidney transplant list for a few months. But the thing that is holding her back is the $5000. She has about $800 left to earn. But she has to get it by February 29th.
If any of you want to get involved, you can donate to her kidney fund here. Or you can share this story and this link on Facebook or your blog: http://www.giveforward.com/kidneyforkristy.
I hope that she is able to get on the list.
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