Josh and I are unable to be with our families this holiday season so we decided to start some new traditions. One of these is to put up a Christmas tree. We went out on Thanksgiving to do a little … Continue reading
Our Christmas Tree
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Pumpkin Carving Contest
For the past two years I have noticed the pumpkin carving contest at work but I never got around to entering. As I’m leaving before all of the Christmas festivities this year, I decided I would enter the carving contest … Continue reading
Pumpkin Carving 2011
Pumpkin carving is one of my favorite parts of Halloween and has been since I was a little girl. I was really bummed out in college and grad school because I couldn’t figure out a good way to carve pumpkins. … Continue reading
If you are what you eat, then you can do no better than Pork. Pigs are the intellectuals of the farmyard.
~Josh
Weekend Recap
Sorry I have not posted for a while. I had a busy weekend celebrating my birthday with Josh! He drove down Friday evening in a terrible storm. Josh said there was tons of lightning and he even saw some hail! … Continue reading
Fall is here!
Its the first of October, college football is well underway and apple cider is finally in the grocery store!
A serving of 9 snacks can qualify as a common law meal.
~Josh
Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site
After visiting Grant’s Farm Josh begged me to let him visit the Ulysses S Grant National Historic Site.
Weekend Fun at Home
I had a busy start to my weekend and then a relaxing end of the weekend. On Friday I threw a baby shower for one of my coworkers and his wife. They are good friends who often watch Pepper when I am on vacation. This is their first child and since both of them work in my department I thought it would be nice for all of us to get together and celebrate their expanding family. I organized the party and made cupcakes and pralines while one of the office assistants supplied some awesome Cars-themed decor. The party was pretty low key just some snacks, present opening and a few games but everyone had a good time.
Long distance date
Josh and I have been living in different states for almost 3 years! We talk every night for at least 30 minutes, see each other as often as possible, and sometimes have long distance dates. This last item is something we made up and usually describes us sitting on the couch in our separate apartments watching the same TV program and discussing it while we are on the phone. And really, do you actually need to be in the same room to enjoy watching TV together? (The answer is no.)
It all began with a standing Saturday night date to watch SNL. In fact, I’m a little sad that Josh doesn’t have TV for the season opener of SNL this coming Saturday. I’ll likely be watching it while I talk to him so I’ll probably try to tell him what is going on. This happens occasionally with the Daily Show and I’m sure my descriptions are never as funny as the real thing. Watching TV together in this way is pretty funny because our feeds are almost always a few seconds off so one of us would constantly be asking why the other was laughing. SNL is really the most fun to watch when you can critique the sketches and musical guests with someone else. Our SNL dates were so successful we started renting movies with On Demand for special occasions like Valentine’s Day. We would usually choose a comedy that we could talk through as we were watching it. When we both had HBO we would sometimes watch a movie from their On Demand section as it was free for subscribers. This weekend we took it to the next level (mainly because Josh doesn’t have TV anymore) and took our long distance dating to the real world…
No Meat No Meal 