Grown up purchases

Here is our first major furniture purchase since we moved in (technically we bought our bed before we moved in). It comes on the 19th. We tested it out at Bob's and it was a great couch for a great deal. Even the saleslady wasn't pushy. I didn't feel like they were following me around waiting to pounce.

In other purchasing news, I am up for an upgrade on my phone and in about 11 days I will be getting the Verizon iPhone. I am very excited. It does involve waking up at 3am on on the 3rd (G's birthday) to preorder it however, but ensuring I get it asap so I can get rid of my broken phone is well worth it. My love of gadgets and fun technology has been greatly increased by my husbands interest in them and I relish in it. I plan on getting him a very fun toy for his birthday, but it does not come out until April. So he will just have to wait til the Acer Android Tablet comes out.

Yay new adult toys... or toys for adults.... or something that doesn't sound like a sex toy! Being a grownup can be quite fun.

Snow, 2011, and Fidelity

I am so sick of snow, but definitely not hatin' on the snow days. Right now it is 3°F. 3! Unacceptable. I have to say, the best part of the cold is getting to cuddle close to my man. Yesterday we watched football and he made a chicken gumbo-esque dinner. He's a very talented man. I could write a whole post about why this man I married is just the right man for me, but I'll try to keep the gush to a minimum.

Things I am looking forward to this year:

• New Orleans with Gordon
• iPhone
• Not working every Saturday and going down to working one late day a week
• A lower heating bill (we got a new boiler, hot water heater, and insulation in our attics. Thank you Brookhaven Green Homes Project!!)
• Getting some home projects done... molding and lighting in the dining room, replacing the couches in the family room with a sectional, making the living room in the front of the house look like a living room instead of an empty room with a couch.
• The weather has to get warmer... right?
• I have a week off in April and no idea what I will be doing with it
• Hopefully starting grad school in the summer
• September will be 1 year of marriage. Right now it's been just over 4 months.
• Benny has to calm down.... right?

Speaking of marriage. I watch a lot of movies and tv and whenever people are in relationships and fight to the point of leaving the other person or cheat or think about cheating I wonder how. And how do we make sure this doesn't happen to us? People in the real world. Well, all I know for sure, right now, is I will do everything in my power to be someone Gordon can always be proud to call his wife. And I can't see how he could be anything other that someone I am proud to call my husband. So everyone, let's just all try to be happy and not look for reasons to ruin things or make each other miserable, because as the movie I'm watching right now tells me... the people you love have the power to make you miserable. Movies like this make me wish my husband was next to me so I can promise that I will always be his and he will always be mine.

Sorry... I'm taken.