Happy Valentine’s Day!!

Single or attached I’ve never cared much about Valentine’s Day. I mean I’ll never pass up a reason to get give presents but, I have no desire to go out to dinner the same night every other couple on the planet goes out, and I don’t really care that much about flowers (and I say just wait until the price goes down if you just really, really want to send some, spontaneity is more romantic anyway!)

I loved Valentine’s Day in elementary school! A party and “mail” what’s not to love! I loved Valentine’s Day in high school because we had those quizzes we took and sent off to some company that would tell us who we were compatible with you bought one with your results for the people in your grade and one for the rest of the grades, I looked forward to that every year! (did you do those?) We had the candygrams too and it was always fun to get a surprise in the middle of class (but I usually felt a little bit guilty if someone sent me one and I didn’t send them one too!

I have some really bad Valentine’s Day stories too, one goes like this: In high school my mom was engaged to my friends dad, my friend’s birthday is Valentine’s Day. Every year her dad would get buy her the same number roses as the age she was. One year he took me with him to order the roses, and the trip went like this…he bought roses for the birthday girl, roses for her sister, roses for my mom, roses for his mom, roses for his niece, and roses for his sister-in-law. That was it. When February 14th rolled around I thought for sure he’d surprise me and have gotten some for me too. But….nope I got none. It made me feel pretty crappy*.

Tonight I’m celebrating by taking a test, which overall is pretty sucky because exactly two months ago (ON MY BIRTHDAY) I was also taking a test, a final none-the-less. oh well. I also am currently enjoying my standing Monday night date with Panera and there are waaay less people here than normal (I guess no one wants to go to dinner at Panera for Valentine’s.) so that’s nice. Except I have no desire to the last minute studying I intended to do!

I hope that no matter if you are in a relationship or not someone made you feel extra special today! Because everyone deserves a little extra reminder that they are loved!

Happy Valentine’s Day!!

* The friend who this story refers to does not read my blog, but if she ever happens upon this post I want her to know I harbor no hard feelings for this incident….your dad did so many great things for me (and even more so for my brother and sister) I appreciate it all very much!  And I think you are great!!

There’s no iron deficiency around here…

In Oklahoma we believe the weatherman when he says we’re going to have a blizzard…we run to the store and stock up on essentials…

In Florida we run out of water before a hurricane, in Oklahoma they run out of red meat before a snow!

Snow Away!

I think yesterday should be our last snow day of this Winter *fingers crossed* while I enjoy a day off as much as the next guy, being snowed in isn’t as much fun when you don’t have anyone to play in the snow with!

At least this time it was real life snow, usually around here we get ice days. :)

Kuddles was less than impressed with the snow. She couldn’t find the grass and it was cold and windy and she was just annoyed.

She wouldn’t even pose for pictures, she’d just run back to the door and beg to go back inside. She couldn’t walk many places because the snow was so high, luckily we live in Oklahoma so the wind blows so hard there were areas that the snow was lower and she could walk.

Most places were more like this, up almost to my knees! Which is why I stayed inside where it was warm and I had plenty of Netflix to keep me entertained!

I finally let her go back inside and when I came in from shoveling Kuddles was trying to be warm, and giving me the evil eye!

This was last Friday, by then she’d gotten a little more daring in her adventures. But, the cold was just too much for her and after a few minutes of being outside she would start picking up her paws and looking at them and making the most pathetic crying sound until I picked her up took her inside and dried off her paws. So sad!

Here’s my running path, you can’t even see the track. I cannot wait to start running outside again. I miss it, the treadmill and I are just not really friends!

I heard a rumor that next Thursday it’s supposed to get up to 76 degrees…I hope it’s the truth…Spring I miss you, come visit soon! Then Summer you can come too, I never complain about your hot days, I never wish for cooler weather (because when you do, this is what you get!). Spring and Summer I love you guys!

Guilty Pleasure

Every Monday I have a standing date…with Panera. I don’t have class until 7:30 but there just isn’t enough time to go home so I head to Panera with my trusty laptop and kill a couple of hours. Sometimes I study, sometimes I blog, but I always eat! Yum!

Today I’m trying to watch The Secret Life of the American Teenager, but it got interrupted so I thought I’d check in here. :)

I cannot even tell you how embarrassed I was when it first started playing it and people started walking by looking at my screen. But, I decided if they know what it is then they obviously have the same guilty pleasure. So I stopped worrying about it and was just enjoying the show! :)

I don’t know how I missed  this show, it’s like Degrassi meets 7th Heaven with a splash of Teen Mom! Perfect!

What’s your favorite Guilty Pleasure?

It’s my least favorite season…tax season.

        Dear April 16th,

I really hate to rush time, but I’m going to anyway. You see Garrett has to work every.single.day until you get here. When he is home he’s tired and thinking about work, it’s really no fun for me. If that weren’t bad enough he’s decided that he can no longer be on gchat while he’s at work, which I’m sure you can understand leaves me bored out of my mind during the day. He tries really hard to give me all the attention I require. We squeeze in a movie here and dinner there. I’ll go up to the the office and do stuff I need to get done while he works on the weekends but I would really, really like a lazy Saturday doing nothing. Since tax season really just started I feel like I’m in for a very, very long wait.The thing is I just really miss my best friend! So, while you work on getting here (as fast as possible, please) I’m going to be busy planning all the fun that is going to happen once you arrive.

   Love,

                The not so very patient Ashlee

Hello…hello…is this thing on??

I really hate it when bloggers don’t write anything for a long time and then they come back and their whole post is dedicated to apologizing, I have no desire to read you tell me how sorry you are…so…I hope the rest of you feel that way…because we are just moving right along and pretending like I never missed a beat!

All the time I used to spend blogging I’ve been spending reading (for fun, I read for school to that’s just not worth talking about) I forgot how much I love to read and how addicting I find it. I just can’t stop.

Best.New.Year’s.Resolution.Ever!

I needed to jump back in to my good ol’ Windows Live Writer (do any of you use that, it’s the BEST for adding pictures to blog posts) because I just had to tell you about two fun Valentine’s Day Swaps that are coming up!!!

I am not the biggest Valentine’s Day fan….but oh how I love swapping!!

Here’s the 411 (oh hello Ashlee from 1994)

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You have to sign up by tomorrow (Friday) if you want to to join this one…You can visit Neely, Courtney or Sam to find out all the details!

Meg the lovely host of the Mitten Mixer is hosting another swap!! Head on over to Meg’s blog and get signed up

Okay that’s it for tonight (this post took me for ever to write because I stopped and went (in my pjs) to get some Fro Yo with the boy!!

Have a Happy Happy Friday!

The Grand Adventure…part 1 Arizona.

Garrett and I have returned from our (first) Grad Adventure of 2011. It feels like we were gone forever, and we had so much fun real life is going to take some getting used to.

We opted out of ringing in the New Year at midnight because our alarm clock went off at 3:00am New years day, and three hours of sleep just didn’t seem like it would be enough.

But here were are at 4:00am waiting outside in the FREEZING cold for our taxi to pick us up and take us to the airport. (The community is gated and I wasn’t quite sure how to tell the taxi to get in through the gate without giving our secret code, and that seemed like a bad idea so outside it was). I was obviously way too excited about starting the adventure, while Garrett was thinking oh em gee is this starting already. (I had no make up on and my face was looking pretty awful from the wind/cold so black and white it is.)

After a flight from OKC to Memphis. We headed to Phoenix. I planned nothing (except the rental car) which is so unlike me, but I was so worried something would happen and we wouldn’t get where we needed to be and the whole thing would be a bust. So, we just decided to wing it, and it totally worked!

When Garrett went to the Fiesta Bowl a few years ago the stayed in Tempe, and ate the “best sushi of (his) life”. He really, really wanted to try to get back there and I’m always up for a trip to see another college town so we headed to Tempe (which is the opposite direction of the Fiesta Bowl) in search of a restaurant we didn’t know the name of and only the general location.

But, we found it! Garrett was soo excited! The sushi lived up to everything he remembered! We walked around ASU’s “campus corner” (that’s what it’s called in Norman, I’m not sure what they call it) and hit up Urban Outfitters for some matching sunglasses (no pictures, sad). After that it was time to find something for me to eat.

We found In-N-Out burger! I was so excited to try something I’ve heard so many people rave about (and Garrett had to try some to!) It was really pretty good, and super, super cheap! After lunch in Tempe it was time to head to Glendale for the Fiesta Bowl!

We flew to Arizona without tickets to the game (because that’s how we do it) and we got a pair for steal, it cost more to park in the parking lot than it did for one of us to get in to the game. We picked our seats because there were a lot open and enjoyed the game! OU finally broke its BCS losing streak and I was so happy to be there for it!

After the game and the presentation of OUr trophy we had some time to kill, see when this adventure changed from a Road Trip to a plane trip, I didn’t book a hotel room for Saturday night, I was a little bit afraid we would sleep through the alarm clock and miss our flight so I figured we could spend 6ish hours in the airport waiting for our flight. Luckily, it went a little better than that, we got a bite to eat at Johnny Rockets after the game and then went to a midnight movie after that (I slept from the time the previews started until Garrett woke me up during the credits!) when the movie was over it was about 2:30am and we only had 3.5 hours until our flight to Denver, by the time we took the rental car back and got to the air port we were only about 2.5 hours early. That was a brilliant thing if you ask me, saved us $100 on a hotel room and we didn’t have to worry about not waking up. I only wish I had taken pictures of Garrett sleeping in the airport.

Denver and skiing coming up tomorrow!