Month: December 2003

Last Day

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So what did we do the last day of 2003? The usual …

Saw a movie – Paycheck. Joe didn’t like it as much as I did. Not that I thought it was fantastic, but it wasn’t too bad either.

Oh I almost forgot the best part! There were only three people, no exaggeration, in the theater besides us and one guy continuously made sniffing noises … like when your nose is running and you don’t have kleenex so you keep sucking it up. Yep … every 30 seconds for the ENTIRE movie. I wanted to kill him.

Afterwards we did some shopping at Target. We’ve been spending money like water lately … or at least it feels that way. Joe got Socom II for the PS2 and I picked up some more discounted Christmas items. Then we had lunch at Pompei because I love their bruschetta. After lunch we stopped at Hallmark and I picked up a cute tart warmer at 50% off and an American Girls tin for Joe’s daughter since she loves them.

Came home for awhile and made the mistake of going to Jewel. The place was completely packed with last minute shoppers, so we left without any yummy mint chocolate chip ice cream. We ended up getting frappachinos (yes, I realize it’s Winter) at Starbucks and came home. The rest of the evening has been spent reading blogs, watching tv, and just hanging out.

I am so hungry right now! Time for some shrimp and chinese food. Heehee!

What a load!

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Today’s Horoscope:

As a Capricorn, dear Capricorn, you don’t really like to talk about things. Talking just isn’t one of your sign’s specialties. Each sign has its own role, and yours is to take action and create, not to talk about doing it. However, the planetary positions today might make you utter a few very deep words. Come on, tell us a little something about how you feel deep inside of you!

Bwahahaha! If that isn’t ever wrong! Just ask Joe … I talk way too much.

2003: Year In Review

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I’ve seen this on a couple of sites and while I don’t think my life is all that exciting, I did some fun things this year:

January
Quit the job from hell and left behind forever the bitchiest manager I’ve ever had.

February
Adjust a bit to my new job where I have no privacy but also not a ridiculous workload.

March
Order a kickass laser printer.

April
Work gets a lot more interesting since I’m learning new things and getting more responsibility. Get a very complimentary review from my boss.
Switch the hosting for this site.

May
One of the best movies of the Summer is released – Matrix Reloaded.
Go on a little vacation to Branson, Missouri, stopping in St. Louis on the way to see the Gateway Arch.
Find out my former employer finally hired a replacement for my old position. Well, make that two replacements. Ha!
Want to kill our upstairs neighbors with all the noise they are causing.

June
Go to Joe’s nephew’s high school graduation party in boofoo Illinois.
Visit the Chicago Botanic Garden.
Whole divorce thing starts to really stress us out.
The Cure releases Trilogy.
Joe’s camera gives us a little scare, but it all works out in the end.

July
Joe and I celebrate 2.5 years together.
We start playing tennis on a regular basis.
Joe’s niece flies down from Arizona to visit.
Neighborly situation gets resolved and we gain back some peace and quiet.

August
Go on a nice boat tour of the Chicago River and Lake Michigan.
Walmart damages my Jetta.
Trip to Ohio.

September
See the butterflies exhibit at Brookfield Zoo.
Spot a woodchuck in a local park (hey, it was interesting to me, ok?) :)
John Ritter passes away, which saddens me.
Day trip to Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

October
Visit Lake Katherine Nature Center and come face to face with a Blue Heron.
Get the cutest I-love-you gift from Joe.
Joe’s divorce becomes final and we merge bank accounts.

November
My new Betta, Jake, dies while the kids are visiting for the weekend.
Visit Montrose Point in Chicago.
Buy another digital camera.
A part in my car starts to die but we figure out how to fix it for $5 and save ourselves $500 … so Joe buys a Playstation 2.

December
We lose the holiday decorating contest I was so sure we’d win.
We plan a trip for January and end up cancelling it.

Oh and somewhere in there I manage to lose a total of 20 lbs.

In all it’s been a fantastic year. Here’s to many more!

Would you like some cheese …

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… with your wine? ;)

We did a little grocery shopping today and got some cheese, crackers, and wine for New Year’s Eve. Being a complete wine virgin, God only knows if this stuff we got will be any good. I’m not big on alcoholic beverages, so most likely I will hate it, but I thought it would be nice with the cheese since it said so on the bottle (it’s red, that’s all I know). We also got some shrimp cocktail – I love that stuff! And the fat per serving is awesome! It’s like .5 grams of fat for every 7 shrimp and that includes the cocktail sauce. Maybe I should start a shrimp only diet! ;)

(“The word you’re looking for is ‘Anyway …'”)

We also got the fixings for this dish that we saw on the Food Network and let me tell you, it is good! We made a little cheesy bread by brushing some olive oil on french bread, sprinkling with parmesan cheese and baking in the toaster oven. Pure heaven!

And now I must go work some of that off. I am not quite sure how I managed to lose a pound after eating ham and cheesy broccoli/cauliflower casserole for three days straight, but I’m not arguing!

Oh yea, and I’m on Disc 2, episode #9 of Season 1 of Friends. A nice 45 minute workout gives me two complete episodes, so I should be close to Disc 3 by tonight. I already went through all the trivia games on all the discs and I must say, I am one Friends expert. Call it an obsession I guess. Although now that I’m watching all the episodes in order I’ve noticed some discrepancies already. My biggest gripe, however, has always been how Monica claims to be allergic to cats when in two different episodes she’s near a cat and never shows an aversion to them (the two being when Phoebe thinks her dead mom has come back as a cat and when Rachel buys that hairless cat … because it’s the dander, not the fur, that causes allergic reactions, remember!)