So Tired...

Look here.

Shoes

I had a half day at work today and stopped at DSW, after lunch with a very busy Matt, to pick up some new shoes with some b-day money I gots. After Matt and I got home from dinner at San Chez, I took the shoes out of the boxes to show Matt what I got. We than put the shoe boxes on the floor for the cats to enjoy. This is what happened next.

Murdock insisted that he could fit him self in a shoebox that was too small for him.



Greta decides she LOVES my shoe pile and rubs herself all over my shoes.



All the kitties decide to come and check out the shoes and shoeboxes.

It's About Time for A Funny Cat Video

NC

I've been busy, that's why I haven't posted since we got back. It was a long drive and I did do 90% or so of the driving. Good thing the Honda is more comfortable than the Grand Am was or I'd still be walking weird. The house was great. Everything I expected. We had our room on the 1st floor which was separated from everyone else. It was nice to be apart from the rest of the crazy's :)

The whole trip was relaxing and fun, except a little family drama, but that is what happens when people are in close quarters for a whole week. Only one trip to the Urgent Care Center for the newest member of the family. Babies need supervision.

Had good food at a Steamers Shellfish to Go. Very Good, in fact. If I am ever in the Outer Banks again I will seek this place out. We also had a themed picture, dressed as pirates. Everyone looks great but me. Sigh

I'd do it again.

It's Here!

Scott and his brother were over playing it together earlier, but I went to the gym and didn't get a picture of all of them playing together. I hear they beat it, and than switched to the new Super Smash Brothers Brawl for the Wii, which is what they were playing when I got home.

A Whole Bunch of..

Not much. Life is still not very exciting around the Cherry household. Matt's got lots of neat stuff goings on, but he is not very good at posting about it. Next week we have a really cool thing arriving that some of you may have heard rumor about, but we will wait and post pictures when it arrives.

We are both super excited about our upcoming trip to NC. I really need some time away from work. I haven't have a vacation in a really long time. At least 8 months. Which is forever. The 14 hour drive should be interesting. My control issues mean that I will try and drive the whole way, but we will have to wait and see how things go. Cramming all 4 of us, and all our junk for a week, in my Honda should be interesting too. There is a washer and dryer at the house, so packing light is an option. Doubtful, but still an option.

In the Year 2010

Matt and I were watching TV the other night and flipped to the Girls Next Door on E!. They were at Sandals Resort in Jamaica. I say: I want to go to a Sandals resort. (pout) Matt: Sure, we can go...(dramatic pause) in 2010! haha! Me: You do realize you just gave me permission to book a trip to a Sandals resort, don't you? Matt: In like 2 whole years! That's forever away. Me: 2 years really isn't that far away. Yeah!! We're going to the Caribbean! Super exciting! (Matt rolls eyes)

So, we get to get passports and I get to decide what island we go to, I am thinking Jamaica, but I may change my mind. I need to look and see what is offered and what the rooms look like. Might be fun if others wanted to come along. Any takers?

Spending Money

So before Matt went on his little jaunt South to see Ted, I dragged him to Sprint to buy new phones. I am super excited over this because I got a smartphone. A Palm Centro and Matt got a Katana II. I love having the little keyboard and I can manage my calendar online and sync them with push of a button. Still getting use to the touchscreen, but still really cool.

I also booked our room for Wizard World Chicago, June 26-29. There already were hotels not available to rent for those days and we want to stay right next to the convention center this time, we also got a really good deal for booking early and it's a really nice hotel. So when I get bored I can just head back to the room. Yeah!

I also am sending out the last check to cover the family vacation to NC this spring. I am really looking forward to this trip, though not the 12-14 hour drive. Here is the house that we are renting with Matt's family and the Markanovich's. Soon I will start over planning for this trip. I bought some travel books on Amazon.com. (Yet another addictive website to spend money) Matt says we may actually get to do some of the things I want. I can only hope.

Stupid Clearance

Kohl's has the 80-90% off clearance going on right now. Very dangerous. I walked out with a very large bag of stuff. Too bad they don't print how much you saved on the receipt. I'm too lazy to do the real math. Also I sense a theme. Must be the time of year to get great deals.

Y?

We joined the Y. I have officially exercised two days in a row. Fun though. Yesterday was yoga and today was Zumba. The yoga teacher was a touch odd, but that is stereotypically normal for yoga teachers. By the end of the class I liked her. Matt came with me today, but didn't join the class with me. He hit the treadmill. They have personal TVs for every cardio station. It's pretty cool, you just need to bring your own headphones to plug into the player. Side note: Cool diet/healthy living site. It's free.

We also spent more money and increased our nerd/geek rating. We bought Matt a laptop so that we can play WoW together. Ironically, we had unknowingly signed up for auto-pay for WoW and we were recently billed for bulk months that I noticed while checking the credit card statement. So we decided to keep it active and make new characters on a 'Normal' server where upper level jerks can't come around and kill low level characters for no reason other than to be total jerks. I am also hoping that having a laptop will increase Matt's book writing. I signed him up for National Novel Writing Month, which sounds really cool to me. And may help? By November he'll be sick of WoW again anyway. :P

New Year

Oh my. 2007 wasn't a particularly great year for us, so lets hope for better in 2008. I am not a big fan of lists. Never have been. The idea is good, but I don't like the sense of failure if/when I fail to complete all the things I was hoping to achive. I seem to be a 'list half failed' as compared to a 'list half finished' type of person. I'll try it this year, but only a couple things...

1. Learn basic French - My Christmas present "from" Matt this year was the software to learn french. I have always had the desire and wished it had been offered in school, but it wasn't. This way when I drag Matt to France with me some time (or go without him) I'll understand what is going on. I have always wanted to learn multiple launguages and I feel it's time to start trying.

2. Lose Weight - Hoping for 40 pounds, would love to lose 50, and will be happy with 30+. Looking for the right classes that are not located to far from home. Or I won't go because I am lazy.

3. Start taking buisness classes at GRCC.

Thats good enough for me.

Merry Christmas

I gave my mother the new Josh Groban Christmas CD for Christmas and was suprised to hear that Nisi didn't know who he was. So here is a small sampling of his work.

Holiday Baking 2007

My cookie baking is done for Christmas. Yeah! I picked 9 recipes and made 8 of them. I have time to make the last one but my feet hurt and I am losing my ambition to do more. All I need to do now is plate them up. Of the 8 recipes I had only made one of them previously. I really enjoy trying new recipes. Not a big fan of the same thing all the time. Variety is the spice of life, they say. Don't know who they are....

Here's pictures for all of you who care...

Dice are cool

We were at Barnes and Nobles tonight and I saw this game. Anything with that many dice has to be super cool. I tried to talk Matt into buying it...but he didn't want to.

Also we discovered this weekend that Murdock is scared of the stove. If we bring him anywhere near it he cries and tries to run away. So funny to watch. We're so mean. :)

I Know Who I Am Voting For!

Bah

If the holiday season keeps up like this week at work was, I will soon be swearing off Christmas like Matt does. Thank goodness for a three day work week or I might have done something drastic, like calling-in when I am not really sick. I try so hard and get no where. Very frustrating. Now off to the bar for drinking. Biggest bar night of the year. Woo-Hoo!

Interesting...

Amazing what happens in the blogs when one doesn't check them for 2 whole days. What angry people we know. So I guess I better blog something or all out war will break out. Though my life is quite boring. Really. No Joke. Especially since I have been sick with a stupid cold for the last 3 weeks. Ever since the big family Christmas. I am actually still coughing as I write this. Phlegm and everything. It had even settled in my neck, this cold. I woke up one Monday morning and couldn't move my neck without sever pain. Which really sucks when you have a cough. Do you realize how much you move your neck when you cough? Alot. I actually went to the doctor and got muscle relaxers, which didn't help much, and perscription strength Ibuprophen. That Saturday was my Celtic Women Concert, which was fun, even with the sore neck and cough. My only complaint is that they didn't talk. Only sang their songs. No history no backstories, only thanks for coming. That was it. But I am finally starting to feel normal again. We might even head out to the bar tonight for some drinking and karaoke. If Matt feels up to it. He has been at a HeroClix thing all day in Ann Arbor.

Now I have to go take the cheescake out of the oven. Boring post finished.

Wake Up

Weather the Weather

Weather is turning again today. I am so sick of 80+ degrees out with tons of humidity. Ugh! Tomorrow is only supposed to have a high in the 50's. I can't hardly wait. This is October. It should start acting like it. I have started fall baking and everything. Matt and I bought a half a bushel of apples this last weekend and I intend to use every one in different things. I have already made Apple Harvest Cake. Which did make me nervous. In the oven for a whole hour! Tasty though. Kinda like a bread more than a cake. Tonight I am going to make a Bavarian Apple Torte which is pictured. I hope it tastes good too.

You all will probably hate me but...I think I am going to see Celtic Women when they come to VanAndel. I like them. They have great harmonies and cool looking sets, at least from the TV broadcast on public television that was taped at a castle in Europe somewhere. They have some songs up on myspace if you want to hear them. It's OK if you want to make fun of me for liking them. We all have our secret bands that we like.

The Wheels of Time Turn

I had very much hoped the my parents were wrong this morning when I was told that Robert Jordan had died. The Wheel of Time series has very much so been my favorite series of all time. So when I got home I checked his blog. There is was. Robert Jordan died Sept. 16. I may sound bad but I had really hoped he would have finished the last book for the Wheel of Time. He knew he was dying but was very tired from his illness and the treatments that he had pushed it back and could only write on certain days when he felt good. One of his blogs says he intended on staying alive until all his book idea's were written and he had 20 years worth of writing to do so he wasn't planning on dying until that was done. But is wasn't to be. They say he had enough written notes and audio notes on what was to happen in the final book and his wife/editior and publisher will finish the book, but it won't be the same.

“He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone.”

"The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose.... The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of time.
But it was a beginning"