A nice weekend!

This has been a really nice weekend I'm pretty disappointed that it's already Sunday! Back to work tomorrow.. blah! I feel like I came into this weekend with a lot to do, and though I still have quite a bit (ok a huge amount) of things to finish I've had one of the best weekends that I've had in a long time. Kevin and I have spent a lot of time together & I actually got some exercise in~ which makes me feel really good!

First I have to be excited~ Kevin was offered a job (YEA!) that I think he is planning on accepting. He'll be working for an Expo Design Center selling bathroom/bathroom stuff. The pay is actually a dollar more to start than what I make now and after 90 days he would get a .50 raise. They offer benefits and 401K which he really needs also, not to mention vacation days (accrued) and sick days. The pay would be about equal with what he's been bringing home from unemployment except he'd be paying taxes now rather than later so it'll be a little less take home. What does suck is that since it's a retail/sales position he'd be working Monday through Sunday basically (a 5 day work week) with who knows what days off and a rotating schedule. My point was that it's ok since he won't be there forever. He's in school right now & should be graduating in October 2007. We just need him to get something that he can make do with for now. Honestly it will be very tight, especially once the baby comes, but it's a fair offer for the type of job. Plus I didn't want him to find a job in construction or something where he'd have no real vacation days or sick days like most of the other jobs he's had. I was excited about this. He won't have to feel terrible about leaving to go to a "real" job when he gets his degree since he won't have a ton of responsibility on him like if he was the only installer or something at a construction company. So that is my stance on the matter. He left a message for the manager and she is going to call him back. He is going to possibly ask to start off .50 higher to begin with since that would help a lot, but if not he's still going to try it out. Yea!

Back to my weekend :)~ Friday night Kev and I went out for our usual cheap Friday night out~ dinner at Ruby Tuesday's and the movie The Shaggy Dog with Tim Allen. The dinner actually sucked so that was pretty disappointing. We used to go to a Tuesday's near our old house & it was great, but this one not so much. It took forever for our food to come & when it did it was cold and not so tasty. My mashed potatoes were so cold they were starting to get a skin & Kevin got the wrong dinner, but we didn't realize it right away. He ordered chicken parm & they brought him some chicken alfredo w/broccoli.... um, he doesn't like broccoli. He was picking through it & eating the chicken. He didn't even eat 1/2 of it and neither did I. Our waitress asked him if it was bad & he told her it wasn't the right thing but he didn't realize it at first (we just thought he'd read the wrong thing off the menu or something). We were really nice about it & she said she could probably get us a free dessert but we weren't really in the mood. She said she'd see what she could do. She brought the check back in two seconds, no adjustments or anything! She was pretty inattentive and we were just unhappy with that. We just paid and left kinda disappointed. It wasn't a big deal, just the last time we go there!

So we headed off to the movie theater in our town that we'd never tried out. I wanted to see The Shaggy Dog~ yes I know it's a Disney movie but it looked cute! The theater was soooo clean & sooo nice! There was hardly anyone in the theater with us but a few families and a few other couples. It was funny; corny at times, but silly. I like seeing movies like that sometimes. It's nice to not hear curses, or see death, or blood, or gore! Just a good ol' fashion barking monkey and man turning into a dog lol.

Yesterday was kind of a crummy weather day. It was warm (around 50ish) but cloudy & drizzly. We slept in past 10:00 for the first time in a LONG time which was great. It's nice to snuggle up under the covers and watch some tv. When we finally got up I did some work on the blanket I am crocheting for the baby. I had been doing one in green and white before I found out our baby is a girl. I decided I'd rather do one in purple and pink so I broke out the yarn and started crocheting while Kevin & I watched some movies we had TiVo'd while we were out on Friday (Trading Spouses, Conviction, & Deal or No Deal). It was a nice morning. I followed it up with some homework (blah) and Kevin went out to get the molding for our bedroom (pictures will be posted soon!). I realized my dog, Roxie, was starving for attention so I decided to take my dogs for a walk outside~ all 3 of them~ by myself. Since we have a yard I normally don't do actual walks with them, we just take them out & play there. I decided they (& I) could use a little exercise so I took them down past another house that we were thisclose to buying before we got this *much better* house & we followed a trail that lead down along Millstone River. We followed the trail a little while and it was really quiet. The river was slow and it was pretty peaceful. I enjoyed it a lot & the dogs were loving it! They were really hard to hold on the leashes (especially Roxie & Jewel who were pulling in two different directions at once!) and I was a little tired and didn't want to over do it, so we headed back. It ended up being only a 1/2 hour 40 minute walk but it was fun and they dogs all enjoyed it. Kev & I spent the rest of the day hanging out, doing homework, and watching tv. Of course I killed my walk by ordering in pizza lol but oh well!

Today was a really nice day~ we went to IHOP for the first time since we moved. We actually found one not far from our house & had a nice breakfast before the rush hit! We took a trip down the highway after trying to find JCPennys so we could take a look at the cribs but couldn't find it. Before I knew it we were taking a road trip and kept going until we ended up in Princeton. I've lived in NJ my entire life but never been there before. It was BEAUTIFUL. We drove around the town and past the university. I wish I had my camera because it was really nice and so historic! I love looking at the old houses and churches and buildings. It was almost like going back in time and I could imagine women in their colonial dresses and horse drawn carriages trotting through the streets. I am hoping to go back again soon. Surprisingly it was only a half hour or so from our house so I'm sure we will be planning a day trip for a visit.

Once we got back we both took all of our dogs out for a walk down the same path and Kevin got to explore with us. We went down further & along the river this time. Roxie was crazy! She wanted to go swimming! I've never seen her like that before but she was sniffing all along the shore and the water and when we got down to where the rivers merged she actually jumped in (she was still on the leash) & swam around! I was dying I was laughing so hard. It was great. I wanted to throw a stick in but Kevin was afraid it was too cold and she might have trouble swimming back and neither of us wanted to have to jump in after her. She swallowed a lot of water and did a lot of coughing when she came out but she loved it and wanted back in lol. For her first time in she did a good job swimming & I can't wait until it's warmer and we can take her out & let her actually go in. It's gonna be fun! My mom's dog, Marty (also a jack russell), LOVES to swim. Maybe we'll have to have him over one day & he & Roxie can swim together. It was great though. We walked back up & I'm pretty tired now.

So here I am. Home at 1:30 in the afternoon with lots of homework to do. I better get to it. Hope everyone's having a good weekend!

~Kristina