Monday, September 27, 2010

Monday: Movies

Tonight there was a gathering of guys to watch football at a friends house, so a few girls came over to my house to watch movies. I watched Valentine's Day and Date Night.

Date Night was my favorite...it was pretty funny. Valentines Day was ok. A fellow engineer and I were watching it together though, so we kept picking apart the plot...it was pretty fun.

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Sunday

Hello Sunday. It was a pretty nice one...went to church, took a nap, you know, the normal stuff.

We'll grab some questions from Five Question Friday so that this isn't a completely dull post.

1. Do you feel guilty spending money on yourself?
Hmm, the more I think about this the more complex I realize the question is. Overall, I guess the answer is no. Mainly because I don't spend money on myself that often (because I usually don't need anything special). Sometimes I'll think about what Good Works the money could do, but I also realize that the money can do both.

2. How well do you know your neighbors?
Not all that well. We know the people across from us a little bit and they will often cat sit if we are gone. The people below us we knew a little bit, but then they had to leave because he got laid off. I don't really know the others much at all.

3. What age are you looking forward to being?
This is a weird question. I like my age, but am ok with growing older too.

4. Do you get excited when the mail comes? Why?
Not anymore. There usually isn't anything good in it. I was excited as the kid to get the mail, but that was before email was as prevalent. I'm usually rather excited to check my email though.

5. Where did you and your significant other go on your first date?
Our first official date was Applebee's. The first unofficial date was a Shakespearian play.

Saturday: flurry

Ben and Flurry were playing this morning and we got some cute photos.

Friday, September 24, 2010

Friday: big city

Tonight we went out for dinner with some friends in the big city of Binghamton. It's food week there so we got a three course dinner for $20...and lots of leftovers.

Then we walked to Luke's new apartment. It is very nice. Hugh especially liked the knobs on the music player.




I also stained the deck this afternoon. I would like to my future self that staining something in the beginning of fall is probably not the best idea, even if the weather is really warm.

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Thursday: salads

I don't really like salad.

There, I said it. I feel kind of ashamed of it because I feel as though I should like salad. We had a salad for dinner tonight and it wasn't bad. I will buy it periodically so that we have something different for dinner, but it usually takes us a few days to get ready to eat it. And I put a lot of good things on it, so it ends up ok.

I usually think about telling people at restaurants that I don't want a salad but often feel peer-pressured into getting it. I'm not sure who's peer-pressuring me though.



(This is a salad from Texas Roadhouse, image from here. Texas Roadhouse does have one of the better salads around. It might be the egg.)

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Wednesday: hmm

Hmm. I guess the biggest news of today is that part 2a of my program revamp is working. I'm really excited about it because I think it will save a lot of time and that the operators will like it a lot better than the current program. I won't bore you with the details though, because they are kind of boring.

Flurry has stopped being as cuddly. :( She's still friendly though.

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Tuesday: a Tuesday

Today is a Tuesday. Ha. I'm rather tired. I think it's because it is getting dark earlier. I feel like I go through this transition every year. This year it seems odd because it's already the end of September. Ben and I both feel like it should still be the beginning of September, but I guess that is what vacation will do.

Bible Study tonight was good. There was a video and it was a little weird because our pastor preached almost the same thing on Sunday...even some of the examples were the same. I'm not really sure how I feel about that. But it was nice to have discussion times throughout the video. The last question actually sparked a lot of discussion. One of the themes of the video was that there is a movement now-a-days that whatever someone believes is true for them and that is OK. I realized this means we can tell people that they're wrong but they have to tolerate our opinion without making us mad. The movement could backfire on them. (Hopefully that makes sense...it might be better if you had seen the video.)