we've dropped the deuce

Well, not in the way of the bathroom.

Jeff and I hit our two year anniversary today.  

Technically this is our two year sex-iversary but that is private information so sssshhhhhhh don't tell my grandparents.  And since its a sex-iversary we celebrated last night by having noisy 'the kids aren't here' sex right in the family room.  It was stellar.

Ah, yes two glorious years ago we took the plunge and decided to be together.  Best sick day I ever took.

Then it got awkward when his mom found a condom in his laundry basket then I made it even more awkward when I was drunk one night at the bar and brought this up to his mom.  Yeah.  What else would happen when you are drinking with your boyfriend and his mom?  

Sure, bring up sex with her son and condoms.  

Seems natural.

Either way, she still likes me and thinks I am a semi-normal person on typical days.

Yeah, we still do the nasty.  We even bump uglies from time to time.  I just try to not talk to his mom about it anymore, especially when I am drunk. 

But on this, our two year sex-iversary, I would like to say that I love you.  Even when you snore.   And especially when you take care of me.  

Oh yeah.  That was in italics.

Thank you to my personal giant for a fabulous two years with many more to come.

Freakin Delicious

Seriously.  These are the best damn things I have snacked on in a long time.

I have only tried two of the three flavors but I am already smitten.

Go out and pick up a box or three.  You will not be disappointed!

10 recent updates

1.  Last Saturday was the overly cheesy and commercialized Valentine's Day.  Our friends invited us to join them at La Scola Italian Grill.  And the best I can say about it is that my glass of wine was divine and the company was spectacular.  The food was eh, which means that I will never go back there.  In order for me to drop $20 per entree the food needs to be satisfactory enough that I would return on my own accord.  There are plenty of other Italian restaurants in the greater Toledo area that I would rather visit.  

Plus it really still looks like Damons in the building and I spent most of dinner trying to find the 60 inch tv so I could watch sportscenter and play trivia.

2.  One of my dearest friends (who I have never met) has just recently lost her grandma.  She is one of my dearest friends because we have been email buddies for over 2 years and she lives in the sunshine state so I have never met her.  But we trade emails religiously and keep each other updated on our comings and goings.  I don't know what I would do without her sometimes.  Her advice has helped me through many rough patches through the years.

She is in my thoughts and daily prayers currently and I hope that she, and her family, will pull through and remember the life they celebrate with joy.

Remember those you love and let them know that they are in your heart.

3.  I think that Clementines are just about the best fruit ever.  They are compact, sweet, not messy at all and seriously delicious.  But since they are so small I seem to think that I can eat more of them without it being an issue.  

I had 7 of them yesterday.  
In half an hour.

At least it was fruit and not candy bars or something equally as nutritionally void.

4.  I love my new car.  I am still getting used to it in certain ways but I love it.  

5.  If I could have one secret power I think that I would want to be able to hear other people's thoughts.  It would be such an easy way to keep on your boss' good side, never say the wrong thing and know what people are really saying about you.  I could also get used to flying and being able to control objects with my mind.  

6.  February is almost over.  Where the hell did it go?  Feels like it was Groundhog Day just yesterday and all of a sudden March is here.  Lent starts next week and while I am not Catholic and don't ever feel the need to give up anything during lent and avoid a Big Mac on Fridays I do like to attend church more regularly during the Lenten season.  

Man, this means that Easter is charging up on us too.  Before you know it tomorrow will be July 4.  

This makes me feel old.

7.  There are two warehouse type stores in the area...we have had Sam's Club for a long time and a few years ago we acquired a Costco.  I have been a Sam's member for as long as I could drive and now I have been getting a hankering to join Costco as well.  Ah, I don't know.  I think that I am going to take a trip to Sam's today on my lunch break and see if I find any deals that are too good to pass up.  If it is a ho-hum trip then Ill consider joining Costco this weekend.  I am a bargain shopper by nature and even though I don't stock up on 15lb. containers of Mayo I do enjoy filling the freezer with delicious beef.  I wonder if Costco has a day pass or anything...I would love to just mosey around and see which store I like more.  Which one do you like more?

8.  Last fall I won a trip (that I didn't even enter to win technically) but nevertheless, I won.  The trip is for 3 or 4 nights (I forget now!) at The Naples Bay Resort.  It looks sublime and I cannot wait until we take our weekender trip to Naples to relax and leave our troubles behind.  Plus the resort looks freakin amazing!

9.  If I hear the Taylor Swift song Love Story again within the hour I just may kill someone.  Good song if heard once or less per day.

Horrible song if heard more than 6 times per day.

10.  Since my surgery I haven't been able to partake in one of my favorite night time snacks.  Gumballs.  I am a gumball freak.  I have been seriously jonesing for a gumball.  Hopefully my throat returns to its normal state soon.

new from nerd village

1. There are only 167 more days until Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince comes out in your local theatre on July 17, 2009. Yes, I am totally one of those people who would dress up in my Hogwarts robe with my wand at the midnight viewing. Only I seem to have misplaced my wand during my last move and wearing the robe without the wand in hand just makes the whole thing silly.

2. There are 293 long days until New Moon, the second movie in the Twilight series, comes out. I have already expressed my geeky 16 year old girl love for this series. Enough said.

3. I am a total coupon clipper. I know that saving money isn't stupid but I am completely dedicated to the saving of the coupons. It has almost become an obsession. I have my nerdy file folder just for coupons and they are separated by store and type. It is much worse than I am really letting on but at least I am saving around 25% on each grocery bill.

4. For the longest time I have wanted to have a movie marathon day...not in the traditional sense, I want to watch a movie with many sequels.
Only I cannot decide for the life of me which movies I should watch. I always get to the point where I am about ready plant my ass on the couch and intake mass quantities of food and diet coke but I am always stumped about what to view. I always end up trying to decide between Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and The Matrix. I battle with myself over this for about 30-45 minutes typically and then I give up and watch Love Actually or Pride and Prejudice again and try to set myself up for next time. I tell myself it wont happen, since I planned ahead, but I inevitably change my mind before then and fuck the whole thing up.

5. Cars are expensive. This is not my cup of tea at all. After 11 long years of no car payment my first payment was just taken out of my checking account. I feel like there is a hole in my chest. Or at least in my pocket and all of my spare money just fell out and I will never recover it.
I hope that Jeff likes ramen noodles because it looks like we are eating cheap the next few weeks. Peanut butter and jelly will be our splurge...along with macaroni and cheese...oh yeah, we are back in college now. I have taken to eating whatever i can from the work kitchenette. Hey its free and if I don't eat it, it'll just go to waste. My breakfast this morning was a piece of cheesecake. Then I made myself feel guilty about increasing my waste line and I chased it with a bowl of Kashi oatmeal, sure to clear out the cheesecake. They cancel each other out.

2 boxes of tissues later

Question of the day...

Why is there no cure for the common cold?
Why must I be forced to be in total agony with this?

The runny nose, sinus pressure, sinus drainage, coughing, sneezing, aching, barely sleeping cold.
And could tissues be any more pricey? I know better than to purchase the cheapy ones...I have to spring for the lotion ones so my nose doesnt try and run off my face like it does in the holiday Kleenex commercials.
I dont want to walk around work all day with a red nose and have my co-workers whispering behind my back that ol' schwartz fell off the wagon and is hitting the Jack a little hard during working hours again. No. No, I dont want that.

Its kinda like how a tiny fucking paper cut hurts so bad you want to cut your finger off...thats how a cold is.
Paper cut is to massive, gaping flesh wound what the common cold is to the Bubonic Plague. Scientific Fact.

They can cure such amazingly dreadful diseases. But not the common cold.

Bunch of bastards Ill tell ya.