A Sweet Reward

To reward myself for finishing all my filing and for being good on my diet this week (even though my scale says I didn't drop a single pound), I rented a redbox movie and enjoyed it while eating a delicious hot fudge sundae from McDonald's.

Of course I capitalized on the opportunity to rent a chick flick seeing how hubby is still out of town.

If you haven't seen Confessions of a Shopaholic and are looking for a light hearted movie, I recommend it. Plus, the man in the movie is pretty cute, especially since he has a British accent :)

Movie Weekend

This past weekend hubby and I used up a gift card someone gave us for Christmas. First off, I didn't know anybody actually used Blockbuster anymore and after renting four movies, I know why we don't!

Four movies at Blockbuster cost $21. We watched all four movies in two days (even though we have them for a whole week). Had I gone to a Redbox like I normally do when movie night is calling I would have only paid $8 to rent the four movies for two nights (or better yet, rent two one night and pay $2 and then rent 2 the next night when you return the original 2 and pay $2 for a total of $4). Hmm...$21 or $8? You do the math.

Anyway...thank goodness we had a gift card so I didn't feel bad about dropping that much on movie night.

We rented:

We loved An American Carol (finally a second side to Hollywood...to bad it didn't do too hot in theaters) and What Happens in Vegas (good for some laughs). Swing Vote wasn't bad (not as funny as I thought it'd be) and Hancock was pretty food for an action movie too.

How about you? Have you seen any good movies lately?

A Great Anniversary

Last Wednesday hubby and I finally had the opportunity to go and celebrate our anniversary. We had both seen Facing the Giants when it was on tv and were excited to see the new movie this group put out called Fireproof. It's all about fireproofing your marriage...how perfect for an anniversary celebration, right?

It's only in a few theaters, so we had to make an hour trip north, but were happy to find our favorite burger joint right near the theater so we could grab a bite to eat first. Red Robin makes the best burgers and strawberry lemonade, so if you haven't eaten at one go now!

The movie was awesome! Highly recommend it to every engaged or married couple out there regardless of the state of your marriage.

Thanks hubby for such a wonderful anniversary!

What a Great Weekend

Hubby and I had a really great weekend together. I don't know if you recall or not, but we're currently living with his parents while we try to save a few bucks and figure out where the Lord is calling us to start our family. His parents were away in Maine this past week, so it's been nice to have the house to ourselves for a little bit.

Side note: Hubs and I have never actually had a place that is just "ours" since we've been married because my roommate and her daughter lived with us for a few months after we were married until she got married and moved out of state, much to my chagrin...I miss my friend!, to join her new husband; right after that, we moved in with his parents. Needless to say, we're very much looking forward to the day when we'll have our own place! I know some of you are probably thinking, why don't they just get an apartment or something? Yes, we can afford one, but there are not any that are in our town, and because my hubby is on the local committee, we must live in this town. And, seeing how we're not positive where we want to raise our family yet, it doesn't make much sense to us to buy/rent a house when we see ourselves moving in a year or so. Thus, the living with the in-laws.

Anyway, back to our great weekend. Friday night we had "date" night in. We rented "Definitely, Maybe" and "Cleaner". Both were really good even though we had never seen the previews. Oh, I want to plug Redbox right now. That's where we rent all our movies from and we have never had a problem. You really can't beat $1/movie/night. We normally watch them in one night anyways. Plus, you can rent them and return them at any Redbox location.

Saturday we lounged around the house, watched the Yankees games we had Tivo'd, got a few chores done, and baked some zucchini bread. We also received a nice surprise in the mail. We're trying to pay off the 2003 Alero that hubs bought me for Christmas in '03, and we thought we were down to about $2000 left on it, so I was saving up and was going to pay it off in a week or two. Well, we were going through our mail on Saturday and we received a statement from Wells Fargo (our lease holder) stating that our final payment of $197 was due July 12th! What an awesome surprise!! We went from thinking we owed $2000 to owing less than $200! Now, I can put the money I had saved towards paying off my final student loan and then we are almost done with our personal debt. Wahoo! To celebrate, we went out with friends that night for pizza and went and saw the movie "Get Smart". It was hilarious! Hubby and I were laughing the entire movie!

Sunday was church, preparing meals for his great uncle (filling in for his parents) which is a whole other story in itself, watching another Yankees game, putting up my craft table, and doing yoga.

Just a wonderful weekend spent with the man of my dreams!

The Bucket List

Last night hubby and I watched this movie with his parents. It wasn't as funny as I thought it was going to be, but it did make us laugh (and my mother-in-law and I cry!) and was a good reminder to not waste any of your days that you are given.

Basically, these two guys both have cancer and end up sharing a room at the hospital. They both find out they only have a few months to live, so they go about crossing things off their "bucket list" - the list of things they want to do before the kick the bucket.

I know one thing on my list would be to travel to Europe (Italy specifically) and the Cook Islands. I'd also like to build a house with my husband. I'm sure there are many more things, but I'd have to think about them.

What are some things you'd have on your bucket list?