Day of Fun

Date night/day this week was an interesting experience. Unlike the last two weeks, I hadn't planned everything out so we were just winging it.

The day started out with me taking two Valiums...no it was wasn't because I was stressed or worried about spending an entire day with JJ, it was because I was panicking about my scheduled MRI. Not so much a fan of loud enclosed spaces for prolonged periods of time, call me crazy! (Update: Everything came back clear, but I thought I re-injured my shoulder when Barney pulled me down a flight of stairs chasing after another dog). So after coming out of the Valium haze, JJ took me to brunch at Terrace Cafe (my new favorite brunch place). I love brunch, it has to be one of the best things ever invented.

Next, JJ and I decided to visit the mall and pull the trigger on a purchases we had been debating over for about a month. We succumbed to peer pressure (the good kind) and bought an iPad. It is pretty awesome. For the longest time, I thought it was silly to have if you had a laptop, but I think its fun and I'm glad we got it. Now JJ and I won't be fighting over the Mac laptop either. Also, in an effort to entice fall to come faster, I bought a pair of Uggs. I usually buy the knock-of Target brand, so I will be interested to see if I can even tell a difference. I justified it because they weren't the standard ones, they have a split down the side fastened by a big button. Super cute.

We spent the rest of the day playing with our new toy, enjoying Thai take-out and watching all the season premiers on TV. Not a bad date day for not having anything planned!

Rearranging

My husband has spoiled me. Due to his ridiculously high TV standards, I too have come to expect a certain level of technology for our viewing pleasure. So after 6-ish months of dealing with the 7+ year old itty bitty TVs for ants that came with our rental house, we have had enough. Enough of the teasing from our friends, the lack of HD, the squinting to see the screen...although, that might actually just be from my need to get glasses. Whatever. Enough is enough.

We upgraded. To a 42 inch, 1080pi, 120hz yada yada r2d2 xyz Vizio. Who Hoo. I was honestly just happy to get out of Costco without a headache from all the letter and number combinations the sales associate was throwing our way. JJ, on the other hand, was loving it. Totally in his element. He might have stayed in there for hours going back and forth on the merits of each and every TV in stock (and even those not in stock) had I not dragged him away from the little man with all the TVs.

But with this new TV comes its own set of complications. Where the heck are we going to put it??? We had, for the most part, mapped it all out before going shopping so we new how big we could go. But there was still lots of furniture to be moved. We put couches in different rooms, chairs at different angles, tables in different places and finally...success! We have achieved the perfect combination of TV viewing quality and couch sitting comfortability. (Yes that is a word now).

So if you needed any more reasons to come visit, come see JJ's new toy.