What "Jersday" means to me

Easy A...

If you have not seen the movie Easy A...YOU SHOULD!
I wasn't very hyped about it when I saw the preview for it or while it was in theaters, but tonight husband and I had a date night which consisted of Applebees-paid for with a giftcard Christmas presant (Thank you in-laws!) and movie rental...I know, I know-SOOO romantic.

After completely stuffing my face with a club sandwich, french fries and a triple chocolate meltdown (It is as good as it sounds) we went to the Family Video.  I don't know why Jake still takes me to places like the video rental store, because it takes me two days to decide what to rent.  I walk down every aisle, I pick up movies we've seen a thousand times, I pick up movies that we own, I look at new releases, I want them all but at the same time don't think any of them sound right for the mood I'm in...EVER!  I roam and roam and then usually out of no where a beam of light illuminates one dvd that has escaped my attention and I hear music from my life's sound track and know without a shadow of a doubt that that is the movie we are renting that night.  Anyway, no such luck tonight.  I remembered seeing a commercial for Easy A just the other day advertising that it was coming out this week, so I thought, what the heck? One free rental coupon later, it is going into our dvd player.

I had absolutely no expectations for this movie, but Husband and I laughed and laughed.  I thought Olive's parents where the funniest part, and found myself hoping that Jake and I will one day be as funny of parents as hers were.  I will warn you, the language in some parts was hard to listen to because the repetition of a certain few words, but overall I'm so happy we rented it! Emma Stone is now one of my new favs, she's so pretty and so likable. Ohh, and Penn Badgley is so fun to look at for an hour and half too.  I would recommend it to everyone, unless of course you are under the age of 13, in that case, take it up with the movie rating people.

I can see the light...

This semester is almost over and the next three weeks can't go by soon enough! This has by far been my most stressful semester since entering college four and a half years ago. Even more stressful then the year that I transferred schools, or the one where I changed my major TWICE, or the one where I had statistics (which i'm terrible at). I would actually venture to say that this has been more stressful then all of those combined! BUT, it's coming to end very soon, which is something I could not be happier about! All that stand between me and the end is...teaching a 9 hour class to inmates, yes, inmates, preparing this class from scratch, writing a 10 page paper, a two page paper, four finals and two presentations. The light is dim, but it's there.

Jake and I are settled in for the most part, there are still a lot of things that I want to do to the house but that will have to wait for Christmas break because I don't have time to do it right now. I want to paint two rooms, finish hanging things on the wall, organize the laundry room, throw a bunch of stuff away, finally see the laundry room with no laundry actually in it, organize the kitchen cabinets and get all of the scraps from previous projects out of here! Some of my favorite things about living in our cozy little two bedroom, one bathroom house with Jake is that I always feel warm, we have two space heaters, one is more attractive then the other, but a space heater none the less and they give off terrific heat which makes me like the winter a little more. Sometimes I come home and Jake has made me dinner and lit candles, it's so sweet. I like to watch Jake perform little household projects, I especially like when he lifts things to move them out of his way because I can see the muscles in his arms pop out, and I like that we are always laughing at each other and smiling about something, our house is really very warm, and cozy and snuggly. I'll post all of our before and after pics of the house when everything doesn't look like a before anymore.

I miss my family. I haven't seen then in over a month, since we got back from honeymoon, and I don't like to just see them over pictures that my sister posts on facebook. My nephew is getting so big, he's sitting on his toy tractor by himself now, and I don't know when that happened! I need to get home, and soon! Jake and I have decided to go either this Friday night or Saturday morning. It will be nice to see them all again.

I put my two weeks notice in at Target last Wednesday and so that will finally be coming to an end after three and half of years. I couldn't be happier about this. Jake and I decided that I'm not making enough to warrant the half hour drive to Charlotte everyday, which is good, because I hate that drive, especially on Friday nights. Next semester I will only have to go over there three times a week and so I might as well not drive six times if I only have to do it three. I will be looking for something else immediately after the end of this semester and I hope to find something more in the public health field since I will finally be graduating in May and needed to support my sweet husband for the next three years while he finishes school. I would really take a job in any field though, as long as it's not Target!

Right time, wrong place...

Jake and I are spending a couple of days in Atlanta just to get away from everything that waits for us at home. It's been so nice to not have to worry about being anywhere or do anything at a particular time...no one expects anything from us and we are free to do what we want.

Last night we decided that we wanted to go see the new movie Robin Hood. We've both been looking forward to seeing it for several weeks and so we were really excited to actually go. We stopped to get subway on the way and thought we could fit both sandwiches and drinks in my purse to get them into the theater. WRONG! We got to the theater and easily got the sandwiches into my large bag, but could not get the drinks in there...waste of money! So we go and buy our tickets with giftcards that we both had leftover and only had to pay $1 to get into the movie...sweet! I agreed to buy a drink inside the theater for us to share and Jake bought popcorn as our side dish to our sandwiches...love him :) We go into the Robin Hood theater and the movie had already started, which we thought was weird because we were only like 5 minutes late walking in and there were no previews. We started eating our sandwiches and watching the movie and we were totally lost as to what was happening and who everyone in the movie was! We kept asking each other questions and neither one of us knew the answers. We ate our sandwiches and munched on our popcorn and I finally just decided to accept what was happening in the movie for just what it was and stopped trying to figure it out and then the screen comes up that says "And the Legend Begins..." followed by the closing credits. I was like That's it? and Jake said yeah, these are the closing credits. I asked what time it was and it was only 10:05...we walked into the theater at 9:05...this movie couldn't possibly 1 hour! We couldn't figure out what was going on...we walked back outside and and noticed that there were two theaters that were playing Robin Hood and we had walked into the wrong one right in the middle of the movie! Crap! the next showing wasn't for another 35 minutes so we went outside and told the theater people what happened and they told us we could stay for the next showing. We did and in the middle of the second showing there was a commotion! Two rows back from us a guy was yelling that the guy behind him had punched him in the back of the head and like 5 police came into the theater and escorted them out...we left during the second showing at the part that we came in at during the first one...so we saw the whole movie we just saw it backwards essentially. We had a good laugh over the whole thing and will now pay more attention to our theater number.

I love Jake

Mother...

This is what my dad said the other day while shopping for mothers day presents with my mom...

Mom: We have to get our moms mother's day presents while we're here.

Dad: How many is that?

Mom: Four Bobby...my mom, Jenny, your mom and Pat.

Dad: What about all the people we call mother?

Mom: How many people do you go around calling mother?

Dad: Depends on how close I am to them when they pull out in front of me.

I died laughing...My Dad is a witty man!

Now it's my turn...

I decided that Carly was having too much fun blogging about different things, so I commandeered her blog and now I'm going to write something for myself. Actually, in talking this past week I told her that I wanted to write a post on her blog with some of the reasons why I love her...but as you can tell from her last post, she stole my idea. So, now I'm going to share a few of the reasons why I love her, but keep in mind that these are just things that are on the forefront of my brain and that there are countless reasons that I am completely in love with her. Also, keep in mind that these are in no particular order.

1) She loves me as much as I love her, even though I have WAY more faults than her.

2) She makes me laugh and smile when I'm not having a good day

3) She makes my good days even better

4) She understands me, and listens to me when I'm telling her my frustrations

5) She has a testimony

6) She keeps me from killing Doc

7) She makes me feel like no one has ever made me feel

8) She laughs at my corny jokes

9) She calls me even when she doesn't have anything to say

10) I can't stand it when she isn't around

11) She makes me want to be a better person so that I can treat her like the princess that she is

12) She lets me write on her blog

13) She makes cd's with songs that we like for me to listen to in my truck

14) She isn't afraid to be herself when she's around me and lets me

15) She shares her feelings with me(even though not always right away...I get impatient sometimes)

16) She doesn't judge me for weird habits I have or weird things I like to do

17) She loves my family

18) She has such an awesome family

19) She says she isn't going to talk about the wedding or do any planning until after this semester ends, but she calls me almost daily to tell me something new she thought of

20) She follows the "whats yours is mine" rule and makes me follow it too

21) She calls me when I'm at work which makes my days go by so much easier

22) She comes to spend time with me after work, even though its late sometimes

23) She cares about what I think

24) She is beautiful, smart, funny, witty, clever, cute, amazing, gorgeous, and is my best friend in the entire world.

25) She said YES!(after I told her to "just answer the question")

Lists...

Things that make me happy right now...

1. Painted finger and toenails

2. This sweet blog

3. That I get to go home and to Atlanta in the next week

4. Sunflowers

5. Thinking about getting married

Things I need to do...

1. Study for finals

2. Get together stuff for bridal shower invitations

3. Pack my stuff up to move

4. Get boxes from Matthew and Lisa

5. Find a new job

Things I'm looking forward to...

1. Bridal showers

2. Marrying my best friend

3. Painting and decorating our house

4. Going to the beach

5. Planning our wedding

Things I want to do this summer...

1. Go to Utah and see Laura and Steve and Melanie and their family

2. Read at least 10 books

3. Go to the beach

4. Go to Carowinds

5. Spend more time at home

Reasons I love Jake...

1. He make really corny jokes that we both think are really funny

2. He brings me flowers every month on our anniversary

3. He winks at me

4. He tells me he loves me at least 25 times a day

5. He didn't get mad at me when I was a creeper and read his e-mails

6. He's willing to watch whatever movie I want

7. He keeps his hair the length I like it

8. He lets me be in control of the radio in the car

9. He randomly sends me really sweet text messages

10. He does little odd jobs around the house, he's very handy

11. He's a good listener

12. I trust him

13. He holds me when I cry

14. He's very computer savvy

15. Every thing reminds me of him

16. He carries me like a princess when the grass is cold and wet and I'm wearing flip flops

17. He puts his arm around me when I'm cold

18. He loves his family

19. He gets really excited cute when we talk about getting married

20. He sings in the car

Today I want to visit New York City...