wil and kris (and gracie and ava)

Today Im home sick and I can’t decide whether it’s a good thing or not that it happened on my 2 days off this week. …meh

i have the perfect ingredients for a great evening…wil is having a boys night watching nothing other than the uber manly ‘godfather’… so i’m have a girls night. (well, me and the two dogs at home alone hardly counts, but shh…who’s actually paying attention to the details?)

• i’m in my pj’s
• got a bowl full of cereal (of recently re-discovered smacks…forgot how good those were!)
• the dogs are relatively quiet
• have a whole series of ‘mad men’ free on demand…i have gotten bit by the bug. i’ve only seen three episodes but i am hooked and dying to power through the first season so i can catch up to the second season that just started on sunday. so good!

but shoot…the on demand isn’t working for some reason. : (

perfect night- spoiled.

so i haven’t written anything…but wil’s been storing up ideas for posts…so i’m just waiting for him to sit and write. just fyi…

last night was filled with amazing music and good friends as we celebrated our friend’s cd release party/show at the five spot. dave asked me to take pictures throughout the night (stressed me out way more than it ought to have because they turned out better than i thought on the computer), so here are a few of my favorites (larger set here).

dave is the lead singer of the champion and his burning flame (wil and dave go back to working at the downtown franklin starbucks together), and so we have also gotten to know the rest of the guys through the band, mutual friends and starbucks of course (everyone we know seems to work, have worked, or been related to someone who works at starbucks…it’s an interesting community).

their music is really amazing…wil and i blasted our new cd through the house while we enjoyed pancakes and bacon this lazy saturday morning. their myspace gives you a little hint. enjoy!

I am: myself
I think: i am going to be exhausted by the weekend
I know: a few things, but not much
I want: to be pregnant…not today, but someday
I have: to get more stuff together for an upcoming meeting
I wish: i could have a big bowl of ice cream
I hate: folding and putting away laundry
I miss: my family
I fear: missing out on the lives of the people i care about
I feel: a little nervous
I hear: thunder, rain, violins and piano
I smell: old stacked fabrics and snickerdoodles
I crave: see’s chocolate
I search: the tv guide to see if any of my favorites are on
I wonder: if he’s thinking about me during the day as much as i think about him
I regret: not being better at calling people on the phone
I love: the life i’ve been blessed with
I ache: in my muscles from working out on monday
I care: about being considerate to the businesses i work with
I always: worry about our checking account
I am not: one to lose my temper
I believe: anytime is a good time to sit and watch a movie
I sing: even if the radio’s off and wil’s sick of hearing me
I dance: in front of the dogs
I cry: fairly easy…especially when i’m reading about someone’s dog dying
I don’t always: do the dishes in a timely manner
I fight: silently, thinking more than speaking (which is not necessarily better)
I write: only when something exciting happens that’s blogworthy
I never: worry about calories or carbs
I listen: better than i talk
I need: to be more dependent on god
I am happy: when i am at home with wil and the ‘girls’

that was cool, thanks for letting me steal that dena.

well, it’s been a crazy week to say the least, and unfortunately due to the circumstances i can’t really talk about it. work has been the most upside down it’s ever been, with all of us throwing all clients aside and working on a single project…luckily it’s the summer and none of our regular clients are in town anyways to notice they’ve been thrown aside.

but since i can’t go into too much detail, there is a new positive change that i can talk about instead…wil and i decided we needed to be more healthy so we got a membership at the ymca…although there are a couple y’s closer to our house, we’ve got one about 5 minutes from my work, next to whole foods and the future trader joes (saw a sign posted at the empty building so that’s a good thing!), and a few friends already frequent that one.

we just got it two weeks ago, and haven’t had a regular week yet, but wil and i usually meet there when i get off work mon, wed and fri…wil’s very excited about the ability to swim again (he’s been watching the olympic swim trials nonstop right now btw), and we are happy about the prospect of working out together and being more active. they offer a health scan thing to show you your overall health based on the fit averages of your gender/age by measuring a few things, so we thought it’d be good to get that first off to see what areas to work on. while both of our flexibility was in the ‘needs work’ category, we were both pleasantly surprised to see we had fairly good overall scores to begin with…i told the tester girl when i saw my results ‘i should not work out more often!’ (ha ha, i know i’m such a clever comedian). i also was excited to brag to wil that my bicep strength was beyond the excellent category. ha! it’s probably from all the antique tables and chests and chairs we are constantly moving around our office and at clients’ homes.

so, it’s a good thing we’ve started and it seems like we’ll keep it up.

oh, and the excitement we got ourselves into this weekend? it ended up we planted a tree on saturday (i hope it lives because i saw this morning that ava thought it was a good idea to dig it last night)…and we saw wall-e on sunday. everyone must see wall-e…it was so great. and like all the reviews i had read prior…it’s not just a great animated film, it’s truly a great film, period.

Well… It’s friday night; I wonder what we’ll get ourselves into this weekend…