The End Is Near
Please forgive me for not writing sooner. Our Internet has been down intermittently making it difficult to find time. Plus I was trying to finish up my last couple of lessons for my school work prolonged thanks to the Internet outages. The end is near refers to the fact that I’m almost done with school (would be if not for the Internet) – ok, I’ll drop that. 🙂
Friday:
Not much to report. I couldn’t sub because school was out for the kiddies. That was fine by me since I had school work to do which didn’t pan out as I had anticipated thanks to the Internet being on the fritz (oh yeah, I’m done with that). We met Nik and his girlfriend plus Jason for a dinner in honor of Jason’s birthday that week. It was nice. We hadn’t seen Nik in awhile so it was good to see him again. I had prepared a cake to bring with us for Jason. I love chocolate and so does he so it was easy to make a cake that was all things chocolate. There was so much chocolate in this thing it was crazy! I was happy with the way it turned out and think he was too. No one spit it out which is a nice sign that it was at least edible.
Here are the pictures from Friday night’s dinner:
the cake upon completion
Jason about to blow out the candles
Bryan in front of the the giant fork/heart
Saturday:
Saturday was busy, busy for me. I planned on having the entire day to make sure that Bryan had an awesome Valentine’s day where he didn’t have to lift a finger. The only thing I had to do that wasn’t related to this task was take Sweet Pea to the vet for her checkup. This is so vital if you get a shelter animal. Of course, she had an upper respiratory infection. I’m beginning to think this is standard shelter procedure. She also had a lot of ear gunk – like so much it was shocking. They said she was negative for ear mites but still had some bacteria in there. So I had to buy ear drops that she gets twice a day. She does not love this ordeal. I had a voucher for a free examination up to $46 and it still cost me $114 – wow! However, I think she’s good to go now until old age *crossing my fingers/saying a prayer/knocking on wood*.
After I got back from that I quickly made the desserts before Bryan got back from class. I made little individual cakes. They were strawberry from a box mix which I cut into small circles. There were 2 layers to each cake, and they were smothered in strawberry icing. I adorned them with lots of fresh strawberries for that added flair. There were very delicious. 🙂
I then worked all afternoon on some home made gifts for Bryan…dorky, I know, but it’s the thought that counts. Besides, he loved them.
Around 6ish I headed back into the kitchen to start the meal. We had an appetizer followed by the main dish. Bryan knew nothing of the 3 parts of dinner until they were laid before him. I was really proud of how all the food turned out and extremely thankful that he liked them all. I know have the #2 recipe in order to get to my 5 so I can knock it off of the list (you remember, before I’m 30 – did you think I forgot?). ;) We enjoyed delicious wine with our meal. The night was perfect. He even bought me flowers which I love and were the centerpiece for the meal. 🙂
Here is a picture after Valentine’s Day:
Sunday:
I went to the sparring class that my TKD instructor started; it was the first day. It was a lot of fun, but I was disappointed by the fact that NO Kung Fu people showed up. Please don’t disappoint me this Sunday.
Monday:
President’s Day…the kiddies were out of school again so no working for me. We had such a lazy day. Bryan was off, and neither of us was motivated to do anything. I did manage to get some stuff organized in the garage making it look the best to date. I know, you still can’t believe I’m organizing the garage – me either!
Monday night we went to Kung Fu and Tai Chi. It was a good night of both.
Tuesday (today):
I woke up late…typical. AT&T was here to fix our Internet for the 3rd time…so far, so good. I began doing school work finally. I got a lot accomplished. I went to Kung Fu which was awesome. It was all sparring in order to get ready for this Saturday”s sparring tournament. After I returned home it was back to school. I stayed up until I finished the lesson. Now I’m awaiting the enrollment key for the LAST activity which hopefully I can complete and turn in tomorrow because this has drug out way longer than I ever intended it to. Then…on to the BIG test…ahhhh!
Here are some videos of the cats:
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