Dustin and I have a new favorite activity called the game of TROUBLE! Remember this game?
We are missing most of the other pieces, so it works out to play with just the two of us.
We have been using it for a few minutes of relaxation after we get home from school. Although I don't know how relaxing it is when because we both want to win more than anything. It is actually kind of stressful. Growing up I was known by my family as the Trouble Champion. I just would always win and that's why I always wanted to play it! It is pure luck but it just feels so good to role 6's and slide right into the slots to get someone out.
Well now Dustin is challenging my title! He wins just as much! We go crazy during that game. We can't push the button fast enough to move our little guys around the board and if we get the other out we scream and yell, "I love gettin' into to Trouble!!" as loud as we can. I'm worried our neighbors are going to start checking up on us to make sure everything is okay. It is hilarious and I love having something to look forward to throughout the day, especially with finals just around the corner.
Happy Thursday!! If you have it, go play a friendly little game of Trouble!
Notice the pretty little lamps on the sides of our bed? I love them...well, I used to love them. A few weeks ago I was sleeping and something very odd happened. I woke up in the middle of the night with that lamp laying across my face! It was weird and I didn't quite know what to think of it. I felt invaded but I set it back up on the nightstand and went back to sleep.
Well, last night a small crashing noise woke both Dustin and I up in the middle of the night. We questioned for a second what that could have been, but we went back to sleep assuming it was from outside. This morning we saw that the lamp had fallen off the nightstand and crashed upside-down on the floor. The crashing noise was the bulb being crushed to tiny pieces.
For the first lamp incident I just thought I had accidentally tugged on the chord and pulled it over onto me. This second lamp incident seems much more violent. Am I subconsciously a violent sleeper? Do I literally sit up and swing my arms around in the middle of the night, trying to knock anything down around me? Should Dustin be worried for his safety? From my knowledge I've always been a peaceful sleeper, so much so that my covers hardly ever move and I basically wake up in the same position that I fell asleep in. I am seriously questioning that now.
This is what we woke up to this morning.
Is there another explanation for this madness or should I just start safe-proofing the area's where I sleep?
February 17th was Dustin's birthday. I wanted to take him somewhere special for dinner and I immediately thought of Tucanos Brazillian Grill. That place is Fantastic. We've only been once and there's a really good reason....its around $20 a person. $40+ for both of us? No thank you! Taco Bell here we come!
Well the one time we went was on my birthday when we were dating. I had received a birthday coupon from them in the mail for a 2 for 1 deal. We had scored big time. It doesn't get much better than a free meal at Tucano's.
So we called ahead of time to see about their infamous "Birthday special" we had participated in not too long ago. They told us they were, in fact, still doing the deal. Just come in on someone's birthday and we are good to go! We were thrilled to the brim. We couldn't stop talking all week about our sweet meal deal we were about to get that weekend.
Saturday came and we got all dressed up. We made sure to hardly eat anything all day so we could fill up on the buffet style meats, pasta, bread, salad...you name it.
We started off by taking a few excited pictures in the car, and then going out of our way to ask a lady to take a picture of us in the restaurant. We were making memories people. This was a big deal.
We specifically asked her to get the "Tucano's" sign in the picture. She did great so we slipped her a few dollars...no just kidding we didn't.
Do you see how happy we look? This was the best day ever.
Now why is this sad picture in here, you ask? Wasn't everything going according to plan, you say? Well, not exactly. I shall tell you what happened. We were almost immediately seated by our waiter and we felt like royalty as we walked down the aisle, passing all of the people that didn't have reservations. We smiled at everyone as my heels click-clacked all the way to our table. Our smiles got bigger and bigger as the waiter told us that tonight was our lucky night because it was seafood night along with the regular food specialty's. Any kind of sea food was included in the original price, and we were basically drooling by the end of his speech. He left us to get started on our dinner.
I then had the thought that this might be too good to be true. I asked Dustin to go up to the front to just make sure that we were able to use this 2 for 1 deal because of his birthday. Just to make sure!! I didn't want to get stuck with a huge bill at the end of our meal because of a miscommunication. But I was still sure it would be fine. I had just finished filling up my salad plate when Dustin comes back with a sad look on his face. They told us the wrong information and in fact, we needed a special card along with it being his birthday. We didn't have a special card. Dustin was so cute as he told me that we should just stay, that they money was no big deal! We considered it for a second but I just couldn't talk myself into it. So I hastily scrapped my untouched salad back back into the bowl and we left, grabbing a handful of free mints and toothpicks on our way out the door.
We went to Iggy's instead because we had a coupon in the car.
It was delicous...way better than Tucano's. We don't even like Tucano's anyway. It's yucky.
P.S. I realize that we sound super cheap. But we totally ARE cheap, and there's just no way of hiding that!
It all started last night, when I forgot to plug my low-on-battery phone in to charge. I woke up this morning, realized I forgot, and quickly plugged it in for the 40 minutes before we left for school. My phone already has an issue with staying alive even when it fully charges all night, so I knew going to school with it only 1/4 charged was going to be a problem.
I also knew my battery wouldn't allow me to play bejeweled in between classes. I accidentally played for 10 minutes. Woops!
The day pressed forward. I performed with my tap class in front of a small portion of the school at lunch time. That was fun yet a little embarrassing because I wasn't totally in love with our dance and song choice. The cloggers totally showed us up :).
2:00 rolled around and I headed to the stat lab to study for my test. I saw Dustin on gmail chat and we chatted and distracted each other from our work for a bit. We had a lovely conversation about what we could look forward to when we got home....Jell-O for me, egg bagel for him, and a short episode of our show to unwind. We were thrilled and recommitted ourselves to finish fast so we could get home. I then thought about my quickly dying phone and decided to figure out a plan in case he couldn't get a hold of me. The rest of the convo went like this...
(By the way I was expecting a friend at 2:50 to study with. She was an hour late and wasn't able to tell me because my phone was dead lol)
(And "me" is Dustin)
2:55 PM Moriah: if my phone dies i'll be at the top of the stairs going down to the RB at 4ish....
I hope we won't go longer than that but she's not here yet
5 minutes
3:01 PM Moriah: still not here
me: ok
ill be on this the whole time so ill plan on meeting with you at 4 at the top of the stairs, unless you say something different through chat
3:02 PM bc you might have to stay longer if she is still not there
sorry shes late!
3:03 PM Moriah: ok sounds good!
so ya if i'm still on here, i'm still at the lab
me: cool
if not cya at 4The plan was perfectly clear! My friend showed up, and we got working on our study guide. 4:00 comes and goes, and finally it is creeping up on 5:00. My phone was completely dead but I am still signed onto gmail...which is supposed to tell Dustin I am in fact, still in the stat lab. I tried to send him a quick little something, telling him that I'm almost done, but he was signed off. I returned to my work. I soon heard a whistle and I turned to find Dustin in the stat lab. I had barely seen him all day and was so excited he showed up! I called him over to meet my friend and to say hi but I could immediately tell he was upset. He told me he'd be outside when I was finished. I quickly finished and headed out to talk. Here's what happened behind the scenes.Somehow without my knowledge, my gmail had signed me off of chat! Dustin remembered the plan to meet if I was offline and noticed that it was 4:00. He packed up his things and waited for me at the top of the stairs. He called, I didn't answer. There is now nothing he can do to get a hold of me. He waited in the freezing cold rain until 4:20. At this point he went up to the packed stat lab to look for me, didn't see me!! And I didn't hear his whistle. This is unusual for us. So he leaves the stat building, and walks down to my finance lab, thinking I had maybe stopped there for some last minute tutoring. I wasn't there. He went back to the stairs, now thinking we had missed each other and that maybe I had gone home to charge my phone so I could find him. It is now 4:50 and he started to get thoughts that I was kidnapped. Scenarios come into his mind of me getting to the car and being confronted by a man with a gun telling me to get in the car and drive. Dustin started to panic. Where could I be??? In a frenzy, he decided he was going to call the cops and report me as missing. (I'm not sure if this is ridiculous but I assume him being tired, hungry, frustrated, and now scared had something to do with this decision). Before he called, he figured he should check the stat lab one more time. That is when I heard his whistle, turned, and greeted him with a big smile like nothing in the world could be wrong. Isn't that a crazy story?? My poor Dustin. I could have had the F.B.I/Police/S.W.A.Tteam out looking for me today. I could have been on T.V. If only I hadn't played that one game of bejeweled....:))). Again, woops!
Dustin did something really cute yesterday that I wanted to document.
I was going somewhere in the morning that I was already running late for. I said goodbye to Dustin and ran out the door. As I was approaching the car he yelled out our bedroom window (which he often likes to do), "Goodbye my LOOOVEEE!!!" in a funny accent...this is from the movie Dumb and Dumber. I have never seen the movie but there are a few parts that Dustin finds hilarious. This is one of them. As he's yelling out the window and I'm smiling, secretly worrying that he's waking up the poor neighbors, I notice that the car was iced over from the night before. "Oh no" I think, "there's ice on the car and I'm already running late..." I may or may not have complained to myself while rushing to start the car and pull out the scraper. I was able to scrape 1/2 of the first windshield when my Dustball comes bounding down the stairs with a determined look on his face. He was quite the sight, fully equipped with a sweatshirt, ski pants, and....his Sunday shoes. I was shocked at how rushed he was to save me from this labor, to the point where he just threw on literally whatever was closest at the moment. He took the scrapper from me and told me to go relax in the car. I couldn't stop laughing at how he couldn't have just slipped on some tennis shoes which were probably 10 feet away from him. It cracked me up but at the same time it was the sweetest thing that totally lifted my frantic mood.
The amazing thing about this is, it totally describes Dustin's personality. He is constantly worrying about my welfare and making sure I am comfortable and happy. He spoils me way too much. But the refreshing thing about him is he would do this for anyone. I have seen him literally run around our apartment complex carrying our neighbors groceries, scraping snow off of strangers cars, shoveling walkways, and just making people feel so so happy with his ridiculously bright and handsome smile. He really is the sweetest, most generous person and he makes me want to be better every day.
So thank you Dustin for being my Knight in Shining Armor yesterday, and every day. I think I made a pretty good choice.
