King Cake + trying to get in shape= BAD NEWS!

Okay, so every year around this time, Gary's Aunt Nancy sends us a king cake in the mail for Mardi Gras!!! I had never heard of one of these until last year when we received one in the mail. Sidenote: Gary is from New Orleans and a lot of his family still lives there. If you don't know what a King Cake is, you're missing out. It's like a giant pastry with the most amazing frosting on it. It also has a tiny plastic baby baked into it (CHOKING HAZARD). Anywho, this cake is a tradition for people in New Orleans to eat around this time of year and whoever gets the slice with the baby in it is responsible for buying the cake the next year. Well, tonight on my very first slice, I GOT THE BABY! I don't think they want me to send them one though because our King Cakes fail in comparison to the ones in Louisiana. They are fabulous!!! I called our Aunt Nancy today to thank her and she told me she stood in line for an hour and a half to get that cake! Let me just tell you, it was worth it. That thing is AMAZING! I've already had two slices.....which is not doing too much for my figure. :( I'm hoping I'll get to experience the real Mardi Gras one day in New Orleans. Kari, if you're reading this, that should be our next excursion with our hubbies!!! Here's a pic of this wonderful treat!!!

Also, check out this website: fmylife.com. It sounds horrible, but it's actually hillarious! If you're ever having a bad day, check it out. It has tons and tons of stories that people have posted about unfortunate, but comical events that they have dealt with. It will definitely make you laugh, which is something I really needed to do on this Monday!!! Have a great rest of the week!

Surprises, Fireproofing, and a New Couch

This has been a nice and relaxing weekend. Yesterday, I spent the morning cleaning house, doing laundry, and grading some papers. Nothing too exciting. Meanwhile, Gary and his two friends helped with the trail cleanup at Lake Fayetteville. He was pretty sore today, but I think they enjoyed themselves.
On Friday afternoon after work, I was taking nap. I love naps. I would take one everyday if I could. I've always thought the world would be a better place if jobs let people have nap time, just like in kindergarten. Think about what a better world this would be! Okay, back to the story. My lovely husband walked in and woke me up (I was not thrilled; I don't enjoy having my naps interrupted). However, this was worth it. He had a surprise for me: A NEW BLACKBERRY! I have been begging and pleading for one of these because the phone I had was much like a jitterbug (this is a phone for elderly people if you haven't seen the commercials). It wasn't time for me to upgrade at Alltel so I thought all hope was lost, but my sneaky little husband found a slightly used one on Craig's List. By the way, this website is where we found our chihuahua, Tina, for FREE. Can anyone imagine why someone would want to give this sweet little creature away for free?!?!! They even gave us her kennel, food, and collar. They practically paid us to take her. I have no idea why! :)
A couple weeks ago, Gary's sister moved into a new apartment. She's been needing a couch and we told her she could buy ours. It took her about a week to decide, but she called today and said she wanted to buy it. So I hopped in the shower and Gary and I were off to the furniture stores. I was sooooo indecisive, but we finally decided on another sectional (even though we said we didn't want another one)! Here's a picture of it!

After our couch purchase, we decided to go rent a couple movies since Desperate isn't on tonight. Gary mentioned renting Fireproof and I had been wanting to rent Changeling with Angenlina Jolie and Hastings had both!!! We watched Fireproof this afternoon, and I was really skeptical at first. It seemed really cheesy, but by the end I was boo hooing. It was a really great movie with a great message. I highly recommend it! :)

Valentine's Day

Gary and I had a great Valentine's Day weekend. His birthday was on Thursday, but we really celebrated it on Friday night at Tim's with a group of friends. It was a lot of fun! Gary's parents were in town so they got to join us. After dinner, we had a few people over to play dominoes, along with our neighbors.

I've been Tagged!!!

My bestest friend, Kari Beth, tagged me to put my 6th picture in my 6th file on my next post. How fitting then that when I looked in my 6th file at my 6th picture, it was me and Kari. This picture was taken on this past New Years Eve at dinner. What a fun night!

Thanks for the tag!
This has been a long and overwhelming week back at work. I've been getting ready for parent-teacher conferences, which are next week and working on a project for a class I took this summer. I'm so glad tomorrow is Friday!