Matt and I haven't been out on a date in a while (probably since our anniversary trip). Well, Matt had no plans tonight (and no side-kick - thank goodness!) and I had no appointments.  We decided to go to Pirate Island where the University Mall Theatre used to be.  IT ROCKS!

I'd heard good things about it from people at work, and apparently so had Matt.  We had about a half hour wait, so we checked out the arcade and then the gift shop.  The gift shop guy was kind of cool. (He reminded me of you, Andrew - the timbre of his voice... and he looked like you a little bit.  Not quite as charismatic, though.)  Anyway, they sell knives, so he pulled out a (fake)jewel-encrusted dirk for me to look at.  Then we wandered to the other counter, and he knew I was interested in the rings, so he pulled them out too.  After that, we went back to the arcade. 

Matt got us $10 worth of pirate coins.  We first shot targets with shot guns.  They had a cute setup.   Matt shot some hoops, then we played some other shooting game...Matt died first. We played quite a few games and ended up with 250 tickets.  Sadly, someone was always at Deal or No Deal.  I really wanted to play that!  For our 250 tickets, we got a pirate ball.  It has the clear ball around it, so the image always faces up.  Then when it hits something hard, it lights up.  (Matt's pick.)  At that point, it was time for us to be seated. 

Our waiter, Jarom, was awesome!  He had the most authentic costume and did Captain Sparrow too well :)  He was amazing.  Matt said next time we should ask for him lol.  Let's just say he was well-tipped.  Matt got a steak and I had pizza.  Oh! and we also got Sea Biscuits (breadsticks) with marinara sauce as an appetizer.  It was the best date night ever!  At least in a very long time.  We definitely intend on going back - and soon!  I highly urge you to try it!

So I should have gone, showered, and got ready for bed. Instead, I decided I should actually make some scrapbook pages with my new found skillz. (You know, instead of blog backgrounds, headers, and cute desktop backgrounds...)  I wasn't feeling up to something as large as our wedding, so I went with my pictures from last Halloween.  Here I post them for your viewing pleasure.

For how much my husband harrasses me and teases me, he just gave me a great compliment! He just teased me about my degree (psychology), and I countered by saying I've found an application in our business for it.  He said, "Ya, you're doing quite well, actually." Then he beat on himself a little, while sad, a little true - and implying I'm doing more of the this than he is (true), but that he knew it and admitted it! It just made me happy enough to blog about it. I wanted to remember the happiness :D

I'm a couple days early according to the calendars, but I wanted to get some use in of my first fall background and header before I switch it to the Halloween stuff I just designed :) I love making blog backgrounds and headers! I have some cute ones that I really need to rotate through as well.  Maybe if any of my blogging friends want, I could design you a cute background too! (There's no way I'll be able to use all of mine at the rate I'm going.)

Tomorrow's the primary program - wish us luck! Oh! and we have sharing time next week - ideas much appreciated! (Junior primary...)

It seems to be all the rage to either have a dedicated "book blog," or to at least ocassionally blog about a recent read.  This isn't exactly the reason for this post, but it does seem to fit the trend :)

A few weeks ago, I was bored and needed to stay up north for some reason or another. (I probably just had a meeting in Lindon and didn't want to drive all the way home for an hour or two after getting off of work.) So naturally, I did a little shopping.  (My gas saving efforts thwarted by the $ spent elsewhere...)  Anyway, I didn't even want to drive to downtown Provo to go to my beloved Waldenbooks, so I stopped in at Barnes & Noble. (This is what happens when I take my other current read out of my bag the night before...oops!)  Naturally, I head straight over to the Sci Fi/Fantasy section.  I perused the selections and picked up one or two.  I found Paul of Dune was out in paperback, which I had not been aware of.  However, I knew that wasn't what I wanted to read.  (I need to refresh myself on the series first.)  So I continued to peruse.  I paused at the Orson Scott Card selection.  I really enjoyed Ender's Game.  I even bought Speaker for the Dead, but never really got into it.  Then, next to the Ender's and Ender's Shadow series, there was Enchantment.



Now, it has been ages since I picked up a random book to read, much less to buy to read.  So I read the first few pages, and decided to go ahead and buy it. I finished it a week or so ago, but I must say, it was really good!  I usually like the more Sci Fi side, but this was more of the Fantasy realm.  I liked the fresh take, as well.  Anyway, I would highly recommend reading it. :)

**To purchase, click the picture.**

NOT to go to bed angry has clearly never been married.  Retard.  Seeing as how it is about 5:30 in the morning, these events will be referred to as "yesterday."  I don't know what our deal was yesterday.  I spent ALL freaking day at the office.  First the training meeting from 9 to 11.  Then I talked with Zack, my RVP, then I sat through the first half of the life insurance class - which went way longer than anticipated.  (That happens when you take an hour dinner break. :p) Anyway, so I left a little early because I had a 7:30pm appointment, and I told Matt I'd pick him up.  The appointment was fine, but the real issues started on the way home.  (A neat trick when you live not even 5 minutes away.)

Dad had called while we were in the appointment asking if we were having dinner with them tomorrow... er... today, rather. So I called him back and he mentioned they had just got home from my cousin's wedding reception.  I was a tad in shock at the news.  I knew that he and his wife were thinking about divorce for awhile, but I never knew it had happened.  Last I heard, she had decided her marriage was worth it, so she was going to work on it.  Anyway, that apparently didn't happen, and my cousin got remarried.  Shocking in and of itself when I had no idea he had even been divorced.  More shocking, is not receiving any announcement whatsoever.  Matt told me that a second marriage isn't something one would usually want to parade around, but ... we're family! Whatever. So in my shock and little bit of hurt about being left out on this fact, I apparently sounded angry.  Matt didn't appreciate that and asked why I had to be upset with him. This, of course, made me a little upset. (Stupid.)

Anyway, we got over that for a little moment.  Then I asked Matt if he had noticed White Peaks finally got their new kilts (after a couple years). (This wasn't completely random, Matt had been watching videos from the Pleasanton games.) I'm still upset that Don didn't bother calling to say, "Hey, I know you ordered a kilt like five years ago. They're finally in, did you still want to buy it?"  That's right - five freaking years I've been waiting for that d*** kilt.  They finally show up four months after I quit the band, and I don't even get offered to try it on?  Anyway, I was venting this, because it clearly still pisses me off, and Matt was interrupting me and saying things that made it sound like it didn't matter and that my being upset was unnecessary.  All I wanted was to vent.  Anyway, him not wanting to listen to me made me stop talking and made me upset again.

Then! (I told you it was a bad night.  This was all in the space of like 2 hours.) stupid Windows Vista needs permission to do anything. My java updater kept popping up asking permission to continue.  I finally gave in and told it yes, but it still kept popping up.  Matt said I had to click the thing at the bottom to tell it to continue.  I didn't realize I needed to continue 2 things, so I snapped at him, then realized what he was saying, but the damage was done and he snapped back,so I left the room.  While I was hanging out on the bed, my favorite (read: NOT) person came over to play Halo until, I am assuming, he could pick his wife up from work.  Probably shouldn't leave that comment since his wife is a follower on my blog, but that's too bad. Anyway, so I stayed in our room and finally dozed off.  Matt came in around 11 or a little bit after, but he still thought I was mad because he woke me up and I kept giving the bird back to him and kind of ignoring him (I was sleeping!).  Anyway, he apparently fell asleep at some point as well. 

I just woke up before 5am, and I'm not really mad. This always happens.  We'll go to bed annoyed with each other or whatever, then when we wake up, it's like it never happened.  Maybe it is because we live with each other, so after having time to relax, there's no point in being mad still. I know we could probably gain something from learning to actually communicate, but our issues generally are stupid little things anyway.  So far, sleeping it off has worked quite well.  So whoever said not to go to bed angry was stupid. I suppose it would be good advice if there were some "real" issue, but I don't think we have too many of those.  To end, I want to leave you with a little clip of Jeff Dunham.  If you only want the part relating to this post, move it to 0:55 and watch until 1:02.  Or you can watch the whole thing (it's the secont part of his monologue from his Spark of Insanity video, so you'll have to go to youtube to see all of it, but it's still funny!)