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Sunday, March 27, 2011

Rambling...

I've been having a bit of bloggers block lately, and haven't been able to come up with anything good to blog about. I can only blog about how much I love my job so many times in a row before it starts to get monotonous, you know? And other than our new jobs, David and I don't do a whole lot. Mostly, we go to work for 10+ hours every day and then come home and grade/lesson plan at night. (Well... I grade/lesson plan - David watches basketball and helps me run through lesson ideas.)  Not much else is going on.

I've been thinking about maybe doing a wedding blog post challenge that I saw, where you take a couple of weeks and write several posts about your wedding. How you met your husband, what your wedding dress looked like etc... I think that it is fun, and I would love to get some of that stuff on our blog. Plus, I love reading about other people's wedding's and looking at their pictures and things. So maybe I will do that... but I haven't decided yet. What do you think?

Tonight, I asked David what I should blog about - and he told me that I should blog about Nertz. Nertz is a game that we have really been loving lately, and basically play it with anyone that we can con into it. Pretty much any time we are at David's house in West Jordan, or my house in Morgan, we force people to play with us. Luckily for us - it really is a fun game and we don't have to work too hard to find at least a couple of people to play with us. We have also been lucky enough to have a couple of visits from my sister Jenna, and David's sister Amy, and we have made it clear that they weren't allowed to leave until they played at least one game with us.  We go through phases with games. Before Nertz, we were really into "Buy" - and before that we played Canasta pretty much any time there were at least four people. If you have any other good card games - let me know. As much as I love Nertz... I suspect that we will be switching games in the near future. However, until that point, if any of you want to challenge us to a game of Nertz... count us in!
We "love" playing Nertz.
Okay... I have a confession. I went shopping yesterday with Wendy and Amy and bought another trench coat. Yes. That brings my total up to 4. Remember this post? Yes. Well - If not ... let me refresh your memory. I bought a red trench coat a couple of months ago - in preparation for the early spring that we are experiencing in Lehi (early by Logan standards I guess). I saw it and fell in love with it. Then because I loved it so much, I convinced David to take me back to the store and buy two more - a blue one and a black one. (They are all the same coat- but the colors make it look so different. I just love them all.) Then when I was in the store I saw this coat:
(Well... one very similar to this. I couldn't find the exact one online. Mine is a little more tan-ish.)
It was beautiful and 60% off. I texted David and told him that I may or may not be thinking about buying another trench coat. After I got his very supportive reply, I walked away with it for $21.00. It was too good to pass up. I'll be honest - I wear one of these coats EVERY day. They have already been such a great investment. The thing is... I'm a grown up now and am expected to dress like one. I can't really show up to work in a sweatshirt, and my winter coat is just a tad bit much for this spring weather. Moral of the story: I love these coats and am SO excited to add this tan beauty to my collection. Addicted? Maybe. Happy? Definitely.

Well... David just challenged me to a game of Speed (Which is similar to Nertz... but for two players) so I should probably wind this rambling post down. Wish me luck!

6 comments:

Melissa said...

Ever play Speed with 4 players? or California Speed? Have you ever heard of Blast From the Past(it's a really fun card game)or played it before. We would love to get together with you guys and play games. It would be so much fun.

Lauren and Carter said...

I need a trench coat so bad. I feel you about trying to find grown-up clothes - do you feel like no one carries clothes for people in their early 20's? It's either too teenager-ish or too mom-ish. Or too expensive. :) Also, I love Nertz, but I am extremely terrible at it.

Amy said...

You make me smile! I had a great time visiting this weekend, by the way.

David Peaden said...

Update: Shantel is really good at speed. I mean, super fast. I am surprised any time I can beat her. In fact, we played when we first got married and since I have avoided playing because she is just too good. However, I do think speed is super fun, so I challenged Shantel to a match. We played best of 5 and I won 3 out of 5! It is amazing. We were really close all five games. In fact, we actually had to play 6 times because one game we finished at the exact same time.

Kellie and Nick Fawcett said...

I love trench coats... I want one. I am so jealous of you.

Adam and Christine said...

You dress more grown up then me. I just am wearing stupid clothes I feel. I haven't bought new clothes in so long. Maybe I will have to go with you sometime. You always look so cute. By the way. We love card games. We should play sometime.