Valentine's Day/ My Birthday

What a fun filled weekend! Ok not really a weekend more of a week. With snow falling from the sky we have still not returned to school and with new snow falling it isn't looking good for tomorrow either.

Starting on Wednesday Darcy and I decided to have a movie marathon because we were bored. We ended up renting 5 movies and got through 3. We watched Love Happens, All About Steve and Julie and Julia. Here is my take on each:

Love Happens: It was an ok movie. I don't think I would have enjoyed it as much if Jennifer Aniston hadn't been in it. The story didn't really evolve and I was expecting more romance so it was a bit of a disappointment.

All About Steve: Do not watch this. I had heard it wasn't the best movie but with Sandra Bullock and the other guy (I can't think of his name, the cute Matthew McConahey looking guy from Hangover) I figured it couldn't be horrible. It may not have been horrible because I did laugh at some parts but I'm not sure if that was because it was truly funny or if it was so stupid it was funny.

Julie and Julia: My favorite movie of the night. At points it did seem to drag out and this was not my favorite of Amy Adams movies (I don't think she can top Enchanted) it was still good. I also didn't realize it was based on a true story which I think made it better. We actually fell asleep during this one and didn't see the end but when I got home the next day and went through the mail I saw my new Netflix movie and low and behold it was this movie so I got to watch the end.

Then on Thursday we went to see Dear John. Great movie! I have been hearing a lot of negative comments about this movie and here is my theory why: This is one of the first movies that I have seen and heard a lot of people actually reading the book before they went to see it. NEWSFLASH, when they make a book into a movie they leave things out and change things. I know it is hard to deal with it but I have gotten to the point where I am expecting things to be different and have fun seeing how they fit it all into a movie. OR people didn't like the ending because it didn't end how they thought it should. That is what is great about Nicholas Sparks, he doesn't write for the happy endings, he writes how it usually ends. Most of his books follow that pattern.

Friday came and Pat came up. He had said for a while he wanted to go on a "fancy" date so I gave in. We went to Maria Adonrettos. It didn't have much of a selection but what we got was really good. Their soup of the day was Lobster Bisque so right there I was pretty happy.

After dinner we decided since we were already in Zanesville we would go to Kohls and register. WHAT FUN! Pat wouldn't let me hold the gun but we did pretty good. We had decided we were going to ask for whatever we wanted because if people wanted to get it for us they could and if they didn't we weren't out anything. This is probably the only time we could do this so why not. Plus I hate when I go on registries and they don't have very much and most of it has already been bought! I also like that we can get online and change things, which we already have.

Saturday we met with Suzanne our caterer and got our menu set for the wedding so another thing checked off the list! Yay! Then we went to Luke's basketball game. It is so much fun to watch them evolve and get better. After his game we headed to Newark to register at Target. We didn't think we had much more to get but ended up getting quite a few things! It was fun again! The only problem we ran into was not knowing where we are going to live so we don't know what all we will need but again we can always add things later!

Sunday we went to church and then made a lunch of BLT's and Jalepeno Poppers. We usually don't do well in the kitchen together because we tend to get in each others way but this time we did pretty well. I think it was because we each had our jobs and just stuck to those. Sunday night we went to see Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. Pat wasn't real excited to go but I think he still liked it. Another movie based on a book and they changed A LOT. I still enjoyed it though.

Today was a pretty lazy day and really didn't seem like my birthday other than the phone calls and messages on Facebook. Lora and I were talking on the phone and this is the first birthday in 4 years that we haven't been together. We hadn't talked for two weeks which was really weird but we both just kept missing each other.

Well I think this is probably long enough and if you have even made it to this point you are probably waiting for me to end it so I will!