yehmon

I have a huge pile of laundry staring at me and a slightly dirty house, but I'm doing my best to ignore it. When you're sick, you can do whatever you want- that's the rule. I hate being sick and I hate doctor's offices because of all the sick people. This time it's bronchitis, sinusitis, and an ear infection... one would be enough, but all at once is rather unpleasant. I've got to build up my teacher immunity. Meanwhile, I will watch Star Trek and eat lime Tostitos. Dr. Katie said I could still go to work. She knows everything. I'm pretty sure she said I couldn't do any cleaning or cooking or laundry kind of stuff, though.

Last week I left Michael here and ran off to Jamaica with my mom. Hard life, I know. We got to go for SUPER cheap because it was a travel agent thing. We toured different resorts and had stuff paid for and I got a free t-shirt but it was too big. The bad part was being away from Michael and finding out there was no phone or internet where we were. Poo.

One of my favorite things was watching Mom's face. They don't always wear all their clothes on the beaches, and the dances are perhaps less than tasteful.

This was our beach:

We did see some really pretty places, though. This is a Sandals island, where a party was hosted for us.

The highlight of my whole trip was meeting the Cookie Monster at the party. What an honor... I love cookies. My second favorite part was the dessert table.

Here's my favorite resort that we saw, "Rock House."

It had little ladders down into the water and you could snorkel in a cave... neat-o!

Love this bridge!

Anyway, I have to go now because I have a lot of stuff I need to do that I'm going to ignore and not feel guilty about.

labor day weekend

Michael and I made a short trip to Oklahoma City this weekend because... well, just because we could. Delta was not happy when she found out we were leaving her.

But, we left her at the grandparents with 4 human puppies to play with, so she was quite happy. We of course played the alphabet game on the way (you know, finding letters on signs and license plates and such). Michael cheats.

First stop was the Cheesecake Factory. Godiva chocolate cheesecake is life-changing. I- the dessertaholic- could not finish it in two separate settings. The menu was like 20-something pages long, with at least two pages dedicated to cheesecake. I would drive three hours just for that restaurant.

Next stop was the science museum. Michael got to ride a segway! Also, we went to the planetarium show and I fell asleep. I have a short attention span and it was dark and had reclining seats. What did I expect?

Bricktown was next on the list, starting with the Bricktown Candy Co. They had a ton of different flavors of Jones Soda. Michael's green apple one was awesome. I made the mistake of getting a sugar-free one, and it was not as awesome. Sugar-free stuff never is. I'm smiling in the picture, but that's because I hadn't opened it yet.

Bricktown was really pretty. I don't really think of Oklahoma City as being pretty (actually, the first thing that comes to my mind is bombs), but I was actually pleasantly surprised.

We've been married almost 4 months! :)

A friend recommended In the Raw, a sushi place in Bricktown, and it was AWESOME. We had the Baby Gecko (no, not actually made of gecko), and a shrimp thing (forgot the name). Both were wonderful.

The next we hopped on over to the OKC Zoo, which really puts the LR Zoo to shame. It was huge, and it had TWO BUTTERFLY GARDENS. Actually, one was a garden and one was a house. I was a happy girl. At one point, I heard a little kid go, "Oh my gosh Mommy, it's a butterfly!!!" I thought about just taking the kid, but I figured her mommy might notice. I hope my future kid is just like that some day. Of course I took a zillion pictures, but I'll just post a few.

And lastly from the zoo, here is proof that God has a sense of humor: the giraffe and the umm... weird looking hairy elf-pig thing.

The rest of the weekend was fun family stuff. Katie and Daniel came over Sunday night and the boys played some war game on the PS3 and shot stuff. Michael was very excited to have someone to play video games with, because I'm a video game dumbbell. Katie and spent time... talking and being sarcastic (in our true family form). I put purple starbursts in a martini glass on their nightstand so I would look like a good hostess. What they don't know is that I just don't like the purple ones.

Mom, Dad, and Memaw came up Monday morning and we all went to Sweet Bay for breakfast. It was nice to have all of my family here. Michael said he thought the house might explode from having so many B's in it. Mom and I went to Creekmore Park with our puppies and then had a family game of Wii bowling. This is why I hate video games: I lost to Mom, Dad, and 80 year old Memaw.