We celebrated our 5th anniversary tonight, only one week late (a record for us).
DH took me out to a new vegan restraunt in town. We decided to dress up nice and hence were way over-dressed since it mostly serves sandwiches and interesting drinks (that is, fancy teas and fruit drinks). We went all out and ordered drinks (I got Chai tea, somehting I've always wanted to try but couldn't as it is usually dairy based), sandwhiches, soup, and deserts (unfortunately they had long ago run out of the vegan cheese cake but what we got was pretty good). DH actually liked the meal more then I did and now feels a challenge to improve on his Seitan.
I freaked out when I saw the bill came to $30 (whcih makes sence if you think about all the 'extras' we ordered), since we are on a very tight budget since we moved here so I could go to school. DH said it is coming out of his "allowance" which we have lowerd to $40 a month so I felt bad but he keeps telling me this is what he expected and that other people go on more expensive dates when they aren't even married ;)
For our anniversary presents we decided not to buy anything, but each to choose something the other can do for us that we really want. We both totally freaked eachother out since both of our requsts have to do with more open communication in areas we are respectively not good at. But we vowed to try.
The waitress got to see many pix of our birdies on DH's palm pilot. (BTW we have some more cute bathing pix of Sugar and some truely increadible flight pictures of both which should be up soonish).
Tomorrow we are going to Brown County State Park for a walk and a picnic, provided by DH! I am so excited. As is typical, since we moved here my parents have been to several of the forest preserves and other nice things around here, but we haven't!
I am not doing any homework this weekend at all (and actually I slept almost all day today, hence the spill-over of our plans until tomorrow). Thankfully most of the teachers are going to the AECT conference next week so there is a little bit of a break (we all plan on catching up on group projects next week but there is a little more of a relaxed feeling).
Anyhow, don't know why but felt like sharing. I guess I wanted to offset my usual whining ;)
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