Since I've not been blogging in a while, here's a few catch ups!

Monday feb 1, 2010 – Marv’s birthday. Had breakfast with Ivan and Mary at Anna Dee’s. Mary got Ivan (whose birthday is tomorrow) and Marv each a Farmers Almanac for the year. I had an egg, an english muffin and coffee.

Marv and I went to the Mall of America. I bought a Minneaplis cityscape jigsaw puzzle. Marv and I had coffee ice cream with chocolate shavings and pecans. We watched the Nickelodeon Universe rides. He refused the roller coaster, but we had fun anyway. Then we walked around for quite a bit. Went to Barnes and Noble. Marv got a new dictionary.

Then we went and had stromboli (spinach, tomato, feta - that counts as veggies!) at Valle Pizza. Then we went to IKEA and Marv got a bouncy chair and a little file cabinet that I accidentally knocked off of the cart and broke. But Marv still bought it and has subsequently fixed it. We also bought the “Mystery Cart” for $30. There were frames, candles, baskets, a pillow, pillow case, about 20 rolls of Valentine’s Day themed colored wrapping paper. After that, we stopped for Thai food at Joys Pattaya. Marv had shrimp and scallops, and I had curry noodle with tofu and veggies. All very very good!

We stopped on the way home at the Wood Craft Store in Bloomington where Marv got some liquid thing. We stopped and picked up White Castle and got a Crave case (30 burgers)for the kids and I got a coffee.

It was snowing and sleeting like crazy so the drive home took a long time. When we got to my house, I put 9 burgers in a White Castle bag for Marv to take home, gave one burger to Gypsy and one to Sunscreen, and I had a burger and a cheeseburger. The boys ate the rest! LOL Marv bet me a chai (and I a coffee) that the kids wouldn’t eat it all (I knew they would.) So I win and he owes me a chai. Though, honestly, there’s no way I could ever repay everything that man does for me every day. He’s amazing.

So anyway, Marv and I went to his house and we set up the chair. Oh, I gave him the horseradish Pringles that I got a few days ago. Oh, we also stopped at this store in the MOA and he got horseradish dip and I got some other dip that was too sweet for Marv. I got some sea salt, too.

I’m at work now.

I finished reading “Bingo by Ria Mae Brown (BLAH!) and am watching PS I Love You. (Terrible.)

Sunday January 31, 2010: Breakfast with Marv at Bernies. Fruit, egg, hash browns and toast. Dumpster diving with Jodi and Jacob behind the Paradise. It was painful, depressing and made me really angry. Then to the Minnesota Zoo. Marv loved the tapir, the rhinoceros hornbill, and the tropical fish. We walked the Tropics Trail. He’d never been to a zoo before, so it was fun to take him. Everything is fun with him. We rode the monorail (I’d never ridden the monorail before.) then we walked the Grizzly trail. Before we left we got a Caribou (at the zoo), and a mixed bag of caramel, cheezy and plain popcorn. We’d had some chinese food, too. Stir fried veggies and tofu and cashew chicken.

After the zoo, we were both really tired. We considered going to a movie, but Marv said he’d fall asleep. So we went to the thrift shop, then Barnes and Noble, and then Chipotle. The boys were dropped there by their dad. Then we went to the Subway in Faribault and I went to Marv’s with him to visit while they were at Subway. Emma called, and we ordered Girl Scout cookies. Then we went home, and I took a long Epsom salt bath. Then I got into bed, and fell asleep almost immediately.

Saturday Jan 30: Went to breakfast with Marv at Bernie’s. One egg, one piece of toast, and coffee. I brought him home and then went to the dog park with Gypsy and Sunscreen. We met Lyn Rein and Avery with Libby. We were only there about a half an hour. It was pretty cold. Then home and the boys and I brought the couch upstairs. Then we went to Darrin’s where I got my hair cut. Then to Half Price Books where the boys met their dad. Then we went to the thrift store and dropped off a bunch of stuff. Then I took the dogs to the dog park in Burnsville. I stopped at Patrick’s Bakery and got desserts first. Then to Aunt Sandy’s with Lynn, Jodi, Emma, Lauren and Max. We played Mexican Train dominoes, had pasta, salad and bruschetta. Got home and went to Marv’s Picked him up and brought him home with me.
I love him so much.

Friday: I worked until 9am but wasn’t tired. I was SO tired during the night though that I actually slept off and off all night. That’s not like me. I’d slept eight hours during the day and I can’t imagine why that wasn’t enough. I worked on Marv’s grant for about 5 hours until 2pm. Went to get life insurance, and then to Marv’s house.. I didn’t eat though. And he was done eating, so I asked him if he wanted to come to Owatonna with me. We went to deposit my checks at the bank, then to Starbucks and Quiznos (I ate a bowl of soup and a veggie sammie. He watched.) Then we went to the Lil Professor bookshop in Owatonna. I bought a Chuck Norris book and Catcher in the Rye for the kids. Then Marv and I went to his house. I was waiting for the boys to call at Marv’s house, but Jodi apparently was driving and drove past the kids, and picked them up and brought them home. I got a letter from FHS saying that they were holding Grey’s report card until he paid $1.50 in fines to the media center. So anyway, I went home, and played UpWords with Gabe (and Grey...sort of...he played as Gabe’s consultant.)

Thursday, Jan 28: Worked from 11pm – 9am. Can't seem to remember anything else about this day...Scary

Wednesday, January 27: Worked from 1:30 – 8pm at ESI. Went to Walmart with Chris.
Tuesday January 26: My hand split open and started to bleed pretty good this morning. (at work.) Went home and worked on computer stuff. Then back to work at 11pm
Monday, January 25: With Marv all morning, until lunch. Was trying to separate two salmon patties and stabbed my hand. The kids heard me say some words that they hadn’t really heard from me before – or at least not that loud. (Home for MLK day.) Marv invited me to join him and Pinky for dinner, but I was in too much pain. I stayed in bed pretty much all day. The kids brought me a baked potato, salmon pattie and broccoli in bed.