Spring is Coming

On Thursday I decided to actually leave the office for lunch. I picked up some food and headed over to the local forest preserve and enjoyed some time outside when the sun was out! I went for a walk in search of any sign of life...or spring. It was too early to see buds on any native trees popping, but the grass was trying its best. The blue skies and no white on the ground was definitely worth the walk.

Come on, spring, you can do it!

New "Do's"

These are our new "do's" straight from our most favorite stylist in the world...Tracy!

Merry Christmas!

We wish you all a Merry Christmas!!! Here are some pictures of our snowy Christmas...

from Jeremy pushing the snow out of our driveway a couple days ago...






to our friends giving us some gifts, including this homemade blanket...

an attempt at growing my first Chia - a Chia Tree (not very impressed yet)...

to our little Christmas tree with presents (basically anything we bought in December we just wrapped and put under the tree) :) But we did do some actual presents, and received some from family. Thank you! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

It Just Keeps Snowing!

So I pulled into our snowy driveway tonight after a long commute home in the snow only to find this gift from my very own sweetie. Thank you! I still need to update the blog with some pictures from the last month. I keep coming up with ideas and taking pictures, but with this snow my work seems to override... Boo to the snow.

Something and Nothing

We just got home from a long trip down to the nearest Ikea to pick some stuff up for the office. After we had shopped our way through the second and third floors, we found all the things we needed, plus some extra things that were cool (and per Jd - were not cheap as one would expect from Ikea). We went to the first floor to pick up the bigger items and found that the one main thing that we went there for was not even in stock. So in the end we left with something and nothing. (I think Jd wants me to re-word some of this, but I want to go to sleep. "It's just a blog," I tell him. But he says that it was the most critical item - not just something.) So in the end, we left with everything except the one thing we needed. :( But we picked up sushi afterwards to satisfy his taste buds, so he was happy. :)

(Jd will pick you up next week, Vika Persbo.) aka Vika Missing

4 Stars for "The Secret Life of Bees"

On Tuesday night we took advantage of some movie coupons we had and went to see a movie, "The Secret Life of Bees." We weren't really sure what we were in for. Apparently I'm definitely not a reader as I discovered that my coworkers loved the book that the movie is based from. But anyway, we originally went to see it because Dakota Fanning was playing a main role and we really like the movies she's been in that we've seen. The film has such a great and moving storyline that brought both of us to tears through much of it - not unusual for me, but was for Jeremy. Anyway, we both very highly recommend this movie. 4 stars in my book....blog.

Wrap-rage sucks; at least someone's working on it

It looks like someone's finally someone doing something about wrap-rage

Wrap rage is "the common name for heightened levels of anger, frustration and violence resulting from the inability to open hard-to-remove packaging"

You might actually like the difficult-to-open clamshell packaging if you're a collector, but I'm not a collector and I pretty much hate it. I also refuse to believe that I'm in anyway "paying" for the additional frustration of getting access to my new toys.