Ramblings of Randomness

Hooray for the first weekend of the semester! Here's a rundown of what went down...starting a little early with Thursday!

Thursday:

-January 20th just so happens to be my favorite former-roomie's birthday! So, it worked out that I was able to celebrate with her by going to Gig Harbor to meet up with her Aunt Bev. We enjoyed a delicious dinner at The Green House and then ventured over to the neighboring movie theatre to see the movie 'The King's Speech.' I was VERY excited about this because I had heard so many great things about the movie and was very anxious to see it. Colin Firth was fabulous. If you haven't seen it, shame on you. GO SEE IT!

Friday:

-Finished my whole 3 classes. Hooray for my shortest day of the week!

-Collected a HUGE stack of free music from my choir director. He had extra copies and was dying to give them away to someone like me...a future educator who needs to start her own music library! =)

 -Ran errands with the boy so I could get my 'bake' on this weekend.

-Made a yummy dinner of chicken quesadillas with Dustin

-Went to a concert featuring one of my professors on saxophone. Yay Fred Winkler!

- Enjoyed cuddling with my boy and watching one of my MOST favorite movies, 'Little Miss Sunshine.'

A lame attempt at showing just how much music Dr. Zopfi gifted me!

DO YOU SEE HOW MUCH MUSIC HE GAVE ME!?! I was beyond excited! My goal this summer (if not before) will be to go through each piece, listen to it (if possible), and categorize it in my computer for future use.

Saturday:

-Woke up and made a delightfully delicious breakfast of french toast using cinnamon raisin bagels! How brilliant is that? It tasted SO good!

-Made CAKE POPS in honor of Hope's birthday! I wanted to write 'Happy Birthday' on them, but didn't know how to go about it. But the brilliant idea hit me to take a plastic baggy, poke one corner with a toothpick, and fill as a piping bag! IT WORKED GREAT!

- Cleaned Dustin's apartment

-Worked out...hooray for fitness!

-Played the boy in cribbage and WON!

-Baked another WONDERFUL meal of lemon chicken with green beans and potatoes. I HIGHLY recommend this recipe. It's SO EASY... and healthy! Here's the recipe!

-Saw 'Easy A' at campus films with the lovely Ms. Cailin

-Watched 'Jurassic Park' with Dustin and Cailin

My cake pops!

Our YUMMY lemon chicken (pre-cooked. I forgot to get a picture post-cooked! BUT IT WAS GREAT!)

Sunday:

-Got an MSM (Magical Sandwich Makers) chicken Caesar sandwich

-Did some homework

-Bought some VERY cheap almond rocca at our local almond rocca factory outlet

-More cleaning of Dustin's apartment

-Played some more cribbage...but he won this time =(

-Made the best dinner we've ever made since we've started our cooking gig. It consisted of baked potatoes, left over green beans, and New York strip steak with caramelized onions. We were both in heaven and didn't say much during the meal except for grunts of approval for our new found Rachel Ray skills! Thanks to my mom for reminding me (yet again) of our favorite homemade meat marinade, and to Dustin's mom for gifting him the George Foreman grill we used to cook the steak!

This picture does this meal no justice what-so- ever

I came home tonight to give Hope her birthday surprise! We enjoyed a couple pops with our suitemate Beth! Happy Birthday Hope!

On to battle week 2 of the new semester! What? A FULL week...Monday included? What is this nonsense? =P