Well it's cold once again. Even in Texas today is the perfect day to stay in, drink hot chocolate and make a homemade pizza for dinner. And that's exactly what we're doing! But not before we made a trip to the grocery store where pea size hail hit the plastic roof, amazing all inside. It was pretty crazy. We were just scooting through the bulk foods, looking for some dried apricots when all of a sudden...hail! So the wait to clean off the windshield was a bit long but we made it fun. We also went to mass at St. Michael's this morning which we're considering for a home parish. It's the closest to where we live and the atmosphere is good. I like the opportunities available there for service too. We're still looking around but we know what we don't like so far! I'd like to look into the church down in Plano since that is the closest church that has a Catholic school attached (other than St. Mary's back up in Sherman, which we are NOT going to.) During mass this morning they had a film and information about the new campaign in the diocese of Dallas to basically raise a ton of money to fund more churches, catholic schools, help aid in vocations, etc. It (and church in general this morning) really made me think about my upbringing and what I would want for future kids. Granted, that's way far into the future but it's something that was on my mind today. Tim and I were both very lucky to have such a firm background in the church (even if our views differ dramatically!) and that's something I really cherish about our relationship. I've always said if I had kids I would want them to go to church, go to catholic school, because it creates such a well rounded foundation. I consider myself very blessed to have found a man who feels the same.
And that man and I have been very busy the past few weeks! We officially moved out of Sherman and into McKinney on the 15th with the help of Tim's wonderful parents. Really, Tim and his dad did the heavy lifting and I got to do the fun part, packing, unpacking an organizing! Well at least that's fun for me....I love McKinney by the way. We're closer to everything and can do a lot more now. We went to this place last weekend though...oh golly. Tim wanted to do laser tag so we found a place in Plano that had it plus bowling and games and stuff. Turned out to be super ghetto and very unorganized. So being..well ourselves...we went to complain and the manager gave us our money back. Not going to that place again. Maybe we'll go to the one in Frisco...At this point though I'm slightly addicted to laser tag.
And Brazilian steakhouses! So Wednesday was Tim and my anniversary and since I was in Dallas for my internship that night and we figured the weekend might be a better time to go out, we did it up sorta big last night. We talked about going into Dallas for dinner but I'm sure there will be plenty of opportunities to try stuff there (especially bbq which I'm sooo craving these days). We just went down to Allen (which is so close it's crazy.) And while Tim tried (and succeeded) at getting his money's worth of meat, I sampled pretty much everything, including the fabulous cinnamon-y pineapple. Brazilian steakhouse=my new favorite luxury.
Hmm what else? Well my car is in the shop and will be for a couple of weeks apparently. Meanwhile I'm in a Cruise (a step up from my Sonic, which I'm not really appreciating when it comes to gas) but at least I'm driving around with a car that isn't smashed in on the back and a piece off in the front.
I had to change my bank too, since US Bank isn't a thing here, but I'd always considered Bank of America anyway. I ordered new checks and opted for Cardinals ones. Very exciting. Speaking of hometown teams, Tim and I happened upon a local pub this week (thurs) and caught some of the SLU basketball game. I'm slightly convinced that my watching the game was bad luck. Maybe I can watch Murray games and have the opposite effect....
We also have some tentative plans to make our way down to Austin next weekend for a fun weekend trip. Still sorting out the details but hopefully it all works out. It's really just to see the Game of Thrones exhibition that will be there (not the giant music festival that's going on, the main reason why the city is going to be packed). We also want to check out the capital building since that's a big thing for Tim (I think he wants to beat his dad at visiting state capitals, a feat I don't see him accomplishing. Tim the first is very well traveled when it comes to state capital buildings.) Be on the lookout for pictures if we make it down there.
7 more days til Daylight Savings!!!! Frankly this winter has been freaking amazingly helpful for my SAD; being in St. Louis this year would have just wore me down. Yesterday it got in the mid 80's here. I had on a sleeveless shirt for Heaven's sake! And while I hear it was nice-ish up there, when these winter storms hit, they're much more manageable down here. And Tim's just an idiot when it comes to the cold. It's like he's a Texan, dressing inappropriately for the cold (since I'm convinced Texans don't have cold weather clothes and find this weather extremely confusing enough to just go out in shorts...). He wore flip flops to church this morning and the grocery store after and a woman walking out at the same time as us looked at him like he was mentally unstable. Which he kind of is. :)
Well since I started this post there's been 2 bursts of rain/sleet come down. I couldn't be happier with my hot chocolate in hand chilling out today. Until next time!
