Snow Day

Today was a glorious day. I couldn't get my little Jetta out of the driveway so I STAID HOME from work! It is nice to know that there is still such a thing as a snow day, even if I'm not in school anymore.:)

Since I was already awake and dressed for work, I opted to stay up instead of crawling back to bed and sleeping away the rest of the morning. And I am so glad I did. I am proud to say that I managed to get quite a bit done on my day off.

On my super productive day I
+ Took a shower (that's big...I hate showers)
+ Shoveled the drive (unsuccessfully)
+ Did my devotions
+ Made dentist appointments for Bryan and I
+ Set up a time for a chimney sweep to come clean and inspect our chimney
+ Bought tickets to our Valentine's Day entertainment (Butler's Midwinter Dance Festival)
+ Made Bryan's Valentine's Day gift (It's a secret, or I would tell you what it was)
+ Updated my resume and sent it to a potential employer
+ Read a book from front to back cover (The Giver is a pretty quick read, but still)
+ Cleaned the bathroom (also big, I never do that)
+ Sent my busy husband a million fairly pointless e-mails throughout the day
+ Made a fabulous gourmet dinner...of banana pancakes with peanut butter.:) Though in my defense, the peanut butter was the good freshly ground stuff. (Fresh Market is amazing)
+ Stopped by Walgreens and picked up a prescription
+ Went and watched Bryan's KSM basketball game while talking with a friend and stuffing envelopes for a church project
+ Wrote a fascinating new post for the blog :)

I hope you all enjoyed your wintry Thursday as well!

What I'm Doing With Myself Now...

Well, I'm sure you are all wondering what in the world I am doing with all of my time now that I don't have homework, exams or commuting to worry about. Well, I started my internship at Indianapolis Monthly last week. I'm very lucky (and by that I mean blessed) and thankful to be there. It's an extremely cool internship and I can already tell that I will learn a lot. The magazine world is very interesting and pretty fun too. I mean, where else do you get to call up famous people or go try out fun restaurants and have your meal paid for.:) Plus, I'm enjoying the chance to experience working downtown. (The offices are right on the monument circle)

There is only one small downside to the position. It's unpaid...but that's only because it's such great experience that they don't need to pay their interns! Well, that's what I keep telling myself anyway...though it doesn't always stop me from wondering again why on earth I decided to work for free. (And I'm pretty sure Bryan is wondering the same thing) But considering that the economy has crashed and I can't get a paid job anywhere if I wanted to, I guess I'm stuck here for now whether I like it or not. So I'm deciding to like it.:)

I'll let you know if my name is ever going to show up in print!

Glorious Break...

Sorry I've done such a terrible job of posting during Christmas break. I guess I was having too much fun to stop and blog about it.:)

After the rush of Christmas celebrations (I believe Bryan and I had 5 consecutive Christmas dinners at one point), we left for a week in Florida with Chad and Heather and Blair and Natalie. It was our first "couples trip" and I would say it was a success. The weather was perfect, the resort was beautiful, the beach was wonderful, we found some good outlets, and the pools were amazing. We also got to stop by Gainesville and spend the day with Jen and Luke, and later in the week Jenny and Luca came to visit us at the resort. Unfortunately, my camera started malfunctioning on the first day of the trip so I don't have any pictures.

I do have some videos though that we took on the little video recorder that Nick and Javon gave us for Christmas. However, it turned out that most of them are of the little guys so it's not a great representation...

This one is of us tormenting darling little Jude during the Bahler family Christmas. Heh heh.


While we were in Gainesville, we of course had to visit the Florida Gator's Swamp. There were "Do not touch the field" signs all over, but as you can see, that didn't stop Blair and Heather.:)


Bryan running Luca through the cool fountains by our pool. He was a little freaked out by them after that..:)


Here are the guys at one of our favorite spots...the putt putt course at the resort. Luca obviously wasn't too into hitting the ball, but he liked carrying it around with the putter.:)


And one more of Bryan trying to interview Luca at the end of the day...He was so much fun to have around. (And you too Jenny!):)