Budget Billing

Is anyone else on a budget plan for their energy bill?? We are, but I don't know why anymore. For the first 5 months, we paid "X" as our budget amount. I opened the statement today and they're charging us X+19 for this month's budget amount and I saw a note saying next month it will be X-6. Isn't the purpose of budget billing to pay the same amount every month for 12 months in a row?? And of course, I'm too impatient to wait the 9-13 minutes they're predicting on the customer service line, so I don't know why...

Milk-less cereal

I poured myself a bowl of cereal this morning and then went to get the milk, only to realize we didn't have any. So I thought, "Okay, I'll have some yogurt instead." But there were only 2 yogurts left, one was expired and the other was one of Aaron's flavors that I don't like. So what else could I have for breakfast...some toast maybe!! Wait, we'd have to have bread for that. In the end, I ate my bowl of cereal without any milk. I think maybe we should try to make it to the grocery store soon.

The good news is, our dogs should only have to spend a couple hours in their cages today. It seems like all week long we've had so much stuff going on that they've been in their cages for 10-12 hours a day. Currently, they're enjoying rawhide bones and not even fighting about who gets which one. Our puppies are growing up!!

Mufasa, Simba, Scar and the Gang

I must rave about how wonderful the Lion King was. (For those who don't know, the Broadway Musical is in Des Moines for 6 weeks.) My mom and I had a girls night out last night and it was great!! We started out by going to Splash, a seafood restaurant right across from the Civic Center, that also has amazing chocolate chip peanut butter cheesecake. Then we headed right over to the show, with just enough time to find our seats and make a quick trip to the bathroom. The costumes and sets were amazing. My favorites were the giraffes and the elephant. The only part of the night that I would have changed would be the couple sitting next to my mom that had to talk about everything. And I stress, talk, not whisper. "Oh look, there's a zebra!!" "Do you see the tears?? Wow!!" "Look at the birds!!" I must stress though, that it was an otherwise splendiferous night!!

Kookamunga

So I spend a lot of time talking about our dogs, but we also have two cats. For Christmas, we bought them a new toy and some Kookamunga CatNip treats. Amy, who is very skittish around people, including us, has become the most affectionate cat in the world. Whenever we're sitting on the couch, she comes up and nuzzles up to us and cuddles, in hopes of scoring some Kookamunga. It is hilarious. And how cute is she??

Can I have some Kookamunga please guy??

Piles and piles of stuff

Aaron had to work at 6:30 this morning and I don't have to work until 3:30 tonight, so I have the whole day at home with just me and the animals. I am doing my best to be productive (not that you can tell, since I'm online right now!!) but I just realized how much stuff we have EVERYWHERE in our house. I spent over an hour just sorting through the piles of stuff in our office.

My next task is to rearrange the furniture in our house, so that everything is back where it belongs. A bunch of stuff got moved around before the Super Bowl (yes, a month ago!!) and hasn't been moved back yet.

The worst part is, even if everything gets put away where it belongs, we will still have a basement and a garage full of stuff that we need to get rid of. I can't wait until this summer when we can have a garage sale and hopefully get our house back!!

Oh my Goodness!!

I still maintain that it was mean to call me weeks before I said I could pick up my dress to say it was done, I am happy to say that my mom and my Steven are going to accompany me up to Minneapolis this weekend so that we can pick up my dress!! I'm VERY VERY VERY excited.

Also, Aaron and I get to purchase our wedding bands soon!! And by soon, I mean sometime this weekend most likely!! We found some that we love in an eBay store, so we want to get them ordered while we still have the chance.

I also got to drop a class that I HATE earlier this week and I found out tonight that I have a pretty good chance of being able to see my little brother in a couple weeks!! I have to say, although I still have way more to do than I have time for and I'm a bit tired, this has been a pretty good week!!