Long Busy Day!!!

Today I got to work at 6:00 a.m. and didn't get to leave until around 6:00 p.m. :( It was so miserable. And to make matters worse, this was just a taste of how things are going to be from now on at work. The new year is going to be filled with long days and not much down time.  But I thankful I still have a job!!

By the time I got home I was so tired I didn't do much of anything. I barely had the energy to fix dinner, but I managed, and then it was straight to bed!!!

Back to work and dinner at Gramma's!

Today was my first day back to work in a week and a half! It felt so weird being gone for so long. I hadn't taken that much time off from work in over a year. The day went by pretty fast and when I got off work I headed to Brandon.

I had dinner over to my Gramma's with my Aunt Betty Gene, Uncle Tommy, and several of my cousins came into town for a visit. My mom and sister were there too. It was nice to get to see all of them. My mom made the Raspberry Chicken I had made the week before, because we knew how simple it was and how many people it could feed. 

After dinner I took my Gramma home to Heritage House and then headed home myself.  It was such a long day and I was ready to go to bed.

Drive back to Jackson and a birthday party!!!!

So today I made my way back to Jackson so I could go to a birthday party! My friend Jenny's son turned 3 today and I was invited to the party. It was at Pump It Up! I had never been there and it was an experience...

This place was so neat! When I was growing up the coolest place was Chuck E Cheese. Now kids have so much stuff!! The kids got to jump in these huge indoor inflatables for about 1 hr and a half and then they had the cake and opening of presents. It was lots for fun and I was so glad I made it in town in time.

After the party, I meet my sister to go see Sherlock Holmes.  I went to see it without her and to make up for it I went with her to see it. It was just as good the second time around and I was glad to get to spend some time with my sister.

Drive back to Memphis and Wii!

So I made my way back to Memphis today. It's wasn't too bad, except for the terrible wreak I saw happen about 100 miles outside of Memphis. It was so bad I had to pull over on the side of the road and stop myself from shacking.  After I finally calmed down, I was back on the road...

The trip actually went by pretty fast, thanks to John whom sent me home with a book on CD. Play Dirty by Sandra Brown.

I almost finished the whole book! I had about an hour to go by the time I got to Memphis. So I guess, I'll have to wait until tomorrow before I can find out the ending! But so far it's pretty good.

When I finally got to Can's, we all went out to eat, Can, Jen, Parker and me. We went to El Porton for some great food and margarita's.... well just me. :)

After supper, we went back to Can's for some Wii! About that time Louis can home from work so the Band Hero was on! It's was a lot of fun and I'm glad I got to spend some time with my friends!

Hello 2010!!!

To bring in the new year, John and I stayed in, watched Public Enemy with Johnny Depp and had our own toast for the new year! It was lost of fun. I had seen it before but it was still good the second time around.  We were so tired by the time the clock struck 12 that it wasn't to soon after we were in bed.

We slept in a little bit and then I made myself start 2010 out right by running 10 miles...

There is a lake about a mile from John's house called Lake Hefner... it's exactly 10 miles around it.  I knew one of the things I had to get done while I was in OK City was to get some miles in so I would be prepared for the Mississippi Blues half marathon next week.  I did okay.. there was still lots of snow on the ground that covered parts of the trail. You think running in sand is hard... running in snow is harder!  But I made it around and felt really good that I had made myself do it!

John and I didn't do much the rest of the afternoon but rest, it was so nice. Later that afternoon we decided to go downtown and snow tube...

This sounded so cool when John mentioned it! I was really excited until I got there and saw how tall the slope was.  I'm a little scared of heights and this didn't look good. Imagine someone constructing a slope from the upper deck of a minor league baseball field and the slope ending by the pitchers mound (did I mention they iced it down). There were lots of people that went ahead of us so that helped me out a lot.  Then it was my turn... It turned out to be really fun!! John and I got to go down about 10 times... I was so worn out when we got done but it was so worth it!!! Here are a few pictures:

The Slope!

This is me!

Getting out of the tube!

Here's John!

After we were done snow tubing, we went to a cute little pizza by the slice place near by. It was so good, I was so hungry but the time we got done.

We had decided to end the night by going to the movies.  John had told me about a really nice theater that he had wanted to try, it was a Warren Theater.  This theater was so nice it put the Malco to shame... it was fashioned like theaters were in the 40's, even the workers attire looked like something out of the past. We were in a small theater, but there was so much leg room, you couldn't even stick your feet on the seats in front of you.  And the larger theaters had balconies. It was so nice! We ended up going to see Up in the Air.

Up in the Air, starring George Clooney and Anna Kendrick, was about a man who spends over 300 day on the road for his job and then almost gets it taken away from him (an idea from Anna Kendrick's character). (He really enjoys traveling for his job and never being home or in one place).  I thought it was a pretty good movie, some of it was pretty depressing, you really what things to work out for George Clooney's character, but it seems that bad things follow him.  It turns out okay in the end though.