Valentine's Day!

For Valentine's Day Laurie and I had the most brilliant idea! We decided to make homemade fortune cookies with little personalized fortunes in them. Making the cookies was a lot easier than I thought it would be, which was a pleasant surprise. However, coming up with the fortunes was hard... at least for me. I now can understand why when you open a fortune cookie that it usually has something lame written in it. I tried to be as creative as I could though. Andy hates fortune cookies with just statements and not fortunes in them, so Laurie had one of hers to him say, "you're nice." Haha!

We started out by making the batter. We had the get just the right consistency so we could spread it into little pancakes on the cookie sheet without it being too thin or too thick.

Once they were done, it was a race against the clock to fold them before they cooled. And they were HOT! I think it's probably good we didn't make more than we did for the sake of our fingers.

First we had to fold them in half over the fortune and then place the cookie folded side down on the edge of a cup. The cup was our favorite part because then we only had the touch the edges of the blazing cookies.

Then we placed them in muffin tins so they could cool the rest of the way and keep their shape.

After they were all done, we went and got little boxes and made them look all cute!

Gary really loved his fortune cookies! Which made me happy because we worked hard on those suckers! He had to practice some self control so as to not eat them all at once, and I had to practice self control as to not eat any of his cookies.

Later we went and stayed at the same bed and breakfast that we stayed in on our wedding night. We stayed in the same room and everything! It was so nice to go back. We got to sneak food from the kitchen and drink really rich hot chocolate and just relax.

I hope everyone else had a great Valentine's Day!

Quote.

One of my friends posted this on her blog a while ago and I just had to steal it and share it!

"It takes 6 months to get into shape & 2 weeks to get out of shape.

Once you know this you can stop being angry about other things

in life & only be angry about this."

Rita Rudner

School

Calvin's got the right idea.

On Call

As many of you know, Gary has a job where he is constantly on call. So he has his regular phone and his work phone. This can be very annoying because he only has a limited number of pockets... but that's another story!

This little device can be a big source of frustration...

Every time anyone feels like they have an emergency they call the emergency line and it gets transferred to Gary's work phone. He always lets it go to voicemail because some of these so called "emergencies" really aren't emergencies at all. Some of the things he gets calls about make me just want to slap my forehead... but that is also another story!

The calls always seem to come when we are out doing things together. Like whenever we decide to go out of town for the weekend or whenever we want to go see a movie. I don't think Gary can remember the last night has sat through the previews at the movie. But the worst times of all that he gets calls is late at night...

Last night he got a call about a leak. He went to the apartment to look at it at around 9, and one of their rooms was basically flooded. It was such a bad leak that he ended up having to turn off all the water (which supplied the water to two buildings) and call out a 24 hour plumber. He spent about two hours there trying to help them clean it all up and fix it.

He finally was able to come home after 11. However, the work wasn't over. He had to keep answering phone calls from the plumber and from the tenants trying to work things out. It was like a very long drawn out game of phone tag.

The plumber didn't have the right size part to fix the problem, and nothing was open at 12:30 at night so it would have to wait until morning. So that meant a sleepless and stressful night for Gary followed by many angry phone calls in the morning from people wondering why they didn't have any water.

Don't worry though, everything got fixed, the water got turned back on, and the phone calls finally stopped! And someday Gary and I will be able to say toodle-oo, so long, godspeed... to that little extra member of our cell phone family.