Weekend Recap

...aka the weekend of "the poisoning" but I'll get to that...

Guess what Thursday was?! I don't know why I'm making you guess because I'm going to tell you in .5 seconds.. It was Eric and my 4 year anniversary! Wahoo! What's it an anniversary OF, you ask? Good question.  

                   (You're about to head down memory lane. Feel free to skip ahead if you'd like).                                        

We'd been hanging out in groups as "friends" (but we totally dug each other). On July 26, we were doing just that.. hanging out with a group. Then, it started storming and we all just decided to go home. Eric was going to take me home (we totally used every excuse to hang out with each other without admitting the obvious). The storm was far away at that point, but the sky lit up with gorgeous flashes every few minutes. Eric asked if I'd be interested in going to watch the lightning, so...we did. We drove to a spot on the outskirts of town and just sat there, watching the lightning and talking. It was just one of those butterflies-I-dont-want-this-night-to-end nights. :) 

I'd love to say we got together after that night because we obviously liked each other a lot, but no... we were jackasses. We were both coming out of previous relationships that left us feeling burned and untrusting. So, instead, Eric started dating a hussy with a high-pitched voice and short skirts and I dated a guy friend. Blerg. We definitely kept seeing each other during all that though, but we wouldn't get serious...and neither one of us would step up and say "Hey, I just want to date you and only you." Finally, in late fall, we had the talk.. You know... "the talk." I believe I had some wine in my system and I possibly went total and complete girl on him. (Just had a flashback and cringed). Eh well.. Whatever. In short, in late fall, we got serious. :)

We tried to celebrate that late fall date as our anniversary and it just didn't feel right. So, we switched to that one night we drove to the outskirts of town, watched lightening, and let our guards down. I think that's the perfect anniversary date to celebrate. 

We took a pic that night! I am so glad my picture craziness pays off sometimes b/c it's fun to look back on. :) 

P.S. I did the fun labels in labelbox (free). Kinda addicted to it. :)

Eric sent me the prettiest flowers ever to work on Thursday. Isn't it funny how you mentally say "I don't care if ever I get flowers...I mean...whatever...they're just flowers..." but then when you get them, you swoon and can't stop smiling? Just me? 

We'd decided to do a nice anniversary dinner this weekend. :) 

And then...around 2:30 am on Friday morning, the poison attacked. 

What poison? 

I don't know. I refuse to blame sushi, but thinking back to Thursday's meals, it's the likely culprit. 

My friend hilariously compares food poisoning to a personal everything must go sale. Gross? Totally. Hilarious? Absolutely. 

I tried to go to work on Friday morning, but that was pretty stupid on my part. Came home at lunch and passed out on the couch. Eric and I were supposed to go to OKC Friday evening for a baseball game, but I couldn't function and had to lay perfectly still and breathe deeply every time I thought about ballpark food, so that was out of the question. 

I was bored and trying to lay still. Hence the self portrait. I dunno. 

G snuggled up next to me the whole time... I just love this little pooch!

Anniversary dinner this weekend became chicken noodle soup and ginger ale thanks to nurse Eric. As an aside, it is SO much better to get sick living with Eric than living alone. I used to always try to drag myself to Walgreens or wherever and almost pass out/vomit/die in the process. If you've ever lived alone and gotten sick, you totally feel me on that one. So, it was pretty great to wake up and see that he'd gone to get me some treats. :)

Oh, I almost forgot to mention. Friday morning, I was dragging my sick self out the door to work because I'm stupid and I fumbled and dropped my iPad on the porch. It hit just right on the corner and the rest is...well... the photo speaks for itself. 

I was in SUCH a funk at that point. I was sleep deprived, sick, and had just broken my awesome iPad. I'm one of those "bright side/perspective" people. So, I thought "Hey, at least I'm lucky enough to HAVE an iPad." And then I pushed that away and opted for the "Whatever. This sucks. This day sucks. Everything just sucks." Sometimes you just have to embrace the suckage for a little while.

Saturday, I backed up the iPad and took it to get the screen replaced. Feeling a little better, I was also in a better mood. :) Check out just one of the awesome gems I found on the iPad that I'd forgotten about. Photobooth makes you do strange things, people. Strange things.

And finally, we didn't get to go to dinner for our anniversary, but we opted for non vomit-inducing fruit smoothies from Jamba Juice (YUM) and a matinee of the Dark Knight on Saturday afternoon.  :)

Finally feeling back to normal today and gearing up for some more Olympic watching tonight. :)

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