2 weeks' worth

Apparently last weekend we were too busy for me to post my usual weekly blog. Last weekend was definitely busy. It was the weekend Aaron got his new car, a 2008 Mazda 3 5-door, in Galaxy Gray. It's super spiffy, with lots of neat options and features. After picking it up Saturday afternoon, we drove around up North a little ways, and back home through some back woods roads. It's a 5-speed manual transmission, so it's a lot of fun to drive. Any time we'd stop at a store, I'd say, "Oh, I'll just sit in the car and wait," and when Aaron would get back, I had moved over to the driver's seat. "Okay, where to next?"

It was really hard for me to give up my position as "driver" when Aaron picked up the new car. This weekend was better, and I didn't even hijack the car once.

Here are a couple of pictures of the new car.




Work has been super busy and a little stressful for me the last two weeks. But things have finally gotten straightened out (for this batch of stuff, anyway), and the week at work ended on a high note, with me feeling pretty accomplished.

We found out that Aaron's folks are going to be coming around the weekend of the 19-20th this month for his dad's birthday, and we're going to see the Twins play on Sunday, so that will be fun. I'm really excited, because it will be my first baseball game ever, plus, it'll be in the Metrodome, so even though it's probably going to be chilly outside, it won't affect us too much on the inside. I think we might go to the Como Park Zoo, as well, which is the zoo Aaron and I went to with Bret and Jess when we came out for a visit in June.

I have a blanket I am working on knitting, The Big Bad Baby Blanket, for Anne, who is due to have her boy in May, and her baby shower is May 4th, so I need to get it finished. I'm not quite halfway there. It's tedious, knitting an entire blanket, but I really liked the design, so I wanted to give it a shot, because when am I going to have a chance to knit a baby blanket?? Well, I'll get another shot in September, because another friend of ours is pregnant, as well. Must be something in the water.

I was getting tired of not having enough shelf space in the bedroom for all of our junk, and my desk and the dresser tops were being piled high with crap. So we went to IKEA and found something that works quite well. Odin was having a fun time "helping" us put it together.




It's pretty cool; just a giant set of shelves, 4x4, and we haven't even been able to fill it up yet. That's always a good sign. Hopefully it'll help us keep the bedroom cleaner, because that room often gets overlooked in the cleaning process on the weekends.

And here's just a couple of cute pictures of the cat, because I have been lacking in the crazy cat lady department of posting pictures of every damn thing that he does.



We got rained on all day today. It was a nice change of weather in comparison to all the snow we'd been getting. Finally, Spring is here! So there ya have it. Have a good week!