Reunited again: A weekend of good food, great movies, more good food, and one of my favorite people ever!

I've realized I miss blogging every day. It's really nice to look back on your day, and try to sum it all up nicely. We miss so much when we don't look back at things. I don't ever want to get so caught up that I fail to appreciate (or at least recognize) everything going on around me.

I had the BEST weekend with Lissa. After getting up terribly early on Friday, I worked for a few hours and then met Dad and Eric. We were supposed to look at cell phones at both Sprint and US Cellular. Dad and Eric were all done looking and figuring things out before I left work. Sad day. But it looks like we'll be switching to Sprint, and I've already picked out a phone. SUPER excited :)

I don't like the eye doctor, and I'm not sure why. It's not like the dentist, which is always miserable. Going to the eye doctor is completely painless. I just don't like it. Luckily, it went pretty quickly, and my eyes are exactly the same as they were last time :)

After visiting the eye doctor, Dad, Eric, and I went to Carlos O'Kelly's. Dad jokes that it's an Irish-ican restaurant. Or a Mex-ish. Ha. But really...it is. It's mostly Mexican. but they have Irish mashed potatoes. What?

Then I drove to Ripon--met up with Liss and Luke. Liss made chicken and dumplings for dinner, and she bought chocolate milk because we both love it :) After Luke left, Lissa and I watched movies on the Wii via Netflix! It was fun. We watched The Proposal, because we both love it (I should probably just buy that movie, but I'm still broke). And we watched some made-for-tv movie that was really terrible. But of course, we watched the entire thing because it was too funny.

We went to the bar to meet Kate' and her friend for a drink. It was PACKED. Ripon had this event thing, and then were so many people--both outside listening to the live band, and in the bar. Wow. We only stayed out for a drink...getting up at 4 am made me sleepy.

On Saturday, Liss and I decided to go to garage-sales before we went to the mall. It was a good choice. She wrote down addresses, and we programmed them into my GPS. However, the first few didn't actually exist, which was a little frustrating and definitely disappointing. It was, still, quite a bit of fun. We did end up finding some--ones that we knew about, and ones on random signs that we followed :) We bought some really random, miscellaneous things: a book about everyday life in Wisconsin (I'll probably give it to a sorority sister from another state); a really old, musty book of fairytales (for another friend); measuring cups (something Liss needed); and an end table. The end table was pretty great. It's a fairly small table, but very sturdy and nice. Plus it was only three dollars! Of course, after we bought it, we realized that it wouldn't fit in my trunk. And we couldn't put it in the backseat because the door didn't open wide enough. As it turns out, it fit nicely in the front seat. We decided to end our garage-sales adventures there, since Liss had to sit in the back for the rest of the day!

We went to lunch at Hu-Hot, the Mongolian Grill that is just awesome. And then we went to the mall. Macy's, Target, a cooking store, etc. It was pretty random, but a lot of fun. And just what I needed :) Oh, we also went to DSW to look at shoes, and on a wim, we explored the store next door--World Market. I'm in LOVE. It was quite similar to Pier 1, but so much better. There is a wonderful food/wine section, from all around the world. I FOUND MCVITTIE'S DIGESTIVES! I had them all the time in Wales, but couldn't find them anywhere here. But now I have, and I'm beyond happy :)

It did start pouring, which cut our shopping trip short. Liss had left the windows open back in Ripon! I made Liss stand at the mall doors with our stuff while I ran to get my car. I literally ran, and still got soaked. It was bad. I lost my shoe twice--it got suctioned to the ground :( And once, it got sucked into a little river of water flowing toward a drain. I had to CHASE my shoe--no doubt looked like an idiot. But it was all good in the end.

Liss and I ordered delivery from Roadhouse--pizza (canadian bacon and bacon, hahahaha) and broccoli bites. So good. We watched a couple movies--The Princess and the Frog (Liss was really excited, ok) and She's Out of My League, which was really funny! And then, since Lissa had to work at 7, we went to bed.

I slept like a rock on Lissa's futon, which is nice because I haven't been sleeping well here at all. Yet somehow, I'm exhausted again. I did study for a few hours this morning, since Lissa was at work and Luke wasn't back yet. I'm sure the math is getting easier, but it still sucks. Have I mentioned yet how much I HATE the GRE and will probably fail, and then have to be a bum for the rest of my life? Ok, so it's not quite the bad, and I'll still have a Bachelor's degree in a year, so that should count for something, somewhere.

And with that, I'm off to bed. I only work on Tuesday this week, which is good because I take the GRE on Thursday and then have Dani's bridal shower that evening :) I am NOT setting an alarm tomorrow. Here's to hoping I can sleep past 7!