Today Marks The Beginning

Today, the ground was ripped up at our house. Justin dug the trenches for the gas and electrical lines to go to the garage. He got off work shortly after lunch to start the process with the ditch witch; when I got home it involved a couple trips to Walmart to get shovels to be able to dig out the dirt that had sunk back into the holes. (The ground is almost completely dried up from our freak snowstorm last Wednesday. It was 17 degrees on the weekend, and a beautiful temperature of 25 today!)

I knew I wanted to revive our "$20 date night" earlier today (after an ordeal this morning with my keys not being in my purse and a frantic search, which ended once I called Justin to see if he'd seen them; naturally he put them in the misc box in our entryway closet - the only place I didn't look!), and began making date plans before lunch. My original concept was going to the cheap movie theatre to watch The Crazies, since Justin's been wanting to watch it for awhile. But, when he called to say that he was going to be working on the yard, I knew that idea wouldn't work. So on the way home I stopped at Tim Horton's to buy a couple iced caps (every year when the weather warms up, I start my next addiction to these yummy drinks; I'd already had one at lunch that a friend dropped off to me! If I can't sleep tonight I only have myself to blame.).

Justin was working away when I surprised him with the drink.

During one of my trips out, I picked up a delicious (although not healthy) supper from 7 Eleven of potatoe wedges, chicken strips, chicken wings and chicken on a stick.

I had only 27 cents after all was said and done tonight from the twenty dollars. I'll count that as a successful date!