din din

I said "din din" instead of "dinner" the other night and Matt thought it was so funny. Now I call it that every once in awhile to hear him laugh.

Anyway, dinner with SIL and her family was good! She made chicken and pasta and salad and we brought some Italian bread over. I think it was all a great combination! I normally do not like Italian food much (it tastes bland to me, and I've had a lot of different types and from different places), but I enjoyed her recipe. I've actually kind of been wanting pasta lately (I don't know if it's too soon for cravings, but it just sounded good), so maybe my tastes are starting to change a little bit and Italian will be something I eat more during the pregnancy.

After dinner we played Scra.bble and I lost horribly. It was kind of embarrassing. I am not a big game player. I'm not competitive in the least and I usually have to make an effort to care enough to try. It's great because I'm not a sore loser, I never get upset if I'm not doing well. It's just that a lot of games aren't all that fun to me unless I'm playing with really fun people who spice it up. Like over Christmas my sister received Appl.es to Ap.ples and I played with Matt, Chris, Melissa, and my mom. We had so much fun goofing off. However, it's always more awkward to play games with people I don't know as well, especially one that is more "intellectual" like Scra.bble. I had bad luck though, after the first two times I drew letters every single letter I drew was worth 1 point. And I drew 7 "I"s (out of 9). lol

SIL actually doesn't have an apartment, it's more like a condo or townhouse. It's 2 stories and so cute! It made me miss our old apartment. I came home and felt like BLAH. There's still something about this house that isn't right for me. I can't place my finger on it exactly. Even after I clean, it still feels dirty to me. And I need to decorate the walls, but I feel like it isn't going to look good once I do that. It's so hard to explain. I am starting to think that maybe the walls are too dark. I like the green color a lot, but maybe that has something to do with it?? I've always had light colored walls in my apartment on campus and the one I lived in after getting married. My family also had mostly light or bright colored walls in their house. I hate to paint the walls...but it's starting to cross my mind.

And there's too much clutter here. I need to get to work on clearing things out a little more. I also have an idea for our utility/laundry/mud room. right now the water heater is in the room and is blocked from view by a screen. A screen that is very hard to sweep and vacuum around. And there's always this space back there that is dirty that I can't get to. So I want to build a small closet around the heater. Then we can close the door and there will be nice clean corners to sweep and clean around. Plus, we can use the closet for storage as well. Matt agrees with that idea so I'm hoping we can afford to put it into affect soon. Maybe if we can get that room cleaned up it will improve the feeling of the entire house.

On Thursday I'm getting together with an old friend that I haven't seen in years. I can't remember the last time I saw her! It was before Matt and I got married. I think it was when the second LOTR movie came out. Or maybe even the first??? She's back in town and doesn't have a job yet so we're finally getting together. I'm actually excited about it! I'm not a big social butterfly, especially if I haven't seen someone in a long time. But I'm really looking forward to this. I'm feeling all around more social, slowly but surely. Matt and I are planning on joining a small group at our church soon and I want to start getting together with some of my high school friends more often too. My friend is coming to the house on Thursday, which will be the first time someone outside of our normal group of friends (family members and guys) has come over. I'm a little nervous about that, but determined not to stress about cleaning or trying to impress her.

Okay, so can ya'll say CRAZY!!? I know I'm a weird person, but oh well! What did you do for the game last night? We went over to my parents' house to help my dad out with hooking up a new water heater and ended up staying for dinner and the game. My mom and I weren't going to watch it, but we went up to the TV room to see what was going on at the beginning of the second quarter and got sucked in. I thought it was a great game!! I was going for the Cardi.nals (yes, even though they beat the Pant.hers) so was a little disappointed at the end, but still impressed at how both teams played.