Great day...

It's raining today

The soundtrack to Juno is playing in the background

and I have my pictures of Ireland surrounding me

Can life get better?!?!

I submit that it cannot!

These are some of the pics I am looking at today:

This is my friend Sam, I will always be grateful that she made me to go on this study abroad

The rest of the weekend

Other than the movies we hung out with Jared's Cousins the Webbs and had dinner with them and the Masons. We love them. We are excited to be living closer to those friends so that when we stay up til 2:30 AM that we won't have to drive 45 minutes to get home. Soon....

We got some more packed in boxes. (No we haven't closed yet. We had to write a whole bunch of letters of intent. Apparently it isn't clear that having 2 W-2's in one year means I had 2 jobs...) The bank has to close by March 2nd at the very latest with out any penalties. So hopefully sooner but no guarantees... I am keeping my fingers crossed!

We got our taxes done and yea for the state refund this year that is bigger than what we have to pay for federal. Silly higher tax bracket since we both work but it could have been worse. I am grateful that it is done and we don't have to worry about finding all that paperwork after the move.

Monday was a Lost day. Literally. We finished the most recent season of lost and hooked up our computer to our tv to watch the new seasons episodes of lost on Hulu. Then we got to spend some time with Jared's sister and her family. They moved here recently and I am SO excited they are here. We introduced her to Chipotle and got some Cold stone afterwards. I wish I didn't have to go to bed so early because that meant we had to leave early but they live here now so we can go back and play games next weekend! We LOVE YOU GUYS!

Movies...I should get paid to be a consultant.

Friday we decided to get our playing out of the way. We did a double feature of the new movies "Valentines Day" and "Percy Jackson and the Olympians:The Lightning Thief". We are movie people and we do double features when ever it can work out that way. If we are lucky and can plan it right we try to have both movies start before 12pm because at AMC the tickets are $5. So $20 for 2 movies for 2 people is a pretty sweet date :-)

Review for Valentines Day:
It was pretty funny. I liked it overall. One scene is awkward and not because anything racy or dirty happens, it is just the context and the people in it. It has everything you can possible think of that could happen on Valentines day happen. Just a whole lot of stories happening, somehow all connected. I think it is funny that basically this was a movie to see how many A-listers could fit in the promotion. Taylor Swift and Taylor Lautner were hilarious! The bloopers at the end really made the movie. (I have an addiction to Bloopers. i can never get enough :-) )

Review for Percy Jackson:
Pretty decent. DON"T READ THE BOOK BEFORE WATCHING THE MOVIE. It will just make you frustrated at the liberties they took with how the movie is done. Don't get be wrong the movie is entertaining and has some good scenes however I will never understand why they make changes to the plot when if they just tried a little bit to just follow the book they would have done so much better. I don't exactly know how they will do another one (which is their plan). The changes they did to this plot kind of make it difficult to set up the next book. But oh well. What ever. I have decided the movie that happens in my head when I am reading a book will ALWAYS be better than what movie producers can put on the silver screen. I know most of you will say, "Hello Joanna! You are just now realizing this? the movie is NEVER as good as the book". I guess I just wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt. I want to see a GREAT movie based on a book. i think the Harry Potter movies did a fairly good job of this but since "they" hoped that Percy Jackson would be the next Harry Potter, they are SORELY misguided.

After you see the movie and if you like the concept, I would encourage you to read the series. it is fun and entertaining and has a MUCH better plot. P.S. another example of a great movie but even better books/plot = The Bourne Series. the books are freaking amazing. No joke after I finished reading them I said "These would make amazing movies.... wait they made movies and they are nothing like the books. DANG Movie Producers!"And i love the Bourne movies.....

Happy belated Valentines Day!

Well Happy Valentines Day a couple of days late. Jared and I got an extra long weekend this past weekend because I worked 4 ten hour days last week to get Friday off. And Jared normally works that schedule. We we got Friday through Monday to hang out together. It made up for the 4 days where both of our schedules were completely opposite. Me working early morning and Jared not getting home until I am already in bed makes for long days. Valentines Day was celebrated in pieces for us this year. We kept the whole thing under $20 each since we have a new house to prepare for. I love the flowers I got and the awesome V-Day Cards. (I got 2) One was funny and had a silly song recorded and a super sweet one and I loved both. I got Jared a book and some other “fun gifts” ;-) The best part of the whole weekend is that Jared only got called in once for just a few hours on Sunday. (I got to go to Turley Family dinner by myself) I really appreciated the time we got spend together! Saturday we stayed home all day, slept in and watched a little lost and boxed up some things and had a great dinner. I love my Jared with all my heart! I am glad he puts up with me when I am an emotional wreck and when I am silly and weird or when I just need a hug.

I hope you all enjoyed your holiday as much as we did. Happy Valentines Day!