Mondays With My Best Friend

Young Ladies Christian Fellowship is quite possibly the blog I've been reading the longest--I've been a visitor since before it was a blog and the girls there just posted articles.  They recently ran a 'Day in My Life' series that I, lover of people and their lives, found quite fascinating.  I love reading about people and their normal, everyday lives.  I know, I know...simple minds, simple pleasures.  Anyway, they're running a festival of 'Day in My Life' posts, so naturally, I had to participate, because my life is so incredibly interesting. ;)

Normally, I'm not a fan of Mondays, but I decided to do my 'day in my life' today because it seemed to hold the most interesting activities of my week. ;)

My husband, Chris, and I have been married just over a month; he works as a mechanical designer for an airplane company, and I am currently staying at home, job hunting and being a housewife.

The alarm goes off at 5:50, but Chris quickly hits snooze and we snuggle for a few minutes. :)  He gets up to take a shower but I stay in a bed a few more minutes.  I didn't sleep well last night and am still tired.  Once he's out of the shower, he reminds me that I really do need to get up, so I do that, shower, grab some yogurt as he finishes his breakfast and Bible reading and we hop in the car.

After dropping him off at work, I head to Fred Meyer for some grocery shopping.  I seriously love shopping at 7:15 am with all the retired people!  It doesn't take long and I'm excited because even though I bought a few things that weren't on my list, I was still $2 under budget.  One thing I realized when I got home was that I need eggs for dinner (slow cooker mac and cheese) but I was planning to buy those at Costco later as it's near Chris' work, and by the time I do that it will be too late to make mac and cheese.  Plan B is pizza, so I pull some homemade dough out of the freezer and hope it will thaw in time.  (Later investigation reveals that it has!)

Upon arriving at home and putting away my groceries, I catch up on e-mail, etc. and read my Bible and journal.  We're in the midst of painting around here--all the walls and most of the trim are a not-so-pretty mauve/tan-ish, and I'm thankful we are able to paint even though we rent.  Saturday we painted the bathroom light blue so I do some touchups on that while listening to some music from Mars Hill Church in Seattle (I love me some hymns!).

While letting the paint try, I work on this blog post and do some more job hunting.  A childcare place wants me to fill out an application...woohoo!

I work on the trim next.  It's a bit slow in some spots (it's pretty narrow) but once I get a second coat on some that's already dried, it looks good.  Then I text Chris during his lunch to see how his day is going and have some tuna fish and crackers (Parmesan basil Wheat Thins, to be exact).  One of my friends from college just had a baby, so I check out the photos on facebook and look online at Target for a new shower curtain.

Back to painting!  The trim almost got the better of me, but I was victorious in the end.  I think.  I clean up the painting supplies, do some dishes, empty the trash, etc., before getting my list and heading to Costco.

I'll just come out and say it--I heart Costco.  Even when they disappoint me and don't carry lentils.  That, teriyaki sauce and real bacon bits are all I didn't find, though when I pick Chris up from work, he informs me that the Yoshida's sauce I got is the same thing as teriyaki.  Apparently I don't read bottles closely enough.  We head home, driving past our dream house.  It's for sale, too, we just don't have the money to buy it. :(

Once we're home, we put away the Costco purchases and Chris works on painting while I dust, pay bills and update this blog.  We only have one good paintbrush, which is probably a good thing as he's much better with a brush than I am.  Much better.

It's a sunny, crisp fall day, so we go for a quick walk (my fault that it was so short....I didn't wear a good coat) before coming home and making pizza for dinner.  While it's baking, we start a game of Monopoly and continue it during dinner.  I've never been very good at Monopoly, but I've learned a few tricks from Chris and it pays off as he owes me $600 by landing on New York with three houses...and only has $300 after mortgaging all he owns.  I love my husband...and I definitely love beating him in Monopoly. :)

After the game is over, he does the dishes (yes, I am spoiled!) and we get ready for bed.  It's early but we're both tired.  We had plans to read The Jungle Book outloud (we started it on our honeymoon) but instead we  get into bed and pray before falling asleep.  It's been a pretty ordinary day, but when you're married to the man of your dreams, every day somehow seems extraordinary.