In case you didn't know, I'm one of those late jumpers-on (I'm guessing it is pluarized like 'culs-de-sac' which I learned how to do from watching Gilmore Girls) the bandwagon for the Harry Potter craze. I started reading the books before we got married. And then I was hit with the appendectomy. So while I was layed up, I re-read all of them. Then we heard that the last movie was coming soon. Neither of us had seen many of them... I think Tommy hadn't seen any, and I had seen maybe two? So we of course had to catch up on that.
We slowly bought all 5 of the Harry Potter movies. I was surprised that they left lot of details out that were in the books, and completely changed some things!
I told Tommy Thursday night that we should go on a date. So on Friday Tommy wanted to grab Chic-Fil-A, which happened to be Pirate Night! We have no idea why. But there were pirates walking around giving out fake tatoos, and a treasure map and treasure digging pool, and Best Buy was there with a pirate video game. We had fun. And I got a picture with a pirate cow.
Chic-Fil-A sometimes makes my belly hurt. And I had unpacked like 30 or 40 boxes that day at work all by myself. So I was kind of hinting that I didn't care to go to a movie, which Tommy had mentioned. And he goes, "I've had my heart set on going to the movies all day!"
We get there at 7:30 and Tommy hands me a folded piece of paper- Harry Potter Tickets!!! Happy Rotter TIX!!! I jumped up and down and up and down and we jumped in line. What a wonderful surprise. The movie was so well done! They followed the book very closely and captured characters well and the crazy things that happen in a magical world- sigh. Good stuff.
Saturday we had to wake up SUPER dang early to take our dear friends, Jon and Kim, to the airport. Their flight left at 7 something so we were Godly friends and sacrificed our one day to sleep in and drove them out there. And then went back to bed. Later, Tommy took the car and bought some Christmas presents that I'm not supposed to know about while I kept sleeping ( = heaven!)
A few days ago, I was told by a co-worker that the Humane Society here in town has a whole room of cats that they let people play with all day. So, being the animal person I am, and since we can't have pets, (our apartment charges pet rent!) I decided we should go get our cuddly creatures fix. And it was true! We walked into a room of like 30 cats. Almost overwhelming. But they were all amazingly sweet and purring. There was a two or three year old girl visiting too, and they just let her sit by them and pat their heads- so patient! Tommy and I liked one particular cat the best- he was black and orange striped, suuuuuper fluffy and long haired (so much so that he looked fat, but was actually pretty tiny) and his face was mushed so it looked like he had run into a wall. He LOVED us. He liked to stand on my belly if I stopped petting him. Tommy named him Mufasa!
We had to leave so I wouldn't try and sneak Mufasa out with us. We headed to WalMart and started collecting things to make two Operation Christmas Child boxes! Our boxes are for 10-14 year olds, a boy and a girl. We got them flip flops, flashlights and batteries, a shirt each, and girly things and boy-y things. It was so exciting to buy little things and know they would be so appreciated. We also wrote them each a card and gave them our address. And! The card was from Unicef, which helps kids all over the world too, and had "Merry Christmas" written in six different languages! Perfect!
Tommy made us a healthy gormet dinner - grilled chicken on caesar salad, and we caught up on our tv shows- The Office, Big Bang Theory, Grey's Anatomy, etc. Again, perfect evening.
Sunday was simply awesome because Tommy's sister Kerri had her baby! Kaelyn Reece Painter was born sometime in the afternoon and we got to skype soon afterward with the happy new mama. Kerri looked great and baby was all rosy. Personally, I'm hoping she comes up with cool nicknames for us, because "Aunt Mallory" and "Uncle Tommy" both sound awful. Tommy agrees. We also spent the day delivering our boxes for Operation Christmas Child, gave 5 bucks to a homeless guy, and Tommy let me start getting Christmas decorations out!!! Quite a productive day.
We are now sad because we are realizing that we have to go to work tomorrow. BUT! Only 2 and a half days, then we're on the road to El Dorado, Arkansas!! Over and out.
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Saturday, November 20, 2010
catch you up.
I will try and let you know what all has been going on since the November 4th post.
But Tommy posted!!! YAY! We really did like that guy that pulled out. Kim and I wanted him to get picked first. How sad we are.
So after we drove all the way back, we were texted by Kim and Jon reminding us that Chipotle offers cheap burritos on Halloween if you dress up like a burrito! Where I come from and where they come from, if you put on aluminum foil, you wait in a line for an hour, and get a completely free meal. But in Gainesville, the burritos are actually 2 bucks and no one seems to know?? So they let us know that there was no line and they had foil for us. We got to eat and hang out with them, another married couple, and a group of the college kids we're getting close to. So nice, but we had a pumpkin to carve!
Yes, we waited until Halloween night to carve a Jack-o-latern. But we were just running around and being so busy and fun that we had put it off. We left the dinner party a little early and prepared to carve. And in the end, it looked AWESOME. Just for Tommy, we made a beautiful script A for Bama. Check out the facebook pics!
Then, (almost) the whole group from Chipotle came over to chill at our apartment! We sat around and chatted and listened to guitar playing.... so nice.
It has started feeling more homey here. We have had friends come over a lot to play games, and we've each gone to girls and guys nights where we get to really know our new friends. When we moved, we discussed wanting to get involved with college kids- God has just plopped this right in our laps! On top of that, we have felt more connected to our small group. Tommy and I have been sharing more about what God has been doing in our lives, and we have been appreciating hearing from others so much more now that we know them a little better.
We ALSO got to have a party night with a bunch of the young married couples. There was one couple who had been married 3 months, so we were second in line as newly weds. And of course, we had to play a version of the newly-wed game. We didn't do THAT badly! I think we just have changing ideas and opinions about things so answers aren't cut and dry for us yet. Which is a good thing :) Not that I'm trying to give us excuses.
But you know we were the coolest couple there.
But Tommy posted!!! YAY! We really did like that guy that pulled out. Kim and I wanted him to get picked first. How sad we are.
So after we drove all the way back, we were texted by Kim and Jon reminding us that Chipotle offers cheap burritos on Halloween if you dress up like a burrito! Where I come from and where they come from, if you put on aluminum foil, you wait in a line for an hour, and get a completely free meal. But in Gainesville, the burritos are actually 2 bucks and no one seems to know?? So they let us know that there was no line and they had foil for us. We got to eat and hang out with them, another married couple, and a group of the college kids we're getting close to. So nice, but we had a pumpkin to carve!
Yes, we waited until Halloween night to carve a Jack-o-latern. But we were just running around and being so busy and fun that we had put it off. We left the dinner party a little early and prepared to carve. And in the end, it looked AWESOME. Just for Tommy, we made a beautiful script A for Bama. Check out the facebook pics!
Then, (almost) the whole group from Chipotle came over to chill at our apartment! We sat around and chatted and listened to guitar playing.... so nice.
It has started feeling more homey here. We have had friends come over a lot to play games, and we've each gone to girls and guys nights where we get to really know our new friends. When we moved, we discussed wanting to get involved with college kids- God has just plopped this right in our laps! On top of that, we have felt more connected to our small group. Tommy and I have been sharing more about what God has been doing in our lives, and we have been appreciating hearing from others so much more now that we know them a little better.
We ALSO got to have a party night with a bunch of the young married couples. There was one couple who had been married 3 months, so we were second in line as newly weds. And of course, we had to play a version of the newly-wed game. We didn't do THAT badly! I think we just have changing ideas and opinions about things so answers aren't cut and dry for us yet. Which is a good thing :) Not that I'm trying to give us excuses.
But you know we were the coolest couple there.
Friday, November 19, 2010
(SOME) People are Awesome.
Hello blog world, this is Tommy.
So Mallory has been encouraging (read harassing... just kidding!) me to write a post on our blog for all of our loyal followers to read. I guess it's so that people will realize that I am not a creative writer...I don't know. I usually feel like she has a much better way of communicating all our antics to you all than I do. Anyway, enough about that. Just know that this is my first post so it may or may not be that entertaining...
For those of you that don't know, I work at Shands at the University of Florida. It is the academic medical center (or teaching hospital for those non-healthcare people out there) on the University of Florida's campus. I am an administrative resident, which basically means I'm management in training. My typical day is staring at my computer (usually at Excel), attending meetings, and trying to figure out what I will be doing at the end of this residency. It ends June 2011, which is coming way faster than I expected that it would.
One of the jobs that we just finished was recruitment for next year's residents. It was an interesting/frustrating process. We had to go through 60+ applications, narrow those down to 7 phone interviews, conduct preliminary interviews for 14 people, and come up with 6 people out of all that to bring to Shands for on-site interviews. Needless to say, it dominated our day for several weeks. I say "our" because there are two of me (administrative residents) at Shands. The other version of me is named Jon. We share an office and people basically treat us like the same person.
We finally narrowed the group down to the people that we wanted to bring on-site and set up all the interviews, planned the few days that the candidates would be here, and prepared mentally for the event. I got to drive a sweet 2011 minivan to chauffeur the candidates around in. After that experience Mallory and I will NEVER have a minivan. I don't know how people drive those things. Anyway, back to my story. So the candidates came and the interviewers selected their two favorites. We made the offers and one accepted almost immediately. The other ended up turning us down for another place. That was fine, we had others to offer the job to. So we made another offer and that person accepted. All is great. Jon and I then had to make the awkward "you didn't get the job. sorry..." phone calls to the other candidates. All of them took it extremely well.
Well today I get a call from the first candidate we made the offer to. He has decided, for "personal reasons", not to take the job after all. Great. What the heck are we going to do now? So I am sitting here feeling like people generally suck (excuse my "French". Why do people say that??) when Jon tells me about an youtube video he saw. It is entitled "PEOPLE ARE AWESOME". It has restored my belief that people are awesome, but not all people (the guy that just called is one of the not awesome people). Hence the title of this post: (SOME) People are Awesome. I leave you with the video that Jon told me about and hope that it will restore your belief that some people are awesome. Not all though... Enjoy.
So Mallory has been encouraging (read harassing... just kidding!) me to write a post on our blog for all of our loyal followers to read. I guess it's so that people will realize that I am not a creative writer...I don't know. I usually feel like she has a much better way of communicating all our antics to you all than I do. Anyway, enough about that. Just know that this is my first post so it may or may not be that entertaining...
For those of you that don't know, I work at Shands at the University of Florida. It is the academic medical center (or teaching hospital for those non-healthcare people out there) on the University of Florida's campus. I am an administrative resident, which basically means I'm management in training. My typical day is staring at my computer (usually at Excel), attending meetings, and trying to figure out what I will be doing at the end of this residency. It ends June 2011, which is coming way faster than I expected that it would.
One of the jobs that we just finished was recruitment for next year's residents. It was an interesting/frustrating process. We had to go through 60+ applications, narrow those down to 7 phone interviews, conduct preliminary interviews for 14 people, and come up with 6 people out of all that to bring to Shands for on-site interviews. Needless to say, it dominated our day for several weeks. I say "our" because there are two of me (administrative residents) at Shands. The other version of me is named Jon. We share an office and people basically treat us like the same person.
We finally narrowed the group down to the people that we wanted to bring on-site and set up all the interviews, planned the few days that the candidates would be here, and prepared mentally for the event. I got to drive a sweet 2011 minivan to chauffeur the candidates around in. After that experience Mallory and I will NEVER have a minivan. I don't know how people drive those things. Anyway, back to my story. So the candidates came and the interviewers selected their two favorites. We made the offers and one accepted almost immediately. The other ended up turning us down for another place. That was fine, we had others to offer the job to. So we made another offer and that person accepted. All is great. Jon and I then had to make the awkward "you didn't get the job. sorry..." phone calls to the other candidates. All of them took it extremely well.
Well today I get a call from the first candidate we made the offer to. He has decided, for "personal reasons", not to take the job after all. Great. What the heck are we going to do now? So I am sitting here feeling like people generally suck (excuse my "French". Why do people say that??) when Jon tells me about an youtube video he saw. It is entitled "PEOPLE ARE AWESOME". It has restored my belief that people are awesome, but not all people (the guy that just called is one of the not awesome people). Hence the title of this post: (SOME) People are Awesome. I leave you with the video that Jon told me about and hope that it will restore your belief that some people are awesome. Not all though... Enjoy.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
the end. (of october) (pt.1)
So we had a weekend off from the crazies. The problem was, we had been having so much fun traveling and celebrating, that I got the itch to leave town again.
My good friend had had a baby six weeks ago, and she was supposed to start work on Nov. 1st. So I asked Tommy if we could have another road trip to Savannah for the weekend of Halloween.
So off we went!!
We left Friday afternoon and drove the 3.5 hours up and arrived around 9. There's a super cool family there that my family practically grew up with. Before we were engaged, Tommy and I visited Savannah and we got to stay with them. So this time we got to stay there again, but in the same room. My brain was so confused. Ten years ago they finished building that house and we would visit and eat dinner and watch movies.... I never thought I'd stay there with my husband! We sat up for 2 hours talking to the mom. She and two of the kids (not kids... they're like 22 and 17...) played in our wedding! See- we're close.
The next day we slept in, which we so enjoyed. And then met one of my best friends and her husband for lunch at the FAMOUS Crab Shack. All I wanted was popcorn shrimp. ALL I wanted. And then I find out they don't serve any fried food. ANY. I was floored. That just does not happen in Savannah.... or on the coast... or in the south. I had blocked that bit from my memory from the only two times I had been. But the weather was gorgeous, we were literally sitting right on the water, and the company was super cool. And there were cats roaming around that I fed. See, the Crab Shack is almost completely open- you're basically sitting outdoors with a wooden floor- almost a shipwrecked/thrown-together feel. They have cats roaming around and a fenced-in area packed with alligators (I felt bad that they were bored....) and big exotic birds outside their gift shop. We thoroughly enjoyed it.
Then we got to go see another friend- the one with the baby!! Tommy got to meet a lot of her family members and I got to hold the baby. Just hold and rock and bounce. Ahhhh my woman hormones. He was like a little heat rock. I started getting sweaty, but it was so fun. I asked Tommy if he wanted to hold him, and he tried not to act too scared :) It was so great to see my friend too!! I got lots of hugs from her family, so Tommy got to see that other people like me too!
THEN we went to good ol' Spanky's! Another unique-to-Savannah restaurant where we chowed down on chicken fingers and spuds, and Tommy actually tried their honey dipping sauce TWICE (he hates honey) and didn't say he hated it!
We met another friend (actually, the one who played in the wedding!) and his girlfriend and took Tommy to the Sugar Shack- a tiny ice cream parlor on the little beach island of Tybee. We took our treat, all walked down the pier and back. And went home to sleep off all our fattening food.
And then it was Sunday. I decided not to take Tommy to my home church. I hate showing up when people are trying to worship and being like "heeeeyyyy I'm baaaack!" So we slept in again and then we HAD to eat at this quick Japanese place that me and my peeps LOVE. And - that couple that we went to Crab Shack with- their house is like 2 minutes from that restaurant, so we stopped in for a minute... but it was really to see their PUPPY DOGGIES.
And THEN we drove back to the Gainesville. And I will write about THAT night on another post. Til then!
My good friend had had a baby six weeks ago, and she was supposed to start work on Nov. 1st. So I asked Tommy if we could have another road trip to Savannah for the weekend of Halloween.
So off we went!!
We left Friday afternoon and drove the 3.5 hours up and arrived around 9. There's a super cool family there that my family practically grew up with. Before we were engaged, Tommy and I visited Savannah and we got to stay with them. So this time we got to stay there again, but in the same room. My brain was so confused. Ten years ago they finished building that house and we would visit and eat dinner and watch movies.... I never thought I'd stay there with my husband! We sat up for 2 hours talking to the mom. She and two of the kids (not kids... they're like 22 and 17...) played in our wedding! See- we're close.
The next day we slept in, which we so enjoyed. And then met one of my best friends and her husband for lunch at the FAMOUS Crab Shack. All I wanted was popcorn shrimp. ALL I wanted. And then I find out they don't serve any fried food. ANY. I was floored. That just does not happen in Savannah.... or on the coast... or in the south. I had blocked that bit from my memory from the only two times I had been. But the weather was gorgeous, we were literally sitting right on the water, and the company was super cool. And there were cats roaming around that I fed. See, the Crab Shack is almost completely open- you're basically sitting outdoors with a wooden floor- almost a shipwrecked/thrown-together feel. They have cats roaming around and a fenced-in area packed with alligators (I felt bad that they were bored....) and big exotic birds outside their gift shop. We thoroughly enjoyed it.
Then we got to go see another friend- the one with the baby!! Tommy got to meet a lot of her family members and I got to hold the baby. Just hold and rock and bounce. Ahhhh my woman hormones. He was like a little heat rock. I started getting sweaty, but it was so fun. I asked Tommy if he wanted to hold him, and he tried not to act too scared :) It was so great to see my friend too!! I got lots of hugs from her family, so Tommy got to see that other people like me too!
THEN we went to good ol' Spanky's! Another unique-to-Savannah restaurant where we chowed down on chicken fingers and spuds, and Tommy actually tried their honey dipping sauce TWICE (he hates honey) and didn't say he hated it!
We met another friend (actually, the one who played in the wedding!) and his girlfriend and took Tommy to the Sugar Shack- a tiny ice cream parlor on the little beach island of Tybee. We took our treat, all walked down the pier and back. And went home to sleep off all our fattening food.
And then it was Sunday. I decided not to take Tommy to my home church. I hate showing up when people are trying to worship and being like "heeeeyyyy I'm baaaack!" So we slept in again and then we HAD to eat at this quick Japanese place that me and my peeps LOVE. And - that couple that we went to Crab Shack with- their house is like 2 minutes from that restaurant, so we stopped in for a minute... but it was really to see their PUPPY DOGGIES.
And THEN we drove back to the Gainesville. And I will write about THAT night on another post. Til then!
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