anniversary weekend

ok, i meant to finish this monday, but it's been a busy week at work. anyways, dad came in for the weekend, L and i got to go on a date by ourselves, and i ordered a new toy.

on friday, i swung by best buy to pick up a universal laptop power adapter ($89!!) since a friend checked out my power cord and said it was transmitting zero power. when i got home, i tested the new cord out and the power light came on for a second. however it went off just as fast, never to appear again.

dad was still on his way into town so we headed out to meet him for dinner at macaroni grille (mmm yummy). we snagged bruster's ice cream on the way home and hung out for the rest of the evening.

on saturday, we ventured back to the cottage cafe to show dad our new found down home breakfast. it was yummy again. we watched cartoons at home for a little while and then (for whatever reason) we went to wal-mart at about their busiest time of the week to get a few things. what fun! we got home, jake laid down for a nap, and we started getting ready for our big date by ourselves after a bit. we figured if we left for dinner at 5pm then we could catch a 7pm movie instead of a 9pm movie (we just ate a light lunch). we went to yamamoto, a japanese hibachi place that we hadn't tried yet. i had a nice plate of sushi and we both had the filet - so velvety smooth and tender! afterwards, we went to see will ferrell's new movie: stranger than fiction. we both really liked it. it was cool to see ferrell in a different type of character. jake was excited to see us when we got home :-)

on sunday, we went to church and then went to cheddar's (a local bar and grill that's supposed to be really good). it was pretty good, but i'll have to try a few more items before giving it the thumbs up all the way. dad took off monday as well so the afternoon did not consist of dad having to hurry on back to nashville. it was nice to just be able to hang out for a little while longer. jake fell asleep on the way home from lunch so he only napped for about an hour. dad helped me do some commish stuff for the fantasy fantasy baseball league i'm in (see bsbl on the right sidebar). in the evening, we played dominoes while watching a movie (just friends - eh.) and then we introduced dad to our sunday night shows.

on monday morning, since both the power cord and power connector on my laptop were apparently shot, we ordered a new macbook! i had been waiting on the new intel core 2 duo processors to be announced and what do you know, at the same time, they bumped the ram to 1 gig and the hard drive to 80 gigs! and they lowered the price! anyways, i can't wait to play with it. the intel processors on macs allow you to be able to install windows on a separate partition so i now have a more workable solution for running my logos bible software for school. i'll probably move all of our music (and photos?) over to it and it will have a little camera for video chatting too!! grandparents, get yours now!