New wedding rings?

My 10-year wedding anniversary is coming up in less than a month. While my husband and I would like to do something together, our funds and time are rather limited. I was thinking, instead, of getting us new wedding rings. Both of us are currently wearing plain white gold bands. (I believe the two of them cost $50 together.) Since his family is Irish, I took a look at some celtic jewelry for women to see if there would be any nice matching pieces. I really like the Mary Kate Infinity Celtic Wedding Ring. I definitely know I don't want a claddagh jewelery. It's a little too Irish for my tastes.

The rings I like are a bit on the expensive side. I'm not completely sure I could talk him into buying a set. I think he would rather spent some time together doing something. We normally get a couples massage for our anniversary. I'm just not sure that would suffice for a 10-year anniversary. It should be something a bit more special, right? Does anyone have any ideas? I don't think we can afford a hotel so a get-away-weekend is probably out of the question. Help!

A new review is coming!

Finally! I have a mere two episodes left to finish Shiawase ni Narou yo. If everything goes as planned, I will have them finished tomorrow. I'll have the new review up either tomorrow afternoon or Thursday morning. Yay! I'm not sure what is next in my queue. With a bit of luck, I'll be back on track with my jdorama reviews and they will be coming at a regular pace again.

Straight Talk

This post brought to you by Straight Talk. All opinions are 100% mine.

In my household, there are three of us. All three of us have a cell phone. Granted, my daughter doesn't really use hers to Call a friend or anything. It's mostly so she can contact us when she's away from home. Of course, this means that our phone bill is pretty high. So, in order to make myself feel a bit better today, I decided to take a look at Android on Straight Talk

The phones seem pretty nice. I'm not sure if it would be good enough for my husband's needs though. He has to have a data plan and all that funky stuff for work. I'll have to talk with him about it. Maybe I'll luck out and he'll be in Hook, line and sinker then we can actually save some money. Well, maybe not save. At least we'd have enough money for me to get my Zumba business fully up and running. Hey, I can dream, can't I?!

Though...I really like my current phone. It took me awhile to find one with a QWERTY keyboard that wasn't awful. I don't want to slog through all of the different phones again. I'm very picky about things like that. Well, I'll talk with the husband about it anyway.

Hook, line and sinker

Favorite Friday

It comes out next week!

Vacation!

Work is being a bit depressing today so I'm distracting myself by thinking of vacation. My husband said he wanted to stay home next year. I would rather go someplace to get away from it all. I was looking at Rent Calgary to get an idea of places in Canada to visit. I've never been outside of the United States. It might be nice to see how our Canadian neighbors live. I think there might be a few Canadian readers out there. What part of the country do you live in? I need some recommendations! I'm pretty terrible with Canadian geography though. (OK, I'm terrible with all geography.) So if you have some recommendations, try to make a reference about where in Canada it is. Like..."near Washington state" or something like that. Otherwise, I'll think you're talking about the eastern part of the country.

Ooh, if you have a recommendation for other places, I'll take those too. My daughter is 9 and my husband is a gamer. I'd like to go someplace where we aren't inside all day. I love the beach and warmth. They prefer colder temperatures. I know, we're difficult to please. Luckily, we're all pretty open to new and different things. Suggest away!

Favorite...Thursday?

I know I haven't been able to give you a Favorite Friday video in a long time. I am going to try to get that going again soon. In the meantime, here is a Thursday video. I absolutely love this song. It was written (and performed) by Shirota Yu, who apparently goes by U for his singing career. You might recognize him as Tuxedo Mask in the Sailor Moon musicals.

Back to school?

Every couple of months, I ponder going to back to school. I finished two years of college but never got my degree. My big problem is that I have no idea what to major in. Thanks to being an adult and working full time, I couldn't go to a traditional school. However, online schools like WaldenU.edu usually only offer business courses. BORING. I'd like to get a kinesiology degree (that would for fitness professionals) but looking at Walden University's online degree programs, it's not an option. I understand that it might be impossible to take some of those classes online. There's no reason an anatomy class can't be online. Not to mention all of the 'basic' courses one has to take to graduate college.

Though...if I'm going to start my own business, it might be good to have a boring business degree. I'm going to try to learn about Walden and see how long it would take me to finish their business program. Or at least see if it would be worthwhile. I might not even need a degree.

Has anyone out there attended Walden? What were your opinions on it?

I am having a terrible week

My week started out good so I had high expectations. Maybe that was the problem. We picked up my husband's new car on Monday and that was wonderful. On my way home from work yesterday, my car started acting up. It looks like the ignition needs to be replaced. Lovely. After that, I was locked out of the gym so I was forced to cancel my Zumba class. Awesome. Now I'm all blah and depressed. Of course, it's grey and dreary out, which makes it worse. Feel free to send me videos of cute kittens or something to cheer me up. I could use it today!

Love The New Shows

Post contributed by Fletcher Vargas I got DirecTV a while back and I didn’t think I’d use it all that much – boy was I wrong about that! I have gotten utterly addicted to BRAVO and all the reality shows on it. It’s a great network all around and they do other stuff, too, like some really good old school movies but why I really tune in is all the reality stuff. I love all the Housewives series, especially the Beverly Hills seasons but I’m having a hard time watching this year with all the off screen drama surrounding the death of one of the husbands. I also really like Flipping Out with that decorator guy Jeff Lewis but man is he hard to watch sometimes. He’s so mean and straightforward – it’s no wonder he can’t keep his staff or clients happy! Look at me talking about all these people like I know them…that’s the side effect of watching too much TV I guess! I never would have imagined I’d watch this much each day but I really like it!

We are done yet?

My husband picked up his new car last night. It's been a little over a week since his accident. I hope, now that things are settled a bit, that life will get back to normal. We have been so busy trying to get things done that it seems nothing was done! Once we get through this week, I think we will be OK. Since my daughter has picture day this week, here is a video with tips on how to survive it: