ASH WEDNESDAY

Today marks the beginning of lent and I will be going to mass tonight. As part of lent we are to make a scrafice for 40 days. Well Brandon and I got to talking and decided to participate this year. So we thought long and hard about something that is important in our lives that we could give up for 40 days. My first thought was, " I will give up going to the gym for 40 days!" Sounds like a great idea, right?! Not exactly, that might actually be fun and that is not the point.

So after thinking long and hard Brandon decided that he would give up his Play Station 3! That's right, your eyes are not deceiving you! My husband, the video game addict, will not play his play station for 40 days! I was so proud of him and will be even more proud of him if he pulls it off.

I couldn't think of anything to save my life! I have already given up drinking soda for dietary purposes and Red Bulls have become few and far between. So then Brandon suggested I give up my pillow for 40 days. I agreed because I have not slept with that thing since I was one year old and it will definetly be difficult.
So wish us luck!

Scattegories

This a fun game worth trying. Answer each question with the first letter of your first name. And you cannot use your own name for questtions 3 & 4. Good luck!

1. What is your name : Andrea

2. 4 Letter Word: Alot

3. A Boy's Name: Aaron

4. A Girl's Name: Annie

5. An Occupation: Astronaut

6. Something you wear: ACDC t-shirt

7. A Beverage: Apple Martini

8. A Food: Apricot

9. Something found in the bathroom: A toilet..<---- I know its a stretch!

10. A place: Alaska

12. A Reason for being late: asleep

13. Something you shout:: Ahhhh!

Your turn! I tag everyone who wants to give it a shot!

Work

Well I am sitting here at work and our database is down so I can't work! And it is so frusterating!
Can you believe that all I had to do today was two things and it is not almost 4:00 pm and I do not have them done! That will just go to show it has been one of those days. It has been crazy. It's like everytime I sit down to do my work the phone rings or I am asked to do something else.

So I know I have been slacking with blogging but that because we are boring people! There has been nothing going on in our lives, I promise! Hopefully we will do something exciting and worth blogging about soon.

The Secret Life of Bees

I feel like all I have written about lately are movie reviews but to be honest, there has not been much going on around here. The highlight of our weekend was the movies we rented, one of them being "The Secret Life of Bees." This was my choice, of course! It was an awesome movie! I first heard about it on Oprah (go figure, right?!) It was a book featured on Oprah's book club. I never got around to reading it but right before the movie was released in theaters, the cast was on the Oprah show.

Its the story of a young girl Lilly played by Dakota Fanning, who is trying to find out about her mother, who died when she was only four years old. It takes place in the Civil Rights era so of course race is a major part of the movie. Her journey brings her to a bee farm run by three sisters August, June, & May.

There is obviously more to the story but I don't want to ruin it! It is definetly a must see! I only wish I had read the book before seeing the movie. I would like to informally add a goal for February. I want to read more. I have so many books that I buy with every intention of reading but some how I can never find the time to read them! How is that possible! I find time all sorts of unimportant things. So I will start small... I want to read one book by the end of February!

New Month ... new goal!

I have a weakness! No, it's not shopping like most women. And no it's not shoes or even purses. My MAJOR WEAKNESS is eating out! It's actually quite bad for many reasons. First of all, eating out can get very expensive! At a minimum of $5 a day for 5 days a week. That quickly adds up to a minimum of $100 a month. And I say minimum because now a days spending $5 on lunch is rare. Also, eating out can get very fatty very fast, which ties into my goal for January.

I figure it will be better for my health and for my wallet to cut back on eating out. So my goal for February is to take my lunch to work 4 days a week.

Fireproof

This is a great movie! It is a love story with a lesson, if you havn't seen it I highly recommend it! It is the story of a fireman and his wife who are on the brink of divorce. Their relationship has taken a turn and somewhere along the way they have become more like roomates who do not respect each other. After another big fight she asks him for a divorce. He goes to his father for advice and his father asks him to put off the divorce for 40 days. A few days later he recieves "The Love Dare" in the mail and it states he is to do something new for his wife each day for 40 days in the hope of saving their marriage.
We give it two thumbs up!