Happy Birthday Mr Man!!!

Yay! My husband is officially a year older! I honestly can't believe that he is that old! I remember my friend marrying a 27 year old when we were 20, and I thought that he sounded crazy OLD!! (sorry to say that out loud friend who you know who you are). he he!!  Now I'm married to a 27 year old. I actually had a little trouble accepting that he was 26 about summertime last year, I thought to myself..."how old is Craig?" well I asked my Mom and she said 26 and I was like, "no way, he is not!" it took some math to figure out that she was indeed correct and that just blew my mind, so really this 27 thing isn't too big of a deal. I already got over that hump last summer. :) So today was a boring birthday for him. His only request was that he didn't have to wake up with Linkin in the morning - especially since we both went to bed around 2 am. Linkin slept in a little however so it wasn't too bad waking up with him at 9:30. Yeah! When Craig strolled out at about 10:00 saying he had to study- I was allowed to go take a nap. OH HAPPY DAY!!! There is absolutely NOTHING I would rather do. Honestly, in the world- than sleep. Nothing. Yeah not a thing. (after writing nothing with a period, I thought to myself if there really was anything I would rather do and skycoasters came to my mind but I then wrote my next sentence confirming that there's nothing I'd rather do). So... I slept for a good long while until Craig finally decided to wake me up, to which I pronounced, "can I please snooze?" which is when he leaves the room and leaves the door open with the hall light on and lets me sleep for another ten minutes or so! I love him!! He's so good to me. And on his birthday too.  The guilt of it being his birthday fought with the sleeper in me and won after so long and I hung out with him the rest of the day.... awake...! He requested my homemade tomato basil squares for dinner so I made that and some garlic bread and we had salad. Yay. Nothing too exciting. The recipe is attached to that link though if anyone wants to try it! Although he seems to think that that "pizza" is pretty exciting as do I. Most people that have had it love it, but one time I made Craig and I one for dinner and an extra one because we were going to have people over. Well it turns out only Jay came and it was fairly later that evening so I had it in the fridge uncooked until he came. Well I threw it in when he got there while we watched a movie and grabbed it out when the timer went off. Then served it to him. Turns out he ate all of what I gave him but the next day, I went to eat it for leftovers and it tasted sooo nasty and gross. I was like what the heck? It was soggy. It wasn't cooked all the way. DANGIT. That just makes me so mad. I have given him a hard time about it ever since. Like he just chokes it down anyway. Reminded me of missionaries for some reason cuz they have  to swallow whatever they are served whether they like it or not. Poor things! Anyways... so I cooked those leftovers longer and it ended up tasting totally normal again. I have a lot of trouble when cooking for guests...seriously - Craig will rave about something I cook and I actually really like it too but then when I cook it for someone else, it's all downhill. I always fail when I have an audience.  Silly goose! So... back from my tangent- we didn't do anything fun for Craigs birthday, we stayed home all day and watched a little (or a lot?)  TV and Craig studied a little here and there. I made him a simple little birthday cake and we ate that together tonight and watched Dance War: Carrie Ann VS.  Bruno (GO TEAM BRUNO!!!) <---- there's the link to the Dance War site and you can vote there if you watch it and haven't voted yet. I thought Carrie Ann's team did superb in their second performance but I can't bear to see someone on team Bruno go home so I will probably always continue to vote for them!! : ) Poor Mr Craig... he had the lamest birthday ever. Our lives are just too busy and we are too poor for anything exciting to happen. All he wanted to do was "chill" all day which is really nice for him considering all his days are completely the opposite of that---super high paced and going going going. So it was nice!!

Craig received some really nice cards in the mail on Saturday from loved ones... you know who you are... thanks both Mom and Dads for the nice cards and gifts, and Grandma and Grandpa Dear. You are sweet! Saturday, we went "out" for Craigs birthday... we say it was for his birthday but I know he was doing it for me...because we FINALLY went to the Olive Garden. I'm sorry but can I just share how FANTASTIC it truly was. It made up for all the waiting I did for it!!! Oh my goodness... yum! The salad, the breadsticks dipped in alfredo sauce... yum yum yum! And we bought bananas over the weekend too but they weren't as exciting as I wanted them to be. I'm allergic to them though so that's probably why. And they weren't as ripe as I'd like. But Linkin is sure happy to have a stash of bananas again, it'd been like a week. He LOVES bananas!! He's such a Monkey!!! We also went shopping in Tupelo at the mall and found some AWESOME deals at Aeropostale. I got a couple hoodies both for under $10. You should definitely head in there if you haven't yet. You know, I should really start charging for these advertisements I've been doing. GOODNESS...I sound like a commercial! Anyhow... Craig got some new jeans "for his birthday" so we say but he would have gotten them anyhow because he really needed new jeans as he has grown 4 inches in the last year. So funny! He looks cute in his new jeans, I'll take a pic of his bum for ya'll. :) he he! Oh and those jeans were both like 50% off too. And they aren't ugly by any means, so it was all in all a great shopping experience. Especially for a few folks who don't have a lot of spending money!!! Saturday night we rushed home to host a "bon fire" party at our house. All the guys in Craig's new phase II class wanted to celebrate their "dollar ride" by having a little get together so we had them all over and we hung out and talked and what not. I made some cookies for all but once again, I feel like they didn't turn out that great since I had company. But the batch that I did for just us after everyone was done eating theirs was great, soft, chewy and much better. Go figure! So annoying. I get carried away talking and burn things. But just enough that it doesn't "look" burnt but it is so it's pathetic really, I should stop talking about it because it irritates me. He he! So that night was fun. We stayed up a lot later than we should have though so we had a little catchin up to do. And that's really all for now folks. Last night we rented a movie (whoops, on a Sunday) and watched it. It was a horrible movie. I thought it was PG-13 but turns out it was unrated, which is sooo rated R or worse I swear. It had more than one F word and more than one chick exposed. I should have titled this post confessions part I because I'm literally laying this all out there, but I guess it's for those of you who don't pay attention to the movie world anymore like me and so you don't make the mistake that Craig and I seem to have made a number of times this year. We go in the store and rent these "chick flick" looking movies with some comedy and  they turn out to be super raunchy! It's so annoying. So the movie was called Good Luck Chuck and I honestly didn't think it was going to be bad but it definitely wasn't a Mormon girl type of movie! And now that I start looking at info about it online, it clearly says it was rated R which means I got the rated R version plus!! ha ha! DUH!! I even called Craig from inside Hollywood cuz he was in the car with Link and said there's this one or this one and he's like well what's "this one" rated and I said PG-13, because usually if it's rated R I put it right back on the shelf. Problem was that they were out of stock of that one and I happened to ask the girl if one had been returned and it had, so she got it for me and then I began carrying it around without looking at the back I guess. UGH. Why am I explaining myself right now? I should have never even brought this up. It's just frustrating cuz it's literally the 3rd time this has happened to us. Only the other two times we might have made the bad decision on purpose instead of on accident, hoping it wouldn't be too bad. I hate movies I guess because I can't find a good clean fresh decent one. Any help or suggestions anyone?? Seriously, because I'd love some input here? Any kid movies that are must see right now or in the last year because I'm so not up to date! Ok so I had to share, I went to log out of the movie site where I was trying to find info about that awful movie we watched. Turns out, I'm not alone in my thoughts of it. It got 100 ratings and 97 rated it rotten, and it was a 2.8% out of 10!! He he! That makes me happy. Check out some of the reviewers comments if you want... Rotten Tomato!!!

For those of you who haven't noticed or don't pay attention to my "sidebar" items...check em out. I have added a few things over there but am going to be adding many more pretty soon here. You can see a quilt of my favorite music albums, or a map of the world showing where in the world "viewers" of my blog are. Those two aren't going to be that exciting for you obviously, probably because you mainly don't care but then there's going to be some that are fun for you - especially those of you reading this while you are at work. Right now, there's already one on there called the traveler IQ, and Craig and I played it for a while and it was really fun. You learn while you play. Kind of. I didn't pass round 1 but Craig got through like 8 rounds before he didn't pass a round so it was really exciting that time. So check that out! Also I'm going to be posting some quiz type stuff on there or survey shall we say that I will need your answers and opinions on, so keep an eye on those sidebar items as you read my blog!

Miz- HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I love you to death and I'm so thankful for you! You are the best father in the world and a wonderful husband! Thanks for letting me sleep on your birthday and CONSTANTLY every other day! I loved having a slow paced day with you and I really hope you like your presents (I didn't get him anything...ha hah ahaha!!!!!) It's really sad actually and not funny but honestly, I didn't. hah ah haa! so I laugh again.... ha hahahaa!  Hope you enjoyed your day! And thanks to all you who dropped by with some love to read this!! Patty - I love hearing from you, thanks for your comments, I really miss working with you. I miss working period I guess!! he he!! And I love getting comments from everyone else!!! So much. Stephanie, you are so cute... I just love ya to death. I think it's so funny how I can feel so "in touch" with you when you are like ten states away and we've only met like three times. It's awesome. Technology can do wonders if you use it wisely!! See ya'll!!

For those interested in what Craig is really doing here - this link is kind of a summary of what UPT - Undergraduate Pilot Training entails. It's designed for readers who are contemplating becoming Air Force Pilots I believe, but it will help our Moms and Dads to understand a little more of what he's doing... http://www.baseops.net/militarypilot/training_day.html  , and another.......

                http://www.baseops.net/militarypilot/upt_life.html

Dollar ride? Brief description - "The first flight in pilot training is traditionally called a "dollar ride," a term which is sometimes applied to the first flight in any flying training program in a new aircraft.  The student is so clueless and the instructor pilot (IP) has to demonstrate (and thus fly) so much that the student is essentially a passenger.  Traditionally, the student gives the IP of his first sortie a dollar bill as a "tip" for the ride.  The dollars are often decorated with magazine clippings (some more risqué than others), phrases, or other details that might characterize the flight, the student, or the IP.  Many UPT instructors' desks are littered with laminated, vandalized dollar bills."

Craig's dollar for his dollar ride he did this weekend. He found a picture of the Rob Schneider in Chuck and Larry - He plays the Asian marry-er (I don't know what those people are called? ha ha!) For those of you who've seen it, you would completely understand, for those who haven't... here's a clip of that part... and why it's relevant to Craigs dollar ride.  The dollar part is about one minute into it and it cracked me up again this time too so watch it!!! Good night all!

Comments

[Mikelle Belliston]

Yes I know it was me you were talking about ahhahhhahahhaha wait until he turns 32 and you are like Man YOU are old!!!! Hilarious!

[Jos]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CRAIGER!!! I always forget he has a January bufday. What exact day is it again? I love your rambling posts. hahah. Sorry about your movie experience. We had the same thing happen this weekend, except we knew it was rated R, but we've heard it was good so we tried it out. Wow, my mind is corrupt from it.

[Andrea]

I don't know how you can think of so many things to write about you are amazing. I can barely think of a small paragraph. Well it sounds like to me that you always are doing something fun because you write so much. I think you are mistaken that we are always doing cool things because we aren't we just try and make ourselves look cool on the computer. hehe!

[Krista Watts]

I just love reading your blog, you crack me up. Happy B-day Craig!

[Patty R]

Thanks for the shoutout:) I like reading your posts. The same thing happened to me with that movie "Good luck Chuck" I liked the movie, It would have been awesome without all the explicit stuff though. You're funny Jackie..by the way I love that game Traveler IQ--it's kinda addicting :)