Saving a Weekend

The plans that we had made for the weekend fell through sadly. I was so excited to get off work on Friday and head to Madera to spend the weekend with the Moses. But on our way out of Paso our car started making a really bad sound so we pulled over and popped the hood under a lamp post near a vineyard (only in Paso can you take just about any given turn off the freeway and hit a vineyard) to see if anything looked weird (not that we really knew what we were looking for). We both got the feeling we shouldn't drive the car all the way to Madera so we sadly turned around and went home. Dj knew how disappointed I was so when we got home we played a game, LIFE, and he made me laugh and I wasn't as sad when I went to bed. Yesterday morning was hard though because I had been excited to go to the temple with Kayde and Orion and even though there was a stake temple day in LA that we could have caught a last minute ride to we decided we shouldn't spend the gas/food money and that we'd just wait to go to the temple until our Utah trip at Christmas time.

So I decided that I'd go to a baby shower that I hadn't planned on going on because going out of town, it would be fun and it would help keep me from moping around the house. I'm really glad that I did too because the girl who it was for has had a really hard pregnancy, I visited her during her stay in the hospital, and sometimes I feel like people judge her and don't give her a real chance to get to know her, I'm not really sure why, just a feeling. So I went and I actually got to hang out with some sisters from my ward so I think I made some actual friends, who knew right? And the girl really thanked me for coming and for visiting her during her time in the hospital, I could hear the gratefulness in her voice and when I got home and was telling dj about it he told me he was really glad I went, he felt really good about it. And then we decided to actually have date night. Like real date night! Which we haven't had for about two months because we've both been so busy. So we used some free movie tickets that we got from donating blood and saw The Three Musketeers in 3D. We hadn't heard of the movie before and we didn't know anything more about it except what we watched in the trailer like an hour before we went. (another plus is that we got to keep the 3D glasses, which will be part of our Halloween costumes, pics will come later). And then dj said we could go out somewhere nice for dinner (now our idea of nice is spending more than 20 bucks on dinner for the both of us) so we decided, since it was really busy downtown we'd just go to Applebee's. It was nice to just sit there and talk and (watch college football of course) enjoy eating together without dj having to rush so he could get back to his homework. We were lying in bed talking last night and saying how even though our plans had changed we had made the best of it and that I had done a really good job of not being depressed about it. We also talked about how we missed each other, we'll go an entire week without having any time to talk or hang out after work/school. All our talking is done in the morning getting ready together and then for just a few minutes while we're eating dinner.

So who knows what's wrong with the car, by the end of the day yesterday it was starting to make a few small noises but nothing as serious as Friday. Who knows why we felt like we shouldn't go to Madera, I don't know why things happen the way they do sometimes. But I know I'll get to get my Moses fix this week because they're coming to visit SLO this week for Kayde's birthday and a little vacation. And despite the weekend working out the way that it did I'm glad that I got to spend some quality time with my best friend, we needed it, and it'll help fortify us against the next few weeks of work that he has.

 Happy Sunday!