Nick got to be home in Az for nearly two weeks around Christmas and New Year's. It was so great! I only worked one and a half of those days, so we were able to spend a lot of time together. Which meant house projects (oh joy), some outlet shopping, sporting events, and lots of cooking at home (which sadly doesn't happen too often if we both are alone).
The day after Christmas the decorations were put up, and the painting began! As some of you may know I had two girls living in my house last year and ever since they moved out in July I have been itching to repaint. Girls are gross, I'll say it. There was makeup residue on the walls and carpet, scuff marks on the baseboards from shoes and the doors are all beat up from hanging mirrors and purses. It was time for some TLC. We had a slight fiasco with the two gallons of paint we bought not being the same color, but after me having words with the store manager of Lowe's we painted these rooms not once by twice (to fix the mis match color lines) with 4 gallons of premium paint for $17 and 2 full days of work.
It's not often that Nick requests to go shopping but all his hard work painting definitely deserved a trip. He wanted to spend some Christmas money from paretns and after purchases of a new cell phone, new watch (here he is modeling it), new shoes, and a few new swimsuits for our cruise next month he was happy. I was proud of myself for only buying $6.99 workout headbands at under armour, and after a return to J-crew and target--I made even more Christmas money. Saving it for a rainy day.
I saw that ASU had a home basketball game with Nick was in town and thought that would be something fun to go to since we had never been to one before. When I looked at the schedule and saw that it was the same day as the Louisvlle/KY basketball game and the Louisville/Miami football bowl game, I knew it was going to be a day of sports. I had to get my outfit changes ready!
One of the first dates ever Nick tried to take me on was to an ASU basketball game. We sill laugh whenever we think about it, because we never got to go. Nick had tickets and we he looked to see what time it started he did not realize it gave the time in eastern time and the game is obviously in Az-mtn time! So he picked me up for the date, we drive to the arena only to realize the game ended about an hour before! We never tried to go to another game since. Nick tried so hard when were dating, and these "fun" experiences happened all the time. It's a miracle we made it to marriage ;)
So the joke the whole morning was that we better go early to the game just in case. We got there over an hour before it started, had to wait for the doors to open and were the first ones in. Nick says we were just making up for our last attempt.
The perks of showing up early is that you see Sparky getting ready.
ASU played UC Irvine and pulled out a win
We left the game and had 20 minutes until the Louisville basketball tip-off so after my shirt change in the car we headed across the street to BW3. I still can't believe we lost to Kentucky. Oh well, it isn't March Madness yet.
Next we went home to watch the first half of the Louisville football bowl game (which they did end up winning) and then headed over to our friends house to watch UFC fights. UFC is not my favorite but I enjoy the company and Nick is entertained after sitting through hours of Louisville sports in one day. From the time we left our house to head to the ASU game until we got home from UFC we had 14 hours of sports fun or exhaustion since they next day we both slept in until 10am! I can't tell you the last time I did that.
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