I am the smartest woman alive!

Remember that ridiculous Statistics class I was whining about not too long ago? Well, I just got my results and I'm proud to say that somehow I've managed to get an A. Yay!! I'm so relieved to know that I passed it, and now I'm all the more confident. I mean, if I can take a stats class online and pass, then I can do ANYTHING! Woo!!

Not such a great weekend...

Well, this weekend was fairly uneventful. Friday night my poor fiance was up all night with a stomach bug. Yuck! But now he's better, so that's good.

Saturday we went to the movies to see Nacho Libre. Jeremy had been wanting to see it since it first came out, and because he was sick I decided to humor him and go. What a waste of time and money. It was probably the worst movie I've ever seen. Don't go see it when it comes out over there.

Saturday night we went over to Mark and Lauren's place for a bbq. Most of Jeremy's old workmates will be leaving the area soon, so it was one of our last chances to see everyone together. But because we'd been up a lot of the previous night, we didn't stay too long.

Sunday we lazed around at the pool for a bit, then went out to lunch at a great restaurant right by Jeremy's apartment. Nothing too exciting there...

And now it's Monday night, and I'm back at Bob & Marianne's miserable with a fever. I guess I caught some of Jeremy's germs. I just hope it goes away soon because I feel like crap!

So much fun!

Wow!! What a weekend we just had! We've been pretty busy this weekend, and it's been so much fun. Have I mentioned how much I can't wait to actually be living with Jeremy and seeing him everyday?! Spending this week with him has been so great, and I wish I didn't have to go back to Bob and Marianne's. Oh well. Only two more months to go...

Our week was pretty uneventful. Although I had the week off, Jeremy still had to work. All I did was sleep in and sit around watching MTV, waiting for him to come home. How exciting! Tuesday was the 4th of July, so Jeremy had the day off. We didn't do a whole lot during the day - we went shopping for a bit, nothing too exciting. For dinner we went into this gorgeous part of Virginia called Old Town. It's very old, very expensive and very pretty. The houses are pretty much all row houses, like this, but are huuuuge and can cost up to $3 or $4 million (did I mention that the people I'll be working for live there?). Anyway, we went to a really nice restaurant down on the water called the Chart House, which is known for its seafood. My food was average, but Jeremy raved about his, so at least one of us was excited. Afterwards, we staked out a place on the dock to try to watch the fireworks in DC, but to our dismay there were trees blocking our view. So much to Jeremy's disgust, we left Old Town after missing the fireworks. And that was our 4th of July.

Friday night we joined some friends in Baltimore, Maryland for a night at the symphony. The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is doing a Sounds of Summer concert series, so we made our way there for the Best of Baroque. It was really nice - I had never been to a symphony performance, so it was certainly something new for me. Afterwards, we went out to dinner where our friends lay a huge surprise on us...our good friends, Eric and Shannon, are having a baby! It's so exciting!! Shannon's 6 weeks along. We're all so happy for them - they're wonderful people and I'm sure they'll make great parents. I'm so excited!! Another baby to play with!

Saturday we spent the day lounging around, watching movies and recovering (we got home after 2am). Then today, Jeremy and I went to Kings Dominion amusement park. I was so excited! I can't even remember the last time I went to an amusement park! And the parks here are 100 times better than anything I've ever been to. We went on 6 rollercoasters, 3 of which were old-school wooden coasters, 2 water rides (Jeremy and I got soaked!), and walked about 100 miles. It was soooooo much fun! My favorite was the crazy Hypersonic, which uses compressed air to launch you straight up in the air, and then you hurtle straight down and around a little bit. Oh my god! I never, ever thought I would want to go on a ride like that, but I'm so glad we did. It was the most awesome thing ever! Woo!! Poor Jeremy blacked out up the top, that's how fast we were going. I kept my eyes open the whole time. It was sheer craziness!


The Hypersonic, baby! Yeah!


Me at the bottom, waiting in line to go on...

And that brings us up to now. It's 7pm on Sunday, and I'm exhausted after a looooong day at Kings Dominion. Now I'm dreading going back to work, but at least I have lots of good memories from this past week.

Oh, and in case you can't tell by the photo above, my hair is now back to dark. I decided to get it colored back to my natural color, so I can let it grow out and not have to worry about roots showing. It cost me half a fortune to get it done at the salon, and now I'm adjusting to it being so dark. But it looks really good, and I'm excited to know that I won't have to worry about dyeing it any more!

Late edit: I had my first ride on Jeremy's bike tonight! Yay! We rode it only a couple of blocks to Chipotle for dinner, and then to the gas station. It was sooooo much fun! Although we were only going about 45 miles/hour, it felt like we were zooming along. Now I really want to get my motorbike license so I can drive it too!


Jeremy on his monster bike!


Me

Take me out to the ballgame...

"Take me out to the ballgame,

Take me out with the crowd.

Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack

I don't care if I never get back.

Let me root, root, root for the home team,

If they don't win it's a shame.

For it's one, two, three strikes you're out

At the old ball game."

So if you haven't already guessed by the song, on Saturday night I went to my first Major League baseball game. The Washington Nationals were playing the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and we got free tickets through one of Jeremy's friends. Tim (the guy who got us tickets) is friends with the announcer for the Devil Rays, so he managed to score us great seats and a couple of Press passes. Even though I just barely knew what was going on, it was still really fun. We went with a few of Jeremy's friends from SS that we hadn't really seen for a while, so that was good. Afterwards we went out to bar for some drinks with the guy who had got us the tickets. We ended up back at home sometime around 3am. It was a great night.

Jeremy and I in our seats. What a view!

Other than that, not too much is going on here. Marianne's son, Joseph, is visiting from New York for the summer. He'll be here for about a month, which is great because it means that the girls go to him when they want to annoy someone instead of me! Haha.

Also, I have this week off (YAY!). Marianne has taken the girls and Joseph to visit family in Florida, so I'm spending the week at Jeremys. He's still working though, so really I'm spending my days with the crazy puppies. Tuesday is 4th of July, so we're trying to decide what to do for that. We're considering going into the city to watch the fireworks, but there will be people everywhere so we're not sure yet. No doubt we'll do something fun!

And that's about all the news I have. Not very exciting, I know, but hey! You all say you want to know so I'm telling. It's still storming here on and off, although it's nothing like the 14 inches we had last week! I'm still trying to send some over there, but I'm not sure it's working.

Oh, and for all you car buffs....Guess what car we saw on Sunday night after dinner? Parked right next to us was a Maserati! That's right, a car that's worth almost AU$250,000 was sitting right there in the lot next to us. Just goes to show how much money is floating around the area where we live.