The next step?

It might be a new car!!

So we were going to wait to get a new car until we had, you know, at least one salary to our names, but this happened to my sister's car:


A FedEx truck's emergency brake went out and rolled down the hill from where that car is in the distance into her parked, non-crushed, car. Then it became a crushed, sad, most likely totaled car.









This incident moved up our car buying experience a little. So we spent the weekend looking for a new car! Not as fun as I had hoped, but still pretty exciting. We think we have decided on what we want, but still are waiting to find out if the car is actually totaled and therefore Emily needs a new car to drive until she leaves for school.

This weekend we also did exciting things like:



Homework on Friday night (and facebook :)) Oh the life of grad students!














We did have a little fun too. We got to sleep in, go to the last Illinois Hockey game of the season, and


eat Girl Scout Cookies!!!









It was a great weekend, but I cannot wait for the days when we are together most of the time. Anyone in a long distance relationship shares my feelings I am sure.

144 days!!

Valentines day from far away.

So I might one day get tired of coming up with rhyming titles and funny things to say, but i doubt it will be soon.

Our Valentines day was spent on Friday and Saturday because a weeknight date is never possible when you live 4 hours away from each other and have school and work to attend. The thing about being so far away from each other is that we really appriciate the times we get to spend together. Sitting down to a two hour dinner and ballet feels like we won the relationship lottery. 4 whole hours, just Dan and I, and no homework! That hasn't happened in a year.

The fun started Friday with gift opening. I got an adorable scarf from Urban Outfitters that has owls on it and Bedknobs and Broomsticks on DVD.


Dan got a Star Wars Lego Tie Fighter to build, which he wanted no help on. :)








The fun continued into Saturday when we went to McCormick and Schmicks for dinner and then walked across the very cold Fountain Square to watch the Cincinnati Ballet in Carmen. Nothing is better than sharing a good meal and a bottle of wine!



I was also surprised by 2 dozen roses at my door Saturday afternoon while I was getting ready. They still look pretty good.















All in all it was a fun, short, and great weekend. There was a lot of homework on Sunday (Dan), a lot of whining about homework (me), and a lot of snuggling with our favorite crazy cat.





May, shes a great study buddy :)













We hope everyone else had a great weekend and Valentines celebration.

Jess

Our Move!

It's true, Dan is so awesome that he got a job in Chicago before he even graduates from school. This means, we are already starting to plan our move for July/August. This is mostly because I like planning way too much, and because it is fun to look at apartments.

This is going to be an amazing experience, thanks for joining us on the journey. Stay tuned for fun things like apartment hunting, moving all of our stuff, and photos from all along the way!