Just Sarah: November 2011

Sunday, November 6, 2011

This Weekend Was [Cuddle] Perfect

~Friday~

I got to sleep in with Amazing Boyfriend, which is just wonderful in itself. And to make it even better, he got up to make us breakfast! -- egg burritos with bacon.

I laid in bed, watched some TV, and soaked in the laziness, while he got things ready.

I got up, we ate, and laid on the couch cuddling.

{There is just something about cuddling with your man that brings calmness and relaxation.}

We watched some shows and football games, and around two, he left to grab us some lunch.

After lunch, we cuddled some more, until around five, we both had to leave -- him to go coach his junior high hockey team and me to my massage.

I left before he did, and headed over to Massage Best Friend's house to get a wonderful massage.

Afterwards, I headed to the rink to watch his last game.

We both headed home when the game was done and I got to cooking our dinner --filet mignon with mashed potatoes and cooked veggies.

It was so delicious! I had been marinating the meat in my special sauce for almost two days prior to cooking it.

After, we enjoyed a ~~huge~~ big bowl of ice cream and bought a movie on OnDemand called Trespass.

I've never heard of it before, but it had Nicholas Cage and Nicole Kidman in it.

The movie was INSANE! Good, but insane. I was clenching onto Amazing Boyfriend's hands the whole entire movie. My stomach hurt quite a bit after. Those types of movies that can really happen do that to me.

I took two Tums and we headed off to bed.

~Saturday~

I got to sleep in until about 10:30(!), which is so wonderful, since Fridays and Saturdays are my only sleep-in days.

I ~~finally~~ rolled out of bed around 11, brushed my teeth, washed my face, and strolled into the kitchen to warm me up some chocolate chip waffles.

It was freezing in my cute little apartment, so I put on some socks and a sweatshirt and settled down on the couch to watch some of my shows.

It was coming up on noon when I decided I should get ~~off my lazy butt~~ up and get started on my Saturday cleaning before I got too comfy.

I got to my cleaning and was done in about an hour/hour and a half. I was very proud of myself, except for the fact that during my cleaning I dropped and broke our tooth brush holder, that comes in a set. So I have to go Walmart today to see if I can find it sold separately, so I don't have to buy the whole set again online.

Cross your fingers!

I'm very hungry after I get done cleaning, vacuuming, and doing laundry.

I did a lot of shopping a few days ago, so our kitchen is very stocked up and a sandwich sounds delicious, since I have all the fixin's.

Amazing Boyfriend came home from work around 3ish and we cuddled on the couch, while he took a nap, and I watched TV.

Around 6, I got up to start dinner...something I had been craving for a while --burritos!

And OMG, they were so good! I cooked up some Mexican rice to go along with it, and I made us some margaritas! Yum!

We watched some football and ate our dinner, then got right back to cuddling up on the couch.

(I know, we're like pros at cuddling...but we never get to see each other with our work schedules, so when we do, we want to be as close together as possible.)

About 10 o'clock, we remembered to turn our clocks back, and headed to bed.

(I didn't even have to change, because I, for once, got to stay in my pajamas ALL DAY! Which was SO NICE!)

We turned on the TV in our room to watch before we fell asleep and found that Aladdin was on ABC Family.

After about 20 minutes, we were passed out...cuddling.

~Sunday~

With the time change and all the ~~relaxing~~ cuddling, I am feeling pretty good.

I got up at a descent time and got ready for church.

Got to church around 9ish and after, headed off to my parents for the day.

I've got to head to Walmart here pretty soon and hopefully Super Mom will be so kind as to do my hair for me, because my roots getting bad.

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I love my life, but this weekend was one of the best I've had in a long time.

Especially with all the cuddling!

How was your weekend?

Saturday, November 5, 2011

Massages Are My [New] Best Friend

Working as a nanny for two families this last year that go to the same school, I have become very close with a wonderful mom who's kids are friends with the kids I watch(ed). After talking with her everyday after school, I soon found out that she is going to school to become a massage therapist.

I little rush of excitement ran through me, because come on, a friend of yours gives massages for a living...um, YES PLEASE!

(Now, Super Mom is a massage therapist too, so I know what a good massage feels like, but being my mom and having 6 other people in my immediate family wanting one if she gives one to any of us, she's never in the massage-giving mood.)

So when Massage Best Friend said if I ever wanted one, I hopped on the offer.

I love being a nanny, but not being a mom myself, it is extremely tough on my stress level and body, even though I've been doing this for years.

When telling MBF this, she said that massages are good for you and people should get them more often.

I looked up on Wikipedia and found that it is true...

{Peer-reviewed medical research has shown that the benefits of massage include pain relief, reduced trait anxiety and depression, and temporarily reduced blood pressure, heart rate, and state of anxiety.[32] Theories behind what massage might do include blocking nociception (gate control theory), activating the parasympathetic nervous system, which may stimulate the release of endorphins and serotonin, preventing fibrosis or scar tissue, increasing the flow of lymph, and improvingsleep,[7] but such effects are yet to be supported by well-designed clinical studies.}

And after getting a Swedish massage from her last night, I KNOW that it is true!

{Swedish massage uses five styles of long, flowing strokes to massage. The five basic strokes are effleurage (sliding or gliding),petrissage (kneading), tapotement (rhythmic tapping), friction (cross fiber) and vibration/shaking.[27] Swedish massage has shown to be helpful in reducing pain, joint stiffness, and improving function in patients with osteoarthritis of the knee over a period of eight weeks.[28] It has also been shown to be helpful in individuals with poor circulation[citation needed]. The development of Swedish massage is often inaccurately credited to Per Henrik Ling, though the Dutch practitioner Johan Georg Mezger adopted the French names to denote the basic strokes.[29] The term "Swedish" massage is actually only recognized in English, Québécois or Dutch speaking countries. Elsewhere the style is referred to as "classic massage".}

She is awesome at what she does. I was so relaxed afterwards and told her that I would like to have one on a regular basis. And for only $30!

YAY for massages!

How much do you love massages?

Where do you go?

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Becoming Seriously Attached to Fictional Characters...

I told you here about how I'm reading the Private book series.

I'm reading through them like they're candy sitting in front of a baby.

(If that made any sense.)

Let's just say that I'm going them ~~extremely~~ fast.

(Like one every two days now.)

And it's starting to scare me how involved I am with these books. I feel like I am Reed Brennan, and I'm living everything through her.

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Like today, I was reading {the 12th} book and she had to break up with her boyfriend as a task in order to save her kidnapped friend, and my stomach was so sick, like I was just about to break up with my boyfriend when I obviously didn't want to.

She goes through ~~so much~~ an insane amount of stress and extreme troubles that I feel that I've been through the same thing.

Seriously!

I think because this is such a long book series and I'm reading it every day, I feel like it's my life I'm reading about. And even scarier, I can relate to a lot of the things...

Well, not everything, because people close to her get murdered, and thank God, that's never happened to me, but just her personality and some of the stuff she goes through with friends and boys, I can relate.

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However, on a side note...
I finished the 12th book today (no surprise there) and I'm really debating on whether I want to keep going. Only because with the way it ended, I think the author has taken it just a bit too far. And that's really saying something with this series, because just about anything and everything that could happen to a teenage girl that transfers to a private school out of state has happened to her, and that was already a stretch on the author's part.

But curiosity killed the cat, and I'm going to keep reading, because I just have to know what is going to happen next!

Although, I'm sad the series is coming to an end, or at least for now (I hope!).
I don't know if the author is planning to keep going and the books just haven't been written or come out yet.
(I only have TWO books left!)
Sad panda.

However, there are many prequels to this series that I need to read, and there's a series attached to this one based on one of the characters that left the book after the fourth one.