Moving...ughhh

We officially got the keys to our new apartment on Monday! Since then, we have been loading up Edgar, my Ford Edge, with boxes from our storage unit at least three times a day. The storage unit is about half empty now, and most of what is left is furniture and bigger things, that Hubby will have to move on Saturday when he rents his child molester van.

I'm being a terrible wife this weekend because I'm going to DC with my girlfriends and leaving Hubby alone to move all the furniture. However, we're lucky to have some of the best friends in the world who are willing to help us with the moving process. In fact, my friend Ashley's fiancé is coming down here from Charlottesville just to help hubby with the move (plus, I think they are going to have a little boys weekend too, while Ash and I are up in DC with the girls).

But anyways, before I leave I'm hoping to at least have all of the boxes out of storage and maybe I'll start unpacking some of the kitchen. I'm dreading it, to tell you the truth. Our new place is so small - I'm not sure where I'm going to put all of our stuff! Plus, we're realizing we have multiples of a lot of stuff, so I'm betting we will be making a lot of trips to goodwill. Superfun.

Anyways, time to get back to the grind.

Orange Bowl, Baby!

For those of you who don't know (and if you aren't aware you must be living in a hole) the Hokies won their game this weekend are are now ACC Champions!!! We're BCS bound!! We've had quite a nice weekend and I'm really sad that it's over.

On Friday we went out to dinner at Sal's for Italian food. We haven't eaten there before, but we both really liked it. After dinner we went to Bull & Bones to meet a friend for a few beers. They just started featuring their Winter Ale, which is a very smooth brown ale with and IBU of 23 and an alcohol content of 7.0%. Hubby drank like five beers, so obviously I had the honor of driving home.

Saturday we went Christmas shopping in downtown Blacksburg and found a few really great gifts. It was snowing the whole time we were shopping, so I felt like we were in a movie scene while walking around in Blacksburg. After we bought a few gifts, we walked around the farmers market. I'm really excited about all the different things that can be bought at it - there were even vendors selling bread and meat! After shopping we headed back home to enjoy the snow and watch football.

While we were waiting for our game to start, we played a few intense games of scrabble. I won once, and Hubby and our roomie tied for first place during the second game. They were really excited to beat me (as you can tell from the picture). 

Now, we're relaxing and watching TV, and getting prepared to move into our new apartment tomorrow!! I'm not looking forward to packing/unpacking and all of that, but it is exciting that we're going to have a place of our own with an awesome backyard for Buddy to run around in.

I'm also excited because Hubby's parents bought tickets to the Orange Bowl, so we're going to Miami, baby!! We just bought our flights! We will be in Miami from January 2-4! What a way to start the year!!

 

A Thrilling Post About....Mattresses!!

I'm not really sure what to blog about today...nothing much has been going on. I was going to blog about our epic Thanksgiving weekend, but my mom beat me to it! You can check out her blog post HERE. It's written better than I could have done, and I encourage you to check it out because we had a great time!

Last night Hubby and I went out to find a new mattress. It was probably one of the most interesting challenges we've faced in our marriage, so far. We went to Mattress Warehouse first and tried a bunch of mattresses. It was really difficult to find one we both like, since I favor a plusher mattress and Hubby likes a firmer one. I told him if he wants to sleep on something rock hard there's always the floor - yeah, that didn't go over so well. We ended up finding a good compromise that we both felt would be fine, but unfortunately it was about 300 dollars over budget. Money is obviously really tight right now, and I just don't feel comfortable spending more than we had planned.

We decided to stop at Grand's furniture on our way home, and went to look at mattresses there. Hubby loves that they give you a coke in a glass bottle, so he was all smiles while we were there. They had this really cool set up that asks you questions about your hight, how you sleep (side, stomach, back) your age and if you have any body pain. We each took the survey and then lay down on a test bed that finds all the pressure points on your body and does a bunch of other calculations to figure out what bed is best for you. Of course, Hubs and I need completely different beds. This is where it gets cool - they sell beds that are half and half. So we found out that I was blue and Hubby was red and they make mattresses with that combination. The blue side was perfect for me, plusher and comfy with enough support while the red side was everything Hubby could have ever wanted - firm and supportive. Best of all, the mattress is right in our price range!!

We decided to wait a few weeks and see what we get for Christmas before we make our final decision, because I really liked a mattress that was the half/half type with a pillow top, but it was about 500 out of our budget. We are thinking we might direct some Christmas money towards it, because a mattress is really a long term decision.

Well, this wasn't really what I planned on blogging about, but here it is, a thrilling post about mattresses. Hope you didn't drift off while reading!