GRExcited You're out of the Way

Saturday morning I spent 4 hours taking a test: The  GRE, for the second time. This time around, the verbal section was less cruel to me and I actually improved my score! Sweeeet. I then went home and took a nap, and I am not a napping person.  I haven't taken a test for about 9 months so naturally, it drained me.

Elliott and I then went out to Crate & Barrel to get a wedding gift. Man, I'm glad that place isn't closer to our house, otherwise I would have a hard time resisting their hand towels, plates, pillows, and the rest of their little trinkets. We walked away with just the wedding gift which probably wouldn't have happened if we weren't short on time.

The working life has been great so far. I love being able to walk to and from work. Seamus, the neighbor's cat (who's we decided is Catholic by extension) seems to have a new favorite spot to hang out around 7:20 pm. When I turn the corner to go up our sketchy stairs, this is the first thing I see:

It's kind of creepy. (Do you like the massive weed forest in our backyard? Seamus doesn't like it, he loves it.)

Speaking of backyards, it's possible that we found a new apartment! It's only three blocks away from ours and has a dishwasher, washer and dryer hook-ups, three rooms, a little porch, and a backyard (possibly with a fruit tree. TBD. FYI, I just decided that the use of TBD here means to be discovered). If we decide to pull the trigger, we will be moving in June. I will wait to get sentimental about our current apartment until then.

I don't think I'll ever be able to tell anyone how much I love Sunday dinners and how lucky we are to have my parents so close, my mom who is an amazing cook and my dad who is a grill master. Last night it was just us two, my little brother, and my dad. My mom was finding her way back from a backpacking trip down in Moab (let's not talk about how I missed out on that). He grilled up some garlic chicken skewers for the boys and salmon for me. We made a beet and grilled asparagus salad, cut up some fruit, cooked some yams, and all ate dinner outside in the backyard. It was perfect.

And we all know this wouldn't be a blog post written by me without some pictures of the potato:

The site I have been using to make collages has now been absorbed by Google+ (boo) so until I find another site, big pictures it is. Anyone have any suggestions?

Hey Elliott, want to go camping for our anniversary this year? We can try out our new flash boil thing we got with our REI dividend.