Moving On

Well Punxsutawney Phil didn’t see his shadow today, which means Spring should be on its way asap. However, as we read in one of our books today in kindergarten, “The groundhog could be right, or the groundhog could be wrong.” I thought that was stating the obvious, but the chorus of oooohhhhs from my audience told me different. Then I started to explain what a legend was, and, well, that didn’t go over so clearly (I could tell by the glazed over looks on their faces), so I quickly transitioned to this video of the cute little rodents. We discussed other animals that the groundhog reminded us of and I was impressed by their list: guinea pigs (Dougie is always on the mind), squirrels, raccoons, beavers, and porcupines.

On a non-kindergarten note, not much happening in the way of entertainment over here. I hear my parents may be down in a few weekends, which coincides with my grandma from Florida’s visit. And one of my brothers and his girlfriend are coming down mid-March for a long weekend. And we’ll be in CT again at the end of March for a few days of D’s week-long break in between rotations. It’s stomach-knotting to think that this time next year we’ll be anxiously (well I will be anxious, D will be patient…) awaiting the result of The Match, which determines where we’ll be living for at least the next five years, if not forever. Anyway, for now D took me to Olive Garden (the closest one is in Delaware, a 20-minute drive) last night for dinner and we stopped at a nearby Best Buy to finally use up the $8.81 still left on a gift card we got for Christmas two years ago. We like shopping in Delaware because there isn’t any sales tax. We finally used up a gift card we had to Trader Joe’s last week and we still have a dollar left on a movie theater gift card, both from two Christmases ago. I told D we need to use them because we got more than enough replacements this Christmas.

Tonight D is on call and I’m making a taco dinner with A along with watching a movie that she will pick out and bring over. Last time she asked if we could watch a movie and the only age appropriate one I had was Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken, which she took absolutely no interest in. I told her I only had grown up movies, so she said she’d have to bring one with her next time... Speaking of movies, D was saying he might start up the three-month subscription to Netflix he got for Christmas this weekend. We both have been maintaining a list of movies that we would like to see, so the queue will be nice and full. Oh yes, almost forgot…HAPPY 23rd BIRTHDAY, RYAN!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)