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What a week! Last week started off on an okay foot - Monday was at least normal. Tuesday took a sudden turn down hill when the oil light came on in my car on my way to the gym. ACK!! Very few things can stress me out faster then car problems and I really can count two or three things that can stress me out faster. So I immediately freak out and call Eron who tells me to pull over at the nearest gas station and check my oil and add some if I need to. So I do and I add two quarts... this seems really odd to me. I mean I know that I was about 500 miles over due for an oil change but I've done worse and (*knock on wood*) my car doesn't really burn oil at a high rate and it doesn't leak oil so it shouldn't have been that low... but at any rate I put oil in, the light went off and I went on my merry way.

On the way home from the gym that stupid light come on again! Ugh. So I call Eron just to lament and then I call my boss, Tim, to let him know that I'm taking my car in the next morning. So early the next morning I take my car to Sears - because that's where I take it for all my oil changes... I didn't know that they don't do engine work... So I walk out of there with an oil change, two new tires, an alignment and the oil light still on and I'm two hours late to work. I spend a few minutes in the parking deck crying - because I'm super stressed about my car, I don't know whats going on and, well, I'm a cryer - its my nature. But my car drives much smoother with new tires and an alignment...

The upside of Wednesday was dinner. Eron and I made a fantastic and healthy mac and cheese dish (http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ellie-krieger/macaroni-and-4-cheeses-recipe2/index.html) served with a wedge salad (not so healthy) and some fresh steamed broccoli (healthy). We cut the recipe in half but I went a little heavy on the sauce because we had 12oz. of butternut squash and I probably cooked a little more then half of the box of noodles. I will admit that I was a little skeptical of the recipe because Ellie Krieger's recipes can be a little bland but there was so much flavor. I plan on making it again next week. You should give it a shot - super easy and just as good the day after!! Oh yeah... I do recommend that you double the crumb topping. Delicious. Really, try it.

Thursday was uneventful. Friday was the beginning of a perfect weekend. Eron and I hit up the gym Friday after work - I had a great workout. We made pizza and watched a little Battlestar Galatica... a perfectly relaxing Friday night on the couch.

On Saturday we go up at a relatively decent hour, cooked some breakfast, Eron scored some super awesome seats to a Red Sox v. Yankee game (!!!!!!!) and then we constructed a fence. We took advantage of the absolutely stunning weather on Saturday and constructed the perimeter of the victory garden that is going in Eron's backyard. Eron keeps calling this garden "his" - I don't think he understands that I'm taking partial ownership of it :) He will (once he reads this.. haha). We plotted out the garden as we settled in to watch the UNC game. Its going to be super crowded but to the specifications of each vegetable - tomatoes, peppers, beans, cucumbers, corn, herbs... keep in mind that this is a 10'x14' area. It's going to be awesome.

Sunday... hmmm.... I got up super early to get to the gym by nine. I was pumped. I was ready. My head was in the right place (even without coffee). The gym didn't open til ten. Ugh. Oh well. Deflated, I went back home and made a pot of coffee and took my time getting ready for the day. I met Tania and two of her friends for a girly afternoon - BOGO sushi at Tasu and a chick flick, He's Just Not That in to You. I have to say that He's Just Not That in to You was pretty funny but I recommend that if you go (ladies only) that you go soon. Half of the fun was being in a crowded theater and laughing at the very vocal women calling out "Oh no he didn't!" I did get to the gym after the movie - I was determined to get there.

Hmm.... what else.... I had my car truly fixed on Monday. Yea! Expecting the worst I was pleased that it was only a faulty sensor. That's all I got... later kiddies.