Happy Saturday

J and I had such a great day yesterday. We started out just relaxing and watching some DVRed TV (I'm still working on getting that thing cleaned off - it's going to happen someday, it really is), and then at about 3:00 we left and drove out to Syracuse. Where we went shopping. Woo!

Our first stop was to the mall, where we hit the SU store, so that J could buy an orange SU turtleneck that he had been wanting. Very cool - you gotta love the orange around here. Then we made one of my favorite stops of the day - we went to the place where he got my charm bracelet, and he used a coupon that they had given him to buy me FOUR new charms! My bracelet looks like an actual charm bracelet now! It's very cool. Do you want to see? Let me see if I can get a decent picture of it.

Can you see it well enough? My camera doesn't have a setting to take pictures really close-up, but I'll describe them to you. On the far left is a giraffe, complete with little brown spots, then there is a sun with a face in it, then a dragonfly, then the original charm, which is a heart and a key (because I have the key to J's heart, aww), then there is a gecko (I love that gecko) and then Tigger. How cute is that? I love twirling my hand and making it jingle, and I love feeling the charms hanging around my hand. Charm bracelets rule.

After the trip to the mall, we went to Target, and I spent a small part of the gift card that my sister gave me, to buy myself a new black purse. I needed one desperately, and I love it. Then we went to Barnes & Noble, so that I could use the gift card that Jamie gave me for Christmas. It was a $15 gift card, and I spent $26 or something like that. Ha! But I got Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (I can't believe I didn't already own that book), Persuasion by Jane Austen and The Assistant by Bernard Malamud. That last one is on one of those top 100 book lists that I'm trying to read, so yes, I'm still trying to work on that. Even though it is taking me months to get through a simple Stephen King book, for goodness sake.

When we left the book store, we went to the Outback and used his gift card to have simply the most delicious meal I have had in a long time. I'm not a steak eater, usually. I don't bother buying them to cook at home, and I don't very often order them out, because I like them with no pink, and if you order a steak like that, you usually get it all dried out and overcooked. Last night, though, I got a steak cooked absolutely perfectly. No pink, but it was still moist and juicy, and I ate every single bite of it. Yum.

When we rolled out of the restaurant with our bulging bellies, we went to see Lights on the Lake, which is a holiday light show that they put on every year at Onondaga Lake. I'd never been, so I took my camera. You lucky people - now you get to see the pictures that didn't get all blurry on me.

Okay, blogger is crapping out on me and not letting me upload anymore pictures at the moment, so look for those to come soon.

Anyway, after Lights on the Lake, we went to Wegman's and got me some chocolate Lactaid milk (yum) and tried to get me some Bruegger's bagels, but they were closed, and then we went home. Home, where I got to lay out the books I have waiting to be read, and the pile is kind of high now, and I LOVE that.

So, a great Saturday. And look for some pictures to come soon. Maybe right after this entry goes up, if blogger will let me upload them.