Adventures of Grocery Shopping

When El-ahrairah hasn't had ice cream for a while, he gets a little crazy. We go to LoLo's grocery store for the student discount on Thursdays, and a few weeks ago El really needed some ice cream. (Really. Needed.) We picked up a tub of Sprinkled Animal Cookie flavor. Like this:

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Oh, and we got some healthy food too! :D

Farm-fresh produce!

I don't know if farmer's market food is healthier for you, I have no idea if supporting local businesses is good for the economy, but visiting the farmer's market is sure fun (and the samples are dang good too! I love the salsa one). I love the autumn-y feel of the vendors' booths, seeing all the newly harvested goods and the homemade wares for sale. It's definitely a symbol of the season.

-Owlet

Sick

No, not the good kind of sick.

El-ahrairah was feeling a little under the weather earlier this month. He had the sniffles, mostly, so it was your basic common cold. When I found out, I made sure to make him as comfortable as possible and help out where I could—and then my next thought was I really, really don't want to get sick. Let's see, I'll just wash my hands often, and not touch my face, and we'll wipe down all the doorknobs and clean all the things ...

And then I remembered that he and I make out on a regular basis.

Dang it.

-Owlet

Date: Exploring Center Street

If you have't noticed, exploring is the of El's and my favorite things! I was having a bad day one Thursday, so El-ahraiah said "Hey, wanna check out that cool-looking bookstore downtown?" He was talking about Pioneer Book! I'm so glad that I have a husband that so often knows exactly what I need. So I, being me, excitedly agreed and we spent the rest of the evening walking down Center Street in Provo.

Center Street is a pretty happening place. For one thing, that's where the Tempernacle is being built (temple + tabernacle; we're trying to make that one catch on). And there's a bunch of random art too.

Finally we ended up at Demae, a Japanese restaurant. Apparently, Tuesday and Thursday nights are their "Sushi Special" nights when they offer discounts on sushi. So we got a tempura shrimp + spicy mayo roll and a roll with salmon, cucumber, and crab. Yummy!

We liked the tempura shrimp roll the best. Only $3.95 or something like that.

All in all, it was a great way to spend our third month-aversary! Here's to many much more exploring in the months and years to come.

-Owlet

Special Plate!

I found about the special plate tradition when my former roommate received a special plate at her bridal shower. The idea is that you have a special plate (obvious, I know) that you bring out when a family member is having a special day, or when you have a special guest visiting. For example, it could be used for a child's birthday dinner, or for the last day of finals, or when your sister visits for a sleepover. I don't know, lots of things I'm sure. Anyway, the "traditional" special plate sold at stores like Target and Kohl's or wherever is red and says "You are Special Today."

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Which is kind of cute except I'm not a huge fan of the color red nor of the saying "You are Special Today" -- I'm not sure why. (Plus, these babies run for about $30 each. Ouch.)

However, I super love the idea of celebrating the little things in cute but simple ways, so of course when El-ahrairah and I stopped at a ceramics-painting shop on our honeymoon, I knew we needed to make a "special plate" of our own. Something that would be unique for our family, so it could be a tradition all our own.

So we set about designing and painting our very own special plate. We got the plate from the "discount" basket (I guess there were some kind of abnormalities about it; we couldn't tell, though), so it was only like $10.

It took us forever to decide on a design, and quite a while to paint it, but it was totally worth it. We decided to go with the quote "You are the special" from one of our favorite movies, The Lego Movie. Mostly because we couldn't think of anything I liked better.

The finished product is super cute and matches the colors of our kitchen decor (red definitely wouldn't have). I'm super excited to pull it out for our future children and celebrate the successes in their lives! No picture because it has our last name on it :/

Oh, and I got to use the special plate the other day! El-ahrairah was setting the table and put the plate out for me because I drove stick shift on some real roads with real other cars on the road! I thought it was kind of a little thing to go through the trouble of using the special plate, but I was excited to try it out and be all special and stuff.

Come to find out, the only reason he brought out the special plate was because all our other plates were dirty. Geez, El. Special plates are supposed to be special.

We're going to work on that. (El-ahrairah insists that we used it because I AM SPECIAL. To which I say ... everyone is special, dear, but having all our dishes dirty does not exactly make that day special. Ha.)

-Owlet