Insane Random Ramblings

John thought I was going to buy him a gag gift for his birthday. I don’t know why though. I had been telling him that I had a good gift picked out for him since mid-December. I know he loves baseball so I knew that would make a great gift.

I guess he thought I would get him something stupid like a Chia Pet or something. He said depending on what I got him, he already had some gag gifts picked out for my birthday. He said something crazy like Depends, progesterone or something silly like that. Of course that’s a crack at my age since I’m older than he is. That’s cool I can take a joke.

I’m just glad he realized that I didn’t get him a gag gift. Maybe that means I’ll get something cool for my birthday. I have to wait until August to find out though.

The sucky part is that we’re not moving for 2 years. So we have to go through 2 more winters. I was trying to avoid that. John will be ready to move when I’m finished with school. Unfortunately that won’t be this year now because I doubt if I’ll be able to get all of the classes I need in.

We’ve decided that we want to go somewhere with warm weather. It looks like we’ve settled on Florida. We’re just not sure which part of the state yet. We don’t need to talk to a real estate agent because we’ll rent for a year or two. Some of the apartments that we’ve seen down there are really nice. And they seem affordable too.

It just sucks that we can’t move this year. I hate this cold weather.

I thought about it today while here at work. I’m going to let John decide which game to go to. I know he loves the Mets but there might be a game he may want to go to even more. We’ve been talking about going to Cleveland (because I want to see the Yankees). He might want to go to one of the games in Cleveland. We both like the giveaways during the games, especially bobblehead night. So I think that’s a better idea.

Hopefully he agrees.

Today is John’s birthday. I woke up a little after midnight and told him Happy Birthday. I was half sleep but I remember him saying to me that he wouldn’t officially turn 29 until 6:45pm. lolol, yeah ok.

I have his card here at work. I’ll give it to him later tonight. He’s going to a job fair after work so he won’t get home until probably 6 or 6:30pm. We’re going out to dinner, hopefully Olive Garden. I didn’t get him a present but it’s because they’re not on sale yet. His favorite baseball team is the Mets so I’m getting him tickets to the Saturday night game with fireworks. I guess I’ll put some kind of IOU in his card.

I don’t have to worry about him finding out what I’m giving him because he doesn’t read my blog.

Especially coming from Pittsburgh? John and I did yesterday. We were at the Mall at Robinson having lunch and he asked me if I wanted to do anything instead of just going back home. We both work at banks so we were off for the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. I said sure so we started walking to the car and decided to go to Cleveland.

Man was it cold! You know those signs on the top of banks that tell the temperature? Well it said it was 31 degrees. Ha that’s crap! It was more like 0-yeah zero! It was soooo cold. Cold air really affects me so my chest was hurting and I couldn’t stop coughing. We only walked a few blocks from where we parked since downtown was kinda dead.

We passed by the Quicken Center-where the Cavs play, and Jacobs Field-where the Indians play. Their arenas/stadiums look nice from what I saw. Then we went to the downtown mall. That’s different. I’m from Philly/South Jersey originally so I’m used to downtown having shopping and things to do. There is hardly any shopping in downtown Pittsburgh except a few crappy stores. It was nice to see that again.

We also went to a regular mall but it was dead. No really it’s Randall Park Mall and it’s considered a dead mall. Macy’s is the anchor store and they’re closing this year. More than half of the stores were closed. Of the stores that were still open, half of them were jewelry stores. We started to go to a different mall but when we got home we found out that that’s a dead mall too!

We plan on going back to Cleveland once it gets warm so we should really be able to see all of the sites. We might even hit the House of Blues or maybe the Hard Rock Cafe. Who knows. It should be fun though.

This coming Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. day so it will be a 3 day weekend me and John. We both work at a bank so anytime there is a holiday, we’re both off. We probably won’t be doing anything because John just moved and he’ll be moving again in another month or 2. So he just put out a month of rent and a security deposit (which he’ll lose). Now he’ll need another security deposit.

His money will be tight and mine is always tight. Therefore, I doubt very seriously if we’ll do anything at all this weekend. On Sunday, we’ll probably watch football all day. We may go to Wally World to get food, juice, and auto accessories (I need a new car emergency kit) for my car. Other than that, we’ll probably just sit around the house and stare at each other all weekend.

I wish I had some extra money so we could take a short trip somewhere this weekend. I hate letting long weekends go to waste. Especially since we’ll both be in school starting in the summer so we won’t be able to do a lot.