Our Runaway

This morning when Guy and I woke up...there seemed to be something different in the house. The lump at the foot of the bed wasn't there, and the friendly "Good morning!" meows we get everyday could not be heard. Dexter wasn't there!
We looked through the ENTIRE apartment and in all his usual spots- NO Dexter. This was when we started to panic.
We walked around the yard, front and back- NO Dexter. Guy had to leave for work so I was left to continue the search all by myself while trying to not have a full on panic attack.
Dexter is our baby. We love him. He is an irreplaceable member of the Sundwall family. Needless to say I was really scared and had all of the worst-case scenarios running through my mind.
I set some food outside our door for him and took off on foot. I walked around our entire block shaking his treat can and calling to him. NO Dexter.
I made some Missing Cat listings and put them up online. Frantically called some sleepy friends to enlist them in the search (this was still all before 9 am). And I set out walking again. This time I only made it two houses away when I see the most adorable orange face peeking out at me from a stairwell! DEXTER! He recognized me and just walked all casually over to me like it was no big deal. I scooped that baby up and took him right home.
I am just so grateful that I was able to find him, and find him safe, and relatively quickly. We don't know how he got out, but we think it was sometime in our coming/going last night.
Needless to say I am going to be keeping a very close eye on this little runaway.

My thought of the Week:

Its REALLY hard to admit that you need help.
I'm not always strong and I can't do everything myself.
And its OK.

I've been having a rough time lately and I am overwhelmed by how many people in my life have popped out of the wood work and blown me away with their selfless love/understanding/support.
In my personal trial right now I want to suffer silently and handle it on my own, but I can't. And these people in my life make it so I can get out of bed and carry through my day (I wish I was exaggerating).

I know this sounds pretty melodramatic, but whatev. I'm just feeling loved and wanted to share.

Just Because: Hair Cuts, Arm Injuries and Miley Cyrus

I'm blogging today without a topic in mind- but I haven't blogged in a while...and this is a great tool for me to avoid the school related things I should probably (*definitely) be spending my time on instead.

First order of business: I have bangs! They aren't full straight across bangs like I had in 5th grade but rather side swept bangs that hit right around my eyebrow. You, dear reader, probably don't really care about my hair cut, but it is monumental to me...and this is my blog. I got it cut this weekend and I love it! I don't have any pictures to share (yet) so will just have to take my word on how cute my new hair is.
Second Item: My Hubby looks like a completely different person. I think maybe aliens abducted my Guy and replaced him with a clean shaven, longer haired, alien version of himself. The Husband also got a haircut this past week- I guess it was just a week of new hair in our house (Maybe we should give Dexter a haircut....) His hair is a lot longer than he usually has it and I love it. Here's why: Its long-ish but still cut and well groomed and it is fantastic to run my fingers through and it looks really good on him. He also shaved this week- like totally clean shaved face- goodbye goatee! Oh! and he got new glasses! (YAY Insurance!)

Tangent: I can't decide if I have a preference on Guy's facial hair, as long as its not a mustache (because my father has a mustache and I REALLY can't kiss a man with a mustache because of it), I really like whatever he does with it. I find hair on a man's face extremely attractive.


In other news not related to my vain ramblings on our appearances:

I'm in school- Spring semester is in full swing down here at the Y. I'm beginning to think I was insane for deciding to take classes straight through the Summer. I really want a vacation.

My Husband has injured himself. Guy has been playing on a company softball team and Inter-mural Ultimate Frisbee Team. On Wednesday he 'threw out his arm' which basically equals a LOT of pain for him. He's supposed to be taking it easy on his arm- he's been icing it and wearing braces on his elbow and wrist- but of course he hasn't stopped playing!

I've also stumbled across this video while 'studying' (aka wasting time online) and I kinda, sorta, really secretly love it: (Don't judge me!)

Some things I know:

God knows you. He loves you.
He will always answer your prayers.
But not always in the way you expect.

The Other Woman

Sooo, Guy has been saving up his pennies for a while now and finally bought himself this:

Its a Playstation 3, slim- the 120 gig one if you are tech savvy and know what that means. I have affectionately named this piece of sexy black machinery 'The Other Woman', because she now occupies a significant portion of my husband's time.

We only have two games right now: Modern Warfare and Little Big Planet.

This is Guy's game:

In this game you shoot and kill people.
He tried to teach me how to play it- and I lasted for 17 seconds....no joke.
Its really hard, or maybe I'm just not a natural killer.

This is my game:

Its super fun! (and no killing required)
You play as a Sack Boy character (that cute little thing on the cover).
You beat different levels in a Mario style adventure, and you can even build your own!
Did I mention that its super fun?

The feature that I'm most excited about in this gaming system is that its also a Blu-Ray/DVD player! The Other Woman has booted our old DVD player off of the shelf, and rendered it obsolete. And now we can try those fancy Blu-Ray movies too!

My Hubby Spoils Me

If you have read any other posts you might know that I am in love with Guy...its true I really am. He's awesome, all the time, but every once in a while he does stuff that is EXTRA awesome and sweet and I don't always deserve.

For example:

Last week I came home from school and he surprised me with flowers. He got tulips for the kitchen and then put a BIG vase of daisies (my fave!) in the bedroom. I would post pictures, but I haven't taken any...so enjoy these pictures from the internet!

And then last night I got another surprise. Guy got home from work and told me he had a surprise for me I just had to follow his directions. So we got in the car and got McDonalds for dinner (not the most romantic restaurant out there, but it was fun because I didn't have to cook) adn then he put the McDonalds bag over my head and drove around in circles a few times so I would have no idea where we were going. Again, no pictures, but I guess I looked pretty funny being driven around with a McDonald's bag on my head!

Turns out he was taking me out to a movie! Not just ANY movie, but this movie:

I had mentioned to him a few months ago when I first saw the preview that I really wanted to see it but then I completely forgot about it. I didn't even realize it was in theaters! I really enjoyed the movie alot (the main couple fall in love and then write letters to each other for years because he is in the military- now I don't have experience with military, but we do have experience writing letters, so that made it even more fun for Guy and I)