Using the crap out of my museum membership

Paul and I got a chance to go to a preview of the new exhibit at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. It's called "The Horse." It's very cool, and anyone who likes horses and is interested in them or in their shared history with humanity should check it out.

We also got to attend a lecture by author Susan Williams. She did a lot of research on the domestication of horses for her book, Wind Rider. The lecture was cool, and after I bought her book and she signed it. She was great--she chatted with everyone getting a book signed, and even did drawings. My little horse is AWESOME.

We walked to the museum, and on the way we stopped at Giant Eagle and I tried their Aztec hot cocoa. It's awesome. I've been wanting to try it out for a long time, and I'm glad I finally did.

Triangulation editing was canceled today because Pete's sick, so Paul and I had some time to unwind before we met his parents and brother for dinner at Outback Steakhouse. We had a nice time. Paul and I both had steaks. His was teriyaki marinated, and mine was covered in a lobster mushroom sauce. Then we stopped by Goodwill to look for clothes for Paul. We left with jeans for me and a pile of books.

My first xbox live experience!

Savannah and I played DDR! It was awesome! Rob helped us get it set up, then the two of us played. Lots of fun! I can't wait to do it again!

Bla Thursday!

Thursdays are my least favorite day of the week because I've been through four days of getting up at six am, but I still have one left to go. At least today I'm not grumpy--I'm just tired. I had a very busy day at work, so I took a nap when I got home. I don't feel too much better, but at least I tried and it was nice to just let myself not worry about stuff I should be doing.

Paul and I went out for National Pancake Day on Tuesday. That was fun. We failed to find the IHOP--Paul looked at the directions enough to figure out it was at Robinson, and from there he figured we'd wing it. We winged our way to Denny's. I've still never been to IHOP. But Denny's is nice. I approve of their Nannerpuss commercial, and a grand slam for $5.99 is pretty awesome. I ate half of it and had the rest for lunch on Wednesday.

I've been pretty good about working out. I'm just playing DDR, but it's at least getting me moving for a while every day. Today Bill and I are getting back to jogging because it's finally not freezing. I'm both looking forward to it, and NOT. It's been too long since we last went and I'm back out of the habit of running. It doesn't take long. I don't want to go too fast today.

Yesterday I got to go get a NMT massage at the school. That was pretty cool. It was a long massage, and the student who worked on me was very nice and gave me an excellent massage. I missed the first half of Lost, but Paul filled me in when I got home. ^_^ I was supposed to get my normal massage from Marie tomorrow, but her grandmother is having health problems so she has to go back to State College tomorrow. I hope everything works out okay.

Paul has a job interview next week! Exciting!

Fuckin' RIGHT!

I just unlocked not one, but two songs on DDR for the xbox 360! I had been failing to manage it a lot. And now I've done it.

Awesome.

I also have orange guava juice.

I win.

Valentine's Day

Paul and I went to the Carnegie Science Center for Valentine's Day. It was actually pretty busy. We spent a lot of time just tooling around the exhibits, learning about bat wings and fluid dynamics and fish, but we also saw the omnimax movie "Under the Sea," which was awesome. It had sea dragons. It got a little preachy with the "stop global warming" message at the end, but it was still an enjoyable experience. Then we went to see "The Stars Over Pittsburgh," which was actually pretty informative. I might be able to add a couple new constellations to the few I can already spot. The last show we watched was at their science kitchen. It was about brains. We ended by eating jello brains. Yum.

For lunch, we ate at the cafe at the science center. The place was packed, so we retreated to the only open tables--out on the balcony overlooking the river. It was snowing, so we had the outside to ourselves. The metal chair was really damn cold, but it was nice to eat and look out over the water and watch the snow fall. Really romantic, actually.

For dinner, we walked to The People's Indian, which is always a good choice. It's a great place to eat. Then, we had fondue for dessert. Warm chocolate, with pound cake, bannanas, strawberries, blueberries, and caramel vanilla marshmallows. We watched Young at Heart with Dorris Day and Frank Sinatra.

Overall, it was a very good day.