Happy Belated New Year!

We didn’t do anything exciting for this New Year’s Eve. I decided to go shopping around 4:30pm so Aaron made dinner for us. What can I say…that timing was well planned, huh? After buying a new coat and some shoes (at GREAT prices) I returned home with dinner cooked and waiting for me. What a great way to start the New Year! Aaron and I opened a bottle of champagne that we got for our wedding (yes, our wedding that was 2.5 years ago) and rang in the New Year with a champagne toast.

Our other happenings since the New Year’s Eve ball dropped in Times Square:

I got a new job! I will start it on January 22nd. I have been frantically shopping for dress pants because my current workplace is so casual that I haven’t had to wear dress pants since before my diet last year. Since I dropped a full size in pants I need to equip myself with a new wardrobe that fits before the 22nd. I had some major luck shopping on my lunch hour though so I’m feeling pretty good about the new wardrobe. I bought 4 pair of pants and 3 shirts for $102 at JCPenny!!!! LOVIN’ Penny’s right now!

Aaron started his internship with the Public Health and Safety Office downtown Indy this week and that seems to be going well so far. Yesterday, his co-workers used him as a lab rat to test some new equipment. The only bad thing about the internship is that he won’t get paid near as much as he would if he continued to work at Carmel Rehab for the semester. Luckily the internship is only 14 weeks long and he can go back to making some moolah at Carmel Rehab again in March or April.

Jennifer and Baby Derek stopped by our house last weekend and Derek is crawling now!!!! I can’t believe my little nephew is growing up so fast! It’s sure a fun stage though, other than the fact that I had to keep pulling him away from TagAlong so that she wouldn’t lose her cool with him and snap. Amazingly, Derek did pet (pet = hit, when you’re 6 months old) Tag a couple times and she just sat there and looked at him. Thank goodness for that! Jennifer said that she has a new workout program now…it’s called “chase the 6 month-old all around the house.” I think I’ll need to borrow Derek every once in a while so I can keep my New Year’s resolutions!

That’s the beginning of our New Year in a nutshell.