The Shafferland Shuffle

* Last Sunday morning, we walked to church in the cold and snow...if we ever move, we have decided we will miss walking to church! Even in the cold and snow! We spent the afternoon watching football {Ryan} and scrapbooking {me} {as if you needed those explanations}. I made stuffed crescent rolls in honor of the playoff game, and I tried to enjoy the beautiful sunset. We are looking forward to warmer spring evenings when we can take sunset walks again!

* Monday I spent the majority of the day at work settling into my new office...yes, still. We had so much stuff to sort and weed through! I purged many files and organized the bookcases. Ryan and I went to the gym that night and then came home to watch the Downton episode we missed on Sunday...and we ate some chocolate cookies! {Not enough to negate the gym.}

* Tuesday I did more settling at work and actually got to write some interview questions on a big, clean desk...heavenly. Loved it. We stayed home that night and Ryan grilled {yes, grilled! In the cold!} and I worked on some gift/craft projects. Oh! And we watched makeover week on the Biggest Loser. You guys - ugliest cry I've had in weeks. Two solid hours of near sobbing. Such. A. Sap.

* Wednesday. was. so. cold. And the bad news? It's only going to get colder!! Our new office at work still doesn't have all the heating bugs worked out, so I never ended up taking off my scarf the entire day, trying to stay warm! {And if I'm cold, that's bad news.} So that night Ryan and I layered up the clothes, warmed our hands over the oven after we made garlic bread and then I hunkered down by the fire to use my new Shellac polish to do my first French manicure in YEARS!!!!

* Thursday afternoon, I debated about whether to drive home the interstate or the back way. Picked the interstate. Thought it would be okay. Thought wrong! Passed a nasty accident and it took longer to come home than if I'd gone the back way. Lesson learned! It was national pie day, but we were too cold to go back out and celebrate, so we ate pie-shaped cake instead. That counts, right? And guess who got to be part of BLT? RYAN!! He called in and spent some time on the air with Lynne and me. Love it when he does that!

* Friday morning I was so excited to see the sun coming up DURING my commute! HURRY, SPRING!!!! I had a good day at work - complete with sharing chocolate chip cookies with my friends! That night, despite the crazy weather predictions, Ryan and I drove to Indianapolis to have a double date with our friends, Mike and Angie. We had dinner at Fogo de Chao - and got home in the blustry, white-out filled winter at 1:30 in the morning.

* Saturday was such a wildly disappointing day. We had plans to drive to the lake and attend the wedding of some of our friends, but the weather was still so bad and the drifting/white-out reports were rolling in, so we stayed home. I was SO sad! I've been looking forward to this wedding for months! Our plan B was to rest...to sleep until almost 11, to write and write and write in our book, and to enjoy a bit of a treat for dinner - ice cream!! It was great to spend the day with Ryan - wouldn't have wanted to be anywhere else in a Plan B sort of day.