The Pack is IN!

Newsflash: The Green Bay Packers are headed to the SUPERBOWL to take on the Pittsburgh Steelers!

The game yesterday between the Packers and the Chicago Bears was one to remember! Chicago went through three QBs! Cutler claimed to have had a knee injury - but was shown up walking and "biking" on the sidelines for the remainder of the game - no ice or heating pad on it in sight...sounds more like an "Ego injury" to me. One of the bigger highlights for the Packer fans - must have been when #90, BJ Raji (linebacker) got the interception and went in for the touchdown! It was unbelievable! Derick said that when Donald Driver (#80) retires, Raji will become my new favorite and then all I will have to do is all 10...#80 to #90...but then I reminded him that Clay Matthews (#52) was also pretty spectacular as well...so, I have my favorites :)

As that game finished, I finalized our Facebook event - our 3rd annual Superbowl party! Derick and I are planning on going all- out, decorations, re-arranging some of our house to accommodate more tvs and a lot people and a few dogs in our house!! It is going to be a fun time, that is for SURE!

Friday
Friday night was also a fun night - my friend, Emily was celebrating her birthday with a wine tasting and game night at her and Lissa's bachelorette pad. The weather was less than pleasant - very cold and very snowy and slippery - but I made the trek out to Albertville to their house! I was glad that I did - there was some very good wine and we played a few fun games - Apples to Apples and (a new one to me:) Things. We also got out the Wii controllers and played the Just Dance game. I was the long-standing champion of the night - and boy, can some of those dances be a workout!! There only ended up being Emily, Lissa, myself and a friend from high school, Tara, who were there. I guess others had backed out, but we had a good time, and watched Lissa's dog Madelyn and her foster dog, Sienna, (beagle) play together and with us. I love love love the puppies!

Saturday
Saturday was another night for driving. Derick and I made our way to Hastings for the MCA meeting at Ron's house - to see his "fish room." Okay, calling it a "fish room," was VERY undeserving! It was an entire FISH BASEMENT! WOW! I have never seen anything like that in my life! It was almost like he had a pet store and a couple large-size aquariums. I mean, even two cars came from Iowa to see the fish room and to also partake in the fish trades/buys that happen at all of these events. Right away - once you descended the stairs, you knew you were in for something different. The temperature set down in the basement was 78 degrees! Hot and humid and the noise was all of the bubblers in each of the tanks! One tank was four feet wide by four feet deep by eight feet long. I forget how many gallons of water that one held - but wow. It was insane! It was actually made out of Plexiglas - because, as Derick was telling me, once you get a tank so large, the pressure of the water on the glass of normal aquariums becomes too strong, and they break. Whereas the Plexiglas tanks can be better fused together. Derick sold 6 of the Sajica babies - but for very cheap. Apparently we found out that most people in that club prefer the African Ciclids - and not the South or Central American that we have breeding in our tanks currently - and which we prefer for the most part (though I find myself drawn to some of the Africans at times, and even had an African tank set-up in the 45gal just prior to this last shift when we obtained the 75gal tank). The meetings are held monthly and the troop travels to various people's houses to see their setups. They are all also crock-pot/potluck meetings, so there was some good food we got to eat after our fish-gazing in the basement. Check out the MCA link at the top of this paragraph to see some pictures of some of the fish in his basement - and yes, I even made the photo reel this time...

Last week...
Just a brief rundown of some of the things that happened last week. My mom, sister and I had pedicures at the Marsh salon/spa/wellness center on Wednesday night. It was so nice to be pampered like that! Then, Thursday, we all got massages and went out for dinner afterward! It was amazing and much needed. Though mine felt like more of a pain than a relaxing massage, that night and the next day - and even now, I am much more loose than when I went in. When I laid down, and the massage therapist started in on me, she was like, wow, you are tight ALL over the place! Yup - pretty much - stressed out and being tense does that for a person. So, that was really nice of my mom to share a Christmas gift with my sister and I.

Okay, enough for now! Have a great week everyone!
-L