Saturday was our 18th wedding anniversary. Because Donny had to work on Saturday we decided to celebrate on Friday.

The morning started off with the most beautiful cotton candy clouds.

Most Fridays I don’t work, but I had to finish that darn Gauntlet and the gnome dome.

I was never so happy to see 12 pm.

i decided to go ahead and give Donny his gift. We never really get each other big gifts, just something small.

i got him his favorite candy, a new coffee thermos, because he left his other one in Nacogdoches, and the Sopranos boxed set. We had been watching the series on Max and the free trial ran out. I found the set on mercari for $10 and had a $10 coupon so I just paid for shipping which was $8. I think I was more excited to tell Donny that than give him the gift because we both love a good deal.

We were going to go to dinner then go play bingo. I’ve never played actual bingo, that wasn’t at a school carnival, but I was so tired from the week at work that we decided to just do dinner.

And we were dressed like twins. I can’t really explain that.

We decided on Mexican food and a new place had moved close to us so we decided to try it.

I’m guessing skeletons are a big thing this year because everytime I leave the house I see skeletons in cars, on cars and hanging off cars.

The game was good. The Pina colada rivaled my very favorite from the now defunct Crystal confectionary. My date was excellent. The service and food were awful.

Our server just threw a new bowl of chips over the old one that still has chips in it.

Cheese enchiladas that look like lasagna. They were so bad I could not eat them. But we still had so much fun because you can’t let bad enchiladas and a surly server ruin your night.

On Sunday I finally moved the chicks out of the house, for good. We had tried it a few days earlier but they got out of the separate pen inside the coop and the older hens were pecking their heads. Hopefully we have that problem fixed. At any rate, they aren’t coming back inside.

Getting used to the outdoors before the big move.

I had mentioned to Donny that it would be fun to go have drinks and appetizers at Applebee’s since the game was on. Then I took a phone call and realized I was tired and just wanted to be a couch potato. He urged me to go so I took 40 minutes to grab a shower and get dressed. That’s seriously record time to go out. I’m so glad we did because we had such a good time. I’m thinking we absolutely need to do this more often.

at least we weren’t twinning again.

And if you’re wondering what Donny got me for our anniversary…

Pumpkin earrings. He also got me turkey earrings and said, I know you don’t like Thanksgiving, but you can wear them when we go to Cracker Barrel. I do like Thanksgiving when Cracker Barrel is involved. The little store always puts me in the Christmas spirit. And chicken fried steak, that always makes me happy.