Balance

One of the most difficult things for me in my life right now is finding balance between work, school and home. And I'm pretty sure that just about everyone has this issue as we all try to work our busy schedules to allow for family time. I'm a full time student right now, which is challening enough as it is. But between finding time to spend with Baba Sanfour, work and trying to keep our home clean and cook a meal every once in while, I've been feeling a bit overwhelmed lately. Actually, just plain behind in everything. So, in other words: Life will resume after midterms. I hope.

The Stall Door

Last night I had dinner with my sister at a Disney hotel, and once again I have found proof that it's not possible to be negative at Disney World. Even the bathroom graffiti is happy. Written on the stall door in pencil was the phrase, "Disney Rocks!"

Potato Salad

Last night Baba Sanfour came home with a huge tub of potato salad. I'm loving his adoration of comfort food. He's practically a Georgia Boy. Today I'm surprising him with a shepherd's pie and I'm pretty sure he's going to love it!

Afternoon Date

Baba Sanfour and I have made it a bit of a tradition lately to spend Friday afternoon together as a date day. Yesterday he really wanted to go to the Oriental Seafood Buffet (he loves buffets), but I finally convinced him to go to a nice little Italian restaurant instead. We enjoyed a delicious lunch (and the most wonderful soup that I just can't stop thinking about) and then decided to spend the next hour at a place nearby called Fun Spot. It's basically a mini-carnival with a ferris wheel, go karts, bumper boats and cars, amongst other little attractions. We did some exhilarating laps on the go kart track. I was the first cart to take off and somehow by the end I was the last one in, much to the satisfaction of Baba Sanfour.

After our adventure on the twisty, multilevel track, we headed inside to the arcade where Baba Sanfour spotted a shining emblem of his childhood: the pinball machine. He Loves playing pinball. I first learned of his love of the game shortly after we were married when we happened upon a little arcade while walking around the cutesy downtown area of a local community. He was ecstatic, to say the least, and by the end of the day I was quarterless, but happy to see my husband so excited. Friday was no different as the arcade that we used to go to has since shut down and been converted into bakery for dog treats (which is a weird concept in my mind, but some people like that sort of thing, so there you go). His eyes gleamed with excitement as he rushed to exchange a dollar for tokens to feed the pinball machine. We played a few rounds of pinball and then competed in a game of skeeball before calling it a day. All in all it was a lovely little date and now I'm just waiting for the day we can buy a house big enough to hold our very own pinball machine.