Today was just a great, relaxing Sunday.  The only way a Sunday could have gotten better would be if it was during football season and the Steelers played (and won, of course.)  But I’ll take what I can get.

We woke up early this morning to watch the Wimbledon finals – Stephen really likes Roger Federer (he is Swiss, of course.)  I’m not the biggest tennis fan, but I am a pretty big sports and competition fan in general so I will pretty muc h watch any match or game.  This was a good one, too – against Andy Roddick and it was really long and a good match.  I made us coffee and we just relaxed – And Stephen was in a good mood afterward because Roger won

After that, we got ready to go and did our weekend ritual – every weekend (either Saturday or Sunday or both) we go to Barnes and Nobles.  Get coffee, breakfast, and sit and relax, talk, read magazines… basically what ever we want.  I love it, it is literally one of my favorite times of the week.  So we headed there.  This morning we were really hungry, so Stephen got a lemon bundt cake and I got some chocolate covered pretzels.  They were buy two, get three free!!  Kinda weird, but hey… I’ll take five.  So here’s me, happy with our buffet:

Besides the junk food buffet, though, I did eat a healthy whole wheat english muffing with peanut butter, along with drinking my second coffee of the day:

At Barnes and Nobles, we made a list.  Really high tech… we wrote it on a napkin.  Actually, we made three lists – a “To Do” list, a “Dreams” list, and a “Things we want to learn” list.  I am a big list person, so I already have lists like that for myself.  But we decided to write ones for us, as a couple.  I will post more details about it tomorrow, when I have it on hand, but the To Do list included things like him getting a motorcycle (and maybe me), me getting a new car, us moving in together, etc.  Also a ton of traveling, as we figured out that we basically want to visit every National Park, many cities, and pretty much every continent.  Better start buying plane tickets now, right?.  The Dreams list included things like a boat, jet skis, a house (a real one… not my beloved little townhouse) and a vacation property.  And the learning list included a shitload of things – Stephen getting his Masters, me learning swiss german, how to play the guitar, getting my MBA, getting my nutrition certification and personal training certification, my project management certification… yeah.  Maybe I should skip all the traveling and just start studying.

In the beginning while we were doing this, I got really scared.  Sometimes I feel like I have to stop and step back and look at this situation and this relationship rationally.  I love him and it’s very easy to get caught up in the fact that I think we get on really well and could really have a great future together.  But the fact remains that we have only been together for a few months and I have to rationally remember that and keep my feet on the ground.  That doesn’t change my belief that we are going to go a long, long way together – I just want to make sure it’s right and that we do everything the right way and not rush into anything.  But man, I do love this guy and I think that we could have an incredible life and future together.  It’s really exciting to talk and think about.

After Barnes and Nobles, we went to Trader Joes to do our weekly grocery shopping.  I try to cook for us every night, and then package the leftovers for Stephen to take for lunch at work the next day.  We bought a ton of food and headed back to my house.  I made us lunch, plums a boca burger with cheese, and 1/2 a pure protein bar for me:

Then we took a little nap.  I actually couldn’t sleep at all last night… confirming my theory that I often can’t sleep that well with Stephen, and I can’t sleep well without him anymore.  Great.  But then it was my second favorite time of the day – GYM time!  After a quick chocolate-covered frozen banana snack:

And weekend gym time is the best because that is when Stephen comes with me and I have a workout buddy sometimes.  Today I did 30 minutes on the stepmill and 10 minutes on the spinning bike.  Then we did our pushup game.  Basically, we take turns doing pushups.  I do one, Stephen does one.  I do two, Stephen does two.  I do three, Stephen does three.  Etc… up to ten.  And then back down to one again.  It’s a BITCH.  I started out initially doing them all as girl pushups, on my knees.  But I am slowly trying to work up the number that I do “real” pushups… right now I do from one to eight as real pushups, and then nine, ten, and back down to four as girl pushups, and then four down to one as real pushups.  It’s pretty funny, too – sometimes I can see out of the corners of my eyes big guys at the gym kind of watching me.  I think they are surprised that a girl can do so many pushups, ha!

So we had a good gym trip.  Having a gym buddy is really great, I love it.  I was really excited when Stephen joined my gym, because I thought we were going to start going together every day.  Ha, yeah right.  The last two times we have been together on the weekends before today, he has dropped me off at the gym and gone to Starbucks across the street to wait for me and enjoy a frapuccino!  Great workout buddy, right?  So I’m going to have to get on his case so that he becomes a gym rat like me.  Anyhow, after the gym we went back to my house and I made dinner.  Spaghetti and meatballs for Stephen, a big salad for me:

Followed by some chocolate chip meringue cookies we bought at Trader Joes this morning for dessert.  Man, I love those things.  I can easily, easily eat entire (multiple) tines of those in one sitting.  Last time we went to Trader Joes and got a container, I ate them all within an hour.  Stephen couldn’t believe it… he didn’t see the empty container by the garbage until the next morning and I thought his eyes were going to pop out of his head.  “You ate the whole thing?!?!” he said in disbelief.  Ha.  My wonderful, eat-like-a-bird-and-weigh-less-than-one-too boyfriend.

Then we went to Stephens house, where we are now and I’m about to go to bed.  I had a chocolate covered pretzel and an Atkins Smores bar as my night snack:

Right now, we are sitting in bed watching this Conspiracy Theory video about the Lunar Landing in the 60s.  Basically, this documentary is about people who believe that the whole landing on the moon was a hoax – that the footage was faked.  They are picking apart all of the images, the evidence, etc. and trying to point out inconsistancies.  Stephen loves this shit – really gets off on trying to question anything and play the devil’s advocate.  But I just sit here and get mad, haha.  To me, it’s just craziness to think that NASA orchestrated a huge hoax to fool the world and convince them that we landed on the moon.  These guys are kooks – the conspiracy theorists that exist for every single event that takes place in history.  You know, like the people who think that the US government blew up the twin towers, etc.  I don’t know why these people make me so angry… I really hate it when people just try to stir up shit for the hell of it.  But Stephen says that these people are just asking questions, and that they are valid questions that should be answered and really get people thinking.  So I’m not sure why I get so mad and defensive.  Maybe it’s fear, I dunno.  But I’m so tired, I can’t even think straight.  It’s bed time.  Back to the grind first thing tomorrow morning.