Two dates in a week!

This week has been a really good week for Ben and I. We went out on two dates if you can believe it. We never get to go out. We only see each other on Sunday and Tuesday nights. Ben is very good though. My mom calls him my wife because he does practically everything. I have been so busy with the nursing program. I only work one shift a week, but I have so much studying and clinicals in another city on top of it that it feels like I can't find time for anything. Ben puts me to shame because he is doing really good in his classes and he works 32-40 hours a week and he cleans the house, on top of all that he helps me with my homework when I can't keep up. Lately he's been in a cooking cooking mode too. He is a hard worker and he never complains.
Ben asked me out on a hot date Tuesday night. He's such a big hunk of man love that I just couldn't resist. He took my to my favorite Chinese restaurant. It was so good. There was so much food that neither of us could finish even half of it. We also went to the video store and rented a couple movies and stayed up late watching them.

Thursday I had clinicals again. Only two left now (YAY!). Clinicals has been good for me as much as I whine about it. It has helped me learn a few things. It has helped me learn that as crude and vulgar as some people are they are still good people. It has desensitized me. I always thought that it was bad when someone gets desensitized to things, but I think there is good in it because for one you are really hard to offend and it makes you less likely to place judgement. Those are two good qualitites to have because people are going to be who they are going to be and there is not a lot you can do about it. If you get offended all the time nobody wants to be around you because that is the kind of person who can give it, but can't take it. If you judge people too soon nobody wants to be around you because any private thing they confide in you they are afraid you are going to tell others.

After clinicals I was on my way to Rulan and Kathy's so I could register Ben for fall classes, but then Ben called and told me he was skipping class so I had him do it. I hear I missed out on a great dinner though.

Saturday was an awesome day. Dallin came over. It has been a very long time since we've seen him. Ben and I set him up on a blind date with Allison, one of my nursing buddies. It was so fun. We went to Outerlimits and played blacklight golf. We played two rounds and the girls won both games (and p.s. for those doubters out there, I did not cheat, Dallin and Ben wouldn't even let me hold the score board). When we were finished we came back to our apartment and ate chicken nuggets for dinner. It was delicious. We played a couple games. Ben and I lost both games, one we lost by two points. It was so fun to have a group to play with. We haven't played with a group for a while. I think Dallin and Allison had a good time too. I called Dallin after he took her home and he told me he got her number. Hopefully there will be a second date because I am a pretty good people matcher if I do say so myself.

Here are a couple pictures back from Halloween (I still have to get my sisters dancing pictures posted, when I get their dvd I will post it).

This is one of Ben's masterpieces. They were sure yummy!

I would like to say that this is what we did Halloween, but we were both really sick and in bed all day, but we still had a pumpkin to carve and we didn't want to waste it so this is the week after Halloween.

This is just an in-the-dark picture. Kind of cool.