Cookie dough and an anniversary

Of all the things I've every tried to feed my cat, I've noticed she usually will go for something sweet or something cheesy. Better yet, she loves straight cheese. She usually recognizes when I'm cutting up that yellow block of deliciousness too, because she comes at me with the loudest meows she can muster. Usually, for just a few seconds, I will dangle a piece of cheese just inches away from her little nose as she dances on two legs trying to get it. I get so much amusement out of that cat, it's ridiculous. Today for lunch I was shredding up some leftover pork loin that I made on Sunday so that I could add barbecue sauce and, voila! I would have some different to eat. So I tried to give her some of the fatty end of the meat that I cut off, but after licking it a few times, she left it in her food dish and then when I got home from work I found it in the middle of the floor. Tonight, however, I decided to make chocolate-chip cookies and when she noticed I was cooking, she said, "meow meow!" and so I thought I would give her some cookie dough since she seemed to want it so badly. Turns out, she likes cookie dough just about as much as I do. When I took "Comparative Animal Nutrition" at BYU, they taught us that generally, cats don't like sweet things, while dogs have terrible sweet teeth/tooths (uhm...yeah). Well, I guess they broke the mold when they made my cat. She is one of the oddest cats I've ever known. I think one of the most interesting things I've ever fed her is cheese and crackers. By that I mean wheat thins with cream cheese, which is, by the way, a delectable snack which I don't indulge in much any more ... But at any rate, I would break her off a small piece of cracker and scoop up some cream cheese with it. She would gobble that up faster than anything.

Moving on from my cat ...

Yesterday was our 1-month wedding anniversary! When I got home from work Ben was practically bouncing on his heels so I knew there was probably flowers or something in the bedroom. But, I dilly-dallied for as long as I could just so he would keep hovering around me. It was really cute :-) Finally he said, "aren't you going to go change before dinner?" Why yes, I said, and so I went into the bedroom and there was a dozen beautiful roses on the bed and also a spice rack. I've been wanting a spice rack so badly! Incidentally, so has Ben. My husband is very thoughtful ... The flowers are SOOO beautiful. Although the first picture looks a little pink, they are really red and yellow.

We decided to go to Ted's Montana Grill for dinner. If you haven't ever been there, you ought to look and see if they have one near you. Of course, we live near Atlanta which is the heart of "Ted Turnerland" so there are a few of these restaurants around us. They serve Bison, which is healthier than beef, and everything they use is either reusable or biodegradeable or recyclable. Yes, they even use paper straws. AND, the soap in the bathroom is in powder form and it's biodegradeable. I'm talking hard-core. It's great though. We've been three times and I haven't yet been able to get anything but a bison-burger there. I just can't get away from them--they're soooooo tasty! I wish I had taken a picture of the burger but it was just so good that I forgot all about the fact that I had my camera when they put it in front of me. Ben had a bison steak which was pretty good too, but I still wouldn't have traded my burger in for it. We had the brownie a-la-mode for dessert and when the waitress brought it, I asked her to take a picture of us. (I finally had remembered I had my camera). A minute later she was back with another digital camera and asked if she could take our picture and she would print it out and give it us in a special "Ted's" frame. We agreed and she came back very shortly with a little folded card thingy with our picture slipped into the frame on the inside. When we got home though, I cut it apart and taped it back together the way I wanted it so I could put it on our bulletin/memory board. My plan is to print out pictures occasionally when we do fun things and put them on the bulletin-board, collage-style. So far, the card from Ted's and my mission nametag are the only things on there. Oh well, here's the picture:


Overall it was a very nice evening. I feel very blessed to be married to such a wonderful and thoughtful man. Here's to one month and many more to come! Cheers!