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I'm back from my trip! Let me know if anything big happened to you while I was away.
It was a really nice trip. Very relaxed in a lot of ways, but also a bit restricted, because we were running on the schedule of Amy & Josh's wonderful one-year-old son, Elliot. Definitely a different pace than what F and I usually get on our adventures, which was an interesting change. Highlights of the trip included sleeping in late with F, visiting Idaho Springs, drinking chai at the Boulder Teahouse, watching Elliot dance, getting Elliot to point to various body parts, cooking good food, going on a movie date to see Wall-E with F, setting off ridiculous amounts of fireworks Friday night, and having some good catch-up time with Amy and Josh (I hadn't seen them since last February, when Amy was pregnant). Low points were... most of Friday, actually, because I was down with my semi-annual incurable one-day allergy fest. I took a lot of naps that day. Otherwise, it was a really nice trip.
Rose picked me up from the airport last night. Earlier in the evening, her husband John said to her, "Honey, how about we make mixed drinks and watch Jane Eyre tonight?" She said, "You are the perfect man, but I have to go pick up Rox now." I will never, ever doubt her love for me.
Today I had to go out for lunch because I had nothing at home to pack. I got the Granny Smith salad from Peace-A-Pizza at the mall. It was a very nice salad--they gave me a nice warm breadstick and the dressing on the side without me even asking. The only downside was the giganticness of the salad, and the price. I think in the future I will bring a plastic container to work, split the salad in half, and save it and half the dressing for the next day. Then I will have just enough salad to fill me up, and two lunches' worth of it, which means I'd get two lunches instead of one for the price. I am excited about this plan.
I did not intend to buy pants over my lunch. I just happened to be walking past Ann Taylor Loft, and they had things on sale. But I got dressy tan slacks for $15 and jeans for $20, and both pairs fit like whoa and were even long enough. That's worth some extra time and cash over lunch!
I have also decided that from now on, new pants do not go in the dryer. The dryer is why all my pants were perfectly long when purchased and are now too short. Eventually I'm sure I will get to the point when no pants at all go in the dryer, and they will all have to be hung up, but that's okay. I would rather hang up all my pants from now until forever than keeping buying perfectly long pants that end up being too short.
My new shoes are waiting for me at home! I am very excited. I haven't even opened the box yet.
Happy birthday to the dozen or so of you celebrating a birthday last week or this week! Wow. I hope you all had/have a lovely day.
It was a really nice trip. Very relaxed in a lot of ways, but also a bit restricted, because we were running on the schedule of Amy & Josh's wonderful one-year-old son, Elliot. Definitely a different pace than what F and I usually get on our adventures, which was an interesting change. Highlights of the trip included sleeping in late with F, visiting Idaho Springs, drinking chai at the Boulder Teahouse, watching Elliot dance, getting Elliot to point to various body parts, cooking good food, going on a movie date to see Wall-E with F, setting off ridiculous amounts of fireworks Friday night, and having some good catch-up time with Amy and Josh (I hadn't seen them since last February, when Amy was pregnant). Low points were... most of Friday, actually, because I was down with my semi-annual incurable one-day allergy fest. I took a lot of naps that day. Otherwise, it was a really nice trip.
Rose picked me up from the airport last night. Earlier in the evening, her husband John said to her, "Honey, how about we make mixed drinks and watch Jane Eyre tonight?" She said, "You are the perfect man, but I have to go pick up Rox now." I will never, ever doubt her love for me.
Today I had to go out for lunch because I had nothing at home to pack. I got the Granny Smith salad from Peace-A-Pizza at the mall. It was a very nice salad--they gave me a nice warm breadstick and the dressing on the side without me even asking. The only downside was the giganticness of the salad, and the price. I think in the future I will bring a plastic container to work, split the salad in half, and save it and half the dressing for the next day. Then I will have just enough salad to fill me up, and two lunches' worth of it, which means I'd get two lunches instead of one for the price. I am excited about this plan.
I did not intend to buy pants over my lunch. I just happened to be walking past Ann Taylor Loft, and they had things on sale. But I got dressy tan slacks for $15 and jeans for $20, and both pairs fit like whoa and were even long enough. That's worth some extra time and cash over lunch!
I have also decided that from now on, new pants do not go in the dryer. The dryer is why all my pants were perfectly long when purchased and are now too short. Eventually I'm sure I will get to the point when no pants at all go in the dryer, and they will all have to be hung up, but that's okay. I would rather hang up all my pants from now until forever than keeping buying perfectly long pants that end up being too short.
My new shoes are waiting for me at home! I am very excited. I haven't even opened the box yet.
Happy birthday to the dozen or so of you celebrating a birthday last week or this week! Wow. I hope you all had/have a lovely day.
