Various Weekend Ramblings
The first day back at work, after a long weekend, always seems to be a shock to the system. I had plenty of sleep over the weekend and I feel more rested than I have in a long time. I had virtually no problem getting up this morning, except for rude neighbor who lives above me that INSISTS on wearing GIANT boots.... or perhaps Holland Clogs. He/She sounds like a damn elephant trudging around at 5:30am. Not exactly my preference for how I wake up. Eventhough I feel rested, it would have been so great to have a couple extra days off of work to get all those pesky chores done that I have been neglecting.
Today at work is going better than I had expected (read: the day is going by quicker than expected). The workload is a little less than anticipated so I put my time to good use and was able to enroll for Winter Qtr. at school and managed to get the two required books for a total of $18 bucks! The bookstore wanted over $85 for both books (new) from their bookstore..... That's f'ing highway robbery! All I can say is that I'm thankful for half.com and have had great luck with finding my textbooks for a fraction of the price for what they charge at the college bookstore.
Tonight, I have dinner plans to visit with a couple pals and wish a friend Happy Birthday. Mr. Rockstar and I spent Saturday evening with the pals and enjoyed a few cocktails while standing around a firepit joking and talking about old times until our faces ached from laughing so much. The weekend was busy and included two Thanksgiving dinners, trekking to the backwoods to get a Christmas Tree, seeing Joel McHale's live performance at the Moore, cocktails with friends and loafing around the house on Sunday after a foggy drive to run errands. I was able to get some of that Suzie-Homemaker feeling out of my system as I started baking at 10pm on Wednesday and finished at 3am on Thursday morning. I made cookies, a pumpkin cheesecake and cupcakes. I also was getting my crafty feelings exercised by creating cute little pumpkins from fabric, a roll of toilet paper, felt and a pipecleaner. It sounds silly but the pumpkins came out absolutely adorable.
My weekend was great and I managed to get an inflatible fruit cake from Archie McPhee as well as an amazing deal on a couple Coach purses at the factory outlet in Marysville. I think I'm going to go shopping at the outlets the day before Thanksgiving, each year. The sale signs are up for black Friday and all the stores honor the price reductions as if it were Friday. The merchandise wasn't picked over so it felt like I had first dibbs on all the good stuff. What made it even better is that the crowds were non-existent. Yay!