At the end of the summer last year, my parents gave me their old charcoal grill. I never got around to using it before it became too cold to try it out. In the last week, we've grilled three times and have completely enjoyed it every time. Tonight we just had burgers and a mix of baby potatoes, kernel corn, basil, garlic, olive oil and a bit of ( Read more... )

I managed to get the whole weekend off because I worked last weekend and the girl I was covering for last Sunday worked my shift yesterday. I actually get a three day weekend, because I'm now getting Sun/Mon off and this is the first week of that schedule. Completely unplanned and I'm enjoying every minute of it ( Read more... )

I had my first proper weekend off in I don't remember when. Originally Elly was going to spend the weekend, but this was the weekend the musical she was in open and ran at her school. I went to it Friday night and had a really great time. The musical was, She Loves Me, which is the play that the movie, You've Got Mail, is based on. The play ( Read more... )

For the first time ever, my week off from work was jammed packed and I'm really not wanting to go back because it really doesn't feel like I really had much time off. Ack. At least I got a lot accomplished.

I got a super cute new hair cut and color.

Spent an evening with Tundrababe for a stitch'n bitch session ( Read more... )

Actually, my birthday was yesterday. I normally don't go around advertising my birthday and for the most part, treat it as any other day. I have the whole week off this week, so this year it's turned into birthday week ( Read more... )

My body really thought I needed to get to work today and I finally gave up just before 8AM. At least I tend to get stuff done if I get up earlier than I wanted to. So far today I've been able to ( Read more... )

I knew it. It's just after 9am and I'm wide awake. I've been waking up and rolling back over to sleep since 6am. My body just doesn't believe me that I have the day off.

At least my roommate bought me two ginormous cream filled doughnuts for my breakfast. Mmmmm. I'm going to be on a sugar high all damn day now.

Sunday, I start a whole blessed week of vacation. I've made tentative plans to finally learn how to knit with Tundrababe, and I hope that she's still up for it! I'm going to pick up some yarn this week and study a few knitting sites and who needs someone to teach us any way ( Read more... )

As much as I will miss summer, I really love that fall is here and the wonderful weather that we've been having. Sunday I spent my day alternating between puttering around my house and yard. I re-potted all of my geraniums and moved them in doors for the winter. We'll see how long that lasts, plants seem to hate this house. I used to have a ( Read more... )

Last weekend I went to my 15 year reunion. A couple of people put a lot of work into tracking us all down and planning an evening at a great Thai restaurant in Minneapolis and then a gathering at classmate's house afterwards. At first it was really overwhelming. I went to the arts high school and our graduating class was 100 people. We lived ( Read more... )