Sleeping In

Spring is certainly in the air and what makes me feel like summertime is on the way more than being lazy and sleeping in? I can't think of anything. Today I woke to a face full of sunshine which really got me out of bed in a good mood. I might start sleeping with my blinds up all of the time so that I can enjoy that morning sunshine as much as possible.

This evening, if it doesn't start raining as forcasted, I'm going to go get some tennis in with my buddy Marika. I'm pretty excited about it.

I hope you all are enjoying your springtimes as much as I'm enjoying mine.

All the Best

Off Early

Yay! I got off of work early!

I was pretty tired today because I stayed out a bit too late last night. After climbing with my roomie (and my first ever motorcycle ride). I had an alligator jambalia on my date and then we went to a house show were a decent band was playing. It was really loud. So, I did go home with a bit of a ring in my ears. Still, all together a good date but in the end I was just out a little bit past my bed time so when things slowed down at work today, I was out of there lickity split.

It's beautiful today so I think I'm going to try and enjoy that a bit.

Fun Plans

Today is beautiful.

I'm going to try and conserve money by not stopping by this garage sale that I saw being set up on my way home from work and instead I'm going to spend that money ($4) on renting shoes for tonight as I'm going climbing with my roomie tonight.

Another fun plan that I have set up for tonight is a date! That's right folks. I'm out and about in the dating world again. Wish me luck finding some cute sweeties :). I'm just joking. I don't need luck.

Hope you all are doing something fantastic with your Friday.

egg and biscuit

A great way to start the day is with one egg sandwich on a biscuit. It helps that the biscuit is a left over from work so it was a: free and b: superior to every biscuit that I've ever made. That sandwich (and a little bit of sleeping in) was how I started my day today. Not a bad way to start at all.

Later today I've got the Restore (what! what!), a serious grocery shopping trip, and then some night time baking with a new potential friend, named Shelby, and my friend Natalie. I'm going to make some delicious oatmeal, date cookies but I'm also going to have supplies around for chocolate chip cookie making too, I think.

I hope you all had a great start to your Tuesday. As I'm working tomorrow I don't have a real weekend so I can't say anything about weekend plans. But next week I'm down to four days a week which means I've got a weekend that I can look forward to.

Best wishes!

Shows, Saturdays, and Sundays to come

Last night I went to a show and I stayed out so late. It was really fun (it doesn't hurt that I have a mondo crush on the trumpet player of the band I saw) but then I had to wake up for work in the morning.

I can not believe that people do this going out and staying up until the wee hours of the morning all of the time before they go to work. That is crazy talk to me. I took a 2.5 hour nap this afternoon. Yeesh. I still feel like I'm not going to make it until bed time :).

On the up side, I am totally going to serve tomorrow, on Mother's Day. And that's pretty rad. It's going to be so much more fun than hosting plus more money.

Just an early Happy Mother's Day to all the Moms who read this blog (are there any?)

evening activities

You know, I am actually starting to love my job.

The two biggest reasons (besides actually working) that I'm so happy with it are as follows: Every day, I'm done by4 at the very, very latest and sometimes I'm done as early as 2. I'm pretty happy with most of the people that I interact with at work these days.

This early end time though is really my favorite thing. The reason being that I still have time after work to chill for a minute before I get into anything else and I don't get so worn out that I don't enjoy participating in evening activities.

This week, for instance, I've done something fun on every night. Sunday I went to a house show at which my friend's band was playing. Monday, my roomie had a bunch of people over for his birthday and I celebrated with them. Tuesday, I went out to get cheap brews and hang out with my friend Marika, and Wednesday I went climbing with my roomie Sean. It's only Thursday, and I feel like I've done as much as I would do in a usual week. Tonight, I'm taking off but Friday there's another show which I should be able to go to for free. We'll see how that turns out.

Hope you all are staying busy!

two week countdown

I looked at the month's weather forecast today.

I know that's a silly thing to do since it probably isn't going to be at all accurate. But, I have decided that two weeks from today it's going to be consistently warm. So, I am going to make my work pants into cutoff shorts and my nice pants into work pants. I'm going to welcome summer into Portland with some sweet new duds. I'm pretty excited for this to happen. I do have a backup pair of non work pants just in case the weather runs amok again. It's always good to have a backup plan.

Other than that, my friend, Jamie, who has been considering visiting me for a bit has jumped over the last hurdle of deliberation and is going to come visit me in June shortly after I get back from family vacation. I'm pretty excited about both the family vacation and having a visitor (a cute one at that).

Tonight is cheap brews with friends. Hope you all are having a swell evening.