Earlier last week I had planned to have somewhat of a low-key weekend. While I ended up with more plans that I imagined, the whole weekend was about comfort and well-being. Exactly what I needed amidst the chaos recently!
Friday night
The husband and I met two couple friends for dinner at a somewhat run-down place. Even though the service was awful, and the food was kind of gross, it was so much fun to just hang out and spend 3 hours at dinner with all of them. I was asleep by 11pm on Friday night and woke up at 8am to get ready and meet two of my girlfriends for breakfast.
Saturday
There is something so comforting about having an early(ish) breakfast out on a weekend morning in the winter. We went to a little café and caught up for a couple of hours and it was just so nice. It reminded me quite a bit of the Saturday morning diner breakfasts that the girls have in Sex & The City.
Unfortunately after breakfast I had to work on a large project that’s due this morning. After working, the husband and I drove out to Rhode Island to have dinner with my cousin and her fiancé, and my aunt and uncle. This is the same house I spend Thanksgiving at each year and I don’t know what it is, but I always feel so at home when I’m there. It is warm, comforting and wonderful to sit around with family, eat a delicious dinner and laugh. We spent 5 hours there before driving back home to Boston.
The husband went to meet up with a few friends that came into Boston and instead of going too, the crazy partier I am, I was passed out by 11pm.
Sunday
I woke up at 7:15am raring to go. I couldn’t believe it. Talk about feeling rested after a few nights of good sleep. I sat around drinking coffee and watching Boy Meets World reruns for a while before heading to the grocery store to pick up all the fixings to make munchies for the Super Bowl party we were headed to.
Around 12 or so the husband woke up, sat on the couch with me while I worked some more on that project (at least it was something I could do from home for a few hours) and then we got to prepping — he made nachos – 6 layers of tortilla chips, homemade queso, pepper jack cheese, ground beef seasoned with cumin and cayenne pepper, jalapenos and olives. I made crock pot buffalo chicken dip — ranch dressing, franks red hot, cream cheese, blue cheese and shredded rotisserie chicken. Both turned out delicious.
We headed over to our Super Bowl gathering at 4 and ate absurd amounts of food (aside from the dip and nachos we brought there was: cheese and crackers, munchie mix, pork ribs, pulled pork sandwiches with broccoli slaw, mac and cheese with bacon, brownies and blondies). So much food. I have to say though, I actually made it through the entire weekend without a single drink. For some reason on Friday night at dinner I decided I wanted to go the weekend without drinking (I have had too many nights of beer and wine recently) and I’m happy to say I had a great weekend, felt great (and not bloated or hung-over)!
I headed home mid game with two of our friends (well mid power outage) since I had to be up at 6am today and the Husband stayed and planned to come home after the game. As much as I got lots of time with him during our various activities with others this past weekend we didn’t have too much time alone and I found myself missing him as I fell asleep.
Monday
At 6am this morning en route to my bus I checked my email and saw something from him titled, 100 Reasons Why I Love You sent at midnight last night.
It’s too intimate to share the 100 reasons list (and some wouldn’t make sense to anyone but us), but it’s when he does things like that that I’m reminded, as much as he can be or act so tough on the exterior…really he’s a mush who loves and appreciates me. I can’t help but smile today. 🙂
I also had a great hour long strength training session at the gym this morning before work – full of TRX, squats and push-ups – and I’m just feeling all around great.
Amidst all the chaos things seem to all be moving forward, in the right direction.
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