Weekend in Review: Quiet

I am going to get back into at least telling you about my weekends.  Of course I'm back with one of the least eventful weekends in awhile, but whatevs gotta start somewhere.

Now that I'm working every other Friday again half the time my weekend doesn't start on Thursday nights anymore (cue the sad music)... so Friday after work I got home and I was pretty hungry at that point so Dan and I ended up going to a fairly early dinner around 4:30... (too bad they didn't have an early bird special...)  Dan got a gift card to Chili's for his birthday, so that's where we went.  It was a nice casual meal, and it's always nice when you don't end up having to pay!

After that we headed home and it was a very low key night with me cross-stitching and watching Once Upon a Time.

On Saturday Dan picked up some overtime so I had the morning alone.  I slept in a bit and then headed over to hang out with my mom.  She's headed to Alaska (lucky gal) so I wanted to see her before she went.  We went to Target where I got a bunch of random stuff and somehow managed to spend $115...

Then we got a quick snack at Sonic.  Originally I thought we would eat together because I didn't have plans with Dan until 4ish... but he texted me to let me know that plans had moved to 2... so eating something small was a better idea than a full meal.

After that we headed over to Kohl's.  Mom wanted to see if there was anything she could take on her trip.  I ended up looking at jewelry and getting a new necklace for my dragonfly charm.  Dan gave me the charm (from Tiffany's!!) for my birthday last year.  I never had a 'good' necklace for it, but had used a couple of silver chains I had around.  The first one was actually a nice chain that came with a different necklace, but it got caught on my scarf and I ripped it off... whoops...  The second one was a super cheap chain that just ended up breaking.  I'm so happy to have the necklace back and for only $22 bucks.

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My mom was also super nice and bought me another necklace.  I thought it was broken when I got home but it was a beyond easy fix so I just fixed it and wore it.

How many selfies are there going to be??  And the reason my hand is like that is because I was showing off the ring... looks so silly now...

Soon after I got back home we headed up to meet Dan's mom and step-dad for lunch at Gamlin Whiskey House in Central West End.  We had gone to breakfast there, but not for regular food.  It was SO delicious and a great time to celebrate.  Dan's mom had her last chemo treatment!!

I had a lunch 'trio' which included a delicious Caesar salad, a half pulled pork sandwich and yummy mashed potatoes.  So good!  Dan and I were going to go to a bar afterwards, but the one he thought about didn't open for another hour so we just went home instead.  Our night was pretty shot after that... I watched some TV in the basement which made me drift to sleep and Dan went to bed early.

On Sunday I didn't do a whole lot either.  Dan went to a drift car race thing at Gateway with a friend while I just hung out at home.  Later Dan and Caleb came over.  They grilled some brats and we had a nice dinner out on the deck.  It's crazy the 70 degree temperatures in June, but I'll take it for however long the weather gods want to give it!

So that was my weekend in a nutshell - told you it was pretty quiet!

Ketchup

So it's been awhile since I last posted... whoops! 

Here are some things that have been going on...

• My cousin, Amanda got married back in May.  It was a Friday night wedding and a lot of fun because all the people I'd normally hang out with (i.e. my cousins) were there.  So it was like hanging out with them with free alcohol - can't beat that.  We had a lot of fun.

My hair is a mess and you can blame Mr. Daniel for that...

• We celebrated mother's day what feels like a month ago.  It was a really nice day.  We had an early lunch at Blueberry Hill.  Then we checked out the 250 exhibit at the History Museum (totally recommend this exhibit - very cool to see and it's FREE!!).  Next we headed to Ted Drewes for custard.  It was a beautiful day spent with my amazing mom and awesome sister.

• The following weekend Lindsey, Susan and I went to see the Chippendales!!  I saw they were coming to town and always heard that it's a pretty fun thing to go and see... and it did not disappoint!!  We had a lot of fun!!  Afterwards Susan and I went to my cousin Dave's birthday party.  A very nice night!

• Later that same weekend Dan's nephew, Tanner, got baptised.  He was even a god father.  It was a very nice little ceremony followed by a delicious lunch.\
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• That started off a pretty busy week for me - Wednesday night was Survivor Finale for which I went to Michelle's place (as always).  I even made these cookies for the celebration.



•  The next night Susan and I took a painting class that was Wine and Canvas and took place at the Lakehouse on Creve Cour Lake.  It was a lot of fun and very relaxing!

 

• Next up was Memorial Day weekend which was pretty tame.  Dan and I bbqed and played washers together, which was nice, but not very exciting.
• This past weekend wasn't that exciting either.  I started working on my cross-stitch again (I needed a break, but it's getting pretty far along!!) and started watching Once Upon a Time on Netflix.
• I'm sure there are other things I'm missing that were good too... I however can't really think of them off hand... life has been good!!