Fun without Snow

Hi, A.

Love the box! No need to apologize. Sounds like a busy day, and that you did the right thing at the end, taking the time to decompress with candlelight and spirits...We can always catch up on the phone another time. Before I knew it, it was 10, so even though you would have caught me still awake (which is rare), I was on my way to bed--after a good day.

In fact, I had a great day yesterday! It was like a snow day without snow….

I started with a couple of cups of coffee and then went to the gym. I did my regular treadmill, and then did a training session on upper body machines. For these past couple of months I’ve just been focused on getting there…on showing up and burning some calories, but I figured it was time to try some other machines. (Can you believe it’s been two months?) I stopped at Pier 1 to browse then got home around noon. I made myself a bacon cheeseburger (does that assuage your fears about my becoming Susan Powter?) and relaxed for a little bit before putting on a pot of chili and getting caught up on the cleaning I don’t always do on weekends because I resent the sh*t out of it. I’m pretty much all set for my girls’ night with M and J tonight—piles of magazine and catalogs appropriately recycled, and junk mail shredded—except for running the vacuum when I get home. Oh, and setting the table of course. And putting the chili on the stove to warm. Well, you get what I mean. But that's one of the things I love about entertaining with chili: it's a make ahead meal that makes it soooo much easier.

I haven't seen M and J in some time. In case you aren't placing them, they are friends I met through BFF J, when she was still living in Connecticut and they all worked together. We have maintained friendships in our own right and though we don't get together as often as we used to, we still try. And we always, always, laugh.

I'll check in again tomorrow and tell you all about it. Maybe by then I'll have decided whether or not I'm going to the Frada party I'm invited to.

Hope today is good. Good luck getting ready for the rents.

Love, B