Quiet Sunday Night

Hey, you.

I don't envy you the cold, but I do wish it would snow here! We don't normally get much, maybe one or two snow days a year, but this year -- nothing! Not a single flake yet. Today, in fact, it almost felt like spring. Sunny, crisp, chilly. J went out and played golf with T and they said it was gorgeous.

Friday and Saturday were kind of crazy, but today, for me, was really quiet. Friday night the gang came over for dinner (S had made some awesome turkey soup, a garlic/cream sauce chicken w/almonds dish to die for, and I added a veggie-filled salad and a flank steak - yum!) We ate and drank and laughed until after 10, which was fun since we hadn't all been together just the six (7 plus TN) of us in a couple of weeks.

Saturday morning, J and I met E and his Mom, C, to go to the Mariner's Fanfest at Safeco Field. It was an absolute blast. The boys had more fun than we could have hoped for; they were in seventh heaven running the bases, hitting homeruns in the field, getting interviewed by our local sportscaster, winning all kinds of fan gear, getting players' autographs - it was so much more than I thought it would be. C and I fell asleep on the bus home, but not the boys - they struck up a conversation with some guys behind us who had also been at the field, and ended up scoring a batting practice hat off one of them since JJ hadn't won a hat, but E had one.

It was a totally crazy day; we had anticipated staying a couple of hours but before we knew it we had stayed from open to close, which was 11-4, and I was exhausted. My head was pounding and all I wanted to do was go to bed the minute I walked in the door, but we already had a date with Wine Club that there was no getting out of. I changed my clothes, put together a salad, took a handful of ibuprofen with three glasses of water and was on my way out the door within the hour.

Wine Club was ok - I'm really tiring of that crowd anymore. At one point they got into a religious conversation, for which I have no tolerance whatsoever. But we had some really good wines and a really good dinner, so all was not lost.

This morning I got to sleep in and do pretty much nothing until helping JJ finish the last of his science project presentation. I dinked around doing laundry and still fighting off the same headache from last night. JJ and I went to Target and grabbed bite to eat at Applebees, and now, it's dinner. I made a chicken pot pie that smells pretty impressive...I'll let you know!

Tomorrow, city day + waxing with K, and a fairly quiet week to follow. Hope you went for the pampering session and the new toe polish color!

Love you,
A