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Weekend Best and Worst
What were the best and worst parts of your weekend?
Any funny stories?
What was the best thing you ate?
Re: Weekend Best and Worst
We had a great weekend. The best part was the great visit with Mil, a great day spent with friends in Boston on Saturday and meeting new friends, the Rock n Volls, on Sunday.
I really didn't have a worst.
T took the car to get the oil changed on Saturday in Boston. When they opened the hood, there was a chipmunk hanging out on the engine, alive and well! T's mom said they don't have many chipmunks in their town so we're wondernig if the little guy rode from NY to Boston with us.
The best thing was the dim sum on Sunday. Loved it!
We were camping this weekend.
Best parts were being away from "real life" in a beautiful place with good friends and awesome weather.
The worst parts were loud, obnoxious neighbors at the campsite, a mouse that visited me in the camp bathroom, and the mosquitoes that attacked me our first night there. By the fourth day, I was also pretty disgusted with myself and desperately wanted a shower.
The best thing I ate... We had some amazing barbecued corn on the cob, and some "baked" brie we did on the bbq. I also brought up really good dates - I love dates.
Best: My weekend is still going! I'm today and enjoying a lazy morning (it's actually reasonable weather today, yea!). We saw Midnight in Paris yesterday and that was fun.
Worst: My to-do list is putting me in a grumpy mood.
Best thing I ate: Probably the vegetarian sweet and sour "chicken" from our vegetarian friendly Chinese place.
I don't think I have any funny stories.
Lots of good things this weekend!
- Did a 6 mile run on Saturday, and my ankle didn't bother me at all. The run felt great. Had a BBQ with all of the Team In Training people afterward.
- Celebrated my niece's 5th birthday at the Oakland Zoo and had a blast running around checking out all of the animals with her (she's at such a fun age!)
- Made some headway on my craft/dressing room! DH installed my chandelier, and I painted the walls (it turned out a little brighter blue than I was expecting, but once the cabinets and other stuff are in there it'll look great).
Here's a picture (hopefully it'll show up because I'm trying to post it from my phone, since I can't from work. eta: sorry! I think it came out huge, so I've pasted a link instead since I can't seem to resize it.):
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/dani24/Feathering%20the%20Nest%20Blog/2011-07-09_21-09-56_326.jpg
Best part... My sunday afternoon nap.
Worst part... Finding out DH failed an exam and has to re-take it... Talking him through it, etc.
Funny Stories: Not really.
Best thing I ate: A fall cupcake flavor. Yum.
dani, you're going to have a craft/dressing room? I'm so jealous! What kind of crafts do you do?
andrea, that's crazy about the chipmunk! I can't believe it survived in the engine compartment.
What were the best and worst parts of your weekend? Best was getting to spend so much time with both friends and family. We had lunch and shopping with my family on Saturday (Vietnamese), dinner with another couple that night (Greek), brunch with Andrea and her DH on Sunday (dim sum), and then BBQ with another couple Sunday night. Yeah, we did a lot of eating this weekend, haha!
Worst was having a heat shield fall off the bottom of the car on Saturday afternoon. Luckily it's not an important part and DH wasn't hurt or anything, but car stuff is always such a PITA.
Any funny stories? Hmm...only thing I can think of is shopping with my mom for a wrap to go over her bathing suit. She picked out a brown one and I asked her what color her suit was. She said brown. I said, "Mom, you don't want to look like a big piece of poop!"
What was the best thing you ate? Oh my, after our sinful feasting this weekend it's hard to say. I'll go with the noodle soup we had at dim sum since it's been a while since we've been to that place and I always crave noodle soup.
Yep! We ended up buying a 5 bedroom house, although we were only looking for a 3-4 bedroom. So, DH decided I could "have" one of the rooms for all of my clothes, shoes and craft stuff. In exchange, he gets the entire master bedroom closet and he doesn't have to see all of my craft stuff all over the house (he's such a neat freak, so he loves this!)
I like to sew, knit and do paper crafts (stuff like wedding invitations and Gocco).
Best: A successful 10K.
Worst: Having a really bad night last night.
Funny Stories: Hmm.. not really.
Best thing I ate: Strawberries after my race. They were so sweet and yummy.
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What were the best and worst parts of your weekend? Best would be going to Lake Berryessa on Saturday for a few hours with our dog in tow and letting her swim. The drive through Napa County was really pretty too, almost ashamed that I don't drink wine as some of those vineyards looked gorgeous, haha. DH and I have never been there since we've known each other and the part of the lake that we went to was not crowded, weatherw as good and the water was warm.
Worst - having to iron my clothes for this week
Any funny stories? This was at the lake, we walked for a bit and then unleashed our dog, thinking she would run like a banshee into the water, she walks up to the water and just bows and gets her belly wet and soaks her paws.
What was the best thing you ate? Bought some fresh picked white corn on the cob yesterday and ate some last night...so good!
IUI #1 10/12/11 (Bravelle + HCG + Prometrium & acupuncture) = 10/26 BFP! Beta #1=250, Beta #2= 615. 1st u/s 11/8.
My weekend was good!
The best part was getting to sit with DH and do absolutely NOTHING expect veg in front of the TV and play games yesterday. The laziness was totally worth the rest we got!
The worst was having to wrry about a couple money issues that couldn't be cleared up until the business week started.
I found out that I totally SUCK at playing Connect 4. Who knew?
The best thing I ate was steak nachos from a local mexican place. YUM!
Congrats on the 10K! And I'm sorry that you had a bad night last night. I hope everything is okay.
That sounds like a fabulous compromise to me! I didn't know you were so crafty. Have you checked out the Crafts board at all? You'd fit right in.
Best: getting my bookcase and desk put together, clearing out my closet/getting almost done unpacking, enjoying our new TV and relaxing
Worst: the soreness from the activity above, finding out I can't take public transit to my interview, dealing with EDD crap
Any funny stories? The way the boxes we packed at the end were packed was so random. I'd think I had all the kitchen stuff unpacked but then stumble on utensils in a box of books or something.
What was the best thing you ate? cherries or the black raspberry Dreyer's ice cream we got
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