Friday Nights

I absolutely love lazy Friday nights. Don't get me wrong I also love dinner, movies, and hanging out with friends. Tonight I'm husbandless again as the the man is back in KC on work business. What does a girl do who's all alone?

I stopped by the mall after work, it's a daily occurrence as I walk through it every day, and visited Forever 21. I don't normally shop here, at least any more, but today I wanted to check it out. I found what I consider to be a cute dress and wrap for under $25. You really can't beat that. Yes, I know that after a year or less it will fall a part. Next I made my way over to DSW, another shop on my way home. Because I'm home alone, I took my time shopping and leisurely strolled through the stores. After returning home from grabbing dinner, I began working on a scrapbook for my friends baby shower on Sunday. I finished everything, but the binding. David gave me a Bind It All for my birthday and this will be my first project using it. The other projects I'm working on this weekend include, thank you cards for the same party, my beach book, and our trip to Paris. My craft supplies have taken over the "great" room.

Tomorrow I'm heading to a resale shop and working on my work client's Web site. The hurricane is making it's way up the coast this weekend. It's a good weekend to have indoor projects. I will miss lounging by the pool.

Now it's time for Psych.

Update on 28 things (or 23 things)

For my birthday I decided I wanted to do 28 things in celebration of my age. I didn't really have a plan, but I knew several things I wanted to do and I figured it would be easy to come up with the rest. I decided to begin on Friday night and end on Monday. This was Sunday morning when I knew I missed my target. Here is my photo montage of my adventure.

1. Dinner and a movie Friday night with my dear friend
Jackie.

2. Presents


3. Trip to the National Zoo. The STL Zoo is way better. If you are in the DC area skip the zoo. Notice the shoes. They were a present.



4. 7-11 It was sticking hot on Saturday. We did what anyone one else would do, got drinks and snacks.


5. Hello Cupcake. This place was out of business. I don't know why their Web site is still up and running.


6. Lunch at Qdoba. I know, I know most people don't like Qdoba, but when you have a FREE entree because it's your b-day you go. The best part was, David's nachos were free with my points!


7. Law Enforcement Memorial and no I'm not pregnant, it was a bad pose.


8. Newseum (I highly recommend it)
Portion of the Berlin Wall

Antenna from World Trade Center

View of the Capitol

Missouri daily newspaper


9. Potbelly smoothie


10. Albert Einstein statue


11. FDR Memorial




12. Wine


13. Dinner



14. Pomegranate Martini


15. Redbox movie

16. Bead show with Megan

17. Bead purchases


18. Cakelove


19. Dinner with friends to celebrate my birthday and Tori's




20. Finding last minute Parachute/Script tickets

21. Parachute/Script Concert The fans ranged from 15 year old girls to cougars.









22. Picture with lead singer of Parachute and Katie.


23. Picture with the lead singer of the Script and Katie.

Time Travelers Wife

I love, love, love this book! If you haven't read it you need to. My friend Jackie introduced me to the book three years ago and it's been on my must read list ever since. I highly recommend you catch the movie. It's the next Notebook. Go Rachel!

I can't wait to see the movie!

Swimming

Over the weekend, my friend Tori came over and helped me work on my swimming strokes. She taught swim lessons growing up and played water polo in hs. I have been desperate for someone to teach me how to swim all summer. The lanes in my pool and the residents who swim them really intimidate me. Before I braved the lanes I wanted to work on my skills.

I learned that my skills aren't terrible and my technique is fairly good. My biggest problem is breathing. I found that I raise my head out of the water instead of turning to one side. I'm still working on perfecting this. I'm practicing using the alligator method. In addition to the freestyle, I learned the breaststroke. I don't find it relaxing at all.

Finally today I ventured down to the pool after work to "swim" laps. Of course there was already two people swimming in the lanes and one person swimming to the side of the lanes. That's the spot I wanted. After a few minutes I put on my brave suit and jumped in the pool. Our pool is 25m long. After one lap I was exhausted. I made myself swim 5 more laps before exciting the pool. It was the hardest workout I've had in a long time. My plan is to swim at least three times a week and increase my distance to 12 laps before the pool closes in mid September.

I've decided I can't live without a pool!