Good morning, lovies! It’s Monday morning, and all of our network drives are down, meaning I literally cannot do any work. Wheee! I’m drinking some tea, bullet-journaling, and trying to massage my very sore quads. Let’s take a look at what I got up to this weekend, shall we?
Friday
I had rehearsal until 10 on Friday night, and when I got home, Ben, Emily, and my mother in law were out at a nice little bonfire in the yard, so I changed into some warm clothes, grabbed a beer, and joined them for a few minutes. They were actually about to head inside when I arrived home, but it was nice to enjoy the bonfire for a bit. After that we headed straight to bed.
Saturday
I was up bright and early so I’d have time to eat before my CrossFit intro class. I was pretty nervous all morning, but managed to get there on time with minimal stressing out. I’ll write a larger post on this later this week, but I actually kind of liked it, and will likely be giving it a chance for a month or two.
After I got home, I showered, did laundry, and cleaned up our room a bit, and then basically spent the rest of the afternoon playing Fallout 3 in my PJs. It was glorious. Emily’s friends Liz and Beck came over for dinner, and we had lasagna with salad and an amazing cheesy, garlicky bread thing, with chocolate cake for dessert. I ate way too much, but it was worth it. We ended up going to bed super early, which I think I needed. I slept like a rock until 8:30 Sunday morning.
Sunday
I knew I wanted to get some meal prep stuff done before rehearsal, so I got right up and started getting my shit together. I made a huge batch of beans and rice that I divided up into containers for the rest of the week. It didn’t make quite as much as I was hoping, but I should have enough to cover lunches and dinners on rehearsal days in case there aren’t leftovers to snag.
Then it was Nine to Five rehearsal from 1 until 5 pm. I was pretty sore from CrossFit, so dancing and stretching out felt good. Rehearsal was a blast, and I feel really good about my role and the stuff I get to do. They ended up releasing us about 15 minutes early, which was excellent, because I was meeting Ben and the family at some friends’ house for dinner, and it was a bit of a drive.
I arrived at Chris and Jeff’s only about 10 minutes after everyone else, and enjoyed a really nice evening of delicious food, drink, and conversation. We were home by 9:30 and in bed by 10, ready for another week.
This will be my first full week of work in almost three weeks, so I’m anticipating a rough go of it. If my computer issues this morning are any indicator, it’s going to be VERY rough. But I have a few nice things to look forward to this week, so I’m just trying to buck up and deal.
When’s the last time you had a bonfire?
We just dug out our little fire pit from all the snow we had…so looking forward to a bonfire! Looking forward to hearing about your CrossFit session!
Bonfires during the winter are the best!
Sounds like a good weekend! I can’t remember the last time I was in the vicinity of a bonfire… maybe never?! We were invited to one when I was visiting friends in Colorado a few months back, but I wasn’t sure if my pregnant-bloodhound nose would have been able to handle the lingering smoke smell afterwards 😦
Oh man, I love bonfires, and we have them pretty regularly. There’s just something so primitively satisfying about being next to a huge, roaring outdoor fire 🙂
Definitely weird having a full week again – it has been four weeks since our last one! 🙂
We do have a wood firepit, but only had one or two fires this year, because we also bought a nice gas fire table, which was awesome and we used into October, then took in all of our patio stuff.
But – we also have a gas fireplace … and THAT has been getting plenty of use!
Glad rehearsals are going well and sounds like a great weekend!
Oh, and on the gaming front, I had been playing Skyrim (and Doom and the new Deus Ex), but then went back and installed ‘No One Lives Forever’ 1 & 2 and have been thoroughly enjoying those! They are from 2000 and 2002, sort of James Bond type British spy games with a female protagonist (who is awesome). Sadly they are not on Steam or GOG or anywhere else …
OMG Ben LOVES NOLF! He played it a lot growing up and talks about it all the time. I think he might still have the disks somewhere… If not, that would be a great present for his birthday 🙂
Gas fireplaces are so convenient! My parents have a little one in their sunroom and it’s great.
Looking forward to your Crossfit post!!
Stay tuned! Spoiler alert: I’m still sore today, but I liked it!
Yeah, I hear you on the full week doldrums. How is only Monday and we have 4 days to go? We can get through it! Sorry about the computer issues, our network likes to freeze all too often. Looking forward to the crossfit post!
Our network goes down fairly frequently as well, just having it happen the Monday of our first full week in a few weeks sucked. The good news is, I have MLK day off, so I get another four day week next week!
Every. damn. weekend. 🙂
You lucky, lucky girl!