I kind of feel like my weekend isn't over yet, which rocks because it started on Thursday night, not the typical Friday. I began my Summer Fridays Off schedule this past week and, let's face it, I love it.
Kyle and I took the opportunity to head to Rochester to return his dad's van, which helped us get our new couch & stereo. We had lunch with my mom and I picked up a few things I had in storage in my old bedroom closet at her house, and then we spent the afternoon with the Wilsons and Bartons -- relaxing in the sun, watching the girls with their huge turtle in a kiddie pool, Hal cleaning fish (which stank up the place...nast!), and chit-chatting the day away.
We got home that evening in time to wrap up Season 1 of Alias and begin Season 2. We love this show. We had to turn in early because of Kyle's morning CPAT test in Indy (that stands for Certified Physical Agility Test and is step #1 for being a firefighter in any capacity).
He had to be there at 8am, and I did not wake up until then (I'm so supportive, as you can see). It went well, and he passed. He's excited to begin pursuing this more concretely.
I used my morning well doing dishes, laundry, and walking to our local thrift store, where I found two awesome 50-cent shirts. Across the street they were setting up our Strawberry Fest (our version of the RBF), so I bought 4-quarts of strawberries while the pickin's were good! I spent the rest of my morning cleaning, air-drying, and topping all of the strawberries. TIME CONSUMING. But delicious because we made them into strawberry shortcake today with Leslie and her awesome from-memory short-cake recipe.
Kyle and I spent our Saturday in a superbly lazy way. We took a walk, watched more Alias, watched two movies, and did some computer trouble shooting (my desktop crashed on Monday).
At this point, the house is picked up, we've fully recovered, and we're still off for a good time this week.
Tomorrow we head to Chicago after work to see off Kyle's sister and her family to Ghana for their year in the mission field over there. We'll be staying with the family in a hotel on Michigan Ave, and have all of Tuesday to tool around the big city before seeing them off. It will be so fun.
That means, in all, I'll have had 5 days off of work in a row. Lovely idea. You should all try it.
See you on the flip side!
2 comments:
That sounds like a perfect weekend. A recipe from memory? That is impressive! You're making me want to watch Alias again. A & A were really into it for awhile, and consequently I watched a season or two, I wonder how many seasons there are?
I think there are 5 or 6 seasons. One of Kyle's friends bought the entire series in a beautiful case (I'll have to take a picture). I mean beautiful, but it's impossible to describe without a picture. Anyway. We love Alias.
And yes, Leslie is quite amazing with her baking and cooking skills. And she does it constantly, which we love because she uses our kitchen and usually leaves a bit of it for us to enjoy. Here's to having siblings around and baking for you!
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