Weekend in Review or Coming Attractions

On Friday I shared some of my plans for the weekend.  I thought I would share with you how I did with those plans.

• Laundry: I did 7 loads of laundry on Saturday morning.  Note to self: do not wait so long to do laundry next time!
• Menu planning: postponed until midweek due to a number of meals I froze and did not make last week
• Grocery shopping: see above
• Read (and hopefully finish) one of my books: I finished I See You Everywhere.  Look for a book review post this week!
• Go out to dinner with friends tonight after work: we went here and it was delicious!
• Go to a concert tomorrow night with Ashlee: we saw Augustana and Sara Bareilles at UMSL.  Sara was sweet, funny and very entertaining!
• Write my first letter to my pen pal: I wrote this while doing laundry.  It was a great way to pass the time!
• Take a nap: accomplished Saturday afternoon while watching football with Woods
• Watch some football: woke up, watched some football and to my surprise and delight, Notre Dame won!  

I also did the following:

• Drank tea
• Discovered a new TV show: thanks to Ashlee and Justin, we watched 4 episodes from the first season on Friday night.  It is hilarious!
• Took pictures of a Thanksgiving table setting that I started late last week: look for details and pictures later this week!
• Went to church
• Made a delicious pumpkin soup for lunch: recipe to follow this week
• Had an amazing date night with J last night: details and photos also to follow. For now all I will say is that it involved TIGERS.  The real ones, not a mascot--sorry Mizzou!

How was your weekend, friends?

Weekend's Here

The weekend's finally here.  Adjusting to Daylight Savings Time seemed to take more out of me this year, so the weekend is much welcomed!

I plan to do a few things this weekend:

• Laundry (I never made it to the laundry mat on Monday)
• Menu planning
• Grocery shopping
• Read (and hopefully finish) one of my books
• Go out to dinner with friends tonight after work
• Go to a concert tomorrow night with Ashlee
• Write my first letter to my pen pal
• Take a nap
• Watch some football

What's on your weekend to do list?  Happy weekend, everyone!

Confession

I have a confession to make.

I like going to laundry mats.  It's true.

Ever since our washing machine broke a while back, I've been going to a local laundry mat once every week and a half or so to do laundry.  I thought that I would hate going and that it would encourage me to get a new washing machine.  Nope.  I really enjoy it!

Most of the time it is pretty quiet in there, except for the machines humming away.  I usually pack a bag full of things to keep me busy: books I'm reading, my journal, letters that need writing, and so forth, and a change of clothes since I usually head there straight after work.  Because really, who wants to do laundry at a laundry mat in a pencil skirt and nylons?  

An added bonus is that I can do many more loads in the less time it would take me to one load at home when we had a working washer and dryer--our dryer didn't dry clothes very well, causing us to run two cycles for each load to get them completely dry.

I have four bags of laundry to do tonight and I'm actually looking forward to it.  Is that weird?  Please tell me there are other people out there who like to do laundry and don't mind going to laundry mats?

Happy Monday everyone!