A few highlights from the weekend!
I went with 122 – “Mariachi Makes My Day” from the OPI Mexico City collection
Friday
- Visiting with Lorena during my mani/pedi appointment. I had a crappy week and it felt good to chat with her.
- Finally watching Parasite!
Saturday
- Running with Rachel. I don’t think we’d seen each other since the summer, so we had a lot of catching up to do!
- Brunch and margaritas with Rachel after our run. It was National Margarita Day and we didn’t even know it! The waitress pointed out they were having “Margarita Awareness Month” and we thought that was hilarious, and of course, wanted to show our support.
- Giving Rachel her holiday gifts. My snister got me this custom pillow (on the right below) and it inspired me to give similar ones to a few people, and they all LOVED them! Thanks for the idea, snis!
- Family dinner.
Sunday
- Having a lazy movie marathon day (Last Christmas, Speed, and Dirty Dancing) with Steven, and making chili and cornbread for dinner.
Lowlights
- Getting too much sun on Saturday and getting a headache. (Or was that from the margarita and being dehydrated?! Or from the pressure changes from the warm weather coming in?)
- Feeling like a complete slug on the weekends. I’ve been feeling so frantic with work during the week that I want to be completely lazy on the weekends. And that’s no fun/not productive.
- My blog breaking. I contacted my host to ask a billing question and my blog mysteriously broke during that time. An hour and a half later (on chat) I finally figured out what to tell them to do to fix it but I’m really suspicious how it “broke” in the first place. And it’s still all effed up this morning. I get so frustrated with issues like this (because I don’t have the knowledge to fix them) that I just want to throw in the towel and quit! No snarky comments please, I just need to vent.
Ugh, that’s really frustrating about the blog not working the way its supposed to 🙁 Hopeffully it’s all back to normal now? How was parasite? I really want to see it but haven’t had a chance yet.
It’s back to normal, they said today’s issue was a memory one. I think whoever worked on it yesterday messed with some stuff and didn’t share it with me. Every time I have an issue it seems like they have a totally bizarro solution (like I looked at my memory yesterday and was using a fraction of it so wth).
Parasite is really good! I think you and Mike would enjoy it!
I thought I was the only one who is ready to QUIT BLOGGING FOREVER when I have a technical issue, LOL. It’s stupidly frustrating, isn’t it?
Parasite!! I want to see it – I think we’ll have to rent it On Demand soon.
You are not! Not at all. Every time I am tempted. But I enjoy documenting things and interacting too much to do so. And I love your blog so please don’t quit either 😉
Yes! Watch it!
So how did you like Parasite???
I thought it was really well done! I liked it!
Blog issues are SO frustrating. I’m grateful to know a bunch of WordPress developers so I know they could jump in and fix anything for me, if it came to that. I’m thankful I haven’t had any problems with my current host (*knock on wood!*)
I hope this week is going much better than last week!
That is awesome you know them and I also hope you don’t have any issues! I need to make some developer friends 😉 I just don’t want to learn that stuff anymore. Ha.
Thanks. This (work) week has been horrible so far. But the good news is I am off tomorrow at 11:00 and don’t come back until Monday at 10:00!
What did you think of “Parasite” and also, “Last Christmas”? I keep wanting to watch it, but now that it’s not the holiday season, it feels weird. Maybe I’ll wait until next Christmas.
I thought Parasite was really good! And I thought Last Christmas was really bad. It didn’t feel weird to watch it in February though 🙂
We’re having chili and cornbread for dinner later this week, and I’m so excited. Truly the best winter meal!
I SO relate to your lowlight about feeling like a slug on the weekends! I spend all week complaining about how busy I feel and how I just want a break, and then I get a break on the weekend and I feel terrible about lazing around on the couch and not doing anything productive (especially the “life things” – catching up on my budget, cleaning the house, etc. – that I don’t do during the week because I don’t feel like I have the time to do them after work). You totally captured my feelings – I should’ve read your post yesterday so I could’ve more accurately explained my complaint to my therapist when she asked if I felt like I had enough free time to relax, ha! This is exactly what I’m dealing with, and I do not like it!
Yum! And look at you, with your meals all planned!
I don’t like that you’re dealing with it too but it makes me feel a lot better. So thank you for sharing. What did your therapist say? Did she say anything about the weather and SAD? I feel like that is what most people would say but more me it’s just the constant busyness of work and life and just not wanting to do a damn thing. I worked from home today and after work I read, took a 20 min nap, then took a long bath and read more, and it felt so good to not have other things to do! (and to not have been downtown today – my downtown day was moved to yesterday)
She didn’t mention SAD, but February was definitely not the easiest month for me in the mental health department, and I think SAD had a lot to do with it. I am eagerly awaiting our spring forward on Sunday! (Though I know you don’t like that 🙁 ). My therapist didn’t really say anything, but while talking through it with her, I came to my own conclusion (which I guess is kind of the point of therapy anyway) that it’s not necessarily that I don’t have time to relax, but rather the way I often choose to spend that time on weekdays in particular (by exercising) doesn’t *feel* relaxing. It definitely helps me blow off steam and feel better in general, but it’s also clearly not as restful of a way of relaxing as, say, sitting on the couch and watching TV.
I know what you mean – I spend my free time working out then want to still chill because that was NOT relaxing time, but it took up a lot of time so AHHHHHHHHHHHH, there is still stuff to do but I do want to sit on the couch. Can this problem ever be solved?
I am glad skipping forward will help you this weekend! I hope I don’t struggle as much as I normally do 🙂 Losing that hour and working in the dark (I start at 6:30) throws me off so much!