A few highlights from the weekend! This weekend started out really busy so I’m going to break it up in to two posts.

Thursday 

• Celebrating Bobbi’s birthday two days early!
  • We had dinner at Hacienda Taproom & Kitchen in Milwaukee and our food was absolutely delicious! Gah. I can’t even describe how good it was. We started with chips and salsa, then I got the smoked cabbage steak and she got a torta with sweet potato fries. Everything was perfect.
  • We went to a fun book event at Sip & Purr. John M. Sweeney read a chapter from his book Sit in the Sun: And Other Lessons in the Spiritual Wisdom of Cats, and did some audience interaction, and Q&A. When I signed up for the event I had no idea what the book was about other than a cat book – I just wanted to hang out with Bobbi! Ha! But our entry came with a signed copy of the book and I’m looking forward to reading it now that we’ve met the author and I have more of a sense of who he is (and his family – they were there too!).
  • We got to hold three week old kittens that the Sip & Purr owner, Katy, had just picked up from a rescue. What a wonderful surprise that was!
  • Since Milwaukee is about 45 mins away, Bobbi and I had lots of time to chat. I feel grateful we’ve been able to spend so much time together lately.
• Katy had a gift for me from a cat rescuer/rock painter in Lebanon, Hana, that she visited last month. Hana follows me on Instagram, and wrote me the sweetest card and sent me a rock she had painted based off of a tutorial I did. So incredibly kind!

Friday

Phew. Deep breath. Friday was a bit on the nutso side with appointments and time in the car. 

• Getting a run in before my busy day. It felt so nice to be running in the sun, wearing shorts and a shirt.
• Listening to so many podcast episodes during the day (one during my run, another as I drove to my bloodwork appointment, one on the way to the city, one on the way back from the city).
• Getting my bloodwork done. I’m curious to see if my results are in range now! I should hear next week and by Friday at the latest.
• Teaching my first rock painting class to the veterans at Thresholds. They seemed to enjoy it. It was a lively, engaged group.
• Getting a reel filmed at Fake Meats. Although by the time I got there (after teaching a 3 hour class and several hours in the car, I was so spent). I’m glad I could still get something productive done even though I felt fried.

• Picking out some new running tank tops to use my Kohl’s cash on.
• Seeing Lorena for a fun new manicure. It was nice to catch up, although, again, I was so spent. But I love how the mani turned out and always love my time with her.
• Picking up El Famous for dinner. So good.
• Finally getting home and relaxing! I was gone 11 hours, eek. We watched part of Burnt and I worked on this blog post.

Lowlights

• How stupid busy my Friday was. When I said I could teach a rock painting class that day I had forgotten I had bloodwork in the morning. Luckily, it was on the way. Then I moved my Thursday nail appointment to Friday so I could go to the Sip & Purr event Thursday. Friday was just a bit too busy, but all good stuff.  Hopefully the rest of the weekend is a bit more chill!
• Someone (Apollo?) knocking a planter over right before bed Friday night. I was so tired and just wanted to go to bed and did NOT want to clean that up. Sigh. Wah wah wah.