rain, rain go away (aka my weekend)

Source: Mr. Printables, if you go directly to their site you can get a free printable of this amazing graphic!

Hubby was on call this week and boy did that man work! Friday night I saw him for a few minutes and then he was called off again. I tried to make a homemade version of my new favorite dish at our favorite Chinese joint: Tangerine tofu. Mine was more like bastardized orange tofu and while it was a valiant attempt it tasted nothing like the inspiration and I'm not even sure it tasted that great. But I'd worked hard at my attempt and I was hungry!

Saturday Hubby wound up working a lot. Mid-day I was able to swing by and visit friends that are about to have a baby boy any day now. I appliqued different shapes onto onsies and they were a total hit! (I meant to take pictures but I simply forgot, sorry!) The rest of the afternoon was super rainy so me and Zoe were perfectly fine snuggling together inside, where it was dry! (By the way, Zoe apparently thinks rain is something I conspire against her. As in, "It's raining in the backyard so it isn't raining in the front yard, oh wait it is, omg Mom how could you do that!?!" It's not been a pleasant experience, for either of us.) That night we did an impromptu game night with the neighbors, it was a blast but when you combine alcohol and competitiveness it can get a bit ugly. 

Sunday I slept in since game night ended at like 3 am. Poor Hubby got called off at 5 am, I was so tired I didn't even wake up when his horrific on call phone rang. In fact I didn't wake up until several hours after Hubby had returned after working for several hours! Much later, when shocker Hubby got called away some more, I visited practically ever single grocery store in my city. Okay I didn't actually, not even close, but it felt like it. I went to EarthFare, Costco, and Publix. Oh and it poured, there was hail! (Thankfully I was inside during that part.)

And then yesterday I got hit with a headache (migrane?) that made my head feel like it was going to split into two. I think I may have also been running a slight fever. All the same it was one of those days there was no question or debating, I was most certainly staying home, in bed for as long as I could, and was not working. I'm feeling a lot better now, thanks!

weekend update

I'm having a bad day today, and it's not even noon! You know those days, the things that happen aren't anything big but you feel like Eeyore walking around with a rain cloud around your head. Yeah that's me today. Hopefully this funk passes! 

 Source: google images via nyc152

 
Anyway, on to what I did this weekend!

Saturday. I ran jogged (and walked) and did a bit of weights and leg stuff. Which is huge because I keep starting and stopping trying to run and be active. I'm trying the C25K app and while I made it once to day 1 of week 2 I've been stuck on re-starting on week 1 a half dozen times now. Everything from my hips down still hurts but hopefully I'll keep working out and that'll pass.

Source: google images via runningonfifty

 Sunday. I cleaned a bit around the house. I tried to do more but unexpectedly our dryer stopped working. And Hubby yelled and screamed and cursed and kicked it trying to get it to work. He also kept coming into the house looking at YouTube videos trying to figure things out. We still have no clue at all what's wrong with it or how to fix it, we gave up on it for the time being. We instead went off to Hubby's uncle's house to spend the evening with them. They just moved to town from Colorado (and I'd never met him before, it is Hubby's step-Dad's half brother after all) and in the few weeks they've been around we've really enjoyed hanging out with them! It's great to have family around town!

Weekend Update/I Wore Yoga Pants

So there's this blog, the name itself is hilarious but the blog is also pretty amazing. 

Anyway, she does this thing (weekend update) so I figured I would be that cool too I would try it myself.

Greek Food Festival. I shouldn't have to say anymore, those 3 words alone should be enough for you to know the wonderful, amazing, fabulous thing that took place this weekend. And yes I was a big enough fattie that I went for lunch Friday and Saturday. Hubby explained it wasn't just a fattie move, it was a moneybags move. Since it's so freaking expensive (but good). You know since it's $7 a gyro and we must have at least one each. We just chalked it up to supporting our local Greek Orthodox Church. And being fatties foodies. 

Pinterest Crafting (Fail). So we're doing this gallery wall. Still a work in progress. Namely waiting on hubby to hang it all. Well that and for me to do one little thing. Make a freaking letter for the wall. Because Hobby Lobby letters are too freaking small and I can't find anywhere else with larger letters. And I'm stupid enough to try it myself. For several hours I sat in the living, on the floor, with The Voice knockout rounds playing, cutting out cardboard (and cursing) trying to make my own 3D letter. To eventually be painted, a silvery something color. Eventually. Maybe. (It's still in pieces, with the fronts, top and bottom cut. No sides and I still haven't figured out how to cut and do the inside part of this A.)

Pot Pie Soup. Yes it's a thing, thanks to Skinnytaste.com and it's amazing. I went crazy grocery shopping, we're talking THREE different stores people! And yet I made this dish last night instead of something harder more complex when I realized hubby was out working (on call) all night. And yet it still took me way too long to finish the recipe, considering it's easy not that complex and I've made it a bunch before. 

Homeland. Thanks to Comcast messing up our tv (still not fixed, but that's on me since I haven't felt like waiting for 30 minutes Saturday morning at the store before they open just to be helped in a timely fashion and I'm pretty sure swapping out our dvr won't even fix things anyway!). Anyway, I've got Showtime for free for 2 more months. And this show is amazing! I'm totally addicted, but now that I'm caught up I have to wait (what!?!) for new episodes to air!

Visit Whitney at I Wore Yoga Pants

Weekend Update via Sami's Shenanigans

P.S. I'm having serious technical difficulties. Blogger makes it seem super easy to have your own blog. With the HTML stuff being optional. But it's not proving to be easy or cooperative. Trying to link to things (as good bloggers do) makes my words get all funky. Images move all over with my mouse even when I'm not clicking them or try to move them. I get 5 of that same pesky image. And the formatting goes crazy. So bare with me, I'm sorry. I've tried more times than I can count to fix this (in this post alone) and it seems like the harder I try to fix it the worse the problem gets. So if anyone has any suggestions/tutorials I'm all ears!