That Went Exactly As I Expected

Rainy days and Mondays always get me down... Not so much the rainy days, but definitely the Mondays, but I am working on fixing that. Also, it isnt't rainy today, in fact it's a gorgeous, crisp fall day. The bike ride to work this morning was rather chilly, but bearable (afterall, I need to enjoy it while I can before it is dark all the freaking time!) Thank goodness for scarves and warm hoodies... Need some gloves or mittens or something though....

Monday doesn't sting nearly as much when I can reflect on the awesome happenings of the weekend. Friday after work Collin and I went and did our weekly "necessity" grocery shopping (as in milk, eggs, bread, lettuce etc.). Saturday we slept in until almost 9:30! Which is extremely late for us these days, since Collin has been getting up for work at 4am. Friday was his last day working that shift. They moved him to a 9am-6pm position, so now he gets up with me, and the timing works out perfect so that we can share our one bathroom easily. Back to the weekend adventure sharing...

So, Saturday we got up, had breakfast, and then went about rearranging the bedroom and tidying up the rest of the house. It's insane how one simple change such as turning the bed ninety degrees can totally change the entire feel of a room. The bedroom now flows much better... I'll have to post pictures at some point... Downside to the change was that our current nightstands didn't fit between the walls and bed so we had to go hunt down some narrow nightstands. (We also decided it was time to invest in a bed skirt so that our whore of a bed wasn't giving away all her goods, LOL!) We went to Target, no luck; ShopKo, no luck; and then out of desperation we were going to go to WalMart (which I have no beef with, just I HATE going there on a weekend afternoon!), but then I remembered there is also this nifty forgotten place called K-Mart. We went to K-Mart and scored a cheap set of night stands that work perfectly in the corners by the bed! Phew!

Saturday night we were going to go to a party at Duffy's Hanger (a bar by the airport), but when we got there it was so overwhelmingly packed and NO parking left in like a two block radius. We figured we were dressed and amped up to do something so we headed out to Your Break (a bar with pool tables and other games) in Silverton (aka the Tron) and played some pool. It had been a good two plus years since we had played pool, and we were both a little rusty. Collin had a couple beers and I had a couple sodas (I didn't feel like drinking since I would need to drive back to Salem), and had a great time. We left just before midnight and decided we wanted pumpkin pie (I had been craving it since one of our friends had posted about pumpkin pie on Facebook) and I wanted a new sweatshirt. So, we went to the only place one can go for sweatshirts and pumpkin pie in the middle of the night: WAL-MART! I got a super warm, soft, 'n' cuddly gray pullover hoody and Collin got a navy blue one, and then we picked up a pumpkin pie and went home. We each had a slice and then went to bed... It was about 1:30ish...

Sunday morning came, we had breakfast, then we did some dinner prep for last night's and tonight's dinner. After that was done and we had cleaned up we went to SPIRIT the Halloween shop that pops up this time of year to get some new decorations. We got some awesome stuff and after we decorate next weekend there will be pictures. We watched a movie and went for a bike ride at the park, and then spent the rest of the day relaxing.

It was a great weekend. Who knows what next weekend will have in store for us.... I kind of do, because we need to do our "monthly" grocery shopping, and I want to put up all the Halloween stuff (I heart my husband's birthday!!!), and Friday night I am having my co-workers over maybe... But who knows what other antics will arise!