Highlights

Highlights of my Saturday included…

Getting a lovely package from Sarah.

I won her one year blogiversary giveaway and the main prize was this adorable camera strap for my DSLR!

Oh and another good part of my day was getting my hair brightened up with some highlights, which are somewhat visible in the photo below.

Sarah included all sorts of other treats that made it feel like she knew me, even though we’ve never met in person. Chia seeds (white ones, which I have never tried and am super excited about), a larabar, a Clif kids bar, a Trader Joe’s dark chocolate bar, mighty leaf teas (totally new to me) and a Luna bar in a flavor I love, lemon zest. Thanks so much Sarah!

Hand written notes are always so nice to receive. I’ve been trying to send more out to people as I know how nice it is to receive them vs. e-mails these days.

Another wonderful mail piece that showed up today was the latest free spice from Penzey’s.

I asked my husband out on date to his favorite fast food restaurant, Qdoba, and he accepted. I went light with a naked burrito bowl and chicken tortilla soup. The chicken was not so great this time, so that was sort of a bummer.

We walked around the mall a bit after and buying something so simple made me happy. Does this show my age of 31? I have been wanting this Oxo Good Grips sink strainer for a while because I hate our kitchen sink strainer and cleaning it. This one pops out and seems like it will be so easy to clean.

I am ending my evening by having a comforting cup of Trader Joe’s peppermint hot cocoa while watching part of The Debt.

Time to watch the movie before it gets too late!

Unplugged

I unplugged from the world yesterday and didn’t boot up my iBook, so I didn’t blog and now I am catching up. Sometimes it just feels good not to be plugged into a computer for a day, don’t you agree? It’s funny because I still did go on my iPod touch and looked a few blogs, but it seemed like a lot of bloggers were doing what I did and didn’t post on Saturday.

I am still on the fence about whether or not I will blog while we are in Florida. I don’t really want to lug my laptop along and I am not sure if our hotel room has a safe or not. I hate worrying about something happening to it while we are on vacation.

I woke up early yesterday and got to the beauty school for my 8 a.m. appointment. Two hours and lots of talking with my really nice stylist later…I was a bright blonde again!

I came home and Craig said, “hello Marilyn Monroe!”

My hair is naturally blonde, it’s just that dirty blonde as my dad always called it. It seems dull and boring, especially when I have been inside all winter and there is no sun to lighten my strands. It feels good to be a bit brighter again! I feel so sunny.

After running an errand and doing some stuff around the house, I was ready for a nap. Had this for lunch first.

And then took an hour and a half nap on the couch!

When I woke up, I was hungry again and snacked on an attune mint chocolate bar.

Craig and I went eyeglass shopping for him. We technically can get free glasses every year with our vision plan and he never takes advantage of it.

He found a pair he liked and surprisingly, I also really liked them.

We ran to a few more eye places because like me, my husband likes to research and explore all of his options before settling on something. We treated ourselves to dinner at Qdoba. I had the chicken tortilla soup and a naked burrito with no meat.

At night, we watched The Kids are All Right. It was a really good movie–different than we both thought it would be. I would recommend it, but maybe my parents’ generation wouldn’t like it?

Onto blogging about my Sunday.