1. It's Friday, Friday, after all.
Fridays are my favorite day. Everybody at work is more relaxed (towards the end, at least). There are TWO days of sleeping late ahead of me. I do not have to cook. I do not have to stop drinking wine at 9 PM. Tonight my mom is coming down so we can help Baby Sister start cleaning out her apartment in preparation for vacating the (shabby) premises at the end of this month. Tomorrow's baseball game is at 11:45, so I do not have to set my alarm. Lunesta, take me away.
2. Macaroni and cheese is still my favorite food.
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If a person could consider themselves a connoisseur of macaroni and cheese, I am it. And I recently discovered The Perfect Macaroni and Cheese recipe, and it is a bonus that it does not require standing over the stove stirring a white sauce. It is equal parts cheesy and creamy, and you can make it an entire meal by throwing some diced ham or chicken or some hamburger meat in it. Trisha Yearwood taught me how to make it. In my crock pot. With evaporated milk and five cups of cheese. Go forth and get your crock pot ready. You will not be sorry.
3. First swim of the season.
Not mine. My parents were here last weekend and we took the boys swimming at their hotel. Little fishies. Jake swims like a torpedo and Landen taught himself to dive. They take swimming lessons every summer, and we try to spend as much time in a pool as we can.
4. First pedicure of the season
I feel odd taking pictures of my own feet, so these are not my toes. My toes do look like fingers and do spread out when I walk, so this picture is not entirely inaccurate. The first pedicure of the season is an exercise in humility, as they make quite the production about all of the machinery they use to get the winter skin off your feet. I have one place where I go get my first pedicure done, and then I do not go back there until the next year. I do not do it regularly over the summer, but it is worth it to me to shell out the dough a couple times a summer to have someone else do it for me.
5. Furniture purchase
I have wanted a secretary since I was in college, the kind with the fold-out desk and the glass cabinet. Eddie Ross convinced me that I needed to get one and paint it a bold color and replace the glass with mirrors. When we bought the house, I ratholed money and visited the antiques shops regularly looking for one I could make over, with no luck. When I took the job working from home, I returned to the secretary search and ended up repurposing the guest room with a regular desk and office chair. On Wednesday, I returned to the longing for a secretary, painted a glossy white with a bold contrasting interior. I need to relocate my workspace from the guest room to my bedroom for at least the summer. And then I found this on craigslist
which is not necessarily my tastes for a finish, but the size is great, the price is great and the cabinet below will serve my work purposes much better than drawers. So it's coming to live here on Saturday, and I'll spend the month of May giving it The Best Furniture Makeover Yet, and I'll tell you all about it. My preliminary plan for it, sight unseen, is a creamy white with a high gloss for the exterior and a kelly green in the cabinets and fold-out desk.
As with all of these Friday posts we have done together, do not forget to go check on Emily, to see what she is recapping for the week. I plan to sleep a lot, clean a lot, move a piece of furniture from Metairie to Baton Rouge and have an all-around better weekend than last, which will in turn yield a more positive emotional and mental-positioning with which to confront another week.
Gratuitous Dog Photo (of a dog terrified of thunder and not wanting to go potty)
I am so jealous of your 2 days of sleep! I am seriously considering hospitalization for exhaustion. Where is the little one moving to? I want a pedicure too!
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