This is usually what my idea of a good weekend looks like too, Ben. However, October and November marks the time of year when my days begin to fill up in a feel-good kind of way. In honor of the art of weekending - and in a tradition I can't promise to stick to - I present to you the weekend list: volume I.
- You know when you make tipsy plans, and you're so excited that you're totally going to do this thing but the next day it seems doubtful at best? Sometimes we get lucky and those plans stick, which is what happened when a few of my favorite ladies stopped by my house on Friday night (I was even pleased to find one of them already there, hanging with the BF when I got back from my jog). We caught up over drinks on the porch, then walked down the street to my neighborhood brew-pub, where I discovered my new love: the Agent Cooper.
oatmeal stout brewed with coffee and rum-soaked cherries
- Then we went to an animal-themed costume party - which, I assumed, was going to be a party where everyone wore an animal costume. It turned out to be a costume party where everyone brings their dogs.
- I woke up rested and on-time for the final day of training for my third (yes, third) job on Saturday morning.
- I took the pup to the coffee drive-thru with me- an Americano for me, a puppuccino for her - and, coffee in hand, Nathan and I headed to an organic plant nursery and loaded up his car with pots, houseplants, strawberries and vegetables.
- We ventured out to our neighborhood Korean restaurant where I tried bibimbap for the first time.
- After six years of friendship, my friend's mother flew out from Austria - and I got to enjoy the extreme pleasure of these wonderful ladies preparing and serving a Sunday Austrian meal in my home for my family and me.
2 (or 3) cooks in the kitchen
- It was wonderful - all of my family at one table. When, like me, you moved away from both your family and the town where you grew up literally the day after graduating high school, it is impossible to put a premium on something like that.
Finally, after a full day of food and family, Nathan and I relaxed on the couch to watch the latest episode of the Walking Dead.A great weekend deserves a great list, and now that I've exhausted all of you with mine, I want to hear about yours! Share your weekending list with me - whether it was last weekend, your greatest weekend ever, or the weekend of your dreams.
xo,
Kirsten
