A Happy Belated Good Friday to you! Significant to me because there was no work on this glorious day, and I was determined to enjoy and relax. Which I did. Spent way too long in my pj's initially, but nothing wrong with that! I got some good reading done from my book, had some breakfast, and even witnessed the repairman fix the kitchen sink and my squeaky bedroom door. Not a bad start to my day at all. (Honestly, getting to stay in my pj's for that long was enough to make me happy!)
Yikes! To the left is my chronic problem of snapping pictures of my computer screen and forgetting how distorted the resulting image will be. Ah well, I needed to prove to the world that Brian and I still frequently battle each other at Facebook Scrabble. Lately he's been really good about playing on his turn, too! (Life typically gets crazy for him and quite some time may pass before he thinks about his move for Scrabble). Oh and a little secret--I won the last game. It was pretty epic.
Do you see the AWESOMENESS that is in the picture below? Maybe you are having a hard time seeing, so let me help you out: MY MICHIGAN TRIP IS APPROACHING! Yep, it's officially on this calendar that I will be heading out to see Brian graduate and visit with some of my favorite people! I'm so pumped and am so looking forward to it! (Also, you will notice another non-productive pasttime on my computer, good ol Pinterest. Oh goodness.)
What is it?! What could possibly be in the two large boxes that I retrieved from my apartment's front desk?! Well, it was obviously sent from home and obviously related to the Easter holiday, but I didn't have many more guesses...so I opened the boxes! (Much easier said than done...I struggled with the tape on those damn things for far too long!)
Oh hey, look! An Easter basket with all kinds of delicious goodies (most of which I can eat, even with my dumb dietary restrictions) AND four GIANT chocolate eggs, two filled with peanut butter, two with granola, nuts, and dried fruit. YUM!
A lil more of a close up of the treats is to the left. That Easter basket had tons of chocolate goodies AND a tea pot/tea cup combo with English breakfast tea. Chocolate + Tea = the perfect gift basket for Ali. Thanks so much to the family again for the Easter treats! It's definitely making for a great weekend for me!
Ok, so it came to be time to put the candy/tea goodies away and eat nourishing food. I got to work whipping up one of my favorite corn tortilla wraps for lunch. Usually I eat these things for lunch at work, but with no work on Good Friday, an exception had to be made--and my tummy was happy with every bite! (Have I mentioned that I still haven't showered at this point? Merely put clothes on...)
So. I went for a walk after lunch. The day seemed nice and warm, and I had nothing else planned, so I figured--why not? I kinda took a risk and went down a path I'd never been on before, but the Adventure paid off because I discovered it led to the path that I am used to taking--and brought me right back home! Lookee here at what I found--cacti! I always get excited at seeing these. I may be in Texas, but there's sometimes very little proof of it in Austin (other than the weather). Lots of cacti nestled in the bushes and weeds off this trail.
Ok, ok, so I returned for the walk and decided that before finally showering for the day, I'd make sure that my face was extra clean and put a face mask on for a bit. GAH! MONSTER ALI! Haha, it was refreshing, trust me.
Oh look, to the left I'm all squeaky clean and am no longer a monster! Almost ready to head out to the grocery store, but first I cooked up a yummy quinoa dish. I cooked the quinoa, added some catfish filets, garlic infused olive oil, thyme, and salt and pepper. Was very delicious, though it really tested my patience since I had to wait for the quinoa to be cooked and then the catfish after that. Luckily I chopped the fish up in little pieces so that it wouldn't take THAT long.
Real talk: my stomach was really acting crazy yesterday. First it was the usually tummy complaints I have but then it was all crampy and such. Not cool. Not cool at all. At any rate, I had a chill rest of the evening. I Skyped with Brian pretty early on, watched episodes of both Dinosaurs and Good Eats online with him. Talked a lot. Ate tangerines, a giant chocolate egg, and some other chocolate munchies. And hey--I also used my new teapot/tea cup combo! So cute, though I might admit, takes some getting used to with pouring it in the cup without dribbling everywhere. I felt like a little girl playing tea party again...
Ok, well at this point you'll probably agree that Adventure Day was overall good. (Well, except for the torturous tummy part later in the day.) There's seriously only a couple more 'official' Adventure Days for this blog, so please pop in again next week and savor all the Adventures while you can, ok? Better yet, let me know what you think of the Adventures. Or the posts. Or even the many typos. (The typos are part of the charm of the blog, so feel free to point them out, but don't expect many edits!)
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