This weekend receives mixed reviews. Friday night, Steve and I met Sita for drinks, and that gets two-thumbs up. I felt like I hadn’t been out to socialize in ages, and so it was a bit like being shot out of a cannon under the big top as the start to the weekend.

Then Saturday, Heather and I had our Day of Fun, which started with pedicures, followed by a lunch of sangria and tapas and some half-hearted shopping in Chinatown – really just ducking into stores to get out of the way of the Caps fans who were pouring out of the arena following their victory over the Flyers.

We met the boys for dinner at Gordon Biersch, and then headed to a little birthday gathering. We had a nice chat, a good time, and all was well.

Sunday the mood was kind of low. The rain was awful, and I just wanted to lay around the apartment all day, which is very unlike me. But I think I just needed a day of rest to allow myself to unwind and to feel like I could let it all hang out for once. I didn’t work on my book at all, and did my best to avoid feeling guilty about it.

But speaking of the book …

One thing I need to do is to clear out The Outdoor Home office so that I can actually put my desk back out there and get some work done. We have an old bed frame sitting out there that needs to go to the trash. It doesn’t come apart, so we can’t dissemble it and stick it in a closet, and the mattress it belongs to is making me lose my mind, as it’s ten-years-old and still … STILL leaning against our living room wall. Honestly. What we’re doing with this thing, I just have no idea. When we do finally get an extra bedroom or two, they’re going to be used as an office and a kid’s bedroom, not a holding cell for an old mattress. A guest bedroom is not a reasonable use of space right now.

This morning I went to the gym and enjoyed watching my old trainer torture a new victim. She’d set up these plastic circles on the floor and was forcing a chubby, breathless middle-aged woman to hot-scotch. Yes. Hop-scotch. Oh, the indignity. I felt bad for her, but I also felt really glad that wasn’t me being publicly humiliated this time.