Weekend Round-Up: Decompressing

Very mellow weekend after working like mad on Friday. I helped organize a user conference for 1,000+ attendees. It was a lot of fun, but tremendously stressful. On Friday night, I came home an exhausted heap and Rob cooked me dinner.

Saturday morning, we had a lazy breakfast and then went to return the u-Haul my team had rented the day before. Walked over to Sports Basement on Bryant where I bought a new duffle for Japan, grabbed a slice at DNA Pizza and walked back home.

Rested for a bit (still kind of stressed out! I have an amazing capacity to focus on the three things that didn’t go perfectly out of the 500 that did.) and then Rob and I headed back out to enjoy the crisp fall weather in the city. Just a perfect fall afternoon to grab ice cream cones and window shop the new holiday displays downtown.

Margaret came over in the evening and we worked on baby shower crafts for a party at work this week. We made a delicious dinner of roasted cod, truffled lentils and butternut squash. A bit of work on turning roast chickens into chicken soup and some fancy nailpolish. Margaret went home around 9 and I turned into to bed not too much later.

Sunday morning, Rob left for a bike ride and I stayed in bed with the paper. I hopped on the bike trainer for an hour and did some pilates until he returned. After lunch, we walked downtown to meet up with Nicole. We walked around to a few shops, picking up last minute supplies for the trip to Japan. Early dinner garlic with fries on the patio at Gott’s.

Quiet evening at home, I watched some old episodes of Mary Tyler Moore and cleaned house.

It’s hard to believe we leave for Japan this Friday! Can’t wait!