The high of my week was game night with my mom, brother, and older nephew on Saturday night. We played a few games, ordered pizza, and just had a generally enjoyable evening. Like most kids, my nephew struggles with losing games, so after losing a game of Trouble (after winning the first one), he was very unhappy. When my brother pointed out that neither he nor I had won a game yet, he burst out with, “You’re grownups! You’ve lived.” Touche!
The low of my week was the weirdly cold weather! I want to preface this by saying that I know many of you in northern states are experiencing much colder weather and would love what we Floridians consider a “cold snap,” but weather is relative and I am not used to seeing temps in the FORTIES in mid-March. I live in Florida. I’m not supposed to be wearing boots and long sleeves in March. Argh! I’m ready for shorts and tank tops and lounging by the pool. Get it together, Florida.
An Internet find I loved was this Buzzfeed quiz: “Which Ex-Trump Administration Official Are You?” I got Steve Bannon and I’m very concerned now. Let me know what official you get if you take the quiz!
A podcast episode I enjoyed was Consent Part 1 on Dear Sugars. This was such an important podcast episode, and I found Jaclyn Friedman’s advice particularly great. I am really excited to see what sorts of discussions the next two episodes in this series bring up.
The best money I spent was $7 on a bouquet of yellow tulips. Tulips are my favorite flower, but I’ve never actually bought them for myself because they’re always more expensive than other flowers (like daisies, which I can get for $4). But I needed to replenish my fresh flowers during my last grocery run and when I saw the vibrant yellow tulips sitting in the flower section, my heart jumped. They were so pretty! But $7… did I want to spend $7 on flowers I’ll just throw out in a few weeks’ time? The answer is yes. I’m so glad I spent the money because these flowers bring me so much damn joy. I separated the bouquet into two mason jars: one sits on my kitchen island and the other on one of my bookshelves in my room.
My plans this weekend include book club, spectating at my mom’s 5k race, house-sitting for two lovable beagles, and brunch with my girlfriends. Whew. It’s going to be a busy weekend for me, that’s for sure! But a fun one, nonetheless. Keeping busy is a good thing for me right now, so I’m happy to have lots to do. And what could be better for the soul than snuggling two lovable beagles? Not much!
What was the high of your week?
Oh, God, I got Bannon. too. HOW? Because I like fries & a gilded toilet? SAD!
Haha – I picked the gilded toilet, too! I kinda liked it? *shrug*
Fresh flowers are totally worth the price for me too — they make me so happy and make the room seem so fresh and friendly!
Absolutely! The flowers only ended up lasting a week but that’s okay! They brought me such great joy while they lasted, so it was totally worth it for me. 🙂
Those flowers are so pretty, and I’m a sucker for a mason jar. They’re all over my house! So glad you decided to splurge and buy some. Now I want to do the same! 🙂
Beagles! YAY! Have fun with those babies.
Do it! It’s such a fun way to treat yourself that brings so much pure joy. And I love putting my flowers in mason jars instead of a traditional vase because then I can split up one bouquet into multiple jars and place them all around my apartment! So fun!
That is cold for March in Florida! Burr! I feel bad for anyone traveling there for spring break as that is not what we expect for FL in March! It’s been nicer here lately (for Mn) but we have snow in the forecast several days this week. It will melt but it’s depressing to get snow in March, although not uncommon!
The high of our week was introducing Paul to several of our friends.
I can’t believe how many people up north are getting snow this late in March. It’s madness! Hopefully nobody came down to Florida for Spring Break early in March because it was not beach-like weather. Well, maybe you hearty Northerners could handle it better than us baby Floridians. 😉
I got Sean Spicer and I LOVE tulips. They’re my favorite too and I love it when they’re on sale in the spring. Trader Joe’s sometimes has a bunch for less than $5 and it makes me so, so happy.
I need to keep my eye out for the $5 bunches!