An Unexpected Weekend

I had plans to leave town on Wednesday, so when my Washington plans fell through due to one canceled Space A flight after another, I was faced with a pretty quiet weekend.  I did manage to have a rather lovely few days at home though!  To recap...

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Friday night, I met some friends at a newish restaurant in town, Bistro 536, for a four course dinner with wine pairings.  I was a little apprehensive as it was a white wine flight, and I am a staunch red wine drinker, but I was actually very impressed with all of the chardonnays served.  We went on a "trip around the world" trying chardonnays from Italy, New Zealand, Chile and finally a sparkling chardonnay from California.  I was thrilled that none of them were sweet, and I'd even go so far as to say I enjoyed the one from New Zealand immensely.  Shame I drank four glasses of wine and promptly forgot its name.

Saturday, I did a little prep work in the yard seeing as a lawn service representative is coming to give me a quote for... lawn service.  I recognize that this is about as ridiculous as cleaning before the maid comes over, but seriously, our yard is embarrassing right now.  That night I stayed in with some tortellini, Cupcake cabernet sauvignon, and my very favorite new guilty pleasure, Pretty Little Liars.  Oh my God, this show is full of everything that is perfect in pop culture--beautiful people, murder mysteries, and epic teenage drama.  I highly recommend it if you're in the market for some brain rot.

 

Sunday, I finally unwrapped the Insanity DVD workout that I got off Craigslist last week, read through the included instructions and... put it away.  Okay, in my defense, the fancy little wall calendar I'm supposed to used to "track my progress" has the workouts starting on Monday, but I've got to be honest, I am terrified!  I've read all the reviews and have been thinking about this program for a long time, and there's a part of me that's excited, but every single person I've told about this workout plan o'mine, has reacted with fear and horror.  Even the P90Xers look at me with sympathy in their eyes, though it's always followed up with a "but I've heard it really works...".  So, um, yeah, I'm starting this sucker today, and holy crackers, I am scared.  Does anyone out there have anything more motivating to add aside from a cheerful, "Hope you don't drop dead!"

Comments

[Stephanie]

Gooooo Angela!!!!! Let's hear how it goes, I might need to track me down a copy!

[The Incubator]

After talking with Kenny, et al over the weekend, I just wonder - WHY? But that's just li'l ole me:/

[Kate P]

"PLL" is supposedly based on a swanky 'burb in my area--at least, the books are. Which are awful, so I'm guessing the TV show is trash done right. :)

One of the dairy-free bloggers I follow was trying Insanity. Doesn't sound like my cup of tea, but hey, I hope you get good results. And, you know, don't die.

[Melissa]

Everyone is watching Pretty Little Liars these days! I am going to have to check it out.

[Chelsea]

I love me some good brain rot. YES.

Oh. And Insanity? Holy eff, dude. You got you some balls.

[Brittany E.]

I really want to watch Pretty Little Liars but I'm worried that I'm too far behind being that it is like a mystery type show. I love the brain rot ABC Family offers. I love Secret Life of an American Teenager something about the combo of bad actors and bad writing works. I know that sounds crazy, but I can't give one logical explanation for why I like it!

[Heidi Renée]

I have not heard a thing about this insanity workout, so I'm going to say that you'll kick its butt. Yahoo!

[Melissa]

I've not heard of Pretty Little Liars. I'm going to blame that on only having AFN to watch instead of cable.

By the way...I LOVE your blog header. So cute!

[katelin]

surprisingly i haven't watched pretty little liars yet, i'm trying to stay away! but i have a feeling as soon as there is a marathon i will get sucked in, oy.

[stacy]

i enjoy the lesbians on pretty little liars. when i saw that on a commercial i knew i had to start watching scenes from it on youtube. :)