Happy Monday, all! I hope you’re feeling rested and ready to take on a new week. This weekend was just what the doctor ordered for me and I felt like I was finally able to relax and set my mind at ease for the first time in ages. Here’s a marvelous weekend recap!
After I got back home on Friday from my day of classes and stats test, I took a looonngg two hour nap to try to shake off some of my tiredness. Whenever I’m under a lot of stress from my classes, I don’t really sleep because I’m up late/early studying or I sleep restlessly since I dream of whatever I’m learning. You would think this would be helpful (studying in your sleep, woohoo!), but it’s the complete opposite since I’m subconsciously trying to solve problems with no answers. I end up waking up early from panic and then feel like I don’t know anything since I could’t solve my imaginary problems. Go figure haha.
ANYWAYS, I promise I didn’t come here to complain! My point is that I slept and it was beautiful.
Kyle and I had a date night planned to celebrate my freedom and went to grab some sushi and watch the movie Transcendence. Not my favorite film, but nonetheless it felt great to get out of the house and actually wear real-people clothes. Sweatpants are great, but after a week and half straight they tend to get a bit old.
Casual date night outfit!
After we got back, we spent some time hanging out with some of our European friends. A little while later, I ended up heading to bed while Kyle went out to a tennis party.
Saturday was a shopping day! My housemate, Lakshmi, and I drove down to State Street to peruse the stores and eat lunch with Kelty and her mom. I ordered the chicken caeser salad and it was delicious!
As far as purchases go, I got a steal on two white baking dishes from Sur La Table, as well as the cutest new workout top from Forever21 (only $15!) and a gorgeous new floral cardigan. To test out the larger of my two baking dishes, I made a mouthwatering cheesy chicken and broccoli pasta bake for dinner and it was the perfect post-workout meal. Cheese+pasta= [emoji white smiling face] [emoji heavy black heart] .
Also, don’t white baking dishes look gorgeous in food photos? I can’t even explain how excited I get when I get a new prop/dish/etc that helps improve my photography. Even buying new dish towels gets me excited… How cool am I?!
I woke up bright and early on Sunday morning feeling refreshed and ready to go. Since I hadn’t been to the grocery store in almost two weeks, I was in dire need to restock my pantry and fridge. Am I the only one who adores grocery shopping? I honestly could wander up and down the isles for hours checking out new products and imagining what I could make with them. Don’t even get me started about how much time I waste in Whole Foods!
Once back, I ate a quick breakfast before grabbing a triple shot latte and banana bread with Kyle and heading over to the library. I read my physics textbook for almost three hours straight before calling realizing my brain was mush and that my productivity levels had reached a standstill.
We headed back home, ate lunch, and relaxed before driving the gym for a quick workout. I ended up doing 30 minutes of varied cardio before hitting up the weights for a back routine. After getting back, I did a few small blog-maintenance things before walking over to a local froyo shop to bond with some of the girls I’m living with next year! I know a handful of them already, but can already tell that I’m going to LOVE my new housemates and they’re all just extremely down to earth, outgoing, and sweet. Plus we’re living ocean-side (seriously, you open up the windows and all you can see is ocean) on our school’s “party street”, so I’m expecting my upcoming year to be much more relaxing and fun.
I ended the night by watching the new Game of Thrones episode with the boy and finishing up some chemistry/physics note-taking.
So that was my eventful weekend! It’s back to the grind now, but my second round of midterms are much more spaced out (aka not 3545345 in one week), so hopefully I’ll have time to completely catch up on my Bloglovin’ feed and spend some time doing “me” things.
Question of the Day: What was the highlight of your weekend?
