Springtime and a pleasant surprise

It has been a couple of weeks since I have updated, mostly because life has been relatively mundane since Bryan's visit. Last weekend I went out with some friends for St. Patrick's Day. Regretfully I forgot my camera, but we had a great time. Our bartender was completely wasted, so probably a $300 bar tab between the 5 of us ended up only being $20 each. Not bad! I also went over to Sherri's and hung out with the kids, which was fun. We went out to eat at Red Robin, which was very yummy.

This weekend was nice and relaxing. I went to see 51 Birch Street at the local artsy theater. It was a good, thought-provoking movie. It is a documentary about a couple married for 54 years. She dies, and 3 months later the husband moves to Florida to be with his secretary from 35 years before. The movie is filmed by the son, who finds 35 years of his mom's journals when he is cleaning out his dad's house. It was an interesting movie, but the cool thing was that his sister (who was interviewed throughout the movie) was in the audience, and she did a Q&A after the movie! It was really cool.

I bought some new shoes this weekend. As Bryan says, I have to wear my "grown-up" clothes to work, and I was feeling the pressure to buy some heels. These are SO comfy (for heels!). I think they are pretty cute.


I found this cute skirt too that match so perfectly with the shoes. It looks grey here, but it is black.


This is my new swing for the sun porch! It's too heavy for me to bring in it, so until Bryan gets here it will live in a box in the garage :) It is a 3 person swing that folds down into a bed. How fun to sleep out there in the summer.


And then I made banana oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. I had some bananas to use up, and people at work love it when anyone brings in treats. They turned out to be super yummy and very moist.