My Last Weekend As A 28 Year Old

It's my birthday!!  I am unofficially the same age as my mother!  Just kidding.  Today is my 29th birthday.  How am I spending it?  In a 7 hour meeting.  Happy birthday to me.  I will be going to a concert tonight with my friend Raeann though so there's that!  I hope that everyone had a fabulous weekend.  I for one have no complaints.  Linking up with Biana!

Friday

Friday was pay day...which actually means spend all the money day.  Mostly because I pay my bills on pay day.  But on this particular pay day & I also bought all the food.  I bought my volleyball girls Chick n Minis from Chick Fil A.  I have lived in Texas for going on 6 years now (holy shit!) & have now only had CFA 3 times.  The first 2 times I ate there I had their basic chicken sandwich & was less than impressed.  Now however I'm so sad on all of those missed years of eating their breakfast because those Chick n Minis...WHOA BABY!  I also bought my 6th period cupcakes because one of the girls & I share a birthday but since I'm not at work today, we celebrated Friday.  I also got myself a new 2018 planner.  Friday was a district wide reading day which meant I spent most of my day filling out my new planner.  Thant night we had our second to last volleyball game.  We lost.  We all lost.  Freshman B all the way up to Varsity.  Because we played a high school in our school district though I was home relatively early for a Friday night.

Saturday

I changed my hair!  I cut a good 6 inches off of my hair & went from a dull brown to a deep red.  I'm in love.  Plus, holy goodness it's so much easier to brush now.  Don't get me wrong, I love when my hair is long, but I can actually do something with it now!

Saturday morning I took Nash for a walk & then we played at the dog park for awhile.  By we I mean he & the other dogs.  After the park is when I went to go get my hair done & then we watched some It's Always Sunny for awhile before I went to the grocery store.  I was doing some food prep, Chicken & Dumpling Casserole, when my friend Trey asked if I was hungry.  I'm not one to turn down food so I said yes.  

We went to Ojeda's in Dallas.  He got the steak fajitas & I got stuffed jalapenos.  I'm obsessed with stuffed jalapenos.  However, I was not impressed whatsoever.  I've made far better.  I ate some of his fajitas though, those were good.  I also got a michelada because I hadn't had one in years & he said I should because they make a really good one.  I'm not a huge fan, & I'm really not sure why.  I love bloody mary mix, I love beer, I love a beer with my bloody mary.  The one I had there was pretty good, I will say that.  However, it's still not something I'll ever just order somewhere.  Needless to say, I was severely underwhelmed by Ojeda's.  

Afterwards we went to Berrynaked despite the fact that we were both super full.  There's always room for popsicles & neither of us had been there before.  I got the peach cobbler & he got the orange julius.  I won in the "who can order the better popsicle" contest.

That night I went to Billy Bob's to see Jon Pardi.  I had also intended to get there early enough to see Midland but I left a little later than I intended & parking took longer than expected.  I love me some Jon Pardi.  His newest single off California Sunrise is out today.  It's called She Ain't In It.

**Now to quick brag on Nash.  I crate him during the day.  And actually, up until I went home in September I was crating him at night too.  That's not the point.  Anyway, up until recently anytime I left the apartment I would put him in his crate.  A couple of weeks ago I started leaving him out if I had to run to the grocery store, so for an hour tops.  He had successfully done that 2 or 3 times.  So, when I went to go eat with Trey I decided to put Nash to the test.  I placed his crate so that he was confined to just the living room & then left him to roam.  3 hours.  He did it!  Nothing was chewed on or peed on or pooped on.  So, later that night when I went to the concert I left him out again for another 3 hours & he did just fine.  My little baby is growing up so fast.**

Sunday

Sunday I had considered getting a mani/pedi because my toes & fingers were looking ratchet.  However, I just spent $150 on my hair so spending another $80 on nails seemed a little unnecessary.  In the end I painted them myself.  Of course I'll have to keep painting them fairly often if I'm going to keep myself from biting them, but at least it's free.  I used Sinful Colors "Black on Black" & "Let's Talk" on my fingers & New York Color "Plaza Plumberry" on my toes.  They're pretty much the colors I was going to get done anyway.

I was also going to get a massage.  I even had an appointment.  But when I was on my way there Google Maps told me that they were closed already.  Because I had just picked a time online I thought maybe there had been a mistake or something & I shouldn't have been able to make a 3 pm appointment.  So I rescheduled.  No one answering the phone further led me to believe they were closed because it didn't even ring & just went straight to voicemail.  It's probably a good thing too because I had gotten a Groupon & had booked the wrong thing the first time around.

The final thing I was going to do but did not do.  Go see Bowling For Soup.  I loved BFS in high school.  Hell I STILL love them.  I can listen to their A Hangover You Don't Deserve album over & over and not get tired of it...still 13 years later mind you.  However, I thought tickets started at 10 because the price range was 10-80.  Nope.  Parking was 10 & tickets were 20+.  I didn't want to pay $30 + drinks at a venue I don't love to see one band.

So what did I do?  I had the definition of a perfect Sunday.  I watched Netflix (It's Always Sunny & The Walking Dead) & football.  I went & got myself some elotes & make a Target run.  I baked muffins, I did laundry, I did dishes, I made cilantro lime shrimp pasta, I made buffalo chicken dip.  And I did it all with my patio door open (okay not the Target/elotes run... definitely locked my apartment up when I left) because the weather was absolutely perfect.  It was everything a fall Sunday should be & the perfect way to close out my birthday weekend.