Monday Morning Coffee *3/22*

 

Happy Monday everyone!  I'm back at work & less than thrilled about it.  Going back to work after a long break is always hard.  The countdown is on though!  There are 51 teacher days, 48 student days, & I only have 42-44 days!  My parents were here for the week during my spring break so rather than doing a blog post on Friday with a partial recap of my spring break, I decided to just hold off until today & do the whole thing in one shot.

Monday 3/15

Monday morning Nash & I went to the dog park early.  It was nice being one of the very few people/dogs there.  Afterwards we hit up Starbucks & headed home.  We got home only to find out that the cops & SWAT had been at the complex since right about the time we left for the dog park.  They were there for SEVEN hours.  Apparently some guy pulled a gun on his neighbor & then barricaded himself in his apartment & refused to come out.  In the end he finally surrendered & went to jail.  Luckily no one was actually harmed during any of this.  That meant that we spent most of the day just hanging out in the bedroom waiting for the chaos to end.

That evening my parents arrived & we hung out for a little while & ordered some Mexican takeout.

Tuesday 3/16

Tuesday we went to a few antique shops (I'm desperate to find old undeveloped film and/or an old diary) & then got some BBQ & chocolates.  We spent the rest of the day/evening just hanging out at my apartment.

Wednesday 3/17

Wednesday took us on an adventure.  The weather was supposed to be crummy around Houston so we headed west.  My dad has a couple of old Jeeps & happened to see a Jeep part online so we went & picked that up from someone's house, hiked around Palmetto State Park, & then got some BBQ at Kreuz Market.  We got back relatively late that night so we didn't do much before going to bed.

Thursday 3/18

Thursday we headed down to Galveston.  We walked along the seawall for awhile & then went to go find Galveston Island State Park to hike around a little more.  However, there was a crazy line to get in so we opted to drive to Kemah instead to have lunch on the boardwalk.

Friday 3/19

Since it was my parents' last full day in Texas we just had a very relaxed day.  We took Nash to the dog park for a little while but mostly just watched movies at my apartment.  For supper we went to Spring Creek BBQ which is the first BBQ place that we ever ate at when I first moved to Texas.

Saturday 3/20

After breakfast on Saturday morning they loaded up the truck & started their drive back to Minnesota.  Nash & I went to the dog park again but he only lasted 30 minutes before he wanted to go home.  We spent pretty much the entire day watching Netflix and napping.  My first ever Shein purchases arrived & I was pretty stoked.  I got myself a new phone case & attempted to get Nash a cow jacket.  It doesn't fit him.  It's not wide enough.  But you know who it will fit?  Any future baby I have lol.  It unsnaps & looks just like those animal baby bathrobes.  Human baby getting the fur baby hand me downs.  I have no shame.  I also ordered some actual clothes for me which I love.  I will try to take pictures & make a blog post showing them all off.

Sunday 3/21

Sunday was another very low key day.  We went to the dog park for probably about 45 minutes until some rat dog came at Nash out of nowhere & I just about lost my mind.  Nash was just chillin by me & the rat dog came running at him barking & tried biting at him.  Rather than punt the dog across the park like I wanted to I put Nash on his leash & we went home to just lay around again all day watching Netflix & attempting to mentally prepare for my return to work.