oh, monday. we meet again.

jacket: c/o oasap / white tee: forever 21 / scarf: c/o ecoshag / jeans: aeropostle / boots: c/o dsw shoes
i really do like mondays. i really do.
i just told that to ryan this morning. there is something new and fresh after a weekend to recharge to be able to attack another insane week of life. but this morning we were both feeling it.
the weekend was so good, that we decided that we really could tack on another sunday to the weekend. too bad, the rest of life or the calendar didn't decide with us, so here we go...facing another monday.
but like i said, the weekend was a good one. ryan worked late friday night, so once he got back home, there wasn't much time left for partying. so he crashed in early while i immersed myself into the world of nora ephron through this book. (and btw while reading it, i could hear meg ryan's voice the entire time that i read it. influence of you've got mail? i would think YES.) kind me an old lady but it was a wonderful way to kick off the weekend - inspired to write and direct clever movies and apartment hunt and book my plane ticket to NYC like yesterday.

then on saturday, ryan had to drive to a starbucks about an hour away to meet with one of his clients...so he asked if i'd like to keep him company. duh! so i brought along nora so that i could find a corner to curl up with my book ( i was going to say nora but thought that might just sound plain awkward) and my vanilla latte. so i did find my corner but ended up talking to a super nice girl name joy who sells face skin cream and got me thinking about the need to start on anti-wrinkle lotions and crap 'cause hey, we are facing the big 3-0 this year. and my sensitive skin is already whacked, so it def got the wheels turning. plus i made a brand new friend, which is always a pleasant person to come across in my opinion. after joy left, i did have some time left to breeze through a few conversations with nora and soak in her life in the big city.
and then ryan wrapped up his meeting and we headed out the door for our drive back home. we had plans for dinner and a movie later that evening but we discovered that we were driving past an AMC (and we also discovered it's the biggest AMC we'd ever been to. even bigger than the one in Chicago. 24 theaters, yo) so heck yes, made the drastic (okay, not really) turn to see Catching Fire.

now ryan hasn't seen the movie so i was ecstatic! and he ended up really enjoying it and it took everything in me not to say, i told you so since i'd be begging him to go see especially since he wasn't the biggest fan of the first movie. but with how much he loved the sequel, he pretty much said it, you told me so and so i left it at that because it made me happy.

and since you don't really need a detailed play by play of our entire weekend, i'll condense it with this:

1. went out to dinner to Applebee's and could have literally inhaled three more servings of the potato twisters with the queso dip. forget the entree. i wanted more queso.
2. watched Captain Philips and didn't breathe for most of it. also annoyed ryan by imitating Tina Fey who imitated Barkhad Abdi at the Golden Globes: look at me! i'm da the captain now! i might have done it more than a hundred times that night - and might slipped with a few more on sunday afternoon.

3. dessert run to Kroger and came back with PB creme pie. we ate almost half of it. so good.
4. still thinking about the queso dip so i looked up a copy-cat recipe on pinterst. BOOM.
5. sunday morning church. always love worshiping with such a refreshing community of people.
6. wore the above outfit to church but really it's a uniform for the week. and THAT triangle scarf from my talented friend tania of ecoshag might be my new fave scarf. i say might 'cause this other black one is competing for my favoritism.
7. ate my leftovers from Applebees. continuing obsession over that queso recipe.
8. binge-watch Netflix and caught up on Parenthood (oh, my goodness - joel and julia, just stop. i can't handle it anymore)
9. took 2 cat naps. blissful.
10. had a really good future conversation with Ryan. those are my favorites. the kinds where we snuggle, maybe hold hands and talk about the future and dream together. no the kind of conversations tapered by worry or frustration. just dream.

so monday, can you see why? i don't hate you. just wanted to delay you one more day. but here you are, so i guess i need to roll up my sleeves and put my big girl pants on, the ones that have bring it written all over it.
much love. {happy monday, friend.}