A day off.

I have the day off from work tomorrow. My first real day off, meaning not Memorial Day or 4th of July, in three months. I’m looking forward to sleeping in, hitting up the new H&M at the mall, going to the gym and maybe getting a pedicure. And tomorrow night, I have restaurant week reservations at Stephan Pyles.

This is shaping up to be a nice start to the weekend.

Relaxing weekend.

After last week, I needed to just relax. I slept for what feels like half the weekend, sat by the pool, watched some movies, caught up on the shows I missed last week, went grocery shopping and cooked some good stuff to eat this week.

I have the day off from work tomorrow and I am debating on how to spend it. Mani/pedi? See Eat Pray Love (by myself)? Clean my house (not likely)? Visit my parents? Nothing at all? I am thinking a combination of mani/pedi and seeing Eat Pray Love, along with a little bit of cleaning.

I feel like it has been a while since I have had a day off, so I plan to not look at my phone/emails and take one more day to just relax.

FYI - I have a nice, looong weekend coming up over Labor Day weekend, Friday - Tuesday, which I am really looking forward too. I am spending part of it on a girls trip with my mom and some friends and the rest of it doing some things around my house and relaxing.

Daily accomplishments.

I didn’t finish everything on my to do list for today, but I did work for 2 1/2 hours this morning, cleaned my entire apartment, did 5 loads of laundry (mostly towels, blankets and two comforters), went to Target and bought a new toaster oven and drove around town looking at the condos I found online.

About that…

I was easily able to cross a bunch of places off my list. I would rather not live next to a crack house or in a run down neighborhood. These realtors sure make their listings online look good! While driving around, I did find a few other places that looked nice, so I am adding them to my list. My dad owns a property management company, so he is able to show properties without those pushy real estate agents, and is coming down next weekend so we can see what the insides of these places look like. My lease isn’t up until October, so I know it is early to be looking for a new place, but it can’t hurt.

Day off…sort of.

Things to do tomorrow:

• Get some work done in the morning. Even though the office is closed, my client and part of my team is in Barcelona for a tradeshow. Should only take an hour or so of my time and I can work in my pajamas.
• Hit up the Katy Trail. I bought a pedometer this weekend and it makes me feel good to know how many miles I have walked.
• Scope out the 6 condos I found online yesterday. I didn’t have much luck driving around town because 90% of the places I passed were either a) to expensive or b) didn’t have any info in the “Info Tube” on the For Sale sign.
• Clean my bathroom.
• Do some laundry, including my bedding.
• Possibly drive out to the Acura dealership and ask for touch-up paint to cover up the scratches on my passenger side door (which LOOK like they were done on purpose).
• Eat the piece of red velvet cake I brought home from my dad’s birthday dinner tonight.
• Read a few chapters of “The Host,” which I haven’t picked up in over a month.

Tomorrow = Off.

Since my office/agency is closed tomorrow in honor of MLK Day, I enjoyed a bottle of wine from Vino 100 and a few beers at Liar’s Den this evening.

I ran into someone I didn’t expect to run into, had some heated girlfriend conversations (which are always good, I think), made plans for my day off tomorrow and now, I am enjoying a Lean Cuisine.

I like Monday’s when my office is closed.