Well I try to keep it steady now, but steady's not her strong suit.

I had a fun weekend.

On Friday night, I went out with some co-workers for appetizers and drinks followed by serve-yourself frozen yogurt. It was a good time.

On Saturday, I woke up early, went to the gym to run a quick 5K, then headed out to meet up with the same coworkers to head to the Buffalo area to go shopping. We started with lunch at the Olive Garden. For some reason, the Olive Garden went extinct in Ontario (or should I say it was extirpated?). I ate a lot of soup, salad, and breadsticks for lunch, but man, was it salty. I was dehydrated for the rest of the day.

We started at the outlet mall, where the girls split up with the boys. We went to the Ann Taylor Loft store first, where I got a pretty blue polka-dot dress, a white sweater with a blue polka-dot flower to match, a frilly blue polka-dot top to go with the sweater, and a simple tank top to go with a black cardigan that I have at home. I'm hoping to wear the dress in Paris, but it might be too cold. However, the sweater and top will definitely come with me.

I also got a plaid shirt at J. Crew. If you show your teacher card at J. Crew you get 15% off, and that means I'm guaranteed to buy something there. I got a pair of earrings at Fossil as well.

After the outlet mall we hit Target. I stocked up on a lot of foodstuffs: Starbucks Hot Chocolate mixes (which you can't get here), super cheap Tazo tea, raspberry lemonade Crystal Light (can't get that flavour here), my favourite Kashi granola bars (on sale), Mint Chocolate M&M's for Jason, and mint Three Musketeers fun sized bars for me. I got Miss Rilo a new laser pointer, and a new catnip mouse. For my dad's birthday, I got him a Wile E. Coyote Super Genius Tshirt which he is going to love. Lastly, I got the last two books of the Hunger Games series because they were super cheap. I still have to read the first, but I know I'll get hooked on them when I get to them and it's good that I have the whole series.

Anyway, it was a good shopping trip. I was pretty exhausted all day Sunday, and didn't even leave my house. I slept, read, did a bit of housework, and then Jason came over and we made dinner and watched Moneyball. It's a good movie. I recommend it.

Today was a quiet day at work. It was tutorials in the morning, and an exam in the afternoon, so I got a lot of marking done throughout the day. I left work fairly early with lots of energy to go for a run. However, when I started running, my head started to throb, my stomach hurt, and I felt really low energy. I called it quits and headed home after about 4K. I don't know what happened, but now I'm home and spending my evening on the couch. On the bright side, that crappy run put me over 50 miles for the month of January. I ran 51.4 miles (or 82.7 km) in January - my best month ever!

I have to recover for tomorrow night, because tomorrow night I'm seeing Jack's Mannequin, aka my favourite emo guilty pleasure! I'll probably be the oldest person there.



Happy Tuesday folks!

p.s. Jabba - so glad you're enjoying Provincial! "The Last And" also made me think of Alone in the Classroom which I have out of the library right now, but I'm not sure if I'll get it read before its due date (Feb. 6th). I also got tickets to see JKS play here in March. I checked his tour dates to see if he was playing Victoria, but nope, closest is Vancouver. :(