a good weekend

Overall, a very nice weekend :)

Friday...bad horrible draining day at work. Everyone is unhappy. Everything is falling apart. Everyone is complaining about how everything is falling apart. Trish is teetering on the edge of collapse. Everyone is job searching. I came home exhausted, feeling like I was carrying the weight of all that. But then we went out to dinner, intended to go to Old Towne Pizza, but couldn't find parking, and ended up at Kells Irish Pub. I had their yummy fish and chips, Tim had sausage and we both had a good night.

Saturday, Ava came over, we made a bunch of cards...it was fun being crafty with someone! I feel bad for her, her marriage is clearly not in good shape and her husband Aaron is a loser. :( But after we made cards, we went up Division, I took her to Village Merchant and Portico, two great second-hand stores. I got two skirts and a work top, earrings and cool decorative bath salts for the bathroom, all for about $30. Sa-weeet.

Today, I met Tawny for lunch at Vita Cafe...really good! I had vegan BLT, and it was so yummy. It was my first time in the Alberta Arts district, cute shops. We found a great bead store, and they sell necklace cords, I might buy some and some bead pendants.

I went for a great run, did the whole loop (over both bridges) and I felt really good.

And...Tim and I are "househunting." We aren't planning on moving for at least a year, probably a year and a half, but we are starting to plan out the house we want to buy. We think we want to buy a house a little cheaper and work on it, make the kitchen our dream kitchen, redo the bathroom. The number of gorgeous, great houses we are finding for less than $250K are incredible. It isn't out of the question at all that we would have enough money saved up to at least pay closing costs and possibly have some down payment within a year or two. It is so much fun to think about "our house." And I saw lots of cute houses for sale in NE today, and we've seen some really nice ones in SE. It's fun to plan for that stuff :)