How Was Your Weekend?

I was feeling a little under the weather yesterday and had no motivation to write an entry.  That would require forming a clear thought and I had none of those.

I really just loafed around this weekend.  Friday night I had to work, so I cracked open a bottle of wine, started up the laptop and hung out while Steve and a friend played Grand Theft Auto IV (did I mention that game was kinda awesome?).

I also see that I wrote an entries on bathrooms.  That, my friends, is what wine will do to you.  I am apparently awesome as well.

But yesterday - well, yesterday was a whole other story.  Steve worked then had plans to go on the boat and fish with some of his coworkers.  I was really looking forward to a whole day by myself.  A WHOLE day meaning him NOT coming home at 3pm.  Sometimes when he works on Saturdays, that looms ahead of me like a deadline because if I'm cleaning, I get into a groove and I usually end having to work around him or stop completely when he gets home because we have sudden plans or he wants to go do something.  And I really don't blame him because after cleaning all day, I want to go do something too but at the same time, I want to finish what I've started.

So back to having a day to myself.  I was excited, y'all!  Like, dance in my underwear Risky Business style excited.  I had a ton of my shows (i.e. ones that even I feel bad forcing him to watch, like America's Next Top Model) backlogged on the TiVo.  I had some shopping I wanted to do.  I had a house to clean and a pile of laundry that has been sitting on the couch waiting to be folded for the past two weeks, at least.  I had books to read and interweb sites to surf.

And I had over 12 hours to do all of this in, without snide remarks from him about what I was watching or loud sighs because I was taking up the laptop AND the TV.

And I could turn the A/C down as low as I needed it.

(Side note: yes, these are the things we fight over!  Part of me finds them ridiculously stupid but part of me gets so angry because I want to be selfish and it's wrong for me to be.  I want to watch TV and surf the web but he says it's not fair to take up two of the main forms of entertainment.  I want the air down to 68 degrees but he thinks that's a ridiculous temperature and constantly turns it up.  He has a point, at least on the TV/laptop thing but I don't want to be fair.  I had to be fair my whole life.  I want to be stubborn and selfish and mean.  Sometimes.)

(One more side note: I totally acted like a twelve-year-old when we fought over the A/C this morning.  I turned it down to 68 last night and when we got up he had turned it back up to 72.  It was hot and humid in the house and my sinuses were bothering me like crazy so I turned it back down.  I'm not doing this to be irrational - if it's hot in the house, it gets stuffy and my sinuses are sensitive to temperature change and air pressure and that gives me migraines.  And he doesn't get it and I try to say, you know how we don't stay at places long where there are cats because you're allergic?  That's what this is like.  So I turned it back down and he came right behind me, bitching and turning it back up as I walking down the hall.  I yelled back and was so mad that I actually slammed our bedroom door then threw myself on our bed.  I haven't done that since I was a teenager but damn did it feel good.  Totally didn't make a point though because he's even more stubborn than I am because SOMEONE turned it up to 78.  He vehemently denied doing it but I didn't touch it.  So we either have ghosts or the dog figured out how to do.  Or, he was being vindictive, something we both are unfortunately very good at.)

But after being off tangent, let me see if I can figure out where I was.  Ah yes, a day at home.

The dog woke me up at 8:30am which was not cool.  I let him out, had a small breakfast, then sat on the couch to check my email.  From then on, I realized I was just so physically and mentally tired and couldn't motivate myself to do anything.  I watched two weeks worth of Grey's Anatomy, stared at the mess in my house, contemplated taking Sammy to the dog park and then just wandered around aimlessly trying to figure out something.

I did end up going out to return some clothes to Old Navy.  By the time I got on the road, I was realized I was so hungry I was shaking, which makes me feel just "not right", so I stopped by Chick-Fil-A and scarfed some food.  I hate eating like that because I usually feel sick right after.  But I sucked it up and returned the clothes then went to the mall to buy some books I had been waiting for.  I bought six!  Three by Jodi Picoult (The Pact, Salem Falls, and Plain Truth), Certain Girls by Jennifer Weiner, Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella and Such a Pretty Fat by Jen Lancaster.  The latter three were going to be beach reads for my Hawaii trip but since Kinsella and Weiner's books were only available in hardcover, I'll probably read them first and bring the paperbacks with me (I don't feel like lugging hardcovers on the plane).

From there, I came home and felt so drained that I just laid in the bed and read The Pact all day.  I had it finished before I went to bed last night - it was that good.  Steve actually ended up coming home around 7pm and he and his friend hung out while I laid in bed and read.  It was just one of those days where I felt like only part of me was here and coherant.  But I think I needed it.

This morning, the dog woke us up around 7:30 am (seriously, WTF dog?).  I let him out then laid on the couch and feel asleep until around 9am.  Woke up to find Steve playing GTA IV again! Then we hung around until about 2 when we met up with some friends to see Baby Mama, have dinner at O'Charley's then go to this exclusive after-hours even our local Best Buy was having with all sorts of sales and specials.

I have to say Baby Mama had it's moments but I think Fey and Poehler really held back.  It could have been a lot funnier than it was.  O'Charley's was good, as always (they have these amazing cinammon-sugar donuts and this awesome Strawberry Skyy Lemonade drink) and we found quite a few good deals at Best Buy.

It was a much busier day than yesterday but it was nice and productive.  Now we just have to prepare for May and the summer.  Sometimes it's nice to not have anything planned or anything to do. 

My theory is that if we're busy enough to be relieved to have a weekend where we can sit around playing video games and not get dressed then we must be doing something right.