The past few weeks have been quite taxing on my schedule. I spent a whole week taking my very last MBA course (I’m done!!), spent a week in Norway for work meetings, and spent a week in Wisconsin for training. I got to be home this week, but I’ll be off to Texas to visit my family next week.
Warning: the following text is a summary of the plans for my week. It will be dry, boring, and it will make you want to shut down your computer at once. Enter at your own risk!
So what did I do with my one week at home, you ask? What any girl who just got out of school would do: fill it up with social stuff!
Last Sunday I had a marvelous breakfast with @na in a little cafe in Holliston called Pejamajo.
On Monday I ordered pizza with my wonderful husband, Brian, and went to bed early.
On Tuesday I went out with Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi to an amazing restaurant in Chinatown called Penang and to see Eat Pray Love (2010).
On Wednesday I was supposed to have piano lesson, but it was moved to Saturday, so I hung out with Brian. We ordered pizza again (I was too weak and tired to fight it) and watched parts of Back to the Future III (1990).
On Thursday I went out with Charlotte to a little hole in the wall, albeit ranked in Zagat since 2003, Algerian/Mediterranean restaurant called Baraka Cafe.
On Friday, today, I’m having lunch with Angela somewhere with a Restaurant Week Menu. At night, I’ll have dinner with my husband (low key) and then I’m off to sing my lungs out at Karaoke at Joy Asia in Marlborough with Tori Amos, Daria and Shakira.
On Saturday I have my piano lesson in the morning, then lunch with Miranda Hobbes (my good friend from high school who is a very professional fashionista), then I’ll probably stop by at a BBQ in honor of one of my college professors, and then I’ll hang out with Alicia Keys.
On Sunday my husband’s company is having their annual summer event, so I guess I’ll be putting my bathing suit and flip flops on and go meet his co-workers. Well, that’s a recipe for disaster if I’ve ever seen one.
On Monday I’ll pack.
On Tuesday I’ll leave for Texas to visit my family for a week.
As you can see, I did not leave ANY room for boredom. Somehow this has completely energized me. Especially the part about going to karaoke tonight. We were regulars at Joy Asia back in the day (pre-MBA), and it makes me feel that maybe I CAN get my social life back! It’s all falling into place so neatly, I can’t help but feel excited about this coming fall! Just me, my job, and a blank slate of a calendar.
I hope you all enjoy this weekend, and have good stories to tell for your own blogs!
ina