Confession:

I just ate waffles for dinner. 

I should probably be feeling more guilty than I am at the moment but I'm currently in the upswing of a sugar high.

Whee.

The Danger of Thrift Store Shopping...

...is in leaving with more crap than you meant to.

I went to my local Goodwill today after work looking for one item. One. A black pair of pants [that didn't make my ass look huge]. Sounds reasonable, right?

Instead I left with:

• one pair black pants [jury"s still out on how they make my ass look...]
• one white sweater [silk! with beads!]
• two soup bowls [vintage looking with handles--perfect!]
• one board game [Worst Case Scenario board game which may or may not be missing pieces...]
• one book [The Thirteenth Tale by Dianne Setterfield, in new condition]

On the bright side, I got all this for $23 and some change. 

I love thrift store shopping! 

Smashing Pumpkins

Last night I went to a concert with two of my besties. Smashing Pumpkins
rocked the house. However, it was so freaking hot in the concert house we had to keep leaving the concert area to go cool down. Apparently Billy Corgan (I call him Q-ball) had them crank up the heat because it's better for his vocal cords. Thanks pal.

We ended up leaving before they finished the encore because we couldn't take it anymore.

It was still awesome.

Women's Retreat

This last weekend I went to a women's retreat at Camp Swayolakan with my pal Denise and some of her other friends. It was a blast!

There was archery

Lots of lounging and taking in the scenery

Kayaking

And a ropes course that was nearly the end of me...

...or so I thought. 

What a wonderful new tradition. We all can't wait to go back. 

My Summer So Far

Sitting here looking at a big empty white space, I have no idea what I've been doing this summer. But I've been busy. Tragedy of tragedies, I have not been taking my camera along on my little adventures like a total slacker.

But here's some of what I've been up to:

• lots of barbecues/game nights with my nerdy family
• lots of fresh lemonade and walks through Manito Park
• a trip to Portland with some friends
• spending time with a boy (wink)
• camping with said boy and his redneck friends
• eating entirely too much of the wrong things (I'm up about 5lbs. gasp!)
• watching Shark Week
• learning to cable knit
• working of course...
• hm, thats about it...

Anyhoo, I still have some fun planned for this summer even though it's winding down. Denise and I are going on one more kayaking adventure (there will be wine tasting on this one. Yum.) and I'm hoping to squeeze in another camping trip, though that's looking questionable. The Boy is planning on dragging me to a few mud racing events (Oh, boy...) and if I get my way I'm going to make it to Silverwood at some point. Oh and somewhere in there I need to get back on the weight loss wagon. Sigh. 

Wish me luck. 

WOW

You know you've been gone a while when you can't remember your blogger password... 

I've been a busy bee. More on that later. 

My Fabulous Weekend in a Nutshell

Saturday I scored a free ticket to see Star Wars in Concert, which was amazing. My inner nerd rejoiced. I'm thinking I need to watch them all in order now, which I've never done. (Nerd. Yeah.)

Then Sunday I went to my dad's house and made Eggs Benedict (Y.U.M.) and promptly ran off to have a kayaking adventure with my friends Sara and Denise.  It was SO. MUCH. FUN.

We're so doing that again.