With the MJ impersonator after the dance. Scroll down to see which song we all danced to...
But first... WEEKEND WHIMS!
So last night Daniel and I decided to start a weekend tradition called our "weekend whims". He suggested that every weekend we put 3-4 things on a notecard and complete them by the end of the weekend. Although we have a "to-do" notecard as well, our weekend whims are essentially the antithesis of our to-do list. This weekend our tasks were as follows:
1. Kiss every time we see someone holding hands.
2. Dance together whenever we hear a Beatles song (I personally don't think that should be limited to a weekend whim)
3. Each person take a picture of something that reminds us of the other person (he took a picture of the word "special" at the restaurant, I took one of a store sign that said "you know you got the best deal" :))
Since tomorrow I'll be willingly trapping myself in my house, snuggling up to my DSM IV in light of the upcoming diagnosis midterm, we needed to do all these tasks today and I'm proud to announce that we did!! First installment of Weekend Whims was a success!
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Now onto a quick weekend update. My weekend officially began on Thursday and Dan returned home from a trip around 5 pm so Thursday evening we had a nice dinner at Maggianos. After dinner, we relaxed and I was able to have a much needed phone conversation with one of my best friends. We decided that a trip to visit her in Pennsylvania is happening sometime this summer and I'm beyond excited about it. She is truly a beautiful example of friendship to me in so many ways. More on that in a later post.
Friday I took a yoga class and had a quick lunch with a new friend. Then I had to return back home for a mini study session and later to cook dinner for Daniel.
Cooking has become a little more challenging because ever since I have been on medication for the pericarditis, I've had to cut wheat and dairy out of my diet (for the most part) because the medicine makes my stomach extra sensitive. So Friday night for dinner we had some tuna salad, hummus, corn chips and asparagus. I even managed to make a gluten and dairy free substitute for Rice Krispie treats. I will post the ingredients to that in an upcoming blog on gluten/dairy free living.
After dinner we relaxed and drank some champagne from a friends wedding (fancy wedding favor!) and I set up a plate of strawberries and gluten/dairy free dark chocolate to make it quite the dessert. It was delicious!!
Love strawberries and champagne!
This morning I woke up to Daniel asking if he could cook me breakfast. Apparently I'm not a morning person because my response was "It's not like I can eat anything other than chicken sausage or turkey bacon" (referring to the fact that gluten or dairy is in almost every breakfast food). When I went to grab the chicken sausage out of the drawer, I saw Daniel left a little note for me right on the meat drawer. It made my morning :)
Inspiration to keep eating gluten/dairy free...
After breakfast we took Sage for a walk to Adams house and the guys talked while I laid out and studied at the pool. We returned and made a quick stop to care for our brother and sisters dog Roxi and then it was to Atlantic Station to take part in my first ever FLASH MOB!!! It's always been a dream of mine to take part in a flash mob, but I've never had the opportunity until now. I found out about it on a Thursday night, learned the dance quickly on Friday and on Saturday, I set out to officially surprise the people around me with spontaneous dancing.
The dance was to Michael Jackson's song "Beat It" and it was pretty simple. When we arrived at Atlantic Station, we walked toward the location where the flash mob was going to be and we noticed quite a few people already gathering around the area. The fun thing about it was that we had no idea who was taking part in the flash mob and who were unsuspecting Atlantic Station visitors. As the cue came, we saw some people join in and I looked around like I was confused before throwing my purse to Daniel, jumping into the group and finishing up the Beat It song with them. It was really fun and somewhat strange. There were ALL kinds of people doing it (around 150 people) so that added to the fun factor and to the "odd" factor as well. It was overall a very interesting experience and I'm glad I did it.
A quick shot of us
Daniel was set to film it on his phone but apparently it froze because when we went back to review it, it wasn't saved. Luckily, we ran into a few friends of his and they may have it on video. I'll add a video to the post if they send us one (and if it's not excessively embarrassing ;)).After the flash mob, we had dinner at Figo with a friend of ours named John. It was really great to catch up with him and I found out Figo has gluten free pasta! It was really good, although I did eat a four-cheese sauce on top of it :)
Now Daniel is out with the guys at an Improv show (his chance to jump into dance, or song, or whatever else they try to get the audience to do) and I'm about to try and read a few chapters in the DSM-IV before bed and a long study day tomorrow.
Overall, it was a great weekend and I have no more excuses now to put off studying... Here I come DSM-IV!
