The Week Finally Ends

Well, last week decided to be lousy until the bitter end. Friday night my Sweetie, Mr. A, and I went out to dinner at the new Mexican restaurant that we were going to try on Wednesday. Any by new I mean it has a new owner and supposedly a chef from Mexico. While waiting a half an hour for our table I looked at S told him that I couldn't believe that we were actually waiting to eat Mexican food. But we all decided that it wouldn't be any quicker to go elsewhere so we decided to stay put.

S had shrimp tacos, A had fish tacos, and I had carnitas. Both S and A said their dinners were okay but nothing to write home about. Mine was so awful and full of fat that I sent it back to the kitchen and told the waitress that I didn't want anything else. I sat there sipping my soda while the guys finished their tacos. The owner had the nerve to come by the table and try to justify the lack of quality of the food. I insisted that I didn't want anything else because I was afraid of what might come out of the kitchen. The owner came by again with a 10% of coupon for our next meal. Yea right. We paid the bill and left the coupon on the table.

Saturday morning I got a pedicure which was delightful. But I happened to notice that my cell phone was dead. Since I had such an unlucky week, I decided to go home and charge my phone before I ran my other errands. I didn't want to tempt fate. As I left the salon, my stomach started to growl. Well, no duh. I didn't eat dinner the night before. So I pulled into Chipotle and ordered some real carnitas. I pulled out my phone to call the guys to get their lunch orders and remembered it was dead. In the end, I ordered extra guacamole and chips for the guys and nothing else. BOY, did I get nasty looks when I came home with only Chipotle for me. Then I reminded them of dinner the night before and they backed off. The red hair might have flared up a little.

Once my phone was charged, I was still a little hesitant about going back out. After a week of life kicking me in the pants, I just didn't feel like dealing with traffic and crowds. But I made myself go out and I'm glad I did because I scored big at Marshall's. I bought two sets of big fluffy bath towels, bath mats, and new artwork for the bath for all under $100. Our master bath is very bright and sunny so I can get away with dark color towels and accessories. I'm very pleased with the results.

My Sweetie picked up G-Man and my parents at the airport while I cooked dinner. After everyone freshened up a little bit, we sat down to salad, cottage pie, and strawberry shortcake. It was really nice to have an casual family dinner. That's when I knew that my crummy week was over and things would get better. That is, after I got over the surprise that we were to spring forward to Daylight Savings Time that night.

I'm tired now so I'll wait 'til later in the week to fill you in on the Cell Phone Pic of the Day, G-Man's Big Adventure, and my cleaning frenzy.

Darn you Ben Franklin for stealing one hour of my sleep!