After the insanity of the past two weekends of non-stop walking from Fringe Fest show to Fringe Fest show, which were wonderful but far from relaxing, this past weekend was awesome. It looked something like this:
Friday: Pizza, pajamas, and a TV night at home (Last Man Standing, Big Bang Theory, and The Neighbors).
Saturday: Since Ted’s knee is torn and will require surgery soon, we chose not to run in the Photo Finish Philanthropy 5k this year, but we woke up early to stand on a pretty little street corner near mile marker 3 to cheer on my Geva friends and co-workers (and everyone else) who was running. Way to go team Geva for running and raising over $3,400! After the race we lazily ran some errands to pick up pears, concord grapes, autumn corn, and Amish pumpkin bread at the public market, did our grocery shopping, got our flu shots, and went to church. Then we enjoyed the wonderful opening night of The Last Five Years – the show Ted is stage managing and audio engineering, and went out for some late-night dinner and drinks on the patio by the toasty firepit at The Distillery with the cast and their families and friends.
Sunday: Our Artistic Director decided to host the Sunday Salon post-show talk-back for Pump Boys & Dinettes that I usually host, so I had the whole day off – a nice little surprise! We slept in, worked on a few autumn crafty things, did a little calendar and organizational housekeeping, kept tabs on the Packers/Lions game, made a homemade mushroom-Parmesan lasagna and arugula-candied walnut-Boursin-shallot-pear salad, joined Ted, cast and crew for an opening-weekend cast party at the director’s home in the afternoon, and then headed to a fun, fancy, and delicious themed Midnight Dinner in honor of The Night Circus with my book club friends in the evening.
We also finally got around to making some serious progress on my new blog design (it’s looking good!) washing, drying, and setting up our new sheets, comforter, and towels (it was time), cleaning Ace’s tank, spending some quality time together (always wonderful), and socializing with others (which it’s felt like it’s been forever since we’ve done that and suddenly 3 events in one weekend with at least 3 more coming up in the next week).
I’ll be back in a few days to share more. Hope you’re enjoying this beautiful October!
{It’s beginning to look wonderfully autumny around our house! Ted surprised me on October 1, when I got home from work, with that beautiful white pumpkin, a “just because/happy October!” card and the little round orange pumpkin in front of the card…just because he knows how much I love October. He’s the best!}
