Winning

So sorry I've been neglecting you, dear readers. I have been insanely busy at work. Then, when I'm home I just feel too drained to do anything else. Mainly I've been watching movies and desperately trying to finish The Girl Who Played With Fire in time for the book club. The book club was yesterday and, luckily, I managed to finish the book on Thursday. It was very good. I highly recommend the trilogy, even though I haven't read the third one yet.

Today was a lot of fun, and exactly what I needed. I was on a quest to find a new swim suit to take to California. I've been looking for a while with not much luck. I happened to mention to Chad, "If we had a Target, this wouldn't happen." So he said "It's Saturday; let's just go to Charleston." In case you don't know, Charleston is an hour away from where we live and there is no closer Target. So, off we went. At Target, I found exactly what I was looking for. As I knew I would. We also found a very affordable espresso machine and purchased it since we've been wanting one.

Then we did a bunch of window shopping at Pier 1 and then headed downtown to eat at Capital Cafe. We love that place. When we got there we found out that there had been a jazz and wine festival going on and we just barely missed it. Fail. But, we still got our good coffee and light food from Capital Cafe and walked around downtown. As we were walking, we saw a restaurant called Ichi Ban, a Japanese place. There was a sign that said "appropriate dress required". We thought we wouldn't qualify, but could see people in the window who weren't dressed any fancier than we were. So we walked in and Chad asked, "Are we dressed appropriately?" to which they replied in the affirmative. So we took at a seat at the sushi bar (you all know we're obsessed with sushi) and ordered three rolls. Chad also ordered sea urchin. It did not look appetizing, but he ate it. His response did not give me any hope and I didn't try it.

After consuming three rolls of amazing sushi (the best I've had so far) and, of course, some sake we walked down to the mall. We continued our window shopping here and Chad spent a lot of time picking up clothing and saying "this would look good on you". Yes, my husband shops for me. And he's pretty much always right about what would look good on me. I ended up buying an amazing dress from Charlotte Russe. He didn't tell me to try it, but I did anyways. I still make my own clothing decisions (sometimes). We had taken so much time shopping, by the time I bought the dress the mall was closing. So we left and came home and made lots of espresso.

Here are some highlights from today's adventure:

Some bohemian people playing instruments.

 

AMAZING SHUSHI!!!

Sea urchins. You know that looks appalling.

Yep. That's a T Rex made out of balloons.

WINNING

 

 

So there you have it. I'm sorry I sound a little crazy right now. It is 12:30am. I don't do well after 10pm.

Did you do anything fun today? Are you winning?