A few things for Friday

It’s icky outside this morning, and all I want to do is sit here and drink my tea and not worry about anything. That’s not how today is going to go, but it would be nice.

I’ve been drinking tea for the past week or so, because coffee was upsetting my stomach. I do miss coffee but I’m unexpectedly loving my tea in the mornings. I like black teas: breakfast teas, earl grey, orange pekoe. Right now I’ve got my favorite, Numi breakfast blend, with a little honey.

I’m co-hosting a party for a friend on Saturday, and I’m doing all the cooking. It’s at my girlfriend’s house and she’s handling the cake and alcohol and I’m making chicken salad, pulled pork, macaroni and cheese, baked beans, and baked bacon jalapenos. I made the chicken salad last night and cut and cleaned the jalapenos because that was the most labor intensive of the whole ordeal. Tonight before I go to bed I’ll start the pork to cook overnight, and then the rest in the morning!

I’ve posted five times this week. Don’t expect this to be a habit or anything.

Every bullet (before this one) has started with an I. I don’t know why. (perhaps she’ll die. Sorry, random nursery rhyme in there)

My anniversary is Monday, and we’ve made FANCY reservations. I feel bad about this, because we are also going to New Orleans next month pretty much as an anniversary trip too. Should I nix the anniversary dinner? Embrace it? I think I’ll embrace it (there’s a dessert room, people. And a kitchen tour. And what’s billed as the best steak in the city). My inlaws are keeping the kids OVERNIGHT so we don't have to pick them up (they watch the kids on Tuesdays anyhow)

Tonight! Tonight I’m (hopefully, probably, almost definitely) meeting an internet friend for dinner with her husband and her adorable son with the same name as my son. Yay for pocket friends becoming real life friends!

I’m getting a haircut on Sunday, and I’m so overdue. It’s not really that bad except that I do nothing with it except pull it in a ponytail (and my usual request at the hairdresser is “too short for a ponytail”). So it’s definitely time.

I have new Kelly green pants, and I’m wearing them with an aqua undershirt and a black and white stripe shirt. I do hope they match okay. Some days I just feel hopeless.