A Patel Weekend

Friday night we were supposed to head to Sketchy's parents but I wasn't feeling well. We ended up heading to his parents on Saturday afternoon. 

I did not fall asleep until 6:30am Saturday morning. Slept until 1 o clock. I have had the worst case of insomnia this past month -- not falling asleep until 3am at the earliest. My brain does not stop working so that my body can go to sleep. It's really horrible. I get really restless and angry at night. 

I'm chalking this up to a horrible past month. Work has been beyond stressful. I was already behind being in the office everyday, so taking off about 5 days so far this month has not been helpful! Also, those five days in pain and/or medicated were not fun. February sucks so hard. 

Saturday evening I got bored sitting around so I went out with Sapna. We went to Joann's and I grabbed about 6-7 8x11 sheets of pretty patterned and textured paper. Made use of my insomnia. A little cutting and vision and I created quite a few quick sample invitations. Had no glue, so pretend that these are all perfectly straight and put together:

I think this one is my fav, can maybe make it vertical? 

I made a few others (almost same layout as the black/white ones) in a gold maroon color scheme as seen above. 

Think the gold/maroon color scheme tends to look more Indian. So may go with that. We'll see. Either way, invitations will go out in the next week or two for engagement party which is officially happening May 25th. 

After Joann's, Sapna and I grabbed dinner at Red Robin's which I really actually like and then headed home.

Sunday we went furniture shopping with Sketchy's dad. Saw a few dining sets we really liked. The sales were not that great so we're just going to get what we like. Hopefully this week we'll have a dining set in the dining room. 

We decided we were gonna go with a pub-style dining table with at least 6 chairs and here's why: 

1. it's not a formal dining room so formal lower table might look funny
2. want furniture to go with our living room furniture and feel of laid back and young
3. higher table is better for lucy with food as well as can serve as a nice bar/area to spread out food and drinks when are entertaining
4. we can easily move this to a basement/bar area when we have a forever home with a formal dining room and dining room set.

Here are the ones we like: 

like the darker color and the cushioned chairs. Also has storage below the table (which ultimately may make my decision because i don't really like the tables with the four traditional legs)

Really like the granite top and like that it's cherry wood and black top. Want to still keep some black in the dining set so that it matches darker wood furniture throughout living room. 

I really love the shattered glass center square. I plan on putting a lazy susan in the middle of the table and I think that'd be pretty to have center stand out. The one we saw and like is a darker wood with black accents and seats 6, not four. 

Sunday evening we watched Here Comes the Boom with Kevin James. I've been really reluctant to see it even though I really like Kevin James. Turns out it's a pretty funny movie. 

Today we hung around the house until around 5PM and then spent about 3 hours in traffic getting home. I've been feeling nauseous and sick again all day. Blah. 

All in all, pretty good weekend with the Patels. 

Hope everyone's President's Day weekend was at least relaxing if not eventful.