Sunlight, Movies and North Carolina Roadtrip!

This weekend was super eventful. Caution: Long post ahead. 

Friday was good.

I started a massage envy membership last April. You pay a set rate for an hour massage monthly. If you do not use the hour, it rolls over. Here we are in March and I have gone 2 times since last April. Yes, I have about 1932 hours left to use up by April or I need to continue month to month. Guess who's going to be getting weekly massages? 

I went for a 1.5 hour massage on Friday morning which was amazing. 

There are two things in this world that are the best/most relaxing and stress-relieving experiences I've ever had:

1. massages
2. yoga. 

Nothing, and I mean, NOTHING can top those two things (or at least thus far I haven't found anything). If you do either of these, you understand. If you don't, you really should try it out. 

So why don't I keep up with it if it's so great? I have a crazy high right after, but then life gets in the way and I fail to schedule a massage or yoga classes and then I just forget how amazing the experience is.  

Anyways, after an amazing massage, I got some studying done and then Sketchy got home around 4:30. Friday was our first weekend day we got to enjoy the sun hanging around later! I opened every blind in the house. The natural light was so sweet. More days like Friday makes the whole world happy.

Sketchy got a lot done in the horrible yard of ours. So much left to do and no fricking good weather to do it in! 

Charlie watched Sketchy the entire time

doing this.

I got quite a lot done inside the house. This next picture is pretty embarrassing but here is our current closet situation:

Yes, we're using an entire room as our closet. This is how it's been since we moved in. =( We have three closets that are full of random clothing in no kind of order. I emptied out all three closets into this room (did not take a picture of that because it was way too ooc) and started folding and sorting items. I got one of the three closets completely done which was good. Two more to go. Sigh. 

In sorting clothes I found a lot of clothing items we've been looking for. I found a lot of clothes Sketchy evidently didn't realize he owned. Every time we need to dress up to go somewhere, he literally goes out and buys a new dress shirt because he 'does not have any.'

This is a picture of T W E N T Y plus of Sketchy's dress shirts I found

After feeling productive we got Pho, which seems to have become almost a routine weekly thing. I'm on the hunt for Pho bowls. Can't find them anywhere! And Pho spoons. Will check out some of the asian/international markets around here, but if anyone has suggestions for where to find them, please let me know! 

Then we watched some of the tournament games. As I mentioned before, Sketchy and I filled out brackets in a small friends group. Sketchy actually printed out everyone's bracket and has been keeping track with a red pen and yellow highlighter. It's pretty cute and funny how serious he is about updating his paper brackets. =)

 

After the games we finally sat down to watch This is 40. The movie was really good. Funny as expected, but also very serious -- not expected. The movie was such a good real life depiction of a relationship and all the issues they face. Also just generally about life -- and real life issues with various relationships whether sibling, father-daughter, husband-wife or friends. I'd def recommend it to any and everyone! 

Saturday morning I headed into DC to check out the status of the Cherry Blossoms and check out photo angles. I'm going to take pictures of sketchy's cousins who are pregnant with pretty blossom background (maybe. if winter ever ends). That was pretty depressing. 

The next two pictures is where they are right now:

vs. where they need to be (pictured below):

This picture above is from last year. The pink in the background are the same trees that are pictured below (but from a different angle)

they look so depressing. It was more sad to see all the tourist out and about who probably planned on seeing pretty trees and ended up seeing THIS.

I really hope there's something on those trees by this weekend. Blah.

Sapna and Sketchy's dad came over to hang out Saturday afternoon. Sketchy's dad was actually able to get the wall quote up above the door. I'm not sure how we're going to get the frames up. He had to stand on the top of the ladder which makes me nervous. There's really nothing to hold on to and really easy to fall. So basically i risked his life for this: 

Looks off center from this angle, but it's not in person. We'll have to figure out a better plan for getting the frames up around there. 

We had lunch here and then went out to watch Olympus Has Fallen. That movie is probably one of the most intense movies I've ever seen. It was really good though. Definitely my favorite Gerard Butler movie. The plot, delivery of lines and cinematography was so good!

Sapna spent the night Saturday. Sunday morning we got a call that a friend needed some help about 15 miles from the North Carolina/VA border so we hopped in the car and spent the day road-tripping around VA. 

There was a lot of this and then lots of driving in snow. 

Overall, a super eventful weekend. I'm excited for getting through this week, taking my licensing exam on Wednesday, then Kaitlin and James are visiting later this week and cocktail party this weekend! 

Still can't believe it's almost April!