Well we had a great weekend with our North State girlfriends. We ate a tremendous amount of food and had more fun than I have experienced in a very long time! Our friends house is very nice and looks out into a canyon. It was rainy but I love it rainy; especially when there is a fireplace inside and a hot tub outside.
Early Saturday morning, after a long night of eating way too much sugar and laughing, I stood up from my air mattress, put on my swim suit, got some coffee and sat in the hot tub for a very long time. It was gently raining, the coffee was perfectly sweetened and I was looking out into a beautiful canyon. I really needed it.
Life has been crazy and busy and I have had the flu twice since Xmas. Not really the way I was hoping to bring in the new year but that's okay. Now I just have allergies, which is slightly insulting after not being able to breathe the last 2 months.
But back to the hot tub. I had the most fantastic talk with a friend that morning. A real girl to girl heart fest. I have not done that in a very long time, mostly due to my chronic grumpy status. But we talked about many things and then just sat there and had our coffee. And I felt so much better.
It was a real treat to be in the hot tub in the first place. I finally have my high blood pressure under control, without medication even! It was the first time in 5 years. After the soak I met up with The Wife and we had a lovely breakfast together with the girls.
All together there were 11 women and we had a great time. One of the highlights was getting my hair cut by the lovely Renee, a lady of many talents. It looks so good now. She was super nice and cut it really short just the way I like. I always feel so much better after a haircut. I have a bad habit of letting my hair grow out way too long between cuts, so when I finally give in and have it cut it is a real change. Now it looks nice and has some style! People will not recognize me!
It was a lovely weekend!
Tonight I felt like making some banana bread but did not have enough banana's. I had about half what I needed and so looked through the kitchen trying to come up with something to mix the banana's with. I came up with some pumpkin left over from Thanksgiving. It was canned so no worries the it was too old. I also had some chocolate chips so I put some of them into the batter too. It came out really good-here's the proof.
