Happy Dayz

Wow.  What a great weekend so far and I still have a day ahead of me!  After a long Friday at work, a friend and I had some shopping therapy at the mall.  She was looking for jeans - so we headed to Nordstrom where they have Sevens (or so we thought - N now doesn't carry Sevens because they are not as good quality as Citizens, so no one was buying them) and Citizens. News flash for me since I just bought some a few months ago.  Oh well.  I like them and they look good on me.  The employees at N's are so helpful - shopping assistants really - that they always have us (I had to at least try on a pair) try on things they suggest.  And her suggestion was Paige jeans.  I had never heard of them.  But apparently Paige was the jean model for Citizens and then she went off and made her own line (I am recounting all of this for you because I'm thinking that you're like me and you had no clue about Paige or her new jeans line).  Well, these are the MOST COMFORTABLE jeans in the whole world (and they cost less than Citizens).  Seriously.  They fit perfectly, they are higher in the waist - don't create love handles - and they are stretchy, so you can squat down and no feel the back pull.  I am definitely going to buy some.  Someday.  You should too.  They will make you look good and feel happy.  And I'm not getting paid a cent for promoting this.  My friend got the Paiges.

#2 good thing that happened at the mall.  Banana Republic (where I buy 95% of my clothes) had a 40% off all tops and pants (so basically everything except scarves because the hand bags and jewelry were also 40% off) in the whole store.  And they had a pair of 6L (my size) black dress pants which never go on sale online- and are never in the store unless someone ordered them online and returned them to the store (that was the case here) - were 40% off.  That's a good deal!  I also needed shoes -  I really need to revamp my shoe wardrode - but there were no sales on the shoes I liked.  Darn.

Saturday morning - I was going to go on a bike ride up Emigration Canyon - haven't done that ride yet and I was excited to do it.  But we had a lot of rain Friday night and the roads were still kinda wet.  So thanks to Facebook, I saw my friend posted that she was up here at Sugarhouse Park doing a 5K run/walk for the American Heart Association.  So I high-tailed it up there and joined them in the run and then for the heart walk after.  It was so fun to be outside early on such a beautiful day!  Really the weather was perfect.  It was fun to see her and catch up and to see her at work with the teens from the Boys and Girls Club.

I didn't have plans for the afternoon, so I came home and did some seriously cleaning and organizing.  I threw out a lot of old papers and odds and ends that I don't need.  I think I need to do another run through to get rid of more stuff.  I just don't need the stuff.  I'm trying to be like my Paige jeans friend.  She has very little that clutters her house.  I admire her for it.  That's not to say I don't like having my tent, backpack, frisbee, camping chair, holiday decorations, ice cream churn, extra pillows, books, basketball, rollerblades and such. I think she has a lot of that stuff, it's just still at her parent's house.  So I don't feel so bad.  But I still think I can be better organized.  And through my cleaning up I found several things that I had been missing, so I was thrilled - one was quite important and contained highly confidential things in it.

I had to go to a wedding reception yesterday evening up in Midway, so I decided to leave early and hit up the outlets on my way.  Again - Banana had many items 40% off, but I didn't want any of them.  I did find a really cute sweater for just $20, so I bought it.

Then I headed over to Midway and I was just guided to the house.  Seriously.  I don't know how I got there. It was a new subdivision, so it wasn't on google maps or my gps.  I was a little early, so I just turned into this subdivision to look at the houses (I thought the place I was supposed to go was still a few miles down the road).  As I drove through the neighborhood, I started seeing street names that started with 'Dutch'.  The house I was going to was on Dutch Fields Pkwy.  So I knew I was actually close to where I needed to be.  I thought I had passed the street my reception was on (still trying to kill time) and drove around more thinking I'd come back to it.  Well, then not paying attention to the street names anymore, I drove right up to a bunch of parked cars, saw a beautiful young lady in a wedding dress and decided since it was exactly 6:00 and I was exactly at the house for the reception, I would get out and go on in.  This family has the most beautiful house.  The dinner party was in the back yard.,  There was a tent with a dance floor and  dinner tables set up all around.  Since I was by myself, I was a little self-conscious.   But this nice couple came up to me and started chatting.  Everyone was so nice there - my friends have really good friends.  It was just such a happy and comfortable group.  I left thinking that's exactly how I want my wedding reception to be.  I want to marry into a fabulous and fun family like Anne did (I already know my family is as fabulous as Anne's, so no work needed there).  I'm so happy for her.

Then the night ended watching BYU LOSE BIG to Utah.  What a sad game.  I feel bad for the players who must have gotten really chewed out after the game.  But it really was unbelievable.  Darn turnovers.  But what was even better was the Utah fans I was watching the game with weren't overjoyed for the win because they knew the high score was mainly due to just really bad mistakes on BYU's part, not because Utah was playing exceptionally well.  It's not much fun to see your team win a sloppy game.

Thank goodness football games don't have a lot of control on my emotions.  I went to bed last night just really fulfilled and happy.  And now I'm going to attempt to make bread.