what i didn't do this weekend

yes, another weekend blog update.  it's like my new favorite thing to do on sunday evenings: wrap up my weekend with a good blog post.  of course that will change someday but until that day finally comes sometime next year i'll just blog sunday evenings.  it was a pretty uneventful weekend (but a damn good one!) as usual.

highlights of the weekend include: friday night mexican with my awesome momma, trying to get into arrested development via netflix watch now (back in boston a few months back we had an AD marathon and i thought the show was a little too weird for me - but now getting into the 2nd half of the 1st season and i'm kind of addicted), a new purse on saturday (50% off plus a 20% off coupon from one of my favorite customers!), dinner with new friends at an indian restaurant that brews their own IPA, and ending it all with city park jazz (as usual).  pics of weekend adventures below :)

on our way to yak + yeti1

ESB + IPA = LOVE

umm i want a DISCO BALL @ cpj! 

'would you want to see an alien?'

me & momma on AJ's birthday :) 

brew drinking my brew... (haha)

but guess what i didn't do this weekend friends?  go to ikea.  that's right.  us coloradans just got our first ikea down in centennial which opened last week on wednesday.  i kind of wanted to go last weekend, but instead we did the dragon boat festival.  and it's a damn good thing we didn't go.  philip found out from some work friends that there was a two hour wait just to get inside the store - and then once you got in there were too many people to even browse.  not really my thing.  i don't do lines very well.

now i've been to ikea before.  philip and i LOVED the one by us in brooklyn.  people in colorado are super excited to have an ikea here - it's on virtually every blog out here.  but i'm finding out that people are overwhelmingly confused and frustrated by the store.  once you get in it's a maze, you can't pick up anything you want at first, why did they put it in centennial, etc.  it's a little ridiculous.  i'm personally a huge fan of how ikea lays out their store, i get it.  but people out here just don't seem to be into the whole ikea thing, they seem to be flocking there out of curiosity or something.  there are certain types of coloradans who aren't big fans of anything european.  hahaha.  but seriously guys it's going to be a while before i get to ikea.  i get stressed out in big shopping areas with lots of people - and as much as i love a bargain as much as the next person i really can't handle big crowds gabbing at clothes and things.

don't get me wrong - i'm crazy excited to have an ikea here.  i've already started a list of new projects i can start now that i can shop there (finishing the bathroom , carpeting the stairs, re-doing the kitchen cabinets, maybe a new rug...)  but it's not worth the panic attack right now.  don't worry blog friends - you will all be the FIRST i tell when i head over to ikea!  but you can expect that to be sometime last summer or early fall when i need a homework break (15 days til school starts!) or in-between trips - we are heading to boston and la in the next month and a half.

but for now... that's it!  time for me to get back to my hubby :)  have a great week all!

xoxo