Home Alone

This past weekend Andy was in Chicago for his bachelor party, so how did I spend my weekend? Well, for starters, I planned ahead of time. I took the girls to doggie day care on Thursday to tire them out for Friday and hopefully Saturday too. I went through the usual routine with Izzy and Madison when I dropped these two overly hyper dogs off. They couldn't contain themselves so they had to go out the "side" door until they can control themselves before they can mingle with the rest of the dogs. When I picked them up they were exhausted and spent the rest of the night on the couch just like this until I woke them up to go to bed later that night. My plan worked! They were exhausted.


On Friday night I had some arts and crafts activities to do for the wedding. I opened a bottle of wine and got started.


I also got caught up on all my thank you cards from the various wedding and bridal shower gifts we have received.


On Saturday I got up and did my usual run around Look Out Mountain.


Then I did a bunch of errands for miscellaneous items for the wedding. Then I got home cleaned the house for two hours before I got my nails done. I was planning on cleaning the house in my wedding shoes to break them in, but I just was not in the mood. I was in a hurry and didn't have time to be careful in the new shoes...hopefully next weekend. Saturday night I watched a really bad Netflix movie with plenty of more wine...ok, so my alone weekend included plenty of wine.


On Sunday after my mountain run I did some grocery shopping to make Andy a fabulous meal. While I was there I picked up some roses for myself to put in my new vase we received for our wedding gift.


After some laundry I decided I could squeeze in an hour or so out back by the pool. My goal was to relax as I am finding I am pretty wound tight these days. Even though it was a beautiful day it did not help me relax.


Then I made these shrimp cakes. Recipe courtesy of Dinners, Dishes and Desserts. Ok, so anybody that knows Andy understands that he does not like shrimp. I love shrimp and when I came across this recipe I thought maybe Andy might like it because it's not like he is eating a big shrimp. It's a shrimp cake where the shrimp is chopped up into pieces and has an avocado salsa on it. Yummy! I loved it, but Andy's response was that it would taste better with crab instead of shrimp. I wasn't shocked because he really does not like shrimp. You can find the complete recipe here.



Andy arrived home on Sunday night and he survived his bachelor party. He looked exhausted, but he survived and I was happy to see him return home.