I passed up happy -
hour drinks with friends and never gave my children worksheets while I recuperated at my chipped desk.
My budget is very generous, with a wide margin of success, including occasional happy
hour drinks with friends and a monthly indulgence (a massage, which happens to also be covered by my work benefits).
Not exact matches
Our Halloween festivities started on Saturday night
with a get - together at a
friend's house where we
drank jello shots out of huge syringes, boogied down
with Napoleon dynamite and a slutty nun, ate my annual spinach «throw - up» dip out coming out of a pumpkin's mouth, and clowned around until the wee
hours... solid party as you can tell.
Then I was hanging out
with this boy and would be up until like 2 every night (totally PG we would sit talking in our cars for
hours after our
friends left whatever we were doing) and started
drinking iced coffee at work everyday.
These reminded me of the great times I've shared
with friends around a fondue pot,
drinking wine, talking and laughing for
hours while cooking and enjoying the food.
A large bar area provides the perfect backdrop for casual
drinks with friends or happy
hour with colleagues.
I say this for a few reasons; 1) It's not really a party without
drinks (its really just an after -
hours meeting); 2) alcohol is typically a great way to break the ice, especially
with people that don't know each other well (great for mixing of said «
friends and family»); and 3) the holidays are a perfect time for a fantastic, well crafted cocktail!
Time to yourself in the evenings to relax and catch up
with that long lost
friend you've been meaning to call... or
drinking a glass of wine and losing yourself on Pinterest for an
hour... or even sneaking off to binge on your favorite reality show...
Nursing, changing diaper, changing spit - up clothes (baby's and yours), made a cup of tea, spent an
hour trying to get in 10 minutes of Tummy Time so the baby won't be a dolt, spent 40 minutes getting the baby down for a nap which ended up lasting 20 minutes, made lunch and spilled half of it on the baby's head, clothing changes all around, nursing, found now - cold cup of untouched tea and
drank it anyway, more nursing, baby falls asleep on you but wakes up if you try to move him so you just stay slumped on the couch
with one leg forward and the other bent uncomfortably under you because this kid needs to sleep or we'll all diiieeee, nursing, realize you forgot about the weekly mothers» meeting which was your only adult outing dammit and now who will be your
friend?
using cpap and sleeping well on a regular schedule for first time in years walking an
hour each morning before work, and on weekends
drinking raw goat's milk, almond milk, and coconut milk eating fewer sugary foods including candy bars and fruit (no juices or sodas) eating less bread, pasta, rice, potatoes, and cereals eating more meats, cheeses, nuts, avocados, eggs using supplements: vitamin D, probiotics, fish oil, resveratrol, tumeric (i have amalgam fillings and read the entry by the person who said alpha lipoic acid reacted badly in combination
with amalgam fillings for her
friend, so i avoided that supplement just in case it is true)
Last night, I did manage to get out of the house & grab happy
hour drinks with some fellow blogger
friends & my knee is def.
My «normal» days consist of working from my desk in my apartment, spending a few
hours on my laptop at a café or coffee shop, getting a workout in, potentially grabbing lunch
with a prospective brand partner or
friend within the industry, and maybe grabbing dinner or a
drink with girlfriends.
At this age, a man must be a responsible man who spends many
hours drinking and sleeping
with friends.
The problem is that IM2 has to do a lot of things: it has to further the story of Tony Stark / Iron Man [Robert Downey Jr.]; it has to give us a bit more about S.H.I.E.L.D. — both in terms of the Avengers Initiative and introducing one of the agency's top agents; it has to deal
with Stark's
drinking and his relationship
with his father — not to mention his relationship
with his assistant, the uber - competent but easily flustered Pepper Potts [Gwyneth Paltrow]; it has to get Stark's
friend, Lt. Col. James, «Rhodey» Rhodes into one of the Iron Man suits; it has to introduce a new villain — and a competitor for Stark, and it has to do all this in just over two
hours.
Having our «happy
hour» at sunset on the deck, sharing a few
drinks with friends, or just chilling, we make sure you have an authentic Indonesia adventure.
Just like any other 20 - something I enjoy happy
hour and hitting the bars on weekends I rarely go out to eat or go out
drinking with friends anymore.
Relax and
drink poolside, reconnect
with your
friends over cocktails on the beach, or retreat to your luxury suite where 24 -
hour room service and your own complimentary mini-bar await you.
I felt pretty guilty about the allergic reaction because I ignored the early signs — rubbing eyes, itchy hands — and bolted to the pub to have a quick
drink with a
friend who was visiting for 24
hours from Brissie.
Also on the agenda: choc tops at a screening of Madagascar 3, a trip to the farmers» market at the showground; a few blissful
hours at the rockpools near Merewether Baths, dinner and a sleepover
with wonderful school
friends, and a
drink with a new bloggy buddy at the nightclub of my youth, Gunfighter's Rest, which has been turned into a trendy wine bar in step
with my advancing years.