sorry for the crickets!

hi guyssss

sorry for the crickets, chay. i was trying to figure out if there's a consistent time that i'm home after work, but really it changes every week (mainly based on if i have to stay late at work and/or when i'm going to the gym) - want to try scheduling skype dates week to week? or, like you said, we could be pre-millenial and just call each other haha. also, glad that your phone battery is on its way back to you! does that mean that you're not going to a month-to-month plan?

and maya - again, sorry that i didn't tell you not to watch the whole third season of downton abbey this weekend. i know, it's terrible. ...even worse is that i just looked up when season 4 is supposed to air in the US... not till jan 2014. :-/ release date in the UK is this fall. UGH.

anyhoodles... updates from my life: this here is a vegetarian meal, complete with vegan general tso's chicken! it was delicious and totally tasted like chicken. i guess this was my dinner from last wed, because i had the leftovers for lunch on thurs during skyping with maya, and she and i were trying to ascertain what vegan chicken is made of. i still don't know, but WHO CARES IT'S DELICIOUS.

on friday, i actually had dinner with uma aunty and anjali! they were in philly, because anjali was accepted to upenn for law school (she hasn't decided where she's going yet - still waiting to hear back from northwestern, but she said she really liked penn) and they were having an open house weekend for accepted students. we went to a mediterranean restaurant called aya's cafe, which was really good (my dinner was lobster ravioli in a creamy mushroom sauce... mmmm so good)... and it was actually really fun to see them. i think they are mostly worried about anjali having to find an apartment on her own, but i told her that if she decides to go to penn, i'll help her find a place this summer. 

other than that, i was super, super productive this weekend! at least, i was on saturday... cleaned basically the whole house, did like four loads of laundry, did my taxes (but not filed - i don't owe anything, but i'm not getting a refund back either... boo), did my nails, went for a 3.5 mile walk, and then had dinner with kevin and his dad (his dad was in town because they had tickets for some of the NCAA tournament, since part of the tournament is being played in philly). we went to hickory lane bistro for dinner, where i had a burger (ugh no pictures of this either) -- and it was awesome, as i was expecting since that burger is listed on a top 25 list of burgers in the country! (see here) 

this weekend, i also finished my infinity scarf that i started while i was in denver... i wore it out on sunday, and i'm pretty sure i made it way too big haha. but it's comfy-cozy?? haha.

i also made it to 50% of my walking goal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

on sunday, i spent a lot of time with nat - we did some girly stuff, like attended a pop-up showroom for rent the runway (renttherunway.com - you can rent designer dresses for a fraction of the cost for events - sophie does this for all the weddings she goes to, and it's actually not a bad deal). we were able to try on dresses at the showroom, and i found this dress, which i'm going to rent for nat's sister's wedding in september -- and would you believe it, this dress (which i can rent for $65 for a weekend) retails at $400! insane.

after that, i went with nat to a trunk show for a bridal designer so that she and her sister's other bridesmaids could try on and order their bridesmaid dresses, and then we went back to my house to do our nails and hang out... and i started watching the walking dead. i watched 5 hours of it on sunday (right up until i went to bed, which was a terrible idea) - and then i watched another 5 hours of it yesterday while i was working from home haha.

and here is a picture of boo, opening one of the drawers under my bed all by herself and digging around in my sweaters: