Long Weekend Recap

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Hi there! Happy Tuesday! I hope you had a lovely (perhaps extended?) weekend and are starting the week feeling nice and refreshed; I certainly am. This is the penultimate week of classes for me, so life is a teeny bit crazy, but when is it not? Today is a pretty packed day of classes and meetings, but let’s talk about the fun weekend happenings instead. Sound good? Excellent.

I flew home late (too late) Thursday night, thankfully fueled by delicious airport snacks. And airline peanuts.

{Those Popchips are reeeeally good}

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I crashed around 1 am, and was up again by 6:15. Life does that. I went for a quick run before walking my dog, getting ready, and heading to my interview (I’d say it went pretty well?). I went home and changed before heading to bring my mom and a teacher friend lunch from Panera.

After lunch, I had the opportunity to talk to some middle school students about high school and college.

Insert super attractive picture of me talking. Oh, well. It was a lot of fun, and they asked some really excellent questions that I wouldn’t have thought to ask at their age.

After hanging out at work with my mom for a bit and going for a nice (but way too warm) dog walk, my parents took me to dinner at Milestone 229. It was fabulous.

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That would be skillet mac & cheese, jumbo lump crab cakes, and buckeye pie. Perfection. We then came home and relaxed for a while before heading to bed in decent time, having been up pretty late the previous night.

I somehow slept in later than my dad the next morning, but when I did get up and we both had breakfast, we went for a nice run. And then he made egg sandwiches for all of us because it’s tradition and they’re delicious.

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Yolksplosion. It was messy, but so worth it. A little more relaxation, a dog walk, and a round of packing later, and we headed to the airport. We enjoyed a super early dinner at Max & Erma’s before I got on the plane and came back to Chicago.

{Plus a ton of ketchup}

I was pretty exhausted, so after a quick (but still super fun) run to Target, I curled up in bed with Netflix and a pint of Ben & Jerry’s Chocolate Fudge Brownie for a very necessary chilled-out evening.

The rest of the weekend was filled with a mix of schoolwork and helping run dorm-related events - a video game tournament on Sunday and a Memorial Day barbecue on Monday.

And now I’d say you’re all caught up. It was a wonderful weekend full of fun, delicious food, and fantastic company, and now it’s time to get back to work and finish out the year.

What are your favorite on-the-go snacks?

Do you like ketchup? What’s your favorite condiment?

What fun things did you do this weekend?