Coming to a close on one of the most fabulous weekends in recent months, I am feeling quite content, blessed, and at peace with my life. Maybe it's just the exhaustion talking, but I haven't had a weekend quite like this in a while.
Friday night was a low key ladies night in with strawberry margaritas and a weepy chick flick- always a fun and necessary event to partake in for quality time and preservation of your sanity.
Saturday... amazing day. Sleeping in, followed by a wonderfully warm afternoon and evening in Old Town Alexandria. Tory and I enjoyed the sun and water front, walked, shopped, had pizza and ice cream, got sweaty and funky and made it home DEAD TIRED at 8 pm. We rested up briefly and then did P90X legs, back, and ab ripper-x. P90X is no joke. I can barely sit or stand without feeling unbelievably uncomfortable and stiff right now.
Sunday- tried out a new church, with much success (FINALLY). Tory was happy, I was happy, and finally starting to feel spiritually renewed, refreshed, and excited. I haven't felt that way in a while and I look forward to hopefully feeling this way again on a regular basis in the future. After church Tory and I met with his family at their new house in Lorton- it is almost finished and I think they are scheduled to move in mid-June. The house was huge and gorgeous in a wonderful off-the-beaten-path neighborhood (which is hard to come by in northern VA). After the house, we headed to the driving range where we ended up drenched in sweat with blistered hands, again wonderfully content and pleased with life. After burgers and Mac N cheese, we called it a weekend and headed to our respective homes to rest up for the week, reminding eachother how lucky we were to have eachother to share weekends like this with.
Weekends like these, when I spend hours outside and find myself utterly exhausted from all of the fresh air and sunshine, I can't help but to consider how completely blessed I am. I have wonderful friends and a wonderful fiance and really need to take the time to appreciate life and all of it's little wonders more often. It becomes way too easy to get into the routine of doing tha same things and going to the same places all the time. It is good to change it up sometimes, in fact, I think I might start changing it up on a more regular basis. I want to feel this good all of the time. If living is a drug, today I feel addicted (sorry- I felt like this was an opportune moment to insert a shamelessly corny metaphor of some sort for emphasis... success?)
As for the immediate future,this exhausted, sunshine-stupified, gloriously happy lady is going to get some rest because I have got A LOT of online training to work on in the next few days. HAPPY LIVING!
