Monday, August 11, 2008

An OMG kind of weekend.

OhEmGeee you guys. No seriously OMG!

This weekend was more than awesome and let me tell you the oh so many ways why.

Thursday. Matt got tickets for us to see Wicked! My favorite! Ah! It'll be my third time seeing it and I'm just as excited as I've been every other time I've seen it, haha. I know, I'm a huge dork.

Friday. Oh Friday. Friday was awesome for four reasons:
1. it was Friday, can't really beat that.
2. it was pay day.
3. work ended early to celebrate some birthdays, say bon voyage to one coworker and basically another excuse to drink some beers and have some cake.

and drumroll please....the most important and fabulous news of Friday was.....
4. I got the call and Matt and I have an apartment!?!?!?! ! Did you read that? Get all of that?! The all mighty and exhausting apartment hunt has come to an end and Matt and I are officially moving! Apparently all my dancing and praying to the rental gods paid off, wahoo! :)

So yeah the rest of Friday was spent celebrating via champagne toasts with my parents, doing a happy dance every once and a while and calling ourselves "roomie" throughout the night. It. Was. Fabulous.

Saturday. Woke up early, did some celebratory shopping at Old Navy and got more clothes that I don't need but ultimately rationed with myself that I did. Went back home to help send the parents and brothers on a week long trip to Oregon (oh happy days a quiet house). After hanging out and watching some of the Olympics Matt and I headed to Whittier to have our long awaited "Drink Day" with AJ and some of his friends. And yeah the title pretty much sums it up, we drank beer all day long, haha. We even played beruit (or beer pong whatever you call it) and although I sucked royally, it was still fun to pretend like we were in college again.

Matt wasn't a fan of me blinding him with the flash before taking his shot


neither was AJ


but they still posed for pictures for me


After lots of drinking we headed across the street to Red Robin's for some surprisingly delicious food and a pretend birthday for AJ.




After dinner we proceeded to continue drinking beer all night long and watching the Olympics with various games of beruit thrown in there for good measure, all around one superb evening.

Sunday. After lounging around at AJ's for a bit in the morning Matt and I headed to Huntington Beach. Matt needed sunglasses and I needed a bathing suit, we were on a mission. And luckily mission was accomplished, woo. The we grabbed some fabulous Hawaiin BBQ the Aloha Grill and man was it delicious. So delicious I had to document it.

rum runners=fantabulousness


Matt enjoyed his rainbow drink as well


all sorts of Hawaiin goodness


Seriously the food and the drinks, a great top off to a lovely afternoon. Afterwards we headed back to my house where I took the most glorious of naps ever (and man did I need it). And the rest of our night was spent watching doing a puzzle, enjoying some Papa John's Pizza, drinking wine and cheering on Team USA. It was my kind of night.

All in all it was my kind of weekend, good news, good friends and lots of fun. And ha, this is what the Universe had to say to me today:

The greatest gift a parent can give a child, Katelin,
is the ability to become independently happy.
And the greatest gift a child can give a parent
is exercising that ability.

Happily,
The Universe

Now I don't know if that's referencing my future move out, but hey why not? I'm happy about it, woo!


And how was your weekend?




happy monday!

42 comments:

Anonymous said...

Congrats on your place! Your weekend sounded like tons of fun! I'm more of a flippy cup girl, but you can't go wrong with the pong :P

My weekend was equally amazing - and for similar reasons. Went to New Orleans for the first time and all we did was hang out with awesome people, eat amazing food (beignets and the best burger I've ever had in my whole entire life), drinking (in the streets no less!) and shopping. Good times!!

sarah marie p said...

Congrats on finding your new apartment! Yay!!! so exciting!

Ooh- I love that you posted that food
pic- it looks delish! yum!

My weekend was crazy busy!
http://sarahmariep.blogspot.com/2008/08/bad-shoe-shopping-blogger.html
It reminded me of one of yours! But I was too lazy to describe it so I just wrote it up in one run-on sentence!

thatShortchick said...

congrats on your first place!!!

and the food? totally making my stomach growl.

yay for wicked!! i loved that show and will spontaneously sing one of the songs at any given moment.

Anonymous said...

Oh wow what a weekend! I'm so happy for you! :)

California Girl said...

congrats on scoring the apartment! That's awesome! When's the move-in date?

I love Wicked. Such a great show.

And I super love Hawaiian BBQ. H grew up on Maui, so he loves the stuff.

Chris said...

WOW! What a crazy fabulous weekend! I'm jealous of all the fun you had and so happy that you guys found an apartment! When's the move-in? And pictures!? :D

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Jamie Lovely said...

Yay Katelin! I'm so happy for you!!

Ashleigh said...

Congrats! AND if you really want to know about my weekend read my latest post..we had a huge explosion/fire in Toronto..I woke up at 3am to the sound of a blast.. ANd then rain all weekend..so overall not too much fun =(

Anonymous said...

Yayyyyyy!! Congrats on the apartment!! :D

Therapeutic Ramblings said...

You just made me really hungry!!! Btw, I got the package, and I'll be posting pics shortly on my blog....thanks!

Anonymous said...

congrats on the apt gal! You better show us pict0rs :) :) :)

Renee said...

Congratulations!!! Moving in is crazy stressful but once everything is done, it's amazing. Good luck with everything!!

Ashley D said...

Yay for your new apartment! I'm so jealous you got tickets to see Wicked. That's the number one thing I want for my birthday... which is next month. I really hope my boyfriend gets them. :)

amanda said...

Wooo!
Congrats on the
apartment. How
friggin' great is
that!

That Aloha Grill place
seems so yummy. We
don't have those
where I live. Psh.

And Wicked...I love, love,
loveeee! I always go around
singing songs from it.
Because I'm a nerddd.

San said...

Whohooo! Great weekend and great news! I am so happy for you! Where are you moving to?

Anonymous said...

Ohh you're weekend sounds amazing!
And congrats on the new place :)

CULTURE CREATORS said...

glorious weekend for a glorious girl! my weekend was a perfect mixture of relaxation and unexpected good times. yay for weekends!!

xCC

Anonymous said...

So exciting that you found an apartment!! Can't wait to hear all about it...and I'm sure you'll post many photos. :)

Jenni said...

Yay! Congrats on the new place!

Dana said...

I am sooo excited for you!! congrats on geting the place.. aren't you sooo happy?

Our weekend was pretty good.. brian and I got to relax all day sunday - i love those kinds of days!!

Grits said...

Congrats on the new apartment...sounds like things are very exciting lately! :-)

alexa @clevelandsaplum said...

defyinggggg graaaa-vityyyy!

and congrats on the apartment for you and matt, movin' on up!

Tipp said...

WHAT A fantastic weekend!!!!!!!!

Congratulations! That is so exciting!

well-intentioned heartbreaker said...

ah! congrats on the apartment. so exciting.

and i nearly shed a tear when you said you went to huntington. and aloha. and everything. i MISS it so much. siighhh. i guess i'll just have to return =)

Vanessa said...

Huge congratulations on your new place! Now when's the housewarming party? ;)

Anonymous said...

What a fantastic weekend! Congrats on the apartment :)

Anonymous said...

First CONGRATULATIONS on your apartment!!!!

Second I'm so jealous of the Hawaiian BBQ!!!

Lacey Bean said...

Yay congrats!! :)

Anonymous said...

My weekend was no where near as exciting as yours. Just lots of Olympics. Congrats on the apartment!!!

Kim Thomas said...

Hmm...I was at the Starbucks and the Chicks sale on Saturday morning that is right next to the Old Navy. (If you were at the one in Pasadena) I love that I could randomly run into my blog friend since we visit all the same places.

Congrats on the apartment! Is it in Pasadena?

Bedroom Talk said...

lol I love this blog post it was so cute. Ugh waiting on that one phone call is a killer I know. Yay for new decorating opportuns.

Auburn Kat said...

Congrats on the apartment!!! Sounds like a fabulous wknd!

Missy said...

Woohoo! Congrats on your new place!

Anonymous said...

Congratulations on finding a place!

Rahul said...

There are rental gods?

Who have I been praying to then?

aizat.cinta.goddess said...

i love the food!!its killing me!

Bogart said...

Just one question...How does AJ keep such a nice tan going?

He fake bakes, doesn't he.

megabrooke said...

congrats on the new digs!!!

Susie said...

Jealous of your amazing weekend!!

And CONGRATS on the apt!!! That is sooo exciting :)

Bayjb said...

Wow that is a super-great weekend. Congrats on the apartment and I love Wicked! My fave song is Popular :)

Ev'Yan || apricot tea. said...

okay, so I am so jealous that you have found an apartment, because my husband & I are at our wit's end!

But congratulations, nonetheless. :] I hope I can find something soon...