Weekend Recap: Moving Day!

This past weekend was the big MOVING day! I had signed my lease last Monday and have been moving things over slowly throughout the week. I hired movers for the first time to handle all the furniture, mostly because I was moving from a first floor to a second floor:

Good Bye Old Kitchen...

Good Bye Old Living Room...

Good Bye Old Dining room...

What's really funny is I will NOT be missing this place.... I was scared living by myself on the first floor all year... I swear I didn't sleep a full night, EVER!

And My NEW apartment is GORGEOUS! I'll send pictures as soon as everything gets organized. As I got everything moved in and organized BF had to run some errands, but he came back with groceries and dinner. He went to Whole Foods (which I typically and not a fan of due to their extraordinary pricing structure and 'organic' scheme) however BF got these really tasty sushi rolls and a veggie pizza. Overall it was very tasty! Sunday BF had plans to take his dad bike riding out in Naperville, so we got up super early and went to breakfast (in the hopes of beating the Father's Day crow). 

We went to this place:

It's located less than 2 miles from my new place!

I was really bad... I was so hungry I forgot to take pictures of our plates... but I got the Southern Benedict... AMAZING-NESS! I was only able to eat about half....

After wards, I proceed to run errands as BF went to spend time with his dad. I've been keen on getting a grill for MONTHS now... so I did some research and was pleasantly surprised. I called Home Depot AND Lowe's and both of the told me to go with this grill at Sears (Employee Discount... SCORE!). I got the propane tank... and fire extinguisher (I was so pleased with Home Depot's honesty, I bought the extinguisher from them!).

BEFORE

AFTER!

I had some friends over and it was just overall a very chill weekend! I am super excited to be back on the second floor, all moved, and ready to get focused again!

How was your Father's Day weekend? What'd you get your dad?

Weekend Recap - Packing

This past weekend I started out with grand ambitions of being completely ready for my move by the end of the weekend. I did get a healthy amount done, but it just seems so overwhelming and never-ending.

Most of my Kitchen/Living Room Contents

Additional Boxes.... more to come

Saturday I was determined to be productive. I got up early, I walked in the un-godly humidity, and packed. I even ran errands getting baby gifts for a shower and dropping things off at Goodwill. I became complete unproductive after this, when at Trader Joe's I ran into a bottle of Sangria.... of which I promptly went home and made, invited friends and went to the pool. (It was 95 and I had been so good up until that point, I deserved a break). This proceeded to mess up my entire evening, when included a bout of insomnia and multiple hours of Full-House/Family Matters reruns.

Sunday, I went to the mall and proceeded to add more debt to my Sears CC (after I just paid it off too :( ) and bought two new swim suits from Lands' End for my beach trip in July. I felt this was necessary as I haven't gotten any good suits in like 3 years....  But it's oh so flattering!

Lands' End

After shopping, I met BF at his Grandmother's house in Darien, as she was coming home from her hospital recovery. We visited for a little while before heading to an early dinner. Neither of us had had lunch and were starving. I'd been craving sushi for a while, so we drove up to Naperville and grabbed a bite.

We went to Blue Ginger and it was oh so tasty!

Obviously we were early, and beat the crowd, but they had a lovely dining experience and the service was super friendly!

I loved the eclectic feel of the restaurant, and they even had a patio (had it not been so hot, we would've sat out there),

One of our AMAZING rolls! I recommend sticking to the signature rolls as they seemed more 'worth while'.

 BF and I ended up spending a relaxing evening at home watching the MTV movie awards. Neither of us had watched it in a while... and with the exception of Reese Witherspoon winning a lifetime achievement award, I was extremely disappointed. The only reason we watch was because I REALLY wanted to see the sneak previews of Harry Potter and Twilight. I'm a huge dork. But it would be like 10x better if they didn't let the fans vote for ALL the awards... like the fact that K.Stew won best actress in a category she was nominated for with the actual Oscar winner (Natalie Portman) is just sad... that and the fact that Twilight won just about every category.... I like me so Jacob, but I am smart enough to understand the movies aren't the best acting...

What did you do for the weekend? Did you get out and enjoy the sun at all?