Well! After spending two weekends away from New York, it was good to be back in the city and do a lot of things that I've been too frenzied to do, such as:

1. Run well. Last week my weekday runs were much better than the week prior - still a bit tough to do in the mornings, but I think it's just a matter of adjusting back to the outdoors. Yesterday I went up to Central Park and did 8 miles with Jaymie... the longest distance I've ever run outdoors. There were definitely times when I felt discouraged about how winded I felt, but we ended strong and if pushed I probably could have done another mile. If pushed. ;)

2. See Mat's play. It was definitely a little strange to be going to an event for him after all the transitions that our relationship w/ each other has made, especially because one of the girls he's "seeing" was sitting right in front of me. :p I was so proud of him. But the play itself made me want to shoot myself in the eye.

3. Have nights in. Not that I don't love spending time with my parents and my BFF's (and Hanson), but I really just relished some alone time to just kinda veg and watch Nick at Nite.

4. LAUNDRY. So I haven't done a full load of laundry in a really long time - for the past however many weeks I'll just take the stuff I really need to wash (underwear, socks, running clothes) and leave the rest in my hamper. But not today! I broke out the granny cart and took it all to the laundromat - sheets and towels included - and now everything is fresh and clean.

5. Clean my room. Seriously it was a sty in here. Papers, shopping bags, clothes, dust, hair, more dust... I finally cleaned out my overhead storage space (the sliding door popped out and hit me in the face in the process and I have a tender spot over my eye now...) and put some bags of old clothes up there, threw out some old boxes, re-folded all the clothing on my shelves, fixed my stupid breaking IKEA dresser, made my bed, wiped all flat surfaces and television down with disinfectant wipes, dry Swiffered twice and wet Swiffered once!! And now everything is nice and clean and I love it.

6. Return all the things I've bought recently but didn't need and have been sitting in my room taking up space for weeks. Pretty self-explanatory.

7. Drink hot chocolate and play online. Specifically... I joined Hanson.net the other night so Allison and I can share access to all the lovely goodies that apparently only fans with $40/yr to spare can see - and have been watching all of their studio and rehearsal videos all weekend. Their album drops May 22nd... until then I have little 30-second clips to tide me over.

This week at work is probably going to be a little crazy... I'm dreading it a bit, especially coming off of such a great weekend. I guess we'll see...!!