Monday, January 13, 2014

Pajama Party

We had a low key weekend, and I was just sitting here debating whether its worth mentioning or not.  Of course it is.  Low key weekends should be marked and remembered because they're awesome.  When my girls are the age I am now I want them to know they should feel no shame in spending an occasional rainy Saturday in their pjs. 20-somethings know this without anyone telling them, but 50-somethings sometimes need reminding.

See, even when there's nothing to say I manage to fill a lot of blank paper.

We met friends for dinner on Friday night, a local spot that has live music which we usually enjoy, but yowza! The band was LOUD!! My girls will tell you I like my music played loud, so if I say this was LOUD!! rest assured it was LOUD!! We didn't stick around after we'd finished our meal.

Hubs and I had discussed all week our plan to stay in our pjs all day on Saturday. Yes we made a plan, because we are not typically stay in your pjs kind of people. In fact, no one in my family thought I could do it because I'm an early riser, and normally get up and into stuff at the crack of dawn but...I did it. Hubs and I watched a couple of old movies, Charade with Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant, and Move Over Darling with Doris Day and James Garner. I don't think Audrey Hepburn is a particularly great actress, but she is so stunning you can't help but enjoy watching anything she's in. Cary Grant is also very easy on the eyes, and I think he's actually a good actor too. We napped off and on, and hubs made us one of his famous omelets about 1 o'clock. When we go lazy we go all in.

I read a lot, finished my book Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline, which I really liked a lot. The book is fiction, but loosely based on the Orphan Train Movement, a welfare program that took orphaned and homeless children from the East Coast to foster homes mostly in the rural Midwest. The trains ran from 1853-1929 and relocated about a quarter of a million children.

We had seriously crazy rain here on Saturday, the sun didn't peek out for so much as a minute, and we even had some weird thunder and lightning. All those factors combined made it pretty easy to stay in my pjs.  Saturday night we did leave the house to meet some of our favorite old friends for Thai food. FYI-in case you're concerned, we did put on real clothes for dinner. These friends are such great company, and so easy to be around. They live a few towns over, so we don't see them as much as we'd like, but we always enjoy spending time with them when we can line up our calendars.

The weekend wasn't a total do-nothing experience. We managed to get every last bit of Christmas taken down to the basement. I've been packing and boxing and undecorating all week, and hubs hauled the trees downstairs Sunday afternoon.  We moved furniture back into place, and he vacuumed while I dusted so that's something.

We watched a little football (love us some Peyton Manning!), and a very little bit of the Golden Globes.  I enjoy the fashion, but the speeches send me over the edge so we switched over to the new episode of Downton Abbey. I can see where this Anna storyline is going from a mile away, and I'm not going to like it.

That's it. And yet, I've managed per usual, a too-wordy post describing a weekend where we essentially did nothing. Sometimes I amaze even myself.

15 comments:

  1. honestly these are my favorite kind of week-ends, though I haven't had a full on stay in pj's day in quite a while...ok to be totally honest it's been over a year, haha. Which means it is definitely time for one, and you may have inspired me. Have a good week!

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  2. Sounds like a pretty great weekend to me! I love any excuse to stay in my pj's all weekend. can't wait to be home with you this weekend. xox

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  3. I liked the Orphan Train too. It's hard to believe something like that is true. Sounds like a very relaxing weekend - mine was similar :-)

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  4. A stay-in-your-pj's weekend is my favorite kind! In part because that means that I have a lot of opportunity to quilt! ;-) And in part because it's nice to have a quiet, laid-back weekend to just unwind and recharge for the coming week.

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  5. My daughter loves PJ days, and yesterday she did manage to stay in her PJ's all day. She has been studying for finals, so not much fun. I love those kinds of days...truly do!!

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  6. We had a pretty lazy weekend as well. Hubby liked it, me not so much. Oh well.
    I agree about the Anna story line. I was yelling at the TV which I tend to do a ot of when I watch Downton Abbey.

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  7. Your weekend was still busy compared to mine with two dinners out with friends! I enjoyed watching the games. I watched the Golden Globes but I taped it so I could FF. Mark finally sat down and watched last weeks Downton Abbey with me. (I had already seen it but enjoyed the second viewing) I haven't watched last nights yet but will probably see it twice since Mark is out of town and I don't want to wait!!! Hooray for doing your Pajama Saturday. Since I watched football I didn't get the ornaments off the trees yet but I am totally organized with all the other decorations. Today I may sneak over to the show because Amber is home and I don't have to feel guilty about leaving the dogs all day.

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  8. PJ'S rule!--as for Downton,I am not very pleased. I can see where this storyline is going as well..as well as the Edna thing. Just not very happy. Why mess with a good thing/Bates?

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  9. Do sweats count as PJs? :) I don't like where the Anna story line is going either! Why?!

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  10. Sounds like it was a perfect weekend....a rainy day makes for a perfect pj day. Of course, we loved seeing the Broncos win yesterday and we just got our new TV up and running in time for the game.
    I am not too happy about the Anna story either.

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  11. I love a do-nothing kinda weekend! Sounds absolutely perfect to me.

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  12. Yay for pajama days! I'm dreading where the Anna story is going.

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  13. The best kind of weekend, and I sure did enjoy reading about yours!!

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  14. Well, I've never had a PJ day, so perhaps I need to change that. Sounds like a fun thing, but come to think about it, I did not ever get really dressed this past Sat. and I never left the house. I cleaned and organized our home office all day. Always enjoy stopping by..................

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  15. But, you have such a way of pulling us in and not letting us stop reading until we have read every bit about your do-nothin weekend. Actually, it sounds like my very favorite kind of weekend.

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