30 Going on 13...

Sorry I have been legit off the grid. New job is putting me through the ringer and last week I drove home on Wednesday with an awful migraine and ended up sleeping for 10 hours. I took that as my cue to take a step back and keep a low profile the rest of the week. I didn't even run again after that. 

I couldn't catch up this weekend because we had a girls trip to Savannah to visit with Little A and have a beach day.  

We had a super fun road trip down with Em and basically had a really low key weekend. We were wiped after the beach and spent the rest of our time drinking wine, talking, napping, watching girly movies and painting our nails. I'm pretty sure that we are so old that we have reverted back to a 13 year old girls weekend except for the fact that there were adult bevs involved. The Housewife and Em even braided my hair for me. Sadly, we had a bit of brunch and then hit the road back home. I wish so badly we could have had an extra day with Little A! We are usually better about being able to travel down to see her but it seems schedules have been tight this year. 

Pretty beach on Tybee Island! 

May be my fave IG yet. We had a lot of BLL. Or I did anyway. 

Practicing the Fishtail braid. My hair leaves a lot to be desired here but it was fun. Ask any 13 year old. 

Started a hairy Monday with a new mani. Always a plus. 

3 Putt watched the dogs this weekend so I came home to these pretties! He also prepped and help me finish a project for my master bedroom update before I crashed so that was nice too.  He has proven to be so handy I am counting light bulbs that need replacing and making a Home Depot list for the weekend.  He doesn't know about that yet, though. 

I've missed you guys! Hope your weekend was lovely and that another arrives soon! 

-the single gal- 

Sunday Mornings

Happy Sunday, y'all!  How is the weekend almost over? I had a fun play date/date on Friday with Rocky where we met up at the park with our dogs {Hogan and Luna} and walked and talked and let them meet and play.  Hogan was a gentleman and very well behaved just like I expected him to be but Luna is still just a puppy so I am pretty sure it wore him out just hanging out with her for 2 hours! We let them loose in a baseball field {even though I can hardly get Hogan to come back so I can put his leash on} and it was fun for me to see him just run around and play.  Sometimes I forget how fast and athletic he is even though he is a 8 year old puppy.  It made me really happy to see him stretch his legs and run and bounce around.  I'm still not sure how I feel about Rocky.  He's been trying to play hard to get with me which just results in us hardly talking because I am not going to be texting anyone to ask for a date.  I don't get him.  

 It's a blissful morning here because I am up early getting some work done while Em and Little A are sleeping in.  I love having my girls here for a weekend!!!!  Hosting is so much fun!  We've been out and about visiting The Housewife and playing with #1 and holding new babies, drinking champagne "just because", and catching up with each other.  We had a wonderful dinner last night at Canoe {review to come} with Elise but we didn't get home until 11:30 or so {which is apparently now late if you are approaching 30}.  We had "big" plans to hit Little Alley Steak in Roswell for some after dinner drinks but there was no way that was happening.  I had coffee after dinner and once we got home we all promptly went to bed.  Funny how life changes. 

This morning I'm listening to...

I also picked up another book this past week. I needed to get my head out of that Outlander series for a bit.  I've been meaning to get the prequel to Cassandra Clare's YA series City of Glass {etc} and Em was kind enough to lend me her copy of Clockwork Angel. 

And once the girls get up we will having coffee and making pumpkin pancakes. 

Grabbed this recipe off of Pinterest and it's super easy and delicious! Great for family breakfast. 

*photo from website w/ recipe*

All this just means I am one of the happiest girls in the greater Atlanta area today! 

What do you with your girlfriends when they are in town? Traditions? Breakfast fare? I want to know. 

Love you. Mean it. 

~the single gal~

PGBC

PGBC

{poor girls book club}

As soon as marathon training was over The Housewife and I got together with a few of our besties and decided that since we all love to read we might as well attempt to start a book club.  It's all part of our classy and fabulous life--aside from all the baby barf, dog barf, 40+ hour work weeks, and really just working hard to come up with any excuse to get together and drink wine. We will even Skype Little A since she is about 4 hours away {and she has probably already finished because she likes to make us all feel bad}.

The book we have selected this month is The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley.  

{please note that while we are kind of far into January I haven't started yet due to my hang up with the Hunger Games series.  So, also note that The Single Gal already sucks at book club.}

I am not big for reviews and as I haven't even started the only information I can offer you is that it has 303 reviews on Amazon last time I checked and 4.5 stars out of 5.  Even though this isn't always a great indicator of a quality novel, let's just go with it for now. 

If any of you are also in a book club let us know what you are reading!  {Well, only if it's awesome.  We don't care about the crappy books you got stuck with.}  We are also taking wine recommendations as well -- also the kind of wine that costs less than $10 {and doesn't taste like crap, obvi}.  

Love you. Mean it. 

~the single gal~