Work hard, play hard

Blogging has been light because I've been working my butt off and then I had a hangover. A recap of last week:

My carpool buddy was at a conference so I was driving myself all week. Since he is the one who has to leave by 4pm to let the nanny go home, I took the opportunity to bust ass work long hours. Between Monday morning and Friday night, I worked about 60 hours, which is a whole lot for me in five days. I set a goal of 30 Crummy Tedious samples and decided that if I met that goal by Friday, I didn't have to go in on Saturday. What a carrot! I was in the lab until 12:15 Saturday morning, but I didn't go back until Monday. All 30 samples were completed and my counter ticked up to 88% done!

Saturday morning I slept in a little, then ran errands: I got a bang trim and dropped off sweaters at the dry cleaners. I never have my act together for these little jobs, so I was feeling very smug. So smug that I had momentum to clean the apartment, including a bathroom that I swear hadn't been scrubbed in about a million years. Later, we met some friends at one of this town's best beer gardens (walking distance from our home) where they have giant $9 pitchers of sangria. We got toasted, then went to one of this town's best venues for live jazz. The next day, I had one of this town's biggest hangovers. That didn't stop us from going to breakfast where they have some of this town's best cinnamon rolls and later to this town's best botanical garden.

In all it was a worthy week. Though I hope this next one is a little more relaxed.