W-w-w-weekend

Remember how last month, I had a four-day weekend due to my office's compressed workweek policy? Well, it's that time again! I have tomorrow off due to CWW and Monday off due to President's Day. And I am very, very excited. Although I did have a brief scare this morning when I mentioned something about my four-day weekend to a coworker who was like, "We don't have Monday off," prompting a mad flurry of email and intranet searching and phone calls before we verified that we do, in fact, have Monday off.

Which is especially important for me because my best friend (and bridesmaid) will be visiting on Monday! She arrives on Sunday and leaves on Tuesday morning and we have already planned to spend most of Monday looking for a bridesmaid dress for her. I told my bridesmaids to just pick any purple dress they wanted, so we will be attempting to go the department store route and avoid actual bridesmaid dresses if at all possible. Unfortunately, the mall will probably be jam-packed on Monday due to President's Day sales. But that's a small price to pay. I actually wrote about this visit (and dress shopping plan) way back in September, and I am, as I said then, dying with excitement that the visit has already (almost) arrived.

Anyway, I haven't actually seen her since we graduated because I moved to DC and she moved to San Francisco and before we had a chance to visit, she ran off to Nicaragua for over a year on a Fulbright scholarship. She's only been back in San Francisco for a couple of months and this is the first chance she's had to come visit. And oh my god does it ever suck not to see your best friend for almost two years! Especially when before that you could see her pretty much every day because you were living all of 200 yards apart on campus. This is the problem with the real world.

But I'm not complaining, because Sunday is only three days away! And before that, to pass the time, I have Valentine's dinner plans with Torsten (including an adorable polka dot dress and fantastic purple heels), sleeping-in plans with our bed, cleaning plans with our apartment, and shopping plans with my Target gift card.

Update: Since there have been so many requests for photos of the shoes and dress in the comments, I put my Google skills to work. Here you go:



Have a great weekend!