31 Days of Awesome - AlwaysReiding.com

Last night’s dinner was a success. So yummy and we had an anniversary and another birthday at our table. We got there a bit early, ran to the bank and went back in time for happy hour.
We don’t normally get drinks, but I got a plum wine sangria and my husband picked up a colada-type drink with mint and coconut. As usual, he drank the sweeter of the two beverages (I just saw a commercial about Beer like this).

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31 Days of Awesome - Always Reiding

Happy Wednesday! It’s almost Friday, yay! Did you know that when I was younger, Wednesday was my most-favorite day of the week? Yeah, having a favorite day of the week is weird for a kid, even weirder when it isn’t a Friday or Saturday, right?

So today I get to watch my beloved Real Housewives finale (part one of 90000, or so it seems), and I also am finishing a couple of really good books.

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31 Days of Awesome - AlwaysReiding.com

Today, we’re planning on heading out to play some games with friends near the mountains. We plan this about once a month, due to our crazy, adult schedules. And while it is a total afternoon’s worth of activities, we get to bring our chairs to the big card table and PLAY! We also get a chance to break for yummy food. Which is SUPER nice.

Learning a few of the games is getting easier,

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31 Days of Awesome : AlwaysReiding.com

Oh wow! We actually got home this morning, just before two AM. That five hour drive was crazy, especially considering we were seeing lightning in the dark off in the distance. The desert lightning felt off-the-wall and otherworldly, if that is the right world–it is PITCH BLACK out there, ya’ll!

I don’t have a picture of it, either. Sadly. However, with that, there was a lot of rain and POURING rain,

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