Marvelous in My Monday #1

It's Monday! Isn't it MARVELOUS?! If you're day isn't marvelous yet, go make it marvelous by checking out the MIMM party going on over at Healthy Diva Eats, hosted by the lovely Katie!

This very first MIMM post of mine is going to be one of many words and few pictures as I apparently made no attempt to capture visual memories from the weekend, nice work, huh?

The weekend started out with a noon dismissal on Friday, woo hoo! Except we had staff development meetings all afternoon, wahhh wahhhhhhh. BUT I did find the information to be quite interesting so I didn't want to completely gouge my eyes out as I was counting down the minutes to the weekend.

As soon as the meetings were over, I was off to Columbus to spend the weekend with Tyler. We went with his roommate Tyler to a pretty swanky restaurant (for Columbus) called Dusters which also has Gottberg Brew Pub connected to it. I ate my weight in food (not good), but the food was good! First they brought out a cup of their soup of the day, beef and vegetable, then they brought out dinner rolls, followed by a side salad, and finally my seafood Alfredo with garlic bread on the side! Holy moly (definitely had leftovers)! I also had a glass of their brewed Octoberfest to wash it all down with, mmmmm!

Saturday consisted of a trip to the grocery store for some coffee, fajita supplies, and "tailgate" food. I bought this little nugget size carton of milk (Tyler claims he's lactose intolerant, so he's trying not to drink the stuff) to add to my Dunkin' Donuts Strawberry Shortcake coffee, if you haven't tried the stuff, you NEED to!

 

I threw together a fajita marinade with beef, onions, and red and green bell peppers for supper, while Tyler made meatballs with a homemade BBQ sauce concoction and a Mexican chip dip for the Nebraska game, GO BIG RED! (No pictures of the food, what was I thinking?!) Thank goodness we pulled off a win against Northwestern!

 

After the Husker game, some of the Scotus volleyball coaches came over for some brewskies and we of course watched more football. Apparently we forgot about our marinating fajitas, so after our guests left, we ate our fajita dinner at 11:00 at night then watched Back to the Future!

The Tylers had a 7:00am football meeting on Sunday and I slept in. We went to church at 10:00am then the boys had film and football practice at noon followed by a team dinner at 4:30pm. Needless to say I got a lot of school work done! Last night Tyler and I made a trip to Wally World where I FINALLY found this fabulous tea. It's seriously heaven in a cup. TRY IT!

My Monday morning started out marvelous by "sleeping in" until 6:45am (I'm usually up at 5:45am) and speaking to a class of Columbus Scotus seniors about my profession as a Speech-Language Pathologist. I think I put some of them to sleep, but they all perked up when they found out that I am dating Mr. Swanson ; )

Now that that's over with, it's time for high school parent teacher conferences in West Point; the elementary teachers have the day off-- jealous. Hoping this Starbucks gets me through the day!

According to the pictures I actually took this weekend, the only thing I seem to care about in life is little milk jugs, amazing tea, and coffee! Seems about accurate : ) Go on and be marvelous today!