A Day in my life...

Friday was the first day of the month and as I usually do, I'm sharing what I did on that day.
It was my day off.  One of the best things about a day off is not having to get up at 5am!  I slept in and had a nice leisurely morning.  (The leisurely morning will be mentioned again later...)

It was a beautiful day as shown in this picture of my backyard.   I did some reading, some laundry and  a little cleaning, before going out for lunch with some old friends.

These are all nurses I used to work with, two are now retired  They meet for lunch occasionally, but I'm usually at work, so it was nice to be able to come and see them again!

 After lunch I got groceries, figuring I had just enough time to do that before going to a hair appointment.  While in the grocery store, I had an awful realization.  I was supposed to make brownies for a church event, and was supposed to drop them off after my hair appointment.  What to do?  I hurried to the check out and back home.  This is when I was frustrated with my quiet morning.  I could have made the brownies without a problem if I had just remembered!

I had picked up these tulips at the store, so I popped them into a vase and hoped they would perk up.  (they did)  Then I quickly mixed up some brownies, but I wasn't fast enough.  There wasn't time to bake them and make it to the beautician.  I called my sister who lives around the corner and she was kind enough to say she would run over to my house in 45 minutes to get them out of the oven.   :)

 So, I threw them in the oven and headed out to a badly needed hair appointment.  It was time for a cut and a color.  This cute little scene is at the beauty shop.
I know a lot of people enjoy having their hair done.  I have a hard time sitting there for close to 2 hours, when I know I have lots more I could be doing!  However, I felt much better about my hair when I was done.

I got home, and as promised, my sister had taken the brownies out and they looked good.

About 10 minutes later, Bob got home from work.  We try to have a date night every Friday, so we headed out for supper, stopping to drop off the brownies on the way.

I forgot to take a picture, so this is from the restaurants website.  All the tables were full on Friday night.  I had a French Dip Panini and it was yummy!

We're looking for a new couch, so after supper we went to a furniture store.  We found one we both liked, so it's a possibility.  (it's not in the picture)  We took a cushion home to check the color in our living room.

Before heading in for the night, we took advantage of the nice weather and wandered around the yard.  Even the wild violets in the wooded side of our yard look so pretty.

The daffodils and the grecian wind flowers are also looking pretty along the edge of the woods.

It was a nice ending to May 1!