High Five For Friday

Happy Friday everyone! Welcome to the end of the week.  I for one thought it would never get here (see #5).  Here are this week's highlights:

1. Last weekend Heidi came to visit for a "girl's weekend."  We had a great time baking and decorating sugar cookies. I love that we share similar hobbies that we can enjoy together!  We also chose a chick-flick to watch for movie-night - October Baby, which happened to be filmed here in Alabama.  It was a great movie (not just for the ladies) and definitely worth your while - so go watch it this weekend if you have Netflix!

2.  Tuesday I went thrifting with my friend Kelsey.  It's something I like to do every once in a while... sift through other peoples' junk.  And it's always a win when you find a pair of barely worn Gap jeans for 5 bucks, like Kelsey did.

3.  We've had a pretty relaxed couple of weeks in school (for a change), which has been SO nice. My friends and I took the opportunity of a "free night" to spend some extra non-school related time together.  We met at Iguana Grill for some delicious Mexican food with a couple of our significant others.  My whole class is really great, but I am so thankful to have met this group of amazing girls.  I think it's awesome that in such a short amount of time we've become close friends who could call on each other for anything. They are great. And pretty good lookin' too, huh?

4.  Because of #1 (thanks Heidi!) and #5 I've been watching Switched at Birth (on Netflix as well).  It is a really good show about to girls who were (obviously) switched at birth.  They find this out in the first episode then the whole series is about how they deal with knowing about this and how their lives/worlds basically collide.  The best part is that one girl is deaf while the other is a "hearing person."  They seem to do a great job depicting her disability with lots of sign language conversations throughout the episodes as she interacts with other deaf people and hearing people.  Most shows depict perfect little families. I like the "realness" this show brings to the table.

5.  Jesse has been out of town for work since my post of us going to Augusta (he stayed there).  I tried not to let on that I was home alone for 2 weeks... not the kind of info I like to put out on the interwebs.  But I got the best news of the week last night, he is coming home tomorrow (instead of sometime next week)!  I. am. SO. excited! (See that...capitalization, underlined, italicized, and bolded - that's how excited I am!)  This is the longest we've been apart since... forever. And two weeks is a long time, my friend.

My parents are coming up today to keep me company as well.  (I feel so loved.)  I"ll be hanging out with them this weekend. Spending one more relaxing weekend before classes start back in hand-core mode. What are your weekend plans?