"Honey, don't be weird."

Happy September! I was told by a reader that my posts might be "too in-depth," so I'm going to work on that. I think it's just because I didn't use my camera the one day, and so I'm going to make my photo to text ratio much larger from now on.

I had a crazy-fun Monday night with my best friend Lorien. Details won't be shared, just that nothing illegal happened and then I spent the night with her.

Mom and I went to breakfast Tuesday morning at Lucile's, a New Orleans-style restaurant. (The ideal meal there is their chai, beignets, and peach/buttermilk pancakes with raspberry butter. No rivals.) Afterward, we took a walk around Pearl Street to digest some.

Then we went to Essentiels Spa, where I got my first professional massage as well as a manicure (the color is OPI's "Pearl of Wisdom." I was hoping it would make me smart for college next week) and Mom got a facial. There are before and after pictures:

Before:
happy and peppy and eager.

After:
a melty puddle of relaxation.

A couple hours later, we went to renowned Denver restaurant Mizuna for dinner. We all did the tasting menu, which is eight courses in tiny portions. Everything was so good! I recommend it. A lot.

Mom behind her wine glass.

The eighth course:
A cinnamon bun over blackberry compote with
cream cheese frosting and fresh blackberries on top.

Then home, then bed. After a heavy breakfast, massage, and eight-course dinner, I was ready to pass out!

Good night!

YOU ARE A WINNER!!!

You are!!!!!!!!

So here are two bonus photos!!!

Also just because I didn't know where to put them in the last post!!!!!

Me and Bergen on the first balcony of the Brown Palace.

Bergen in my mom's hat. So serious!!

"Come on, Dova'! Move your bloomin' ahss!"

Hello there!

Yesterday was quite the up and down day.

First of all, I slept!! Ambien, my "tic-tacs," are wonderful. Mom and I got dressed up to meet her friend, Jana, and Jana's six-year-old, Bergen, for high tea at the Brown Palace Hotel (suuuuper fancy) at 1:00. I had mango oolong tea. We were there for over two hours but I really enjoyed myself! I'll let these photos speak for themselves.

We were all trying our hardest to be proper ladies.
Did you notice my finger??! : )

the centerpiece.

Bergen "ooh"ing over the dessert plate.

Later, Mom had said we could go to Best Buy to get the camera. We found out that they change their prices every Sunday and it had gone way up, so we had just missed it!!! I was disappointed, and that is a huge understatement. We went home.

Mom sent me out later to get pedometers for her fitness challenge team at work. I went to Walmart, since they are $5 there. I passed by Electronics on my way to Sporting Goods and thought, "Why not?" I asked the first employee I saw if they carried the Nikon D3000. He showed it to me, and the price was $52 less than Best Buy, Target, Mike's (our local camera specialty store), and even Amazon. PLUS it came with a 2GB memory card, a camera bag, software, and a huge how-to book about digital photography and dSLR cameras.

I bought it on the spot.

Me and Allie!!
This is obviously love.

I've been putting it together and playing with it since last night. I'm having so much fun!! Her name is Allie, after two inspiring people in my life right now.

I hope the photo-to-text ratio is more satisfactory this time. There will be even more soon, thanks to Allie!

Talk to you soon!