It's Saturday night and I'm blogging on schedule..woohooo!
First off, no I was not in Bahrain this past weekend but I appreciate all the concern. Thankfully our girls weekends were planned and executed prior to all hell breaking loose. The UAE seems to be one of the only Middle Eastern countries not in total chaos right now and I'm thankful for that. Will definately be keeping all of our new Bahrain buddies in my thoughts until things die down.
The week was fairly uneventful but very relaxing and much needed. It was a short week at work and it went by really fast which was great. Last I blogged was Valentines day.....which ended with me in bed, Scooby Doo mac n cheese and a large amount of wine consumed while watching sappy girl movies.
Tuesday, Alice, Liana and I went to a great Italian restaurant, Spacannopoli, to celebrate V Day. The public holiday ended at sundown so we could drink in public again. I had planned on hitting the gym first but was lazy and took a nap instead. The weekends have been kicking my a** so I've been exhausted during the weeks. Dinner was declicious and it was great to have a girls dinner.
Wednesday I was lazy again and skipped gym but did manage to get dressed and go out for a bit. Since we didn't have work on Thursday we figured we should not be losers and get out of the house. Alice had to work late (boooo) so Li and I hit Oceans for ladies night. Had two free drinks, had some interesting conversation and then decided it sucked and we were calling it a night. Home and in bed by midnight!
Thursday started 72 hours of extreme laziness for me. My pool is under annual maintenance so I went to the Beach Club at the Beach Rotana instead. Spent the day in the sun, hit their gym, went for a mani/pedi and then came home. Goofed off for a bit, did some laundry, cleaned up and then walked over to Li's for a movie. Watched Kiss Kiss Bang Bang which I had never heard of but was pretty good. I walked home at like 1:30am which Li didn't want me to do but I assured here I was fine. It was a slightly uncomfortable walk cuz lots of loiterers on the streets staring at me but it was fine and I survived.
Friday I slept in and decided that Thursday was so good, why not repeat it. Ha. Went back to the beach club, did pool and gym and then had one of their fabulous club sandwiches and then came home for a nap. Liana and I decided we couldn't be complete losers for the entire weekend so we decided it was time for a proper night out. We started at Left Bank at the Souk which is really chill. Had a couple drinks and talked about life, what a mess mine is and where its going...ha. Then we headed next door to Eight where they were FINALLY playing hip hop. The last couple times its been techno which sucks. So we got there when it was pretty dead, sat at the bar, started drinking and the weirdo attempts at hitting on us started. The first started out like this (mind you he's about 45) him "you are making me feel bad", me, "why", him "because I'm in my coat, cold, and look at you", me "then take your coat off", him "blah blah blah blah blah blah blah" which then led into the fact that I MUST be a teacher or an Etihad flight attendant. We get this crap all the time. Newsflash Abu Dhabi, some chicks that go out do actually have brains and may in fact, do something else. Stop assuming, it pisses us off. Cue me turning my back to him and then he wants to buy us shots. Ha. Clearly he thinks that me turning my back on him is a sign of interest? Then...guy next to Liana, we'll call him cowboy starts blabbing to her (he is also 45 and weird) but his dancing gave us a great laugh and made up for his presence. He was doing this lassoo type move over and over again and it was cracking me up. Liana couldn't see this at first but once she did we were both dying. So I of course start lassoing her..yeah, we're idiots.
Eventually we went out to the dance floor where we found this one chick, rocking sweatpants and sneaks, bustin some moves. It was like she was at a rave, but instead was at a Hip Hop club in Abu Dhabi where everybody else was dressed up. She looked like she was having the time of her life though so props to her. At this point we had had a number of drinks, couple shots and I was feeling pretty good so stopped drinking. Liana did not. I haven't seen her that drunk since the first night we hung out. It was like I was a professional comedian, anything I said was the funniest thing she had ever heard. Ha. We went out to get a cab (silly Liana, driving and thinking she wasn't going to get drunk and drive home!) and she was having a hard time walking at this point and just kept saying...stop making me laugh, you are being so funny. In reality I was saying things like, good thing we didn't go to Allure, lets get in this cab, etc. The ride home was a riot...took lots of drunk photos, I tried to make out half of what she was slurring. I ended up waking up early this morning (the later I go to bed, the earlier I wake up, weird!) and putting pictures up. Well she realized when she woke up that she didn't remember most of them and I was scolded for not filling her in on the night before posting photos of it. All in all, it was a great night and we had a fabulous time. So glad I have her here to keep me company!!!! Alice took off with some friends to a resort a few hours away so we were down one.
So I got up today....goofed off for a bit, put up pics, went back to sleep and then got up and figured headache and all, it was time to start the day. Since I didn't feel like doing the beach club again, I decided I would hit the beach since I hadn't been yet! Silly me for waiting this long. I took a cab there as I had no idea where the public beach section was. Grabbed a chair and nestled in for a few hours of total relaxation. Have discovered my love of Kings of Leon this weekend so jammed to that, enjoyed the gorgeous view and baked. It was nice cuz it was breezy so I never actually felt hot. Ohhh..and at the end..I went to the bathroom and saw that they have fat free frozen yogurt. Sun, water, yogurt? This is like my heaven!!! Since it was so nice out I decided to walk home...took about 40 minutes but well worth it. For those of you who know how much I love to be outside, especially anywhere near water, you will understand what an amazing 3 days I had. I spent my days solo, doing a ton of thinking and relaxing but it was really nice as the prior few weekends had been non stop and crazy. I think I finally caught up on sleep, got in 5 great workouts (went again tonight..first time to my gym with creepy guy in 2 weeks and he was all...where you back in the states? No, just finding new gyms so I can avoid you thanks!), and am tan again! I was starting to lose it but its back and I'm lovin it.
The boss is back in town tomorrow so it will be a slightly more eventful week. Going to have the, whats in store for me after I leave here discussion, so we'll see how that goes. Get his thoughts on my extension too...he's meeting with my local boss on Wednesday so ideally that goes well.
Not looking forward to another full week at work (4 day weeks are so much better!) but I'll survive! Until next time....
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