Relaxing

It's been great to take a week off after the triathlon.  I don't think I needed it physically, but I definitely did mentally.  I went for a swim on Monday and the gym on Thursday for a new weight training plan, but other than that I did nada!

Wednesday, I took a couple hours off work and went to get my hair cut and coloured.  I found a great deal on the Brighton Groupon site, for £33 instead of normally about £90.  Woot woot!  Afterwards, R and I went for a nice Thai meal in the Lanes and I enjoyed a Chang beer!  Oh how I've missed you, you delicious amber nectar you!

This weekend has been equally lazy (only temporarily interrupted with a 3 mile run this morning).  While there was talk of camping on Saturday, it rained and rained and rained on Friday/Saturday morning so we decided to give it a miss.  Instead we went into town and:

had MORE beer (yay for Guinness!)

 got new (matching) phones

 picked up some fabric for skirts to make for France

 and bought season one of

So the rest of the weekend is going to be spent crocheting, watching TV, eating and looking for local Speech and Language therapists (not to visit but to shadow!)

How was your weekend?

West Pier lit up again!

On Wednesday night, R and I headed down to the West Pier on the seafront.  It burned down several years ago (before we moved here) and now looks like this:

Picture courtesy of howzey

I think it's absolutely beautiful, and looks really haunting especially on a stormy day.  There has been talk of clearing away the rubble, but I really hope they keep it standing.

On Wednesday, an event was set up to bathe the pier in green light, to show how looked before.  It was too cold to stay for long (freak 15 minute snow storm didn't help!), but it was really interesting to watch!  Unfortunately, my camera died, so I didn't have a chance to take my own pictures, but here are some lovely ones from eyejewels on Flickr.

 

  

 

Super neat!

And now I'm doing the Friday dance:

 

cuz I'm stoked it's the weekend!  We're going to an 80's club night tomorrow with a couple work pals, and then going out for dinner on Sunday to Planet India, my favourite restaurant in Brighton. What are your plans for the weekend?