Top 6 things I learned in May 

1. TV shows turned movie can be an excellent idea

 Prime example, Sex and the City (SATC). I loved the show, so perhaps I’m biased, but I loved the movie. I went opening night with some of my friends and we all loved it, then we went and had a cosmo in honor of the movie. As much as I loved the movie, the other women watching it, I did not love. They were dressed like they were starring in the movie. From the boots, to the dresses (or lack of dresses) to the hair and make up it was nuts. I’ve never been one to dress up for a movie in the first place and certainly not the way they were dressed. Not cool.

 2. Gyms are dangerous places

When my friends all bailed on a downtown-happy hour on Friday evening, my boyfriend convinced me to spend that extra time at the gym. I’m usually down with going for an hour or so, but I wasn’t thrilled about spending a few hours amongst muscley grunting people, but I went. Within in the first 15 minutes of being there I hurt myself. I twisted to pick up a yoga ball when I felt my back give out. I thought I just hadn’t stretched enough so I did some of that and tried to get it feeling right- bad idea, it just made it worse. I settled for a prolonged cardio work out rather than weight training. The next morning I went to an urgent care office cause I couldn’t sit or stand and we had a wedding to go to. Three bottles of pills later, I was good to go to the wedding! Well, more like fight the urge to nap the whole time.

 3. Kids say the darndest things

My youngest sister (who’ve I’ve talked about before) spent a weekend with me, it was a lot of fun. She and I colored, painted and watched many Disney movies. She’s the type of girl who does not like to be away from home so when we would go places in the car she’s always ask: “When are we going to be home?” I tried to explain in terms of TV shows that I thought she watched, but turns out that doesn’t work for her. So I pointed to the Minneapolis skyline, I live right near downtown. I told her we’d be home when we got to the skyscrapers. “Skyscrapers!? What’s a skyscraper?” she said. I explained they’re the tall buildings up in the sky and they’re nicknamed that because they scrape the sky. A few days later I had lunch with her and my mom and we were telling Mom all about our weekend. I asked her what the tall buildings are called. “Skyscratchers!” She enthusiastically replied. My mom and I were laughing for quite a while.

 4. Gas prices are not making me happy

I knew gas was pricey and it was siphoning money out of my bank account to get to work and back, but what really floored me was when I went to buy an plane ticket to Chicago and back later this month. A year ago Ben and I went to Chicago for a weekend adventure, it was about $70 a ticket. I thought it’d be more than that, but not nearly five times that! Tickets were $340 to go to Chicago on a Thursday night and come back on a Monday mid-morning. That is crazy, just crazy. It needs to stop.

 5. Friends really are the best company

Not sure how to spend our first official Memorial Day off from work, my group of best friends and I decided to get together and enjoy potential nice weather. We had plans to grill out, play some badminton or bocce ball, relax by the pool and catch some rays. As Minnesota weather would have it, we were forced inside. Don’t worry, we had some life preservers. It was nothin’ a few George Foreman-grilled lunches and an afternoon of Wii games couldn’t fix. From carnival games to all out track and field, we were covered. It was a fun afternoon and a great way to spend a day off.

 6. Obama rules

The rally was empowering. Denying that would be admitting you’re scared. Scared that what makes you uncomfortable could be true. I’m ready.