Awkward sunburns and macaroni salad part 2

Ok, so the good news is, my mom and I totally fixed the macaroni salad and made it delicious. All we needed was a whole jar of pickle relish. I didn't even think I liked pickle relish!

The bad news...well remember how I said it might be me standing by the salad, shoveling it in all afternoon? That's kind of what happened. Only I was standing by the potato chips and french onion dip. Which is the best thing EVER. After shoveling that into my mouth for something like an hour, I frankly just didn't have room to shovel that much macaroni salad. Which you know, didn't stop me from eating a lot anyway.

But see, I'm not going to give myself a hard time about that. Because this is the new Alex. The Alex who is not mad at herself for eating. Today I played bocce ball (well, I use the word played very loosely since I'm pretty sure we butchered the rules) with my family. I swung on a swing-set and went so high, my boyfriend thought I was going to go over the top. I played dice games with my grandfather. I got badly sunburned on my arms, in a really awkward looking pattern (er and by that I mean it's blotchy and blobby and on my forearm. I do not mean that it looks like something dirty, which is kind of how that sounded). I had a lot of fun. And since my new goal in life is to do one thing that really makes me happy every day, I consider this to be a successful day. Awkward sun burns aside.

Now if only I felt at all ready to go back to work... Sigh long weekends always make it so much harder to go back to the office.