Girls night!

It has been a hell-acious week at work and the boy is working a night shift, so what better time to grab your best girl friend and go see that movie your husband has absolutely no desire to see? In my case, that movie is The September Issue (and of course the girl friend is M!) I showed up at her place grumpy and bedraggled from putting out the day’s forty-seventh fire but was immediately cheered by her offer to open one of the bottles of “good wine.” (In our world, “good wine” is any bottle that didn’t cost ~5 dollars from Trader Joes.)

M was nice enough to let me bitch about my day and invited me into her office to see how cute Mushroom is in his new catbed:

And no, it is not an accident that the cat bed matches the rug, M is in the process of re-doing her office with the help of T. Pictures will be posted of the grand unveiling, (assuming I can score an invite – tee hee!)

We left for the theatre early so we could find a parking spot and be leisurely. Sure enough we scored an awesome spot in the residential area not too far from Ms. Cyclone’s former address. On the way to the theatre, we saw this interesting architecture/signage combo:

Yes, folks that IS a neon sign on that pretty old apartment building:

What are people thinking? Seriously… We were super early, so we killed some time hanging out in T’s favorite coffee shop — Uptown Espresso and then wandered over to the movie theatre:

The movie was very good and both M & I enjoyed it. If you have any interest in the fashion industry at all, definitely go see it/rent it. A very nice start to the weekend, that even the fact that I had another work emergency waiting for me when I got home couldn’t ruin…