A Day Off
Heyyyyy 🙂 How are you? Hope you’re having a great night!
My day off was pretty much everything I could wish for…
Shopping:
(Shopping tip of the day: I always go into Forever 21 FIRST and plan out which items I should splurge or save on. Usually I see accessories, trendy purses, tops, at Forever 21 and they’ll have the exact same kinda things at department and designer stores. It helps me to decide what’s worth it, what I’ll use again and what I only want for this season)
As much as I LOVE this season’s fashions (lace, florals, military-inspired), I didn’t find any clothes today. I went to Forever 21, H&M, Nordstrom, bebe and Dillard’s and there was nothin’. I did, however, find a few things at that one store I can never walk away empty-handed from:
Philosophy holiday body washes, lotions and lip gloss?
Don’t mind if I do 😉
And then I somehow found myself at this place:
MENCHIE’S!!!!
MMMEEEENNNNNCCHHHIIIEEEEEE’SSSSSS!
It was a fro-yo kinda day 😉
I got a vegan pineapple with strawberries and chocolate syrup 🙂
After fro-yo, I took a litte nap, went to Dance Trance (and booty-shook with Katy!), and wore my heart rate monitor for curiosity sake. I burned 450 cals, which is awesome for an hour dance class! I’d much rather do that than teeter on the treadmill any day 😉
For dinner, the fam and I went to Olive Garden, which I haven’t had in FOREVERRRRRRRRR
Their soup and salad make the world a better place.
I also got a side of grilled shrimpies:
Can you believe Valdizzy doesn’t have an Olive Garden? I was pretty shocked when we moved there and couldn’t get my soup and salad fix 😉 My nana and I used to have soup and salad every Wednesday for lunch- I missed it!
Lesson of the story: Never take Olive Garden for granted.
See ya in the morning <3
G
43 Comments
Leave a Comment
This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.
i can spend all day at sephora!!! i truly <3 that place!!!
Sephora and the OG? Sounds like a wonderful day off to me!!! I’m jealous of your warm and sunshine… it hit a whopping 60* here today!
My dad ALWAYS wants to go to Olive Garden for our regular Sunday lunches… I love the salad and usually get some kinds of grilled thing to go with. 😀
I LOOOOOVE Sephora… just spent my Birthday Dollahs !! 😉
I spent pretty lil penny at Sephora today too!!! Ever been to an Ulta?? Imagine Walgreens beauty section, Sephora and Trade Secret all rolled up into one fantastic store. Love those ones!
i LOVE ulta 🙂 their ulta brand lotion and shower gel are amazing
Yum, Olive Garden.
My boyfriend loooves Olive Garden. I hate it, but would like it much more if my Nana was there with me!
holy F. I need my Olive Garden fix. Its been years. Thats horrible.
I went to Olive Garden for the first time in years when I was in GA visiting my fam…and you are right…Never take the OG for granted!
I love trying on Saphora makeup! MUMMMM I need some olive garden in my life!
Ugh I want Menchie’s soooooo bad!
going to Forever 21 first is a great tip… i get so mad when i spend a lot on a piece and then see an even cuter knock off at forever 21- lol
They just broke ground for an Olive Garden up here in NY. Seriously pray you don’t get stuck at Fort Drum.
OG has the best soup/salad meal. I can’t believe you didn’t have a breadstick — I just can’t say no!
I’m not much of a shopper, but when I DO go, I go all day long at Mall of America 🙂
I used to live off of Olive Garden’s Salad and breadsticks. One visit me and my 2 sisters ate so many breadsticks, the chef came out to meet us because he wanted to know who was mowing down all the rolls. Embarrassing but hilarious.
Ooh, I love H&M. So does my boyfriend because he’s Swedish lol. So they’re cut from the same cloth! 😉
I’ve never been to Sephora. Is there one in San Fran? 🙂
I love Olive Garden too! There is ALWAYS (no matter time of day) a long wait at the closest one to me! So if we’re super hungry, we usually pass it up!
Sephora is a way to relieve myself of mad cash, quickly. Glad you had fun in there!
Bebe, H&M, F21, Nord. Are you kidding you bought NOTHING??!!! I am in shock b/c I was just at the mall here last week and walked in to the MAC store for a few things and then seriously just walked in for a hot second to Nord and it was like bam, major money spent. F21 is always a way to blow cash too…girl, I am majorly impressed you didnt buy a thing. It’s always when I WANT to spend that I dont find anything Im loving but when I am trying to browse, that’s when i see 17 cute things I “must” have 🙂
I haven’t been to Olive Garden in years. I need to fix that stat.
I used to love Olive Garden’s soup and salad! Haven’t been there forever!
I hate when I actually set out to shop and then can’t find anything. Doesn’t it always seem that you find the best deals whenever you aren’t really looking?
I haven’t been to OG in ages!! It used to be the “fancy” place to go on a date when I was in high school. Come to think of it, I think that is where hubby and I had our first date. LoL, We are obviously do much more classy now and only dine at fine establishments. Chipotle does have real silverware so that counts right? 😉
Mmm . . . love Olive Garden! I haven’t had it in forever either. Their salads and breadsticks are awesome. Looks delicious.
Haha, I had the same shopping experience this weekend! I went in Topshop, Express, Zara, J.Crew and Forever and all I bought was some makeup at Sephora. Although it wasn’t cheap, so it’s probably good that I was able to control myself!
Hope you have a great start to your week!
That sounds like an awesome day off. And I never take Olive Garden for granted, especially since the husband doesn’t like it and I practically have to beg to get him to go there.
gina! ive been searching for mung bean pasta everywhere and i cant find it! where do you buy it?!
whole foods 🙂
Looks like a great day! I used to go to the Olive Garden all the time when I lived in Alberta but sadly there are none in Ontario (well, that I know of anyway!) We do, however, have Forever 21 and Sephora and I love them both! 🙂
My husband hates Sephora because I can wander around in there for hours. I think time stops for me when I enter the store.
And I can always find a gazillion things I like at J.Crew. If only I could afford them…
I am going to the King of Prussia mall on Saturday before it opens for a Nordstrom MAKEUP fashion show followed by makeup applications by famous makeup artists. A bunch of girls are going and I wish you were in Philly to come with us!!! I am getting my makeup done at Bobbi Brown- hopefully I will finally learn how to put on makeup!
I’ve never been a big Olive Garden fan, but their soup and salad is good. I always get that option if people I’m dining with insist we go there. Like my husband’s family.
Glad you had a great day!
Every day’s a fro-yo kind of day 😉
totally agree 🙂
I went to Olive Garden yesterday for lunch too, and it looks like we ordered the same thing lol
I do the same thing while shopping..look for cheap stuff and figure out what I can get and then get the ‘staples’ at more expensive stores.
I actually like Olive Garden..my hubby thinks I’m weird ;-P
Love Sephora:) We just got an Ulta here in Blo/No and it’s almost as awesome. Almost 😉 Great day off!
Hey Gina!
Real quick question…hopefully. I’ve been studying to be a PT and went to a class. Part of the class was on Nutrition. I became aware how much animal, in particular meat protein i consume. So I’m wanting to go more Vegetarian in my food choices. Do you have a Vegetarian 101 type post? If not maybe a future readers request? I did venture in to Whole Food for the hot bar…OMG yum yum! Thanks!
That’s crazy that you burned that many calories in a dance class! You must be WORKING it! I always think that I’d never really be moving quite that much…but I guess I should try it out:)
i adore olive garden – it makes my heart happy 🙂
I just went on the Menchie’s website and found out they’re opening a location near me! I had no idea there was even such a thing as a vegan fro-yo place!!!
vegan fro yo changed the world forever 🙂 you’ll love menchies!
I went to Olive Garden for the first time on a day trip to the US in September. I love the unlimited salad that comes with the pasta! 😀
Oh man. I’ve been avoiding sephora.com lately because I just can’t resist the Philosophy holiday stuff.
Your Olive Garden food looks sooo good. I never go there because my husband doesn’t really like it. Weirdo. 🙂 Maybe I’ll treat myself to lunch there sometime soon.