Girls Weekend

The idea behind a 'Girls' Weekend' is to get away from the men in your life, dish with the girls, whatever you want to do without the fellas around. In my case its my 3 year old and husband. I love them both. I'll miss them terribly. I'm really looking forward to getting away. :)

In my single days, there wasn't a need for such. We just had the time to hang out with our girlfriends. And if we went away for the weekend, it was usually just the girls anyway and it was done with wild abandonment mixed with an occasionaly walk of shame for at least one of them (us). It seemed like every weekend was dedicated, at some point, to connecting with your girls. Even weeknights were filled with chatting with them on the phone, instant messaging with them, texting with them. Then boyfriends, marriage, children and, well, LIFE just steamrolled in.

Fast forward a whole bunch of years and even more life changes and a weekend away with the girls is more like: no make-up, jammies all day, never leaving the house/hotel/cabin, playing board games or Wii.

At least that's what we've planned with a group I'm going away with next weekend. I'm really looking forward to it, and after watching Julie and Julia, I'm thinking... I may blog it. Though, from my above description, you're probably thinking its not going to be very interesting. Possibly not, but I'm writing about it anyway.

It started with my friend C (See below for why its just an initial) saying that she loves the idea of girls getting together year after year who when they're old, keep circling back, once a year, and hang with the same girls. We tried to get it off the ground a few times. Finally it was settled and we're all doing it next weekend.

The players are (I know that no one is reading this, but I'll put in their first initials only, just in case):

C   (34 - dating her BF for a couple of years, has the oddest frame of mind of anyone I know and asks a bazillion questions and basically just makes life interesting)

B   (early 40s. 43? Married for something like 8 years, no kids, a goofball who snorts out loud at her own jokes),

A   (32? - single, just started dating her guy a few months ago, but they batted around the idea of dating for a little while before that. The BF won and got the girl. She is brilliantly creative, unapologetically unfocused, and scarily really, really similar to me),

and myself (blah, blah, blah stats you all know if you read any of my stuff. At the writing of this, I just turned 45, my son is a little over 3 1/2, and this entire blog is about ME, so, what's left to describe?).

Our mission is that we are each coming up with random recipes that we have never tried before and meeting at B's house and cooking for each other. It could be disasterous - think Chinese food, meets rich French cooking, meets Mexican, meets Sloppy Joes. Maybe I should bring Pepto. Or Tums. Or a manual on bulimia. Just in case. No one knows what each other are making, although I did tell C what I had in mind.

For C's birthday, I took her to lunch at a local inexpensive Chinese place a few blocks from work. We DEVOURED this lobster in Ginger and Scallions dish. We both separately dreamed about it that weekend. She was dying to tell her BF about it, but he'd lovingly packed a gourmet lunch for her that he'd specially made; complete with a special beverage of some island drink and she didn't eat it so that we could lunch instead. But she had to lie to him so that he wouldn't know she never tasted his food. So, to make it real, we went back to the Chinese place and splurged again on the lobster. It was that good. And now she could tell him.

I think I can do it. That's going to be my dish.

I also picked out a Chocolate souffle - in little mini-cups. I tore it out of a magazine awhile ago. I have all of the ingredients. I've neither tasted nor made a souffle before, so I'm not sure if I'll be able to say if its good in the traditional sense or just tastes good to me.

I love cooking and board games. I'm really looking forward to the weekend and to blogging about it. I'm working on another blog - in the infancy stage - all about food and recipes and I think I'm going to get a lot of material for that over the 2 days.

Wish me luck!