Update: Apparently I set this to autopost on Jan of last year — oops. Next week will be on Monday actually :D

Over the holidays I spent a few days at my grandmother’s house. She lives in a small town in no-where-ville Texas with absolutely no cell phone/internet/connection to the outside world. My days were spent eating and hanging out with the family, watching movies… ya know the typical holiday stuff. I also happen to be nocturnal, I have tried all sorts of remedies but for some odd reason if I don’t make it to sleep before 11pm then I’m up until 3ish. So to entertain myself while everyone slept I read Good Housekeeping and several other magazines. I came across an interesting article (I should have written it down to link to it, oops) about 30 ways to improve your life.

I started writing some of the ideas down thinking they would be fun blog topics, then I came up with a fantabulous idea (if I do say so myself). I decided to start a weekly series of fun things to do to make your Mondays UnMundane. Although I hate the saying “the case of the Mondays” – they do happen to many people.

So each Monday I will post the assignment to make for an UnMundane Monday. Each week’s assignment is inspired by current holiday’s or inspiration from my life – I have actually already planned out all of the weeks – go me! My plan also will be to have already done the “assignment” so that I can post about my experience with it so I’ll probably be one week ahead.

UnMundane Monday #1: Schedule A Grown Up Slumber Party

Inspiration: In September of 2007 one of my college roommates got married in a small town and as her bridesmaids we all stayed in a hotel together. This had been the first time that my former roommates and I had all spent the weekend together since we lived together in college. We actually lived in a 4 bedroom, 4 bath place, so lots of time together. So from that weekend we started a tradition – every 6 weeks or so we have a slumber party at alternating houses. Logistical question – yes a few of the girls are married and no we don’t kick the husbands out of their homes, they usually entertain themselves while the girls go to dinner and whatnot.

Tips for planning your grown-up gals slumber party:

• Use some online event coordinating website to make it easy for everyone. I personally love evite.
• Plan ahead for what you will be doing for the evening/morning – we generally do dinner & movie and then breakfast.
• Air mattresses make for great impromptu sleeping arrangements.
• Remember to take pictures

My slumber party happenings

Stories from my slumber party which just took place this weekend. As I went back to write this I realized I had posted most of this on twitter in the form of pictures :D

• One of our friends just had a new baby so we started the evening with a quick joint shopping trip to buy some baby gifts so we could mail off a joint package – we set a price limit before hand. We were in an out in no time.
• Celebrity friend: my friend is currently a graphic designer at JC Penny and a new line of T-Shirts had just come out that she designed so we went by the mall to see them. Well & take pictures!
  
• Next stop was dinner – sushi [blurry Twitter pic] is our reoccurring theme
• From there we headed back to the house where we started our gift exchange. We all had such busy schedules during December we decided to hold off our holiday gift exchange until January. A fun twist we added to our gift exchange was we had a $5 limit per person. So, needless to say we got to get creative – some gifts homemade others in bargain bins & from dollar store. We had so much fun with this we decided we may carry this over into birthday and other gifting occasions.
  
• There was also cookie baking – one of the gifts I gave was a package of Chocolate Chip Cookie Mix
  
• Last stop for the evening was a movie we rented. We originally planned on seeing The Women together in the theater during our last slumber party but plans changed so we ended up watching it at the house this time. I must say I wasn’t really a fan of the movie. Should have checked out it’s 13% rating before hand.
• In the morning the hostess & her husband made us pancakes!

I decided I’m rejoining the flickr world so you can see all the pictures from the evening – here.

So when will be your first (or perhaps next if this is already a tradition) grown up slumber party?