Month: March 2014

Weekend Things

Lauren3 Comments

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!  I almost wrote “Top of the mornin’ to ya!” then decided that sounded seriously cheesy.  Although I may have actually written that on our chalk wall this morning…

Raise your hand if this weekend’s sunshine has you ready for full on spring.  Okay, so we had about an hour of wind and snow flurries on Saturday afternoon, but otherwise this weekend was so pleasantly warm and sunny.  I loved every single second and took full advantage by taking a walk on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.  Fact: I love walking 🙂

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Lunchtime stroll down the street (insert weekend walk #1) for a workday picnic = best way to kick off Friday fun.

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Prost Brewing is minutes from our house, yet somehow we’d never been!

Verdict: fun atmosphere, awesome Denver view and a good beer selection.  Plus… food trucks!

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Are you seeing these fries?!  Holy thick cut parmesan bliss.

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Apparently Joey did not want to be in this picture?

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So, the Avs lost… AGAIN.  Which I think means I’m bad luck and shouldn’t be allowed at hockey games, but these seats — given to me by one of our suppliers at work — were awesome and it was definitely the most exciting game we’ve seen this year.  Does anyone else feel guilty rooting on violence at a hockey game?

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The excitement I feel upon receiving the newest edition (almost just wrote addition) of Cooking Light is slightly embarrassing…

Insert weekend walk #2 to go get my hair cut.  The excitement I feel upon realizing the new hair salon I decided to try out is on the same street I live on, is pretty much at the same level of receiving Cooking Light (see above).  I really did attempt to take a picture of my hair, but selfies are just so uncomfortable.

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Saturday afternoon productivity: finishing all the painting in our living room and setting up our new island!  I am so in love!  The backside has a leaf that flips up so it can double as an eating area.  We need barstools ASAP!

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Close up of the falafel salad I was making on the island because it looks too pretty not to share 🙂

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Long story short: some of us may have had too much fun on Saturday night and pretty much spent most of the day Sunday being lazy on the couch… uh oops.  But around 3 PM, I decided getting up and enjoying the gorgeous weather outside might actually help so we took a stroll through the neighborhood (insert weekend walk #3).

This tree has buds!  Spring is so close I can taste it!  Or at least see it.

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Obligatory St. Patrick’s Day dinner at my parents’ never disappoints.  My mom actually cooked this corned beef and cabbage in the stout Joey and I just brewed!  How cool is that?  Dinner was followed up by a big slice of red velvet cake for my sister’s boyfriend’s birthday.  And because mom can’t resist an opportunity to bake red velvet.  I’m not complaining!

I’m hoping the spring weather continues this week (insert future walks #4-130948) because this whole getting to be outside without a heavy winter jacket thing is making me feel pretty happy.

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Did you celebrate St. Patrick’s Day this weekend?

Does it feel like spring where you live?

What’s making you happy today?

Friday Randoms

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Because Friday calls for a post made up of random blurbs about my life, right?

1. It’s World Sleep Day!  Or something like that.  Who can keep track of these “National                   Day” holidays anyways?  But, a few words on sleep.  My sleep to be exact.  I love the idea of sleep but in actuality, I am a crazy vivid dreamer and often wake up feeling like my brain was working overtime creating dream details instead of resting.  Wah wah!

2. Our Crate and Barrel kitchen island came in on Wednesday!  Which means: A) We can toss the gross old table we’ve been using as a mock island since we moved into the house B) More space to organize our overcrowded kitchen drawers and cupboards and B) My mom can stop asking “so where are you going to put the island?” every time she comes over 😛

3. I’m a mere 100 pages into Rick Steves’ book on Provence and feel flustered about all the information already.  I’m starting to think it might be better for me to not know anything about France.

4. After 3 days of fabulously warm weather and 3 straight days of outdoor runs, it snowed.  Like big fat wet snowflakes!  The next day it was sunny with no sign of there having been snow the day before.  Must be spring in Colorado!

5. Joey’s birthday is next month and I am already hounding him about where I he would like to go for dinner to celebrate.  I think we both realize that this is more for me than for him… but hey, there’s food and I’m paying so he better just gratefully accept.

6. I was half an hour late to work on Wednesday because Joey and I were so caught up in watching a high speed car chase on the news.  The guy hijacked a car with a 4-year-old sitting inside, eventually ditched that car, hijacked another, drove the wrong way on the highway, hijacked yet another car, crashed, then tried to make a run for it before the cops closed in on him.  It was insane!

7. I walked to get coffee on Thursday morning.  As in, the coffee shop is so close I can walk there!  For some reason, this just makes me so so happy.

8. My mom invited me to dinner with she and my sister on Thursday night.  We ate smoked mozzarella pizza (omg!), decided on dates for our girls only trip to Santa Fe in a few months and answered the age of old question, “Should we get ice cream?”

9. The answer was obviously yes.  This is the “tiny” size and yeah, that’s a pretty accurate description.

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10. It’s Pi Day and Friday, which means extra happiness!  Enjoy 🙂