Weekend Things & Stay Safe!

Hello from truly the strangest, most stressful and worrisome times.  I hope you are safe and well and, unlike me, your anxiety level is not at a ten.  So much has happened so quickly and it all feels surreal.  Remember how last week’s post didn’t even mention the Corona Virus?!  And now here we are.  This is a reminder to myself most of all, but let’s all breathe and seriously, please stay home if at all possible!

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Joey flew out to Vegas last Wednesday, partly for a work expo and partly for the Pac-12 Tournament but when all of the games were cancelled, I practically begged him to come home early.  He was able to change his flight to Friday afternoon, then rode the Light Rail to Union Station and walked over to Whole Foods so we could brave grocery shopping together.  It actually wasn’t as bad as I’d expected but some of the pantry aisles were pretty ravaged.  We got enough stuff to last us a week or so.  I didn’t see any panic shopping, thankfully!

Back at home, we ate dinner and watched Big Time Adolescence, which premiered at LAST YEAR’S Sundance Film Festival and I’ve been watching out for it ever since.  It stars Pete Davidson and we both really liked it!  It’s on Hulu if you want to check it out 🙂

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I truly didn’t leave my house or my pajamas on Saturday.  Am I proud or embarrassed?  Hmm.  Friday night, I mentioned that Clueless was an Emma adaptation and Joey’s response was that he’d never really seen Clueless… WHAT??  Well that had to change, so we rented it up.  You ever re-watch a movie from your childhood and realize just how many times you’d seen it because you know every line, every song, every outfit?  That happened to me.  What a hilarious script though!  The movie holds up!

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The only credit I give myself for Saturday is that we cooked dinner.  I promise there’s really creamy pasta and zucchini noodles under all those toasted breadcrumbs.  I really love this recipe!  Plus we finally watched There Will Be Blood.  Now that’s a movie!  Between Okja, Escape at Dannemora and There Will Be Blood, I guess we are only watching Paul Dano things now 😛

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I think this photo sums up our Sunday anxiety level.  We had breakfast and got our chores taken care of, then I headed out for my re-scheduled facial from last weekend.  I’m not going to lie, I kept wondering if I should still being doing things like getting a facial but I went.  Afterward, I came home and cleaned up and then we went to my parents’ for corned beef and cabbage.  Am I somehow the most worried person in my family about all of this??  Apparently!

Though our office remains open and employees are welcome to work there if they want, we did ask that anyone not feeling well please stay home and though I feel fine, I just felt more comfortable grabbing my computer and working from home.  Please hang in there, everyone and be smart about all of this!

Weekend Things

Hi!  I hope you had a nice weekend.  Spring was in the air here, which means it was in the 70s and lunch was eaten outside and our little pup* just kept wanting to go sniff around in the backyard.  Joey was gone Friday and most of Saturday to go skiing so I hung out by myself and then we made the most of the time we had left when he got back.

*By the way, that little pup is feeling much better and must have just strained a muscle.  He’s hesitant to jump up onto the porch or the couch, but is otherwise back to his normal barky self.  

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I straight chilled by myself on Friday and it was lovely.  It’s always really hard to pick a movie to watch on my own because, if it’s any good, I’ll just want Joey to have seen it too and we can never think of things he’s already seen that I haven’t.  I went with Do the Right Thing (BlacKkKlansman is actually the only Spike Lee I’ve ever seen!) and I thought it was amazing!  What a distinct style Spike has.  Now I need Joey to watch it 😛

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Saturday’s weather was soooo nice!  I relaxed until just after noon, then headed into Louisville to see my mom for a massage.  I was supposed to have a facial too, but she wasn’t feeling well and had to cancel.  I hadn’t had a massage in so long, so it felt extra nice!  Back at home, I read in the backyard until Joey got home.  We kept it chill that night by eating leftovers and watching Horse Girl (I’d actually watched the trailer for it the night before but it looked sort of creepy and I can’t do creepy when I’m home alone) and wow, I really liked it!  It was really interesting and sort of sad at the same time.  Alison Brie was so good and as soon as it flashed that Duplass Brothers Productions title card, we knew we were in for something weird but in a good way.

We also maybe Postmated ice cream, don’t judge us!

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Sunday started with pancakes (it is so not strawberry season yet, but I must eat fresh fruits now or I will never actually make it through winter) and then we made plans with my mom to see Emma later that afternoon.  Got through Sunday chores before picking her up and look, I was sort of bored in the beginning because I was expecting more of a parody, I guess (the trailer made it look funny!) but then it turned out to just be an adaptation of the book.  Once I readjusted my expectations, I liked it a lot more.  And there are still some funny parts (Bill Nighy and his recurring bit about drafts and screens was so great), so overall we all liked it!  My mom invited us over for dinner afterward and even though we are usually Sunday night homebodies, not having to cook for ourselves sounded pretty nice.  I don’t love a pork chop, but these were amazing!

I hope you had some sunshine in your part of the world.  Happy Monday!