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Weekend Things

Lauren1 Comment

Even though it’s Monday, I have a headache and my hamstrings are sore as hell, I think it might be impossible to be in a bad mood today.  Because: JUNE!  SUMMER!  80 DEGREES!  I’M WEARING A DRESS!  I think a lot of problems are solved simply by a change of mindset, so when Joey was lamenting that today was Monday, I told him he needs to stop thinking of things as weekend or weekday and just think of it all as summer.

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If I told you I fell asleep on the couch at 9:30 on Friday night would you still be my friend?  We seriously drove 45 minutes to a homebrew store and when we got there they had JUST closed.  Nooo!  So instead, we stopped at Whole Foods, listened to the Rockies almost almost pitch a perfect game and started Top of the Lake before my aforementioned accidental passout.  Livin the life!

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Saturday and Sunday mostly consisted of us doing yard work.  We set new fence posts for our white picket and I did all the painting, which means I still have white paint in my hair.  It won’t come out!  We also set pavers on the other half of our yard and tore out a jungle of weeds so that we can put rock over the dirt.  So yeah, I’m sore and sunburned but something about using your own two hands (and hamstrings) to make your home nice feels so dang good.  Plus, enough of that crossfit shit, digging a trench and lifting bags of sand is a real workout.

P.S. It’s important to still use the gate, even if you don’t have to.

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I loved Joey extra when he was adamant about working really hard in our yard but also about not working past 5 PM.  We cleaned ourselves up on Saturday and walked to dinner.  As in, it wasn’t raining, it was warm and the restaurant we wanted to go to was that close.  HAPPINESS ABOUND!  We walked past this “good sign” on the way there 🙂

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We’d been to Jezebel’s once before and didn’t have the best experience but the menu is full of southern favorites, it’s so close to our house and it’s part of the Denver Passport Program so we just really wanted to give it another chance.  I’m so glad we did!  The service was awesome and the food was really impressive.  I sipped a Southern Mule on the patio and felt perfectly content.  Also, my shrimp and grits were killer.  More of that Andouille and those big ol’ shrimp, please.

The whole walk home I was quoting The Wedding Singer (I have no idea why…) so we were so in the mood to watch it when we got home, but couldn’t find it anywhere!  We settled for The Big Lebowski, man.  Insert, Joey’s turn to fall asleep on the couch 🙂

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Sunday started with pancakes and ended with us actually making it to the homebrew store.  This weekend has come full circle!  We also watched a few more episodes of Top of the Lake (which, for the record, isn’t really grabbing me all that much), cooked our favorite warm weather dinner and an evening stroll to the local library.  

Viva la summer!

Weekend Things

Lauren2 Comments

I miss Adele.

But that has nothing to do with the weekend and everything to do with the fact that “Set Fire to the Rain” just shuffled up on my iPod.  In more on topic news, it finally stopped snowing last Wednesday and by Friday the sun was out, the temperature was warm(er), the girls in the office went out to lunch together for the first time ever and dang, it felt positively springy!  Which mean by 3 PM, I was planning a trip to the store for limes and blood oranges because we had tequila at home!

2 We hadn’t made margaritas in far too long and these hit.the.spot.  I just made a quick simple syrup by mixing equal parts boiling water and sugar, then used our standard margarita recipe — 2 oz. tequila, 1 oz. triple sec, 1.5 oz. simple syrup, juice of 1 lime — plus 2 oz. blood orange juice.  Is there anything prettier than blood oranges?!  Afterwards, we settled in with dinner, our margs and some Mad Men binging.  We just realized we still needed to watch the first half of the final season before the second half starts next month.

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This is Saturday.

But seriously, we spent the entire day on our kitchen backsplash and to say it was harder and took longer than we’d expected would be an understatement.  We thought we were prepared but turns out we needed a wet saw with glass tiling cutting abilities and by the time we figured that out and found one to rent it was 2 PM.  Oops!  The good news is we got the sink side tiled and most of the stove side done by Saturday night.  Joey is a trooper and did most of the stove side by himself while I reloaded us on groceries.  Also, I pretended the mastic was frosting and it made slathering it on the wall more fun.

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We called it quits around 7, then showered and rewarded ourselves with a date night.  We ended up at the Chef’s Table (or what I would call the Chef’s Counter) at Ace and had an amuse-bouche placed in front of us.  We were starving, so no argument here!  An order of potstickers, two bao buns, a side of kimchee and a giant bowl of beef red curry later, we felt much better.  Also, as we were driving home, I realized it was 9:30 PM and was like “who are these young people eating dinner out in Denver so late?”

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So we needed to get the backsplash finished on Sunday before our wet saw rental time was up, but first… breakfast!  We took my parents to Sassafras.  We’d only been once last year and had been dying to go back.  We had a short wait — where I could not seem to find an out of the way place to stand — but it was all worth it.   Because… hollandaise!  I got the Cajun Benedict and it was pretty phenomenal.  We definitely need to come to this place more often.

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Back at home, we finished the tiling and cleaned up the stuff on the sink side.  We still have to grout but we LOVE how it looks!!!  That tile matches our island so well and it looks so good with our new countertop and white sink.  Afterwards, we started feeling guilty about not taking advantage of the nice weather and went on a walk.  I’m trying not to get my hopes up about winter finally being over but it’s so hard!  Spring fever forever!

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My goal this week is to get into bed early and read every single night!

P.S. This time of year is all about finding the sunshine.

Happy Monday!