Category: Homebrewing

Behind the Scenes

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I find it funny when I come up with new titles for posts, but in essence they are still just a numbered list of blurbs about life 🙂  Don’t judge!  Those are my forte, I suppose.  Plus I’m finding myself with an excess of A) pictures in my Camera Roll and B) random thoughts, and they have to go somewhere!

1. I made baked carrot cake oatmeal last weekend and now Joey is calling me a “little rabbit.”  I guess it is kind of weird to eat shredded carrots for breakfast but not really any weirder than eating shredded carrots for dessert.  Plus, it’s really just another vessel for peanut butter…

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2. How great is the extra sunlight at the end of the day lately?!  I’ve been doing this thing where I shower at night (solely so that I can sleep in later in the morning…) and having sun when I wake up and sun when I get home from work is so so refreshing.  Plus it means getting closer to summer and further from winter.

3. And speaking of sleeping, I downloaded this app called “Sleep Cycle” that supposedly tracks your sleep by how often you move and while I’m kind of skeptical of its accuracy (it was a free app, after all..), I still think it’s kind of interesting to look at.  Apparently Saturday is my best night for sleep.

4. I made these maple stout muffins on Monday night and discovered a layer of brown sugar that my mixer missed at the bottom of the bowl, which meant the last muffin contained a good amount of it.  Guess which one it was!  In other news, these tasted AMAZING.

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5. We bought a kegerator!  It came on Wednesday and while it’s a lot bigger than I had pictured in my mind, I’m so excited to have our homebrew on tap!  Not going to lie, this wasn’t the cheapest investment but we’ve been sleeping on it for months and it was either a kegerator or trying to fit 50 bottles of beer in our fridge so it seemed like the most space efficient solution.

6. This teeny tiny coffee (8 oz) cost me $5.  FIVE DOLLARS.

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7. My mom and sister are in New Orleans right now, visiting my aunt and cousin and I’m so sad I’m missing out on all the girl time 😦

8. I discovered this little heart drawing for our wedding day on the calendar in Joey’s office and for some reason it made my own heart melt.  So cute 🙂

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9. I’ve been making a point of getting into bed before 10 PM so that I can read and decompress before going to bed and as a result, I’ve been waking up feeling so rested (even if my sleep app claims my sleep quality was only at 70%…) AND I’ve gotten to work before 8 AM every day this week.  I assume it’s only a matter of time before I’m back to sabotaging myself by staying up late and being 10 minutes late to work but for now, I’m on a roll!

10. I’m trying to decide between wearing my hair up or down for the wedding and it’s so hard.  <–First World Problems, right?  All suggestions and opinions are welcome!

11. It’s Friday and I have lots of fun outings planned for this weekend.

What do you have planned??

 

This Week

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It was really snowy and really cold.

Monday: snow, Tuesday: snow, Wednesday: high of nine degrees, Thursday: high of 19 degrees and Friday: finally heating up to 42 degrees.  We watched a car spin out on the highway and smash into the concrete guardrail on Wednesday morning and it was terrifying!

I watched a video of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Oscar Acceptance Speech.

Also nominated that year was Heath Ledger.  So sad that we have lost both of those amazing actors.

Joey made parmesan crisps!

Which basically means melting a little pile of parmesan cheese in a pan until it gets all delicious and crispy.  Joey decided the smell of melting parmesan was gross but he is dead wrong because I wanted to bottle that smell and use it as perfume.  So delicious.

I stocked up on Hempz.

I was almost out of lotion and definitely out of conditioner so I hopped on the Beauty Brands website and they happened to be having a half off sale on Hempz products.  If that isn’t perfect timing, I don’t know what is.

I watched the season finale of The Biggest Loser.

I’ve never watched a single episode of this show but I couldn’t find anything better on TV so I watched.  I’m not sure how I feel about how it ended/I don’t feel comfortable declaring someone else’s weight healthy or unhealthy but Twitter sure had a lot to say about it!

I decided “Flappy Bird” is the funniest game name ever.

No desire to play it or even know what it’s about, I just like to say the name 😛

We watched Mud.

I had heard that this movie marked the beginning of Matthew McConaughey’s  “acting overhaul” (which I assume means when he decided to stop portraying himself in a bunch of Rom-Coms) that culminated this year with Dallas Buyers Club.  True Story: It sucked.  So boring, so pointless.

We taste-tested our newest homebrew.

It’s not quite ready carbonation-wise, but the stout flavor is spot on!

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What do you have on tap for this weekend?  We’ve got another cake tasting tomorrow morning plus picking up our Save the Dates and catching the Olympic Opening Ceremony tonight.