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This Week

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On Monday, we went to THREE DIFFERENT grocery stores — mint, why you gotta be so elusive?? — and still managed to sit down to a home-cooked dinner at 7:15!  One of those grocery stores was this tiny little neighborhood market that was selling everything for 50% off, so yay for savings.

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And speaking of that home-cooked dinner, I feel it is my duty to share with you when I eat things that are oh-my-god-good and this salad with “The Greenest Tahini Dressing” is just that.  We’ve made it twice now and even though you have to blanch things and I’m not sure if that’s really a flavor thing as much as it’s a color thing, it’s still so quick and easy.  Just do it.

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Half Marathon Training started this week!  I’m like 10% nervous to 90% excited so I guess that’s a good sign.  It’s back-to-back-to-back running days on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, which is kind of WHOA but Joey and I are so down with Monday and Friday rest days.  (And for the record, we killed those back-to-back-to-backs this week!)

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On Tuesday, we took a lunch-time drive over to our wedding photography studio to pick up our album and it’s freaking gorgeous!  Joey and I look pretty good too 🙂  Our skin has never looked so flawless.  We seriously sat in our parked car and looked the album over because we needed to see it RIGHT THEN.  Then they gave us a surprise calendar with our pictures and I was extra sure we made the right choice choosing Elevate Photography.

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What is this Wednesday Date Night thing and where can I get some more of that?  We headed to South Broadway — or SoBo if you’re cool enough and I’m definitely not — and grabbed a bar seat at Leña for margs and an order of Pan de Yuca then walked down to Gozo for round two.  We got that charred scallion and pepperoni pizza and it was SO GOOD but that place has the weirdest service and they either don’t have AC or didn’t feel like turning it on.  It was steamy in there.

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“I’m currently reading three books,” I announced on our way home from dinner.  Though I guess one of them is actually a play.  My mom, my sister and I are seeing Much Ado About Nothing at the Shakespeare Festival on Saturday so I wanted to read it first.  Is that normal?  P.S. Peaches, peanut butter and cinnamon-y granola have my breakfast heart right now.

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My little and I just finished True Detective!  Yeah, yeah, so I watched the first season again because she hadn’t seen it and I wanted an excuse to watch it again.  I still thought it was incredible the second time around.  Also, we bought three pies that night for a co-worker’s birthday the next day and Joey felt it necessary to leave this rude note before leaving us Dorsey sisters alone with them.

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I lit this candle on Thursday morning then totally forgot about it and made a mess when I picked it up later.  But then I kind of liked how the melted red wax splattered across my work.  Let’s bring back that thing where we use wax to seal letters, kay?

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A new coffee shop opened by our house — I know, like we really needed another — so we decided to try it out on Friday morning.  The iced coffee was strong, the owner was genuine, the exposed brick was plentiful, so I give it two thumbs up.  We sipped our coffee and ranked breakfast burritos.  My list was basically Joey’s list… but backwards 🙂

HAPPY FRIYAY!

This is 26

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You guys.  I meant to publish this post on Friday, but I was DA-RAGGING that day.  And a 26″ pizza, Third Eye Blind and extra large beers were to blame.

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But it also meant my birthday was extra good.  Like got totally spoiled with presents, flowers, homemade cupcakes and “Happy Birthday!” messages good.  My mom had a porch swing delivered earlier last week (!!!!!!!!) and Joey got me concert tickets, gardening goodies, a new Garmin and an iPhone charger so that I don’t have to carry mine back and forth between work and home and because oh my god he might actually be getting good at that paying attention to the details thing!

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And just when I was feeling perfectly spoiled, Becca went and baked me cupcakes, then made the cutest display ever and Bobby somehow managed to drive it to work with him.  I for real ate a cupcake for lunch then told Becca to quit her day job.  Plus tulips from Joey because he enjoys setting the bar high for himself and future birthdays.  Or because he’s perfect and I love him.

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I took a half day and treated myself to a mani/pedi at this new nail salon near our house.  After days of rain and mild temperatures, the sun decided to come out and I walked myself to my appointment and felt like everything was right in the world.  Oh and not only was the nail salon so super nice inside but my mani turned out awesomely!

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Evening plans included dinner at Fat Sully’s and an Augustana/Dashboard Confessional/Third Eye Blind concert.  Yes, we have time traveled back to high school, to a time when Chris Carrabba just gets us and we can sing together about our feelings.  But first, a giant pizza.  The four of us were ONE PIECE (guess whose piece that was…) away from finishing that whole thing, if you can even believe it.  If you’re turning 26 you MUST get the 26″ pizza, right??

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It’s just too funny.  And seriously, that pizza was not just for show.  It also tasted dang good!

Augustana opened the show and I had to make a quick exit from the car to run to the Fillmore so I didn’t miss them.  They only did a four song set and everyone in the crowd was talking and didn’t realize they were in the presence of greatness, aka Dan Layus’s perfect voice, but whatever.  Then he proceeded to take down his own set because he’s a down-to-Earth angel.  In all seriousness though, it’s not often that you get to hear an opening act with a voice like that.

Joey is hands down (see what I did there?) the biggest Dashboard Confessional fan I know.  It’s borderline horrifying.  But also kinda cute.  I stood between Joey and Adam while they sang along to every world of every song and was very entertained.  Also, true love is when you have to stand in the long women’s bathroom line and your husband stands in it with you so that you don’t have to listen to “Vindicated” by yourself.

Apparently Third Eye Blind has a secret fan base because people were rocking out.  I was more like “Play Jumper already!” all night but I’m glad those closet TEB fans could get their fix.  And they did eventually play “Jumper” and it was pretty awesome.  So if Thursday was any indication, 26 is gonna be a good one!