It’s the end of August and fall is coming, but joke’s on us because it was so hot this weekend! I tried to sit outside and read in the shade on Sunday and I only made it five minutes before giving up and heading back into the air conditioning. But aside from being really hot, this weekend was wonderful and I am doing my best to live it up while we still have summer weather. Which means brewery patio hanging, backyard movie night and grilling. I love it all so much!
Joey has wanted to go to Briar Common for so long and I’ve been… resisting. Their menu is never calling my name, but on Friday, it was! We headed over and grabbed a spot on the rooftop patio then had beers and dinner and I really liked both, but the best part is just being able to hang out together outside on a Friday night ♥ Afterward, we went home and watched this movie Adam loaned us and it was quite the stacked cast! I was not prepared for the ending, but up until then I had found a lot of it really funny? Where has Christina Ricci disappeared to anyway??
Joey has been doing this thing where he wakes up too early on the weekend, so I woke up to him asking “wanna go to Snooze??” on Saturday morning, but I had a headache from my one beer the night before (WHY THOUGH?) and politely declined. I did eventually get up and make us both yogurt bowls though. We had an engagement party to attend at noon and don’t worry, we were first in line when the taco bar opened up 😛
Afterward, we hit up Best Buy so we could improve our outdoor movie sound system (success!) and then spent some time trying to get our projector hooked up to a streaming system, which involved Joey projecting the picture onto our ceiling. When we finally got it all working, we maybe watching an episode of Friends up there. Post-dinner (Loaded Summer Chili Fries is the new Spicy Black Bean Burrito Bowl, meaning it’s the summer dinner I can’t stop repeating), my sister and Wayne came over for movie night. At the beginning of the summer, Joey said he wanted to watch The Mighty Ducks in our backyard and we finally made it happen. I thought I’d seen it in bits and pieces, but after watching it all the way through, I realized I definitely hadn’t. I kept waiting for Kenan to show up and that apparently doesn’t happen until the second movie. Also, I thought all the regret over his failed career as a hockey player meant Gordon Bombay had been in the NHL and quit, but then it turns he had only played till he was 10 years old?? Wow, and I thought I held onto things too long!
Standard Sunday Content: two food pictures and nothing in between. We really did go to Snooze this time! I got my hair cut a few hours later and she was like “how do you go to Snooze and not wait for hours??” but the answer is that we never go unless we’re up early! We were sat right away and despite my attempts to order a regular sized pancake for us to share, we always end up with the giant one. After my hair cut, I hit up the mall and it was actually extremely successful but even so, I don’t understand how anyone enjoys shopping. I feel like it sucks the life out of me!
Back at home, my outdoor reading attempt followed by Joey finally making it home for a loooooong fantasy football draft and then we made a fun summer dinner of a Grilled Onion Blossom (we made this last year too and it’s really good and easy!) + Crispy Chicken Cutlets with Cherry Tomato Panzanella that I thought was really good but Joey seemed stressed out by because the chicken took longer to cook than the recipe said it would. Wait, am I the laid-back cook in the house now?? Please tell me what you’re doing to live out these last few moments of summer!
Life as Lauren 