Category: Weekend Things

Weekend Things: The Start of the Kitchen Remodel

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Ladies and gentlemen, an ode to my husband who single-handedly installed our new kitchen sink this weekend!

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To say I’m in love (with the sink, but also with Joey) would be a huge huge understatement.  Long story short, we finally got around to ordering new countertops last week and they’re coming to measure tomorrow so the sink suddenly needed to be installed and more importantly, level.  Sounds easy, but when your house was built in 1908, nothing is really level.  Look, I don’t know how he does it, but he always gets it done.  And THE SINK.  Would you just look at it?  I’ve never been so excited to do dishes in my life.

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In other weekend news, you know you’re 25 and married when you do your grocery shopping on a Friday night and look forward to staying in to eat dinner in your sweatpants and watch TV.  Oh wait, that’s what I do every night.  Did you know John Mayer hosted the Late Late Show for three days last week?  Yeah, as in a singer/musician with no hosting experience was running the program.  IT WAS THE BEST.  Those of you who aren’t crazy Mayer superfans probably don’t know that he is FUNNY, but seriously, he is.  Also, he had a “Croon Cam.”  Nuff said.

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Saturday, when Joey was starting the kitchen work — hey, for the record, I did help carry out the old countertop/sink — I was extra excited that I had a massage and facial scheduled.  And they both felt so amazing.  I had a half hour between appointments, so I took myself out in the miserable 70 degree weather and enjoyed some reading in the sunshine.  I’m in the middle of Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness and it is extremely fascinating and well-written.

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My mom bought me an amazing orchid and this is what happened when I tried to drive it home with the windows rolled down on the highway.  I thought the highway was just really dirty, then I looked over and realized it was all the soil from the plant.  Oops!  But it was actually pretty funny and it also forced me to vacuum out my car, which I’ve needed to do for… uh too long anyway.  And now my orchid is living a happy life in my bedroom and I’m determined not to kill it.

P.S. Please note that bag of cookies in the first picture, that my mom also gave me.  White chocolate chip oatmeal, mmmmm.

P.P.S. We rented The Judge on Saturday night and while I liked the movie, I didn’t think anyone individually gave an Oscar-worthy performance.

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Totally wasn’t going to get all hopped up on caffeine yesterday, but Joey suggested we take a walk to our favorite coffee shop and who am I to argue with the person who gave me the farmhouse sink of my dreams?  Followed by a day of feeling anxious, distracted and irritable.  Oh and pretty sure I didn’t sleep last night.  Fun times!  After consuming this, I took myself to the gym.  It was sunny and in the 60’s but it was also WINDY and I’m such a baby about the wind.  I mustered two whole miles before calling it quits.

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When I got home, Joey and I cleaned ourselves up and went to lunch!  I am forever torn between my desire to cook in my own kitchen and to try all the amazing restaurants we have in Denver.  Dining out won that day.  We went to the Slotted Spoon which is a meatball restaurant that offers subs, pastas and salads using those meatballs.  I got a chicken meatball sub and I kept getting an occasional taste of…dirt?  I think it was just some herb in the sauce that my taste buds weren’t liking — Joey thought I was crazy — but otherwise, we loved this place and I already want to go back.

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When we got back home, Joey proceeded to hook up the actual plumbing for the sink and I proceeded to wash two days worth of dishes in the bathroom sink.  Such fun!  Not.  And then I somehow cooked dinner without countertops or running water in the kitchen.  I’m magic!  But it really wasn’t so bad.  And I can sum up the rest of our night with one word… Grammys!  I tweeted all the tweets and probably don’t have any followers left.  I couldn’t help it!

What did you do this weekend?

Super Bowl Weekend Things

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Happy Groundhog Day!  Though I think I’d rather be at home watching the movie, than at work.

It’s funny, I was checking my Time Hop (still so in love with that app!) on Saturday morning, and it was filled with pictures of snowy Colorado trees, the Mayan movie theater, saisons and Super Bowl talk and it’s like deja vu — this year was filled with the same things!  As in we were at the Mayan on Friday night, it snowed on Saturday night, we tapped our newest brew (a saison, of course) on Sunday and duh, it was the Super Bowl on Sunday.  How weird is that?

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We took ourselves to a late movie — we’re talking 10 PM, people — and only once did I think “I’m going to fall asleep during this movie,” but I made it through.  I liked Imitation Game but I also kind of wished I hadn’t seen previews containing all the important lines/moments for the past 3 months.  I felt it kind of lessened the impact.  Also, Joey and I agreed that the ending was a little unfocused.  I’ll be honest though, the best part of the movie was when we were walking out and Joey spotted the popcorn that the theater staff had bagged and left out for anyone to take.  That look on his face!  It takes so little to make him happy.

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We had breakfast and coffee the next morning at 2914 Coffee and this little bee I spotted on the sidewalk when we left pretty much sums up how I felt afterwards.  Buzzzzzzzz.  The coffee shop was pretty cute — and how great is it that you can order an almond milk latte everywhere nowadays — but it was pretty busy in there and okay, this is so nitpicky but I wanted my latte in a cute mug and unless you order a large, they serve it to you in a to go cup.  I want to pretend that annoys me because it’s less environmentally friendly, but really it’s because mugs are cuter.  Priorities, right?

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After my usual Saturday yoga class — it was so full and I had to come home and confess to Joey that I accidentally touched another guy’s butt — we met Bobby and Becca for dinner and drinks downtown.  And holy busy, Denver!  We tried three restaurants that were on an hour and a half wait before finally landing ourselves at Wazee Supper Club.  Afterwards, we took B&B over to Union Station for the first time.  They were pretty impressed, so I guess my obsession is warranted.  And when we left, we discovered SNOW.  Like lots of snow!  I think it had been in the forecast but not that much of it that fast.

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I think I could take pictures of snow topped tree branches forever.  But I’ll spare you and just share these two.  The first one was out side of the rec center where every single person in Denver happened to be on Sunday morning… apparently.  Can we all agree that if it’s extremely busy, you can only hog the treadmill for 30 minutes TOPS?  I thought that was a well known rule of the gym, but the two girls I saw on there for AN HOUR clearly had never heard that before.

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As for the Super Bowl, we took ourselves and a fresh growler of our “Super Bowl Saison” over to Josh’s parents’ house to watch the game.  Or if you’re me, your eyes were pointing towards the TV, yet you had no idea what was going on.  It’s a gift to be able to do this.  But whether you were rooting for the Patriots or the Seahawks (those were the teams, right?) or didn’t care at all, I think we can all agree on one thing.  MISSY FREAKIN ELLIOT.  She showed up and filled a hole in our hearts that we didn’t even know was there.  It almost made me forget those palm trees with mouths and those dancing sharks.  Almost.