Category: Weekend Things

Weekend Things

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Hi, guys.  Sorry to be a bore on this finally sunny Monday afternoon, but this post is going to a little picture-less.  I really try to snap a picture of the fun things I do over the weekend, but I’m also part of team “I’m not posting pictures with crappy lighting or ugly backgrounds,” plus I really don’t like to force things and sometimes I’m just not into taking a picture of every moment of my weekend.  Such was the case for this past one.  And because picture-less word heavy posts probably don’t appeal to most of you, I’ll keep it short and sweet.  Ready, go!

Friday: A soaking office floor (yay rain…), dinner at home and beers out with friends to celebrate a birthday.

Highlight: Watching a girl by herself on the dance floor for at least an hour.  Eventually a guy got up and danced with her and we all cheered like crazy.  I would never do what she did, but good for her and her (probably alcohol-induced) sense of self-confidence.

Saturday: I spent most of the day at Hannah’s dad’s house, where she grew up (and where I basically grew up too), helping clean up from the flood water that more or less destroyed his lower level.  I was on picture clean up duty, but there was a gang of people there to gut the basement.  I was so sad to see the scene of my childhood down to the studs but the number of people who showed up to lend a hand was no less than astounding and completely heartwarming.

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I still can’t believe the amount of mud that was on the street.  I’m so glad I own this pair of rain boots.

Highlight: Saturday also happened to be Josh’s birthday.  There’s nothing like spending all day gutting a basement on your birthday to really say “Welcome to adulthood!”  Anyways, later that night we all headed over to Joey’s brothers place to watch the Canelo vs. Mayweather fight and I believe I speak for all of us when I say, “What the hell was Justin Bieber doing there?!”  And also, why do we refer to Canelo by his first name but Mayweather by his last?  I don’t get it.

Sunday: rain, groceries, laundry, more rain, more errands and soup.

Highlight: Everything but the rain.  We made this Green Lentil Soup with Curried Brown Butter and holy amazing!  I think this will become a soup season staple.  Also, between a trip to Lowe’s and a trip to Home Depot we now have ten TEN samples of gray paint.  Help.

P.S. Be glad I decided against photographing that lentil soup 😛

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Weekend Things

Lauren9 Comments

Oh hi, bad blogger here. I wish I had a better explanation for why I’m lacking pictures from a majority of the weekend, but it’s really just because I didn’t do anything on Saturday that I felt was “picture-worthy.” Unless you call watching six episodes of Six Feet Under and getting a haircut picture-worthy. I certainly don’t. I feel like the next two weeks are going to be the calm before the storm (aka moving), so I’m pretty okay with a few low key weekends. Plus, I know it will officially be fall later this month, but it just keeps getting hotter here in Colorado so it just feels right to laze about all day in the AC.

Guess what started back up? Beer in hand kickball! Which means I’m back to doing things like showing up halfway through the game so as not to be forced to fill in for any of the missing ladies on the team. That is my nightmare and yes, I’m that traumatized by P.E. class kickball.

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This is both teams during the half time “social,” aka a game of flip cup without any flipping of cups. They positioned Joey as the anchor and all I could think was, “Don’t these people know we’re in bed at 10:30 on Friday nights, neither of us know how to chug beer!” Lucky for him the other team finished before he even had his turn.

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I dragged my sister to the game with me with promises of going somewhere fun in Denver afterwards. A friend recommended Scratch to us and it happened to be a few blocks away so we walked over. The restaurant and patio definitely had a fun feel and the menu looked delicious (a bunch of interesting burrito combos!) so we ordered food and drinks at the counter and grabbed a patio seat. This margarita was horrible! And my sister ordered a Moscow Mule that was made with bourbon instead of vodka. YUCK.

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Don’t let that smile fool you. FORTY MINUTES LATER, this lack luster burrito was delivered to me. That’s a long wait in a sit down restaurant, let alone a place where you order at a counter! Someone did eventually come out and apologize for the wait but I was so over it by then. I’ll take my business to Chipotle next time. I bet they even make a better margarita and the bill won’t be $45… End rant.

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Seriously, nothing of interest occurred on Saturday. Except maybe Joey painting over the red in our “dining room.” We had some leftover gray from our living room that actually covered the FOUR COATS of red we used. Who let us do that?! Our apartment complex will re-paint everything for us but they don’t deal with red so we needed to get rid of the evidence 😛 Mean while, I got my hair cut, went to the grocery store and made 4 pizza doughs. If you think that makes me an unhelpful girlfriend, then that makes two of us.

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Today has involved a 6 mile run, which exhausted me 😦 and a CSA tour at our farm (which is Red Wagon Organic Farm in case you live in CO and are curious).

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We drank mint water (uh yum!), took a hay ride over to the hoop house where they grow their zebra and heirloom tomatoes and fed some llamas. I climbed into the wagon for the hay ride and a lady (with A LOT of empty space next to her!) didn’t move over for us and we were so crammed/about to fall out the back of the thing. I was sitting uncomfortably close to her and she didn’t even seem to notice. Some people. Anyways, I also saw a llama running down a hill at full speed and now life before that moment feels meaningless.

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P.S. We forgot to take our trash to the dumpster on our way out to the farm so before stopping at Buffalo Wild Wings to watch the early football games, we did this to avoid smelling up the car. Classy, eh?

P.P.S. I sat through an hour and a half of football with five guys before calling it quits and taking myself to lunch at Whole Foods. I don’t know why Joey thought it was a good idea to bring me or why he wouldn’t let me bring a book or why I thought they’re might be any non-football related talk that I could take part in. Never again 😛

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