Wednesday Randoms

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Yesterday was National Pancake Day!  Did you celebrate?  Please say yes.  We took ourselves to Snooze for pancake flights, latte art and sugar comas.  I was maybe too excited and dreamt about it the night before.  Totally normal.

Yesterday was also Mardi Gras!  Which means I wore beads to work, listened to a Mardi Gras music station all day just to hear the one song I know, “Carnival Time” and made Red Beans (our best batch yet!) for dinner.  Oh and Joey and I officially decided we’re going to the real Mardi Gras next year.  Ya hear that, Uncle? 🙂

I had all the documents and pictures on my college laptop recovered and I was expecting Throwback Thursday material for days, but it turns out it’s just pictures of food.  Like all of it.  And the more I thought about it, I didn’t even know how I took pictures prior to when I started blogging in 2010 or what I did with those pictures after I took them.

Coming to terms with the fact that the Oscars are this Sunday and I’m probably not going to see all the Best Picture nominees by then.  Think we’ll sneak in American Sniper this weekend but Selma and The Theory of Everything are probably not happening.

Sometimes you show up to the gym and discover it’s closed for President’s Day.  Noooooo!

If you’re wondering about the history of SNL, — Chevy Chase drama, Norm Mcdonald drama, Lorne Michaels drama — I’m your girl.  #SuckedIntoTheBlackHoleOfWikipedia  But please ask in the next 24 hours, because I regularly empty my brain, so as to refill it with other useless knowledge.

They are starting trivia at the pizza place down the street from our house.  This is both the best and most dangerous thing to ever happen.

I recently read an article titled “10 Things You Should Know Before Getting Into a Relationship with Someone Who Loves Food.”  And actually, I couldn’t relate to any of it except this line: “I hope you don’t feel uncomfortable being the third wheel when you go out to eat.  You’ll grow to accept this role in your partner’s life, I promise.”  Joey is totally the third wheel.

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P.S. This happened last night.

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Valentine’s Weekend Things

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Friday

A day of awesome surprises!  Our field superintendent left a bouquet of roses in each of the girls’ offices at work.  How sweet is that?  Followed by the discovery of a King Cake from Emily on my porch when I got home from work.  I literally screamed when I saw the box.  Do I have the best cousin ever, or what?  Then I found a Valentine’s Day card from my mom in the mail and my heart burst from too many displays of affection in one day.

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Oh and Jen WON THE JEOPARDY TOURNAMENT.  I mean !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  That is so crazy cool!  I, on the other hand, just kept calling out wrong answer after wrong answer, so I think it’s safe to say I’ll never be on Jeopardy.

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Valentine’s Day!

I woke up to find this embarrassingly large display of balloons in our kitchen.  I have no idea where Joey was hiding these, considering our house is like 800 square feet, but he is seriously the best.  He also gave me a new Rockies jersey and the most perfect card.  After card exchanging and present swapping (I got him a coffee grinder), we made ourselves a festive breakfast of red heart shaped pancakes.  Fact: Heart shaped food is 10x more fun than regular shaped food.

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Later, we took ourselves outside for a run that ended at our coffee shop where the windows were wide open and the sunshine was streaming in.  Going on a run means I didn’t have my phone with me and it was kind of nice to feel completely unplugged and just share coffee and conversation with my favorite person.  Except when I saw a little heart sticker on the ground during our walk home and I wanted to Instagram that so bad.

After cleaning ourselves up, we went to see the Oscar-nominated live action short films and the experience was… weird.  It was us and mostly… ahem, older people there and everyone else was laughing at EVERYTHING.  Joey and I felt like we’d missed the memo because nothing seemed very funny.  It was kind of distracting and we left feeling pretty confused.

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We Ubered to and from downtown Denver for dinner at Panzano and while our actual entrées were kind of a let down, the strong cocktails, awesome service, cool atmosphere and mussel appetizer is making me forget about any entrée disappointment and say it was overall a great experience.  Oh and we ordered a fig cake dessert even though I was already painfully full and then because I hate myself, I decided we should order espresso (“like we did in Europe!”) with dessert.  Yeah, because I totally hadn’t already had enough caffeine already that day.

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Cut to me not sleeping that night.  Like really, I think I got maybe three hours?  Instead, I pinned pictures of gallery walls and made a “To Do” list for Sunday.  If I didn’t think it would’ve woken Joey up, I probably would’ve started on that list right then.  Please remind me not to do that with caffeine ever again.

Sunday

Before tackling “the list” on Sunday, we had breakfast with my family — gosh, I love our local breakfast joint so much! — and my mom totally spoiled me (per usual) with Valentine’s gifts.  She got me little heart straws and fancy salt in the cutest jars!  Why is she so perfect?!  We spent the rest of the day being entirely too productive.  I touched up some paint that’s needed fixing for SO LONG, painted another chalk wall in our laundry room, cooked red beans and rice (Mardi Gras is tomorrow!), shined all my silver jewelry, made dinner and watched five episodes of FNL while Joey tackled our guest bedroom.  It looks AWESOME in there!  I love when he’s on board with my house reno plans 🙂

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14Best part of all our Sunday productivity?  We were done and cleaned up by 7 PM, just in time to watch the SNL 40th Anniversary Special, along with everyone else in America.  What can I say, guys?  It was so perfect.  Though the show has definitely had its ups and downs, it was so entirely awesome to see all the SNL greats together to honor a show that’s been a part of all of our lives for so long.  Also, Fallon and Sanz 2016!

And now I am in total denial that the weekend is over.  More please!