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Weekend Things

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I am sick.  AGAIN!  For those of you keeping tally, yes that would be three times in 4 months.  I now officially sound like a broken record and frustrated doesn’t even begin to describe what I’m feeling right now.  In addition to feeling frustrated, I feel like someone has been sitting on my chest for the past week, like I can’t breathe from my nose, and like the amount of coughing I’m doing is about to start a fire in my throat.  My staying out till midnight on a Tuesday night probably had nothing to do with my inability to recover at all this week.

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Hannah, Beanie and I saw Mean Girls at Film on the Rocks this week and it was a blast.  Just so much girl power going on!  Not to mention Mean Girls is the best!

I swear I actually do want to feel better, but it’s summer and there’s just so many fun things to be doing on the weekend that I can’t help myself and end up doing everything but resting.  Friday popped up this week and all I could do was spend the entire day trying to convince Joey that we should be taking a half day at work.  I settled for a fun lunch break at Udi’s, which I always forget is pretty close to our office.

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I also always forget just how much I love a good Udi’s sandwich for lunch.  This totally hit the spot.  As soon as the work day was over, I was like “cold, what cold?” and all I could think about was a glass of white wine.  Bur first, we picked up the makings for a new brew — an IPA to be exact — that called for 5 different bags of hops.  I think the most we’ve ever  had to buy for one batch of beer was two bags?  This one is going to be hoppy, to say the least.

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My idea of resting is to only have two glasses of wine and throw an indoor picnic.  We cooked up a delicious dinner, threw down a blanket and picked out a movie from our Netflix queue.  The movie — The Go-Getter — was good, but not life changing and the ending was kind of strange.  At least I was in bed at a decent hour that night, right?

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I think Saturday was what did me in.  We had our company picnic at Elitch’s and there was just no way I was going to miss that.  I hadn’t been to Elitch’s in years and I can’t pass up an opportunity to ride a roller coaster.  Or you know, all of the roller coasters.  Joey hates them but his cousins were with us so I had someone to ride with.  Four beers later Joey was volunteering himself to ride a “loop-di-loop” coaster with me.  He was pretty much done riding rides after that 😛

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I also held Joey’s cousin’s teeny tiny 1-month-old baby for about 2 minutes before he started to stir and I got totally freaked out.  A bunch of our co-workers rode this crazy slingshot ride that launches you a billion feet in the air and then revolves as you come falling back down.  I felt nauseas just watching them all.  I’m all for roller coasters but I would never in a million years go on something like that.

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I’d like to pretend I went home and rested after the park, but my friend Jenn’s mom was throwing a surprise birthday dinner for her and there was no way I was missing that.  Besides, beer and ice cream cake are basically medicine, right?  I’d never had this Tommyknocker Maple Nut Brown Ale but I loved it!  Joey is always making it sound like brown ales are disgusting but he’s so wrong.

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But I guess it’s not the elixir of life either because I basically spent the entire drive home coughing like I’ve never coughed before.  I’m guessing no one is feeling any sympathy for me, though 🙂  I swear I’m making a concentrated effort to take it easy today.  I’m even staying home from a family BBQ in honor of my niece’s birthday, which was this past Tuesday.  I’m totally bummed but I’m guessing no one wants to catch what I have anyways.

Hoping you all enjoy what’s left of your weekend!

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What did you do this weekend?

Do you like roller coasters?

Do you find it hard to take it easy when you’re not feeling well?

Weekend Things

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I hope you all had a wonderful Father’s Day Weekend.  My own dad was out of town until yesterday afternoon, so we got together later in the day for a little Father’s Day dinner.  My mom put me in charge of the simple syrup for some mint juleps we made.  She must really trust me to put me in charge of such a big task like melting sugar into water.

Anyways, there were a lot of things I thought I was going to do this weekend, like deep clean my kitchen (ha!), eat breakfast at Jelly Cafe in Capitol Hill, sleep in, watch the Rockies win and replace the sweater I lost in Vegas last month, but…most of that didn’t happen.  Instead…

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I watched the Rockies blow a 5 run lead in the 6th to lose the game.  Come on!  I distracted myself with beer and the beautiful Colorado sunset.  Can you make out the mountains way in the background?

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Can I just say that I have been jonesing for a Bloody Mary lately.  Every time Joey goes golfing he comes home and tells me about how he had one and I’m always jealous.  My solution to this very serious problem was to pick out a new breakfast restaurant for us to try on Saturday morning.  I picked a place called Jelly Cafe and was at a loss when we showed up and it was closed due to “unforeseeable circumstances.”  Plan B: Snooze!

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By the time we got there, there was a pretty sizable crowd waiting outside, but the wait was only 30 minutes (nothing compared to the 1 hour and 45-minutes I’ve waited there previously) so we hung out in the sun and waited for a table.

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Side note: Joey has thee shiniest pair of Oakley’s and I am constantly taking pictures of things reflected in them.  And I’m going to pretend he appreciates that I do this…

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As crowded as it always is, I actually know quite a few people who don’t really like Snooze.  My two cents is that it’s probably not the best food in the world, but the atmosphere, the fun menu options and the fact that I can get a flight of unique pancakes puts me in the “I love Snooze” camp.  Also, I’m game for anywhere with an extensive breakfast drink menu.

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Long-awaited Bloody Mary!  I ordered the “Bloody Maria” and actually liked Joey’s “El Mejor” (above!) better.  It wasn’t quite as spicy and had a cool pepper salt on the rim.

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As you can imagine, this tableful of food launched me into a small food coma and I was basically falling asleep on the couch when my mom rang to tell me she had a cancellation and could fit me in for a 1 o’clock massage.  Seriously the best.  Spent the afternoon on our teeny patio, reading and sipping an iced coffee then headed to a yoga class.  Happy Saturday, indeed.

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Saturday ended with these adorably rustic spinach-ricotta calzones.  Homemade, mind you!

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And then we hit up a late showing of the Great Gatsby.  We went to this tiny movie theater that’s a little on the older side and it was pretty deserted.  I was pretty sure we were going to be the only people in the theater, but to my dismay another couple came in at the last minute.  Which was mostly a bummer because I was ready to loudly talk during the movie.

I just read Gatsby in March so it was really fresh in my mind and I thought it was pretty authentic to the book.  Except that part where Nick Carroway was in an insane asylum — what the heck was that about??  That being said, I wasn’t a huge fan of the movie, but only because I’m also not a huge fan of the book.  I just find it incredibly disappointing that Gatsby isn’t actually suave or confident or really all that sane.

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Yesterday was pretty quiet.  And let’s not talk about how those mint juleps turned out.  Holy strong!  My sister and I eventually traded ours in for margaritas, which are much more my kind of drink.

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What did you do this weekend?

Have you read or seen the Great Gatsby?

What’s your mixed drink of choice?