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Super Bowl Weekend Things

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Hi there.  It’s Lauren, reporting from the super sad state of Colorado and that has nothing to do with the fact that it pretty much snowed all weekend.  I joked yesterday that my life would be completely unchanged by the outcome of the Super Bowl, but it turns out that even I feel depressed today.  I imagine every Super Bowl party in Colorado was as equally tense and quiet as the one I was at yesterday.  I think I’d like to go back to watching a Super Bowl between two teams I don’t care about at all.  In happier news, Bruno Mars?!  Amazing!

Much less depressing things took place during the rest of the weekend.  Like Friday night at… the movie theater!  I know, you probably didn’t even see that coming because my winter weekends are not predictable at all, right?

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Remember when I said we saw 12 Years a Slave at a super funky and tiny theater in Denver?  This is their other theater.  It’s much bigger and much funkier.  We saw all five of the Live Action Shorts that are nominated for Oscars this year.  It was by far, one of the coolest things I’ve seen at a movie theater!

Saturday called for a hot breakfast — in addition to being on a green smoothie kick, I’m also back on an oatmeal kick after being kind of sick of it for basically the past year and a half — and um, Harry Potter?  I planned on re-reading the entire series but I’m halfway through the third book and kind of don’t care anymore.

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But the highlight of Saturday — and that’s really saying something because I also got a facial, had lunch with my dad and saw a fun live band with Hannah, Josh and Fletcher that night — was our first cake tasting!  Any Food Network Challenge fans out there?  You know Keegan Gerhard, the host?  He owns a restaurant/bakery in Denver called D Bar Desserts, so we obviously had to taste their cake.

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For the record, Keegan was not there, but I didn’t even care because I had all this!  A team of two adorable cake bakers put together three mini sample cakes, then supplied us each with a slice of three different cake flavors and a plate of all their fillings so we could mix and match as we pleased.  Joey went into a sugar coma midway through but recovered in time to eat a few more bites of cake.  We have two more cake tastings to do so I plan of being 5 pounds heavier by the end of this month 🙂

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Let’s see, we already discussed the worst parts of Sunday so let’s keep to happier topics of conversation.  Like this Super Bowl Saison we picked up for the festivities.  I may have dropped this growler in the car during the drive and it started fizzing everywhere.  I attempted to tighten the cap and that just made things worse.  Oopsie!

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I can always count on Josh’s family to provide good food.  If you’ve never eaten a Mexican eggroll, you haven’t lived.  Then I filled out this proposition bet sheet.  Turns out it’s a lot easier to do if you don’t know what half of the football terms are.  One of the questions was what kind of hat Bruno Mars would be wearing, so when he came out at half time, someone pointed out that he wasn’t wearing one, to which Hannah’s dad responded, “That’s not a hat??”  Best moment of the game!

Did you watch the Super Bowl?

Confessions

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I tried carrying four ears of corn in one hand on Sunday night.

Now would be a good time to mention that I have small hands.  Not suitable for four large ears of corn.  I was carrying said ears onto our patio to put them on the grill when one fell out of my hand, rolled across the patio and fell two stories into a pile of rocks.  If there was ever a time to be grateful that our downstairs neighbors keep their patio blinds closed, it was on Sunday night when I had to sneak into their “backyard” to retrieve that corn.  Oopsie!

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I love Kareem Abdul-Jabar.

Okay, career-wise, I know next to nothing about KAJ (basketball, right??) but a month ago I signed up for this little email project thing someone organized with a bunch of random celebrities — Every Monday I get an email that compiles a bunch of emails previously written by those celebrities.  Basically, there’s a topic and they all have to search their sent folder for a message that fits that topic — and he happens to be one of them.  I find it to be a totally intimate look into the life/personality of the participants and every single one of KAJ’s emails has been poised, intelligent and caring.  In other words, he seems like the definition of a stand up guy.  If you’re interested, the project is called “We Think Alone” and you can still sign up 🙂

We went to the Bruno Mars concert on Monday night at Red Rocks.

Someone had tee many martoonis.  Just kidding, no one drinks martinis at a concert.  But it may have been vodka lemonades instead.

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Anyways, Bruno sounded amazing and I most likely embarrassed everyone that was with me by dancing the entire time.  And another confession: I love going to concerts by performers who only have one or two CDs.  It means you’ll probably get to hear every single song and still be in bed by midnight, which is ideal for a Monday night concert.

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Psst, check out the light shining onto Denver in the background of this picture.  The promise land!

We put in our first offer on a house!

Unfortunately, the seller took a higher offer but it was exciting for a minute there.  I’ve decided to bounce back and move on instead of being disappointed.  We didn’t want that shitty house anyways! 😛

I just bought the new Civil Wars CD.

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I know, I just bought the old CD like two weeks ago but I’m already loving the new one.  There’s a cover of a Smashing Pumpkins song and I think I listened to it about 5 times before I even realized it was a cover — they have this knack for making covers sounds so completely different from the original — but I think my favorite is “Dust to Dust.”  Also, Adele tweeted about how good the album was and I fell even more in love with her.

I need one of these.

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We had dinner over at Joey’s aunt and uncle’s on Tuesday night and they pulled out S’mores and these pie irons for dessert.  The iron opens up so you can fill it with bread and pie filling, then you toast the whole thing over the fire.  It reminded me of the good old Toas-tite that my mom inherited from her dad.  We used to make some amazing breakfast flying saucer creations with that thing.  Ah, memories.

We’re going to “the cabin” this weekend and I might actually be excited.

Who else thinks this would be the perfect occasion to locate that aforementioned Toas-tite and make a campfire meal with it?

Happy Friday!