Tag: Chipotle

Weekend Things: This Is Fall

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I woke up to this on Friday morning.

Snow?  I’m so not ready for snow.  Or cold.  Or anything even remotely winter-y.  If I had my way, I’d hit the pause button on the last week of September and live with that weather for the rest of my life.

On the plus side, cooler fall temps make Starbucks taste extra good.

This new little Starbucks popped up last week.  Only three weeks after they started building it!  It’s a new thing Starbucks is trying.  The store is teeny tiny, with only enough room for a few baristas and customers can’t even go inside.  There is a walk-up window though.  I can’t decide if it’s strange or cool.

I could totally get used to seeing these kinds of fall colors when I walk around our neighborhood.  Please don’t tell me that in a few weeks these will all have fallen.  I don’t think I can handle it.

Fall also brings Joey’s brother’s birthday.  I can’t say this enough: I love other people’s birthdays!  We went out to a Brazilian steakhouse in Denver to celebrate.  Basically, waiters walk around with meat on giant spears and you get a little card that signals weather you want a piece or not.  Do you know how many different cuts of beef there are??

Then Joey and I pretended it was actually our birthday and got our own dessert.

I left declaring I was never eating again.

Until Chipotle Thursday the next day.

Which has nothing to do with it being fall.  Or even the weekend, technically.  My blog, my rules.

I totally dig the beer and football season thing.  Except for the football part.

Nothing is more fall than chili.  And just like Starbucks, chili is better when it’s…well, when it’s chili.

A hot homemade breakfast with my family is like hitting the jackpot when you come in from the cold outside.

 

 

Just a typical Sunday morning with dogs barking, babies wandering, 3-year-olds causing trouble and adults trying to fit in a word edgewise.

And maybe acting like kids too.

I let my mom’s dachshund off the leash for probably the first time ever and she went nuts, running around as fast as she could.  It was adorable.  And so was the fact that my nephew who usually wants nothing to do with me, wouldn’t let me leave his side all morning.

I’m guessing he forgets all about liking me by the next time I see him.

Also back, is Joey and I’s tradition of seeing an early morning Saturday movie.  When it’s cool outside and hiking season is sadly over, seeing a movie (for cheap!) seems like the next best thing.  We saw Pitch Perfect and both loved it.  But more on that later, I’m off for more October birthday celebrating.

I love other people’s birthdays!

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What did you do this weekend?

What are your favorite fall things?

Have cold temperatures reached your neck of the woods?  Did I really just say “neck of the woods?”

 

10 Stupid Things I Did This Week

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1. Spent time and money at a totally disappointing Jason Mraz concert.

Why didn’t I buy Mumford and Sons tickets instead??  On a totally unrelated note, I bought their new CD this week and have had it on repeat ever since.  That banjo just never gets old.

2. Spilt my entire beer on my kitchen counter.

Joey found this hilarious.  The more I whined about it, the funnier it was.  Apparently.  At least it didn’t get on the tomatoes I was chopping.  And at least we have about a billion more in the fridge.

3. Papercut myself about 6 times at work.

This one felt particularly good.  FYI, it is possible to paper cut your mouth while licking an envelope.

4. Bought cottage cheese at the grocery store.

It’s almost been a week and I still haven’t opened it.  And the chances I ever do are slim to none.  I’m not that into cottage cheese, but it just sounded so good right at that moment in the grocery.

5. Filled out my passport application in the wrong color ink.

Not like I was using a lime green gel pen or anything, it was just a blue pen, but when you take into account how careful I was when I filled out the application, only to end up having to fill out a new one at the post office, then it’s pretty stupid.

6. Picked this package up from my apartment complex leasing office.

It was delivered in February.

Months and months ago someone from Cheerios contacted me and said they wanted to send me a box of peanut butter Cheerios.  I was totally fine with that.  But then they never came and I was pretty sure someone had just been messing with me.  Turns out FedEx just never left a note saying my package would be in the office.

I’m not the product review type, but thanks anyways for the free goodies, Cheerios!

7. Let Joey record every single new TV show.

I watched 30 seconds of Neighbors and lost brain cells that I will never get back.  My strategy for convincing Joey how bad most of these shows are involves ruthlessly shaming him for watching them until he finally gives in and agrees with me.  I’m not proud.

8. Put oatmeal on the stove, set the stove to HIGH instead medium-low and got in the shower.

I think you can probably guess what I was surprised with when I got out of the shower and I’m sure you can visualize what the bottom of the pan looked like afterwards.  I don’t really have to guess what it smelled like because it still smells like burnt oatmeal in my apartment.

I’m just better off not cooking and going to Chipotle, right?

9. Watched Glee.

Gosh, I hate that show.  And will continue watching and complaining about it until it’s all over.  I need help.

10. Let the last Rockies home games of the season go by without attending any.

This would have been more sad if they hadn’t done so badly this year.  Joey is possibly the biggest Rockies fan ever and still watches the games and cares about whether they win or lose.  It’s adorable.

The real tragedy here is that we never even used the “Dinger Dollars” we won for playing the high-speed trivia challenge at the very beginning of the season.  We probably could have bought at least 1.5 beers with that credit!!!

Until next season, Rockies and until next time, friends!