Tag: date night

A Day in the Life

LaurenLeave a comment

Guys!  Do you like these kinds of posts?  I’m totally nosey about other people’s lives so I love seeing them and thought it’d be fun to do one of my own again.  Written in real time on Thursday but seeing as it’s Friday when you’re reading it, I guess I should say “Happy Weekending!”

**********************************

When you plan on waking up at 6 AM, you should probably not stay up late watching the Olympics the night before.  I know this, yet I did it anyway.  Summer Olympics only happen once every four years and I must watch every possible second!  “Strawberry Fields Forever” wakes me up, I hit snooze once then reluctantly drag myself out of bed, and into my running clothes.  By 6:20, I’m off!

IMG_3719

My 3-miler ends up not being so bad and lo and behold I might actually be in a better mood now!  Probably because I saw a pumpkin-sized round zucchini growing in someone’s yard and found it really funny.  Also, full disclosure: I tried really hard not to run super slow because I knew I’d be taking a picture of my results.

IMG_3721

Back at home, I shower and get ready.  Joey delivers me a glass of iced coffee at 7:15 and I love him just a little bit more.  Breakfast is overnight oats, granola and peanut butter (on loop all summer long) while I watch this fascinating Ryan Lochte vs. Brazilian Authorities story unfold on the Today Show.  I have a lot of opinions on this matter, none of which I’ll subject you to.

IMG_3722

We’re in the middle of a renovation at our office and it is a complete mess.  It’s going to be really nice once it’s all complete but right now it’s ripped up carpet, dust everywhere and whatever is going on in my ceiling.  Oh and hammering, lots and lots of hammering.  This does, however, give me an excuse to quote my favorite Christmas movie over and over again.  There’s a hole for an eventual window in Joey’s wall and I keep using it to enter and exit his office, because I can!

IMG_3720

Joey has just enough time between meetings — he’s spearheading this whole renovation — to eat lunch with me.  Salads-in-a-jar with tarragon vinaigrette, chickpeas, cucumber, tomatoes, feta, romaine and slivered almonds.  All week, we’ve been escaping the dust to eat lunch at a park down the street but no time today.  C’est la vie.  Lunch is cut short when at least five bees swarm our table and we decide we’ve had enough of the outdoors for one day.

IMG_3723

The reno crew leaves around 2:30 every day, at which time our office suddenly feels eerily quiet.  I wish I could tell you something exciting happened work-wise, but it’s a pretty mundane Thursday.  Ordering, invoicing, filing, texting my sister about guacamole.  Oh and I see this and come really close to crying at my desk.  Bookmarking this restaurant for one day when I make it to Atlanta!

IMG_3728

I’m the type of person who’s hyper aware of when 5 PM hits so I’m kind of thrown off guard when Joey comes into my office ready to leave and I hadn’t even realized it was time yet!  We make it home, check our garden — patty pan squash are looking NICE — and watch an episode of Seinfeld, but then it’s date night!  It was rainy towards the end of the workday but now the skies have cleared and I’m hoping for perfect ramen on the patio weather at Uncle.

IMG_3724

THERE’S NO WAIT.  What?!  I order a watermelon gose and am in my happy place.  We also ordered fried fingerling potatoes with kimchi butter and scallion sour cream so Joey is in his happy place.  Then we both make the best decision of our lives and order the Spicy Chicken Ramen.  The tahini broth is buttery and rich and life changing.  Also, we knock chopsticks the entire time we’re eating.  You would think, after 9 years, we would know which side the left-hander should sit on, but we’re reeeeeally slow learners.

IMG_3726

Back at home, we park it on the couch to watch the Olympics — apparently shot putters have to scream while throwing that ball? — and ugh, how cool is Usain Bolt?!  The Jamaicans definitely win for best names too.  Mid-Olympics, we watch Big Brother and by the time it’s over, I’m too tired to even watch Team Brazil win men’s beach volleyball gold.  Wait, they won, right??  Somehow, it is still 11 o’clock by the time I get into bed.  I guess I’ll just sleep more next week.

Raw Food Night at Root Down

Lauren3 Comments

Guys, we are four days into August and some bad shit has already happened.  Namely, Trevor Story is out for (most likely) the season and I sliced my finger on a knife that I was washing with my hand instead of with a sponge, like a normal human being.

But!  Some really good stuff has happened too.  I have been brave enough to wear true red lipstick in public, our first squash blossom bloomed, I spent an entire hour reading in our hammock, we got tickets to Great American Beer Fest.  And on Tuesday night, we tried the monthly raw food dinner at Root Down!

IMG_3533

Root Down puts together a 4-course raw meal every first Tuesday of the month and for no other reason than that the menu always looks amazing and that Root Down has never ever let me down before, I knew I HAD to try one of their dinners this summer.  This was the menu we showed up to on Tuesday.

P.S. It only slightly killed me that I didn’t know the menu until we showed up.  I’m a before-we-go type of menu peruser for real.

IMG_3534

IMG_3535

Drinks.  All the drinks.  Had to order some alcoholic bevies first because you gotta retox before you detox.  And also, because the Pepper Blossom is THE BEST COCKTAIL IN DENVER.  There, I said it.  That tonic and cider drink tasted like cinnamon and fall in a way that really freaked me out, because I’m not even ready for fall.  But it also tasted real good, so I wasn’t that mad.

IMG_3536

Fact: I’m not into soup.  Which is sad for Joey because he LOVES soup, but I make the rules menu and soup is hardly ever on it.  That being said, this sweetcorn soup was SO GOOD.  It had a kick and that sour cream and hemp seed island in the middle was my favorite part.  I kind of forgot it was going to be cold soup until they served us, but duh!

IMG_3537

Okay, this was when it started pouring rain and we had to be relocated inside but we got a window seat so I was still able to get a lovely photo of this vibrant dish.  I wish I could tell you just how fresh and flavorful this pesto “pasta” was, but I don’t think I’ll do it justice.  Every bite was such a punch to the taste buds, in the best possible way.  The pesto was maybe the best I’ve ever tasted and it was all just so perfectly executed.

IMG_3538

I usually do not consider fruit to be dessert, but there are exceptions to this rule.  Like if you’re at a raw dinner.  First off, how adorable is that baby… nectarine??  I’m still not sure what it was but it was the cutest.  I mostly wanted to lick my bowl to make sure to get all the chocolate but figured that wasn’t ladylike.  Also, there was lavender sprinkled on there!

Okay, so Joey proceeded to go home and eat a post-raw dinner snack but otherwise, I loved this little experience!  As usual, Root Down delivered on flavor and freshness and their hospitality is always top notch.  I’m so glad we finally did this.