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Weekend Things

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Gooooood morning!

Here’s the thing.  There is a major major blizzard happening today in the Northeast and here in Colorado, it’s going to be seventy degrees.  As in SEVEN-ZERO.  I can’t even wrap my head around how both of those things can be going on in the same country on the same day.  And I also can’t decide if I’m psyched for warm weather or if I’m jealous that I won’t be having an epic snow day.  Joey is jealous because he is insane and actually enjoys shoveling snow.  What is wrong with this person?!

How was your weekend?  I declared ours to be an A+ weekend when I was thinking about it last night and here’s why.

1) Lots of sleeping in.  I have somehow become a person who is capable of sleeping in till 9 AM, instead of being a person who bounds out of bed at 7:30 AM.  I’m cool with it, because 9 AM seems like that sweet spot between annoyingly early and lazily late.

2) Watching great things.  Nuggets game, Gilmore Girls finale, Whiplash, Saturday night comedy show, Season 3 of Veep.

3) Friend time.

4) Sunday morning coffee shop stop.

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We had tickets to Friday night’s Nuggets game.  I’ll be honest, a quarter of the way into the game I noticed Rockies left-fielder Carlos Gonzalez sitting courtside and I don’t think I paid any attention to the game after that.  He went out onto the court at halftime and was wearing bedazzled shoes.  Ugh, so fly!  Oh and I guess the Nuggets lost.

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We finished Gilmore Girls on Saturday morning and my life feels so empty now.  If possible, I would’ve given the series more than 5 stars.  Like 5 million stars.  I loved it so much.  Lorelai Gilmore is the world’s best TV mom.  Between watching the finale and catching up on Thursday night’s episode of Parenthood, I was so emotionally fragile.  Though I will say, Lorelai Gilmore > Sarah Braverman.  Like so much greater than.

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After taking ourselves on a quick jog through the neighborhood, we cleaned up and took ourselves to a Saturday matinee.  I honestly knew nothing about Whiplash, except Joey’s very helpful explanation of, “It’s about drumming, I think” so I went in blind and ended up really liking it.  I won’t lie, it is INTENSE.  But J.K. Simmons was incredible and so far, it’s been my favorite of the Best Picture nominees we’ve seen.

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Saturday night was spent with Hannah and Josh.  First up, dinner!  We tried a new-to-us spot on Larimer called Tom’s Urban.  It had that funky Snooze décor thing going on and the service was great, but I’m not sure we were sold on the food.  Three out of four of us ordered the “slopper,” and the other one of us had to be different and order the goat cheese and fig pizza.  Guess who it was!  My “pizza” turned out to be more of a flatbread covered in walnuts and apple, but it was still good enough.

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The main event of the night was seeing Steve Rannazzisi (of The League fame) at Comedy Works.  The tickets were Joey and I’s Christmas present to Hannah and Josh — we’re all The League fans… or a fan 50% of the time if you’re talking about me.  He was great, though Hannah and I agreed that it maybe would’ve been a little funnier if we could’ve related more — he talked about his kids a lot.

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Sunday morning revolved around our first trip to Crema Coffeehouse.  We’ve decided we need to take advantage of exploring different coffee shops on the weekends (it’s so hard to not go to the same two places when both are within walking distance of your house and both are amazingly good) and I’ve been wanting to try Crema for probably a year.  We decided going would be extra incentive to bring along our laptop and FINALLY FINALLY narrow our wedding pictures down from 600 to 50 for the album that’s included in our photography package.  It only took four months…

P.S. Are you even seeing that sweet potato waffle?!  So crispy, so perfectly maple syruped, so much walnutty goodness.  Also, I have never ever liked whipped cream but dang, that stuff was good!

The rest of Sunday involved more TV watching, a 4-mile run in perfect Colorado weather, watching Joey’s basketball game, a cheesy chicken, broccoli, quinoa casserole and reading in bed.  Like I said, A+ weekend.

If you have a TV show recommendation, throw it at us!  Friday Night Lights is a no go — Joey’s already seen it.

Wednesday Breakfast Date

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Welcome to the Wednesday Breakfast Dates series!  Maybe…

Okay, it’s totally going to be a new series, but don’t expect it every single Wednesday, because as much as I’d love for everything to be planned out and written in stone (could I possibly be any more Type A?), that’s just not how life works.

I think it was two days into our honeymoon, when Joey and I still hadn’t adjusted to the time change and were doing this thing where we routinely woke up at 4 AM and were wide awake so we did things like eat Spanish chocolate in bed, that I decided that “Wednesday Breakfast Dates” were going to be a thing when we got back home and back to “real life.”  You know, as a mid-week treat to ourselves and a consolation prize for having to go back to work and not eat chocolate in bed at 4 AM.  Also, please tell me what kind of person is two days into their two-and-a-half-week-long honeymoon and already planning things for when they get home?  Send help.

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So now that the holidays are over and life feels pretty calm, we’re back to our mid-week treat.  This week we hit up Black Eye Coffee for an almond milk latte, bottomless coffee, stone fruit oatmeal in a mason jar and a breakfast sandwich made in house (as all of their pastries and plated meals are).  I love the vibe of that place in the early morning.  And even though I unscrewed the lid of my oatmeal and it landed perfectly in my latte (we’re talking fully submerged) and their wobbly tables led to some spillage later on, it was the perfect start to a snowy Colorado morning.