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Friday Randoms

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Because Friday calls for a post made up of random blurbs about my life, right?

1. It’s World Sleep Day!  Or something like that.  Who can keep track of these “National                   Day” holidays anyways?  But, a few words on sleep.  My sleep to be exact.  I love the idea of sleep but in actuality, I am a crazy vivid dreamer and often wake up feeling like my brain was working overtime creating dream details instead of resting.  Wah wah!

2. Our Crate and Barrel kitchen island came in on Wednesday!  Which means: A) We can toss the gross old table we’ve been using as a mock island since we moved into the house B) More space to organize our overcrowded kitchen drawers and cupboards and B) My mom can stop asking “so where are you going to put the island?” every time she comes over 😛

3. I’m a mere 100 pages into Rick Steves’ book on Provence and feel flustered about all the information already.  I’m starting to think it might be better for me to not know anything about France.

4. After 3 days of fabulously warm weather and 3 straight days of outdoor runs, it snowed.  Like big fat wet snowflakes!  The next day it was sunny with no sign of there having been snow the day before.  Must be spring in Colorado!

5. Joey’s birthday is next month and I am already hounding him about where I he would like to go for dinner to celebrate.  I think we both realize that this is more for me than for him… but hey, there’s food and I’m paying so he better just gratefully accept.

6. I was half an hour late to work on Wednesday because Joey and I were so caught up in watching a high speed car chase on the news.  The guy hijacked a car with a 4-year-old sitting inside, eventually ditched that car, hijacked another, drove the wrong way on the highway, hijacked yet another car, crashed, then tried to make a run for it before the cops closed in on him.  It was insane!

7. I walked to get coffee on Thursday morning.  As in, the coffee shop is so close I can walk there!  For some reason, this just makes me so so happy.

8. My mom invited me to dinner with she and my sister on Thursday night.  We ate smoked mozzarella pizza (omg!), decided on dates for our girls only trip to Santa Fe in a few months and answered the age of old question, “Should we get ice cream?”

9. The answer was obviously yes.  This is the “tiny” size and yeah, that’s a pretty accurate description.

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10. It’s Pi Day and Friday, which means extra happiness!  Enjoy 🙂

This Week

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It was really snowy and really cold.

Monday: snow, Tuesday: snow, Wednesday: high of nine degrees, Thursday: high of 19 degrees and Friday: finally heating up to 42 degrees.  We watched a car spin out on the highway and smash into the concrete guardrail on Wednesday morning and it was terrifying!

I watched a video of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Oscar Acceptance Speech.

Also nominated that year was Heath Ledger.  So sad that we have lost both of those amazing actors.

Joey made parmesan crisps!

Which basically means melting a little pile of parmesan cheese in a pan until it gets all delicious and crispy.  Joey decided the smell of melting parmesan was gross but he is dead wrong because I wanted to bottle that smell and use it as perfume.  So delicious.

I stocked up on Hempz.

I was almost out of lotion and definitely out of conditioner so I hopped on the Beauty Brands website and they happened to be having a half off sale on Hempz products.  If that isn’t perfect timing, I don’t know what is.

I watched the season finale of The Biggest Loser.

I’ve never watched a single episode of this show but I couldn’t find anything better on TV so I watched.  I’m not sure how I feel about how it ended/I don’t feel comfortable declaring someone else’s weight healthy or unhealthy but Twitter sure had a lot to say about it!

I decided “Flappy Bird” is the funniest game name ever.

No desire to play it or even know what it’s about, I just like to say the name 😛

We watched Mud.

I had heard that this movie marked the beginning of Matthew McConaughey’s  “acting overhaul” (which I assume means when he decided to stop portraying himself in a bunch of Rom-Coms) that culminated this year with Dallas Buyers Club.  True Story: It sucked.  So boring, so pointless.

We taste-tested our newest homebrew.

It’s not quite ready carbonation-wise, but the stout flavor is spot on!

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What do you have on tap for this weekend?  We’ve got another cake tasting tomorrow morning plus picking up our Save the Dates and catching the Olympic Opening Ceremony tonight.