Weekend Things

This week on “You Know You’re 25 When”

Two beers is all it takes to feel buzzed.

Two cups of coffee is way more than it takes to feel buzzed.

You’re an expert at falling asleep on the couch.

Your most exciting purchase is a new cutting board.

You spend your Sunday organizing the drawers in your bathroom.

The 10 o’clock movie is just way too late.

And that was my weekend in a nutshell.  If you want the long version, it started with a private brewery tour at Denver Beer Co. Canworks which is dangerously close to our house.  We showed up to check it out and being pretty new, it was empty so we got our very own tour.  The inner workings of a brewery just blow my mind.  I pretty much think it’s the coolest thing ever.  Or maybe it’s all just so scientific and therefore over my head and impressive.  Oh and I got to try my first pumpkin beer of the season.  Hey, Pumpkin! (<— That’s what it’s called).

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Insert falling on asleep on the couch #1.

On Saturday we had a blissfully open schedule.  I’m not going to lie, it is incredibly strange to have weekends without plans.  We kind of don’t know what to do with ourselves!  After watching a squirrel eat our decorative porch pumpkins, we decided we’d better get out of the house.  We went with the good old couples shopping day… gross, I know.  Like I said, we got a new cutting board.  But it’s a Boos Block so it totally warrants excitement.  But really, the best part was a spontaneous lunch at North in Cherry Creek.  I saw kale salads on the menu and was sold.  Joey got a meatball sandwich and the accompanying crispy potatoes were to die for.

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After getting a late afternoon facial (can I please get one of those every week?), we took ourselves out to see a movie.  The Skeleton Twins was really really good and we both liked it.  I had heard that it was pretty dark (and moments of it definitely are), but I wasn’t prepared for all of the funny moments!  Don’t hate me, but I think this was the most I’ve ever liked Kristen Wiig and she and Bill Hader had such amazing (and believable) chemistry.  It was actually a very sweet movie.

Insert falling asleep on the couch #2.  SNL, why do you put me to sleep?!

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Our favorite coffee shop was hosting a pancake party yesterday morning so we walked over for bottomless cakes and coffee.  Except that the bottom was two cups and that was too many.  Yoga later in the afternoon was a little shaky 🙂  I won’t even divulge the rest of my Sunday for fear of boring everyone to tears.

Happy Halloween Week!

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Wednesday Randoms

Hi everyone!  Give me just 5 minutes to vent and then I’ll resume telling normal happy life news, okay?

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If this picture doesn’t strike fear to your heart, you aren’t human.  Also, it’s normal to snap a picture during a dentist appointment, right?

I went to the dentist today.  I was there six months ago and my teeth were “perfect.”  Today, I have apparently developed gum disease.  Please tell me how I can go from perfect to gum disease in six months.  Coincidentally, Joey (who is really good about seeing the dentist every six months) got the same diagnosis about 2 months ago.  Conveniently for the dentist, treatment for this isn’t covered by our insurance, so that’s money straight from my pocket to theirs.  Afterwards, as I was waiting for the dentist to come do a final check, I heard them explaining to the guy across the hall that he had gum disease!  In other words, I’m not buying it and I’m never going back there again.

Okay, that’s it.  Phew.

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Please disregard my nickname for Joey and our extremely interesting work-related text messages going on behind this alert.

We booked a wedding venue!  It’s an old remodeled warehouse that was built in the 1800’s but is absolutely stunning now.  It’s big, open and bright inside, plus it’s got that cool urban thing going on.  Hilariously, when we showed up to look at the place, our friend/realtor and his fiancée were just leaving because they’re having their wedding there.  I could not believe it.  Anyways, they gave us their blessing to have the same venue.  I’m mostly relieved to have an answer to the question everyone keeps asking: “So when are you getting married?!”  Next September!

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My sister burnt me a copy of Lorde’s CD, Pure Heroine, and I am loving it!  Joey likes to joke that I like any music my sister gives me and hate anything he gives me.  He’s kind of right, but I’m not going to admit that outloud 🙂  Anyways, the album has a really cool sound and every time I listen to it I wonder how it’s possible that’s she’s only 17.

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Note my incredibly sexy safety glasses.

We are finally getting an electrician over to our house to do some work.  Before we can do any remodeling, we really need the electrical work in our house moved around and we have been having thee hardest time getting someone to come over when they say they will.  My mom finally gave me a recommendation and so far he’s seemed on top of things.  But before he can do anything, he has to be able to get into the wall, so this happened on Monday night.  Joey has been dying to take this wall down, so as soon as our electrician gave us the go ahead, he was on it.  I wasn’t quite as excited about it…

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After my horrible dentist appointment, I finally made it into work and came across the Halloween station on iPhone Radio.  Yes please!  Things have been a little hectic lately so we haven’t had the time (or energy) to get into the Halloween spirit.  I took a neighborhood tour while out running yesterday evening and was so jealous of all the cute Halloween decorations outside the houses.  Maybe next year?  For now, I’ll stick to Halloween music for my festiveness.  I think my favorites have been “Monster Mash,” “Dead Man’s Party” and “Ghostbusters.”  Oh and I may have just gone into Joey’s office because “Time Warp” came on and I needed to do the dance real quick.  Help me!

And on that note, I think I’ll end this post with a simple Happy Wednesday!