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Weekend Things

Lauren1 Comment

Even though it’s Monday, I have a headache and my hamstrings are sore as hell, I think it might be impossible to be in a bad mood today.  Because: JUNE!  SUMMER!  80 DEGREES!  I’M WEARING A DRESS!  I think a lot of problems are solved simply by a change of mindset, so when Joey was lamenting that today was Monday, I told him he needs to stop thinking of things as weekend or weekday and just think of it all as summer.

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If I told you I fell asleep on the couch at 9:30 on Friday night would you still be my friend?  We seriously drove 45 minutes to a homebrew store and when we got there they had JUST closed.  Nooo!  So instead, we stopped at Whole Foods, listened to the Rockies almost almost pitch a perfect game and started Top of the Lake before my aforementioned accidental passout.  Livin the life!

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Saturday and Sunday mostly consisted of us doing yard work.  We set new fence posts for our white picket and I did all the painting, which means I still have white paint in my hair.  It won’t come out!  We also set pavers on the other half of our yard and tore out a jungle of weeds so that we can put rock over the dirt.  So yeah, I’m sore and sunburned but something about using your own two hands (and hamstrings) to make your home nice feels so dang good.  Plus, enough of that crossfit shit, digging a trench and lifting bags of sand is a real workout.

P.S. It’s important to still use the gate, even if you don’t have to.

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I loved Joey extra when he was adamant about working really hard in our yard but also about not working past 5 PM.  We cleaned ourselves up on Saturday and walked to dinner.  As in, it wasn’t raining, it was warm and the restaurant we wanted to go to was that close.  HAPPINESS ABOUND!  We walked past this “good sign” on the way there 🙂

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We’d been to Jezebel’s once before and didn’t have the best experience but the menu is full of southern favorites, it’s so close to our house and it’s part of the Denver Passport Program so we just really wanted to give it another chance.  I’m so glad we did!  The service was awesome and the food was really impressive.  I sipped a Southern Mule on the patio and felt perfectly content.  Also, my shrimp and grits were killer.  More of that Andouille and those big ol’ shrimp, please.

The whole walk home I was quoting The Wedding Singer (I have no idea why…) so we were so in the mood to watch it when we got home, but couldn’t find it anywhere!  We settled for The Big Lebowski, man.  Insert, Joey’s turn to fall asleep on the couch 🙂

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Sunday started with pancakes and ended with us actually making it to the homebrew store.  This weekend has come full circle!  We also watched a few more episodes of Top of the Lake (which, for the record, isn’t really grabbing me all that much), cooked our favorite warm weather dinner and an evening stroll to the local library.  

Viva la summer!

Weekend Things

Lauren2 Comments

I realized something important this weekend.  I like having plans.  I like being busy.  I thrive off that kind of lifestyle.  Our Saturday was wide open and my brain was like, “Paint the laundry room?”  “Make chocolate bark?” “Go on a run?”  “Take a nap?”  And in true anti-decision-making form, my brain then exploded.  The good news is, busy or not, this weekend still had all the things that make me happy.  Aka, Biker Jim’s, Rockies game, Saturday morning coffee, finding a new book, family breakfast and lots of walking.

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Sometimes you just need to pre-game your Friday night with a cat nap.  For the record, it didn’t really help but a spicy Vegan dog + two giant Arnold Palmers did.  Rockies win!
IMG_7767 Joey likes to put my jacket hood on and pretend it’s his Darth Vader helmet.  And I like to pretend not to see that spider web in the corner of our wall.IMG_7757The weekend forecast was all full of clouds and rain, but before that we had a lovely sunny Saturday so a walk to get coffee was in order.

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We couldn’t decide if we wanted to take it to go or stay and get breakfast, but you know me, I can’t resist oatmeal in Mason jars, coffee shop people watching or sipping an almond milk latte out of a cute white mug.IMG_7769 IMG_7770 Stopped by the little “take a book, leave a book” library on our way home and I found a Vonnegut.  I may have read Slaughterhouse-Five my first semester of college or I may have pretended to read it and feel like I should give Vonnegut a second chance.  Either way, the colors on this book cover are amazing.IMG_7765My iPhone camera couldn’t decide where to focus.  Though, now that I really look, Curtis Cow’s eyes look pretty clear.  This was my first full glass of our newest beer and yeah, safe to say the 10.5% alcohol reading is about right.  Whoa!  Oh and I wore Joey’s FitBit all day (because I was curious!) and got to 13K steps so I was feeling like the FitBit Queen.  FYI, that thing does not even count your steps if you’ve got both hands pushing the grocery cart.

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Sunday was RAINY.  We walked to meet Joey’s grandparents at breakfast, had them over to see the house progress, then basically parked it on the couch for the rest of the day.  When the weather’s bad, we all just laze about, watch six episodes of The Wire and make ourselves chocolate chip pancakes for dinner, right?

P.S. I only posted ONE food picture on Insta this weekend.  What is my life even about?!