I don’t know that I’ve mentioned it here on the blog but for the past few months, Joey and I have been making some pretty serious plans to do a major renovation on our house. We’ve invested a lot of time, some money and much of our hearts to this idea so when we met with our builders Friday morning and they presented a budget that was WAY out of our range, we were pretty devastated. I honestly don’t know where it all lies as of now, but just know we spent the rest of the weekend eating, drinking and money-spending our feelings 😛
I legitimately emailed Joey the seasonally updated happy hour menu at Root Down with the subject line “This looks like a good place to cry later.” Despite our disappointment, it was a beautifully spring-like day and there’s nothing more soothing than sitting in the bar with the windows wide open and a drink in your hand. Also, the parsnip croquettes temporarily made us forget anything bad had happened earlier in the day. SO DANG GOOD. Back at home, we watched Icarus (which was up for, and ended up winning, Best Documentary Feature) and I thought the flow of the film was weird but the subject was really interesting.
Saturday morning, we woke up and had just enough time for pancakes and coffee before I left to get a massage. My mom gave me a bag of “presents” that included ten onions, ha! Afterwards, I popped over to my sister’s new apartment, where she treated me to some Lemon-Ginger Brew. I felt like I hadn’t seen her in so long and it was sincerely the best to soak up some sister time ♥ Back at home, I sat outside to eat lunch and read for a bit, then took myself on a run. It is god-awful windy today but at least we got perfect weekend weather.
We went grocery shopping Saturday evening and even though we were kind of making fun of ourselves, there seemed to be a lot of other young people doing the same, so maybe we’re in? I was thisclose to letting Joey convince me to go out to dinner again but then staying in to cook sounded fun too and we had just bought all those groceries. Sorry not sorry that I love these broccoli tacos so much! We also cracked open some beers and watched On Body and Soul, which was up for Best Foreign Language Film. The description was sort of misleading and it was pretty slow, but I don’t think either of us minded the film overall.
P.S. Made it through all of SNL afterwards and Charles Barkley is far from a polished performer but I still really liked it?
Started Sunday by walking over to Huckleberry for breakfast and coffee. Iced coffee, to be exact! This weekend was apparently all about getting a taste of warm weather things and I was not mad about it. This toast took what felt like an hour to come out (HOW THOUGH?) but then it tasted really good and the iced coffee was on point so we didn’t really mind. Mostly, this little breakfast date at our local spot made me so happy.
The rest of the day involved leaving the back door wide open to let the warmth and sunshine in, food prep, writing a lengthy email to our builders and about 50 episodes of Celebrity Big Brother, during which I was also writing my Oscar post and therefore retained about 5% of what happened on the show.
We sat down to dinner just as the Oscars were starting and I was almost distracted from the show by how good this salmon and these sweet potatoes were. Almost. Anyway, I don’t think I need to tell you how excited I was for the Oscars. I look forward to this day ALL YEAR! Most of the winners went as predicted, but I thought Jimmy Kimmel was hilarious, — I seriously choked on some water during one of his opening jokes and it took me the rest of the night to fully recover — that bit where they surprised the theater across the street was the best and Frances McDormand was INCREDIBLE. Also, I did end up making that Buffalo Wing Popcorn and it was truly delicious. I highly highly recommend you make some. Now someone tell me how many days until next year’s Oscars 🙂
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