This Week

On Monday, we went to THREE DIFFERENT grocery stores — mint, why you gotta be so elusive?? — and still managed to sit down to a home-cooked dinner at 7:15!  One of those grocery stores was this tiny little neighborhood market that was selling everything for 50% off, so yay for savings.

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And speaking of that home-cooked dinner, I feel it is my duty to share with you when I eat things that are oh-my-god-good and this salad with “The Greenest Tahini Dressing” is just that.  We’ve made it twice now and even though you have to blanch things and I’m not sure if that’s really a flavor thing as much as it’s a color thing, it’s still so quick and easy.  Just do it.

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Half Marathon Training started this week!  I’m like 10% nervous to 90% excited so I guess that’s a good sign.  It’s back-to-back-to-back running days on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, which is kind of WHOA but Joey and I are so down with Monday and Friday rest days.  (And for the record, we killed those back-to-back-to-backs this week!)

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On Tuesday, we took a lunch-time drive over to our wedding photography studio to pick up our album and it’s freaking gorgeous!  Joey and I look pretty good too 🙂  Our skin has never looked so flawless.  We seriously sat in our parked car and looked the album over because we needed to see it RIGHT THEN.  Then they gave us a surprise calendar with our pictures and I was extra sure we made the right choice choosing Elevate Photography.

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What is this Wednesday Date Night thing and where can I get some more of that?  We headed to South Broadway — or SoBo if you’re cool enough and I’m definitely not — and grabbed a bar seat at Leña for margs and an order of Pan de Yuca then walked down to Gozo for round two.  We got that charred scallion and pepperoni pizza and it was SO GOOD but that place has the weirdest service and they either don’t have AC or didn’t feel like turning it on.  It was steamy in there.

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“I’m currently reading three books,” I announced on our way home from dinner.  Though I guess one of them is actually a play.  My mom, my sister and I are seeing Much Ado About Nothing at the Shakespeare Festival on Saturday so I wanted to read it first.  Is that normal?  P.S. Peaches, peanut butter and cinnamon-y granola have my breakfast heart right now.

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My little and I just finished True Detective!  Yeah, yeah, so I watched the first season again because she hadn’t seen it and I wanted an excuse to watch it again.  I still thought it was incredible the second time around.  Also, we bought three pies that night for a co-worker’s birthday the next day and Joey felt it necessary to leave this rude note before leaving us Dorsey sisters alone with them.

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I lit this candle on Thursday morning then totally forgot about it and made a mess when I picked it up later.  But then I kind of liked how the melted red wax splattered across my work.  Let’s bring back that thing where we use wax to seal letters, kay?

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A new coffee shop opened by our house — I know, like we really needed another — so we decided to try it out on Friday morning.  The iced coffee was strong, the owner was genuine, the exposed brick was plentiful, so I give it two thumbs up.  We sipped our coffee and ranked breakfast burritos.  My list was basically Joey’s list… but backwards 🙂

HAPPY FRIYAY!

Weekend Things & Summer Celebrations

Here are the makings of a perfect weekend:

  • Pulling three black and white dresses out of your closet for Friday, Saturday, Sunday outfit perfection
  • Friday dinner plans that combine family, pizza and a Moscow Mule
  • Up close and personal seats at Wicked
  • Jenn’s Birthday!
  • The Spice Girls, Will Smith, Hanson AND Whitney Houston playing in the bar you’re at and the hell with it, all of us girls are gonna dance
  • Saturday morning at the coffee shop when a girl biker gang shows up and they’re all just so cool
  • When “Buy beer” is the first “appointment” in your calendar
  • Biking to an amusement park in a dress and wedges and feeling like you’re just as cool as a girl biker gang
  • A Summer Shandy + a company picnic where you’re able to sweet talk yourself into winning the raffle Rockies tickets
  • Cutting into a pan of perfectly sweet and soft cornbread (yeah it may have been 85° degrees in our house and yeah I may have turned the oven on anyway, but that cornbread was worth it)
  • Summer BBQs, live bands, pulled pork and the coolest red truck, because no farm would be complete without one
  • Standing over your kitchen island to share a chocolate cupcake at midnight
  • Nieces that love to pose for the camera and enjoy Magna-Doodles just as much as you did when you were a kid
  • When you’re entrusted with the task of cutting the first piece of the world’s largest layer cake
  • Father’s Day cards that nail your relationship with your dad
  • Sprinklers that water your grass for you
  • Reading on the porch
  • Having the awareness to realize how super sweet summer is and soaking up every second of it

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P.S. That doodle my niece drew SLAYS me.