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Valentine’s Weekend Things

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Friday

A day of awesome surprises!  Our field superintendent left a bouquet of roses in each of the girls’ offices at work.  How sweet is that?  Followed by the discovery of a King Cake from Emily on my porch when I got home from work.  I literally screamed when I saw the box.  Do I have the best cousin ever, or what?  Then I found a Valentine’s Day card from my mom in the mail and my heart burst from too many displays of affection in one day.

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Oh and Jen WON THE JEOPARDY TOURNAMENT.  I mean !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  That is so crazy cool!  I, on the other hand, just kept calling out wrong answer after wrong answer, so I think it’s safe to say I’ll never be on Jeopardy.

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Valentine’s Day!

I woke up to find this embarrassingly large display of balloons in our kitchen.  I have no idea where Joey was hiding these, considering our house is like 800 square feet, but he is seriously the best.  He also gave me a new Rockies jersey and the most perfect card.  After card exchanging and present swapping (I got him a coffee grinder), we made ourselves a festive breakfast of red heart shaped pancakes.  Fact: Heart shaped food is 10x more fun than regular shaped food.

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Later, we took ourselves outside for a run that ended at our coffee shop where the windows were wide open and the sunshine was streaming in.  Going on a run means I didn’t have my phone with me and it was kind of nice to feel completely unplugged and just share coffee and conversation with my favorite person.  Except when I saw a little heart sticker on the ground during our walk home and I wanted to Instagram that so bad.

After cleaning ourselves up, we went to see the Oscar-nominated live action short films and the experience was… weird.  It was us and mostly… ahem, older people there and everyone else was laughing at EVERYTHING.  Joey and I felt like we’d missed the memo because nothing seemed very funny.  It was kind of distracting and we left feeling pretty confused.

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We Ubered to and from downtown Denver for dinner at Panzano and while our actual entrées were kind of a let down, the strong cocktails, awesome service, cool atmosphere and mussel appetizer is making me forget about any entrée disappointment and say it was overall a great experience.  Oh and we ordered a fig cake dessert even though I was already painfully full and then because I hate myself, I decided we should order espresso (“like we did in Europe!”) with dessert.  Yeah, because I totally hadn’t already had enough caffeine already that day.

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Cut to me not sleeping that night.  Like really, I think I got maybe three hours?  Instead, I pinned pictures of gallery walls and made a “To Do” list for Sunday.  If I didn’t think it would’ve woken Joey up, I probably would’ve started on that list right then.  Please remind me not to do that with caffeine ever again.

Sunday

Before tackling “the list” on Sunday, we had breakfast with my family — gosh, I love our local breakfast joint so much! — and my mom totally spoiled me (per usual) with Valentine’s gifts.  She got me little heart straws and fancy salt in the cutest jars!  Why is she so perfect?!  We spent the rest of the day being entirely too productive.  I touched up some paint that’s needed fixing for SO LONG, painted another chalk wall in our laundry room, cooked red beans and rice (Mardi Gras is tomorrow!), shined all my silver jewelry, made dinner and watched five episodes of FNL while Joey tackled our guest bedroom.  It looks AWESOME in there!  I love when he’s on board with my house reno plans 🙂

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14Best part of all our Sunday productivity?  We were done and cleaned up by 7 PM, just in time to watch the SNL 40th Anniversary Special, along with everyone else in America.  What can I say, guys?  It was so perfect.  Though the show has definitely had its ups and downs, it was so entirely awesome to see all the SNL greats together to honor a show that’s been a part of all of our lives for so long.  Also, Fallon and Sanz 2016!

And now I am in total denial that the weekend is over.  More please!

 

Weekend Things

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Guys.  It’s Monday.  I feel exhausted.  What are the rules about taking naps in your office?  Also, remind me not to watch Gilmore Girls in bed.  Because “just one more episode” is never really just one more episode, is it?

Anyway, in other weekend news, we finally got to try the new deep dish pizza place in our hood.  And we walked there.  Seriously, it’s that close and it was that nice outside.  In January!  I’m not complaining.

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There happened to be a kids birthday party going on while we were there so it was incredibly loud and we spent most of the time being distracted by kids running up and down the ramp into the bar, slapping themselves in the face with pizza slices and hanging on the railing near our table but all distractions aside, the food (and local beer offering) was great!  And the personal deep dish pizzas could not have been cuter.

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Saturday was blissfully relaxing.  We slept in, lounged on the couch and went to the grocery, then I took myself to yoga before our extreme evening plans of gumbo and Boyhood.  I give the gumbo two thumbs up.  Especially since Joey made it while I did that post-yoga vegetative state thing on the couch.

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And about Boyhood, it was good.  The concept was really interesting and cool and different.  But we both felt like nothing really happened.  I don’t know, I’m trying not to let the “cool concept” thing sway my opinion of the movie because I’m not really sure the plot itself was all that captivating.  I think this year’s movies might just be kind of meh.

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Sunday started with waffles!  Wait, not just waffles.  CHOCOLATE WAFFLES!  Yes!  We don’t pull the waffle iron (that I had to have) out very often because it always seems so time consuming and I never seem to pick a good recipe but this one was a winner.  I mean, how could it not be?

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Afterwards, we brewed beer.  Our homebrew store closed, (noooo!) so we tried a new place and the kits are different but we decided we’d at least give them a try.  But I think it might be time to try putting a recipe together ourselves and this might just be the push we need.  We’re trying a saison for the first time and I’m pretty excited.  I love saisons!  Oh and I also fit in a run while beer was on the stove, then came home and spent an obsessively long amount of time writing this chalk wall sign.

Sunday night was spent at my parents’ for a late birthday celebration for my dad/Christmas celebration for my niece and nephew.  Guess who mislabeled their presents?  My nephew seemed less than excited to unwrap a Frozen tea party set.

Happy Monday!  If anyone needs me I’ll be pulling a George Costanza under my desk.