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Thanksgiving Weekend Things

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Hang in with me here on this “3 things” theme, okay?

3 Things I Renovated This Weekend:

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Our kitchen!  The tile (and all the super hard to remove glue) is gone!  Hardwoods today!  Also, I swear I just got permission from Joey to post this hilarious picture.

Our bathroom.  We just had paint to touch up and a mirror to hang, both of which we did on Saturday.  I LOVE how it all looks.  Pictures to come, I promise.

Our hallway shelving.  Apparently old houses have built in shelving units?  I decided to put our collection of paint samples to use by doing a gray ombre shelf pattern.  I’m not quite done yet but I like what I see so far.

3 Things I Bought This Weekend:

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This red rose.  We ran out to the store on Wednesday night after I mis-measured and botched the green bean casserole (doh!), only to find a ticket on my car.  Apparently the city street sweeps once a month and Wednesday was the day.  I had no idea 😦  The rose was my cheer up mechanism.

Brown boots.  I threw away my way worn out pair earlier this year without anything to replace them and it’s been a real struggle.  Okay, maybe that’s dramatic, but there have been so many times where I’ve wished I still had that way worn out pair rather than no pair.  I finally bit the bullet and bought a pair that was on sale at Nordstrom.

A facial package.  I just realized that this is a list of 3 things I bought for myself which seems pretty selfish, but this one was in celebration of Small Business Saturday so that counts as selfless, right?

3 Things I Ate This Weekend:

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This giant crepe.  There’s a breakfast “joint” real close to our house that we’d been dying to try so we finally walked over yesterday morning (having your kitchen torn up is a great excuse to go out!).  Their specialty is hash but I went the crepe route and wasn’t blown away by the food.  The latte, however, was worth going back again.

Short ribs, polenta and bacon brussel sprouts.  We tried out a new restaurant (Prohibition) with Hannah and Josh on Saturday night and loooved it.  It wasn’t in the best neighborhood but the food was good, the drinks were delicious and it wasn’t too crowded.  We will be back!

Dinner delivered by my family.  They came over to see the house progress and brought a ton of food from Noodles since they knew we didn’t have a kitchen.  They are the best 🙂

3 Things I Watched This Weekend:

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Guys, did you get as caught up in the Harry Potter marathon as I did this weekend?  HP was my jam when all the movies and books were coming out.  Every summer I would buy then read the entire book in days.  Because that’s what all middle schoolers were doing during their summer breaks, right?  I was so zoned into the premier of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 on Saturday night that it was slightly embarrassing.

Lots of James Bond.  And all I can say is… More please!

The end of the Auburn/Alabama game.  Okay, I couldn’t care less about football but even I thought the end of this game was crazy.  How sad were those child Alabama fans that were crying after that final play?

3 Things I Laughed About This Weekend:

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The homeless lady who knocked on the glass next to our window at dinner and blew kisses at Josh.  And also that our dinner bill came inside a book that customers are allowed to leave their mark in.  That bottom left comment is so poetic, isn’t it?

All the old men dancing on Friday  night when we went to see a potential wedding band.  They were going crazy for “Shout.”  That’s the unofficial wedding reception song, right?

Joey throwing a fit because I packed his precious bag of candy when I boxed up our kitchen.  I think he actually thought he would die without Reese’s Pieces.

What 3 things did you do this weekend?

Mellow Weekend Things

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As you may have guessed, things were pretty mellow around here this weekend. Joey started feeling sick Thursday night after bowling (um yeah, my bowling skills make me feel sick too) and came down with a full blown fever on Friday morning. I ended up driving him home at noon so he could plant himself on the couch and stay there until this morning when he suddenly felt 10x better.

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Sadly, my idea of a fun Friday night is buying two new books and picking up pre-made sushi at Whole Foods. Was that sentence as painful for you to read as it was for me to write?

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For years I’ve eaten at sushi restaurants and turned up my nose up at the ginger that comes along with the rolls until recently when I actually tried it. Turns out, I love that ginger. I guess I shouldn’t be that surprised since I also love lemon ginger tea, gingerberry kombucha and gingerbread of all kinds. Also, I am my father’s daughter and that man loves ginger.

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Then Joey and I watched an oooold favorite of both of ours. Does anyone else know this movie? In high school, my friends and I watched this movie so many times we could probably recite the entire thing. But outside of our group I can’t really tell you anyone who even knew what this movie was until I met Joey and he could recite the entire thing too. Meant to be, right?

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I meant to drag Joey to the Boulder Farmers’ Market on Saturday morning, but I ended up taking my sister instead. We ate egg sandwiches from Mod Market, sipped iced tea, bought a ton of fresh corn and basically roasted in the sun. I vowed to not go back until it’s fall and not 90 degrees.

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Afterwards we dropped our produce off, laughed at my mom’s cilantro plant, then went to visit my parents who had a tent set up at the Louisville Farmers’ Market. I know, so much Farmers’ Marketing in one day. There was also a tent there selling shirts that said “Louisvillian” and “I don’t care if you’re Paleo” that I wanted to buy so bad.

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 We had plans to go to the annual BBQ bash our friends’ family hosts every summer but Joey still wasn’t 100% and right as we were getting ready to leave it POURED. And not like a little rain storm, like a full on flash flood. It was crazy! Staying in and ordering Chinese seemed like a better plan. Plus Joey and I are desperate to be the kind of people who order Chinese and eat it right out of the little white boxes. The food arrived 45 minutes later and was so not what I wanted. Chicken and broccoli should have a brown sauce, not a light colored one!!!! But I digress.

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Apparently my mom and my sister go to breakfast then go shopping/run fun errands for the rest of the afternoon every Sunday. And don’t invite me! Rude. Anyways, I got an invite this week. We shared two omelettes and a stack of sourdough pancakes (the best!) then had my sister buy us stuff at Whole Foods with her employee discount. We know how to have fun.

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Then I fiiinally made it to Sunday afternoon yoga. Somehow, my body still remembered how to do a downward dog. I know, I’m as shocked as you are. I felt so rejuvenated afterwards. Someone please remind me of this next time I go two months without making it to a single class. I came home and started a batch of iced coffee before rejuvenation turned into me desperately needing a nap.

And now I’m kind of wishing I had taken that nap. Enjoy the rest of your Sunday!

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What did you do this weekend?

Do you have any weekend rituals?

Do you have a go-to Chinese dish?