Tag: The Med

Birthday Things

Lauren4 Comments

I turned 24 last Tuesday.  Please save all age-related comments and jokes for someone else as I think I’ve already heard them all.  Someone told me I looked like I was in high school (yeah, yeah I know), someone told me “soon you’ll be able to drive and start thinking about boys” and someone else congratulated me on finally turning 21.  I know a bunch of comedians, you guys!

Anyways, all jokes aside, I had a fabulous birthday and I feel so spoiled by my amazing family and friends.  Thank you all for making me feel loved!  I’ll try not to make this post too wordy (too late?) but I wanted to share some pictures of all the fun celebrating that went on.

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Joey got me some fun glass straws to fuel my iced coffee addiction.  I have a glass every morning and had been going through plastic straws like nobody’s business.  He also got me an awesome pair of Sam Edelman flats…that I already own.  It’s the thought that counts 🙂

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My dear sweet mother could not handle the idea of not seeing me on my actual birthday (we went out with my family this past weekend to celebrate) and I’m convinced she made a whole red velvet cake just as excuse to deliver it — with my dad in tow — to my office and see me.  No complaints here!  This baby was GONE 24 hours later.  At least everyone at work had the common sense to leave me the last piece.

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I asked my closest friends to join me for a little birthday get together that night.  As I was perusing Yelp! for a good place to go, I came across Machete Tequila + Tacos and that’s all I needed to hear.  I was sold.

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Their margaritas were serious!  Okay, I’m a total light-weight, but I found them to be really strong.  Delicious, but strong.  Joey ordered the “Hot Mess” and it was spicy.  We placed an order of 12 tacos — 2 each — and every single one of us cleared our plates.  I’d say that’s a success.

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Joey ordered a beef tongue taco.  BEEF TONGUE.  I must have had too much tequila at this point because I actually tasted it.  You know when you accidentally bite your own tongue?  Yeah that’s how it felt to eat that taco.  Never again.  How cool is the squid ink tortilla though?  I played it safe with a grilled shrimp and pulled pork taco.  Tacos are my life.

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Our waitress brought out a complimentary birthday shot and I forced all the girls to also get one.  No one wants to take a shot by themselves!

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Birthday celebrations continued through the weekend, with dinner on Friday and Sunday night.  Lori treated us to burgers and beer at Park Burger on Friday evening.  Afterwards, we ooh’ed and ahh’ed over beautifully historic Denver homes that cost over a million dollars (seriously, we went home and looked) before heading home.

Sunday involved dinner at the Med.  I’m pretty sure I’ve said all there is to say about my love for this place so I’ll just say that we ordered 6 plates of tapas, entrees and two desserts and now I’m never eating again.

I think we can finally put my birthday to rest.  Till next year anyways.

Weekend Things & 5 Movies I Haven’t Seen

Lauren8 Comments

Hello and happy Sunday!

I hope yours is off to a good start.  I woke up early and already tackled pancakes, an outdoor run and 4 episodes of Parenthood.  Why is it that I complain about being tired all week and then the weekend comes I suddenly can’t sleep in to save my life?  C’est la vie.

As for the rest of this weekend, it was low key but satisfying.  I decided to start it a day early by going to happy hour at the Med with Hannah on Thursday evening.

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We basically ate a bunch of delicious food (hello, bacon-wrapped dates!), drank sangria and talked about all the fun we’re going to have on our Vegas trip.  We’re SO excited!

Friday night was spent at trivia, where Joey and I finished the first round with a perfect score and somehow had zero points by the end of the night.  Zero.  

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I guess our team name turned out to be true.  Who knows the exact year John Candy died anyways?!

On Saturday, I woke up early again (go figure), and spent the rest of the day reading, getting a much needed massage, getting my workout on and bypassing everyone who was waiting the full 50-60 minutes for a dinner table, by snagging two seats at the pizza bar when we headed out to dinner.

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We sat in front of the kitchen and got to see all the craziness that goes on on a busy night.  I watched a guy bend beneath the counter and stuff an entire plate of food in his mouth in about 30 seconds, then turn around and go back to work.  Is that allowed?!

Then we came home and watched a movie.

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Joey’s brother just moved and decided he didn’t want to deal with transporting his very extensive movie collection, so he took his favorites and offered the rest up to us.  Joey narrowed it down to about 100 movies last night and I’m “not allowed to saying anything, because it’s only the first cut,” so instead we just looked through them to decide what to watch that night.

Turns out there are a few “classics” I hadn’t seen in that pile.  Movies that I know are good, I know other people like and that I’ve always meant to watch, but just haven’t yet.  Movies like…

1. Saving Private Ryan

It’s not that I’m a huge war movie watcher or that I even know what the story is, but I find history really fascinating and I’ve heard that this movie is such a realistic depiction of WWII that I feel I need to see it.  Plus.  Tom Hanks.  Nuff said.

2. The Godfather

I was watching another Tom Hanks movie last weekend and he kept quoting The Godfather (name that movie!!) and I found myself wondering why I’d never seen it.  I feel like there’s so many Godfather references in other movies/shows that I should see the original source of all those references.  But then again, it just seems so boring…

3. V for Vendetta

What is this movie even about??  I think I’ve seen bits and pieces and have just thought “what is going on?!”  I must have missed out on the period in high school when everyone was into this movie.  I was probably watching more enlightening things like Anchorman.  Don’t judge me. 

4. The Indiana Jones Series

But I’ve ridden the Disneyland ride enough times to feel like I’ve seen them all.  And actually, I’ve seen the most recent one, but there were aliens so I don’t know if that movie actually counts.  It might be nice to see the others though.  How many are there again?

5. Almost Famous

But wait, this is what we ended up watching last night, so I can cross it off my list!  And why had I never seen this?  I thought it was great.  The soundtrack was awesome (how could a movie about music not be?) and I didn’t even hate Kate Hudson, even though she always looks perfect and goes by the name Penny Lane.  Plus, Rain Wilson, Jimmy Fallon and Zooey Deschanel?  If I had known, I would have seen it sooner.  Oh, and the scene where they think their plane is about to go down?  Brilliant!  

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What “classic” or popular movies haven’t you seen?

What year did John Candy die?

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