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Weekend Things

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This Weekend I…

Braved The Rooftop at the Rockies game.  It is a mess of young drunken people who don’t even know they’re at a baseball game and a DJ playing club music.  In other words, it’s godawful up there, but that’s also where they keep all the good beer.  We got in and got out as quickly as possible.

Drove home in the worst rain I’ve ever seen in my life.  We’re talking SHEETS of rain that made it hard to see the front end of your car, let alone anything on the road in front of you.  The walk from the car to our house had us both soaking wet.  And then we were greeted by our flooding basement, yay…

Dug up weeds, nailed landscape fabric into dirt and pushed rock around our yard on my hands and knees.  Yeah, that six ton rock delivery took up the majority of our weekend, but man did it transform our front yard!  Then Mother Nature was nice enough to send a few rainstorms to wash those rocks off for us.

Treated myself to a strawberry caprese salad for Saturday lunch.  Can we please exchange tomatoes for strawberries in all caprese salads from now on?  Strawberries > tomatoes, amiright?

Finished Top of the Lake and started Game of Thrones.  I thought Top of the Lake was really meh.  As much as I love Elisabeth Moss, I just really didn’t love the plot of this miniseries.  And I mostly just kept thinking “none of this makes any sense!!!”  GoT (is that how we abbreviate it?) seems interesting so far!  But what have we gotten ourselves into?

Brewed ice coffee!  I had my first glass today and I think I may have either messed up the ratios when I brewed it or messed up the ratios when I poured it this morning.  I’ll have to do some experimenting with that, I guess.

Walked to Sunday breakfast.  We met Bobby and Becca at our favorite neighborhood joint and fueled up for another day of “landscape duty” with sunshine, laughter, sweet iced chai and a cheesy bacon scramble.  Um, yes please!

What did you do, watch, eat, drink this weekend?

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P.S. DJ “Lhieu” is my new favorite nickname for DJ LEMAHIEU.

Weekend Things

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Even though it’s Monday, I have a headache and my hamstrings are sore as hell, I think it might be impossible to be in a bad mood today.  Because: JUNE!  SUMMER!  80 DEGREES!  I’M WEARING A DRESS!  I think a lot of problems are solved simply by a change of mindset, so when Joey was lamenting that today was Monday, I told him he needs to stop thinking of things as weekend or weekday and just think of it all as summer.

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If I told you I fell asleep on the couch at 9:30 on Friday night would you still be my friend?  We seriously drove 45 minutes to a homebrew store and when we got there they had JUST closed.  Nooo!  So instead, we stopped at Whole Foods, listened to the Rockies almost almost pitch a perfect game and started Top of the Lake before my aforementioned accidental passout.  Livin the life!

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Saturday and Sunday mostly consisted of us doing yard work.  We set new fence posts for our white picket and I did all the painting, which means I still have white paint in my hair.  It won’t come out!  We also set pavers on the other half of our yard and tore out a jungle of weeds so that we can put rock over the dirt.  So yeah, I’m sore and sunburned but something about using your own two hands (and hamstrings) to make your home nice feels so dang good.  Plus, enough of that crossfit shit, digging a trench and lifting bags of sand is a real workout.

P.S. It’s important to still use the gate, even if you don’t have to.

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I loved Joey extra when he was adamant about working really hard in our yard but also about not working past 5 PM.  We cleaned ourselves up on Saturday and walked to dinner.  As in, it wasn’t raining, it was warm and the restaurant we wanted to go to was that close.  HAPPINESS ABOUND!  We walked past this “good sign” on the way there 🙂

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We’d been to Jezebel’s once before and didn’t have the best experience but the menu is full of southern favorites, it’s so close to our house and it’s part of the Denver Passport Program so we just really wanted to give it another chance.  I’m so glad we did!  The service was awesome and the food was really impressive.  I sipped a Southern Mule on the patio and felt perfectly content.  Also, my shrimp and grits were killer.  More of that Andouille and those big ol’ shrimp, please.

The whole walk home I was quoting The Wedding Singer (I have no idea why…) so we were so in the mood to watch it when we got home, but couldn’t find it anywhere!  We settled for The Big Lebowski, man.  Insert, Joey’s turn to fall asleep on the couch 🙂

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Sunday started with pancakes and ended with us actually making it to the homebrew store.  This weekend has come full circle!  We also watched a few more episodes of Top of the Lake (which, for the record, isn’t really grabbing me all that much), cooked our favorite warm weather dinner and an evening stroll to the local library.  

Viva la summer!