Two nights out with friends, a trip to the Farmers’ Market, much Saturday relaxation, beer brewing on Sunday morning, seeing Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again with my mom and sister late Sunday afternoon and to cap it all off, Joey making me dinner. So even though I think I was feeling sort of crabby on Saturday afternoon, I’ve all but permanently deleted that memory from my mind because the rest of the weekend was too good!
Oh and I finished Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and only cried like five times 😛
Friday afternoon, we met Hannah and Josh at Community for some happy hour action and oh my gosh, has a cuter baby dino ever existed?? I spend a lot of time thinking “Mason is growing so fast, where is the time going?!” but when I saw him sitting in the restaurant high chair, he looked positively teensy. He can now do things like feed himself cereal pieces and pull himself up to standing! Also, we ordered approximately a million plates of food and it was all really good. We had to grab gelato up the street afterward, because there was no AC in the restaurant and it was SO HOT so we needed a way to cool off 🙂
We woke up Saturday and headed straight to the Farmers’ Market and it was blissfully the opposite of what the last visit was like, THANK GOD. We left caffeinated — first stop is ALWAYS Pig Train for nitro iced coffees! — and with peaches and thee fluffiest pita that I am so excited to try.
Not going to lie, much lounging happened during the rest of the day and it was perfectly wonderful. We watched Ant-Man for the first time and I’ve gotta be honest, it was sorta dorky. If Paul Rudd wasn’t in it, I probably would not have been interested. Someone could have warned me about close up shots of ants! I still have PTSD from Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.
I cracked open my “Melonilla” kombucha and I think it’s one of the best I’ve ever made! I absolutely love the vanilla flavor and it’s perfectly carbonated. Unlike the lime-ginger I made last week that I keep making Joey open for me because it’s explosively carbonated… Oh and we made a trip to our homebrew store for ingredients and got the trim and door painted on my little library. Just needs to stencil work and it’s ready to go in the ground!
We met Bobby and Becca at The Source later on for dinner at Comida. That taco platter is a beaut and all of the tacos were good, but for me, the grilled taco still reigns supreme so I’m probably only ordering those from here on out! Since we were so close to a handful of breweries, — but can you really be anyplace that’s NOT close to a handful of breweries these days? — we walked over to the Great Divide Barrel Bar for a beer. There, we reminisced about how perfect the wedding was and I kept hearing myself say stuff like “I remember, at our wedding…” and felt like a real old married person.
We woke up Sunday and, while Joey got our beer brewing, I made us pancakes and then we had like four hours to kill while we brewed. I posted a few Sunday clips on my Instagram story and told Joey “it looks like I’ve done a million things today but I’ve really just done like 5 minutes of all of them!” Those things being garden harvest/upkeep, black bean pressure cooking, reading, a little workout/yoga session and watching the OG Mamma Mia! because I needed to prep for sequel time later. I was incredibly embarrassing dancing around to “Dancing Queen” but I can’t help it! Also, that synth sound at the beginning of “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!” gives me life!
As for the sequel, as my mom said afterward, “it’s not a good movie but it’s so much fun!” That fleet of ships carrying dancers performing “Dancing Queen” made me the happiest I’d ever been. Also, Lily James is a knockout, Jessica Keenan Wynn is a dead ringer for Christine Baranski and I was very very thankful for far fewer musical numbers by the three, ahem old mature men. Cher doesn’t have a huge role or much screen time but she is a LEGEND, so we should feel lucky any time she graces us with a performance.
I came home to this stunning dinner that tasted even better than it looked and most importantly, didn’t involve me lifting a finger, except the one I used to swipe my credit card when I bought the salmon on my way home. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, there’s nothing better than having a homemade dinner prepared for you!
What did you do this weekend?!
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