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Weekend Things

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I’m never sure how to proceed in the wake of tragedy.  On the one hand, it feels wrong to go on with regularly scheduled programming when our nation is grieving.  But then, in a small way, it’s also symbolic of what we have to do in times like these.  GO ON.  Hate is not the answer.  Terror will not destroy us.  Fear will not win.  I choose to believe that there are far more good hearts in this world than there is hatred and senselessness.  And so I’m focusing on the good and this weekend was good.

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We tried out a new pizza place for Friday dinner and WHOA.  Cart-Driver can’t be beat in the thin-crust artisan category and Fat Sully’s is a showstopper but Blue Pan, I think you’ve won my overall pizza heart.  I didn’t even know what Detroit-style pizza was before this, but I think it’s safe to say it’s my new favorite.  Would you just look at those crispy edges?!

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The rest of the evening was spent at Coors.  Let’s not even talk about how we were up two, with two outs and zero on in the top of the ninth and somehow managed to lose the game.  Instead, let’s talk about how they do this Tooth Trot every game and Joey gets so into cheering on someone dressed as a giant toothbrush.  His maturity astounds me 🙂

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Ugh, Saturday was just the best day.  And not because of anything life-changing, but just because it was summer and I ate breakfast (AND LUNCH) in the backyard and got to ride my bike to the Farmers’ Market.  And really, that’s all I need in this life to be happy.  Union Station just started hosting a Farmers’ Market so we rode over to check it out and I was delighted (and sort of surprised) to see how much produce they had!  I’m all for tents selling breakfast and lunch options but let’s not forget that FRESH PRODUCE is actually the point of a Farmers’ Market.

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I was seriously only going to allow myself to buy one item (Farmers’ Markets are not always easy on the wallet) but then I saw bunches of the illusive garlic scape, big pink radishes and the most gorgeous heads of MINI lettuce and couldn’t resist.  Then Joey forced me to buy some cherries.  Twist my arm, why dontcha? 🙂  I made a pretty lunch salad with our loot and felt infinite happiness.  Plus it gave me enough energy to brave the grocery store during Rockies game rush hour.

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The rest of the day was spent outside (shocking, I know) reading, while Joey built our second garden box.  I’m a bad wife and forgot to take a picture but it turned out SO GOOD and only took him half as long as the first one, so he’s pretty much a pro now.  I can’t wait to get them primed and prepped for actual plants.  We saw all these cute veggie seedlings at the market and it got us so excited to plant some of our own!  While Joey finished up, I headed inside and made us a Rhubarb and Raspberry Crostata for dessert.  Served it up with some ice cream later that night and it was the perfect end to a perfect day.

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Sunday started with a walk and breakfast with my parents.  We took them to Bacon and hoped for a good experience since it’s been sort of a mixed bag the past few times we’ve been by ourselves.  It’s not so much the food that’s off, but the service.  Our food seemed to take FOR-EV-ER but luckily, we were all too busy talking to notice it all that much.  We hadn’t seen my parents since we got back from Chicago so we caught them up on our trip and gave them some tips for their trip to San Fran/Oregon later this summer.

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Afterwards, I hit up Whole Foods — every time I leave that place, I’m thinking “get me outta here!” — then walked to pick up some more coffee beans for iced coffee and helped Joey prep some salads for the work week.  Got to watch the beginning of the Rockies game before heading off to yoga.  Yoga is good any time of year, but when you get to park on the other side of the bridge and walk over in that summertime sunshine, it just feels that much better.  We learned some new poses and it felt good to try something different, even if I looked like a mess doing it 🙂

Ended the night with more reading on the porch, Game of Thrones and a veggie and garlic scape pesto panzanella!  I’m all for a salad that involves cubes of bread and I only kinda still suck at poaching eggs.  Meanwhile, it’s Monday but I’m still gonna act like it’s the weekend, if you don’t mind.  Sending you all love, happiness and sunshine this week!

 

Super Bowl Weekend Things

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Happy Groundhog Day!  Though I think I’d rather be at home watching the movie, than at work.

It’s funny, I was checking my Time Hop (still so in love with that app!) on Saturday morning, and it was filled with pictures of snowy Colorado trees, the Mayan movie theater, saisons and Super Bowl talk and it’s like deja vu — this year was filled with the same things!  As in we were at the Mayan on Friday night, it snowed on Saturday night, we tapped our newest brew (a saison, of course) on Sunday and duh, it was the Super Bowl on Sunday.  How weird is that?

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We took ourselves to a late movie — we’re talking 10 PM, people — and only once did I think “I’m going to fall asleep during this movie,” but I made it through.  I liked Imitation Game but I also kind of wished I hadn’t seen previews containing all the important lines/moments for the past 3 months.  I felt it kind of lessened the impact.  Also, Joey and I agreed that the ending was a little unfocused.  I’ll be honest though, the best part of the movie was when we were walking out and Joey spotted the popcorn that the theater staff had bagged and left out for anyone to take.  That look on his face!  It takes so little to make him happy.

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We had breakfast and coffee the next morning at 2914 Coffee and this little bee I spotted on the sidewalk when we left pretty much sums up how I felt afterwards.  Buzzzzzzzz.  The coffee shop was pretty cute — and how great is it that you can order an almond milk latte everywhere nowadays — but it was pretty busy in there and okay, this is so nitpicky but I wanted my latte in a cute mug and unless you order a large, they serve it to you in a to go cup.  I want to pretend that annoys me because it’s less environmentally friendly, but really it’s because mugs are cuter.  Priorities, right?

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After my usual Saturday yoga class — it was so full and I had to come home and confess to Joey that I accidentally touched another guy’s butt — we met Bobby and Becca for dinner and drinks downtown.  And holy busy, Denver!  We tried three restaurants that were on an hour and a half wait before finally landing ourselves at Wazee Supper Club.  Afterwards, we took B&B over to Union Station for the first time.  They were pretty impressed, so I guess my obsession is warranted.  And when we left, we discovered SNOW.  Like lots of snow!  I think it had been in the forecast but not that much of it that fast.

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I think I could take pictures of snow topped tree branches forever.  But I’ll spare you and just share these two.  The first one was out side of the rec center where every single person in Denver happened to be on Sunday morning… apparently.  Can we all agree that if it’s extremely busy, you can only hog the treadmill for 30 minutes TOPS?  I thought that was a well known rule of the gym, but the two girls I saw on there for AN HOUR clearly had never heard that before.

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As for the Super Bowl, we took ourselves and a fresh growler of our “Super Bowl Saison” over to Josh’s parents’ house to watch the game.  Or if you’re me, your eyes were pointing towards the TV, yet you had no idea what was going on.  It’s a gift to be able to do this.  But whether you were rooting for the Patriots or the Seahawks (those were the teams, right?) or didn’t care at all, I think we can all agree on one thing.  MISSY FREAKIN ELLIOT.  She showed up and filled a hole in our hearts that we didn’t even know was there.  It almost made me forget those palm trees with mouths and those dancing sharks.  Almost.