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Weekend Things

Lauren1 Comment

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!

Weekend Things

Lauren2 Comments

I’m hardly a Taylor Swift fan, but sometimes life is so good that all I can think to say is “today was a fairytale.”  Because sweat pants are extra comfy on a Friday night, avocados are at their creamy dreamiest, the Whole Foods kombucha section is stacked, Sloan’s Lake is a beauty, friends are throwing BBQs and picking the coolest new breweries to try, five mile runs don’t even feel like work and I’m totally motivated to make our yard look clean and cute.

It’s the little things, ya know?

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Welcome to married life.  Where you leave work early on a Friday to go look at River Rock and make your weekly Whole Foods stop.  For whatever reason, I find myself suddenly really into cleaning up our front yard.  Like the whole manual labor thing even!  Who am I?

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Avocados are the best right now, aren’t they?  They make taco leftovers taste extra good.  They don’t make The Wire any better though… I wanna pretend I’m enjoying the final season of this show, but instead, I extra dislike it.  Oh and we finished The Amazing Race.  The contestants had to catch a football in the end zone at AT&T Stadium and I got sweaty just thinking about how long that would probably take me.

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Night cap!  We literally check the freezer section every week for The Tonight Dough and it’s either not even carried or out.  Lori snagged the last two pints last week and surprised us with one on Thursday night.  Continuing to earn her “Best Mother-in-Law” title.  Guys, the hype is for real.  And that’s it for this week’s episode of “Admitting You Had a Boring Friday Night and Liked It.”

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We started Saturday at a walk for Cystic Fibrosis.  Mother Nature gave us a beautiful morning at Sloan’s Lake.  It was our first time there too!  Afterwards, our team leaders hosted a BBQ for the team.  They live a few blocks from us and just re-did their backyard so I got some extra motivation to get ours done.  Post-nap, we headed to Joey’s cousin Chelsea’s college graduation party.  She had quite the Mexican spread.  Tamale snack for the win!

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Saturday night dinner + drinks, followed by beer + Scrabble with Hannah and Josh, who, get this, we hadn’t seen in EIGHT WEEKS.  Unacceptable!  I have this weird fear of games (I do not like being on the spot!) but agreed to a game of Scrabble and actually won.  I think it was my play of SQUEAK with Q on a triple letter score that did it.

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Sunday: woke up, ran 5 miles (that Bolder Boulder is next Monday!), refueled with iced coffee, bought gardening gloves (that my finger broke through the seam of moments after putting them on…) and got to work.  I don’t know if it was that running victory, the bluebird sky or the caffeine buzz but I kinda liked the shoveling and sweeping and sweating.  The front section is ready for stone and sod.  Or something.

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Ended Sunday like the rest of America, watching Mad Men.  What’d everyone think??  I’ll resist any spoilers and just say something seemed kind of off to me.  For me, it wasn’t a satisfying ending.  Though it was leaps and bounds better than the Dexter or HIMYM finales.

Happy Monday!