Recovery and Perfect Weekend

I am finally back among the living. I am not 100% but considering how sick I was, this is a vast improvement and I will take it. At this point I have a lingering cough, runny nose and am pretty much exhausted from doing ANYTHING. Luckily I had an awesome weekend and was ready to head back to work on Monday.


Friday I worked late since I was pretty behind from spending Monday in bed. But when I am focused and can manage to battle my growling stomach, staying late when not a lot of people around is great. I headed home and ate some left overs while watching TV and then caught up on 19 Kids and Counting and Grey's before heading to bed. (Now after my marathon of 19 Kids and Counting I am having a reoccurring dream about being the Duggar family's nanny...OMG)


Saturday morning started off at a leisurely pace, with me relishing in the freedom to sleep in. Around 1 I met up with a friend and went to Cheesetique in Del Ray. This had been on my to-do list for a long time when I lived in VA, but just had never found the time. Well what finally pushed me to make the effort to drive out there was looking online and seeing that they had a "Grown up Grilled Cheese" made with Beecher's Cheese. Beecher's is made in Seattle and is absolutely delish, so I had to go try this grilled cheese. We had a lovely little chat and got to sit outside and enjoy the sun (and wind).


After a great lunch we headed to Old Navy to look for some summer clothes, and then stopped in at Barnes & Noble. Since we had made the trip out to Alexandria we figured we should stop at the Crate and Barrel outlet and then also go to Whole Foods. The WF in Alexandria is the the only place I have found mizithra cheese which is one of my all time favorites. So naturally I bought a little wedge of that to munch on over the weekend.


We headed back in to DC to check out a kitchen store in Capitol Hill called Hill's Kitchen. The store is amazing! I could have spent hours and hours just looking at all the kitchen contraptions and books that are available here. But the real find.....IDAHO cookie cutters! (Blog to follow on making Idaho sugar cookies!) Hill's Kitchen had an amazing assortment of kitchen gadgets, pots n' pans, knives, practical and impractical. I will for sure be going here for my next set of married friends, birthdays, Christmas, etc.. They have a variety of price points too which makes it even more enjoyable of a store!


After dinner we fulfilled a DC goal I have had for a long time: Eat at Good Stuff Eatery (Top Chef Spike Mendelsohn's burger place). The burgers were very good. Juicy, flavorful, appropriate portion and seasoned well. The fries...a bit soggy which is not my favorite. But the crowning jewel of the night...toasted marshmallow milkshakes. There are not words to describe how amazing these were. It really tasted like a marshmallow roasted on an open campfire. MMmmMmMmMMM.

My cheeseburger (tomato rejected) and the fries

The evening concluded with watching a movie and some TV which was perfect since all that moving about had pretty taken it out of feeble-cold-ridden body.

Sunday I went grocery shopping, cooked some enchiladas and watched a series of fabulous movies (good TV on mothers day!)

Preparation

Final Product!

It was a blissful weekend and luckily it recharged me for a busy busy week.

The Gatorade and Tylenol Diet

I don't even know where to start. I feel so awful. I tried to search for an image to share that would convey the level of misery I am feeling. But I quickly found that in fact a puppy with an ice pack on its head 1) does not represent how awful I feel and 2) irritates me (which happens when I can't sleep, speak, breath or eat normally.

I. am. sick. blah.

So I will be back when I am done living off of Tylenol cold and flu and/or have seen a doctor and/or slept for 6.78 days and/or stop being irritated by pictures of dogs with ice packs on their heads.

Sneeze.

At least I am not requiring the air conditioning to be running on high since I am so cold I am wearing pants and a sweatshirt in addition to a down comforter and fleece blanket to bed.

Ok. Taking my dying body to bed.

N-O-W...fail.

New hair cut (no one get excited..nothing new...just trimmed) but went out. Drank some fabulous cheap beer annnnnndddd


played my best game of BBHP EVER. Ever ever ever. It was epic. I became a something special with my 5 PERFECT SITES. yes that is right. I am from Idaho and I like to shoot digital buck. A-mazing.

Also walking home I over hear this:

"no way man. N-O-W way"

(in my head...wait isn't that "now way"?)

"No dude, I am going to get my jammies (I kid you not blog readers he said jammies) on. so N-O-W way"

( in my head again. OMG...figure out no...is N-O)

"Seriously dude, I just want some jammies and my tv... N-O-W way am I going there for you. N-O-W. I said N-O-W"

(head: no you said now...so really he does't understand)



ahhh yes. Friday night. Fab-u-lous.

Future Husband Inspiration

I am on a new blog kick, where I am just trying to find more and more and more and more to read. Through a newish blog I have started following: I *heart* you, I found A Cup of Jo and while I was devouring her posts I came across this look for my future husband (whoever that straping gentleman may be):

image courtesy of: Style Me Pretty

I have never really given much thought to that aspect in my wedding dreams. Probably because when I see the groom in my wedding dreams it is just a big blurry spot (kind of like when I take my contacts out and can't find my glasses). But I do have to say I really like this grey suit and the tie is to die for! I like the light grey more than I think I would a dark charcol.

And I have to say I am really digging this cube of a cake. Not sure how this would work for cutting and serving, but I love the contemporary design of this:

Photo Courtesy of: Style Me Pretty

In other news my old lady neck/back is better, but I am still in some pain and am trying to lay low. Hopefully tomorrow I will be 100% and feel like normal!

I also bought and have recived my wonderbar...so far...so wonderful. I will write a full review once we have had some time to get to know each other.

Bridesmaid Inspiration

So I usually think about dresses, rings, decor, location etc for weddings but I came across this necklace today and I would love love love (Shout out to you cole!) to have my bridesmaids wear these. I am like 99% sure I am going to have a very neutral palate for my wedding colors (if and when that even occurs) but I don't want neutral to=boring. But rather me to really focus on lavish details and dramatic things like this necklace!

Necklace: Vera Wang found on: FashionFuss

A little bit more Vera for you all. But I am in love with this!

Vera Wang Dress as seen on Bravobride

I am a big fan of large sashes and big full skirts that are odd layers of fabric. What I really like is the back of this dress has all those layers and they look unfinished but completely polished at the same time. Stunning.