Saturday
I did some food prep, hung with the dogs, painted my nails (Zoya Pandora, ho hum neutral), and laughed at Bruce experiencing snow for the first time. He was mystified and also tearing ass all over the yard.
The drive back to the northeast was mildly treacherous so I was happy to get home. MFD was Clark Griswolding it up, baking peanut butter cookies, listening to Christmas music, and photographing his outdoor Christmas shit in the snow. ho ho ho. I made stuffed pepper soup and we watched Guardians of the Galaxy 2. I read Wonder starting in the morning and finishing at night.
Sunday
After throwing beef stew in the crockpot, which involved searing the meat, I jetted over to get a himalayan pink salt massage, smelling of stew. Charming. Otherwise I read a book, ran the dishwasher and cleaned up the kitchen, did the laundry, and hung with the dogs. I'd like to tell you I cleaned out my health and beauty aids, cleaned up the shit from the shore that had taken residence on the spare room bed, and changed the bedding in there, which I've been meaning to do for 407 months now but alas I read a book from start to finish and did none of that shit. We did watch Superbad and I ordered the light fixtures for electrical work we're getting done at the shore in January. Merry Christmas, shore house!
Weekly food prep
Breakfast is kodiak waffles with syrup; snacks are hard boiled eggs and honey crisp apples; lunch is stuffed pepper soup; dinner is beef stew over egg noodles and turkey thighs with mashed sweet potatoes and snap peas.
Happy birthday to my dear long-time friend Meem today!
Two weeks from today, it'll be Christmas. Tomorrow, it'll be Show Us Your Books.
See you back here for that!
The guided street art tour sounds like so much fun!! I would love to do that! xo, Biana -BlovedBoston
ReplyDeleteArmy brat here, so I LOVE the ARMY/NAVY game and all the wonderful pomp and circumstance. I need to see the pep rally one day, sounds awesome. As does your beef stew, YUM!
ReplyDeleteOh that rally sounds fab!! You are so making me miss Philly.
ReplyDeleteYour Friday night sounds kind of perfect. Grilled cheese also sounds really good right now.
ReplyDeleteThe street art tour looks so fun! We had stuffed pepper soup last week, delicious! Sometimes you just need to kick back and read a book and say fuck all the other stuff that needs to get done :) I will still be there when you finish your book.
ReplyDeleteLove that nail color, and soup and grilled cheese sound perfect right now! And that rally looked so fun on Instagram :)
ReplyDeletePerfect stew weather!
ReplyDeleteBeef Stew and PB Cookies...pretty much sounds like my fave kind of winter weekend, even though you did other things over the weekend, haha.
ReplyDeleteWe just had snow flurries & Ernie could care less. I'll see what he does when wr get some inches on the ground
ReplyDeleteI love dogs in snow :) MFD's outdoor Christmas decor is nerdily awesome, too. Haha!
ReplyDeleteWhat a cool event for the Army/Navy game. That Zoya shade is such a pretty neutral and your outdoor decorations are so fun!
ReplyDeletewasn't wonder such a great book?
ReplyDeleteIt’s always so much fun to see dogs experience snow for the first time! My parents dogs were going crazy too!
ReplyDeleteWe watched the Army Navy game as well. I agree with one of the other comments I really miss Philly when I read your posts. We had snow and also helped my inlaws move. Most of the weekend was spent recharging though. What did you think of Wonder? I read it when I worked at an after school program. It led to a ton of great discussions.
ReplyDeleteI bet it was fun and funny watching Bruce acclimate himself to snow. He looks so adorable cuddled up. I hope Mae is still loving on him. We don't have snow but the cold weather has hit and I would love some beef stew right now! Emily @ Martinis & Bikinis
ReplyDeleteI read Wonder in one day as well. Is that Kodiak pancake mix that you used? I keep meaning to buy more because I liked it the first time I tried it.
ReplyDeleteDogs in snow are too cute and funny.
I'm going to have to remember to look into that walking tour when the weather warms up again.
ReplyDeleteYay for light fixtures for the shore house!! That's fun! I just got asked to be on the Penn advisory board. The first meeting is in January and all I could think was "damn, it's going to be cold and snowy af." These pictures do not convince me otherwise. I'll need to bundle up like Bruce. LOL
ReplyDeleteThat walking tour sounds so great! I love the pups in the snow.
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