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Monday, December 11, 2017

TWTW - the one with the snow

One of my favorite events of the year is the Army/Navy Pep Rally in Liberty Place right next to my office. The place is packed and there's a lot of good energy. Video here.
Friday night was a soup and grilled cheese, fall asleep on the couch before 10 kind of night.

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.
Debbie and I went on guided street art walking tour in the Fishtown neighborhood of Philly with Conrad from Streets Dept blog. Tours are over for the winter, but if you like public art, check back with him in the spring! I love street art, and we both really enjoyed it. It was a beautiful winter wonderland but walking around in wet snow for two hours was fucking cold. I shared some more of the art on Instagram in this post and this post.
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! 

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19 comments:

  1. BLovedBostonDecember 11, 2017 at 6:41 AM

    The guided street art tour sounds like so much fun!! I would love to do that! xo, Biana -BlovedBoston

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  2. P!nkyDecember 11, 2017 at 8:14 AM

    Army 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!

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  3. MarieDecember 11, 2017 at 8:38 AM

    Oh that rally sounds fab!! You are so making me miss Philly.

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  4. BrianneDecember 11, 2017 at 10:36 AM

    Your Friday night sounds kind of perfect. Grilled cheese also sounds really good right now.

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  5. NadineDecember 11, 2017 at 11:29 AM

    The 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.

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  6. Kate at Green FashionistaDecember 11, 2017 at 12:18 PM

    Love that nail color, and soup and grilled cheese sound perfect right now! And that rally looked so fun on Instagram :)

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  7. The Girl who Loved to WriteDecember 11, 2017 at 12:34 PM

    Perfect stew weather!

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  8. Nichole @ casadecrews.comDecember 11, 2017 at 1:06 PM

    Beef Stew and PB Cookies...pretty much sounds like my fave kind of winter weekend, even though you did other things over the weekend, haha.

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  9. Rebecca JoDecember 11, 2017 at 1:24 PM

    We just had snow flurries & Ernie could care less. I'll see what he does when wr get some inches on the ground

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  10. Audrey LouiseDecember 11, 2017 at 2:02 PM

    I love dogs in snow :) MFD's outdoor Christmas decor is nerdily awesome, too. Haha!

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  11. CarlyDecember 11, 2017 at 2:58 PM

    What a cool event for the Army/Navy game. That Zoya shade is such a pretty neutral and your outdoor decorations are so fun!

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  12. Kathy@MoreCoffeeLessTalkyDecember 11, 2017 at 4:15 PM

    wasn't wonder such a great book?

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  13. Ashley @ The Wandering WeekendersDecember 11, 2017 at 6:15 PM

    It’s always so much fun to see dogs experience snow for the first time! My parents dogs were going crazy too!

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  14. booksandcandyDecember 11, 2017 at 7:47 PM

    We 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.

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  15. Emily @ Martinis | BikinisDecember 11, 2017 at 7:56 PM

    I 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

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  16. KristinDecember 11, 2017 at 8:07 PM

    I 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.
    Dogs in snow are too cute and funny.

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  17. Laura DarlingDecember 11, 2017 at 8:27 PM

    I'm going to have to remember to look into that walking tour when the weather warms up again.

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  18. sara [at] journey of doingDecember 12, 2017 at 11:22 AM

    Yay 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

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  19. MissyDecember 12, 2017 at 4:00 PM

    That walking tour sounds so great! I love the pups in the snow.

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