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Well hey there Monday. I hope everyone had a great weekend. It was unseasonably cool here in the south. In fact, on Friday evening when we were walking to the car, my teeth were chattering. We were all like gosh, how cold is it??? I made a joke saying that it was probably 70 degrees and it just felt like it was freezing because it has been in the 90’s with 349843958% humidity and we weren’t used to it. Sure enough, it was 71. Crazy, right?

Friday – Laura and I had planned a double date on Friday evening to Paramount. We have been talking about wanting to check this place out for awhile now. Paramount is located on 2nd Ave N in Birmingham. It is a bar/restaurant and they also have an arcade. Basically like a Chucke Cheese for adults.

We ordered some beers and the Dixie Nachos. I tried the Terrapin Maggie’s Peach Farm House beer. Both the Dixie Nachos and the beer were delicious! The Dixie Nachos consisted of sweet potato chips, BBQ sauce, scallions, mustard and cole slaw.

For the main course, Chris and I split an order of Rosemary Fries with Garlicy Mayo. They were wonderful! I loved the flavor combination.

I ordered the Southern Hot Dog that had pimento cheese, pickled onions and tomatoes. While it was good, it wasn’t awesome. My hot dog came out super cold, and a hot dog just isn’t good cold. So that was disappointing. Also, I would have preferred that the onion and tomato be chopped up, as it is very hard to eat served whole like that. I ended up throwing off all the tomatoes and onions.

After Paramount, we went to Boxcar Vape in Avondale. We couldn’t decide where we wanted to go after that, and ended up at our standby World of Beer. You cant go wrong there! The usual Saturday staff was working, and they had a great cover band that played awesome 90’s rock/alternative and pop songs. Here they are singing Britney Spears Oops I did it again.

We had an awesome time with Laura and Bennett, as we always do. We stayed out way past our old people bedtime and it was well worth it!

Saturday – I cleaned in the morning, and we caught up on Pretty Little Liars. I started book seven in the Stephanie Plum series. In the afternoon, one of Chris’s friends came over to hang out and stream Tomorrowland. I made a fun snack plate:

Saturday evening we decided to stay in and order Chinese food. I had Kung Po chicken, fried rice and crab angels. It was delicious!

Sunday – Meal planning and grocery shopping, a mini Sephora haul that I will share later this week, binge watching The Good Wife and then mostly this:

I hope everyone has a great week!

Favorite Song – Bush Glycerine – This song is on my “rock” list for Spotify and it played randomly yesterday and nostalgia came flooding in. The song came out when I was in 8th grade I believe. I freaking loved this song then, and I still do! Enjoy!

Favorite Picture: One of my favorite things about waking up at 4:30am is getting to see the sun rise after my work out. The colors were just AMAZING Thursday morning. The picture was taken through one of our windows and doesn’t begin to do it justice.

Favorite Delivery: I broke down and ordered the Julep box. I really wanted to try the nail polish itself and I wanted one of the monthly boxes. I figured you couldn’t go wrong with some polish! I am in love! I got profiled for the bombshell box, naturally. Let me know if you want an invite 🙂

I was excited to try them out and decided to go with the pink first. The pink is called Laree and it has a really pretty iridescent to it. I also used Nicole by OPI Kissed at Midnight as an accent nail because glitter is fun! I topped it off with Julep’s top coat. I love the application of the Julep polish, I didn’t make as much of a mess as I usually do. It also dried nice which is great!

Favorite Meal: I made my Kung Pao chicken and stir fry veggies Monday night and it was delish!!!

Favorite Olivia Picture: She’s sweet when she sleeps.

Favorite Funnies:

Know the difference:

Some fashion advice, because I have seen too much of each of these:

I wish….

How I feel with my friends:

Linking up with Amanda for the Friday Favorites!

It is confession time!!!!

–This is basically me at work since I have come back from vacation last week. It is like I will never catch up. Ever.

— Sometimes I wear all black on cardio days. I like to think of it as a funeral for my fat. Basically I hate cardio and I need something to make me excited. Like my fat dying and going away. It just wont go away fast enough!

Exhibit A:

–That is what I look like at 4:30 am with no make up and bags and dark circles under my eyes for days. DAYS.

–I just realized that my birthday is one month and a day away. WTF? Where has the last year gone?!

–This is what I say to Livvy when she is being a little bitch. Just love me kitty, The dogs love me all the time, why can’t you?!?! Cats…

–Picking out a new blog template is hard. Way harder than it should be. I am way too indecisive.

–I get irrationally angry when something isn’t the way that it is described. Like my watermelon beer this past weekend. It says watermelon, it should taste like freaking watermelon!

Confessions in ecards:

Another weekend has come and gone. I can not believe it is the middle of July?!

Friday – Work has been crazy this past week since I was gone for a few days. I am super behind and worked really late on Friday to try to catch up some. After I left work, I went and met Chris at his boss’s lake house. We watched the sunset over the lake and chatted for awhile, then Chris ordered Fox’s pizza to pick up on the way home. I love that Fox’s pizza is actually from the Pittsburgh area. Makes me feel a little “at home.”

Saturday – I got some stuff done around the house Saturday morning, then Chris and I headed to World of Beer to meet up with Laura! Her husband was out of town, so we adopted her for the day. I am so glad that I met Laura. Her and her husband are so much fun to hang out with. She shares in my love for beer, cheeseburgers, foul language and nail polish. I don’t really know what more you can ask for from a friend?!

I ordered a Straight to Ale Watermelon Wheat to start off with. It tasted NOTHING like watermelon which was rather disappointing. Even so, it came it a super cute class. I really wish I would have someone made the glass come home with me!

Laura and I have been talking about ordering a hard root beer float from there ALL WEEK. We were so excited to finally order one, but unfortunately, they were out of hard root beer. Like seriously?!?! What the hell??? Either way, we went ahead and ordered a regular float. It was freaking delicious.

Had to take a German sign to send to my German friends. I knew they appreciated it with the game and all this weekend!

Of course, since we were out and it was Saturday, Jack Brown’s Beer and Burgers was not to be missed! I ordered the Danny Larusso again because it is just so damn good! Cream cheese and jalapeno jelly. Yum yum.

Sunday – Chris and I finished the second season of The Mindy Project, and now I am not quite sure what to do with my life?! That show is awesome!!! We are also almost done with the first season of The Good Wife. Love it too! Do any of you watch those?

I meal planned, grocery shopped, and worked a little bit because apparently the work will never end. The rest of Sunday looked like this:

Someone tell Livvy to stop growing! She is getting so big! Makes me so sad.

I hope everyone had a great weekend! What did you do?