weekend shenanigans

Here we are, half past June like whoa. It was a HOT one down in the south this weekend. Temps hovered in the low 90’s. I hope you all had a wonderful weekend, we did 🙂

Friday started off on a sad note, as I said goodbye to a dear friend of mine who is moving to Texas. We had to selfie after our last lunch date.

Friday night, Chris and I ordered some BBQ from Landmark and watched some reruns of Modern Family. It was a nice, chill evening.

Saturday morning was full of cutting the back yard. It was SO freaking hot outside at 8 am. I am convinced that grass cutting in those temperatures has to be the best cardio. Ever. After my manual labor, we headed out for a day of fun! We met up with some friends for lunch and then headed to Steel City Pops afterwards because, why not?!

We then discovered that they have never been to World of Beer. How could that be? So we decided to introduce them to the awesomeness. I enjoyed an adult “cloudy” lemonade and a grapefruit shandy. There may have been some grains in my wheat shandy, oops. YOLO?

We need to find those Crabbies Cloudy Lemonades for the beach!!! They were so good and refreshing!!!

After we split with our friends, we headed over to What’s on 2nd to check out their goods, then headed home. Since I did have a wheat beer for lunch, I ordered a salad for dinner while Chris had pizza. Keeping myself in check 🙂

Sunday morning I hit the grocery store early. When I got back, we headed over to Chris’s parents house for a little bit and then out to lunch at Munoz. When we got back, I food prepped for breakfast and lunches for the week….then we got lost in the black hole of binge watching Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. So good!!!!

In books -I finished Bittersweet this weekend, and started on LA Candy. Bittersweet’s review will be up at some point this week. I am really excited to *hopefully* join along in the Literary Ladies book club with Kristen, Kay and Kari. I have never participated in one before.

I have two more full weeks of work before some vacation time, so obviously these are going to be the longest weeks ever. Here’s to kicking some ass this Monday! Have a great week!

Why, hello there. This weekend just sort of came and went and I am standing here like, how in the world is it Monday morning???

Friday evening, Chris had to meet a friend downtown so after work I had the house to myself for a few hours. In that time, I read a little and cut half of Mac’s fur. Why half? Because Mac has zero patience to be bothered by fixing his homeless old man look he has going on. After fighting with him for an hour and cutting enough fur to create two more Mac’s…we were both over it! He doesn’t know this, but we have another cutting session later this week. He’s a mess.

Saturday morning I got up and cut the front and side yard. I was outside for two hours with a temperature of 86 degrees and the bright hot sun. (All before 11am) If that isn’t a cardio work out, I really don’t know what is??? It was time to have some fun after that, so we headed out towards The Summit. We stopped by Belk so I could pick up some face wash and toner, then we decided on Chuy’s for lunch. My one cheat meal for the week. We sat out on their patio and soaked in the beautiful views. I never tire of this view.

Afterwards, we were on a quest to find limited edition Amiibo’s (fail) and we also stopped by Zone 1 in Chelsea. On our way back home, we passed a thrift store in Inverness and decided to stop. Their prices were a little high for a thrift store, but I did manage to score two glasses for my collection!!!

Yesterday consisted of meal planning, grocery shopping, food prepping and lots and lots of Chicago Fire and Chicago PD. We actually are completely caught up on both shows now and have no clue what to do with out lives. Literally. It was really depressing. What shows are you checking out this summer? Let me know…I need to find something else to obsess over!

This week went from having nothing to do, to lots of stuff to do after work a few lunch plans so it is going to be a busy one! I hope that everyone has a fabulous week! I am linking up with Biana this morning.

Why hello, June! Can you believe it is June 1st? I feel like we go through this every month, but seriously…where does the time go? Today is the day folks. Today is the day I go grain free, dairy free, and processed free! I picked up some stuff at the grocery store that I have never even looked at before. Hello, coconut flour, I am looking at you. It is time to kick it in to high gear. I also hit a PR in my run this morning, so I am feeling extra motivated!

Let’s get to it, shall we??

This weekend there was lots of Chicago Fire watching, cleaning house, meal planning, writing a guest post for another blogger that I am super excited about!!!, letting go of a few more clothing items, and Mario Karting.

Saturday, we went to Asian Rim for lunch. I had the spicy tuna roll and said my final farewell to rice. We sat out on their patio and it was so pretty outside!!! We ran a few errands while we were out that way too and oogled over some cute new cell phone cases but couldn’t commit to any of them.

My sushi will have to come from Whole Foods from here on out with quinoa! Shout out to Whole Foods for being so awesome with their sushi choices!!!

Saturday evening we headed to my SIL’s house for my MIL birthday celebration. Always good to spend some time with family. We also consumed some more Moe’s BBQ which is always delicious. Zero cake for me. Will power! It also helps that I don’t really care for the cake and usually only consume it for the icing.

Other scenes from my weekend included:

A microwave explosion. The package said 4-7 minutes, it was in for 3 minutes and 30 seconds when that occurred. The universe did not want me to indulge in any last corn./Coconut flour breakfast muffin/healthy finds at the grocery store/Greek Quinoa Salad for lunch this week/iced coffee with my freshly painted yellow nails. Polish is Orly’s Frozen Collection – In Summer

Linking up with Biana! I hope everyone has a fabulous week!!! Show this Monday who is boss 🙂

Why, hello there Tuesday. Be kind to us, won’t you? Who else had an awesome, long weekend?!?! I hope that while you fired up your grill, you reflected on why we have the freedom to grill and enjoy our weekend.

This weekend we had a lot of fun! Friday evening we stayed in and watched some Chicago Fire. Chris fell asleep on the couch, so I read a few chapters in my book. I was hoping to finish it this weekend, but that didn’t happen.

Saturday, we kicked the weekend off with some beers at our favorite spot, World of Beer! This was after I spend the early morning cutting the front and side yard. Man, was it hot to be cutting grass!!!

It was such a gorgeous day to be out on the patio, soaking up the sun. Absolutely amazing weather!!!

We stopped by What’s on 2nd to trade in some video games we had doubles of. We scored some great deals! Then it was off to one of Chris’s co-workers’ for a backyard BBQ pool side. We met some really nice people and had some delicious food!

We ended back at World of Beer that evening to meet up with someone for a little while. Like my water? We listened to the live music for a little while and headed home. We were out past 11 PM. Who are we? 🙂

Sunday, we headed to Chuy’s at The Summit to meet some friends for lunch. I didn’t snap any pictures of our delicious food. Just know that chips and queso and these amazing tacos with the best flour tortillas I have ever had were devoured.

From there, we headed to 2nd & Charles to browse. I had found this AWESOME picture there, but it was $20 and it was more of a $10-$12 size in my opinion. I may have to make one myself or peruse the internet to find a cheaper alternative. It wasn’t the right color for any of our rooms, anyways. But I wanted to share it, because I know my book lovers will love it!

It says “I’ve been looking for you since I read my first fairytale.” I mean, how perfect?? Who knows…I may give in and go back and scoop that thing up!

The rest of Sunday consisted of picking up a shelf we ordered for our living room and buying another at Best Buy for our game room. And Chicago Fire. Lots and lots of Chicago Fire.

Monday morning I cut the backyard, then came in and starting putting together shelves. I got the media shelf built for downstairs and this awesome shelf for our living room. It took me about 2 and a half hours to do both.

I am in love with the sides of this self!!!! I forgot to take a picture of the media shelf, but it is nothing fancy. We already have it full of games and really need another one. The shelf for our living room is empty right now, I guess a trip to HomeGoods is in order!!! While I was building, the last 30 minutes of Dirty Dancing was on!

No one puts Baby in the corner.

I headed out to do our grocery shopping and picked up Moe’s BBQ for our late lunch/early dinner.

I got the turkey plate with baked beans and mac n cheese. I also stole one of Chris’s ribs. Moe’s is certainly one of my top choice BBQ places for sure. They have the best turkey around! We finished up the first season of Chicago Fire last night, and watched the first episode of season 2. It was pretty cool to see the back story of Voight from PD.

Other things that happened this weekend…

I finally painted my nails (Orly – Watch Out Or Elsa) and spied on Mac being adorable.

I hope everyone has a fantastic week!!!

Linking up with Biana.

Oh, hey there Monday. You sure do have a tendency to sneak up on us, don’t you?

I hope everyone had a fabulous weekend! Ours started Friday evening after work for a quick trip over to Chris’s parents house. His brother was in town, so we all met up over there for a little while. Chris and I avoided the pizzas that they ordered and came home for some hot aired popcorn and Chicago PD instead.

Saturday morning I cleaned the house and then we set out to hit up a few thrift stores. We didn’t really find much there. We went to La Paz for a late lunch, delicious! If I am going to have a cheat meal, it is going to be Mexican.

Lunch Gordo burrito with black beans and rice

We then decided to check out Game Stop, where Chris hit the mother load. They had Xbox360 and PS3 games on sale 4 for $10. He basically caught up on 3 years of gaming.

The guys that worked there were happy because they didn’t have to move all those games at the end of the night after the sale! We grabbed some BBQ from Landmark on the way home and settled in for an evening of more Chicago PD and Grimm.

Sunday I meal planned and did the grocery shopping. I also stopped by TJ Maxx for shampoo and conditioner. I scored both for the price of one normal shampoo!! I mean, check out the size of that conditioner bottle, I wont need any for months!!

I did some multi tasking while cooking lunch yesterday and made Steph’s No Bake Power Balls for snacking and Turkey Taco Soup for my lunches this week. I also got to read a little more of my book and I signed if for Audible. My first book on tape, Yes, Please!! I started listening to it on my way to the store yesterday and I was already LOL’ing just in the preface. Amy is awesome at narrating, as you could imagine.

What is your favorite book on tape? Or type of book you like to listen to? This week is going to be a busy one. Besides regular work, I have a dog handling class tomorrow evening and a meeting after work on Wednesday. I don’t like to schedule myself for too much during the week. I hope everyone has a great one!!!

Linking up with Biana.